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Library Update |
As a faculty member or graduate teaching assistant, you are always welcome to register for workshops the Library offers with your needs in mind. On Saturday, March 29, 10:00-11:30AM, we encourage graduate students to attend “Doing a Literature Review.”
Hundreds of thousands of journal articles, dissertations, government publications and other resources can be found online through various library online subscription services. As more and more resources become available, however, the methods for using them become more varied. Here is your chance to learn about how to do a thorough literature review using the library's research information databases. Registration is required; contact Nancy Schafer at nschafer@odu.edu or 683-5909.
We recommend that faculty members looking at promotion and tenure attend a workshop called “Who's Citing You—and Where?” on Friday, April 18, 10:00 -11:00AM. This workshop will help you learn how to determine who has cited your publications and how to decide which journals might be the best places for you to publish. Registration is not required but is helpful to us in planning; email kvaughan@odu.edu.
Research in the Information Age, AL 201, will be offered again next fall as a one-credit course. It’s not too early to advise your students to enroll in this accelerated, eight-week hybrid course taught by Karen Vaughan and Cynthia Swaine. Assessments from fall 2007 showed that significant learning took place. Also, students liked the course, and some suggested that all students should take it.
National Women’s History Month will be celebrated with an exhibit in the lobby of Perry Library. Women's Art, Women's Vision will feature a variety of books from the Hofheimer Art Library. For more information visit the Art Library.
We are happy to announce that three librarians are joining the Reference and Research Services Department.
Our new Business Reference Librarian is Miriam Bridges. She holds an M.L.S. from the University of Maryland as well as a master’s degree in Labor and Human Resource Management from Ohio State University. Bridges comes to us from George Mason University, where she was a Reference Library Assistant.
Edward Wladas is our new Science Reference Librarian. With a background in mathematics, he comes to us most recently from Princeton University, where he was the Engineering Librarian and Head of the Engineering Library. Wladas earned his M.L.S. from Rosary College, River Forest, Illinois.
Judith Trump has accepted the Social Science Reference Librarian position. She earned her M.S.L.S. degree from the Catholic University of America. Trump’s most recent professional position was as Head of the Government Documents and Microforms Department at Georgetown University’s Lauinger Library.
Please welcome our new colleagues as they begin their work in instruction, consultation, reference service, collection development and university service.
The library now subscribes to two new databases. The first is Gender Studies Database, which covers publications from 1972 to present. With links to selected full-text, the source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses and dissertations, and other sources.
A second new database is Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC), which provides access to over 400 journals, with full text of more than 230 journals, in mass media and other closely-related fields of study, some dating as far back as 1915.
On trial through May is another communications database, ComVista. Rather than providing access to articles in the field, ComVista serves as a guide to programs of study in communication-related departments in North American higher education. ComVista can help you make better decisions about places to work or study, and it can assist in the evaluation of a program's impact in the field.
Need journal articles or books delivered to your site? Our Interlibrary Loan & Document Delivery Service does a great job. Read this recent testimonial:
"Thank you so much for your help and returning this to me so fast. You have been such a blessing throughout my student career at ODU—I could not have gotten such good grades on all my research without your help. Thank you again and again."
Look for the link to this service on the library web page.
A gentleman from New Jersey contacted the Virginian-Pilot about getting some articles and photographs relating to his parents’ wedding in Suffolk in 1932. The Pilot staff urged him to get in touch with the microforms personnel at the ODU Perry Library since they have a reputation for good customer service and good searching help.
Mona Farrow, Microforms Services Supervisor, was able to find the desired article and photographs from the newspaper on microfilm.
She discovered a photograph of the parents on the Pilot’s front page of the day in question and another picture of the couple surrounded by women in traditional dress performing the Romany wedding dance. The questioner’s mother had been the daughter of the local police chief, and his father had been a gypsy chief. The newspaper reported that as the couple left St. Mary's Church, a large clan of gypsies from numerous tribes, with singers and a band, gathered on the lawn outside, waiting to start the celebration. They sang and danced all the way to the reception hall. Several hundred people gathered to see the event and to take pictures.
The patron was very appreciative of Mona’s assistance, especially since the wedding photographs in his brother’s house had suffered severe water damage.
March 9 |
Perry Library open 9:00AM-5:00PM with limited service (Spring Break) |
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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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