For those Friends who don't read Inside Rensselaer, I'm posting the notice Friend and member of the Board of Directors of the Friends Meg Gallien included in the latest edition of the Institute's bi-weekly newspaper. Meg is the Alumni News Editor.
Through the support of the Friends of the Folsom Library, the Rensselaer Libraries have renewed a site license to the daily online version of The Chronicle of Higher Education, which allows the campus community access to the newspaper at no cost.
“Given The Chronicle is ‘the’ news service for higher education, I think this is a wonderful service,” said Bob Mayo, director of the Rensselaer Libraries. “Providing a site license saves money to those who were paying for a subscription but, perhaps more importantly, provides access to the many who did not have a subscription.”
This is the second year that the Friends of the Folsom Library has underwritten the cost of an institutional subscription to The Chronicle. The Friends is a service organization comprising Rensselaer faculty, staff, alumni, retirees, and interested community members dedicated to enriching the collections, services, and events provided at the Folsom Library.When I manned the Library's information table this month at Rensselaer's Annual Benefits Fair and Staff Appreciation Day event, several faculty and staff who stopped by said they are so pleased that Friends is providing free online access to this valuable publication. And those who were just learning about it said they were definitley going to enlighten members of their departments since their current paper subscriptions are quite costly and now unnecessary. One person told me this was the biggest and best piece of information he received at the benefits fair. That made my day.
Adrienne Birchler
Coordinator
Friends of the Folsom Library
