Retrieval and Borrowing of Pardee Library materials:

Books may be returned to Mugar Library or to one of the branch libraries.  If you need to renew your books, you may do so through My Account.  To locate books, periodicals, journals, etc. from the Pardee Library collection, please use BU Libraries Search, located on the top center of most library pages.  To request an item from the Pardee Library collection, submit a request by calling 617-353-4301 or send an email to pardedoc@bu.edu.  The requested item(s) will be retrieved by staff from Pardee Library and delivered to the Mugar Library Circulation Desk for pickup.

Reserve Books:

Faculty who wish to place items on Reserve for summer courses should follow the procedure outlined on our Course Reserves page.  Pardee staff will process the material and it will be available at the Mugar Reserve Desk located on the first floor of Mugar Library.

Reference and Information Services:

Reference and Information Services for business and management related topics will be available at Mugar Library. The Bloomberg terminal will be available in the Mugar Library Research Center. Pardee Library Reference and Information services staff will be available in Mugar Library for research assistance.  For questions or research help, call (617) 353-4304, email pardstf@bu.edu, or inquire at the Mugar Research Center (617-353-2700).

Pardee Library staff and services contacts:

Telephones will be forwarded to Pardee Library staff at Mugar Library and email accounts will be monitored and answered.  Please see the Pardee Library Staff & Services page for contact information.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Katie Parolin and Bob Hudson (top), Lindsay Nicastro, Linda Plunket and Yenddie Lin (bottom)

A huge thank you to all of the undergraduate students who took the undergraduate library survey. The response rate was terrific and the library will diligently explore all of the student responses to help improve the libraries and their services.

Undergraduate students that took the survey and then submitted their email addresses were entered into a competition to win three iPad minis and 100 prizes of $25 in convenience points.

We are pleased to announce that the winners of the iPad minis are Katherine Parolin, Lindsay Nicastro and Yenddie Lin.

University Librarian Bob Hudson congratulated Katie Parolin. Linda Plunket, Associate University Librarian and the chair of the Library Assessment Committee, was delighted to present Lindsay Nicastro and Yenddie Lin with their brand new iPad minis.

The 100 winners of the $25 convenience points prizes have all been notified.

The survey results, once complete, will be reported on the library website on the Library Assessment pages.

If you need any assistance searching JSTOR, please contact a reference librarian.

Don’t worry, your account isn’t really changing – it’s the way you access it that will.  We are happy to announce that you will soon be able to log into your library account with your BU login name and Kerberos password.

All of the books you have checked out will be transitioned along with their due dates from the old system into the new one starting on Friday, Nov. 16 at 5pm and lasting through Sunday, Nov. 18. During this short time, sign-in, online renewals and e-shelf will not be working.

More Good News

As we upgrade the catalog management system in the coming weeks, you will see many improvements in BU Libraries Search, including

• advanced and customizable request options, such as placing hold and recall requests online
• seamless integration for the books you check out on your account and your eShelf in BU Libraries Search
• improved metadata for all resource records, including databases, articles, ebooks and more
• improved relevancy rankings and holdings displays for journals

Finally, our new system is much more adaptable than the old system, so that as future improvements become available, they can be implemented more easily.

If you have any questions, please use our Ask A Librarian service or contact a reference librarian.

The BU Libraries encourage everyone to check out or renew materials before 5pm on Friday, November 16th as we prepare to move to a more efficient circulation system. After this short downtime, you will be able to access your library account, including renewals, with your BU login name and Kerberos password.

We appreciate your patience and apologize for any inconvenience. As always, if you have any questions, please use our Ask A Librarian service.

In the spring of 2012, the Boston University Libraries surveyed BU graduate students to determine their use of and satisfaction with library services and resources. The response rate was over 30%, indicating that our graduate students care about our library system.

The survey responses have clarified some areas to improve and also suggest some strategic directions we will pursue, such as enhancing digital access to electronic journals. Here is a link to the Graduate Student Library Survey Report 2012.

This survey followed a survey of the faculty in the fall of 2010, and is part of a planned cycle of faculty, graduate student, and undergraduate surveys every three years.  The Assessment Committee also uses other methods, such as focus groups and website statistics, to support data driven decision making in the libraries.

If you have any questions or comments, please contact Linda Plunket (plunket@bu.edu).

Notable examples include “Thirty Minutes in the Southland: A Musical Romance of the Ante-Bellum Period ,” a short and charming musical production published in 1940 and intended for community performers, and “It’s a Highway to Heaven,” a gospel song by Thomas A. Dorsey, considered to be the father of American gospel music. Today’s current a cappella stylists, alone, will find ample inspiration from all this that has gone before.

Many of the “classical” pieces are significant for having been arranged from the original to allow for greater accessibility for the everyday church congregation or community choir. A collection printed in 1947 entitled “Later Renaissance Motets,” for example, consists of pieces arranged simply and translated from the original German, and serves as an example of the historical effort to bring high art and music to society as a whole.

The collection is currently available for both browsing and circulation on tables—picnic style and by wonderful armloads—in the Music Library’s Listening Room, 2nd floor, Mugar Memorial Library.

–Lena Serpa, Genithia Hogges, Holly Mockovak

The BU librarians have prepared a Capstone Research Guide to assist you with the research process. It includes links to recommended databases and other reference resources.

See you in the library!

BU Worldcat Local allows you to simultaneously search library catalogs of all 17 Boston Library Consortium member libraries. If the BU Libraries do not own the item or our copy is unavailable, you may request it through BU Worldcat Local. The item will generally be available within 4 business days, often even faster than that.

For items not available through a BLC Library, you can still submit an Interlibrary Loan Request as long as the BU Libraries do not currently own the item.

*Please note: journal articles are *not* available through BU WorldCat Local.  Please request them through Interlibrary Loan.*

If you need any help searching BU Worldcat Local, please contact a reference librarian.

For the third year, BU is participating in Open Access Week, an international event sponsored by the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition.

Please consider attending the following events, which are sponsored by the BU Libraries’ Digital Initiatives and Open Access .

*Monday, October 24 – Friday, October 28
George Sherman Union Link
Please visit our table in the GSU Link to learn about Open Access

*Wednesday, October 26:  4:00 p.m.
Stone B50 (basement of the CAS building, 675/685 Commonwealth Ave.)
Q&A with Peter Suber — “What Does Open Access Mean to You and Your Research?”

To learn more, please visit Open Access Week or review the library’s Open Access Research Guide.  If you have any questions, please contact Vika Zafrin, Institutional Repository Librarian at vzafrin@bu.edu.