As the Prince William Campus grows and changes, Mercer Library is preparing to accommodate new students, faculty, and staff who will join our community on August 30th.  August 2004 finds Mercer Library undertaking an inventory of circulating collections as well as a shift in anticipation of new items and more growth room.  Hardware has also been updated for Electronic Reserves and Document Fulfillment (Document Fulfillment services include InterCampus Lending, Consortium Loan Services, and Interlibrary Loans).

In addition, the Prince William Campus is preparing for the dedication of Bull Run Hall on September 8, 2004.  Several events in the dedication ceremony will include the library.  We're looking forward to the exciting changes the Prince William community will experience this academic year!

Liaison Librarians have selected a number of new items received in July, as well as featured e-resources.  Please take note of any items of interest, as well as our hours as they change from Summer Intersession to the Fall Semester.  Finally, don't forget to read our staff spotlight on Teresa Kan, Mercer Library's Reserves/Media Reference Coordinator.  Teresa handles Prince William Campus reserve requests.  Please get in touch with her concerning your reserves needs for the Fall 2004 semester.  Teresa also works with Kristine Neuber, Assistive Technology/Web Accessibility Coordinator, to keep Mercer Library Assistive Technology up-to-date.  They will conduct a refresher course in the Fall.  Anyone interested in learning more about these services may contact Teresa for more information.

Thank you once again for your interest in Mercer Library.  We look forward to assisting you through the end of summer and into the 2004/2005 academic year!

Mercer Library Hours
SUMMER INTERSESSION
 

August 2nd - 29th
Monday - Friday	8:00am - 6:00pm
Saturday	Closed
Sunday	Closed

Mercer Library Hours
FALL SEMESTER 2004
 

August 30 - December 11
Monday - Thursday	8:00am - 10:00pm
Friday	8:00am - 6:00pm
Saturday	9:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday	Noon - 5:00pm

Not sure how to find and use library information resources?  Schedule a drop-in appointment to get acquainted with the basic elements of the research process and be introduced to the GMU library system, available electronic resources, and how to organize and evaluate information.

Sessions are held in the Mercer (Prince William Campus) Library, Occoquan (PWI) Bldg, Rm. 104J.  Please call 993-8348 to arrange an individual appointment.

Flyers detailing the new schedule of drop-in classes for the fall semester will be available soon in the library and at http://library.gmu.edu/research/classes.html.
 

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Beckett, Katherine and Theodore Sasson.
The politics of injustice : crime and punishment in America.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publication, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6789.B38 2004
 

Bedau, Hugo Adam.
Killing as punishment : reflections on the death penalty in America.
Boston : Northeastern University Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV8699.U5 B43 2004
 

Casey, Eoghan.
Digital evidence and computer crime : forensic science, computers and the Internet.
London ; San Diego, Calif. : Academic Press, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6773.C35 C35 2004
 

Davis, John, ed.
The global war on terrorism : assessing the American response.
New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6432.G58 2004
 

Elsner, Alan.
Gates of injustice : the crisis in America's prisons.
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Financial Times Prentice Hall, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV9471.E37 2004
 

Grinols, Earl L.
Gambling in America : costs and benefits.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6715.G76 2004
 

May, David A. and James E. Headley.
Identity theft.
New York : P. Lang, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6679.M28 2004
 

Newburn, Tim.
Handbook of policing.
Cullompton ; Portland : Willan, 2003.
Prince William Campus Reference
HV8195.H24 2003
 

Palmer, Emma J.
Offending behaviour : moral reasoning, criminal conduct and the rehabilitation of offenders.
Cullompton : Willan, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6080.P35 2003
 

Resnik, David B.
Owning the genome : a moral analysis of DNA patenting.
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
KF3133.B56 R47 2004
 

Albright, Joseph F. and Julia W. Albright.
Aging, immunity, and infection.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR184.5.A43 2003
 

Bajorath, Jürgen, ed.
Chemoinformatics : concepts, methods, and tools for drug discovery.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RS418.C48 2004
 

Bloom, Barry R. and Paul-Henri Lambert, ed.
The vaccine book.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR189.V233 2003
 

Cann, Alan.
Principles of molecular virology.
San Diego : Academic Press, c2001.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR389.C36 2001 c.2
 

De la Maza, Luis M.
Color atlas of medical bacteriology.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Reference
QR46.C773 2004
 

Ertl, Hildegund C. J., ed.
DNA vaccines.
Georgetown, Tex. : Landes bioscience/Eurekah.com ; New York, N.Y. : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR189.5.D53 D53 2003
 

Fantuzzi, Giamila and Scott K. Durum.
Cytokine knockouts.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR185.8.C95 C9814 2003
 

Flint, S. Jane.
Principles of virology : molecular biology, pathogenesis, and control of animal viruses.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR360 P697 2004
 

Fluit, Ad C. and Franz-Josef Schmitz, ed.
MRSA : current perspectives.
Norfolk, England : Caister Academic Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR201.S68 M78 2003
 

Garcia, Lynne Shore.
Diagnostic medical parasitology.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2001.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR255.G37 2001
 

Gates, Robert H., ed.
Infectious disease secrets.
Philadelphia : Hanley & Belfus, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RC112.I459 2003
 

Ghannoum, Mahmoud and George O'Toole, ed.
Microbial biofilms.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR100.8.B55 M5252 2004
 

Gillespie, Stephen H.
Management of multiple drug-resistant infections.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR177 .M36 2004
 

Hamann, A., K. Asadullah, and A. Schottelius, ed.
Leucocyte trafficking : role of fucosyltransferases and selectins.
Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR185.8.L48 L476 2004
 

Honjo, Tasuku, Frederick W. Alt, and Michael S. Neuberger.
Molecular biology of B cells.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR185.6 .M653 2004
 

Hoog, G. S., de.
Atlas of clinical fungi.
Utrecht : Centraalbureau voor Schimmelcultures, c2000.
Prince William Campus Reference
QR245.A85 2000
 

Hughes, David A., L. Gail Darlington, Adrianne Bendich and William R. Beisel.
Diet and human immune function.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR182.2.N86 D53 2004
 

Isenberg, Henry D., ed.
Clinical microbiology procedures handbook.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Reference
QR67.C555 2004 v.1 - v.3
 

Jorgensen, James H. and Michael A. Pfaller.
A clinician's dictionary of pathogenic microorganisms.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Reference
QR81.J67 2004
 

Klenk, Hans-Dieter and Heinz Feldmann.
Ebola and Marburg viruses : molecular and cellular biology.
Wymondham, U.K. : Horizon Bioscience, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR201.E16 E36 2004
 

Körholz, Dieter and Wieland Kiess, ed.
Cytokines and colony stimulating factors : methods and protocols.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR185.8.C95 C959 2003
 

Langford, Roland E.
Introduction to weapons of mass destruction : radiological, chemical, and biological.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Interscience, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
U793.L36 2004
 

Levine, Myron M., ed.
New generation vaccines.
New York : Marcel Dekker ; London : Taylor & Francis, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR189.N489 2004
 

Mahy, Brian W.J.
A dictionary of virology.
San Diego, CA : Academic Press, c2001.
Prince William Campus Reference
QR358.M34 2001 c.2
 

Mandal, Bibhat K.
Lecture notes on infectious diseases.
Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RC111.L36 2004
 

Marr, J. Joseph, Timothy W. Nilsen, and Richard W. Komuniecki.
Molecular medical parisitology.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Academic Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR201.P27 M655 2003
 

Mellehovitch, Vitali B., ed.
Bioterrorism and public health.
New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RC88.9.T47 B56 2004
 

Miller, Robert V. and Martin J. Day, ed.
Microbial evolution : gene establishment, survival, and exchange.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR13 M525 2004
 

Mims, Cedric A.
Medical microbiology.
Edinburgh ; New York : Mosby, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR46.M4723 2004
 

Murray, Patrick R., ed.
Manual of clinical microbiology.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Reference
QR46.M425 2003 v.1 - v.2
 

Oppenheim, Joost J. and Marc Feldmann, ed.
Cytokine reference : a compendium of cytokines and other mediators of host defense.
San Diego : Academic Press, c2001.
Prince William Campus Reference
QR185.8.C95 C98169 2001 v.1 - v.2
 

Platt, Jeffrey L., ed.
Xenotransplantation.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2001.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR188.8.X45 2001
 

Prusiner, Stanley B., ed.
Prion biology and diseases.
Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR502.P745 2004
 

Ptashne, Mark.
A genetic switch : phage lambda revisited.
Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR342.P83 2004
 

Ream, Walt.
Molecular microbiology laboratory : a writing-intensive course.
San Diego, Calif. ; London : Academic, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR74.M655 2003
 

Sell, Stewart.
Immunology, immunopathology, and immunity.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2001.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR181.S39 2001
 

Staley, James T. and Anna-Louise Reysenbach, ed.
Biodiversity of microbial life : foundation of Earth's biosphere.
New York : Wiley, c2002.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR100.B55 2002 c.2
 

Srivastava, Sheela and P.S. Srivastava.
Understanding bacteria.
Dordrecht ; Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR74.8 S758 2003
 

Wilkinson, M.H.F. and F. Schut.
Digital image analysis of microbes : imaging, morphometry, fluorometry, and motility techniques and applications.
Chichester ; New York : Wiley, c1998.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR68 .D54 1998
 

Woodford, Neil and Alan Johnson, ed.
Genomics, proteomics, and clinical bacteriology : methods and reviews.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR74.G46 2004
 

Cowley, Sue.
Getting the buggers to think.
London ; New York : Continuum, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1590.3.C6 2004
 

Goodman, Joan F. and Howard Lesnick.
Moral Education: A Teacher Centred Approach.
Boston : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC268 .G586 2004
 

Hammack, Floyd M., ed.
The comprehensive high school today.
New York : Teachers College Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LA222.C555 2004
 

Hubbard, Ruth Shagoury and Brenda Miller Power.
The art of classroom inquiry : a handbook for teacher-researchers.
Portsmouth, NH : Heinemann, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1028.25.U6 H83 2003
 

Idol, Lorna.
Creating collaborative and inclusive schools.
Austin, Tex. : Pro-Ed, c2002.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC1200.I36 2002
 

Jay, Joelle Kristin.
Quality teaching : reflection as the heart of practice.
Lanham, Md. : Scarecrow Press, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1025.3.J39 2003
 

Macgillivray, Ian K.
Sexual orientation and school policy : a practical guide for teachers, administrators, and community activists.
Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC192.6.M33 2004
 

Teele, Sue.
Overcoming barricades to reading : a multiple intelligences approach.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Corwin Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1573.8.T44 2004
 

Barry, John R., Edward A. Lee, and David G. Messerschmitt.
Digital communication.
Boston : Kluwer Academic Publishers, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK 5103.7 L44 2004
 

Beales, R. P.
PC systems, installation and maintenance.
Amsterdam : Boston : Newnes, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK7887.B42 2004
 

Bhattacharya, Sandip.
Beginning Red Hat linux 9.
Indianapolis : Wrox, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA76.76.O63 B437 2003
 

Blazewicz, Jacek, ed.
Handbook on data management in information systems.
Berlin ; New York : Springer, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA76.9.D3 H34735 2003
 

Brisbin, Shelly.
Build your own Wi-Fi network.
New York : McGraw Hill/Osborne, 2002.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK5105.78.B75 2002 c.2
 

Caldwell, Wilma, ed.
Computer security sourcebook.
Detroit, MI : Omnigraphics, c2003.
Prince William Campus Reference
QA76.9.A25 C658 2003
 

Cougias, Dorian J.
The backup book : disaster recovery from desktop to data center.
Lecanto, FL : Schaser-Vartan Books, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA76.9.D348 C69 2003
 

Geschke, Oliver, Henning Klank, and Pieter Tellemann, ed.
Microsystem engineering of lab-on-a-chip devices.
Weinheim : Wiley-VCH ; c2004.
Prince William Campus Reference
TK7874.M52 2004
 

Gilster, Ron.
PC repair bench book.
Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Pub., c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK 7887 G54988 2003
 

Giri, Narayan C.
Multivariate statistical analysis.
New York : Marcel Dekker, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA278.G557 2004
 

Keyes, Jessica.
Software engineering handbook.
Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Reference
QA76.758.K48 2003 c.2
 

Laplante, Phillip A., ed.
Dictionary of computer science, engineering, and technology.
Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2001.
Prince William Campus Reference
QA76.15.D5258 2001 c.2
 

Li, e-Nian and Mark S. Drew.
Fundamentals of Multimedia.
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA76.575 L5 2004
 

Lowe, Doug.
Networking all-in-one desk reference for dummies.
Hoboken, NJ : Wiley Pub., c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK5105.5 .L667 2004
 

Mano, M. Morris and Charles R. Kime.
Logic and computer design fundamentals.
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK7888.4.M36 2004
 

Miller, Gene H.
Microcomputer engineering.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Education, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK7874 M5247 2004
 

Patt, Yale N. and Sanjay J. Patel.
Introduction to computing systems.
Boston : McGraw-Hill Higher Education, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA76 P367 2004
 

Phoha, Vir V.
Internet security dictionary.
New York : Springer, c2002.
Prince William Campus Reference
TK5105.59.P56 2002 c.2
 

Ponniah, Paulraj.
Database Design and Development.
[Piscataway, NJ?] : IEEE Press ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley-Interscience, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA76.9 D26 P58 2003
 

Savitch, Walter.
Java : an introduction to computer science & programming.
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson/Prentice-Hall/Pearson Education, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA76.73.J38 S27 2004 c.2
 

Schildt, Herbert.
C++ : the complete reference.
New York : McGraw-Hill, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA76.73.C153 S33 2003
 

Schneider, David I.
Visual Basic 6.0.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA76.73 B3 S32 2004
 

Shaw, Russell.
Wireless networking made easy : everything you need to know to build your own PANs, LANs, and WANs.
New York : American Management Association, c2003.
Prince William Campus Reference
TK5105.78.S525 2003
 

Sklar, Joel.
Principles of web design.
Boston, Mass. : Thomson, Course Technology, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK5105.888.S5833 2003
 

Watson, Ruth A.
Introduction to Operating Systems and Networks.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA76.76 O63 W3915 2004
 

Weisstein, Eric W.
CRC concise encyclopedia of mathematics.
Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC, c2003.
Prince William Campus Reference
QA5.W45 2003 c.2
 

Budig, Gene A.
The inside pitch --and more : baseball's business and the public trust.
Morgantown : West Virginia University Press, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV880.B83 2004
 

Fizel, John and Rodney Fort, ed.
Economics of college sports.
Westport, CT : Praeger, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV350.E36 2004
 

Fort, Rodney and John Fizel, ed.
International sports economics comparisons.
Westport, CT : Praeger, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV716.I58 2004
 

Kahle, Lynn R. and Chris Riley, ed.
Sports marketing and the psychology of marketing communication.
Mahwah, N.J. : L. Erlbaum Associates, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV716.S649 2004
 

Nieman, David C.
Exercise testing and prescription : a health related approach.
Boston : McGraw-Hill, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QP301.N53 2003
 

Perrottet, Tony.
The naked Olympics : the true story of the ancient games.
New York : Random House, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV23.P47 2004
 

Watson, Ronald Ross and Victor R. Preedy, ed.
Nutrition and heart disease : causation and prevention.
Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RC682.N873 2004
 

Wiggins, David K. and Patrick B. Miller, ed.
The unlevel playing field : a documentary history of the African American experience in sport.
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV706.32.U65 2003
 

Selby, Martin.
Understanding urban tourism : image, culture and experience.
London ; New York : I.B. Tauris ; New York : In the U.S. and Canada, distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G155.A1 S45 2004
 

Plunkett, Jack W.
Plunkett's airline, hotel & travel industry almanac.
Houston, Tex. : Plunkett Research, c2002.
Prince William Campus Reference
G155 U6 P58 2002
 

Weiermair, Klaus and Christine Mathies, ed.
The tourism and leisure industry : shaping the future.
New York : Haworth Hospitality Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G154.9.L45 2004
 

Hinch, Thomas and James Higham.
Sport tourism development.
Clevedon [England] ; Buffalo : Channel Veiw Publications, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
 

Kozak, Metin.
Destination benchmarking : concepts, practices and operations.
Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G155.A1 K68 2004
 

Schaumann, Pat.
The guide to successful destination management.
Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2005.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TX911.3 C63 S33 2005
 

Cox, Barbara and William Koelzer.
Internet marketing in hospitality.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson/Prentice Hall, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TX911.3.E4 C68 2004
 

Collin, P.H.
Dictionary of hotels, tourism and catering management.
London : Peter Collin, 2003.
Prince William Campus Reference
TX905.C64 2003
 

ProQuest "Digital Dissertations" and "Current Research @" databases provide expanded access.

ProQuest Digital Dissertations provides on-line access to the complete full-text file of dissertations in digital format starting with titles published in the Dissertation Abstracts database from 1997 forward.  With more than two million entries, the Dissertation Abstracts database is the single, authoritative source for information about doctoral dissertations and master's theses.  The database represents the work of authors from over 1,000 graduate schools and universities.  We add some 47,000 new dissertations and 12,000 new theses to the database each year.

The database includes bibliographic citations for materials ranging from the first U.S. dissertation, accepted in 1861, to those accepted as recently as last semester.  Citations for dissertations published from 1980 forward also include 350-word abstracts written by the author.  Citations for master's theses from 1988 forward include 150-word abstracts.  The full text of more than 1.7 million of these titles is available in paper and microform formats.

In the companion Current Research @ Mason database, you can:

• search citations and abstracts of dissertations and theses submitted by Mason graduate students,
• view 24 page previews of dissertations and theses published after 1996, and
• download the full text of dissertations and theses published after 1996 free of charge

Dissertation Abstracts, Digital Dissertations, and Current Research @ Mason may all be accessed via the Univerity Libraries' Database web page - http://library.gmu.edu/resources/databases.html.
 

E-journals

Emerald Fulltext is a collection of over 42,000 articles from over 100 of the most prestigious management journals, complete with full text archives back to 1994 and abstracts back to 1989.  Emerald Fulltext provides you with access to the latest research and global thinking via the Internet.  This database dramatically extends the libraries' collection and covers all major management disciplines including marketing, human resources management, mechanical engineering, electronic and electrical engineering, operations management and more.  This collection may be accessed at http://oscr.gmu.edu/sql/alpha.php?e.

E-books

The Libraries' main e-book collection is available through OCLC's netLibrary.  netLibrary is a collection of over 42,000 electronic books on a variety of subjects.  There are two e-book collections - Library (GMU purchased; a collection that is restricted to current faculty, staff, and students) and Public (thousands of free public access books available to anyone), that are available for check out just as traditional library books are.  You may search for a book by author, title, publisher, keyword, or subject term.  Once you preview and/or download an e-book, you may search within the full-text.

Thousands of titles from publishers such as Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Routledge, the MIT Press, Yale University Press, and University of California Press are included in the collection.  You'll find concentrations of titles in areas including business, computers, education, government and law, health, history, humanities, science, and technology.  The netLibrary collection is updated on a semi-regular basis so please check back for new titles.  netLibrary is available anytime, from any Internet-accessible computer.
 

Mercer Library has had the honor of working with Teresa Kan, Reserves/Media Reference Coordinator, for over 5 years.  Teresa came to George Mason University Libraries from the Prince William Public Libraries, bringing with her, expertise in library circulation services, as well as her positive attitude and exceptional customer service skills.  She previously taught school in Reston, Virginia and Taiwan.  Teresa earned her B.A. in Art History and a minor in Education.  Faculty and staff on the Prince William Campus find her indispensable, and enjoy working with her to coordinate reserve items and media issues.

Teresa was originally hired as the Document Fulfillment Coordinator, and worked in that position for over 2 years.  During that time, Teresa served for 2 years on the (InterCampus Lending) ICL Committee.  In both 2001 and 2002 she was awarded the Individual Impact Award, which offered a monetary award and 3 days of vacation for excellence in her position.

After accepting the Reserves/Media Reference Coordinator position, Teresa served 2 years on the ITU Advisory Committee.  In addition, she has undergone extensive Reference training through an in-house program created by Bio/Life Sciences Librarian, Victoria Shelton.

Teresa is currently enrolled in SOLINET, a paraprofessional program.  Through SOLINET, Teresa will receive her Academic Certificate in Library Information Technology upon completion of distance learning courses.

Teresa has been a joy to work with throughout the years, and she continues to display the excellent customer service qualities that helped the Mercer Library team win the ITU Customer Service Award in 2003.  She demonstrates a winning attitude and enthusiasm to grow in the University Libraries.  Teresa has been instrumental in ensuring that equipment used for electronic reserves has been upgraded for Fall 2004, and continues to improve Reserves Services for the Prince William community.

University Libraries provide a Course Reserves Service to support graduate and undergraduate classes.  Faculty may place high demand on specialized materials on reserve with restricted loan periods (two hour, four hour, one day, three days, and seven days). Two hour and four hour items are for in-library use only. Reserve materials may include library owned articles, books, videotapes, CDs, audiocassettes and personal copies of material. All reserve items on the Fairfax campus are available at the Media/Reserve Desk on the FIRST FLOOR of the Johnson Center Library. Prince William and Arlington Campus reserves may be obtained at the Circulation Desk in the Library.  Patrons must present a valid University or picture ID card to check out reserve items, with the exception of U.S. government publications.

Reserve Request forms are available at the circulation desks of the Fenwick, Johnson Center, Prince William Campus and Arlington Campus Libraries as well online through http://oscr.gmu.edu/.

All copied materials placed on reserve, except government publications, are protected by U.S. Copyright Law (U.S.C. Title 17). Faculty members must read and sign a copyright liability statement for all materials placed on reserve.

The Electronic Reserves System provides online access to journal articles that an instructor has assigned for a particular course. This is not necessarily a complete listing of all materials on reserve for an instructor. Please check the Library Catalog for a complete Course Reserve listing.

At this time, the electronic reserves system does not include chapters of books or multi-media items.  Print copies of the digitized articles are also available at the Circulation/Reserves Desks.

For further information about Reserve Services at Mercer Library, contact Teresa Kan at (703) 993-8358 or tkan@gmu.edu.