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!
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.
August 24th 2021
October 19th 2020
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:
Allegheny ID is required for entry.
June 24th 2020
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).
June 8th 2020
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.
May 8th 2020
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.
April 2nd 2020
Web of Science citation counts have been missing from off-campus AggreGator search results for the past two weeks. The problem can be fixed simply by logging in. After conducting an initial search in AggreGator, look for a message in the upper right corner of the screen (small white font in a dark grey banner) beginning with the words “Off Campus?” Follow the instructions to log in with your Allegheny Username and Password. After logging in, the Web of Science citation count will appear in the search results.
March 19th 2020
The RefWorks service is scheduled for an upgrade for greater security and scalability. During the upgrade process, the following services will be unavailable:
These services will be unavailable starting Saturday March 21, 2020 at 4:00 AM Eastern Time, and for up to 4 hours.
If you experience issues with RefWorks after this time, please open a Web Help Desk ticket or contact the InfoDesk.
March 16th 2020
Kanopy, an online streaming service available to the Allegheny community and a top resource for documentary film, has access to over 28,000 titles from providers such as PBS, Documentary Educational Resources, New Day Films, and California Newsreel.
Kanopy announced on Saturday, March 14th, that additional film collections are available to be watched for free for the next 30 days. See this link for a full list of titles available.
Additionally, starting today, Monday, March 16th; all selections in Kanopy’s catalog from The Great Courses will be available to use for free over the next 4 weeks.