Library Blog

Schaumburg Library Reboot

Where have all of the books gone? Good news - the books are still here, and are ready to be checked out!  They have been moved to our new, expanded collections area. We also have a private group study space available for sign-up, and will soon have a special popular fiction collection for the enjoyment of the RU community. The renovations are still underway, but we will maintain our normal hours of operation throughout the process. Stay tuned for more information on our grand re-opening in the next couple of months!

Looking into new space from former alcove.

New Group Study Room in the Schaumburg Library, which is available for advanced sign-up.

 

American Chemical Society to Begin Providing Open Access to Select Articles

The American Chemical Society announced recently that it would begin making select articles from its archives freely available on its website:

One new peer-reviewed research article from any ACS journal will be selected to be freely available every day; the selection of these articles is based on recommendations by the scientific editors of ACS journals from around the world. As a service to the ACS global community of researchers, the articles listed below will remain open for all to access and read.

The program is called Editor's Choice, and the selected articles will be promoted and available from the ACS Publications Home Page, as well as via Facebook and other social media.

ACS Editors’ Choice Home Page: http://pubs.acs.org/editorschoice/

 FAQs about the ACS Editors’ Choice: http://pubs.acs.org/page/policy/editorchoice/faq.html

 You can also sign up to receive updates on the open access articles that will be added daily: http://acsopenaccess.org/alert-me/

 

Library and Textbooks: a Refresher

Welcome back to Campus!  Hope you are excited about Spring 2014!

If you are looking for textbooks for your classes, the library might be able to help, with limitations.  You can search the Roosevelt catalog for the books, or expand your search to over 80 I-Share Libraries.  To see example screenshots of how to go about this process, read the library’s “Are My Textbooks in the Library?” blog post from September.

By policy, the library does not attempt to purchase copies of textbooks required for currently offered courses.  Also, we are no longer able to request any course-required texts through ILLiad InterLibrary Loan (ILL).  If you request a required text through ILLiad, it will be cancelled.

To contact the Roosevelt University bookstore about purchasing your books, you can either visit their webpage, or call 312-341-3592.  The bookstore webpage includes a search engine in which you can find the title, author, edition, and ISBN of the textbooks for your courses.

If you cannot find your textbook through Roosevelt or any I-Share Libraries, here is a list of discounted sites and textbook rental sites that could prove useful in your search. 

Disclaimer:  RU is not endorsing any of these sites.

Discounted Sales or Rentals

www.bigwords.com= Buy, rent, or sell textbooks; compares textbook stores.

www.alibris.com = Choose either the “Rent Textbooks” or “Buy Textbooks” tab.

http://textbookrush.com = Buy, rent, or sell textbooks at ‘your online campus bookstore’.

http://www.abebooks.com = Use “Textbooks” to search by ISBN, Author, or Title.

http://www.isbns.net = Searches over 100 bookstores and 60,000 booksellers in seconds.

http://www.half.ebay.com/textbooks = Buy and rent textbooks at the Textbook Superstore.

http://www.cheapesttextbooks.com = ‘Cheap Textbooks; New, Used, Rental:   Up to 95% off.’

http://www.bookbutler.com  = Compare 55 popular online stores and marketplaces in real time.

Textbook Rental Sites

www.chegg.com = The Student Hub:  ‘Rent your books and save hundreds of dollars’.

www.campusbookrentals.com = ‘Rent textbooks and save up to 80%’.

www.bookrenter.com= ‘Rent your textbooks.  Save a bundle’.

Do not hesitate to contact us with any questions.

Asking We Walk: the south as a new political imaginary

Reading the fourth book of the series ‘Asking, we walk: the south as new political imaginary’ is like roaming the streets of a busy hamlet atop a hill and halting at different homes, listening to the stories of those who dwell there. The diversity of voices you hear will range from founders of social movements, representatives of aboriginal tribes, chroniclers of an uncared for planet, and survivors who battled different kinds of violence. The collection, edited by Corrine Kumar, a part of the Centre of Informal Development Studies (CIEDS), a collective based in Bangalore, does not focus on a single issue. Biodiversity, human rights, history and future of social movements, commons, and justice are just a few of the themes the book meanders through. What connects these stories is not what they focus on but what they seek – a vocabulary to describe a different world.

If you accept that a different world, an alternative to the one we live in, marked by inequality, militarism, and patriarchy, is needed, a trip to this hamlet is easier. Once you accept this need, the question then is, how do you describe this different world? The approach the book takes is summed up in the title, ‘Asking, we walk’, coined from the slogan of the Mexican revolutionaries, the Zapatistas. ‘This attitude toward knowledge undergirds all new social movements,’ an essay on emancipatory politics explains. It is an attitude that recognises ‘the limits of one’s own knowledge’ as well as the ‘necessity and possibility of acting while remaining open to what one does not know.’

Read More: http://www.thehindu.com/books/books-reviews/journeys-for-an-alternative-world/article5340174.ece