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Email Outage on Jan 7 - Restart Your Computer After
17-Dec-07 07:40 PM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=8538

Got Questions? Opinio Can Provide the Answers
13-Dec-07 09:20 PM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=8502

Tending to Your Email Quota
28-Nov-07 08:20 AM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=8437

Exhibit: Out at Swem Library
Accompanies the traveling exhibit Out at the Library: Celebrating the James C. Hormel Gay & Lesbian Center organized and circulated by the San Francisco Public Library -- Exhibit Description
16-Nov-07 03:20 PM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=4A13BB57-04A6-2425-C344C13D559A46C1

Learn to Use RefWorks! Nov. 14 Workshops
Swem Library - Learning Center Wednesday, November 14 9:00, 12:00 Noon, 3:00, 5:00 Learn to use RefWorks! The bibliographic software program, RefWorks, will format citations for all the sources you use in writing your book, journal article, d...
02-Nov-07 11:40 AM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=00FA1F8D-993A-9FA4-881A2C8AF2F3FD00

Happy Halloween from IT
30-Oct-07 08:20 PM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=8331

Vital Stats for IT's Busiest Time
27-Oct-07 10:40 AM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=8371

When you have questions, we have answers!
14-Oct-07 03:20 PM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=8274

Lecture: Prof. Melvin Ely, Oct. 24 3:30 pm
Please join us in Swem's Read-and-Relax area on Wednesday, October 24, at 3:30 p.m. for a lecture by Professor Melvin Ely of William and Mary's History Department. Prof. Ely will speak on his latest project, "A Horrible Intimacy: Whites and Enslaved...
10-Oct-07 02:00 PM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=8B0C63A1-B443-0C2D-A355B7DCB57F06C4

Come to the Vendor Fair, Oct. 18-19!
Join us in the Read and Relax area on the first floor of Swem Library on Thursday, October 18, from noon-7:00pm, and on Friday, October 19, from 9:00am-1:00pm, to learn more about the 21st-century resources you already love, such as JSTOR and Science...
08-Oct-07 02:20 PM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=80CC26EE-D678-03EC-EF5AEC9C2B73DC45

Need Info on an IT Service? View the A-Z List
02-Oct-07 01:40 PM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=8273

New Full-Text Resources
Swem Library purchased several full-text electronic resources at the end of the last fiscal year: Academic Search Premier, Education Research Complete, and LGBT Life with Full Text. Business Source Premier, formerly available only to the Mason Sc...
28-Sep-07 05:20 PM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=4DF1C281-C557-5520-BEA0FE128EFE2452

Join the TIP Blog
12-Sep-07 04:00 PM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=8205

Weekend Extended Hours Cancelled
Swem Library will not be able to extend opening hours this semester to Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday mornings, as originally planned. We have fewer student workers than needed because of the rise in the minimum wage with no increase in studen...
10-Sep-07 05:00 PM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=F120AF4B-F13C-665E-802954246DB4660C

Extended Hours Cancelled Due to Budget Cuts
Swem Library will not be able to extend opening hours this semester to Friday and Saturday nights and Sunday mornings, as originally planned. We have fewer student workers than needed because of the rise in the minimum wage with no increase in studen...
10-Sep-07 04:40 PM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=F120AF4B-F13C-665E-802954246DB4660C

re.web: A New Web Site for W&M
29-Aug-07 09:00 AM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=7671

Special Move-In Hours at the TSC
16-Aug-07 09:00 AM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=8032

New Library Guide
The new edition of the Welcome to the Libraries Guide is now available online and in print. The Guide contains a lot of helpful information about the College's libraries, including contact phone numbers and emails, descriptions of services, and upd...
10-Aug-07 01:40 PM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=50CEA89F-A747-CDAF-DA922B777F68D3B1

Authentication Day 2007 Was July 24
24-Jul-07 09:20 PM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=7860

Authentication Day 2007 is Today (Tuesday July 24)
23-Jul-07 10:00 PM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=7860

Technology Orientation for New Faculty
22-Jul-07 06:00 PM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=7921

Friday, July 20
On Friday, July 20, Swem Library will be open 8:00am to 6:00pm, but will have limited services from 12:00noon to 4:00pm while staff attend a memorial service for a colleague. During the limited services period, basic library services will be availa...
18-Jul-07 04:20 PM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=DAF88292-00C9-8030-18AB5DE36D411128

Authentication Day 2007 is July 24 or Now!
01-Jul-07 05:00 PM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=7860

Authentication Day 2007 is July 24!
30-Jun-07 09:40 AM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=7860

Website Unavailable Monday Morning
In order to repair damage sustained during the electrical storm Thursday night we will have to shut down our web server Monday morning (7/2) at 8:30 am. We do not know how long it will be unavailable. Please contact Swem Reference for assistance w...
29-Jun-07 04:00 PM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=789942B7-D5A5-5D40-8BB2A08E3CEF2059

Summer at Swem Library
You'll see quite a bit of activity at Swem Library this summer. We're beginning a process of moving books and journals to and from the shelves at Swem and the Swem Offsite Stacks in order to make growth space for the collections. For background and...
15-Jun-07 11:40 AM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=30062413-94FD-3C3F-F0470C4F7D290AA0

Swem opening at 10 am this Thursday
Swem Library will open at 10:00 a.m. on Thursday, June 14, so that all library staff may attend a staff recognition breakfast. Swem's regular hours for the summer sessions may be found at http://swem.wm.edu/hours.cfm. For more information, pl...
12-Jun-07 04:00 PM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=2170F42C-BD5B-66DB-4806FE931ABFCFC4

Want Office 2007?
12-Jun-07 12:03 PM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=7774

Blackboard . . . Release 7.2 coming soon!
12-Jun-07 12:03 PM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=7803

The Z61t - myNotebook's Newest Choice
12-Jun-07 12:03 PM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=7775

Welcome to the New Website!
Based on our user comments and usage patterns, it's been redesigned to help you find what you need more easily. It also includes the new "Swem Signal" (courtesy of Tom MacWright) to help you find your friends at Swem Library. Let us know what...
12-Jun-07 12:02 PM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=8FA474CA-C2BE-35A9-53B8B922C24227A9

Online Exhibit: The Queen's Visit, 1957
In honor of Queen Elizabeth's visit to the College in May 2007, Swem's Special Collections Research Center has created an online exhibit about her visit 50 years ago. See footage of the royal couple on campus, listen to what they said, read about t...
12-Jun-07 12:02 PM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=34B3A1EA-DD90-1BAF-580CCC3DD2C802AE

Carry Me Back to Old Virginny: Jamestown Revisited
In honor of the 400th anniversary of the settlement of Jamestown, Swem Library has developed this three-part exhibit on Jamestown in the Special Collections Research Center and the adjoining Nancy H. Marshall Gallery from Friday, March 30th, t...
12-Jun-07 12:02 PM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=A3214AA3-B8A5-AC94-367A066586509AC9

Andrews 101 Presentation Equipment - Password Needed
17-Jan-07 01:00 PM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=7226

Video Contest for Students - Win Cash!
14-Jan-07 08:30 PM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=7123

2007 W&M News archive
Complete William and Mary News archive for 2007.
11-Jan-07 02:15 PM http://www.wm.edu/news/index.php?id=7177

Library Hours
Closed January 15: Martin Luther King Day Closed Tuesday January 16: 1:00-5:00 and Wednesday January 17: 8:00-1:00 for staff training event
09-Jan-07 01:30 PM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=08207E99-AC95-66BD-ECD4094F90009E50

Planned Outages on Two Sundays (Jan 7 and 14)
21-Dec-06 09:00 AM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=7103

Exhibit: Night Before Christmas
Swem Library's annual "The Night Before Christmas" exhibit is now open in the Nancy Marshall Gallery and the Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) on the first floor of the Library. The exhibit features a stunning array of books and memorabilia relating to the classic Christmas tale from the Nancy H. Marshall "A Visit from St. Nicholas" Collection. Marshall, former director of Swem, began collecting more than 45 years ago and donated her collection to the Library in 2005. Chandi Singer of
14-Dec-06 09:16 AM http://swem.wm.edu/news/view.cfm?swemNewsID=81522E14-EEE7-6C83-7FCAD97A5404A1D9

TIP Open House on Dec 13
04-Dec-06 08:45 AM http://www.wm.edu/it/index.php?id=7053

New online reference database: xreferplus
Swem Library now subscribes to xreferplus, a collection of 169 electronic reference books including dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, bilingual dictionaries, and books of quotations, with subjects ranging from art and accountancy to literature and law. The entire collection is keyword searchable. Xreferplus is available from the database listing on Swem Library’s home page; individual titles in the [...]
01-Dec-06 04:42 PM http://thecompass.wordpress.com/2006/10/11/new-online-reference-database-xreferplus/

Getting your personal laptop to play nice with Swem’s printers
Here’s another thing we get asked about fairly often (and I’ve heard that the Circ desk gets this question, too.): Can I print to the the printers in the Information Commons from my laptop? The answer: Yes, you can most definitely print to the IC printers from your laptop. Good news, huh?! Follow the steps below [...]
30-Nov-06 04:42 PM http://thecompass.wordpress.com/2006/09/20/getting-your-personal-laptop-to-play-nice-with-swems-printers/

Getting more bang for your printing buck in PowerPoint
We’ve had a number of students ask us lately if there’s a way to print multiple PowerPoint slides on a single page. The default print option in PowerPoint prints one slide per page. If the presentation has a lot of slides, the print job (@ $0.05/pg) can get costly… esp. since the students typically have [...]
29-Nov-06 04:42 PM http://thecompass.wordpress.com/2006/09/13/getting-more-bang-for-your-printing-buck-in-powerpoint/

Printing .pdfs from BlackBoard
Lots of students are trying to print their readings from BlackBoard. Often, the readings are in .pdf format. If you use the traditional File –> Print option to try to print the .pdf, many times only one page will print. To print the whole document (or to print any part of the [...]
28-Nov-06 04:42 PM http://thecompass.wordpress.com/2006/09/05/printing-pdfs-from-blackboard/

Nice job, PFOAs!
All of the PFOAs did a great job giving the library tours during orientation. Their enthusiasm, creativity, and attentiveness made all of us at Swem proud.
27-Nov-06 04:42 PM http://thecompass.wordpress.com/2006/09/05/nice-job-pfoas/

They’re heeeeere!
Just when I was thinking that it was kind of a drag to be working at my desk on a lovely Saturday afternoon, I had an experience that reminded me just how fun working in a library can be. I had gone out to talk to Don, who was working at the ref desk all [...]
26-Nov-06 04:42 PM http://thecompass.wordpress.com/2006/08/28/theyre-heeeeere/

Writing Resources Center @ Swem Opens for fall
The Writing Resources Center is going to continue offering its services at Swem Library on Sunday afternoons. The WRC@Swem will open on September 17th for fall 2006. Writing assistance is available from 2-5 pm each Sunday throughout the semester. You may drop-in or sign-up during those hours for a one-on-one session with a writing consultant. The [...]
25-Nov-06 04:42 PM http://thecompass.wordpress.com/2006/08/24/writing-resources-center-swem-opens-for-fall/

If it’s the end of August, it must be Orientation time!
With the start of the Fall semester right around the corner, Swem Library staff are involved in a number of student outreach and orientation activities. The tour for the new international grad students kicked off our outreach efforts last Friday, but things really get started in earnest on Tuesday, the 22nd. Thanks to all the volunteers! [...]
24-Nov-06 04:42 PM http://thecompass.wordpress.com/2006/08/21/if-its-the-end-of-august-it-must-be-orientation-time/

Looking for CRS Reports? Good news!
Alan Zoellner, Swem’s awesome Gov Docs librarian, informed the library liaison group this morning that we can get the fulltext of Congressional Research Service (CRS) reports all the way back to 1916(!) via LexisNexis Congressional. You know what that means? No more hunting down CRS reports on microfiche! Yay!
23-Nov-06 04:42 PM http://thecompass.wordpress.com/2006/08/21/looking-for-crs-reports-good-news/

Tour for new international graduate students today
I want to thank Molly Brittain over at the Reves Center for Internation Studies for thinking of Swem and including us in the orientation for the new international grad students. She wasn’t sure if the students would be getting any library orientation from their academic departments (I hope they do!), so she called me and [...]
22-Nov-06 04:42 PM http://thecompass.wordpress.com/2006/08/18/tour-for-new-international-graduate-students-today/