Welcome to campus!
If you are new to campus, we hope to meet you in Webb Center on
new faculty orientation day. Also, we look forward to seeing many
of you at some of our faculty and graduate student events in August.
Be sure to read about them in this issue of Library Update.
Email reference service
debuts
Finding it easier to use email than the telephone? Try using our
new online reference service if you have a question for a reference
librarian. From the library home page, just click on the HELP button.
Events for faculty and
grad students
Faculty, staff and graduate students are invited to attend these
beginning-of-semester events on August 22:
- Tour of Perry Library,
10:30AM -Become acquainted with some of the most important areas
for faculty to know about. Meet in the lobby.
- Orientation to the
Digital Services Center, 11:00AM - See the equipment and learn
about services available to faculty. Meet in the Center, 3rd floor,
Perry Library.
Digital micro scanner
could be helpful
Is the information you
need available only in microfilm or microfiche? Now such documents
can be scanned and made available in pdf format. If this sounds
like a service you might want to use, contact Mona Farrow at mfarrow@odu.edu
or 757-683-5469.
Visit the University
Presidents exhibit
Through mid-September
an exhibit titled University Presidents will be located in the lobby
of Perry Library. Detailing the history of Old Dominion University's
seven presidents, the display features some of the many articles
and photographs from the library's Special Collections department.
To view the exhibit online, go to http://www.lib.odu.edu/aboutlib/spccol/exhibits/presidents/.
Try this one!
Implemented with an
NEH grant, Virginia Heritage is now online at http://www.lib.virginia.edu.vhp
and consists of guides to the archives and manuscripts of eleven
state repositories, including Old Dominion University. Virginia
Heritage should help researchers by improving access to primary
source documents about events from the settlement of Jamestown in
1607 through the Revolutionary and Civil Wars and into the 20th
Century
Surf 'n' Turf for orientation
Faculty, students and staff: the university community is invited
to learn more about using library resources and services. Our "Surf"
sessions will teach you some of the best techniques for searching
electronic databases, the library catalog, and the Web. These sessions
are held every Tuesday in September at 12:30 and begin in the lobby
of Perry Library.
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"Turf" sessions
are tours of Perry Library and help you get the lay of the land.
You will discover some of the most important areas of the Library
and how to use them effectively. These tours are given every Thursday
in September, beginning at 12:30 in the lobby.
Surf 'n' Turf sessions
are informal and designed for interested individuals, not whole
classes. Registration is not necessary.
More and more journals
now online
ScienceDirect is just one more source of electronic journals newly
available to Old Dominion faculty, staff and students. Another recently-acquired
database, JStor, provides electronic access to older issues of selected
journals.
For access to these collections,
go to the library home page at http://www.lib.odu.edu
and click on Information Resources.
Wondering if a particular
periodical is available electronically through Old Dominion University
Libraries? From the home page, click on Information Resources, then
on Periodicals Title Database. Enter the name of a journal or magazine;
then check the box, Limit search to titles that are available electronically.
Searching by subject or by certain words in the periodical title
are also good options.
New business librarian
on board
Paul Showalter joined Perry Library in July as the Business Reference
Librarian. A recent graduate of the MSLS program at the University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he earned an undergraduate degree
in political science and has experience in industry as well as in
libraries.
Systems specialist hired
Peter Bruce is now the library's new Systems Specialist for Internet
Technologies. He has been with the University Libraries since 1990
in other capacities. Bruce holds a degree in biochemistry from Old
Dominion and has done additional graduate study in computer science.
Distance Learning Corner
The UnCover document delivery service is now ingenta--yes, that's
a lowercase "i." The new gateway is now open, and faculty
as well as distance learners may use the service to order periodical
articles. Perry Library subsidizes this service. What this means
to you is that any article listed at $25 or under is free.
For instructions on how
to use ingenta and a link to the new gateway, go to the library's
home page at http://www.lib.odu.edu
and click first on Library Services, then on Distance Learning.
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