Colgate University Libraries News and Events

Professor Manning Marable was the founding director of Colgate's Africana & Latin American Studies program.  He died in April, 2011, just days before the release of his critically acclaimed biography Malcolm X:  A Life of Reinvention.
 
The book has been described by Wil Haygood in the Washington Post as going "... deeper and richer than a mere homage to Malcolm X. It is a work of art, a feast that combines genres skillfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop, a man who died for his belief in freedom, a man whom Marable calls the 'fountainhead' of the black power movement in America."
 
This and dozens of other works by Professor Marable are available at the Colgate University Libraries by searching the library catalog by author/Marable, Manning.
 
Photo:  NPR.org

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

The Encore catalog interface will be upgraded on Thursday, January 12, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and there will be a brief outage of the service while the upgrade occurs.  The Classic catalog should remain available during the upgrade.

LASR Scheduled Maintenance January 4 and 5
The Case Library LASR system will be undergoing regular maintenance on Wednesday, January 4 and Thursday, January 5, 2012. Maintenance requires taking the system out of service. Deliveries from LASR to the Case Library Circulation Desk will be made as follows during the maintenance work:
 After    Wednesday, Jan 4, 9 AM    Before    Wednesday, Jan 4, 11 AM    Will be Available    Wednesday, Jan 4, 11:30 AM

After    Wednesday, Jan 4, 11 AM    Before    Wednesday, Jan 4, 3:30 PM    Will be Available    Wednesday, Jan 4, 4:30 PM

After    Wednesday, Jan 4, 3:30 PM    Before    Thursday, Jan 5, 7 AM    Will be Available    Thursday, Jan 5, 8:30 AM

After    Thursday, Jan 5, 7 AM    Before    Thursday, Jan 5, 11 AM    Will be Available    Thursday, Jan 5, 11:30 AM

After    Thursday, Jan 5, 11 AM    Before    Thursday, Jan 5, 3:30 AM    Will be Available    Thursday, Jan 5, 4:30 AM
 
Please call the Circulation Desk at x7300, menu choice 3, to verify that materials have been delivered before traveling to the library to pick up requests. Completion of the maintenance work and resumption of the regular delivery schedule will be announced on the Libraries’ web site. Thanks for your patience during this inconvenience.

On Tuesday, December 20th, the software which provides the Classic online catalog and circulation system will be updated between 11 am and 3 pm.  During this time, the classic online catalog and some other online services will be unavailable.   Off campus access to Library resources via Proxy may be affected.
We hope to have the Encore catalog available; since they are closely linked, it may not be possible.   The ConnectNY catalog may be helpful if Encore is unavailable.

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

A reprise of our traditional (hopefully) post about Thanksgiving.
 
Soon many of you will be fleeing campus to the comfort of home and the traditional American Thanksgiving feast. Although we tend to think of Thanksgiving as a harvest celebration dating back to Plymouth Colony, it was actually created by Abraham Lincoln in 1863 (See Statutes at Large vol. 13, appendix, p. 749; also online at Library of Congress). It was under Roosevelt (FDR) that Thanksgiving became the fourth Thursday of the month (see Statutes at Large vol. 55, p. 862), not meandering between the fourth and the fifth, in order to increase time to shop. So I guess we have him to "thank" for Black Friday!
 
For fun facts about Thanksgiving, go to the U.S. Census Bureau website. For example, it is expected that 248 million (yes, million) turkeys will be raised in the U.S. this year, with Minnesota leading the way, with an estimated 46.5 million. However, that won't be enough to fill our needs for the entire year. Between Jan and July 2011, we imported $7.8 million worth of live turkeys, primarily from Canada.
 
Intersted in knowing where all that traditional Thanksgiving food comes from? Check out the Where does Thanksgiving Grow poster (created by Linda Zellmer of Western Illinois University), with maps of the production in the U.S. of various Thanksgiving foods. And, finally, if you are traveling, travel safe, both leaving and coming back! Yumm, visions of pumpkin pie!!!!

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

The library website was down for a few hours this afternoon due to some unexpected server issues. We apologize for the inconvenience if you were trying to make use of our resources during that time. We believe that everything is back up now. Please let us know if you do experience any additional oddities in the site.
The links below might be useful to you if there is ever another unexpected outage as they will lead you directly to some of our resources.
Articles
Ask a Librarian (email)
Colgate University Library Catalog (Encore)
ConnectNY
Databases A-Z
Digital Collections
Interlibrary Loan
My Library Account
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The new book lists are available for the month of August.  New videos added during August have also been processed.