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survival
guide
Library still
open during renovation
By Anthuan Vuong-
Special to the On-line Forty-Niner
Lisa Gonzales,
teaching assistant for the French department at Cal State
Long Beach, said she was fortunate to have utilized the services
in the University Library when she was a student there.
This fall, with
the student body exceeding 30,000, many incoming students
may think they are too busy with parking, classes, and registration
to take advantage of the Library the way Gonzales did. However,
learning about the services available in the Library is imperative
to a successful academic career.
"The introduction
to college library course is very important," said Gonzales.
"I thought the people at the reference desk were very
helpful."
The Library is
currently under renovation but many of the usual services
are still available, according to Henry Dubois, associate
dean of the Library. Students still have access to printing
services, reference material, the information desk, interlibrary
and renewals, which are all available on the first floor.
The lower level
of the Library has gone through many phases of remodeling.
When the remodel is complete, students will be able to access
media such as microfiche and listening and viewing facilities.
The second through
fourth floor not undergo any remodeling in the next six months.
The fifth floor
will continue to offer special collections, including children's
books and university archives.
While renovation
will continue throughout the school year, some new services
are currently available such as Link+, a book service collection
made possible by 16 California universities.
Through this program,
students access more than four million documents and have
them delivered to their home school by submitting a request
online.
A bestseller collection
including top fiction and non-fiction titles based on the
Los Angeles Times Book Review, is also available to students
at no charge. Audio books, E-Books, and DVD movies are also
available to students in the lower level as diversions from
long hours of studying.
Many library services
can be found on the Library's home page www.csulb.edu/library.
On this site, full text journal articles are downloadable
from databases.
"Libraries
are no longer a place," said Dubois. "They are links,
services which provides access to information that is located
all over the world."
When school starts
this fall, Gonzales suggested that students get acquainted
with the library or their education will suffer.
"Know different
services," she advised, speaking from experience.
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