New Books Alerts

To help faculty and students stay abreast of new resources, the NCSU Libraries now provides enhanced current awareness features for the library catalog . Under the Browse tab, users can choose to view resources new within the last week, the last month, or the last three months. They can then search or browse within that set to identify items of interest.

At any point, there is the option to click on an RSS link on the page to subscribe to a feed of new titles that match selected search criteria. When any new title is acquired by the library that matches a search, the user will receive an alert. Clicking the ?What is this?? link under the RSS icon provides details about setting up feed readers and how to receive new book alerts in e-mails.

The book covers of the 200 or so newest books are displayed on various electronic boards in the D. H. Hill Jr. Learning Commons. This visualization is also available online . The library highlights new books by NC State faculty on the electronic board at the entrance to the exhibit gallery in the East Wing. The books themselves are available for browsing in the Special Collections Reading Room.