With these simple library hacks you can ditch the pencil and find Pepperdine Library items using your smartphone! We’ve seen students taking photos of computer screens (particularly the call numbers in library catalog records) with their phones and using those photos to find books in our Library stacks. Pepperdine’s Catalog (WorldCat Local) uses persistent links to [...]
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Library Hack – Silencing your computer’s startup sounds
Friday, February 3rd, 2012
If you’ve ever turned on your laptop in a quiet area of the Library (unleashing this noise or that noise) and been the recipient of nearby studiers’ ire, Lifehacker has some tips for how to silence your computer’s startup sounds and boot like a ninja.
Library Hack – Help for your New Year’s Resolution to Read More
Monday, January 30th, 2012
In writing to a university community which undoubtedly reads a lot in the normal course of business, a New Year’s resolution to “read more” is less about a quantity of material consumed and more about the mental list we all have of the books or articles we would like to read. WorldCat Lists is a [...]
Helpful links during CAS outage
Monday, August 29th, 2011
Having troubles accessing Library Resources, Wavenet, Courses, etc. right now? You’re not alone. CAS (the single sign-on access to Pepperdine University web services) is down and Pepperdine IT is working hard to restore service. Here are some helpful links: WEBMAIL: Visit webmail.pepperdine.edu and enter “pepperdine\NetworkID” and your password to access your Pepperdine email account. COURSES: [...]
RACHEL CALOF – From Pepperdine Library to New York
Tuesday, August 9th, 2011
The one-woman show Rachel Calof, which the Pepperdine University Libraries presented in February, opens Friday in New York City as part of the 2011 New York City International Fringe Festival. It was one of 200 international productions selected for this year’s Festival, which blankets lower Manhattan with three weeks of shows during the month of [...]
Lost and Found items at the Library
Monday, April 11th, 2011
When the Library gets busy, our Lost and Found pile grows – USB drives, books/textbooks, documents, ID cards, sunglasses, jackets, notebooks, etc. If you’ve left something behind or if you see that someone else has forgotten something in the Library, the Information and Check Out Desk is the place to go. Drescher: (310) 506-8566 Encino: [...]
Drescher Library special opening time: Sunday, March 27th at 4pm
Thursday, March 10th, 2011
On Sunday, March 27th, Drescher Library will open at 4 p.m. rather than 12 p.m. The Library will remain open until 12 a.m.
Time’s All-Time 100 Novels – Pepperdine Libraries own them all
Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010
Lev Grossman and Richard Lacayo, critics for Time magazine, have selected the “100 best English-Language novels from 1923 to the present.” We checked, and each one of these books can be found in Pepperdine Libraries’ collection! We’ve created a list in WorldCat to make it convenient for you to locate all of these books at [...]
LibQUAL+ Frequently Asked Questions
Monday, October 25th, 2010
1. What is LibQUAL+? LibQUAL+ is a survey from the Association of Research Libraries (ARL) that measures how well libraries meet the needs of their users. More than 1,000 academic libraries have conducted LibQUAL+ surveys. 2. When will the survey take place? The survey will run Monday, October 25th through Monday, November 15th. 3. Will [...]
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