News & Events
Library News
03/01/2011an online newsletter for faculty and instructors
Table of Contents
1) Instructional Development
Grants
2) IUCAT Has Learned New
Languages!
3) Redesigned New Titles
List and Other Helpful Tools
4) JSTOR is
Growing!
5) Notable Recent Library
Acquisitions
6) IU Libraries Receive
Outstanding Collaboration Award for “Open
Folklore”
7) Quick Clicks
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1) Instructional Development Grants
Deadline is Friday, March 4th, 2011.
For the first time, the IU Libraries are offering two instructional development grants for faculty to promote the integration of information fluency skills, one of the shared goals of the General Education Requirements, into courses. The Libraries and the College of Arts and Sciences are each sponsoring a $1500 grant. Proposals are now being accepted for the 2011-2012 academic year. Full-time members of the faculty (including permanent lecturers) are eligible.
For information on the grant for all faculty, click here.
For information on the grant for College of Arts and Sciences faculty, click here.
2) IUCAT Has Learned New Languages
During the semester break in December 2010, the system that includes our library catalog, IUCAT, was upgraded so that it was compatible with Unicode.That upgrade now allows us to add records that include non-Roman scripts (such as Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, and Hebrew).You can search IUCAT using the non-Roman script itself, if you have an appropriate keyboard set up on your computer. Computers in the Libraries have been configured so that non-Roman scripts can be searched. If you have questions, please contact us ».
3) redesigned new titles list and other helpful tools
The new titles list is back by popular demand and is better than ever! You can now generate a list of recently acquired titles by campus, library, subject, location - or all of the above. It is available as an RSS and XML feed so that you can incorporate it into your day-to-day activities in whatever way you find most convenient.
We've also created a place for you to see our "works in progress." We're experimenting with tools to help you find, get, keep, and re-use the information you need. Another feature of the beta page is EBSCO Discovery Service, a new resource that allows you to simultaneously search IUCAT, article databases and more to help you efficiently and easily find what you need. Please try these services out and let us know what you think.
Please send your likes, dislikes, suggestions and ideas here.
4) JSTOR is Growing!
JSTOR is the place to start for many faculty and students. In fact, IU Bloomington faculty and students download more than 600,000 JSTOR articles per year.
Over the past few years, JSTOR has expanded far beyond journal backfiles. It hosts one million images, letters, and other primary sources. It recently started publishing current issues of journals from university presses, including Indiana’s, under the “Current Scholarship Program.” The Current Scholarship Program will make current and historical scholarly content available on a single, integrated platform.
JSTOR recently announced “Books at JSTOR.” Five university presses – Chicago, Minnesota, North Carolina, Princeton, and Yale – will publish their books online via JSTOR, starting in 2012. The books will be integrated with the current and archival journals on JSTOR, as well as the primary sources. All the content will be cross-searchable, and the books will be linked with reviews and references in the journal literature.
5) notable recent library acquisitions
Foreign Broadcast Information Service 1941-1996
Philanthropy in America: A Comprehensive Historical Encyclopedia
Royal Society of Chemistry eBooks Collection
The Lyell Collection, Geological Society of London
Digital National Security Archives
Jung, C. C.The Red Book. Edited and Introduced by Shomu Shamdasani. WW Norton, 2009. Wells Library Reference Collection, BF109 .J8 A3 2009.
Sengo kazoku shakaigaku bunken senshu 戦後家æ—社会å¦æ–‡çŒ®é¸é›† (Selections on Family and Society in Postwar Japan), 21 vols. Published in 2008-09. Wells Library Reference Collection, HQ681 .S46 2008.
See other recent acquisitions.
6) IU Libraries Receive Outstanding Collaboration Award for "Open Folklore"
The Open Folklore Project, a collaborative effort between the Indiana University Bloomington Libraries and the American Folklore Society, received the 2011 Outstanding Collaboration Award from the Association of Library Collections and Technical Services within the American Library Association. Open Folklore debuted in October 2010 to provide open online access to many useful -- but heretofore difficult to access -- research materials in the field of folklore studies, including books, journals, “gray literature” and web sites.
7) Quick clicks
View a list of online journals about a specific subject
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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
