Father of the thesaurus?

Peter Mark Roget, pictured here, was a 19th century physician, and also the creator of the famous Roget's Thesaurus, which has been in print ever since its first publication in 1852. While there had been other thesaruses before his, Rogets was the first with widespread and lasting appeal. (Many copies of the current edition of Rogets are to be found in Drake Library.)
There's a well done article on him in the Times of London. Soon to come from Oxford University Press is the Historical Dictionary of the Oxford English Dictionary. There is an article in today's Times on it, and we will be ordering it here at Drake.

"When in the course of human events..."

Take a moment this Fourth of July weekend to read the document that launched this holiday.
We have many books, videos, articles and other resources to learn more about the Declaration of Independance, the Founders, and the Revolution. Ask us for help if you need, and have a pleasant and relaxing holiday!

Having more than one...

Databases that is, not chips, lol, like the old 1967 Lays Potato Chip ad shown here. Now when you enter a search in that "SearchMe" article search box on our main web page, you are searching three databases at once, a collection of thousands of journals, magazines and newspapers, going back decades, even a century or so in some cases.

New resources for you!

Thanks to successful discussions between SUNY Connect, the SUNY cooperative buying group for library resources, and Ebsco, a major publisher who has been quite generous with us, we have a greatly expanded line of information databases available. Click here to see the full lineup!

Library Summer Hours

Done hanging out at the swimming hole, need to do some library work? We are open this summer, including many evening and weekend hours - click here to see our hours. You can call us from the swimming hole too at 395-2760, or if there's wireless access there, lol, IM us at drakeref.

Where is everyone?

While enough of us are at Drake to be open and provide regular services, a number of our librarians are at the annual SUNY librarian's meeting, SUNYLA 2009, held this year at Onondaga Community College near Syracuse.

Several librarians are presenting this year, as well as one of our IT staff: Charlie Cowling on "LibGuides," our new research guides site; Jennifer Smathers, Logan Rath and Alicia Girvin on our new online ordering system; Logan Rath on using text messaging for "virtual reference;" Pat Maxwell, poster presentation on using portable barcode readers, and Jennifer Little with a poster on "Blended Planning."

New!! Alumni access to article databases!!!

Thanks to a recent SUNY agreement, Brockport alumni will have access to some of the same online article resources they had as students here. See this page for information!