News: ISAW Library Adds New Online Features

The ISAW Library is redesigning its online presence and offerings over the course of the 2014-2015 academic year. The aim of the overhaul is to build a more engaging website and to offer more dynamic online content so as to make the Library's holdings and projects more visible to the scholarly community. This week the ISAW Library is introducing two elements of its new online outreach program.

The first is the ISAW Library Blog, which is written by the ISAW Library team and devoted to reporting on a range of news related to the Library, from its collections, staff, research, digital projects and events, to matters of more general interest touching on libraries and research in ancient studies.

The second feature is a monthly list of recent acquisitions. Each month the ISAW Library will publish a list of items it has accessioned the previous month in both a static HTML page on the ISAW website and in a Zotero library. The aim is to give patrons and the wider scholarly community real-time insight into ISAW's collections activity and strategy. By also providing the list in Zotero, the Library seeks to make the bibliographic information associated with these items, some of which are rare or poorly catalogued, widely available and easily accessible. The first month, May 2014, is now online, and other months will follow in quick succession until the bibliography is current.

Other new online initiatives of the ISAW Library will be announced on the ISAW Library Blog.