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What's New Backfiles [January-June 2008]

June 2008

• OPEN Arts & Special Collections
  Hunt Library 4th floor has reopened for business as usual.
  
  
• EXCELLENT! Award winners

May 2008

• DATABASE SciFinder Scholar on the web
  No more downloads! A one-time registration is required to use SciFinder.
  
  
• 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. DEADLINE EXTENDED: Nominations are due by June 2.
  
  • 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/

 

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