You can always locate current library hours from our website on our General Information Page.

Yes, we serve the five county area as well as the faculty, staff, and students at FLCC. As long as you live in the area and can provide adequate i.d., you may take books out of the library.

Books usually go out for three weeks.

The video collection is mainly for the teaching faculty here at the college, and we need to make sure that they have access to the videos for their classes.

Yes, we have video watching stations up in the media/copy center on the third floor. There are also two group study rooms on the second floor which have VCRs and televisions.

Is there a sign-up for the computers?

No, usage is on a first-come, first-serve basis.

During the regular semester the busiest time at the library is during college hour (1:00-2:00 p.m.). There will be more free computers at other times.

No, the library computers are not set up for personal email. However, you will be able to use internet based email such as hotmail or yahoo mail. We prefer that you keep emailing and chat to minimum, so that everyone will have a chance to use the computers for class-related research.

No, the library computers are not set up for word processing, but there is a campus computer lab in B387 that offers word processing access.

Click on the word "File" in the top left corner of the screen, then select "print", and click on "o.k." (it may take a minute, but please be patient). If you have trouble printing, please let the reference librarian know.

The stand-up terminals print at the far right printer. At the sit-down terminals the four computers closest to the reference desk print at the printer closest to the reference desk. The next eight computers print at the printers at the far end of the row.  The default printer will appear in the print screen with a check mark. People often change the printer destination. Please ask the reference librarian for help if you cannot find your print job.

Internet Explorer offers the ability to "print preview". Go to File, Print Preview to determine the number of pages in your article, and to find the page numbers for specific pages. It is also possible to select the text that you would like to print, then go to file, print, and click on "print selection".

We suggest a limit of 20 pages at a time.

Not at this time.

There are many possible reasons for this. The best thing to do is to ask a reference librarian to help you.

If my book/article isn't here in the library, can I get it?

Yes, you can fill out an interlibrary loan form at the reference desk and we will try to find the material for you.

It usually takes about 2 weeks to receive interlibrary loan materials, so plan ahead.

We will send you a postcard or notify you via email when your material comes in.

You can currently access the catalog from home by pointing your internet browser to http://saranac.sunyconnect.suny.edu:4700/F/
Current FLCC students, faculty, and staff have access to our databases from off-campus through the blue off-campus icon on the library's homepage.

What's a scholarly journal?

A scholarly journal is different from a popular journal or magazine because it contains much more detailed and specific information. It is usually recognized as a more reliable source for some types of information. For example, the New England Journal of Medicine is a scholarly journal, but Time Magazine is not.

A citation is a short description of an article. It tells the user where to find the article by giving the title, the name of the journal, the date of publication, and the page number. Citations are also used in papers to tell the reader where the information in the paper was obtained.

A database is a computerized set of information; in our case, a collection of journal and newspaper articles. Each databases has a different focus. For instance, a medical database like Medline contains articles from the medical fields, mainly scholarly journals. A comprehensive database like Ebsco contains articles from all fields, most of them from magazines like Time or Newsweek, although there are more in depth journals as well.

It depends on what sort of class you are taking and what kind of paper you are writing. For most courses the best place to start your research is with a full text database like Ebsco, Lexis-Nexis, or Proquest, all of which are found under "Journal and Newspaper Articles" and then under "Comprehensive Databases". If you are taking an upper-level class and you have to do a paper on a very specific topic, (e.g., treatment of a rare disease, or development of a particular business) then you can still start with the comprehensive databases, but you could also look in the subject specific databases like Medline or ABI/Inform.

This means that the text of the article is completely reproduced on the computer. Some databases only give article citations or abstracts, but some give all of the text of the article.

It's a means to select certain records from a large list of results. You will still need to print each article individually.

No, but there is usually an explanation of the database on the home page of that database.

No, we ask that you don't use your disks in our computers.

Most of the databases offer the ability to email articles to your email account.

There are several blue binders in the reference area that list all of the periodicals owned by the library. Titles are listed alphabetically, and each listing includes the dates of the issues owned by the library. Many of the databases will have an icon to tell you that our library owns that particular journal title.

The periodicals are upstairs on the third floor. Older issues are bound in the stacks. Newer issues are on display racks near the big picture windows. Periodicals on microfilm or fiche are located in the media/copy center.

Electronic full text is theoretically the same words that appear in the hard copy of the journal or newspaper. Usually electronic articles will not carry the graphics that may be included in the hard copy material. Always cite electronic journal articles as such, because there may be isolated instances where the electronic text does not match the hard copy text of the article.

Not unless you are at the home page of a scientific journal that includes excerpts from the journal itself. Otherwise, no it is not.

Yes.  Students, faculty, and staff can now access our databases from home.  Check at the circulation desk or the reference desk for more information.