Milne Library News

February is Black History Month!

To commemorate the celebration, explore our curated collection of the history, heritage, and achievements of African Americans and African diaspora culture.

go.geneseo.edu/BlackHistoryMonthCollection

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Milne Library is happy to display electronic posters for student organizations, campus and department events. Only Geneseo faculty, staff, and recognized student organizations may submit e-Posters to Milne Library. E-Posters must be submitted at least two weeks before the date you want your e-Poster to be displayed. 

E-Posters are are added to the digital sign Monday - Friday and are shown on a digital sign in the library rotating with others in a given week. Submissions are handled on a first-come first-served basis, and posters may be displayed for up to 2 weeks.

Learn more and submit your e-poster here!

Milne Library is now subscribing to the resource, Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies. Oxford University Press describes its collection of Oxford Bibliographies as “combining the best features of an annotated bibliography with a high-level encyclopedia”. The resource is made up of articles and information about a variety of topics within Islamic Studies which include religion, history, society, people, places, and material culture. Articles are written and edited by a team of scholars from around the world.

Oxford Bibliographies Online: Islamic Studies is listed in our Databases A to Z List as well as the databases list for History. It is also discoverable in GLOCAT.

Direct link: https://library.geneseo.edu/OBO-Islamic-Studies

Visit Michele the Library Dog at the comfy seating area behind the main staircase on the 2nd Floor (Main Level) of Milne Library on Thursdays!

Michele's schedule: 

• 1st, 3rd, and 5th Thursday of the month, from 10am–11am
• 2nd and 4th Thursday of the month, from 1pm–2pm
   

Start your Spring Semester studying at Milne Library!  We offer: Reservable Group Study rooms; sound-muffling and spacious Quiet Study areas; Books & Bites Café, featuring fresh made-to-order sandwiches and beverages; spacious Library Research Instruction Suite for Student Research Consultations; a dedicated Writing Learning Center with study tables and a couch; Assistive Technology Room with Accessibility and Dictation software; and so much more!

Explore Milne Library's Features and Service Locations!

For decades, the Library has maintained a collection of faculty book publications in the Geneseo Authors Hall which is part of the College Archives. A digital representation of the collection is available here. The Library annually solicits information about faculty works and then purchases a copy of books authored or edited by our faculty for addition into the Geneseo Authors Hall.

With the opening of the renovated Milne Library building, the Library is launching a new, circulating collection of faculty book publications.

The scope of this new collection remains the same as its archival counterpart, however, these copies are located in the public space near the Service Desk and can be borrowed, placed on reserve, and loaned through Interlibrary Loan in the same way as all books in the General Collection.

The collection is currently growing and is not yet complete. If your book or a book of a colleague is not on the shelf, it may be missing because it’s currently checked out or on reserve. The book may also be on order or pending ordering. When in doubt, please submit information about the book using this online form so we can be sure to have all faculty book publications represented.

KnightScholar is a curated institutional repository for scholarly, creative, educational, and research works created by SUNY Geneseo faculty, staff, and students, and for digitized materials from the College Archives and Special Collections. KnightScholar is managed and supported by Milne Library.

Featured Recently Added:

Curriculum Developed at SUNY Geneseo

• Ideas that Matter: Artificial Intelligence 2024/2025 Collection
  • The collection highlights curricula developed by Geneseo faculty exploring a variety of aspects of artificial intelligence to support this year’s Ideas that matter theme.

Events

• IDS Project Proceedings Collection
  • A collection of Information Delivery Services (IDS) Project Conference, User Group, and Online Learning presentations and recordings. Developed and maintained here at Geneseo, the IDS Project is a resource-sharing cooperative whose 120 members include public and private academic libraries from across the country.

Geneseo Authors Hall

• Moving Toward Belonging: Library Integration in a Summer Bridge Program by Becky Leathersich, Alessandra Otero Ramos, Alan Witt, and Brandon West
  • This chapter included in the ACRL Press volume Creating an Inclusive Library, delves into SUNY Geneseo’s library instruction program’s participation in a Summer Bridge Program as advocacy for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) students and a proactive approach to inclusion, diversity, equity, and antiracism (IDEA).

Milne Open Textbooks

• Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Medical Writing: An Editor’s Advice by Deanna Erin Conners, Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center
  • Avoiding Common Pitfalls in Medical Writing is a useful companion text to comprehensive style guides for the biomedical sciences. 

Coming Soon for 2025!

College Archives and Special Collections

• College Archives Photos Collection
  • The thousands of chiefly black-and-white images in Milne Library’s College Archives Photograph Collection constitute a visual history of SUNY Geneseo, from its 19th-century beginnings as the State Normal School at Geneseo through its more recent years.