Library & IT at Bucknell

Faculty and staff: Please note that all Equipment Services Loaner Equipment will be recalled for annual inventory and maintenance beginning Monday, May 19th .

No equipment items will circulate from 8am May 19th to 8am May 23rd.

Equipment loans will resume on Friday, May 23rd.

Please call x77733 if you have any questions regarding equipment loans and/or due dates.

Each year, the Library & Information Technology department recognizes the valuable contributions made by our graduating student assistants by dedicating a book to the Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library in their name. The book is of the student's choosing and contains a uniquely designed bookplate with their name and class year. In addition, the permanent catalog record of that book includes the student assistant's name as the person honored by the dedication. Through the Bertrand Library online catalog, you can enter the student's name as a keyword search and access the record of the book dedicated to him or her. We celebrated the book dedication at a ceremony in the Library's Traditional Reading room on April 18. You can view the program created for the ceremony. Stop by the Library lobby to see the exhibit cases containing all of the books dedicated this year. We will keep these exhibits up through Commencement weekend so that our graduates can bring their families in to see the book dedicated in their honor.

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Students:

As finals period approaches, and the library becomes increasingly busy, please take time to secure your laptop and other belongings. Don't walk away and leave your personal items unguarded, as they could be stolen! Every year, a few students are unfortunately the victims of laptop theft, which can been easily prevented.

To help you secure your laptop, the library offers laptop security devices on select study carrels on Lower Level One.

These carrels are fitted with a hook to which you can attach a laptop lock and chain to secure your computer.

Also, twenty locking mechanisms available at the Equipment Desk that will work with most laptops. In addition, you may purchase locks at the Bookstore.

Finals period is a particularly bad time to have your laptop stolen, so take a minute to secure it, or if you have to go away for even a few minutes, take it with you.

Good luck with finals!

Students: In preparation for summer school, all voice mailboxes will be deleted Tuesday, May 20th. Please be sure to retrieve all voice mail messages before that day, or all messages will be lost. Summer voice mailboxes will be established on Wednesday, May 28th.

Thank you and have a great summer!

Faculty and Staff:

Technological threats in the form of viruses and malware have become more prevalent. As a result, ISR has taken steps to increase the protection of your Bucknell-owned Windows computer.

Beginning this week, we will remotely "push out" a new anti-virus and anti-spyware program called Sophos. It will replace the Symantec Antivirus and SpySweeper software packages many of you are running today.

What will you notice? The gold shield and the crosshair icon (if you have one) will disappear from your taskbar in the lower right-portion of the screen. It will be replaced by a "pretty blue shield" that is striped on the left and solid on the right.

What do you need to do? That's the best part! Not much. All we ask is to make sure your computer is connected to the wired network over the next few weeks. (Sophos cannot be installed over wireless.) The installation will occur on its own without any intervention from you.

This process will take approximately two weeks. In that amount of time we hope to have successfully installed Sophos on most of your computers. We will continue to actively scan the network after this time period to catch machines we miss during this initial rollout.

Finally, we are happy to announce our Sophos license agreement allows us to extend this protection to your personal Windows computer(s) as well (much in the same way our Symantec agreement did). Please watch for future communication announcing how Sophos will be made available to you. Until then, Symantec Antivirus will continue to protect your home machine(s) as it always has until July 1st.

Thank you for your cooperation. If you have any questions or concerns please do not hesitate to contact Tech Support at techdesk@bucknell.edu or by calling 7-7777.

Seniors:

Senior PAC Numbers will be deactivated Tuesday, 5/20.

Congratulations and Good Luck!

All Bucknell borrowers may view checked-out items and renew online by logging onto myBucknell.
Students:
• click on the myLibrary tab
• inside the Library Catalog channel, click on "myLibrary Account" link
• from the Bertrand Library search page, click on myLibrary Account (at top in white letters)
• select Renew My Materials
The online renewal limit is two. Watch for the feedback screen to make sure all items renewed. If an item reached the renewal limit and did not renew, bring it to the library to have staff renew it. If you are not successful, phone 7-3592 to have staff make an adjustment to your account.

Faculty/Staff:
• from the myInformation channel, click on the "Library Account" link
• from the Bertrand Library search page, click on myLibrary Account (at top in white letters)
• select Renew My Materials
The online renewal limit is two. Watch for the feedback screen to make sure all items renewed. If an item reached the renewal limit and did not renew, bring it to the library to have staff renew it. If you are not successful, phone 7-3592 to have staff make an adjustment to your account.

Use this opportunity, especially before summer vacation, to return any item that is not needed in the near future since it may be recalled and subject to the $1/day recall fine.

Faculty, staff, and spouses may begin to renew items on April 11 for the new due date of May 14, 2009 (August 27, 2008 for spouses). If you have already renewed an item two times, you must bring it in to the Library for a staff renewal. For online renewals, we recommend that you verify that you actually have the item before you renew it electronically. Faculty who need assistance transporting large numbers of items to and from the library may contact Mary Jean Moser, maryjean.moser@bucknell.edu or 7-3287.

All materials of GRADUATING STUDENTS (Seniors and graduate students) will be due the last day of finals, Thursday, 5/8/08 by 7 PM. Your university account will be billed for any items still on your account after 5/8. Graduates may apply for an alumni card if they wish to continue to borrow items.
Thursday, May 8 -- library closes at 7 PM
Friday, May 9 -- library hours: 8 am - 5 pm
Saturday, May 10 -- library hours: Noon - 5 pm
Sunday, May 11 -- CLOSED

Continuing Graduate students may begin renewing items for the next semester on April 11. The new due date will be August 27, 2008.
Undergraduate students will continue to have borrowing privileges throughout the summer. Verify that your library account is correct before you leave campus.

We are pleased to announce that a new JSTOR platform was launched on April 4. Among the new improvements is a faceted search feature to narrow results by discipline, journal, article type, publication date, language, times an article is cited in JSTOR, number of pages, and articles with images. The new version includes some basic interface changes and new features. Check it out and try it!

In a current phishing scam that is going around on college campuses, users are asked to provide username and password information to campus IT departments.

Never provide your username and password in an email! Bucknell will never ask you to provide this information to us!

Here is a sample message type that has been going around:

"We are currently upgrading our data base and e-mail account center ... Warning!!! Account owner that refuses to update his or her account within Seven days of receiving this warning will lose his or her account permanently."

While we have not seen this yet at Bucknell, it is best to be prepared. Never send username and password information over email!

Check out the Elections 2008 webite for information from major national news sites and election coverage to local campus political groups and their activities and events.