October 1999
Newsletter #33
 

Library Begins Off-Campus
Storage

The Humanities Go Online

Finding the Right Index

Library Research Guides
Now on the Web

Literature Online

Videotapes Now Circulate

Deacidification Stops Damage
to Books

Library Databases available
Off Campus

Student and Faculty
Technology Guides Available
 

Did you ever want to preview a videotape before showing it to your class but did not have time to do it during the day in the Library? Beginning Monday, November 1, 1999, Lauinger Library's Audio-Visual Learning Resource Center (A-VLRC) will circulate VHS videocassettes to faculty, students, and staff. VHS videocassettes will be loaned for a 24-hour period. Videotapes will be available for loan up until half an hour before the A-VLRC closes each day. Videocassettes that can be borrowed will have a status of "In Library" in GEORGE, the online catalog. Non-circulating videotapes will have a "Library Use Only" status. Most videotapes can circulate; those that cannot circulate are tapes that are restricted through purchase/license agreements, rare or out-of-print titles, and tapes on reserve for class viewing. Faculty or teaching assistants who wish to borrow non-circulating videotapes may request that an exception be made at the A-VLRC desk. Return tapes to the A-VLRC desk (i.e., they should not be returned to the book-drop after hours). Contact Mark Cohen, Director of the A-VLRC, for more information on borrowing policies for videotapes or other questions about this new service.