As always, the library staff is excited to welcome

everyone back to campus as we begin the

2015/2016 academic year. Please be sure to stop

by the library for all of your research needs. Our

library’s webpage has been redesigned, and the

catalog has been upgraded to better serve our

patrons.

Throughout the summer, the library staff has

been adding new resources, and with help from

faculty, outdated materials have been removed

from the collection. Also, the librarians have

updated their research guides to reflect the

changes.

The library will be hosting a number of events

during the year. Announcements will be posted

shortly for Coffee with the President in the

library and the Friends of the Library Speaker

Series. Also, the librarians host a variety of

workshops throughout the semester to assist

with research strategies and citation styles.

However, you do not need to attend a special

event in order to visit the library. The library

has iPads and laptops that are available to

circulate for a short loan period. Group study

rooms are located on the second floor and can

be reserved online. Popular fiction and re-

cently released DVDs can be found on the

first floor.

The library appreciates feedback and sugges-

tions for improved services. A comment box

is located at the circulation desk on the first

floor. There is a “Make Suggestions” link on

the library’s webpage, or you can stop by the

Director of Library Services’ office on the

third floor.

The library staff wishes everyone a successful

academic year!

Welcome Back By Jennifer Luksa., Director of Library Services

LibGuide for

Citations By Lisa Galico

Do you need help citing a

source? The library has a new

online citation guide available at

libguides.misericordia.edu/

citationguide. This guide

provides information about

many different citation and writ-

ing styles. These include Amer-

ican Medical Association

(AMA), American Psychologi-

cal Association (APA), Chicago,

Council of Science Editors

(CSE), and Modern Language

Association (MLA) styles.

There are also links to Ref-

Works and NoodleTools. These

online resources will generate

citations and bibliographies.

The guide provides a link to the

library’s e-book copy of the

APA Style Guide to Electronic

References. The guide also

provides a list of citation manu-

als that are available at the

library.

The citation guide provides the

contact information for the

Writing Center as well as for

each of the librarians. Please

contact us if you have any

questions.

Fall 2015

Book Marks A publication of the Mary Kintz Bevevino Library———————

Welcome Class of 2019

"There is much

difference between

imitating a man

and counterfeiting

him."

Benjamin Franklin

New Displayer for Casual

Reading Magazines By Mark Stull

The library’s new display and storage system allows us to feature the

current issue for each of the 30 magazines on our second floor casual-

reading displayer, along with providing storage behind the magazine

for back issues. This is a much cleaner-looking and easier-to-access

system for the students, staff, and faculty of MU!

Misericordia University

On Tuesday, November 10

at 12:00 p.m., the Friends

will host Reade M.

Holzbauer. Mr. Holzbauer

will speak on woodland-

style flutes and will compare methods our

native ancestors used to today’s flute making.

Light refreshments will be provided, and this

event will also take place in the Catherine

Evans McGowan Room.

Friends of the Library Presentations By Susan Lazur

Library’s New Web Page By Sameera Redkar

There is no way anyone could have missed

the changes made to the library’s webpage

during the summer. As a part of a university

wide initiative to upgrade webpages, the li-

brary’s new page went live on July 1, 2015.

The primary changes made include providing

persistent access to the heavily used categories

from the top navigation bar; the addition of the

Quick Links and Chat Box from the right hand

side bar; and access to the heavily used portal

and University’s webpage links from all sub-

pages. In addition, to provide easy access to

the information and tools needed to do re-

search, we added dropdown menu functionali-

ty and made the menu available from the left

hand side of the main category pages.

The main search box remains the same except

for the addition of the “Research Guides”

search tab. Under the search category, you

will find an additional link to the Article Find-

er, which allows accessing full text articles

using part of the citation.

You will be pleasantly surprised to find the list

of newly added books, DVDs, faculty publica-

tions and New York Times Best sellers; along

with their jackets displayed when you click on

“New Collections” listed under the “What’s

New” category. This is the result of the online

catalog upgrade from eLibrary to Enterprise.

Enterprise comes with several new features. It

allows displaying item jackets, customized

lists, texting item information, and buying

items from Amazon.com that can benefit the

library. It also has the ability to send item

information to RefWorks for citing purposes

and patrons can request items on interlibrary

loan right from the item record. Faculty mem-

bers may find new features such as “Add to

My Lists” and “Add to Reserve” very helpful

in creating lists of recommended readings for

their classes and putting items on reserve right

from the catalog.

One of the most important things to keep in

mind is the change in the search technique.

Enterprise uses fuzzy logic instead of the

Boolean logic that goes beyond true or false

values. It ignores typos, yielding results for

even a partial term query. The most effective

search strategy will be avoiding use of Boole-

an operators and stop words as search terms.

Fuzzy logic, in conjunction with the use of

limiters to narrow down searches, can yield

accurate results.

We hope that you find these upgrades very

helpful in meeting your research needs and

would love to hear from you regarding your

experiences with the changes we have made so

far.

Staff Spotlight By Laura Rock

The library is pleased to

welcome our new staff

member, Catherine

DePasquale, cataloging specialist. Cath-

erine comes to us from the Pittston Me-

morial Library and formerly from the

King’s College Library, where she

worked as a cataloging assistant for over

10 years. However, Catherine not only

processes books; she writes them too!

Catherine is a published author of con-

temporary Catholic fiction, and her first

book, a love story entitled A Future

Spring, has fans wanting more. Cathy is

happy to oblige and is currently in the

process of completing her second novel,

Vocation, and will soon be beginning on

a third.

I asked Cathy to name a favorite book,

and she surprised me when she told me

Frankenstein by Mary Shelley. She told

me she also loves to read about the Sa-

lem witch trials and studies Nathaniel

Hawthorne, explaining that Hawthorne’s

ancestral roots are tied to the trials.

Cathy and I shared a few years together

working at King’s College, and I know

her creativity extends beyond writing;

she is also quite skilled in the yarn arts,

both knitting and crocheting. I particu-

larly recall the awesome Star Wars fig-

ures she crocheted for her nieces and

nephews. (I gently hint she re-create the

Harry Potter figures, if she can find the

time ☺) I still have the angel pin she

crocheted for me one Christmas; when I

see it in my jewelry box, it always

reminds me of the kind, warm, and giv-

ing person that is Cathy.

Now that you know a bit about Cathy,

please be certain to introduce yourself

and say “Hello!” when you see her on

campus. You can gain further insight

into Cathy’s musings and the progress of

her new books by following her blog at

http://www.catherinedepasquale.com.

Until then, her book A Future Spring,

call number PS3554 .E63 D47 2014, is

available for borrowing at the library!

The Friends of the Mary Kintz Bevevino Li-

brary will be hosting a “Tea with Friends” on

Tuesday, October 13, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m.

in the Catherine Evans McGowan Room. An

evening bag raffle will take place during the

tea. Guest speaker for the event will be Mar-

guerite R. Roy, J.D., visiting professor in the

Department of History and Government at

Misericordia University. The cost of the tea is

$15.00 per person. To make a

reservation, please contact Sue

Lazur at 570-674-6225 or

slazur@misericordia.edu by Tues-

day, October 6.

The library works to maintain active partner-

ships with many other campus departments to

offer more unique services and resources to

the campus community. In particular, the

library and the Writing Center have worked

together to combine their efforts in offering

support to students. Over the past year, we

have offered workshops in which librarians

and the Writing Center coordinator, Matt Hin-

ton, co-teach groups of students about citation

styles and formats and then help students indi-

vidually. We also work together on developing

sessions about plagiarism and academic integ-

rity for freshmen for summer orientation.

Throughout the year, we both promote the

other’s resources with handouts and infor-

mation readily available at each location.

A recent exciting project in this partnership is

a satellite Writing Center in the library. For a

few days per week for midterms and finals

during the academic year, Writing Center

tutors came to the library to offer drop-in tu-

toring services during the hours of

5:00−9:00 p.m. They used both library study

rooms and group study tables in the open 2nd

floor area. At the same time, other writing

tutors remained in the original Writing Center

location. For both summer sessions, the Writ-

ing Center has held their summer tutoring

hours in the library from 4:00−7:00 p.m., as

the Writing Center closes for summer hours at

4:00 p.m. but the library remains open until

8:30 p.m. It has been a wonderful opportunity

to have tutors available in the library, where

students are often writing their papers and

might encounter questions that tutors can help

answer. Tutors are available for drop-in ses-

sions in person, and they are also able to spend

this time helping online students with papers.

The library and the Writing Center have ad-

vertised this new program via flyers, digital

and paper signage around campus, portal an-

nouncements, social media, and emails to fac-

ulty and students.

Watch for announce-

ments about this ser-

vice for the new school

year, and stop to see a

writing tutor while you

are working in the

library!

have forgotten from our lost-and-found. We

have a Wellness Collection containing a vari-

ety of fitness items for mind and body on

reserve for you to check out. The multi-

media room located behind circulation offers

students the opportunity to watch cable TV

or a DVD, construct a Power Point Presenta-

tion, or scan an assignment and print it in

color.

A list of the many services we provide is

listed on the library home page under the

Services tab. Check us out!

Friendly, well informed staff

are waiting to assist you with

searching the stacks, using

the online library catalog, and

locating everything from a

book to a laptop to a therapy ball. Besides be-

ing the “go to” place for checking out the latest

DVD, the Circulation Desk is also the place to

pick up your interlibrary loan book, reserve an

iPad for a week, or send a fax. If you are a

member of the Yoga Club, we have mats and

blocks you may borrow for class. Items placed

on reserve by professors may be checked out for

a designated period of time, and you may bor-

row a phone charger to stay connected while

you study. You can retrieve items left for you

on our hold shelf and recover items you might

Library-Writing Center Collaboration By Hilary Westgate

What Can You Access in Access Services By Colleen Newhart

New Librarian Liaison's

Communications, Eng-

lish, Fine Arts, History

& Government, Philos-

ophy, Religious

Studies.

Liaison Programs:

CACE

Business, Psychology,

Sociology/Social Work.

Liaison Programs: Mis-

ericordia Writing Cen-

ter, Bridge, FYE,

Women with Children

Health Sciences

Education

Lisa Galico, Head of Reference and

Outreach Librarian.

Liz Berilla, Information Literacy and

Assessment Libraian.

Sameera Redkar, Head of Collection

Resource Management Librarian

Hilary Westgate, Information Literacy

Librarian

Laura Rock, Cataloging Librarian

Jessica Garner, Librarian and Archivist

Contact information is available on

the Library’s Web page.

Medical Imaging,

Diagnostic Medical

Sonography, Nursing,

Occupational Thera-

py, Physical Therapy,

Speech-Language

Pathology, Health

Informatics.

Biology, Chemistry,

Computer Science,

Mathematics, Physi-

cian Assis-

tant,Physics. Liaison

Programs: IT, Career

Center

Coming hot on the heels of a sunny summer,

the librarians of the Mary Kintz Bevevino

Library are ready to dig in to the fall semester.

Continuing with the embedded librarianship

options highlighted during the 2014-2015 aca-

demic year, this year we will continue to grow

and encourage embedded opportunities, espe-

cially in new classes and with new faculty.

Our new vision for embedded librarianship

can be found on our Research Guide for Facul-

ty(http://libguides.misericordia.edu/fac_embd)

and expresses our interests in moving research

assistance outside of the traditional walls of

the library itself:

“The role of the embedded librarian at

Misericordia University is to proactively

provide information literacy instruction and

traditional library services to a targeted

audience outside the confines of the library

building or reference desk.”

Embedded librarianship encourages students

to engage with library services and resources

on and off campus, reminding our traditional

and nontraditional students alike that we are

here to help with their research needs in ways

that are convenient to their styles of learning.

While embedded librarians still offer class-

room instruction, services extend into the set-

ting of Blackboard, email, phone, and chat.

Librarians have the opportunity to reach their

students via announcements, discussion board

forums, a/synchronous instruction, drop in

hours, and research appointments.

The availability of library resources through-

out the semester, as the schedule of assign-

ments ebbs and flows unique to every depart-

ment and course level, engages students with

librarians and helps identify trends in student

research experiences as well. In our evalua-

tion and assessment efforts, embedded librari-

anship helps us grow to better know our stu-

dents’ research needs during their time here at

Misericordia University and tailor our

resources to their unique expectations as

library users. We look forward to another

very successful year in 2015-2016, and to

sharing the benefits of embedded librarianship

with all!

If you have any special embedded requests or

research needs, please contact the Reference

Desk at reference@misericordia.edu or (570)

674-6352.

network of partners to collaborate with librar-

ies and assist in promoting the five literacies

supported by the initiative. Those five litera-

cies are basic, information, civil and social,

health, and financial.

The Bevevino Library is proud to support PA

Forward and promote the literacies through

instruction, programs, workshops, and activi-

ties. Also, two of Misercordia’s librarians

serve on literacy committees! Liz Berilla,

Information Literacy and Assessment Librari-

an, co-chairs the Information Literacy Com-

mittee, and Jennifer Luksa, Director of Library

Services, serves as the chair of the Basic Liter-

acy Committee.

For more information on PA Forward visit the

website at http://www.paforward.org/ or visit

the Pennsylvania Library Association website

at http://www.palibraries.org/.

The Pennsylvania Library As-

sociation (PaLA) launched a

statewide initiative in 2012

called PA Forward. PA For-

ward brings the recognition to

all libraries across the state, including academ-

ic, public, school, and special libraries. The

vision of PA Forward is for all of Pennsylva-

nia’s libraries to be recognized as essential in

moving our state forward and “preparing

Pennsylvanians to compete successfully in the

Information Age labor force and to live

healthy, productive lives.”

Now more than ever, the need for libraries and

librarians across the state to partner with each

other exists. State budget cuts over the past

few years have impacted all of Pennsylvania’s

libraries in some way. PA Forward has built a

Embracing Embedded Librarianship By Liz Berilla

PA Forward By Jennifer Luksa and Liz Berilla

Newest Additions to the

McNaughton Movie

Collection

Big Eyes

Cake

Chappie

Dumb and Dumber To

Ex Machina

Get Hard

Hot Pursuit

I’ll See You in my Dreams

Into the Woods

It Follows

Kingsman

Mad Max F

Madame Bovery

Mortdecai

Ouija

Pitch Perfect II

Second Best Exotic Marigold

Hotel

The Cobbler

The Interview

The Other Woman

The Road Within

Welcome to Me

Comics through Time/edited by Keith Booker

REF PN 6710 .C6675 2014

North American Cornucopia: Top 100

Indigenous Food Plants/by Ernes Small

REF QK 98 .5 .N57 S67 2013

How to Write Anything: A Complete Guide/by

Laura Brown

REF .PE 1408 .B76 2014

Yes/No Medical Spanish; Comprehensive

Handbook of Clinical Spanish/by Tina M.

Kaufman and Ticiano Alegre

REF PC 4120 .M3 K33 2010

Historical Guide to World Media Freedom: A

Country-By-Country Analysis/by Jenifer Whit-

ten-Woodring and Douglas A. Van Belle

REF PN 4735 W55 2014

Women of Power: Half a Century of Female

Presidents and Prime Ministers World/by

Torild Skard

REF HQ 1236 .S57 2014

A Thesaurus of English Word Roots/by Horace

Gerald Danner

REF PE 1580 .D36

Encyclopedia of the Environment in American

Literature/edited by Geoff Hamilton and Brian

Jones

REF PS169 .E25 E53

Famous First Facts: A Record of

First Happenings, Discoveries,

and Invention in American

History/Seventh Edition

REF AG 5 .K315 2015

Wellness Collection Cookbooks By Joanie Yamrick

New Books on the Reference Shelf By Peggy Leonhart

used wild rice instead of wheat berries. I used

vegetable stock instead of chicken stock to

keep it vegetarian and gluten-free. It reheated

well for me and held up well, even by the third

day; I did not freeze any of it but may try that

for the next time. The grapefruit and mango

salsas were interesting and tasty with salmon.

I also tried these salsas as dressing for salads

with some apple cider vinegar sprinkled over

it.

The Wellness Collection also includes Healthy

at Home, a great read about staying well with-

out prescriptions, Just the Rules for the Eat-

Clean Diet and another good book, Clean

Eats ,with over 200 recipes to deliver balance

and health to your body. This last book Clean

Eats, has a recipe for stuffed eggplant with

lamb and wild mushrooms. With the growing

season still going strong, this recipe looks like

a winner to me. I may not add the kudzu root

in that recipe and substitute another oil for the

avocado oil if I cannot find that at the store. I

am sure you will be able to find some great

ideas for new menu items for yourself from

these library resources. Enjoy.

Who is not familiar with the new eating clean

trend? The Wellness Collection, books availa-

ble to our patrons for 14-day loans, contains

several books on this topic. Materials in the

Wellness Collection also cover topics on fitness

and exercise. Some of the books in the collec-

tion present pertinent information on building a

healthy diet into your routine. I found several

to be interesting that contained recipes and

information on a healthy lifestyle.

The Eat-Clean Diet Cookbook contains over

150 easy recipes for timesaving one-dish meals,

protein-rich and meatless recipes, and how to

put together snacks on the go to avoid the

temptations of fast food or unhealthy alterna-

tives. The author uses ingredients that are fa-

miliar and easy to find. Seasonal veggies are

included in the recipes. Besides, who does not

love going to the farmers’ market for great,

fresh local produce to cook? I tried the chicken

and rice, my favorite, and used the fresh broc-

coli and carrots I got at the Dallas Farmers’

Market on Saturdays near the Dallas Elemen-

tary School. The protein and fiber were good,

and it tasted great. I also made the lentil stew

with sweet potatoes, and that was very good. I

Friends of the Library By Sue Lazur

Welcome new and renewed Friends of the

Mary Kintz Bevevino Library!

Val Apanovich

Ivar and Cali Berg

Dr.Thomas & Vanesa Botzman

Dr. Steve Broskoski

Dr. William Camp

Dr. Larry Corpus

Jean Dobinick

Doreen Fronzoni

Theresa Hahn

Dr. Leo & Debra Hartz

Anna Hudock

John Kosloski

Sr. Constance Kozel

Susan Lazur

Sally Lehman

Joe and Jenn Luksa

Ellen Maccarone

Dr. Michael & Tina MacDowell

T. Bryant Mesick

Colleen Newhart

Brenda Nowalis

Christine Nowalis

Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Palischak

Jacqueline Paluszek

Marcella Pedersen

Kathleen Reiss

Laura Rock

Dr. Donna Snelson

Beth Spaciano

Dr. Becky Steinberger

Martha Stevenson

Theresa Thomas

Judy Vanderpool

Dr. Harvey & Judy Weintraub

Dr. Cosima Wiese

Mrs. Carolyn Yankoski

Diane Yaskiewicz

When I was asked to

write about my book for

this edition of Book

Marks, I was excited. I

love talking about my

book, and I love to

write. So naturally, I

couldn’t wait to sit

down and get to work.

Then reality set in, and I

wondered, what in the world will I say? It is

still hard for even me to believe I wrote a

book. And it all happened quite by accident.

But then again, in some ways I almost had to

write it.

A quote by Flannery O’Connor states, “I write

because I don't know what I think until I read

what I say.” And it is true.

On February 26, 2014, I self-published my

first novel, A Future Spring. My novel may

have never been written if it hadn’t been for a

chain of life-changing events. The last of those

events was a layoff from a job I held for 11

years. After the layoff, I was feeling defeated.

I sat down at my computer one day and began

typing a story that was nagging at me. I dis-

covered later that I began writing that day to

prove something to myself—to prove that I

still had a purpose. I never expected the story

to turn into anything. I never expected anyone

else to read it. I just wanted to read what I had

to say, like Flannery O’Connor.

Usually, the first question I’m asked when

people discover I wrote a book is this: How

long did it take you to write it? Well, from the

time I sat in front of my laptop and typed the

first sentence to the day of publication, it was

just about a year. But the characters, plot, and

themes were running through my head for a

good two years before that.

The second question I am usually asked is:

What is the book about? And the simple an-

swer is that my book is a love story. Some

people have taken it a step further and tried to

label A Future Spring a romance. That is not

how I see the book. A Future Spring is much

more than that. I am theme-driven in my writ-

ing, and my book is really about redemption,

forgiveness, healing wounds from the past,

and above all, a chance for a new beginning.

And my book really is the story of a new

beginning—a new beginning for me.

I am currently working on my second novel. I

also just finished a short story that is planned

for release in August. You can read more

about me, my writing, and my books on my

website at www.catherinedepasquale.com.

The president will be in the soft seating area out-

side of Alden Lab on the following days:

Friday

September 25th at 9:00 a.m.

Wednesday

November 4th at 10:00 a.m.

Coffee with the President

Library Hours Monday–Thursday

8:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m.

Friday

8:00 a.m.–5:00 p.m.

Saturday

10:00 a.m.–7:00 p.m.

Sunday

11:00 a.m.–11:00 p.m.

Contact Numbers Access Services 674-6231

circulation_desk@misericordia.edu

Reference 674-6352

reference@misericordia.edu

Food and Drink in the

Library The staff works hard to make the library a

hospitable place, where students can study,

work together, or just relax. Our housekeep-

ing staff is tireless in their upkeep of the

building. Please be responsible when dispos-

ing of food packaging and drink containers,

as well as chewing gum. There are wastebas-

kets and recycle containers available

throughout the building. Please bee consider-

ate and help keep our building clean.

About the Author By Catherine DePasquale

A special thank you to Jean Dobinick for all the

years that she has edited Bookmarks. We now

welcome Matt Hinton as the new editor.