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What's New Backfiles [July-December 2003]

December 2003

• Students Enjoy Study Breaks
  
  Once again, Margaret Cyert, wife of late Carnegie Mellon President Richard M. Cyert, provided "study breaks" in each of the libraries during finals. Students jotted and drew an enthusiastic Thank You back to Mrs. Cyert with paper & crayons provided by the library.
  

November 2003

• Journal and Database Review results
  Final list of cancellations. Thank you to all who helped make these difficult decisions.
  
  
• AMICO Library upgraded with the Luna Insight® Java Client 4.0
  AMICO Library (Art Museum Image Consortium) is a online collection more than 100,000 digital images of works of art representing major museums worldwide. Prehistoric to contemporary, works cover a wide range of mediums including paintings, photographs, sculpture, decorative arts objects and more.
  
  Initial download is required to use new Java Client 4.0. The Java Client is designed for the researcher and those desiring advanced software functionality, including the ability to download images or a create virtual slide show; with enhanced zooming, panning capabilities and side by side comparisons.
  
  
• Automated Resource Finder (ARF)
  The Automated Resource Finder (ARF) is a service that is intended to help students, especially undergraduates, when you are looking for online resources. It helps guide you to basic resources, and includes our databases, online dictionaries and encyclopedias, and many of the library's web pages, as well as some freely available web resources. It is an adjunct to our other reference services, and provides basic assistance when someone is picking a database to use. ARF also has other features, for example, part of it uses SFX behind the scenes, so that it has some nifty features like a way to type in a journal title and find out what database it's in (or to search Cameo for it).
  
  ARF was developed with grant funds by Library Information Technology Research & Development, under Chris Kellen. The beta version, now released publicly, will the subject of user studies through December 31, 2003. Between January and June of 2004, improvements will be made based on study results and other user feedback.

October 2003

• Remembering Paul Christiano
  
  On Wednesday, October 22, the University Libraries unveiled plaques in memory of Paul Christiano at Mellon Institute Library, Hunt Library and the Engineering and Science Library, followed by a reception. Speakers included Richard McCullough, Michael Murphy, John Lehoczky, Indira Nair, John Anderson, Tod Hunt Jr., Gloriana St. Clair, Norene Christiano and others, as friends and family gathered to celebrate Paul's life and enduring contributions at Carnegie Mellon. The plaques were made possible by a gift from the Roy A. Hunt Foundation.
  
  
  
  
  
  TOP: Paul Christiano plaque, Hunt Library
  BOTTOM: Virginia Schatz, Tod Hunt Jr., and Mary Caroline Hunt, at Hunt Library

September 2003

• "In Search of Solutions for Scholarly Communication"
  On Thursday, October 2, the Chronicle of Higher Education is beginning a new online colloquy about scholarly communication in the humanities and social sciences focusing on the monograph. You may already be familiar with the Chronicle's past colloquies which are archived at the Chronicle web site. The opening page for this new colloquy is http://chronicle.com/colloquylive/2003/10/publishing/
  

August 2003

• Welcome from the Dean of University Libraries [PDF]
  Browse, relax, use resources, get help in the library.

July 2003

• Where is it in the Library? [PDF]
  Handy guide to help, collections, equipment and services in all 3 University Libraries.
  
  
• Welcome Students!
  
  
• Journal and Database Review Project
  Cuts must be made because of budget constraints and rising costs. Help shape decisions with feedback by AUGUST 15.
  
  
• Quicktime VR Tour of the Engineering and Science Library
  Click and step into the E&S Library... Created by Brian Parker and Dave Joubert of the Network Media Group, Computing Services. [View at browser resolution 1024 x 768]
  
  
• The Active Librarian: Ethical Concerns in Response to Patron Pornography
  Information Ethics Problem of the Month, contributed by Sandra Collins, Gumberg Library, Duquesne University.

 

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