Category: New materials

JUST IN TIME FOR SUMMER!  Belk Library has added 25 new book titles to the Kindles.  Kindles are available to Elon students, faculty and staff.

Kindles can be reserved through the library catalog by searching the title “Kindle,” or go directly to Kindle.  The Kindle E-Readers user’s guide is available with a current list of book titles and other facts about Belk Kindles.

Thanks to the generosity of Elon’s Student Government Association, we now have more than 300 new videos (DVDs and Blu-ray) at Belk Library. Visit the library soon to check out them out!

To see a list of the new SGA videos, click on this link.

Thanks to the generosity of Elon’s Student Government Association, we now have many new DVDs at Belk Library. Visit the library soon to check out these new movies and television shows:

Belk Library is introducing nine Playaway sound media players, which are two-ounce devices that can hold an entire audio book. The players were purchased to satisfy growing interest among patrons in audio books and new technology.

“The whole point of the Playaway is that it’s combining content with an easy player all in one,” says Patrick Rudd, coordinator of library access services. “So you basically put in a AAA battery and your ear buds, and you listen to a whole book.”

The sound media player does not require downloading and enables users to listen to an entire book without the interruption of changing CDs. The player also marks stopping points, keeping track of where users left off and can hold up to 80 hours worth of content.

To read more about the Playaways at Belk, please see the article on E-net.

Thanks to the generosity of the Student Government Association, many new DVDs were recently added to the Belk Library DVD collection. Visit Belk Library soon to check out these new movies and television shows:

Belk Library now has a large online collection of encyclopedias, dictionaries and almanacs covering all subjects.

Some titles include the Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology, the Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World, the Encyclopedia of Popular Music, the Encyclopedia of Socience and Religion, plus many foreign language dictionaries.

Click here to see a list.

Listen to music online using the Naxos Music Library. The Naxos database contains classical, jazz, world, folk and Chinese music, as well as notes on the musical works and biographical information on composers and artists.

Thanks to the generosity of the Student Government Association, many new DVDs were recently added to the Belk Library DVD collection. Visit Belk Library to check out these new DVDs:

Belk Library users can now view PBS videos online by going to http://media.nclive.org/ from an on-campus computer. These videos are a collection of many of the high quality documentary and educational video programs produced for the Public Broadcasting Corporation.

Belk Library users can now view The Chronicle of Higher Education online by going to http://chronicle.com/ from an on-campus computer.