Faculty Events at the Library
Refresh Your Web Skills is the first in a series of five workshops and seminars sponsored by the University Library for faculty this semester. Education Reference Librarian Nancy McAuliffe will lead this hands-on workshop, assisted by Digital Services Coordinator Karen Vaughan. Get a head start on the semester by attending this event to be held in room 163 from 11:00 until 12:00 noon on January 8. For more information, call 683-5909 or 683-4182.
Also this month, Internet Systems Librarian Glenn Bunton will help you learn more about web searching tools in Vroom…Revving Web Search Engines and Using Them Effectively, to be held in room 163 from 12:30 until 1:30 pm on January 28.
For a complete list of events this semester or for more information, check the library's web site or the lime green flier recently distributed to faculty.
New current awareness service
Would you like to be notified when a new book, video or database in your field of research is acquired by the library? A new service from the Library that will do just that, and more. All you need to do is fill in the online form at:
http://www.lib.odu.edu/forms/newbreq.shtml
and you will receive weekly notification by e-mail of new library items that match your interest profile. You will not receive a lengthy list, but one tailored just for you.
You may select from a variety of categories and subcategories which include (but are not limited to): anthropology, art, astronomy, biology, business, chemistry, communications, computer science, dance, education, engineering, geography, geology, history, journalism, languages, law, literature, library science, mathematics, medicine, military science, music, oceanography, philosophy, physics, political science, psychology, religion, sociology and statistics.
Notification will only be sent if there is an appropriate match, and call numbers will be listed to assist you in locating items in the library.
Resources included are books, new Internet databases, video tapes, CDs, LPs, microfilm, microfiche, manuscript collections and maps.
Library tours plus techniques
Old Dominion University faculty, staff and students are invited to take a tour of the library and learn some basic electronic searching techniques. These sessions will be held from 12:30 until 1:15 pm on January 12, 19, 26 and 28. The tour will be given first; an optional brief session on searching library catalogs and databases will follow immediately.
The sessions are intended for interested individuals, not whole classes. Meet in the library lobby near the poster advertising the tours. No registration is necessary.
Student WWW workshops offered
Half-hour Searching the World Wide Web sessions for Old Dominion University students will be led by librarians in room 163 on January 14 at 12:30 pm, January 20 at 5:30 pm and January 21 at 12:30 pm. Students will have opportunity for hands-on experience using Netscape to locate and evaluate web resources for their research papers and other course assignments.
Students must register on the day of the workshop they wish to attend either by calling Reference and Research Services at 683-4178 or by signing up in person at the reference desk.
Vernon Perdue Davis concert
Robert Shoup, director of the Virginia Chorale, will conduct a performance of the work of Richmond composer Vernon Perdue Davis in the Chandler Recital Hall of the Diehn Fine and Performing Arts Center at 3:00pm on Sunday, February 7. An exhibit held in conjunction with the performance will open at 2:00pm in the Diehn Composers Room. A reception will follow the concert.
Dr. Davis's manuscripts are part of Old Dominion University Library's special collections of music manuscripts housed in the Diehn Composers Room.
Vernon Perdue Davis composed choral and instrumental works including church
hymns, symphonies, operas, chamber music and anthems. He also authored
books on plainsong and ancient hymnody, including The Tones of Plainsong
(1963) and A Plainsong Primer (1966). He co-authored several books
with James Scott Rawlings, a Richmond architect, on colonial and ante-bellum
churches in Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina. Their books include
The Colonial Churches Of Virginia, Maryland, And North Carolina: Their
Interiors And Worship (1985) and Virginia's Ante-bellum Churches: An Introduction
With Particular Attention to Their Furnishings (1978). He was well
known in the Episcopal church for the work he did on the part of the Diocese
of Virginia. He died in 1995 at the age of 76.
A number of works of Vernon Perdue Davis were published as part of E.C. Schirmer's Virginia Music Series. Many of his pieces are well known in the Episcopal church, but most of his work has never been performed outside of private musicales.
The Vernon Perdue Davis exhibit will run through February 21, 1999.
Hours are 8:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m. Monday-Friday.