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Librarians' ChoiceWhether you want a fun read or a literary classic, the library has what you want. Stop by the Research Desk to see what we read. Located on the Lower Level of the Montante Family Library. Click the link above to see our choices, click a book cover below to see what others think. |
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Library Mission
The mission of the Montante Family Library of D'Youville College is to actively participate in the education of students, and to support the research and curricular needs of the entire college community. The Montante Family Library fosters academic excellence and freedom of inquiry by providing access to a broad spectrum of information in the areas of study supported by the College's curriculum.
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Text-a-Librarian The Research Desk at the Montante Family Library is pleased to announce that it is going to offer a Text a Librarian program. Currently, it is in a testing phase. Please participate in our pilot project. Information and instructions regarding this program follows:
Need Info On the Go? Text a Librarian! Responding to the popularity of text messaging, students, faculty and staff at D’Youville Collegecan now ask questions and get information from the Montante Family Library by text message. To access this service, text refdesk to 66746. On average, Americans text message almost twice as much as they talk on mobile phones, according to a recent Nielsen Mobile Survey, making it a preferred means of communication while on-the-go. “Recognizing the increased use of text messaging by patrons of all ages, we felt it important to offer a way to communicate with the library via text messaging,” said Debra Lucas, Head of Research and Interlibrary Loan. “The new service provides an easy-to-use interface for our librarians and maintains the privacy of our patrons’ information.” For patrons who are unable to ask a librarian in person or online, or those who simply prefer texting over talking, the Text a Librarian service provides a convenient option for getting info on their mobile phone from the helpful research librarians at the Montante Family Library. With Text a Librarian, patrons ask questions by sending text messages with their mobile phones and librarians answer on a web-based interface, keeping a “live archive” of all the questions and answers. The service does not display phone numbers and generates an anonymous ID for each patron in order to reference conversation history. For more detailed information about the Text a Librarian service at the Montante Family Library, please visit http://library.dyc.edu. Or contact Debra Lucas at lucasd@dyc.edu or 716-829-7764 |
SERVICES FOR DYC FACULTY, ADMINISTRATORS AND STAFF The library continues to add new electronic resources to its collection. It has most recently added: Learn more about how these recent acquisitions can benefit you and your students by scheduling an individual instruction session! Personalize your research session…what is most important to you? Individual and small group sessions can be arranged! Please contact: |
Previous Spotlights on Research |
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| New Library Catalog | Take a sneak peek at our new library catalog coming this December. The program includes a variety of discovery and management tools to help make your library research rewarding and quite possibly even fun! Click on the image to the right to see a short demo. |  |
| Pubget | Find full text PDFs in the health sciences using Pubget. This resource offers a Google-like search interface that can query several library databases and other information sources simultaneously. Link to our library to optimize your retrieval results. Click on the icon to the right for a quick overview of the setup and some of the features of Pubget. |  |
| Safari Books | Are you learning a new programming language, designing a web site or working on any computer related problem and need to view authoritative reference books? Safari Books is a collection of digitized manuals from a variety of major IT publishers such as Packt, Sams and O’Reilly. Select from our collection of 100 titles. Click on the icon to the right to view an animation showing some of the features of Safari Books. |  |
| Google Scholar | Having trouble finding full text articles using Google? Research the way you are used to and find the full text of academic journals by using Google Scholar to search the D'Youville Library's huge collection of full text journals. Click on the Google Scholar image to view a demonstration on customizing Google Scholar to search our collection. |  |
| Olde Library Catalog | Ye Olde Library Catalog. Gone but not forgotten. Not updated, so beware. |  |
PHONE
Research Desk: 716-829-7747
Circulation Desk: 716-829-7618
Toll-Free for Canadian Students: 1-800-777-3921
This is the number for the DYC Switchboard.
The switchboard is available Monday-Friday 8:30 am - 4:30 pm.
Text-a-Librarian
Text refdesk to 66746 for instructions