The University Libraries are trying out a new "discovery service." With one click, you will be searching many of our databases and our library catalog simultaneously. Just go to the "New Trial" search box on the library's website and enter a keyword, title, or author and see what you discover.

We'd appreciate your feedback. Contact Tonia Graves tgraves@odu.edu

EndNote Users: You can now update your EndNote program to X6. Go to the library's How-To Guide for Using EndNote for installation instructions.

Some of the new features are:

    * Direct export from PubMed into EndNote
    * Easily change capitalization errors in references
    * Change layout options to match your monitor and preferences
    * Apply a rating to each of your references
    * Apply a Read or Unread tag to your references in order to track which references you have reviewed during your research
    * E-mail a selected reference with or without file attachments to your colleagues
    * Update and synchronize your references in EndNote desktop and EndNote Web
    * Improved pdf imports to create references

Watch this video for more information...

The library's annual used booksale is going on now!

Wednesday, October 31: 9am - 7pm
Thursday, November 1: 9am - 7pm
Friday, November 2: 9am - 7pm
Saturday, November 3: 9am - 4pm

Come to the Learning Commons Conference Room 1310 and get some good deals.

The library's annual used booksale starts next week.

Wednesday, October 31: 9am - 7pm
Thursday, November 1: 9am - 7pm
Friday, November 2: 9am - 7pm
Saturday, November 3: 9am - 4pm

It will be held in the Learning Commons Conference Room 1310.

If you have books, CDs, and/or DVDs that you would like to donate, please bring them to the Circulation Desk and let staff know that your donation is specifically for the booksale.

Note: A Preview Sale for the Friends of the Libraries will be held on Tuesday, October 30, 5:00-8:00 p.m. Another good reason to join the Friends of the ODU Libraries!!

This summer, the reference librarians were busy updating subject, how-to, and course guides with a new program called Libguides. Be sure to take a look at the guides (from "Subject Guides" on the library's web site) and make use of the vast amounts of information and instruction you'll find there.

From April through June, the "School Desegregation: Learn, Preserve, and Empower" project toured locations in Hampton, Richmond, Farmville, Lynchburg, Alexandria and the Eastern Shore to gather personal accounts and artifacts from the 1940s to the 1980s related to the desegregation of Virginia schools.

The project, which is now on display at the History Museum of Western Virginia in Virginia, is a collaboration of DOVE (Desegregation of Virginia Education), AARP Virginia, Virginia State Conference NAACP, and the Urban League of Hampton Roads. Its goal is to fill in "the missing piece of history’s puzzle ... the thousands of untold stories of the people who personally experienced integration. From segregation to massive resistance to desegregation, they bore witness to emerging social change. Their stories help us to understand the enormity of the struggle that brought about that change."

Read about the success of the project in an InsideODU story by Steve Daniel.

The DOVE project seeks to identify and preserve materials relating to school desegregation. A growing catalog and other information is available from the ODU Library Web site. For more information, contact Sonia Yaco, ODU's Special Collections Librarian and University Archivist, at syaco@odu.edu

Construction work begun on June 25th and related to the Diehn II addition is currently limiting access to some music scores in the Diehn Composers Room. DCR remains open under regular summer operating hours with all materials available by request. Requests for retrieval of materials may be made in person at the DCR service desk or by calling 683-4173.

Next week is National Library Preservation Week: April 23- 27, 2012. The library has scheduled several events in the Learning Commons at Perry Library, Conference Room 1310-1311, from 10:00am- 12:00pm.

Come to any or all of the events and learn how ODU is preserving its resources and what YOU can do to preserve yours. (Note: Seating for these events is limited!)

Monday, April 23 “When Disaster Strikes” (Myles Henderson from WTKR Weather; David Elgin from Belfor Fire, Wind and Water Restoration, Rob Tench from ODU Libraries)

Tuesday April 24 “Preserving Our Printed History” (Sonia Yaco from ODU Special Collections and University Archives)

Wednesday April 25 “Digital Day” There are two sessions on Wednesday: 10:00am- 12:00pm and 1:00pm- 2:00 pm (Jessica Mirasol from ODU Libraries)

Thursday April 26 “Saving Sights and Sounds” (Jessica Mirasol from ODU Libraries)

Friday April 27 “Conserving Arts and Crafts” (Mark Lewis, Painting Conservator for the Chrysler Art Museum)

Click here for a full program. Contact Jessica Mirasol jmirasol@odu.edu with questions.