Stevenson Library News

Mondays-Thursdays: 9am-7pm; Fridays: 9am-5pm; Saturdays-Sundays: 12n-5pm. CLOSED THURSDAY, JULY 4th

AUGUST 12-28:

Mondays-Thursdays: 8:30am-10pm; Fridays: 8:30am-5pm; Saturdays: 12n-5pm; Sundays: 3pm-11pm

AUGUST 8-SEPTEMBER 1:

Thursday, 8/29-Friday 8/30: 9am-5pm; Saturday, 8/31-Sunday, 9/1: CLOSED

Regular schedule resumes Monday, 9/2, first day of classes for the Fall 2013 term.

Click here to see a list of new books added to our browsing collection. Stop by and check one out today!

Click here to learn more about using the Ebooks we now offer.

To print from your laptop, download the appropriate driver found under Bard Print heading at BITS Software & Tools.

We’ve implemented new printing and copying procedures in the library, the 24 hour lab at New Henderson, and, soon, at the Campus Center lab and the Henderson PC classroom (101A at Old Henderson). Now, when you send a print job from one of  the public computers in these buildings, you can release it with a swipe of your Bard ID to any of the Canon printers in those locations.

To print from your laptop, download the  appropriate driver found under Bard Print heading  at BITS Software & Tools.

When you print, you’ll notice a declining balance reported on the screen when you swipe your card. This declining balance represents a non-cash value subsidy for printing and copying that we provide each student each semester, kind of like the Bard Bucks account you may have as part of the meal plan.

The balance at the beginning of each semester is set at $37.50 and will decline each time you make a print or copy or scan according to the following rates:

single-sided prints/copies — 4 cents each
double-sided prints/copies — 7 cents each
scans — 1/2 cent each

In other words, you could make 937 single-sided prints/copies, or 1,070 double-sided prints/copies, or make 7,500 scans that you can send to your computer, in whatever combination you choose. And every semester, you get a new beginning balance. [But because there is no cash value to the subsidy, any remaining amount does not carry over—again, just like Bard Bucks.]

Our study of student printing usage in the last three semesters suggests that the subsidy should more than sufficient to cover typical printing and copying volume, although it is not intended to cover all costs in all semesters. So, what happens if you run out of subsidized copies on your card? You will need to add value to a FLEXprint account at the Student Accounts Office by cash or check. According to the rates above, then, $10 will get you an additional 200 copies. The Student Accounts Office, open Monday-Friday,9-5, is located on the first floor of the red B&G building directly in front of the Reem-Kayden Science Center.

We look forward to further conservation gains and to introducing color printing and laptop-enabled printing in the coming months.

Effective immediately, off campus access to our databases is now available through the database link itself. Go to the library’s database list and click on the link to the database you’d like to use. If you are off campus, you’ll be prompted for your barcode number and the password (library). Upon logging in, you’ll be taken to the database.  If you are on campus, you will go directly to the database without prompting.

We’ve made the database list more manageable! Now when you visit our databases page you first see the top 10 databases by user rating. Feel free to rate your favorite resources! Now you can choose ALL to see the same old list we’ve offered before, but also you can view our resources by first letter alphabetically – so no more long list to scroll. You also can choose databases by SUBJECT in the pulldown menu or do a quick TITLE search for a Database (if you already know what you’re looking for). http://www.bard.edu/library/content/databases.php

International Medieval Bibliography – A multidisciplinary bibliography of Europe, North Africa and the Near East (300-1500), including over 4,500 journals, conference proceedings and exhibition catalogs.

Patrologia Latina – An electronic version of Jacques-Paul Migne’s Patrologia Latina, which comprises the works of the Church Fathers from Tertullian in 200 AD to the death of Pope Innocent III in 1216. The database contains the complete Patrologia Latina, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indexes.

eBooks have arrived…Click here to see a list of our newly added eBooks!