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May 2008

• CALL FOR NOMINATIONS Library Excellence Awards
  The University Libraries invite members of the campus community to nominate library faculty or staff members for EXCELLENCE in 2007-08. Award categories are: customer satisfaction, productivity, library citizenship, forwarding instruction & research, and innovation. Winners gain campus recognition and receive cash awards.
  Send completed nominations to Kim Sestili, Hunt Library, Acquisitions. Nominations are due by May 27.
  
  • Nomination (form)
  • Library Awards Program (policy/procedures)
  • Previous winners
    
    
    
• EXHIBIT Representations of Queen Elizabeth I in Literature and Portraiture summer 2008
  Exhibit researched and prepared by spring 2008 Posner Center Intern Julianne Mentzer, H&SS 2008 (English and Philosophy). Representations of Elizabeth Tudor were used by her supporters to enhance her image as a worthy female ruler—a force to be reckoned with, in England and abroad. The images evolved through various stages of her life and reign, and were crafted and explicated in the visual and literary arts of her time.
  
  • Opening reception at Posner Center, Friday, May 9, from 5-8 pm.
  • Exhibit continues through August at Posner Center (Monday-Friday, 1-4 p.m., except holidays).
    
    
• 6-WK CLOSURE Arts & Special Collections
  Hunt Library 4th floor will be closed from May 19-June 29 to complete the Dewey to LC project. Most arts books and CDs will be AVAILABLE through a paging service (24-hr turnaround time) Monday-Friday.

TRANSFORMATION 2008 [details]


ATTN FACULTY
OPEN ACCESS NIH Public Access Mandate
NIH Public Access Policy is now a Term and Condition of Award for all NIH-funded research.

April 2008

• DATABASE Applied Science & Business Periodicals Retropective (1913-1983)
  Covers the important events, issues and trends in the history of business and industry (including the complete file of Industrial Arts Index (1913-1957), plus the most important historical sources in the applied science and technology field for the 20th Century. It provides cover-to-cover indexing for more than 2,000 periodicals that include more than 4.5 million articles. It is an excellent resource for tracking down important studies, exploring historical controversies, finding papers by innovators, researching the development of a particular technology, and more.
  
  
• FULLTEXT Blackwell Encyclopedia of Management
  A primary reference work in the field, and the perfect place to start research on any management topic. There are 12 individual subject volumes: Accounting, Business Ethics, Entrepreneurship, Finance, Human Resource Management, International Management, Management Information Systems, Managerial Economics,Marketing, Operation, ManagementOrganizational Behavior, and Strategic Management.
  
  
• DATABASE Current Index to Statistics
  A bibliographic index to publications in statistics, probability, and related fields.
  
  
• AUTHORS' RIGHTS Open Access in Chemistry / handout Self Archiving in Chemistry 1-page PDF
  Professors Jay Apt, David Dzombak, Hyung Kim discuss, moderated by David Yaron. Q&A.
  
  WHEN: 4:30-6 pm, April 28 + live webcast
  WHERE: Connan Room, UC
  
  
• STUDENTS 24/5 Space Survey
  What do you think about having a 24-hour study space open Sunday-Thursday?

March 2008

• DATABASE CQ Almanac
  The primary source for coverage and analysis of U.S. Congressional legislation from 1945 to today. CQ Almanac is renowned for its in-depth analysis of the path legislation takes through Congress, including how bills get changed, are derailed, or ultimately get passed during an annual session of Congress.
  
• SUMMER INTERNSHIP Posner Center Exhibits
  $3000 stipend + option for academic credit.
  
  
• COLLOQUIUM Adaptive Book
  Ananda Gunawardena will speak March 27 at the University of Pittsburgh.
  
  
• DATABASE General OneFile
  A one-stop source for news and periodical articles on a wide range of topics: business, computers, current events, economics, education, environmental issues, health care, hobbies, humanities, law, literature and art, politics, science, social science, sports, technology, and many general interest topics. Millions of full-text articles, many with images. Updated daily.
  
  
• SYMPOSIUM Information Transformation in Africa
  Dr. Afeworki Paulos will speak at the University of Pittsburgh in April.
  
  

February 2008

• FULLTEXT Encyclopedia of Medical Devices and Instrumentation (Wiley)
  
  
• CONGRATULATIONS! Transformation Project Reaches Milestone
  The University Libraries have reached a welcome natural plateau in the Dewey to LC Transformation Project. Last summer, the Libraries began to migrate (or transform) Engineering & Science Library and Hunt Library collections from the old Dewey Decimal arrangement to the academic standard, Library of Congress subject classification. As of January 2008, all of the collections have been finished except Hunt Library's 4th floor arts collection, which will be done in early summer 2008.
  
  Referring to the enormity of the task and the amount of heavy lifting involved, Dean of University Libraries Gloriana St. Clair stated, "They have moved mountains, and now the mountains will be still [for a few months, until after Commencement] when the last peak will be moved." After months of planning and months of work, the reorganized, browseable collections at E&S and Hunt libraries are a huge payoff for Carnegie Mellon students and faculty.
  
  On February 11, dean St. Clair and associate dean Erika Linke hosted a Plateau Party at Posner Center to recognize and thank librarians and staff whose combined efforts have resulted in a successful, efficient project. After proud and happy staff members shared an open mic to tell some of their favorite transformation stories, Ms. Linke took the stage with an A to Z recitation of the project's characteristics and high points. She then awarded special recognitions to individual librarians and staff who had been nominated by Transformation leadership for their outstanding contributions: Keturah Cappadonia, Jillian Chisnell, Terrence Chiusano, Jackie Cipa, Linda Dujmic, John Fudrow, Jan Hardy, Missy Harvey, Kristin Heath, Melanie Klaput, Cindy Koller, Arnette Loggins, Ai-Chi Liu, Melanie Myers, Mary Neubauer, Denise Novak. Judi Pirhalla, Ruth Ann Schmidt, Kim Sestili, Prema Venkataraman, Janelle Waller, and Leah Zande. Dean St. Clair wrapped up the program with recognitions for Transformation Project leaders: Alice Bright, Sue Collins, Nancy Koelbler, Ona Taylor, and Terry Hurlbert, head of cataloging, who had overall project responsibility. She concluded by thanking associate dean Erika Linke for her steadfast support.
  
  Congratulations, everyone!

January 2008

• DATABASE World Development Indicators Online (WDI)
  From the World Bank, WDI provides datasets for more than 700 development indicators, in areas such as finance, communications, the environment, education, labor, health, and economics, for 208 countries and 18 country groups, from 1960 to the present.
  
  
• MARK YOUR CALENDARS This lecture should be of interest to academic authors, scientists, and librarians, as well as graduate and undergraduate students.
  

  Speaker Peter Suber, Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC)
  
  When Monday, February 11, 4:30-6 p.m. + live webcast
  
  Where Adamson Wing, 136A Baker Hall, Carnegie Mellon
  
  Abstract Peter Suber will describe open access, the simple idea with complex ramifications that is transforming the dissemination of science and scholarship. He'll discuss some of its history, including its recent successes, and explain why it's compatible with peer review, how we'll pay for it, why it doesn't violate copyright law, and why it will benefit authors at least as much as readers. Co-sponsored by Authors' Rights & Wrongs, Digital Libraries Colloquium, and Carnegie Mellon's University Lectures Series.
  
  Bio Peter Suber is Senior Researcher at the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), the Open Access Project Director at Public Knowledge, and a Research Professor of Philosophy at Earlham College. He has a Ph.D. in philosophy and a J.D., both from Northwestern University. He writes the Open Access News weblog and the SPARC Open Access Newsletter, was the principal drafter of the Budapest Open Access Initiative, and sits on the Advisory Board of The European Library, the Advisory Board of the Wikimedia Foundation, the Steering Committee of the Scientific Information Working Group of the U.N. World Summit on the Information Society, and the boards of several other groups devoted to open access, scholarly communication, and the information commons. He has been active in promoting open access for many years through his research, speaking, and writing. For more information, see his home page http://www.earlham.edu/~peters/

   

December 2007

• DIGITAL LIBRARIES COLLOQUIUM
  Cyberscholarship: supercomputing meets digital libraries, with the Web as a case study
  
  Presenter: William Arms, Cornell University
  Where: Room 404, School of Information Sciences, University of Pittsburgh, 135 North Bellefield Avenue
  When: noon to 1:30 pm, Friday December 7, 2007
  
  Abstract
  When supercomputing and digital libraries meet, exciting things happen.  While a scholar can read only one document at a time, a supercomputer can read millions simultaneously. Cyberscholarship is a new methodology of research in which the computer acts as an agent for the researcher, discovering latent patterns and relationships that would never be found manually. Turning this vision into practice is challenging.  The lecture will use the Cornell Web Lab as a case study.  This is a vast digital library that is organizing the historical collections of the Internet Archive for researchers of all disciplines, particularly social scientists for whom the collections are a treasure trove.  The lab will be discussed from many angles: technical, cultural, legal, financial, and organizational.  The most fascinating aspect is the human computer interaction.  How can social scientists do effective research without being forced to become experts in supercomputing?
   
  Bio:
  William Arms is a professor in the Cornell's department of Computer Science and was the first director of the Information Science program.  His research concentrates on Web information systems, digital libraries, and electronic publishing. He is a member of the Web Laboratory project, which is building a very large-scale testbed for the Web, using the Internet Archive's historic collections. From 1996-2006, he was a leader of the NSF's program to build a large scale digital library for science education (NSDL).
   
  Before coming to Cornell University, he was Vice President for the Academic Service division at Carnegie Mellon, which included the Andrew project in campus-wide networking and distributed computing, educational computing, and libraries.  He has also held appointments at Dartmouth College and the British Open University.
   
  He is a past chair of the ACM Publications Board and of the Educom trustees, and is currently chair of the Cornell University Library Board. His book, Digital Libraries, was published by the M.I.T. Press in 2000.  This year, he and Ronald Larsen of the University of Pittsburgh were co-chairs of an NSF study on Cyberscholarship.
   
  William Arms received his B.A. in mathematics from Oxford University in 1966, an M.Sc. (Econ) from the London School of Economics in 1967, and a doctorate in operational research from the University of Sussex in 1973.
   
  More About the Digital Libraries Colloquium series
  http://www.sis.pitt.edu/academics/colloquia/DL.html
  

November 2007

• UNIVERSAL LIBRARY PORTAL www.ulib.org
  1.5 million books, full-text, free-to-read online.
  
  press release Online Library Gives Readers Access to 1.5 Million Books: International Project Makes Complete Texts Available Through Single Web Portal (Carnegie Mellon, 11/27/07)
  
  stories:
  Digital library surpasses initial goal of 1 million books (CNN, 11/29/07)
  CMU Million Book Digital Library preserves the world of literature digitally for posterity (Pop City, 11/28/07)
  Online Library offers 1.5 works and counting (CNET, 11/27/07)
  
  
  
• ATTENTION: ILLiad USERS
  The Libraries have moved to WebISO authentication for ILLiad accounts. This change may require some current users to re-register in ILLiad one time, once you get past the WebISO screen -- especially if you haven’t used your account in a long time. If you do not see the ILLiad registration page after you login with WebISO, then you do not need to re-register.
  
  
• DATABASE Investext Plus
  Provides investment, company and industry reports from top investment banks, brokerage firms, and trade associations. Look here for company strategic and financial profiles, estimated projected financials, key competitors, and industry trends and outlooks. Coverage is global, and dates from 1996 to the present. In addition to searching it here, you can also find its content contained in the "investment reports" section of the Business & Company Resource Center database.
  
  

October 2007

• AUTHORS' RIGHTS AND WRONGS
  Special programs explore the future of copyright. Friday Nov. 2.
  
  
• ILLiad USERS, PLEASE NOTE
  During the week of Thanksgiving (Nov. 19-23), the Libraries are moving to WebISO authentication for your ILLiad account. This will require that you re-register in the ILLiad database, once only, but not until you see the WebISO screen and are taken to the new registration page. The ILLiad database will be inaccessible for one day (Monday, Nov. 19) so we can effect this change.
  
  
• INTERNSHIP OPPORTUNITY
  Applications for the Spring 2008 Posner Center Internship are due Nov. 26. Apply now!
  
  
• MICROSOFT OFFICE
  Microsoft Office is now available on library computers, in the All Programs link in the Start Menu.

September 2007

• GROUP STUDIES Reserve a Room
  Students may sign up for a group study room in Hunt Library up to one week in advance by visiting the circulation desk in that library. A Carnegie Mellon ID card is required. Sign up schedules indicating scheduled and free time will be posted on the doors of each room each day. Unscheduled time may be used for walk-ups (groups without a prior reservation). Walk-ups must still sign the schedule posted on the door. The reservation system will soon be in place for group studies at the Engineering and Science Library. Presently, however, E&S group studies are available on a first-come first-served basis. Three rooms are available at Hunt; two are available at E&S. MORE Group Study Room: Guidelines for Use [pdf]
  
  
  
• AUTHORS RIGHTS & WRONGS
  Copyright Law and Your Academic Work
  SPEAKER: Dr Kenneth Crews
  WHEN: Monday, Sept. 17, 4:30 pm
  WHERE: Hunt Library, 4th floor, Fine & Rare Book Room + live webcast
  
  

August 2007

• WELCOME Letter from the Dean
  
  
  
• WELCOME Library Orientation Packet
  
  

July 2007

• OPPORTUNITY Posner Exhibit Internship
  Apply now for fall job.
  
  

• IN MEMORY Anne Skoog
  Anne C. Skoog, Fine and Rare Books Librarian, Emerita, died on June 29 after long illness. Miss Skoog is remembered by friends and colleagues for her generosity, knowledge and sparkling enthusiasm for special collections at Carnegie Mellon. It is widely acknowledged that Helen and Henry Posner Jr. placed Posner Collection in the care of the university in 1978 because they had met Miss Skoog.
  
  
• DATABASE Women and Social Movements in the U.S., 1600-2000 ( Scholar's Edition)
  A resource for students and scholars of U. S. history and U. S. women's history. The website is organized around the history of women in social movements in the United States between 1600 and 2000. It contains 76 document projects that interpret and present documents, most of which are not otherwise available online, more than 30,000 pages of documents, a dictionary of social movements and organizations, a chronology of U. S. Women's History, teaching tools with lesson ideas, and quarterly news from the archives about U. S. women's history. The database can be searched or browsed in a number of ways, and full text searching is available.
  
  
• EJOURNALS SAGE Journals Online
  SAGE has over 460 journals in business, humanities, social sciences, sci/tech & medicine -- all now in e-journals A-Z and Full-text Journals (Journal Collections).
  
  
• DATABASE Daily Life Online
  Includes The Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life, Daily Life through History series, additional history reference works from Greenwood Press, related general nonfiction and monographs from Praeger, primary documents, vetted weblinks, illustrations, and maps. Daily Life through History is a groundbreaking, dynamic resource that provides content from a vast number of reference works, monographs, and primary documents. Based on the landmark Greenwood Encyclopedia of Daily Life, it is supported by an active publishing program that ensures an ever-expanding and updated base of content. It also includes materials from the other Greenwood databases, such as World Folklore and Folklife  and World Cultures Today. Users can browse by subject, time period, or region, or use the quick or advanced search.
  
  
• DATABASE World Cultures Today
  Built on the successful Culture and Customs print series, World Cultures Today introduces users to the lives of their contemporaries around the globe. Packed with features including illustrations, maps, and vetted weblinks. More than a static site, World Cultures Today is supported by an on-going publishing program that will expand the content base in a regular cycle of updates. Users can browse by region or country, or use the quick or advanced search. Content areas include:
  • History (economy, politics, government)
  • Food (traditional food, drink, eating out)
  • Geography (climate, population, language)
  • Religion (belief, practice, ritual)
  • Social customs (hospitality, greetings, social structure)
  • Holidays and festivals (holy days, national holidays, religious holidays)
  • Family life (birth, children, marriage, death)
  • Clothing (traditional clothing, fashion)
  • Leisure (sports, vacations, nightlife, shopping)
  • Arts (literature, painting, performing arts, media, architecture)