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After careful consideration, Nash Library will begin charging all library users ten cents per page for printing effective July 1, 2009. This decision results from USAO’s flat budget, escalating mandatory costs, and no increase in tuition and fees. As we mentioned in an earlier e-mail, the Nash Library operating budget was decreased by $50,000 for the upcoming fiscal year.

Nash Library is now working with Better World Books, the "online bookstore with a soul" to find readers for books donated to us but not added to our collection for various reasons. Better World Books believes "that education and access to books are basic human rights." We could not agree more.

Five percent of the proceeds from sales of books sent by Nash Library to Better World Books will be deposited into the Jayne Nash Montgomery Library Society, our "friends of the library" group. This group sponsors an annual lecture during homecoming weekend.

Fifteen percent of the proceeds will go to the National Center for Family Literacy (NCFL).  According to its website, the NCFL "fuels life improvement for the nation's most disadvantaged children and parents. More than 1 million families throughout the country have made positive educational and economic gains as a result of NCFL's work, which includes training more than 150,000 teachers and thousands of volunteers."

Eighty percent of the proceeds go towards the operating expenses incurred by Better World Books, including the purchase of carbon offsets (so that "every order is shipped carbon neutral").

By partnering with Better World Books, we realize a revenue stream for our friends group, we contribute to a wonderful cause, and we keep books out of the landfill. We hope you will support Better World Books by checking their inventory when making your next book purchase.

Congratulations to the Class of 2009! We enjoyed seeing you in the library the past few years. Special congratulations to Wei Chan Lee and Ashlie Henderson for their hours of hard work for Nash Library. We wish you the very best.

We have a 30 day trial to EBSCO's Computers & Applied Sciences Complete database.

Computers & Applied Sciences Complete covers the research and development spectrum of the computing and applied sciences disciplines. It contains collected knowledge on traditional engineering challenges & research, and is a resource for research concerning the business and social implications of new technology. CASC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,800 academic journals, professional publications, and other reference sources from a diverse collection. Full text is also available for more than 730 periodicals. Subject areas include the many engineering disciplines, computer theory & systems, new technologies, and social & professional context. Resources with full text coverage include many ACM and IEEE publications. Research is aided by the inclusion of searchable cited references for key journals.

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Nash Library now subscribes to Cambridge Collections Online (CCO) which includes access to Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics and Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture.

Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics collection offers over 1500 comprehensive and accessible essays on major authors, periods and genres, written by experts and designed for student readers. For the author Companions, each writer is placed in literary and historical context; their major works are analyzed, either in separate chapters or grouped according to theme, and their influence on later writers assessed. The genre and topical Companions cover periods of English literature such as Old English or the Victorian Novel, and literary genres such as Modernism or Greek Tragedy, providing vital contextual information about political, social, religious and artistic relationships. The Companions to Classical Civilisation examine key periods and aspects of the civilisations of ancient Greece and Rome.

The Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture offers specially-commissioned collections of essays which are intended to serve as reference works addressing topics and figures ranging from Plato through Kant to Habermas, and philosophical movements such as the Scottish Enlightenment and German Idealism. This online collection contains over 1000 essays taken from the Cambridge Companions to Philosophy, Religion and Culture (more than 100 volumes).