Online Catalog Re-Design

Kimbel Library has re-designed the Online Catalog to make it easier for patrons to find materials. New features have been added to help increase access to information in the library's holdings by streamlining the process of library research.

Exciting new features include the ability to send call numbers to your phone by text message. No more scrambling to find a piece of paper and pencil; simply click the "Send a Text" button and the call number is sent to your phone. This feature saves you time by enabling you to store resources for future research and to call up an item when walking through the library stacks. You can also export bookmarked links to your choice of citation management software to aid in creating a bibliography.

Another exciting new catalog feature is the ability to use social media functions to increase the ways you can use and re-use information. For example, do you like a book you just read? Simply click on the "Share" button in the Online Catalog to share a library catalog record with your friends on a variety of social networking platforms including Facebook, Twitter, and Delicious.

The New Arrivals feature allows subject-specific RSS feeds to be generated to help you keep up to date with new resources in the library. These feeds are updated on a regular basis, so be sure to check back each month to see what's new.

The Online Catalog also has a new look and design, which allows for a more seamless browsing experience. The new design includes book covers, table of contents information, and reviews for catalog items when available. These changes will make the search process easier and more visually appealing.

We have added a feedback link in the new catalog to elicit responses from users. Like it? Let us know. Hate it? Tell us why. Click here to see the re-designed catalog. Please try it out and tell us what you think!

Kimbel Library continues to develop innovative ways to serve the information needs of the Coastal Carolina community. If you have ideas and suggestions about improving any of our services please let us know.

We're open and ready to assist you!

Welcome back, students!

Kimbel Library and the newly opened Bryan Information Commons are ready to satisfy all of your library service and study needs.

Our current hours are as follows:

Sunday through Thursday: 7:30 a.m. to midnight
Friday: 7:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.
Saturday: 1:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sunday, Sept. 2: 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Monday, Sept. 3 (Labor Day): 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Regular hours (24/6) will begin Tuesday, Sept. 4 at 7:30 a.m.

And in the meantime, please stop by and check out all of the technology and study space in our new addition, the Bryan Information Commons!

The dedication is Tuesday, August 28 at 3 p.m.

Chicago Manual of Style Now Online!

Humanities scholars take note: Kimbel Library now provides access to the two most recent editions of the Chicago Manual of Style Online. 

Unlike the print edition - which is still available in the library - the online format allows an unlimited number of users at the same time.

The newest edition (16^th) includes updated tips for citing blogs, podcasts, and other electronic sources, the use of DOIs vs. URLs, greater coverage of electronic publications and more content on use of bias-free language.

Hardcore fans of the CMOS may find the facsimile copy of the original (1906) edition and the extensive user-submitted FAQ fascinating, but most users will want to start with the Citation Quick Guide which covers the citation basics of sources from books to blog posts.

Part 3 of the Digital Archive

 "Slavery and Anti-Slavery" now available

In 2010, the library purchased the digital archive Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive. Dr. Charles Joyner is an editor of the  four-part series, with each part scheduled for annual release. Part 2 was released last summer.

We now have access to Part 3: The Institution of Slavery

Part 3 looks at the inner workings of slavery from 1492-1888 and includes legal documents, plantation records, personal accounts, newspapers, and government documents, and shows how enslaved people rebelled against the institution of slavery. This collection of primary source materials allows users to research slavery in terms of a labor and legal system, the relationship between master and slave, slavery and religion, free labor, and the lives of free African Americans.

Topics of interest include include the Zong (or Shong) Massacre, the Dred Scott case, records of John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry and the Dememara rebellion.

Collections include:

Records of East Florida
Benjamin Tappan Papers
Blair Family Papers, 1755-1968
J.F.H. Claiborne Papers, 1818-1885
James Henry Hammond Papers
John J. Crittenden Papers, 1783-1913
Official Transcripts of Reports on the State of the British Colonies in North America and the West Indies: 1721-1766
The National Anti-Slavery Standard
Journals of the Assembly of Jamaica

Documents are included in the library’s catalog; Part 1 and part 2 comprise over 10,000 documents.

Users can download entire documents (up to 250 pages) in PDF format to a PC or mobile device and can generate citations for selected text. 

Bravo, Encore!

Library Technology and Systems has been busily working on a number of new and interesting projects over the last few months. Well, the time has finally arrived to introduce Encore, which has a sleek new look and feel, with enhanced functionality that we think everyone will really appreciate. Here are a few of the things Encore offers:

• Simultaneously search through Kimbel Library’s catalog and five Ebsco databases 
• Spell checking
• A related information function (it looks for more keywords relevant to your topic)
• Book summaries
• Cover images
• CHOICE Magazine reviews
• Many facets (or limiters): narrow or expand your results by format, location, language, publication date, and more to find what you need

Try Kimbel Library's Encore Search for yourself and let us know what you think. This is our first step toward a more discovery-based system of information retrieval. Enjoy!

The Lily, Southern County Histories now in Accessible Archives

The Lily, the first newspaper for women, is now available to CCU users through the subscription database Accessible Archives.

"Intemperance is the great foe to her peace and happiness. It is that above all that has made her Home desolate and beggared her offspring…"

Published in Seneca Falls, New York and edited by Amelia Bloomer, The Lily initially focused on the exclusion of women from temperance societies. While the evils of drink remained a constant during its publishing lifespan (1849-1853), The Lily eventually included articles on women’s rights and called for change in laws that were unfair to women. Many articles were authored by Elizabeth Cady Stanton under the pen name Sunflower.

Accessible Archives has also added Southern states to the American County Histories.

American County Histories (1870-1900)  provide an overview of a specific region during the latter part of the 19th century and are considered foundational records for local history and genealogical research. The Southern states now join the Histories from New England, the mid-Atlantic and some Western states. Content found in the  Histories can include crime statistics, population shifts, transportation systems, settlement patterns and religious trends. Counties indexed for South Carolina are Edgefield, Greenville, Marion, Marlboro, Old Pendleton, Orangeburg, Sumter and Williamsburg.

An excerpt from the Marion County records:
“

"Mr. Lowrimore gives us the name of another early settler in Britton’s Neck, by the name of James Crockett, in the following words: “Another settlement which I forgot to note was old James Crockett, an old Englishman, came and settled on Little Pee Dee, near what is known as Pawley’s Camp, the place where old Tory Pawly, hid, when old General Marion was ransacking this part of the country for the Torys; but the said Crockett obtained a warrant, and in 1734, he taken up and had granted to him a tract of land. I have had the old plat and grant in my hand many times.” This was probably the progenitor of the celebrated David Crockett, of frontier fame in the wild West, seventy-five or eighty years ago."

NEW FILMS ADDED TO FILMS ON DEMAND

Kimbel Library subscribes to Films on Demand, or FOD, a film database which gives students and faculty immediate access to over 8,000 films from PBS, CNBC, Frontline, the Royal Opera House, Meridian, National Geographic, Nova and much, much more.

More than 1,750 new films have been added to FOD this spring, including:

1. Ken Burns' The National Parks: America’s Best Idea series
2. Art 21: Art in the 21st Century series
3. The Big Picture – “the official television report by the U.S. Army to its members and to the American people,” produced by the U.S. Army, 1951-1964
4. African-American Lives series
5. CNBC’s Titans, on America’s titans of business
6. Latin Music USA

You can browse the film collection in the FOD site, or search for these and any other film in the library’s catalog.