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What's New @ the Library?

New and returning faculty members and graduate teaching assistants are welcome to attend this one-hour event on Friday, January 5 at 10:00 AM in Perry Library, Room 151. Learn about our newest services and resources, and get all your questions answered! Light refreshments will be served. Registration is not required but is helpful to us in planning.

Email cswaine@odu.edu

Other faculty events with you in mind

Mark your calendar now for upcoming faculty, staff and grad student events at Perry Library. On February 22 at 10:00 AM we’ll present a session called Finding Articles in an Imperfect World. Also on the spring semester schedule are Meet Me at PubMed and a workshop on new and advanced features in Google searching. Dates and times are being arranged. Details of library workshops and classes are available from the library’s home page under the category “Research Assistance & Instruction.”

Have you tried these resources?

OSince the library has nearly 250 information research databases, it is difficult to be aware of all the ones that could prove helpful to your own research or course assignments. Try matching the number of the items with the lettered online databases in which they can be found.

A CIA biographical sketch of Osama bin Laden
An 1844 article, “Christmas Morning,” by Charles Dickens
Financial information for public companies
Full text of ODU theses and dissertations from the past ten years
19th Century poems about snow written by women, in a popular magazine of the time
Peer-reviewed research journals in the sciences

a. Accessible Archives
b. Current Research @
c. British Periodicals
d. Thomson ONE Banker
e. Digital National Security Archive
f. ScienceDirect

Answers: 1-e, 2-c, 3-d, 4-b, 5-a, 6-f

To explore any of these resources, click on Databases from the library’s home page at http://www.lib.odu.edu

7000 peer-reviewed journals at once

A new database, Academic OneFile, allows you to search topics in 9,000 journals, with over 7,000 of them being peer reviewed. Over 50% of the articles are available full text online, within the database. Subject coverage includes physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and more. Also included is full-text coverage of the New York Times back to 1995. From the library homepage, click on Databases and then on the letter A, or choose Academic OneFile from the “Multidisciplinary” category on the Databases page.

Distance Learning Corner

A broadcast on January 4 at 2:00 PM is titled, MAKING the MOST of Library Resources. Three ODU reference librarians will show how best to select, evaluate and use library resources, especially research databases for finding appropriate articles on selected topics.

A video of the broadcast plus a PowerPoint presentation and handouts that can be printed will be available from the library’s distance learning web page at www.lib.odu.edu/distance/

More details on the archived presentation will be available soon.

Book sale a success

Income from the library’s annual used book sale, held in early November, was $4,160.25. All profits funded achievement awards for students employed at the library, to help with textbook and other academic expenses. The awards were presented at a luncheon in December.

Thanks go to the organizers, the volunteers who helped staff the event, and to everyone who purchased items.

Another library success story

Interlibrary Loan and Document Delivery Services staff often are thanked for the work they do in helping students and faculty get the articles and books they need in a very timely manner. Over the past months, two messages of thanks were especially noteworthy. One email message said:

"I hope this not is sent to a person (not an automated msg.). I want the library staff to know that you are AWESOME.

You have been able to find and send me all the articles I’ve requested in a short period of time. From a stressed grad student, I want to thank you for the work you do. It’s greatly appreciated!"

Another said:

"I am so humbly grateful for the services you provide. I’ll lean heavily on you for a few weeks now, and then I’ll try to give you a break. Thanks so much for what you do! I deeply appreciate it."

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