August 30th 2024
Welcome back to campus!
In summer 2024, the library team worked to streamline the organization of the library website. Some of the things you’ve used on the library site before may have moved to a new location–but nothing has been removed!
We will continue to build on the new organization over the coming months, to make it easier to find the pages you need.
If you have questions about what might have moved where, please reach out to libraryservices@allegheny.edu or call 814-332-4312.
May 25th 2024
You may already be familiar with the library’s Research Guides — pages curated by research librarians here at Allegheny to guide students and faculty in their research. These guides offer links to library databases, online services, and other tools, typically with a focus around a particular academic discipline (such as Art, Mathematics, or Political Science).
Over the coming months, we’ll focus on bringing the coverage of our Research Guides more in synch with the majors and minors offered here at Allegheny. Toward this end, we’ve added two new Research Guides this summer: one for Business and one for Community and Justice Studies.
Let us know if there’s a particular guide you’d like to see!
May 17th 2024
Welcome to “Featured Friday”, a new weekly series of news, updates, and tips from Pelletier Library!
Today we have exciting news to share.
The Spring 2024 Educator Resource Institute was held in Pelletier 311, the future home of the new Center for Faculty Research and Teaching Excellence. Keep an eye on My Allegheny and the Library’s News and Updates for future developments!
May 31st 2022
From within Google Docs, Sheets, or Slides, you can now join a Google Meet call right in the same window. Students working on a group project, faculty discussing an assignment with students, or colleagues collaborating for work now have more convenient ways to work together.
Just click on the Google Meet icon next to the Share button to see your upcoming scheduled meetings, start a new meeting, or add a meeting code for an existing meeting. The meeting will open in a sidebar in the document you’re working on.
If you create a new meeting, Google Meet will provide you with a link you can share with others to join you.
The first time you use this feature in your browser, you will need to give permission for Google Docs to use your microphone and camera.
You may also see a popup alerting you that you’re not presenting the document and giving you a link to share the document in the Meet.
You will also have the option to shrink the Meet panel using the Picture-in-picture feature, or to pop the Meet panel out to a separate tab in your browser.
May 24th 2022
Have you ever had a colleague or classmate tell you they got a notification for your Google Calendar event they weren’t part of? There are a couple of possible explanations, each with its own solution.
1. If you have granted another person at Allegheny permission to change and edit events in your Google Calendar, they may receive notifications like this. You can check by going to your Google Calendar and clicking on the Options menu (the three dots next to the calendar name):
April 26th 2022
Today’s Tech Tip was suggested by an anonymous user. Feel free to suggest topics for future Tech Tips you’d like to see!
Gmail has many useful features, including conversation threading, email scheduling, powerful searching, and labels. But sometimes a feature can cause confusion.
One such feature is the way that Gmail will trim the content of an email if it contains text you’ve already seen in the same conversation. This can be a big help in a conversation thread with lots of replies, as it keeps every email message from becoming long and unwieldy. But sometimes it’s helpful to see that information–especially since sometimes the trimmed content includes the sender’s signature.
If you feel like Gmail has trimmed a message you’d like to see more of, look for three dots at the end of the message. When you hover your mouse over them, a little popup will say “Show trimmed content.”
Clicking on those three dots will expand the hidden content so you can see it in full.
April 19th 2022
From the Google Workspace Updates blog:
“In addition to seeing when someone is out of office, you can now see additional Google Calendar statuses like “In a meeting” or “In focus time” in Google Chat.”
March 15th 2022
Multiple desktops are great for helping you focus, for keeping unrelated ongoing projects organized, or setting up one desktop to share during a presentation while still having access to others. Think of it as Alt+Tab on steroids–switching not only between individual apps, but between entire groups and layouts of your desktop on your computer.
In a previous Tech Tip, we posted about how to use multiple desktops in Windows 10. This feature is also available on Chromebooks (where it’s called a “desk”), and on Macs using the Mission Control function.
March 8th 2022
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March 1st 2022
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.
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.
