advances in order to keep up

with relevant resources and

be responsive to student

needs in our increasingly

digital age.

Whether it be classroom

learning or online learning,

Hunt Library will let learning

happen. Follow us on Twitter,

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connected with your library.

I would like to welcome you to

Hunt Memorial Library at the

Fort Valley State University.

So, have you been to your

library lately?

We have added resources and

services and transformed

spaces to meet changing

needs. We are redesigning the

second floor of the library into

a learning commons model

that will allow for collabora-

tive learning, with technology-

infused furniture. This trans-

formation will not only allow

us to attract more students to

the library, but also keep them

engaged in an environment

they would like to come to

often.

Learning has moved out of

the classroom, so to speak.

Students today expect imme-

diate and easy access to the

information they need from

wherever they are. To that

end, Hunt Library is making

A new location for books has been created in the library that will house Fort Valley State University faculty publi-cations. This collection of books will involve publica-tions by FVSU faculty. Stu-dents and all members of the campus community can check out these books.

The new location for Faculty Publication is on the third floor of the building where all

circulating books in the library can be found.

Students on the first floor of

Hunt Library

From the Director’s Desk

I N S I D E T H I S

I S S U E :

New Appointments 2

Academic Search

Complete

2

Credo Reference 2

Films of Demand 3

Opposing Viewpoints 3

Digital Commons 3

Did you Know? 4

Faculty Publications at FVSU

H U N T M E M O R I A L L I B R A R Y

Fort Valley State University

@ Hunt Memorial Library

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Every semester we plan to conduct faculty development sessions. This semester we plan to announce one session on how to use smart boards in classrooms for teaching, and another session on smart devices and apps.

Databases that Deliver

New Appointments

Ms. Betty Rogers has

been appointed as a li-

brarian. Ms. Rogers has

been with Hunt Memori-

al Library for more than

20 years, working in the

technical services area as

a library assistant. She

recently completed her

advanced studies in Li-

brary Science with a

Master’s degree from

San Jose State Uni-

versity in San Jose, Cali-

fornia.

Mr. James Scott joins Hunt Memorial library as a library technology and digital support specialist. Mr. Scott has extensive experience working in the library environ-ment for more than 22 years. He specializes in the area of technology

support and D2L. Mr. Scott will oversee library technology, social media, and digital utilization.

ers. Credo's collection is intelligently integrat-ed with millions of cross-references and contains dictionaries, bilingual dictionaries, thesauri, encyclopedi-as, quotations and at-lases, plus a wide

Credo Reference is a

full-text online refer-ence service. Its collec-tion includes over three million entries from hundreds of well-regarded titles from some of the world’s best reference publish-

range of subject-specific titles covering everything from art to accountancy, science to Shakespeare and law to literature.

offers indexing and

abstracts for more

than 10,100 journals

and a total of 10,600

publications including

monographs, reports,

conference proceed-

ings, etc. The database

is updated daily and

features PDF content

going back as far as

1887.

Academic Search

Complete is a multi-

disciplinary database,

with more than 6,100

full-text periodicals,

including more than

5,100 peer-reviewed

journals. In addition to

full text, this database

I N T H E H U N T

P A G E 3 V O L U M E 1 , I S S U E 1

Films on Demand consists of 15,500 video

titles (77,000 segments) in

Humanities & Social Sci-

ences, Business & Eco-

nomics, Health, and Sci-

ence. Also included is the

new collection of United

Newsreels which includes

an additional 260 titles

(1,250 segments).

JSTOR is a collection of

electronic journals in the

fields of African American

Studies, Anthropology,

Asian Studies, Ecology,

Economics, Education,

Finance, History, Literature,

Mathematics, Philosophy,

Political Science, Population

Studies, Sociology, and

Statistics.

scholarly work by the faculty,

staff and students of Fort Valley

State University. It is freely

available online to researchers

worldwide using every day

internet search engines.

Digitizing theses will increase

visibility of student scholarship

Hunt Memorial Library began

the process of digitizing the

entire holding of Master’s

theses two years ago into a

digital institutional repository

known as Digital Commons.

DigitalCommons@FVSU is the

online collection of creative and

work, and will also be shared and celebrated

with the rest of the world. Additionally, stu-

dent work can be preserved for future genera-

tions and provide better access to the universi-

ty's intellectual output.

Please stop by the library for further

assistance in matters related to theses, binding,

and showcasing scholarly output.

vers a variety of reference materials, commentaries and viewpoints, periodical and news articles, primary sources, statistics and multimedia.

Opposing Viewpoints is a

database that provides information on important current news events. This database can help with writing a critical essay, re-searching a report or term paper, or preparing for a debate. This database co-

Students Theses @ Fort Valley State

the Chronicle of Higher Education, Atlanta Journal & Constitution newspaper and the New York Times daily - free of charge? You can even register for email alerts to glance through daily headlines.

There are 21 quiet study individual rooms at the library and 4 conference rooms in Hunt Library.

You may have access to these rooms on a first-come, first-serve basis .

You will find collaborative study spaces throughout the library, not to mention accessibility to resources for research, reading and relaxation.

From the extensive collec-tion of databases, did you know that you can read

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