Fall 2016 | Welcome, students, staff, and faculty!
Fall 2016 | Welcome, students, staff, and faculty!
Over the summer, the Purchase College Library has been busy making improvements to our collections and services.
The Library would like to welcome two new employees to our team: Emily Carlin, Outreach, Reference & Instruction Librarian (Natural Sciences Liaison) and Mēgan Oliver, Digital Collections Curator.
New Offices, Services, and Locations:
- Digital Collections Center: The Library is excited to introduce the Digital Collections Center (DCC). Formerly the Visual Resources Center, the DCC serves as a campus-wide resource for faculty, staff, and students who need educational resources for classroom teaching, research papers, art scholarship, lectures, etc. Using new, specialized scanners, the DCC creates digital collections by digitizing 35mm art history slides, as well as text-based items from our institutional archives, like senior projects and campus publications.
** Save the Date! **
Join us as the Digital Collections Center hosts a Grand Opening Reception on Thursday, September 22, 4pm-6pm. Our Digital Collections Curator and Library staff will be on hand to provide a tour of the Center and answer questions over refreshments. Location: The Digital Collections Center, inside the DMZ on the Library’s first floor. RSVP is not required but feel free to let us know you’ll be attending at our Facebook event!
- Art Journals: The bound periodicals for Art (call numbers N1 - NX) have been moved from the second floor to the main stacks on the lower level for preservation and to free up space for additional Art monographs (books) on the second floor. Look for the blue end-caps to spot the new Art Journals shelves downstairs in the main stacks.
- Current Periodicals: We’ve made the Current Periodicals section on the first floor easier to browse by subject. Unbound journals and magazines are now are filed under Art, Performing Arts, Humanities, Natural & Social Sciences, and General Interest.
New Resources & Student Art:
- The Library believes strongly in artists’ books as a teaching resource. As such, the Library has dedicated funds to grow its existing collection of artists’ books, created archivally sound housing for the materials, and moved the entire artists’ book collection to its current location in Special Collections (above the Current Periodicals). Students, faculty, staff, and the public can make appointments to visit the collection, interact with the books and, in doing so, gain inspiration for their own creative projects. The collection is open to everyone, and all are welcome to submit suggestions for additions. If you have questions about the artists’ book collection, please contact Kim Detterbeck, Art Librarian at kimberly.detterbeck@purchase.edu.
- Check out the new student art decorating the Library’s walls! This year’s featured artists are Madelyne Harmon, multiple works; Catherine and Aliza Charbonneau, multiple works; Taylor Apple Pineiro, Chinese Landscape; Kara Cox, Gradient Abstraction; Jillian Dibari, Big Black & White Face; Shane Velez, Big Father Portrait; and Xuan Zhang, Lily Pads.