Mark your calendar now to attend four important events for faculty. As our main event, Intellectual Property: a Forum on Rights & Responsibilities offers you a great opportunity to hear what the experts have to say and to participate in the discussion on this hot topic. The experts include Bill Gideon (Center for Learning Technologies), Nancy Shelton (Slide Curator, Art Department), Joyce Ogburn (University Web Steering Committee), Gail McClenney (University Library), and others from the faculty. Stay as long as you can; leave when you must. Bring a brown bag lunch if you like. The library will provide coffee and cookies. The forum will be held in the large 1^st floor conference room on October 29 from 12:45 until 2:30pm.

Other events are Developments in Multimedia on the Internet, 12:30 - 1:30pm on October 8 with Jeff Barry; Electronic Reserves: Anytime, Anywhere, 12:30 - 1:30pm on November 12 with Gail McClenney, Jeff Barry and Karen Vaughan; Teaching Across Borders: Internationalizing the Curriculum, a hands-on workshop, 2:00 - 3:00pm on November 19 with Bob Holden and Stuart Frazer--all in room 163. Enhance Your Course Web Pages will be held 12:30-1:30pm on December 3, in the Digital Services Center (library, 3^rd floor) with Karen Vaughan.

For more information, check  "About the Library" on the library's website or the orange flier recently distributed to faculty.

Faculty may place book orders electronically. If you are the faculty liaison for your academic department, you may send your orders by using the book order form on the library's website rather than filling out a paper form and delivering it to the library.

Also, those teaching TELETECHNET courses who want to order materials to be put on reserve at the distant sites may use the electronic DE (distance education) faculty reserve form.

Faculty or students wanting to borrow a book or get an article that our library does not own may use the electronic Interlibrary Loan (ILL) form. All three forms are easily found from our homepage at http://www.lib.odu.edu and then clicking on Library Services.

Researchers may visit the 3^rd floor Special Collections from Monday through Friday, 9:00am until 4:30pm and at other times by appointment. Special Collections houses the University Archives, which include Old Dominion

University theses and dissertations, university records, photographs, oral histories, local and regional history collections, and other historical resources.

Special Collections is home to books about Virginia and Norfolk history. Its manuscript collections include photographs, diaries, correspondence, legal papers, newspaper clippings, campaign files, and maps. The Civil War, women's history, 20^th century Norfolk and Virginia politics, desegregation of the Norfolk schools, military history, and other local history topics are notable among the collections, offering invaluable primary research materials.

If you remember Ocean View Amusement Park, browse some of the images made available on the Web at http://www.lib.odu.edu/aboutlib/spccol/oceanviewimages.shtml or stop by in person to see these and other photographs.
 

The library's homepage has a help button. Clicking on it will present you with answers to some of the most frequently-asked library systems questions. Here are brief answers to two of them.

Q. How do I get a library PIN?

A. From the library catalog, choose the "View your record" option. Enter your name and social security number. Then enter any combination of letters and numbers up to 30 characters as your confidential personal identification number (PIN). A PIN enables you to view your record, renew books, request interlibrary loans, and access electronic databases from home.

Q. Can I search your databases from home?

A. Yes. The most comprehensive access is through the Web, but you can also use Telnet or direct modem access to get to FirstSearch and InfoTrac databases. Get detailed help from the library's homepage at http://www.lib.odu.edu.

The Old Dominion University Library offers enhanced services to patrons with special needs:

• An "on demand service" has been implemented in an effort to meet the requirements of patrons who might need special assistance retrieving library materials. Patrons may stop by the Circulation Services desk and ask to have up to five books pulled from the library's general collection materials. The material will be pulled at that time. Questions about the library's "on demand service" can be referred to the Circulation Services desk at 683-4154.

• With funding from the Friends of the Old Dominion University Library, the Library provides specialized equipment to assist visually-impaired patrons: a Pentium computer equipped with a large monitor, scanner, and speakers utilizes a voice synthesizer, screen magnifier, and other software to read materials aloud. Also available are a variable speed tape player, a Visual Tek text enlarger, and a Braille dictionary. Staff in the Digital Services Center will offer training and assistance. Contact Karen Vaughan at kvaughan@odu.edu or 683-4184 for an appointment.

• An Internet workstation in the 1st floor reference room is equipped with ZoomText, a screen magnifier and reader, to assist visually-impaired patrons using the library's catalog and electronic resources. If there are general questions about library services for patrons with special needs, contact Janet Justis at jjustis@odu.edu. Questions about the University Disability Services program can be referred to that office at 683-4655. 

Billie Hackney recently accepted the position of Cataloging Services Librarian. She earned her MLS from the University of Texas at Austin and her BA in Literature and Language from Stockton State College. Previously she worked for the University of Southern Mississippi and Pennsylvania State University. We're very glad to have her with us.