News & Events
October 2008
09/30/2008
1) E-Book Collection Grows
2) Create Reading Lists in Oncourse CL
3) Google Targets IU for First Collection of Distinction
4) Educational Videos Online
5) Request a Course Page
6) ALF Delivery Milestone
7) Hamilton’s Archive Month Keynote Rescheduled
8) IU to Introduce WorldCat Local
9) Request Delivery Service
10) New Collections
11) Quick Clicks
1) E-Book Collection Grows
Find more e-books relating to science, business, economics,
education, technology, and mathematics than ever
before, thanks to a joint licensing agreement with our peers in
the Committee on Institutional Cooperation. The IU
academic community now has access to all books published since
2005 under the following Springer imprints:
- Apress
- Birkhauser
- Copernicus Books
- Humana
- Physica-Verlag
- Plenum US
- Praxis
- Springer
- Springer-Verlag
- Steinkopff
- TELOS
View a complete title list by conducting a keyword search for the
term "myilibrary" in IUCAT.
(Note: Humana Press "protocol" titles such as Methods in
Molecular Biology are not included in this
agreement.)
At the end of the three-year agreement, we estimate that we will
have purchased 14,000 books. Faculty, students and staff can read
these books on either the SpringerLink platform, or the
MyiLibrary platform:
http://www.springerlink.com/home/main.mpx
http://www.myilibrary.com/company/home.htm
Also thanks to CIC consortial agreements, the IUB Libraries have
purchased perpetual access to the following newspaper
archives.
Nineteenth Century U.S. Newspapers Digital Archive
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century Burney Collection Newspapers Digital Archive
Nineteenth Century British Library Newspapers
2) Create Reading Lists in Oncourse
CL
Realize the potential of Oncourse and 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 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
3) Google Targets IU for First CIC Collection of
Distinction
IU’s Folklore and Ethnomusicology Collection was selected to be the first “collection of distinction” to be digitized as part of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (CIC) agreement with Google. The agreement calls for Google to scan and digitize selected titles from the collections of partnering libraries. IU’s first shipment left in August for scanning.
The University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin, both
already working with Google to digitize their materials, entered
agreements with Google prior to the CIC partnership.
The CIC is a consortium of 12 research universities,
including the 11 members of the Big Ten Conference and the
University of Chicago.
4) Educational Videos Online
Nearly 100 videos covering a variety of subjects are now available in a streaming format so they can be viewed in the classroom, in e-Reserve, or on a desktop without having to make a trip to the Wells Library for check out or return. View a current list of streaming titles.
As faculty and instructors, you may request that streaming video
be made available in e-Reserve or Oncourse. The online request
form is available at:
http://www.indiana.edu/~libmedia/forms/online-streaming-request-form.html.
You may preview 4,000 clips at the Films Media Group Web site
(http://ffh.films.com/) and
request that we purchase additional titles, or ask us about other
purchasing options.
Questions or comments about the Video OnDemand? Contact media
librarians Monique Threatt (mthreatt@indiana.edu) or Martha
Harsanyi (harsanyi@indiana.edu).
5) Request a Course Page
Course pages are designed to connect students with library resources and services that will facilitate knowledge discovery and research endeavors. Whether these pages are accessed via Oncourse or the Libraries' Web site, course-related resources and strategies for research are always available to your students.
If you would like a Web page created for your class, complete the
request form and the page will be available within a few
days. Make a request.
6) ALF Delivery Milestone
Request items from the ALF with confidence.On Sept 12, staff at the Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library Facility retrieved and delivered the 100,000th item requested by library patrons since the facility opened six years ago.
We have a 100 percent success rate in finding and retrieving
materials shelved there and have delivered each of the 100,000
items—either in print or electronic format—by the
promised time (usually the same day, if items are requested by
noon).
7) Hamilton’s Archive Month Keynote
Rescheduled
As part of a nationwide campaign to recognize the importance of archives to teaching and research, in October the Indiana University Libraries will celebrate Politics and Presidents, a month-long series of events for the university and Bloomington communities.
In September, the national Society of American Archivists awarded Indiana University’s annual campaign top honors for its creative programs and thematic approach.
Keynote speaker Representative Lee Hamilton will speak and answer
questions on Thursday, October 16, at 7:30 p.m. at the Fine Arts
Auditorium. NOTE: THIS IS A NEW DATE, TIME, AND
LOCATION. This and all events are free and open to the
public.
Classicist James O’Donnell, provost of Georgetown
University, will speak on Tuesday, October 28, at 7:30 p.m. as
part of the Patten Lecture Series. He will use Greco-Roman
examples to consider the meaning of history. The IUB Libraries
nominated him to be a Patten Lecturer.
Films, exhibitions, panel discussions, and performances of
historic campaign songs are all part of the month.
See all events: www.indiana.edu/~libevent/08
8) IU to Introduce WorldCat Local
This fall—likely in November—the IUB Libraries will offer a localized version of OCLC’s powerful WorldCat catalog of library materials. WorldCat Local will allow searching of IU's library holdings as well as those of thousands of other libraries worldwide.
Among the advantages:
- Search more than 57 million journal articles from within the catalog.
- Narrow searches by topic, author, format, date, language, audience, and type of material.
- Search in the vernacular when looking for works in languages with differing alphabets, such as Russian, Chinese, or Hebrew.
- Request materials through interlibrary loan.
IUCAT will remain a valuable means of access to IU’s
collections as it includes information not available in
WorldCat.
Adoption of WorldCat is in response to survey results that showed
general dissatisfaction with IUCAT as a means to find targeted
materials on particular topics.
9) Request Delivery Service
Books Remember that as a faculty member, you can request that eligible 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. Learn more and create an account.
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. In summer 2008, the IUB
Law Library joined the list of IU libraries participating in
Request Delivery. Learn more about the
Request
Article Delivery.
10) New Collections
Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports 1974-1996 (FBIS Full Text)Daily reports issued by the U.S. Government. Translations of broadcasts, news agency transmissions, newspapers, periodicals, and government statements from nations around the world.
Black Historical Newspapers Online database containing
searchable full text and page images of Atlanta Daily World
(1931-2003), The Chicago Defender
(1909-1975), Los Angeles Sentinel (1946-2005), New York
Amsterdam News (1922-1993), and Pittsburgh Courier
(1911-2002).
Sabin Americana 1500-1926 Full-text database
based on Joseph Sabin's Bibliotheca Americana, exploring aspects
of American history and culture including political and religious
life.
11) Quick Clicks
Have a question? Ask a Librarian.
Don’t forget to submit your reserve requests in on time.
View a list of online journals about a specific subject.
See our instructional tools. Librarians are available to meet with your class to teach research-related concepts and resources, create class Web pages to direct your students to the most appropriate sources, or consult with you about designing effective research assignments.
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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
