If you used Turnitin in the past (either the stand-alone version via turnitin.com or from within Canvas), this is of interest to you.

Turnitin has released a significant product upgrade that will be available on August 8th. The new version of the service, called Turnitin Feedback Studio, offers all the functionalities of Turnitin with a simplified, more intuitive interface that integrates viewing the reports, grading, and adding comments. (You can continue to grade using Canvas Speedgrader or other means you now use; you do not have to use Turnitin grading feature.).

You can expect to see a new interface when you open up a student’s paper in Turnitin to see the similarity report. You will be able to toggle back to the old interface should you choose to do so. (More on that below.)

To get acquainted with the upgraded Turnitin Feedback Studio, you can:

Try out an interactive demo.

Review the Feedback Studio Instructor Guide.

Review the Feedback Studio Student Guide.

You can also choose to attend a free online training session on Wednesday evenings at 7 pm offered throughout the summer and into September.

The old version will be available through next July, should you want to stay with it. Those who use Turnitin within Canvas, you will be able to turn off the new version (or toggle back and forth between the two versions) when you have an originality report open.

Questions? Contact Inga Barnello at barnello@lemoyne.edu

Come join the Le Moyne College Book Club on Wednesday, August 17 as we discuss Euphoria by Lily King. We will be meeting in the Bernat Special Activities Room in the Noreen Reale Falcone Library from 7-8:30 pm. Refreshments will be served!

Please contact Kari Zhe-Heimerman (zheheikm@lemoyne.edu) with any questions.

A large portion of the JSTOR E-Books collection will be unavailable until July 5, due to a budgeting shortfall experienced by the Connect NY library consortium. JSTOR E-Books uses a demand-driven acquisition model, where usage by the various member libraries of the consortium triggers purchase of individual e-books. Despite making several adjustments to the purchasing model during course of the year, the collection has proven so popular that all of the allocated funds have been depleted. New funds will be allocated at the start of Connect NY’s new budget cycle in July. In the meantime, we still should have access to the items that have already been purchased.

For more information, contact Inga Barnello at barnello@lemoyne.edu or 445-4326 or Bob Johnston at johnstrc@lemoyne.edu or 445-4321.

Update: the date of July 5 added. 

Alumni are invited to get a sneak preview of the conservation work underway on the Library’s rare Civil War items and hear a talk, “Charleston, the War, and Reconstruction,” given by history professor Douglas Egerton on Saturday, June 4, 11:00am-11:45am, in the Bernat Room, Noreen Reale Falcone Library.

The conservation work continues on the Falcone Library’s 1866 “The Photographic Views of Sherman’s Campaign,” an album of photographer George Barnard’s prints depicting the aftermath of General Sherman’s march through the South. The album, along with the original letter to Barnard from William Tecumseh Sherman expressing his support for the project, were gifts to the College in 1997.

Douglas Egerton is a professor of history at Le Moyne College. His books include The Wars of Reconstruction: The Brief, Violent History of America’s Most Progressive Era (2014), Year of Meteors: Stephen Douglas, Abraham Lincoln, and the Election That Brought on the Civil War (2010) and Death or Liberty: African Americans and Revolutionary America (2009).

George Barnard’s photography stands along with those of Mathew Brady, Alexander Gardner, and Timothy O’Sullivan, in advancing the photographic techniques used in the 19th century and in documenting the American Civil War. Barnard, who moved as a child to upstate New York, at one time had studios in Oswego and Syracuse and died in Syracuse in 1902. He worked for Mathew Brady at the outbreak of the Civil War and performed the difficult task of following the armies’ path and documenting the violence and destruction of war.

West Lake Conservators, located in Skaneateles, NY is overseeing the conservation work, which will be completed by late June 2016. For more information about the event, contact Tom Babcock at babcoctg@lemoyne.edu.

Come join the Le Moyne College Book Club on Wednesday, June 8 as we discuss A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. We will be meeting in the Bernat Special Activities Room in the Noreen Reale Falcone Library from 7-8:30 pm. Refreshments will be served!

Please contact Kari Zhe-Heimerman (zheheikm@lemoyne.edu) with any questions.

The Wilson Art Gallery is pleased to announce the schedule of exhibitions for the 2016/2017 season. For more information, call (315) 445-4153.

September 9 – 30, 2016	Le Moyne Faculty Exhibition (Paintings, photographs, drawings and sculpture)
October 7 – November 4, 2016	Ben Schwab: In Praise of Shadows (Paintings and drawings)
November 11 – December 9, 2016	Kenny Harris: Ancestral Narrative (Installation of sculptural drawings)
January 27 – February 24, 2017	Penny Santy: Connect/Disconnect: Bovine Series (Original oil paintings)
March 3 – 31, 2017	Gwen Morgan: Myth and Science in the land of Fire and Ice (Photographs/Mixed Works)
April 7 – May 5, 2017	Annual Le Moyne Student Art Show (Paintings, photographs, drawings and sculpture)

Feeling stressed out? Spend a little time in the library with a trained therapy dog. There will be a special pet therapy session during finals week on Thursday, May 12 from 4:00-7:00 p.m. in the Bernat Room. Make note of the different, extended time.

Pet therapy events are sponsored by Pet Partners of Syracuse.

On Sunday, May 8th through Thursday, May 12th, Cam’s Pizza will be served starting at 8 PM and run until supplies run out.

Candy will be offered on Friday, May 13th – Saturday, May 14th, Monday, May 16th and Tuesday, May 17th.

Coffee is available for purchase through the new Barista Vending Machine located next to the elevator on the first floor.

Pay your overdue fines and help Syracuse’s Catholic Charities Cathedral Pantry.

$1 of fines will be waived for each food item donated, up to a maximum of $10. Offer good for overdue fines only. No credits will be given for food donations in excess of fines owed, although additional donations are welcome.

Donations may be brought to the Library Services Desk Monday – Thursday 8 am – 9 pm, Friday 8 am – 4:30 pm, Saturday 9 am – 5 pm, and Sunday 12 pm – 8 pm.

Only non-expired, non-perishable, unopened food will be accepted. In addition to food, unused toiletry items will be accepted as well. The pantry suggests the following items for donation:

• Canned tuna
• Canned beans/legumes
• Dried beans/legumes
• Peanut butter
• Dinner “mixes”
• Pasta, rice, or grains
• Cereals
• Oatmeal
• Soups and stews
• Canned/dried fruits
• Canned vegetables
• Toothpaste
• Deodorant
• Soap

Please ask at the Library Services Desk for more information.

The Library will close at 9:00 PM tonight because of Dolphy Day.