LEARNING COMMONS
September 30, 2009
Services Provided in the Learning Commons
• Provide instruction on using the library • Angel Support
Educational Technology Support
resources in Library Orientations, Reference • Online production and distribution of
Traditional Library Services
Services meetings and lectures
• General information and assistance with • A/V equipment setups for the college
directions, resources, printing and software • A/V equipment purchasing /consulting /
provided by circulation desk staff troubleshooting
• Collection Development • Workshops on technology tools through
• Interlibrary Loan our Tech Fridays
• Management of reserves for student and • Workshops on social networking tools such
faculty use as Twitter, wikis, Facebook, and blogs
• Flexible and active learning and study • Student Email Support
spaces • Student Tutoring
• Print and electronic resources • Computers and software available for
• Displays featuring programs and events student assignments
• Individual research help • Digital Media Studio
• Copyright Clearance • Open Educational Resources
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Current Status of the Information
LEARNING COMMONSSeptember 30, 2009
Resources Collection
• 42,000 Items (books, eBooks, DVD/Videos) in our
collection,up from 20,000
• 28,000 full-text eBooks
• Over 6,000 full-text journals
• 350 full-text newspapers, broadcast transcripts, and
Roper Center polls and surveys
• Over 1.5 million images in our image databases
• Access to the collections and services of more than
10,000 libraries worldwide through interlibrary loan
and World Cat
• Broadcast transcripts from the major television and
radio networks as well as political transcripts
covering Congressional committee hearings, press
briefings from the State, Justice, and Defense
departments, and presidential news conferences
• Campus news from nearly 300 individual college/
university papers
• Wire services, updated several times a day, including
respected names such as the Associated Press,
Business Wire and PR Newswire
• Non-English language news sources available in
Spanish, French, German, Italian and Dutch,
including both newspapers and magazines
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