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Library catalog (Books and More) Down Again for 15 minutes - Thursday AM COMPLETED

March 24, 2010 - 2:48pm — cindy

The library catalog will again be down for 15 minutes at 7:30AM Thursday morning to correct the problems in some screens in Internet Explorer.  Our apologies for those problems.

Health Care Reform bill and debate available on GPO's Federal Digital System

March 24, 2010 - 12:37pm — mjw

The Government Printing Office (GPO) has posted to the Federal Digital system (FDsys) the authenticated full text of H.R. 3590 (Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act) and H.R. 4872 (Health Care and Education Reconcilliation Act of 2010), and of  debates and votes in the Congressional Record.
 
Direct links to the bills:
H.R. 3590
H.R. 4872

Direct links to Congressional Record debate:
Congressional Record Volume 156, Issue 43 (March 21, 2010)
Congressional Record Volume 156, Issue 43 (March 21, 2010)
Roll call vote no. 165
 
If you (like many of us) are overwhelmed by the sheer size of the bills, you can get a good start at Thomas. The Health care bills are front and center on the website today, but you can always search by the bill numbers to get to a summary, view the actions and ammendments proposed on the House and Senate floor, and link to the texts and the Congressional Record.
 
Your tax dollars at work, courtesy of the federal depository system. We will have paper copies of the law in time, but online's the way to go for now!

Libraries' 2009-2010 Newletter

March 23, 2010 - 10:26am — clarence

Read the latest issue of the Libraries' newsletter to learn more about open access, teaching with media, the changing role of libraries in higher education, as well as about a host of other projects and initatives that the Colgate Libraries have been engaged in.

Library Catalog (Books & More) Downtime Saturday Night

March 19, 2010 - 3:16pm — cindy

The Library Catalog will be unavailable briefly on Saturday night at 9:00PM - 9:30PM while we put on our spring finery.  Look for a change of (inter)face!

New book and video lists created for February 2010

March 9, 2010 - 11:17am — mike

The new book lists are available for the month of February.  New videos added during February have also been processed.

BHA to cease as of March 31, 2010

March 4, 2010 - 11:48am — francesca

Due to budget cuts, the Getty is ceasing to support the BHA (Bibliography of the History of Art). As of March 31, all access to the online version of BHA will cease. They are working to find partners or buyers for the product but have not had any luck with that so far. This event, happening as it does to a resource that we always considered to be stable, is really indicative of just how volatile the traditional publishing market is right now. It's disheartening for the BHA to cease to be as it has such a long history and represents content that we currently have no other way to access (no other group is indexing some of it and/or it is not available online/full-text). 
 
Here is the link to their announcement:
 
http://www.getty.edu/research/conducting_research/bha/
 
So, to reiterate, after March 31 the BHA is no more. We're keeping an eye on the situation to see if there's a last minute reprieve but we should all assume and plan to no longer have this important resource available.