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Take the Library’s Student Textbook survey for your chance to win a $25 Amazon gift card, and contribute to Loras College’s efforts in the movement towards affordable textbooks and course materials. Questions range from your textbook costs per semester, to your preferences for purchasing/renting, to your strategies for managing costs.

Open Wednesday 10/28/20 until 11/16/20 at 11:59pm

Take the survey: https://loras.libwizard.com/textbooks

What is Open Access?

Open Access refers to information that is free, unrestricted, and online.

• It is a movement that wants to increase information access and innovation.
• It usually refers to open access publishing, particularly of scholarly communication in academia.
• It may be an answer to the serials / scholarly communication crisis, which refers to the system where information is locked up in subscription journals and databases whose prices keep rising (as library and college/university budgets stagnate or decrease) and colleges/universities and libraries are forced to pay for the creation of the research as well as to buy it back through subscriptions.
• It is about the democratization of information and knowledge.
• It is carried out largely through digital and institutional repositories, where research (including peer-reviewed journals) is posted online for anyone to access, which are indexed by Google and other search engines increasing visibility and impact of the research.

Learn more about Open Access at the Library's tutorial guide.

This morning, the Nobel Prize in Literature for 2020 was awarded to the American poet Louise Glück “for her unmistakable poetic voice that with austere beauty makes individual existence universal”. Experience her writing and these books in the Loras College Library collection:

The Wild Iris by Louise Gluck

Call Number: 811.54 G52w | 3rd Floor Stacks

Publication Date: 1992

 

 

 

The Triumph of Achilles by Louise Gluck

Call Number: 811.54 G52 | 3rd Floor Stacks

Publication Date: 1985

 

The Seven Ages by Louise Gluck

Call Number: 811.54 G52s | 3rd Floor Stacks

Publication Date: 2001

 

 

 

 

Proofs and Theories by Louise Gluck

Call Number: 811.54 G52p | 3rd Floor Stacks

Publication Date: 1994

 

 

 

 

The First Four Books of Poems by Louise Gluck

Call Number: 811.54 G52f | 3rd Floor Stacks

Publication Date: 1995

 

 

 

 

Ararat by Louise Gluck

Call Number: 811.54 G52a | 3rd Floor Stacks

Publication Date: 1990

 

 

 

 

Vita Nova by Louise Gluck

Call Number: 811.54 G52v | 3rd Floor Stacks

Publication Date: 2001

 

 

 

 

Meadowlands by Louise Gluck

Call Number: 811.54 G52m | 3rd Floor Stacks

Publication Date: 1997

More Learning! The Library is coordinating an new learning opportunity: The Adulting Series – Using the Applied Digital Skills from Google for Education platform you’ll learn skills you’ll need for school and your future career. Access the three courses digitally and work at your own pace through the lessons. Courses will be available from October 1 through November 30. Loras Students completing all three courses in the Adulting Series will be entered in a drawing for a $25 Amazon gift certificate!

Use Google to Get a New Job - How to Conduct a successful job search using digital tools.
Communicating Effectively at Work - Learn how to Communicate and collaborate with others in the workplace more effectively using digital tools.
Give and Receive Feedback - Learn to give and receive written feedback effectively.
To sign up:
1.    Go to g.co/AppliedDigitalSkills
2.    Click "Sign in" in the top right
3.    Sign in with your Google account, or create a new one
4.    Click "I am a student"
5.    Click "Join a class" and enter class code g356jp

Contact Heidi.Pettitt@loras.edu for more information.