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Ebsco Product News Jul 2008

Ebsco Product News

The Southeastern Librarian

New products from EBSCO. Highlights include: EBSCO to provide Ariba Inc.'s Express Content; EBSCO broadens services; EBSCO adds a Knowledge Base Change Reports feature to their A-to-Z web-based resource locator tool; MetaPress desigated Knowledge Works Certified by Serial Solutions; new EBSCONET tool to simplify e-journal order activation and registration; new publishers to use MetaPress 2.0 platform to host e-content distribution.


Microfilm-2-Digital: Things 2 Know Before U Digitize, Kopana Terry Jul 2008

Microfilm-2-Digital: Things 2 Know Before U Digitize, Kopana Terry

Library Presentations

No abstract provided.


Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1 Summer 2008, Grand Valley State University Jul 2008

Grand Valley Magazine, Vol. 8, No. 1 Summer 2008, Grand Valley State University

Grand Valley Magazine

Grand Valley Magazine is a quarterly publication about Grand Valley State University produced by University Communications since 2001.


July 2008, Volume 4, Number 2, Winthrop University Archives And Special Collections Jul 2008

July 2008, Volume 4, Number 2, Winthrop University Archives And Special Collections

Retrospect: News from the Louise Pettus Archives and Special Collections at Winthrop University

No abstract provided.


Refworks Usage Statistics 2007-2008 Jul 2008

Refworks Usage Statistics 2007-2008

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

RefWorks is a subscription-based, online software product that helps researchers save, organize, and format bibliographic citations. This report provides monthly statistics on the usage of RefWorks by the URI community for 2007-2008. Data provided include total monthly users, new users, repeat users, total sessions per month, average sessions per user, total references added, and average number of references added per user.


A Timeline Of Important Events In Georgia Public Library History, Elaine Hardy Jul 2008

A Timeline Of Important Events In Georgia Public Library History, Elaine Hardy

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article presents a chronology of significant events in the history of Georgia's public library service from 1809 to 2008. In 1809, a subscription library was opened by the Savannah Library Society. In 1900, Mayors S. B. Price and Bridges Smith of Macon established the Price Free Library for the poor. From 1933 to 1934, jobs in public and school libraries in Georgia were created by the Civil Works Administration. In 2000, libraries in Georgia started to purchase and install equipment and software through funding from the Gates Foundation. As of 2008, there are 61 library systems, 33 regional library …


Ott Joins Library Faculty At Clayton State Jul 2008

Ott Joins Library Faculty At Clayton State

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article announces the appointment of Katherine Ott to the library faculty of Clayton State University in Georgia.


Georgia Southern News And Notes Jul 2008

Georgia Southern News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from Georgia Southern's Henderson Library.


Chestatee Regional News And Notes Jul 2008

Chestatee Regional News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from the Chestatee Regional Library System.


Athens-Clarke County News And Notes Jul 2008

Athens-Clarke County News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from the Athens-Clarke County Library System.


Danowski Poetry Library Debuts At Emory Jul 2008

Danowski Poetry Library Debuts At Emory

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article reports on the debut of the first major exhibition of items from Emory University's Raymond Danowski Poetry Library at the Schatten Gallery of the university's Woodruff Library in Atlanta, Georgia. The exhibition focuses not on one particular school or kind of poetry but rather provides a sense of the whole of poetry. The exhibition also highlights the democratic qualities of the poetry collection. It reveals the relevance of poetry to the events of the century. Other poetry collection books highlighted at the exhibition are mentioned.


Fayette County News And Notes Jul 2008

Fayette County News And Notes

Georgia Library Quarterly

Recent news from the Fayette County Public Library.


Sequoyah Regional Wins Excalibur Award Jul 2008

Sequoyah Regional Wins Excalibur Award

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article announces the Excalibur Award received by Sequoyah Regional Library System given by the Technology Association of Georgia.


The Whitney R. Harris Third Reich Collection : Materials Added To The Collection, 1999-June 30, 2008, Brian Vetruba, Shane D. Peterson Jul 2008

The Whitney R. Harris Third Reich Collection : Materials Added To The Collection, 1999-June 30, 2008, Brian Vetruba, Shane D. Peterson

WashU Libraries Publications

Bibliography of items added to the Whitney R. Harris Third Reich Collection funded by Whitney R. Harris.


Message From The President, Faith Line Jul 2008

Message From The President, Faith Line

The Southeastern Librarian

Column by SELA President, Faith Line.


People News Jul 2008

People News

The Southeastern Librarian

Recent professional developments from SELA members.


Mcquade Messenger- Summer 2008, Merrimack College Jul 2008

Mcquade Messenger- Summer 2008, Merrimack College

McQuade Messenger

Triannual newsletter outlining the activities, events, hours, features, and resources available at McQuade Library. Summer 2008, 5 pages.


History Of Love Bookmarks, Evelyn Barker Jul 2008

History Of Love Bookmarks, Evelyn Barker

Information Literacy Resources-Archive

Bookmarks for the 2008-2009 OneBook selection, The History of Love by Nicole Krauss.


Cataloging Unit Statistics 2007-2008, Amar K. Lahiri Jul 2008

Cataloging Unit Statistics 2007-2008, Amar K. Lahiri

Technical Services Reports and Statistics

Annual productivity statistics from the Cataloging Unit of the University of Rhode Island Library for 2007-2008. Includes total number of copy-cataloged records and original catalog records created. Also includes bibliographic and item records created, modified, and deleted in the local Innovative Interfaces library system.


News From The South Carolina Library Association V.6 N.3 07/2008 Jul 2008

News From The South Carolina Library Association V.6 N.3 07/2008

South Carolina Libraries

News from the South Carolina Library Association v.6 n.3 07/2008


Wrl Newsletter Summer 2008, Maryke Barber Jul 2008

Wrl Newsletter Summer 2008, Maryke Barber

WRL Newsletters

No abstract provided.


A Cartographic Journey Through Las Vegas History: Tracing The Las Vegas Landscape Through Maps Pt. 2, Su Kim Chung, Katherine Rankin Jul 2008

A Cartographic Journey Through Las Vegas History: Tracing The Las Vegas Landscape Through Maps Pt. 2, Su Kim Chung, Katherine Rankin

Library Faculty Research

An interesting set of historical maps of Nevada and the Las Vegas area.


Reforming The Undergraduate Experience, Diane Vanderpol, Jeanne M. Brown, Patricia A. Iannuzzi Jul 2008

Reforming The Undergraduate Experience, Diane Vanderpol, Jeanne M. Brown, Patricia A. Iannuzzi

Library Faculty Research

This chapter examines common objectives in some of the major initiatives in higher education. It highlights the role of librarians and libraries in higher education reform


Preserving Digital Information., Rachel Howard Jul 2008

Preserving Digital Information., Rachel Howard

Faculty and Staff Scholarship

The University of Louisville participates in a federally-funded partnership, the MetaArchive Cooperative, to develop a protocol for the distributed preservation of digital cultural heritage materials.


Google Like A Librarian, Jill Cirasella Jul 2008

Google Like A Librarian, Jill Cirasella

Publications and Research

This article discusses a few Google tools that hold promise for reference work but are likely unfamiliar to some librarians and many patrons.


Scholarly Communications, Annual Report, Fiscal/Academic Year 2007–2008, Paul Royster Jul 2008

Scholarly Communications, Annual Report, Fiscal/Academic Year 2007–2008, Paul Royster

Institutional Repository Information

The academic year 2007-2008 represented the third year of operation for the UNL Digital Commons, which continues to be an extremely effective vehicle for disseminating the scholarly output of the University of Nebraska–Lincoln and affiliated organizations, as well as valuable means of enhancing the Library’s status as a provider of electronic services to the UNL community. Following are some highlights:


Workplace Speech In Libraries, Kathleen De La Peña Mccook Jul 2008

Workplace Speech In Libraries, Kathleen De La Peña Mccook

School of Information Faculty Publications

No abstract provided.


No Human Being Is Trash, Kathleen De La Peña Mccook Jul 2008

No Human Being Is Trash, Kathleen De La Peña Mccook

School of Information Faculty Publications

Erica Jong, writing at Huffington Post about GOP VPcandidate, Governor Sarah Palin: "White trash America certainly has allure for voters. Some people think rednecks are more American than Harvard educated intellectuals of mixed race." Jong's remarks indicate a violent classism among liberal intellectuals that leaves no room for the working class poor. Jong indicates that "Harvard education" is the top of the U.S. education experience and then demonstrates her sense of classist hierarchy that ranks people according to socioeconomic status and other class markers such as weapons.


A Discussion With Charlene Hurt And Rich Meyer, Laura Burtle Jul 2008

A Discussion With Charlene Hurt And Rich Meyer, Laura Burtle

Georgia Library Quarterly

An interview with Charlene Hurt, dean of libraries at Georgia State University, and Rich Meyer, dean and director at the Georgia Tech Library & Information Center, is presented. Hurt and Meyer tells the significant changes in libraries and librarianship during their tenures and their respective career accomplishments. They talk about their library-related memory and the leacy each of them hopes to leave with their library or university.


Gla Announces Slate Of Nominees For 2009 Officers Jul 2008

Gla Announces Slate Of Nominees For 2009 Officers

Georgia Library Quarterly

The article presents the nominees for the 2009 officers of the Georgia Library Association. As the associate director for Public Services & Collections at Mercer University's Jack Tarver Library, Theresa Preuit provides leadership for the delivery of learning center-focused library public services, directs library policies and procedures and offers continuing education activities and staff development. Carol Stanley, branch librarian/cataloger at Athens Technical College, oversees processing of library materials, provides reference services and coordinates library services. Louise L. Lowe, circulation librarian for public services at Mercer University's Monroe F. Swilley Jr. Library in Atlanta, serves as a liaison to undergraduate and …