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Library Update |
Two Saturday morning workshops are scheduled for graduate students later in the semester. Registration is required.
On October 20, from 10:00 to 11:30 AM, “Doing a Literature Review” will be held in Perry Library, Room 163. This event focuses on using the library’s information databases effectively and should prove extremely helpful to anyone planning to do a thesis or dissertation. To register, contact Nancy Schafer at nschafer@odu.edu or 683-5909.
On November 10, from 10:00 to 11:30 AM, you can learn about creating and converting PDFs and using TextBridge to digitize text documents. The workshop will be held in the Digital Services Center (3rd floor of Perry Library), which is open to graduate students and faculty for work related to ODU courses and research. To register, contact Karen Vaughan at kvaughan@odu.edu or 683-4184.
The annual fall book sale will be held in Perry Library, Room 151. Recordings, magazines, etc. will be available for sale also. Plan to stop by often on October 31, November 1 and 2, between 9:00 AM and 7:00 PM and Saturday, November 3, 9:00 AM- 4:00 PM.
ODU faculty members and graduate students are welcome to visit the Digital Services Center on the third floor of Perry Library to do both image and text scanning.
For images, you may use flatbed and slide scanning for digitizing photographs, slides, or other graphic images. PaintShop is available for creating, capturing and/or editing images. TextBridge and Adobe Acrobat are available for creating and editing text documents. High-speed scanners convert text to PDF very quickly.
Staff can assist you with incorporating digital images and text into Web pages, PowerPoint presentations, or word processed documents.
Hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 4:30 PM. Appointments are preferred.
Recently Perry Library installed new shelving to accommodate its growing collections. Over the summer, all the books about music (classification M) and the books about art (classification N) were moved from the third floor to the fourth floor. Shifting the books to allow for new acquisitions is ongoing.
Old Dominion University’s 30th annual Literary Festival is being held October 1-4. You are invited to view an accompanying exhibit that features information about the participating authors and their works, in the lobby of Perry Library. A Web collection of materials—brochures and some video clips—from all 30 festivals may be viewed at here.
The official portal for access to current U.S. government information, USA.gov, provides everything from federal agency press releases to information on finding the cheapest gas prices. You may pose questions via e-mail, telephone, and even live chat. The chat service is now available 8:00 AM to 8:00 PM, except on federal holidays.
The Library now provides electronic access to Journal Citation Reports (JCR). JCR allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from over 60 countries. JCR shows the relationships between citing and cited journals and identifies:
- the most frequently cited journals in a field
- the highest impact journals in a field
- the largest journals in a field
Current data is available for 2005-2006. Earlier Journal Citation Reports are available on CD-ROM in the Library's Reference Room.
You may access JCR® Web by title from the library's “Databases” page. From the ISI Web of Knowledge page, click on the link to Journal Citation Reports, under “Analytical Tools.”
A workshop for faculty and graduate students on using this resource will be held in Perry Library, Room 163, 10:00-11:30 AM, October 17. Registration, though not required, is helpful in planning for an adequate number of materials and seating. Register with Cynthia Swaine at cswaine@odu.edu.
InfoTrac OneFile was the database most frequently searched by ODU students, but the name InfoTrac has been dropped by the producer in favor of a new name, General OneFile. This database serves as a companion to Academic OneFile. If distance learners ask where InfoTrac went, now you know: it has a new name and helpful new features, too.
An aerospace engineering graduate student wanted to obtain a World War II era English translation of a technical report produced by a famous German airplane manufacturer.
Head of Interlibrary Loan Stuart Frazer discovered that both the original German report and the English translation were cited in some subsequent journal articles, but he did not find any libraries showing ownership when he searched OCLC (the Online Computer Library Center), the huge worldwide library cooperative whose members number 57,000 libraries in 112 countries and territories.
Stuart then contacted the British Library and several specialized aerospace libraries in both Britain and the U.S., but the document remained elusive. During the search process, he noticed that one author who had cited the report was employed at Virginia Tech. Stuart took the step of emailing him to inquire whether he still had a copy and, if he did, whether he would be willing to share it. Amazingly, he responded quickly and was happy to provide a photocopy, which Stuart then passed along to the student, who was very appreciative.
This illustrates the lengths to which librarians must sometimes go to find information.
October 1-4 |
-ODU Literary Festival (see exhibit in Perry Library Lobby) |
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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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