We have been very pleased that during the past couple weeks the Proctor Library and the Office of Career Services have been working out arrangements that will greatly help students gain improved access to information resources related to: identification of potential careers; resume and cover letter writing; interviewing techniques; graduate and law school testing aids; and other information associated with careers beyond Flagler. The Office of Career Services currently has a collection of over 150 print titles providing this important information, and this collection will be growing through the semester. You can browse this collection simply by visiting the Office of Career Services, located in Suite 253B, second floor of the Ringhaver Student Center. Also, visit the Office of Career Services web page http://www.flagler.edu/page2.aspx?id=2033 to learn more about the valuable support that can be provided.
Now if you can not visit Career Services to browse their collection of print titles, you can still locate titles they have there, as well as many other print and electronic books on career related information available through the Proctor Library by checking the Library’s Catalog in the library or remotely. Link is https://research.flagler.edu:2048/login?url=http://voyager.flagler.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First . All the titles within the Office of Career Services collection, as well as all those available through the Library, are listed, together with specific Location information. This will allow you obtain any item of interest either from Career Services or the Library.
Finally, at the beginning of the semester, the Library and Career Services jointly acquired access to a very interesting and information packed career database entitled Vault https://research.flagler.edu:2048/login?url=http://www.vault.com/cb/careerlib/careerlib_main.jsp?parrefer=6143 . We encourage you to look at it using the link provided. You can also find it listed on the Career Services web page and via the Proctor Library web page. If you have any problem using it or have any question, either Career Services or the Library can help you.
We hope these cooperative efforts between the Proctor Library and the Office of Career Services provide great value to you.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
My Favorite Words in New Princeton Review Survey -- "Great library"
After reading a report in the local St. Augustine Record several days ago about Flagler College’s rankings in the most recent edition of Princeton Review’s "Best 366 Colleges," I could not wait until our print copy arrived so that I could read what the survey really said. The newspaper report indicated that Flagler ranked high on two very positive lists--“Best Southeastern Colleges” and “America’s Best Value Colleges.” Unfortunately, however, it also reported how Flagler was included on two less flattering lists—“Their Students (Almost) Never Study” and “Is it Food?” The newspaper report seemed to dwell a bit too long on each of these elements for me.
Fortunately, I was very pleased when I found that the print copy of the book provided a quite positive view overall on Flagler. I guess one should expect this when being included in a book with the phrase “the best 366” as part of its title. Both positives and negatives were present in the write-up, but to me the total package was mostly positive. Good things were said about the teaching, the relationship between teachers and students, and the Flagler environment, among other good things.
This should especially be good news to one of our senior accounting majors who had followed up on the St. Augustine Record article with a “letter to the editor” in which she expressed her displeasure with the report of the Princeton Review’s portrayal of Flagler students as slackers who never study. She argued that this portrayal is far from the truth, and that on a walk around campus or the library one can see a majority of students “all working to get good grades and to further our education.”
As one who obviously walks around the library every day, I agree with this young woman. Our students are indeed working hard and dedicating themselves to learning and it a real pleasure for me to have them in our library.
Which brings me at last to my final point and my favorite words coming out of the surveys of our students and presented in the print copy of the book -- “Great library” What wonderful words to hear from a wonderful group of young people!
Fortunately, I was very pleased when I found that the print copy of the book provided a quite positive view overall on Flagler. I guess one should expect this when being included in a book with the phrase “the best 366” as part of its title. Both positives and negatives were present in the write-up, but to me the total package was mostly positive. Good things were said about the teaching, the relationship between teachers and students, and the Flagler environment, among other good things.
This should especially be good news to one of our senior accounting majors who had followed up on the St. Augustine Record article with a “letter to the editor” in which she expressed her displeasure with the report of the Princeton Review’s portrayal of Flagler students as slackers who never study. She argued that this portrayal is far from the truth, and that on a walk around campus or the library one can see a majority of students “all working to get good grades and to further our education.”
As one who obviously walks around the library every day, I agree with this young woman. Our students are indeed working hard and dedicating themselves to learning and it a real pleasure for me to have them in our library.
Which brings me at last to my final point and my favorite words coming out of the surveys of our students and presented in the print copy of the book -- “Great library” What wonderful words to hear from a wonderful group of young people!
Sunday, September 9, 2007
Opening of both Sevilla Street and the Director’s Blog
I had been thinking for some time about producing a blog about things here in the Proctor Library, but I found I just could not seem to get my first posting finished. The only thing that made me feel better was looking out the front door of the Library during the days of July and August and seeing how tough it was getting the newly designed Sevilla Street finished and reopened. I really thought I was going to win the race against Sevilla, but when it finally reopened last week, it forced me to get moving and open my blog.
As most of us know, this has been a very exciting summer of construction and improvement here at Flagler College. I am thrilled that students and faculty were able to return to the campus last week and find such a great new environment here. I particularly love what I view as a great “triangle of student life and learning” consisting of the new Ringhaver Student Center, the Proctor Library, and Kenan Hall. Naturally I am pleased to have the Library as the center of two legs of the triangle, and I know we will continue to do our best to support student life and learning at the College.
For those returnees to the College, you will see some changes in the Library. Library staffers Jenny Eason and Mitzi Skeen moved on to other careers this summer, and fortunately other wonderful people joined our staff. Katherine Owens has joined us as a Reference & Instruction Librarian, Christine Wysocki is our new College Archivist and Reference Librarian, and Adam Ehrenberg is our evening Circulation Manager.
To support the growing use of wireless laptops in the Library, we installed easily accessible electrical power outlets on the group study tables on the first floor and similar power is easily available at some 31 other study location throughout the Library. Batteries are nice, but unfortunately they run down at the most inopportune times.
Deaf Education majors may be surprised to find that during the summer we pulled off our shelves most of our books and audio-visual items in any way related to deaf education, deaf life or deaf culture, and we have now consolidated them into a more centralized location which is now called the “Deaf Studies Collection.” This collection is identified by an overhead sign and it is found on the 2nd floor, the low shelves on the north end.
We have recently added a couple other very valuable resources and tools for you to use this academic year, but I must admit that they are so new that we are still learning them ourselves and I will hold off describing them until my next blog posting. As a hint, just remember “ebrary” and “360 search.” And if you find them, try them out.
As most of us know, this has been a very exciting summer of construction and improvement here at Flagler College. I am thrilled that students and faculty were able to return to the campus last week and find such a great new environment here. I particularly love what I view as a great “triangle of student life and learning” consisting of the new Ringhaver Student Center, the Proctor Library, and Kenan Hall. Naturally I am pleased to have the Library as the center of two legs of the triangle, and I know we will continue to do our best to support student life and learning at the College.
For those returnees to the College, you will see some changes in the Library. Library staffers Jenny Eason and Mitzi Skeen moved on to other careers this summer, and fortunately other wonderful people joined our staff. Katherine Owens has joined us as a Reference & Instruction Librarian, Christine Wysocki is our new College Archivist and Reference Librarian, and Adam Ehrenberg is our evening Circulation Manager.
To support the growing use of wireless laptops in the Library, we installed easily accessible electrical power outlets on the group study tables on the first floor and similar power is easily available at some 31 other study location throughout the Library. Batteries are nice, but unfortunately they run down at the most inopportune times.
Deaf Education majors may be surprised to find that during the summer we pulled off our shelves most of our books and audio-visual items in any way related to deaf education, deaf life or deaf culture, and we have now consolidated them into a more centralized location which is now called the “Deaf Studies Collection.” This collection is identified by an overhead sign and it is found on the 2nd floor, the low shelves on the north end.
We have recently added a couple other very valuable resources and tools for you to use this academic year, but I must admit that they are so new that we are still learning them ourselves and I will hold off describing them until my next blog posting. As a hint, just remember “ebrary” and “360 search.” And if you find them, try them out.
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