News & Events

News for Faculty and Instructors


1)  Books and Articles Delivered to Your Office

2)  Comment on New Web Site

3)  IU Partners with ChaCha

4)  Create Reading Lists in Oncourse

5)  Reference Seminars

6)  Films are Focus of October Celebration

7)  University Archives to Relocate to Wells Library

8)  Endnote Training

9)  Major New Resources

10)  Quick Clicks

1) Books and Articles Delivered to Your Office

Books

As a faculty member, you can now request that books be delivered to your campus mail address. You must first set up an account for campus mail delivery, and once in IUCAT, select that account when you log in. We'll send you the book via campus mail from the library you choose. Deliveries usually occur within a few days.

Electronic books, books checked out to another user for which there is no other copy in the IU system, materials on reserve or in the Reference collection, and journal bound volumes are not eligible for delivery.

Learn more about the new service and create an account.

Return books without scavenging for a parking space at the Wells Library. Three book-return receptacles are located south of the library: one at the end of the sidewalk leading to the main entrance, and two at the Seventh Street turnaround. Books may also be returned at any branch library.

Articles

Don't forget the popular Request Article Delivery service that provides electronic copies of journal articles from printed and microform materials held on the Bloomington campus. This service, free of charge, is available to IUB faculty, staff, graduate, and undergraduate students.

Learn more about the Request Article Delivery.

Questions about delivery? Contact Sherri Michaels, interim head, Customer and Access Services at shmichae@indiana.edu

2) Comment on New Web Site

Please take a brief survey to help us evaluate changes to the IUB Libraries Web site. Created with input from faculty who participated in usability testing and as members of an advisory team, the new site responds to findings of a previous campuswide survey. Your comments will help us to continue to improve the site.

Although the site looks different, it includes many familiar features. Please note:

• Web pages on the Libraries' Web site that you have bookmarked on your own computer will remain constant.
• The A-Z list of databases and search function for online journals will appear in the new system as "Resource Gateway" (formerly "Find Information").
• Services and resources of particular interest to faculty are assembled under a "faculty" heading which will appear on every page.
• A new "Subjects" section will bring together information, lists of databases, and contacts for subjects corresponding to IUB academic programs.
  
  

3) IU Partners With ChaCha

A new partnership between IU and ChaCha, an Indiana company that is creating a new way of providing Internet searches, will incorporate the collective knowledge and experience of the university's library and information technology staff.  

By combining machine-based searches with input from human guides, ChaCha will offer users the ability to receive instant results, just like a traditional search engine, but with expert guidance.

IU librarians, information technology staff and others will serve as guides, available to help the IU community conduct searches through a live instant message chat interface, identify exactly what information the user is seeking, refine the search for the user and then display only the most relevant results.Library guides will be able to point users to the licensed databases and online resources the IUB Libraries provide to the academic community.

Watch for updates this month at http://search.iu.edu/

4) Create Reading Lists in Oncourse

You can now create citation lists in Oncourse CL, allowing your students to link directly to suggested reading lists without having to leave the Oncourse environment.

Using this new feature, you can search and retrieve citations using OneSearch@IU from individual databases, such as ProQuest and JSTOR, as well as from groups of subject-specific databases, to create citation lists. You can also easily add citations from Google Scholar search results. Citations contain links to retrieve the full-text or physical location of the articles you identify. Subscription-based library resources are now easier for students to find and for you to manage.

This new Citation Lists feature in Oncourse, which is also being made available to other universities, was created by IU in partnership with the University of Michigan and with support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.

For more information, see the Knowledge Base:http://kb.iu.edu/data/avcd.html

5) Reference Seminars

IUB Librarians are always available to help you with your research needs: Meet with a librarian individually to learn more about specific resources or strategies, or join your colleagues at any of the popular research seminars. Among them:

• Keeping Up with New Research: RSS and Current Awareness Services Advanced Googling: Finding Scholarly Information on the Web
• Library Resources on the Web: What's New? What Should I Use?
• Citation Indexes on the Web (Web of Science)
• Worldcat and Library Catalogs Worldwide
• Using Congressional Publications in your Research
  

See the full list, including topics new this semester, and register now: Research Seminars.

Call the Reference Department at (812) 855-8028, or send e-mail to libref@indiana.edu if you have any questions.

6) Film Collections Are Focus of October Celebration

A month-long celebration of archives and special collections will bring to focus the value of films to teaching and research. Keynote speaker Julie Dash will address the campus community on Wednesday, October 3, at 4:30 p.m. at the Neal-Marshall Black Culture Center. This and all events are free and open to the public.

An accomplished writer and director, Dash is perhaps best known for her acclaimed Daughters of the Dust, a Sundance Film Festival winner in 1991 and the first full-length film by an African-American woman. In 2004, the film was placed in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress to be honored and preserved as a national treasure.

IUB boasts extraordinary film collections that support teaching and research on campus.Among them: The David Bradley Film Collection; the Instructional Support Services Collection; and the impressive holdings of the Black Film Center/Archive and the world-famous Kinsey Institute.

Learn about using films in your teaching at the Media Services Web site.

7) University Archives to Relocate to Wells Library

The Office of University Archives and Records Management, currently in Bryan Hall, will relocate to the Herman B Wells Library in December 2007. The office will move to a space on the fourth floor of the library's East Tower that will better accommodate researchers and staff.

As the largest and most comprehensive source of information on the history and culture of Indiana University, the IU Archives continually seeks the administrative files of IU offices and departments and the personal papers (correspondence, classroom materials, research files) generated by prominent IU faculty. If you are interested in discussing the transfer of your records or papers, please contact Philip Bantin, University Archivist at (812) 855-5897, or bantin@indiana.edu.

8) EndNote Now Web-Based

EndNote Web, the popular citation management software, allows you to manage your citation libraries online, anytime. Learn more at an in-depth class taught by a trainer from Thomson Scientific, the manufacturer of EndNote.

Wednesday, September 26, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Herman B Wells Library W302

Learn how to:

• Create an EndNote library.
• Search online databases from within EndNote, such as PubMed.
• Use direct export to import from databases such as ISI Web of Science.
• Import text files saved from online databases or other bibliographic software programs.
  

Sign up for this or other EndNote classes:http://ittraining.iu.edu/workshops/schedule_by_group.aspx?group=9

9) Major New Resources

The IUB Libraries increase collections with your needs in mind, and we're constantly adding new resources to help you in your teaching and research.Keep up-to-date with print and digital acquisitions in your discipline in the following ways:

Review the new books and databases recently acquired by the IUB Libraries.

Recommend library materials for purchase.

Sign up to receive e-mail notification when new titles arrive.

10) Quick Clicks

Have a question? Ask a Librarian.

View a list of online journals about a specific subject.

See our instructional tools. Librarians can assist with custom class presentations, Web pages, tutorials, and exercise preparation.

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Comments or questions about this e-newsletter?

Contact Carolyn Walters, IUB Libraries, Executive Associate Dean

cwalters@indiana.edu or (812) 855-7747