Pelletier Library

Tech Tip Tuesday: Your Library Account

Your Allegheny account includes full access to all resources available through Pelletier Library and other libraries across campus. You can check your library account to view what you have checked out and when it’s due. You can also ask for renewals, check to see if you have any fines or fees, and see the status of any of your requests.

Screenshot of the tabs in the "My Library Account" page in AggreGator

If you’re logged into your library account, you can also track your searches in AggreGator. Our Interlibrary Loan system also uses your Allegheny account so you can request items from other libraries if you don’t find what you need in Allegheny College’s collections.

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Tech Tip Tuesday: Searching AggreGator

Are you familiar with AggreGator?Green silhouette Illustration of an alligator

As the name suggests, AggreGator searches through the aggregated library content available to Allegheny College from a single search box. Books, ebooks, journal articles, digital collections, video, newspaper articles, and more from almost all of the library’s databases can be found through AggreGator.

If you’re already familiar, you will be interested to know that the AggreGator search interface has recently been updated with new enhancements.

For both experienced and new users, LITS librarians have created a new AggreGator guide where you can learn the ins and outs.

Also, check out our playlist of videos on searching AggreGator!

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Pelletier Library Adds Saturday Hours

As Pelletier Library continues to expand hours, LITS is pleased to announce that the InfoDesk will be open from 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. Evening hours have also been expanded by one hour, to midnight Monday through Thursday.

The full hours are as follows:

  • Mon.-Thurs.: 12 noon – 12 midnight;
  • Fri.: 12 noon – 6 p.m.;
  • Sat. – Sun.: 1 p.m. – 5 p.m.

Allegheny ID is required for entry.

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Reflections on Social (In) Justice: A Digital Collection

If you are a member of the Allegheny community (students, faculty, staff, and alumni), the Allegheny College Archives invites you to share your reflections about social (in)justice in light of the inequities revealed by the impact of the COVID-19 Pandemic, recent acts of racial violence, and the related protests by submitting creative works for the College’s digital collections. Individuals telling their stories is part of our entire community being seen, heard, and valued and is part of our joint commitment  to creating an inclusive, respectful and safe residential learning community that actively confronts and challenges injustice. This project intends to help us share our stories as a way to build understanding, strengthen our community, foster human connection, and preserve personal accounts of these troubling events for future generations and scholarly research. Visit our website to learn more about submitting your work or submit directly here. We will accept your essays, poems, photographs, videos etc., that share your reactions and feelings about the life-changing events of recent weeks. Tell us how these historic events in this turbulent time have impacted your life. We will accept your creative reflections at least through 2020. If you have any questions, please contact Ruth Andel, Archivist (merrick@allegheny.edu) or Beau Smith, Digital Resources Librarian (bmith3@allegheny.edu).

Upcoming Retirement of EZ Proxy

LITS has recently upgraded how members of the Allegheny College community access resources on the LITS website. The old system, EZ Proxy, will soon be completely retired and replaced by the new system, OpenAthens. On June 30th, EZ Proxy bookmarks and links will cease to work, and we will complete the transition to the new OpenAthens system.

If you currently have any bookmarked EZ Proxy links, please navigate to the resources through the LITS website and re-bookmark the links using OpenAthens.

We hope to make this transition as smooth as possible. If there is any assistance that we can provide, please don’t hesitate to let us know by calling the InfoDesk at x3768, or email us at infodesk@allegheny.edu.

Allegheny Strong: A Digital Collection of Reflections on the COVID-19 Pandemic

If you are a member of the Allegheny community (students, faculty, staff, and alumni), the Allegheny College Archives invites you to share your personal reflections on how the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted your life and those around you by submitting your creative works to our new digital collection.  Visit our website to learn more about submitting your work or submit directly here. We will accept journal entries, essays, photographs, and videos as well as other digital output documenting your experience during this difficult time.  We envision the project as a way of strengthening our sense of community and human connection while preserving personal accounts of this global event for future generations and scholarly research.  If you have any questions, please contact us at merrick@allegheny.edu.

Authentication Upgrade for Accessing Library Resources

On Monday, June 1st, the authentication method used for signing in to access library resources is scheduled to be upgraded. When signing in, you will be prompted to connect with your Allegheny Google account.

If you experience any difficulty accessing library resources due to this change, please contact us at infodesk@allegheny.edu.

RefWorks Outage

RefWorks, the reference management service provided to the campus community by LITS, will be out of service temporarily this weekend while its data center is being moved to a new server by ProQuest.

Downtime will start on Saturday, May 9, at 10pm Eastern Time, and will last up to 12 hours. 

If you still experience issues with RefWorks after 10am on Sunday, May 10, please notify the InfoDesk at infodesk@allegheny.edu, or call us at 814-332-3768, or open a Web Help Desk ticket.