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Library Update |
New and returning faculty members, staff and graduate teaching assistants are invited to attend a session called What's Happening @ the Library. It will be held in Perry Library 151 on Wednesday, August 22, 2:00-3:00 PM and repeated Thursday, August 23, 2:00-3:00 PM. Learn about our services and resources, and get all your questions answered!
Light refreshments will be served. Registration is not required but is very helpful to us in planning. Email cswaine@odu.edu if you plan to attend.
Mark your calendar for one of these important workshops to be held on Wednesday, September 5 and Saturday, September 8. Helpful for both teaching and research assistants, these sessions cover ways to charge photocopying to a department or grant, borrowing materials in your professor’s name, placing books on course reserve, obtaining materials not owned by the library and more. Both sessions will be held in Perry Library 163 and run from 10:00 to 11:30 AM. Register with Kathryn Boone at kboone@odu.edu.
The Reference and Research Department of Perry Library opened its “Research Commons” this summer. This west end of the reference room now features an area designed specifically for ODU students, faculty and staff. The area features tables for group work and computers that include both Internet access and Microsoft word processing and spreadsheet applications. These computers require an ODU login. Computers on the east side of the reference room offer Internet access only and do not require a login.
The campus community is invited to take part in these sessions that serve as an extremely helpful library orientation. Surf, offered on Tuesdays, September 11 and 18, will show you how to use the library web page to find important resources and services. Turf, an instructional tour of the library, is offered on Thursdays, September 13 and 20. Intended for interested individuals, all sessions begin at 12:30 PM in the lobby of Perry Library.
Research in the Information Age is a new 8-week hybrid course offered for one credit and appropriate to any level and major.
The course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the flow and structure of information, how it is organized by libraries and database producers, and how it can be used in the research process. Students will learn effective methods for identifying and acquiring a variety of research materials, with emphasis on the evaluation, citation, and ethical use of information sources.
See the syllabus and more detail.
Dustin Larmore became the new Cataloging and Metadata Services Librarian in May of this year. Previously he was Technical Services Librarian at Dakota State University. He holds an M.S. in Library Science from the University of Kentucky.
Janet Justis was hired as the new Health Sciences Librarian in June. Most recently she was the Government Information Reference Librarian here at ODU. She earned her M.S. in Library Science degree from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Gale’s PowerSearch databases that we subscribe to through VIVA, the Virtual Library of Virginia, have excellent content. Academic OneFile provides access to a collection of 10,000 academic journals, mostly full text and many peer reviewed.
General OneFile (title change expected in mid-August from InfoTrac OneFile) includes over 11,000 publications but is not limited just to academic journals. Among its newest features are:
- Audio programs and transcripts from NPR, 1990 to present
- Fodor’s and other travel guides
- Full text of the New York Times, 1995 to present
- Content able to be translated into seven languages
Here is a sample search using some of these new features:
- In General OneFile, choose the Advanced Search option.
- In two separate search boxes, enter the words heiress and McDonald’s.
- When the list of citations shows up, click on the blue tab labeled Multimedia in order to get broadcast transcripts, etc.
- Click on the link to the title you want.
- You can now click on the translate button if you wish to read the document in Japanese, Chinese, Korean, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese or Italian.
Revised handbooks and brochures have been sent to all the distance learning sites. If you need more copies or want to refer people to them, just visit our library distance learning page where you will see links to these as well as other helps for distance learners.
An exhibit now being featured in the Diehn Composers Room is From Pen to Page to Stage: Reflections of American History by Contemporary Composers. This exhibit, funded by a grant from the Norfolk Foundation, will be available for viewing through October 2007. An accompanying Web exhibit is mounted also available.
Who says politeness has gone the way of the typewriter? Elizabeth Hogue taught a class for a section of English 127 and was delighted to receive this note of appreciation from a student in that class:
I just wanted to extend a thank you for the information that you presented to my class…I found the information to be very beneficial. There have been many occasions where I found myself lost when choosing a topic and also did not know where to look for information about certain topics. Thanks to you I have... a way to find a topic for my paper and now also know where to find information about it.
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Library Update is published four times a year by the library for the Old Dominion University community. Its purpose is to inform users of new and existing services, policies and procedures.
Editor: Cynthia Wright Swaine
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