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What's New Backfiles [January-June 2003]

June 2003

• 2003 Achievement Awards
  
  Outstanding library faculty and staff were recognized by the university community with achievement awards, and faculty and staff were honored for years of service, at the library appreciation picnic, June 4.
  

May 2003

• FULLTEXT: ACS Journal Archives - ACS Publications now includes back issues in fulltext of all ACS journals and magazines.
  
  
• Students Enjoy Study Breaks
  
  Margaret Cyert, wife of late Carnegie Mellon President Richard M. Cyert, provided well-appreciated "study breaks" in each of the libraries during finals, May 2003.
  

  
  

• DATABASE: Readers' Guide Retrospective, 1892-1982 is an online version of the print index Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature. This database contains citations to popular magazine and journal articles in all subject areas, including current events, fine arts, fashion, education, business, sports, health, nutrition and consumer affairs, from 1890 to 1982. For citations after 1982 (and, from 1984 to the present, citations, abstracts and selected full-text articles), link to the Readers' Guide Abstracts database.

April 2003

• The Economics of Copyright Extension and Role of Libraries
  Information Ethics Problem of the Month, contributed by Dan Mulvihill.
  
  
• Remote User Access
  Improved access! Carnegie Mellon users may now access databases and other licensed e-resources from any location or ISP, using IP Address Extension Service. The University proxy server will be phased out soon.
  
  
• Shibboleth Pilot Project
  Beta test remote access with JSTOR, and tell us what you think. Shibboleth is new client/server technology and a potential alternative to IP-address restriction. Shibboleth enables secure controlled access to e-resources, and is more flexible than IP recognition. It recognizes authorized users rather than their computers. Shibboleth will allow authorized users to access site-licensed resources such as library databases from virtually any location.
  
  
• Endowment Honors Werner C. Fiedler, Sr.
  Christine Fiedler O'Connor and Thomas O'Connor have established a reading materials endowment in memory of Mrs. O'Connor's father, Werner C. Fiedler, Sr., ECE '48. Matched by a gift from Microsoft Corporation, the generous endowment honors Mr. Fiedler's interests as well as his strong avocation for reading by providing additional books and electronic resources in electrical and computer engineering. Two of Mrs. O'Connor's brothers are also Carnegie Mellon alumni: Gary W. Fiedler, IM 1969 and Werner C. Fiedler, Jr., H&SS 1980 & 1985.
  
  University Press Release (May 8, 2003)
  
  
• Call for Nominations!
  Members of the Carnegie Mellon community are invited to nominate library faculty or staff for EXCELLENCE in any of the following categories: Satisfying Customers, Increased Productivity, Library Citizenship, Forwarding Instruction and Research, or Innovation. Awards will be announced at the annual Library Appreciation Party later this spring.
  
  Award Nomination (form) Nominations must be received by May 9.
  Library Awards Program and Procedures
  2002 Achievement Award winners
  
  
  
• Posner Family Collection
  
  Search or browse full-text and images. Landmark titles in the history of western science, decorative arts and literature. Henry Posner, Sr. built this collection between 1925 and 1977. Helen and Henry Posner, Jr. deposited the collection at Carnegie Mellon in 1978. MORE
  
  
  
  
  
  New home for Posner collection -- Carnegie Mellon News (April 2003)
  
  NEW BUILDING TO HOUSE POSNER BOOKS AND FINE ARTS COLLECTION
  Carnegie Mellon will hold a groundbreaking ceremony at 11:15 a.m., Monday, April 7, for a new building between Posner Hall and the College of Fine Arts. The new structure will house the Posner Family collection of rare books and jade and ivory carvings, and executive meeting rooms. The Posner collection is now on display in the fourth-floor Fine and Rare Books Room in Hunt Library. The new building, scheduled for completion in early 2004, will be mostly underground with a rooftop sculpture garden. The main entrance, featuring one-story-tall windows, will face Margaret Morrison Carnegie Hall and the tennis courts. Designed by WTW Architects, the 11,400-square-foot building is a gift of Henry and Helen Posner. Henry Posner is an emeritus life trustee of the university. The Posner collection includes one of only four copies of the Bill of Rights printed by Thomas Jefferson in 1792, Christopher Columbus' letter to King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain describing his first voyage to America, Karl Marx's "Communist Manifesto," written in 1848, and original major works by Euclid, Copernicus and Newton. -- 8.5 by 11 News (April 3, 2003)

March 2003

• Beverages for sale in Hunt Library
  Buy bottled water, juice and soft drinks from a new vending machine in the Hunt Library basement. The machine also changes $1 and $5 bills, with or without a beverage purchase.
  

January 2003

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