President Runte donates $25,000
At the state of the university address on August 25, President
Roseann Runte announced her generous capital campaign donation of
$25,000 to the Perry Library this year. Her hope is that everyone
in the campus community will also support the library and help us
reach the target goal of $1,000,000. Please consider doing so. The
library is the heart of the university.
Announcing research workshops for grad students
ODU graduate students are invited to attend Saturday morning research
workshops during October in Room 163 of Perry Library.
On October 16, the theme is Becoming Expert at Searching Online
Research Databases. Here you will learn advanced search techniques
for use with research databases in finding the information you need.
The library subscribes to some 200 such databases. Register with
Nancy Schafer by email at nschafer@odu.edu or by telephone at 683-5909.
The workshop theme for October 23 is Using Powerful News Resources.
The session will focus on LexisNexis Academic, Factiva, Global Newsbank,
World News Connection, and newspapers on the Internet. Learn how
these resources can help you find the information you need for your
research. Bring your own topics and try out some of the techniques
and features that will be demonstrated. Register with Paul Showalter
by email at pshowalt@odu.edu or by telephone at 683-5908.
Used book sale raised $3802
Our usual fall semester book sale became the back-to-school used
book sale and was held September 14 through17. All profits will
be used to provide library student employees with awards at the
end of the semester.
Plans call for another book sale to be held during spring semester.
Look for details to be announced later.
Looking at promotion and tenure?
At many universities, citation searching is used as one means of
evaluating the quality of a faculty member's research. Faculty often
use this approach in preparing portfolios for promotion and tenure.
Plan to attend this important faculty workshop on cited reference
searching, led by Karen Vaughan on Tuesday, October 26, from 10:00
to 11:00 AM in Perry Library 163. Registration, though not mandatory,
is helpful to us in planning. For more information or to register,
contact kvaughan@odu.edu.
VIVA's 10th anniversary
VIVA, The Virtual Library of Virginia, had its beginning in July
1994 with funding from the Virginia General Assembly. VIVA's mission
is "to provide, in an equitable, cooperative and cost effective
manner, enhanced access to library and information resources for
the Commonwealth of Virginia's non-profit academic libraries serving
the higher education community."
VIVA supports Old Dominion University research needs through greater
access to online databases and journals. All VIVA resources are
available through the ODU Libraries' Web site.
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Incorporating classical music and art images into your classes
Are you teaching a course where music and art images might enhance
learning? Did you know that large collections of art images and
classical music works are now available to you with a few clicks
of your mouse?
Meet in Perry Library Room 163 to see, hear and learn more about
these resources from Visual Resources Curator Nancy Shelton and
Music Reference Librarian Elizabeth Hogue at 10:00 AM on Thursday,
November 11. Registration, though not mandatory, is helpful to us
in planning. For more information or to register, contact cswaine@odu.edu.
Another library success story
A major in the French Marines was so happy with the information
he got from our Science Reference Librarian, Renee Davis, that U.S.-French
relations may have become a bit firmer.
Renee received a telephone call from a librarian at the Combined
Arms Research Library, U.S. Marine Corps Command and General Staff
College at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. The major was a student there
and was trying to identify the full citation information for an
article that had been photocopied from a French journal.
The year was known, but the volume and issue numbers were missing.
Since Old Dominion owns the volume in print, the Ft. Leavenworth
librarian decided to call us. After consulting the print volume
and then checking the online version of Ulrich's International Periodicals
Directory, Renee determined that French publishers do not always
use volume numbers. She e-mailed that information to the major directly,
providing him with the official citation from Historical Abstracts.
He responded with much gratitude for the rapid and accurate response,
using that phrase which all librarians treasure, "It is exactly
what I needed."
Distance Learning Corner
Reed Gerard is the new distance learning contact person in our
Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery Services office. If you
have questions you can reach him at rgerard@odu.edu or at 757-683-4167.
Remember, if you need a book or article from our library or another
library, we can deliver it to you, almost always free of charge. Just go to the
library Web page at http://www.lib.odu.edu and click on Interlibrary
loan & document delivery.
Friends of the library now ten, too
The Friends of the Old Dominion University Library group is celebrating
its tenth anniversary this month. The Friends are undertaking a
campaign to attract life members and planning a lecture series featuring
researchers from each college on campus.
For more information about the Friends, visit their Web page at
http://www.lib.odu.edu/friends/index.htm.
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