Recreational Reading Collection

Looking for a book to read for fun? The Library has more than 1500 fiction and non-fiction books in its Recreational Reading Collection. These books are shelved alphabetically by the author's last name and are located on the first floor between the Circulation Desk and the Reference Collection.

Citation Style Helpers

A Library user recently made the following comment using the Suggestions/Comments/Concerns form on the Library's home page:

"Can you put something like Endnote on your computers? I am an education student and have trouble with APA style."

Response from Library Director David Schoen: To be honest, we've never had anyone ask, so we have not thought about it. We would not be able to afford to put it on all the computers, but I can look into putting it on one of the computers.

Also, in case you don't know, EBSCOhost will format citations into APA format. You can add a citation to a folder, view the folder, and format the citations in a variety of style formats. It's not foolproof, but it helps.

Thanks for the suggestion.

The July Monthly Book Spotlight

The July installment of the Monthly Book Spotlight has been added to the Library's web site. Reference Librarian Mike Krajewski writes about The World of Tolkien: Mythological Sources of the Lord of the Rings.

Recent Faculty Publications

Here are two recent Niagara University faculty publications of note:

Marlo Brown (Mathematics Department) and Shelemayahu Zacks

A Note on Optimal Stopping for Possible Change in the Intensity of an Ordinary Poisson Process. Statistics & Probability Letters, July 2006, Vol. 76 Issue 13, p1417-1425.

Philip D. Collington (English Department)

"Stuffed with All Honourable Virtues": Much Ado About Nothing and The Book of the Courtier. Studies in Philology, Summer 2006, Vol. 103 Issue 3, p281-312.