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Library Update |
As a faculty member or graduate teaching assistant, you are invited to Perry Library, Room 151, at 10:00 AM for an hour-long event to learn about some of the most important library services and resources available to you. This is an opportunity to get all your library questions answered and enjoy light refreshments. Registration is not required but is helpful to us in planning. Email cswaine@odu.edu.
Important reminder: When linking to library databases for students to use through Blackboard, be sure to link through the Library's Web site. Otherwise, if students are off campus, they won't have access.
For the same reason, when linking to journal articles available through library subscription, be sure to place the proxy login URL before the stable URL for the article. Not sure what this means? For fuller instructions, from the library Web page, go to "Services for Faculty" then to "Linking to Full-Text Articles..." or go directly here.
The annual book sale at Perry Library, held during the fall semester, brought in $3,136. The money was used to provide ODU Bookstore gift certificates for student library workers who demonstrated excellent service.
Awards were presented to the students at a holiday luncheon on December 6. Thanks go to the Book Sale Committee, everyone who contributed items for sale, those who bought items, and all who volunteered to work at the sale.
We are happy to announce that two new librarians accepted positions at Perry Library within the last few months.
Frederick (Rob) Tench is our new Acquisitions and Preservation Services Librarian. Most recently Rob was head of the Technical Services Department at the Newport News Public Library System, where he was employed for the past 20 years. He holds an M.A. in Library Science from the Catholic University of America.
Our Special Collections Librarian is Sonia Yaco, who holds an M.A. in Library and Information Studies, with a specialization in archives and records administration, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Previously she served as a Reference Archivist at the McCormick-International Harvester Collection at the Wisconsin Historical Society.
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An exhibit titled “The Art of the Piano” is on view in the Diehn Composers Room through January. The exhibit examines the arts surrounding the piano, including the art of invention, the art of building, the art of design, and the rising popularity of the instrument in 18th century Europe, both musically and socially. Portraits, paintings, CDs, scores, and books illustrate the impact produced by Bartolomeo Cristofori’s new invention, the pianoforte.
An informant from the Friends of the ODU Library tells us that the computer area in the reference room of Perry Library is the setting for fictional detective Callie McKinley’s online investigatory work in Death of a Mermaid by Wendy Howell Mills.
The University Libraries offered, for the first time this past fall, a course in information literacy titled Research in the Information Age. Taught by Karen Vaughan and Cynthia Swaine, it was an accelerated, eight-week hybrid course listed as AL 201.
The nineteen students enrolled ranged from freshmen to graduate levels and represented the areas of business, science, education, arts and letters and health sciences. Pre- and post-tests showed that significant learning took place. Students liked the course, too, and some suggested that all students take it.
The instructors consider the course a definite success and will be working to enhance the course in time for its next offering, in fall 2008.
Need assistance? Don’t hesitate to use our Ask-a-Librarian email service; a link appears on the library Web page. You can also call the reference desk at 757-683-4178. On weekdays, you can use the toll-free number 800-968-2638 and ask to be transferred.
Sometimes the most unusual items can be found in the Special Collections of the University Libraries. We know about the old copies of the student newspapers and yearbooks, the papers of Virginia politicians, and other gems. But there are more mysterious items as well.
Recently Earl Swift of the Virginian-Pilot wrote a week-long series of articles related to the unsolved murder of Norfolk's Mayor W. Fred Duckworth in the early 1970s, when he was out on one of his early evening walks. Not until the final fascinating article appeared did some of the library staff realize that the mayor's papers and mementos are a part of the Special Collections in Perry Library. In addition to the scrapbooks and clippings, such items as a pocket knife, a Shriner fez, tie tracks and gavel are there as well. As Earl Swift said in “Who Shot the Mayor?”: “…in one box…is his stainless steel pedometer. Presumably the one he was wearing when he died. Its hand remains stopped just shy of five miles.”
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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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