Library News

an online newsletter for faculty and instructors

 

October 2010

 

1) Welcome from Dean Brenda Johnson, Ruth Lilly Dean of University Libraries

2) HathiTrust is a bold idea with big plans

3) Lilly celebrates 50^th anniversary with medieval experts, exhibition

4) Bookmarks, permalinks and lists—big changes and new options

5) Notable recent library acquisitions

6) Libraries celebrate Archives and Special Collections Month

7) ALF opens extension to state-of-the-art facility

8) New copyright Web pages

9) Library-sponsored listserv to build a community around Zotero users

10) Workshops for faculty

11) Who is your librarian?

12) IUCAT Unicode implementation in December

13) Quick clicks

 

 

 

1) Welcome from Brenda Johnson, Ruth Lilly Dean of University Libraries

 

On behalf of the University Libraries, please accept my warm welcome back to campus!

 

As you can see from this newsletter, just as technology has fundamentally shifted how faculty conduct, communicate, and disseminate their research, it has changed how we in the IU Libraries do our work. Recently honored as the top research library in the country, we are playing key leadership roles in providing new ways to access and use information. Since my arrival last March, I’ve been excited to work with such a vibrant community of librarians and staff.

 

All of us are dedicated to connecting the mission and contributions of the Libraries to the larger academic agenda. One of my first goals as dean is to strengthen and deepen our relationship with the faculty and departments. Toward this end, we will be hiring two new librarians; the first is the e-science librarian to help manage digital data-sets and support data-curation, and the second is the digital user experience librarian to improve our Web site and access to electronic resources and services.

 

To help IU Libraries better serve the faculty, I welcome hearing your ideas about how we can support your research and teaching. Please e-mail me at johnbren@indiana.edu.

 

I hope you enjoy the newsletter!

 

 

2) HathiTrust is a bold idea with big plans

 

HathiTrust was born in 2008 as a collaboration of the 13 universities of the Committee on Institutional Cooperation (including Indiana University) and the University of California system.These institutions, plus many more that have joined since, have pooled their collective resources and expertise to build a shared system to store, manage, and preserve the digitized books and journals resulting from mass digitization projects such as Google Books and Internet Archive. In less than three years, HathiTrust has reached the previously undreamed-of size of 6.5 million volumes, and it expects to reach 14 million volumes by 2013.

 

Much more than a simple aggregation of library materials, we believe HathiTrust will soon be a preferred destination for scholarly work. Although it shares many similarities with GoogleBooks, such as fully-searchable text, HathiTrust’s mission is markedly different. And, as it grows, the differences will become more apparent. First and foremost, it will preserve these digital texts over the long term, a responsibility research libraries are determined to meet. Beyond that, it will use the rich cataloging data built by these libraries over centuries for enhanced discovery. Partners will work to “liberate” out-of-copyright works, develop highly functional tools for scholarly work, and much more.

 

For more information, visit http://www.hathitrust.org/.

To search the HathiTrust catalog visit http://catalog.hathitrust.org/.

 

 

3) Lilly celebrates 50^th anniversary with medieval experts, exhibition

 

In honor of the Lilly Library’s 50th anniversary, several presentations, workshops, and receptions have been planned to highlight the Lilly’s medieval manuscript collection.Throughout the fall semester, experts and specialists in the field of medieval manuscripts will present lectures at the Lilly Library that are free and open to the public.

 

A special exhibition, “Gilding the Lilly, A Hundred Medieval and Illuminated Manuscripts in the Lilly Library” will be presented by guest curator and noted medievalist Christopher de Hamel, Donnelley Fellow Librarian at Cambridge University’s Corpus Christi College. The exhibition highlights treasures from the Lilly's outstanding collection of European illuminated and medieval manuscripts.

 

For more information on speakers, the gala dinner, and other events in honor of Lilly’s 50th anniversary visit the Lilly Library Web site at http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/index.php.

 

 

4) Bookmarks, permalinks and lists—big changes and new options

 

Want to keep a link to a favorite database, e-journal, e-book, or a specific article that is available online? Until now, the process has been difficult and far from foolproof. But that is changing. The resources you use regularly are adding options to allow you to make these links and easily include them in Oncourse pages, Web sites, and personal portal pages such as iGoogle pages. IUCAT now allows you to create Permalinks to individual books, journals, and other records as well as to lists of search results. IU WorldCat gives you the opportunity to create Permalinks to individual article citations. Both IUCAT and IU WorldCat allow you to create lists of resources that can be used later or shared. For details, see http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=3488.

 

If you have used EBSCO or Proquest to create permanent links to articles in the past, check out this page to get the latest prefix to your URL that will allow users to connect to them from off-campus. That prefix beginning with the word “bert” changed Oct. 1, and the older URLs will stop working unless you change the prefix. For more information, e-mail libopac@indiana.edu.

 

 

5) Notable recent library acquisitions

 

IU Libraries recently acquired several new e-resources:

• Slavery and Antislavery: A Transnational Archive includes newspapers and books published in the antebellum era as well as several archives originally available only in microfilm
• African-American Newspapers (1827-1998)
• Early-American Newspapers Series VI (1741-1922) and Series VII (1773- 1922)
• Kotobarabia E-Library, an Arabic-only database that includes a wide range of Arabic content ranging from contemporary novels to national heritage scientific treatises
• House of Commons Parliamentary Papers—18th and 19th century
• JSTOR Business III Collection, which will include a minimum of 50 titles by the end of 2012. The Business III Collection builds on the strong economics and business foundation of the Business I and II collections

 

 

6) Libraries celebrate Archives and Special Collections Month

 

Throughout October, the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries are celebrating the fifth annual “Archives and Special Collections Month” as a means of highlighting the many ways that archives and special collections enrich our lives. This year’s theme focuses on IU’s College of Arts and Sciences Themester celebration, “Sustainability: Thriving on a Small Planet.”

 

To highlight the Libraries’ sustainability efforts, the IUB special collection units have organized a series of presentations that will describe various projects designed to preserve digital content in a variety of formats.

 

For more information, visit the Web site at http://www.libraries.iub.edu/ascmonth.

 

 

7) ALF opens extension to state-of-the-art facility

 

The Ruth Lilly Auxiliary Library Facility (ALF) recently opened its new, state-of-the-art extension. When full, ALF will ultimately house 5.5 million rare, fragile, and valuable books, manuscripts, and films. The high-security facility stores the items in a pristine preservation environment that features constant temperature and humidity controls, greatly extending the lifetime of these invaluable materials.

 

As part of October’s Archives and Special Collections celebration, ALF tours are available to faculty, staff, students, and community members from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. on Monday, Oct. 25, and Friday, Oct. 29, at the ALF, 851 North Range Road.

 

For more information, contact Vaughn Nuest at 856-0832, or visit http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=541.

 

 

8) New copyright Web pages

 

Check out our new copyright Web pages (www.libraries.iub.edu/copyright) developed by our intellectual property librarian, Sherri Michaels. The site includes information on copyright basics, fair use, using copyrighted materials in the classroom as well as retaining certain rights when you publish. 

 

 

9) Library-sponsored listserv to build a community around Zotero users

 

Due to increasing interest in Zotero at Indiana University, the IU Libraries have created a listserv to build an online community for Zotero users at IU. Zotero, a free Firefox extension, allows users to manage bibliographic citations and easily save journal and book information as well as Web sites with the click of a button. This listserv is for anyone that uses or is interested in learning more about Zotero. The listserv will provide a way for members of the IU community to ask questions and share their knowledge and experiences with using Zotero.

 

To subscribe to the listserv, send an e-mail to listserv@indiana.edu with “subscribe zotero-l” in the body of the message (leave the subject blank). To post messages to the listserv, send an e-mail to zotero-l@indiana.edu.

 

 

10) Workshops for faculty

 

The Libraries offer a series of workshops designed for faculty and graduate students covering topics including RSS and Current Awareness Services, IU ScholarWorks and the Open Access movement, and citation management tools. To view the full schedule and register, visit http://www.indiana.edu/~library/seminars/. 

 

 

11) Who is your librarian?

 

For every discipline and subject area there is a librarian who will work with faculty on a wide range of issues and needs such as Open Access publishing, instructional support, and library collections. Look for your area or department on the Libraries’ Web site at http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1697.

 

 

12) IUCAT Unicode implementation in December

 

At the end of this semester the Libraries are planning important enhancements to IUCAT (the Libraries’ catalog). Between Dec. 18 and Jan. 3, Unicode conversion and extensive post conversion re-indexing will be performed on the IUCAT database. Once the catalog is Unicode-compliant, IUCAT will be able to support the enhanced display and printing of cataloged records for the world’s alphabets, enable users to search by entering true symbols and characters, and support the ability to “copy and paste” information directly from IUCAT into other Unicode-compliant applications, such as MS Word. More information about the temporary impact on services during the upgrade is forthcoming.  

 

 

13) Quick clicks

 

See our instructional tools:

Request class pages:  http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=4983

Request class instruction: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=2932

Videos for class use: http://www.libraries.iub.edu/index.php?pageId=1152

Text the libraries:  (812) 671-0275

 

 

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Comments or questions about this e-newsletter?

Contact Carolyn Walters, executive associate dean of University Libraries

cwalters@indiana.edu or (812) 855-3403