Welcome Back!
Welcome back bloggers!
As Director of Penfield Library, I am really pleased to extend a “welcome back” to both students and faculty interested in the Library’s new newsletter blog. Several of our staff members, most notably Drew Urbanek and Brian McDonald, recommended that the Library move in this direction as a means of communicating more directly with the people we serve. So, here we are.
We are really hoping to develop an audience on this forum as we both want and need to get word out about new services and resources that the Library offers. Also, this year, the Library will be engaged in a Visioning process with faculty, students, staff and administrators across the College to develop a plan for the future of Penfield. The Library staff have lots of ideas about ways to improve our services and facility to create an attractive, inviting and helpful place for students to work, study and, yes, even socialize, when they are not in class or when they need a “place”, outside the dorm room to focus and find help. We have ideas which we want to share and we also want to hear your ideas as well. We will be conducting focus groups during the year and have placed a suggestion box at the entrance of the Library inviting your input.
Library staff are still working on ideas for what types of information you might like to see in our blog. I thought as a starter, I would let you know of a couple of changes we’ve made this summer that we hope you’ll enjoy. First, campus IT folks added 24 new computers in the Library’s 24-hour study. This area is generally open 24x7 and has soda, coffee and candy machines as well as restrooms for those who may be looking for a place to work in the wee hours of the dawn. The one caveat you will need to be aware of is that there will be no printing from the computers in this room after the Library and the IT lab in Penfield close at 11:00 p.m. We hope by Spring to work this out.
The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching also moved in this summer, to the two rooms just outside the Café. We are greatly pleased to have the Center here in Penfield and look forward to working more closely with Bill Bosch, who heads the Center, and with faculty using the facility.
The Café, by the way, is scheduled to open right away on Thursday, the 25th, with the start of classes. As those of you who frequent the Lake Effect Café already know, the Café supports wireless and we are extending the 15 laptop computers that we circulated in the building last year to 25 this year. We are also working on providing you more places on the 2nd floor to plug laptops in to save battery power.
We have several exhibits planned for the fall in the Café and main lobby, including a New York Civil Liberties Union display on Intellectual Freedom (September) and an exhibit of Cuban Art (October). Right now, we are showing some wonderful prints from an exhibit called “Ashes & Snow”.
Library staff are delighted to see everyone returning. We are here to help you in any way we can. Please come visit Penfield and make us your home away from home (and dorm)!!!
Mary Beth Bell
Library Director
As Director of Penfield Library, I am really pleased to extend a “welcome back” to both students and faculty interested in the Library’s new newsletter blog. Several of our staff members, most notably Drew Urbanek and Brian McDonald, recommended that the Library move in this direction as a means of communicating more directly with the people we serve. So, here we are.
We are really hoping to develop an audience on this forum as we both want and need to get word out about new services and resources that the Library offers. Also, this year, the Library will be engaged in a Visioning process with faculty, students, staff and administrators across the College to develop a plan for the future of Penfield. The Library staff have lots of ideas about ways to improve our services and facility to create an attractive, inviting and helpful place for students to work, study and, yes, even socialize, when they are not in class or when they need a “place”, outside the dorm room to focus and find help. We have ideas which we want to share and we also want to hear your ideas as well. We will be conducting focus groups during the year and have placed a suggestion box at the entrance of the Library inviting your input.
Library staff are still working on ideas for what types of information you might like to see in our blog. I thought as a starter, I would let you know of a couple of changes we’ve made this summer that we hope you’ll enjoy. First, campus IT folks added 24 new computers in the Library’s 24-hour study. This area is generally open 24x7 and has soda, coffee and candy machines as well as restrooms for those who may be looking for a place to work in the wee hours of the dawn. The one caveat you will need to be aware of is that there will be no printing from the computers in this room after the Library and the IT lab in Penfield close at 11:00 p.m. We hope by Spring to work this out.
The Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching also moved in this summer, to the two rooms just outside the Café. We are greatly pleased to have the Center here in Penfield and look forward to working more closely with Bill Bosch, who heads the Center, and with faculty using the facility.
The Café, by the way, is scheduled to open right away on Thursday, the 25th, with the start of classes. As those of you who frequent the Lake Effect Café already know, the Café supports wireless and we are extending the 15 laptop computers that we circulated in the building last year to 25 this year. We are also working on providing you more places on the 2nd floor to plug laptops in to save battery power.
We have several exhibits planned for the fall in the Café and main lobby, including a New York Civil Liberties Union display on Intellectual Freedom (September) and an exhibit of Cuban Art (October). Right now, we are showing some wonderful prints from an exhibit called “Ashes & Snow”.
Library staff are delighted to see everyone returning. We are here to help you in any way we can. Please come visit Penfield and make us your home away from home (and dorm)!!!
Mary Beth Bell
Library Director
Posted by Drew Urbanek at 9:17 AM
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