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March 2009

• PERSONAL MENTION Afeworki Paulos
  Dr. Afeworki Paulos, a principal librarian in the University Libraries, has accepted an additional responsibility as Assistant to the Dean of Libraries, effective immediately. In this capacity, his first assignment is to coordinate training for and use of Activity-Based Costing to reduce the Libraries’ operations budget. Dr. Paulos will continue in the majority of his responsibilities as the social sciences librarian and liaison to Heinz College, Social & Decision Sciences, and the Statistics Department.
  
  

February 2009

• LECTURE Martin Aurand at Pitt
  W, Feb. 25: 11 am - 135 N Bellefield, Rm 501
  Aurand will talk about the writing & publication of his book, The Spectator and the Topographical City (2006), and how it came to be a well-illustrated book. ...
  
• EVENT Civil Right Pioneers
  M, Feb. 23: 4:30 pm Maggie Murph Cafe, Hunt Library.
  Unveiling commemorative U.S. Postal Service stamps, poetry reading, dessert.
  
  
• DATABASE ASCE Research Library
  
  
• DIGITAL ARCHIVE American Journal of Science
  Carnegie Mellon University Libraries have digitized The American Journal of Science from 1819 to 1895. Users can search the collection for words within articles, or browse by issue at http://ajs.library.cmu.edu/. The collection is free to read on the Internet and there are no copyright restrictions on the content. The American Journal of Science has been published since 1818, making it the oldest continuously-published U. S. scientific journal. Historically, the journal covered a broad spectrum of science, from biology to mathematics. Originally titled The American Journal of Science and Arts, early issues also included articles on music, architecture and metaphysics. Currently, The American Journal of Science focuses on geology and related natural sciences, and in 2003 was ranked first among peer-reviewed earth sciences journals publishing new content.
  
  
• DATABASE ULI Development Case Studies
  
  
• DATABASE Pittsburgh Courier (1911-2002)
  
  
• DATABASE HeinOnline Federal Register Library
  

• LECTURE What Do I Do With A Billion E-mails? The TREC Legal Track and the Future of Information Retrieval in E-Discovery
  Jason R. Baron, Director of Litigation, National Archives & Records Administration
  Friday, Feb 20 at 2 pm
  Digital Libraries & Cyberscholarship Colloquium
  

• DATABASE Roper Center for Public Opinion Research
  
  
• DATABASE MRS Online Proceedings
  
  
• DATABASE SimplyMap
  
  
• LECTURE Video Retrieval Based on Semantic Concepts
  Alex Hauptmann
  Friday, Feb 6 at 2 pm
  Digital Libraries & Cyberscholarship Colloquium
  
  
• LECTURE Unbeknownst Pittsburgh!
  Local archives showcase their wares
  Friday, Feb 6 at 7 pm
  
  
• DISCUSSION Genetic Witness
  Donna Beck will lead discussion of Jay D. Aronson's book.
  Thursday, Feb 19 at 4:30
  

November 2008

• AUTHORS' RIGHTS Research Showcase, http://repository.cmu.edu Carnegie Mellon's New Institutional Repository

  * 11/20/08 video * 11/20/08 PowerPoint *
  
  PROGRAM
  Dan Hood, Research Showcase Outreach Coordinator, will define "institutional repository" (IR), cover the history of IRs, and highlight notable advances in open access publishing relating to IRs. The discussion will include an in-depth demonstration of Carnegie Mellon’s new institutional repository, a progress report, and discussion of future directions for the repository and related services. This event will be of interest to faculty, graduate students and anyone contributing the university's research output.
  
  BIO
  Dan Hood is the University's Research Showcase Outreach Coordinator. He previously served as the University Libraries' Information Literacy Fellow. Through his experience as a librarian at Carnegie Mellon, he has gained a deep understanding of Carnegie Mellon's research landscape while working directly with faculty and graduate students in their teaching and research endeavors. Dan holds a master's degree in library and information science from the University of Pittsburgh.
  

October 2008

• eBOOK DISCUSSION The Future of the Internet and How to Stop It [event poster]
  Engineering librarian Donna Beck will lead discussion of Jonathan Zittrain's ebook, http://futureoftheinternet.org/download. Everyone is welcome to join in!
  
  • WHEN: Wednesday Nov. 12 -- 4:30-5:30 pm
  • WHERE: Maggie Murph Cafe, Hunt Library
    
    
• EXHIBITS Created for Homecoming
  The University Archives has created a number of displays around campus in time for Homecoming.
  
  • The Evolution of The Carnegie Mellon Libraries. Display case, 1st floor of Hunt Library. This display was created by Archives IA Steve Slota.
    
  • No Relation: Tech Beer. First case, Alumni Lounge, UC. An impressive display of Tech Beer paraphernalia, drawn largely from the Bill Elliott Collection. This case was designed by Steve Slota with assistance from Archives IA Dustin Williams
    
  • Evolution of The Campus. Display case, 2nd floor Alumni Lounge (near Skibo, UC). Dustin Williams created this display of campus maps that, together, chart the history of the University as a built environment.
    
  • The Kilties Are Coming! 100 Years of The Kilties. Large display case, 2nd Floor, UC. Small display featuring a vintage Kiltie Uniform, bagpipes and field formation photos, all from the University Archives.
    
  • Tartans in the Sugar Bowl, 1939.. Large display case, 2nd Floor, UC. In commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of the Tartans going to the Sugar Bowl. One shelf features reproductions of items from the scrapbook of Nancy Murrin, CIT Campus Queen of 1938, and ambassador of CIT during the Sugar Bowl festivities in New Orleans. Mrs. Murrin donated the scrapbook to the University Archives earlier this year.
    
  • There is also an exhibit in the Art Gallery on the 1st floor of the UC that, while not sponsored by the Archives, is comprised of images from the Archives. The display is a history of Homecoming.
    
    
• EXHIBIT Poetry and Prose Performances Project, p4
  Opening October 23 in Posner Center, the exhibit documents the p4 audio project (in process), which will bring high-quality recordings of great literature to YouTube later this semester. Conceived by fall 2008 Posner Center intern, Jessica Dickinson Goodman, a sophomore political science major, p4 features Carnegie Mellon student performers reading 15 of William Shakespeare’s sonnets and some of Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn. The exhibit created by Ms. Goodman illustrates her sources and documents the creative process. On why she proposed and created this project, she says: “I am not presenting these works as background material for modern works. I am presenting these works, here, in this format, in this year, because they can and do have immediate relevance to our lives, our loves, and our futures.” Jessica credits her alternative middle school, where teachers read assigned books aloud in class, with inspiring her work. She hopes the podcasts and videos on YouTube will enrich the cultural commons and become resources for students with reading disabilities. Exhibit hours: Monday-Friday, 1-4 pm.
  
  
• GUIDE The Current Economic Crisis
  Business librarian Roye Werner serves up background, news, RSS, podcasts & more.
  
  
• GROUP STUDY Room Reservation
  Effective October 20, Group Study room reservations will be managed online. Rooms may be reserved up to one week in advance. Carnegie Mellon students only. Group Study Rooms: Guidelines for Use
  
  
• OPPORTUNITY Spring 2009 Internship
  Carnegie Mellon students only. 15 hrs/wk, 15 wks, $3000 + option to earn credit as Posner Exhibits Intern. Only one position is available. Apply by December 1.
  
  

September 2008

• Gift from Mr. Rooney
  On September 23, Pittsburgh Steelers owner/VP and former Carnegie Mellon student* Art Rooney Jr. presented copies of his new book Ruanaidh: The Story of Art Rooney and his Clan (2008) and related materials to Gloriana St. Clair, dean of University Libraries. To celebrate the occasion, St. Clair hosted a private reception for Mr. & Mrs. Rooney, family and friends in Hunt Library's Fine & Rare Book Room. Among the guests were Mr. Rooney's co-author and former Pittsburgh Tribune Review sports columnist Roy McHugh, Ruanaidh's art director Kathy Rooney Solokowski, former Steeler Jack Butler, Carnegie Mellon football coach Richard Lackner and his team captains, and University Trustee Lucian Caste. Mr. Rooney's gift included two copies of the book; posters and other artwork created for Ruanaidh by Ms. Solokowski; and a signed Steelers' game ball.
  
  St. Clair thanked Mr. & Mrs. Caste for helping to put the event together, and reflected on the parallels between the Steelers organization and Carnegie Mellon. Mr. Rooney spoke warmly about his father, the family, the Steelers, and Pittsburgh; and joked about how long it had taken him to write the book. Later, he and Coach Lackner reminisced about the early days and the extraordinary friendship between Art Sr. and Mr. Lackner's great-uncle, Dan Hamill. *Mr. Rooney studied drama at Carnegie Mellon for one semester before moving to New York City to further his education.
  
  PHOTOS
  Mr. Rooney and Gloriana St. Clair
  From left: Tartan captains Jon Scholl, Clay Crites, Steve McGovern and Derek Wisnieski with Mr. Rooney
  
  
  
  

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• MARK YOUR CALENDARS!
  Justice Illuminated: The Art of Arthur Szyk
  January 7 - March 27, 2009
  
  Posner Center. International travelling exhibit. Only regional stop.

• LECTURE Irvin Ungar, Curator of the Arthur Szyk Society, talks about the art and messages of the Polish-Jewish artist who was a leading political artist in America during WWII.
• PODCAST Gloriana St. Clair and Anne Molloy talk about Szyk and the current exhibit
• Posner Center (location, contact info, etc.)
• View exhibit online
• Press release
  

"Art is not my aim, it is my means." -- Adolph Hitler put a price tag on Arthur Szyk's head. The American press called Szyk a "one-man army against fascism." The Times of London declared his art work to "be among the most beautiful...ever produced by the hand of man." Arthur Szyk (1894-1951) brilliantly wielded paintbrush and palette in the great battles for freedom in his lifetime. Arthur Szyk (pronounced Shick) is considered by scholars and art critics to have been the greatest 20th century illuminator working in the style of the 16th century miniaturist painters. Szyk's art was not an end in itself. It was his means to promote tolerance, human dignity and freedom. Szyk first visited the United States from his native Poland in 1934 to receive the George Washington Bicentennial Medal, awarded by the U.S. Congress, and to attend the Library of Congress exhibition opening of Washington and His Times. He emigrated to the U.S. after fleeing Nazism in 1940, and became America's leading political caricaturist during World War II. Ironically, it is because of the Holocaust that Americans can proudly claim this world renowned artist and social commentator as our own. TEXT & IMAGE Self-Portrait: Ink & Blood (1944) Courtesy of the Arthur Szyk Society, http://www.szyk.org/.

• 24/5 Open All Night
  Pilot study: This fall, Hunt Library has suspended its traditional 3 a.m. closing and now is open for 24-hour study, five days a week. Patterned after 24-hour-study-for-finals, now in its 6th year, only the basement & 1st floor are open after 3 a.m. Carnegie Mellon ID must be shown to be in the building between 3 a.m. and 8 a.m. The 24/5 experiment was requested by the Libraries' Student Advisory Group, and is being supported with discretionary funds by Dean Gloriana St. Clair. The number of students who use the library between 3 and 8 a.m. this fall will determine whether 24/5 hours will continue. If data do not support 24/5 expanded hours, Hunt Library will return to its customary 3 a.m. closing, Sunday through Thursday, when classes resume spring semester.

• INTERLIBRARY LOAN via FirstSearch
  Streamlined request procedure for articles.
  
  

• DATABASE 18th Century Collections Online
  
  

• DATABASE World Robotics

August 2008

• WELCOME! Letter from the Dean
  
  
• ORIENTATION Library Tours
  
  
• DATABASE Cambridge Structural Database
  
  

July 2008

• MEMORABILIA Bill Elliott Collection
  Check out a rotating display of former VP Bill Elliott's renowned collection of Carnegie Mellon artifacts. Adjacent to the University Archives, Hunt Library, 2nd floor.
  
  
• RENOVATION Hunt Library, 3rd floor
  Hunt Library periodicals and interlibrary loan offices are open during the renovation. Expect noisy conditions and limited seating on the 3rd floor through August.
  
  
• FULLTEXT American Periodical Series Online
  Search and display historic American magazines and journals, 1740-1900.
  
  
• DATABASE Gartner Core Research
  A selection of research reports from Gartner dealing with every aspect, product, and service of the technology industry. Includes famous "Magic Quadrant" and "Hype Cycle" reports. -- NB:"Dataquest" and some other well-known Gartner reports are NOT part of the current subscription. TIP: Do a "Browse" search, which defaults to "Research You Own," and your results will be (mostly) just the Gartner reports available at CMU.
  
  
• DATABASE Wharton Research Data Services
  The WRDS database gateway (previously only accessible at Tepper School). Find multiple datasets in finance, economics and banking, including Compustat, CRSP, Dow Jones Averages, and OptionMetrics.

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