New RefWorks 2.0 Interface is here!

2011-06-28T11:21:00.000-10:00

RefWorks now has a brand new interface! For a while now, the RefWorks’ display has needed an overhaul. The new design is much easier to use and looks a lot more current. Log in to check it out!

Now that you’re logged into the new display, let’s take a look at what’s changed….

Citation Display
Folders are now hyper-linked
New tool icons
- “View” – displays details for the reference
- “Cite” – allows you to insert temporary citation placeholders into a document (using copy & paste commands)
- “Edit” – allows you to edit the existing reference information
- “Star” – adds reference to you “My List” folder
- “Comments” – displays any comments made by others who access your shared references
- “Paper clip” – indicates if files are attached to the reference and the quantity of files attached

Tab Bar
Three tabs
- References
- Folders
- Share
Global Edit feature allows you to globally
- Add information
- Move information
- Delete information in a specific field
- Replace information
Remove from folder button
“Change View” – allows you to view your citations in a specific citation style

“Bread crumb” tool bar – shows you were you are within the RefWorks interface

Dynamic changing buttons – buttons containing actions you can perform on your references that change depending on what tab you are currently viewing

Quick Access Menu

Eastern University has created a brief video that explains these changes. Watch it to learn more about the new RefWorks interface-

What if you miss the old interface? You can still use it! Look for the “RefWorks Classic” link in the upper right corner. Once RefWorks officially releases RefWorks 2.0, RefWorks users will be able to continue using the classic interface for 6 months. After 6 months, they will permanently switch to the new interface.

Feel free to leave a comment below on what you think about the new RefWorks display!

Library Lua Letter

2011-06-21T14:14:00.000-10:00

June 1, 2011 Volume 4, Issue 7

2011-05-16T15:40:00.002-10:00

TOP 10 GOOGLE TRICKS

Google has become such a part of our lives that when many people refer to searching the internet for something they simply say “Google it”. We all know how useful Google can be; it can be used to find reviews on movies, books and products. It also helps us find websites and information on every topic imaginable. However there are still a few Google search tricks that not everyone’s aware of. An article from lifehacker.com covers the top 10 obscure Google search tricks. According to lifehacker they are as follows:

10) Get the local time anywhere

9) Track flight status

8) Convert currency, metrics, bytes,

7) Compare items with "better than" and find similar items with "reminds me of"

6) Use Google as a free proxy

5) Remove affiliate links from product

4) Find related terms and documents

3) Find music and comic books

2) ID people, objects, and foreign language words and phrases with Google Image Search

1) Make Google recognize faces

For more detailed information on these Google search tricks please visit lifehacker.com by clicking on the link and read the original article.

2011-05-11T13:24:00.000-10:00

What's Next for the War on Terror?

On May 1, 2011, U.S. president Barack Obama announced that Osama bin Laden, the leader of the international terrorist organization Al Qaeda, had been killed in Pakistan during a U.S. special forces operation. In his speech announcing the operation, Obama reiterated that the United States is at war with terrorism, not Islam; the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) responded to the announcement of bin Laden's death with support. But what's next for The Global War on Terror and for the U.S. military presence in the Middle East? Read on for more resources to help shed light on these important issues.

Praeger Security International
A new commentary from American Forces Press Service on bin Laden's death has been added to this comprehensive database covering terrorism, homeland security, and strategy. If you are not a current subscriber, sign up here for your free 60-day trial.

The Terrorist List
Edward F. Mickolus and Susan L. Simmons
01/2011
5 vols.
ISBN: 978-0-313-37471-5
$464.95

This five-volume set provides an encyclopedic compilation of terrorist biographies that focus on specific criminal events and their outcomes, and includes detailed information regarding each individual's terrorist activities.

Osama bin Laden: A Biography
Thomas R. Mockaitis
01/2011
1 vol.
ISBN: 978-0-313-35374-1
$35

This concise biography of the world's most notorious terrorist tells the fascinating story of the evolution of a wealthy businesman's son to the 9/11 mastermind who declared war on America.

Encyclopedia of Middle East Wars, The: The United States in the Persian Gulf, Afghanistan, and Iraq Conflicts
Spencer C. Tucker, Editor
10/2010
5 vols.
ISBN: 978-1-85109-947-4
$495

This study of U.S. involvement in the modern Middle East carefully weighs the interplay of cultural, religious, diplomatic, international, and military events in one of the world's most troubled regions.

Financial Crisis and Bailout… Learn More With LexisNexis

2009-01-12T16:46:00.003-10:00

Please cut and paste the titles into Lexis Nexis Congressional and check them out!

Click here for Lexis Nexis Congressional

House Oversight and Government Reform Committee:

Oct. 7, 2008: causes and effects of American International Group (AIG) bailout

[AIG Bailout - Causes and Effects], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Oct. 7, 2008, CIS/Index

Oct. 6, 2008: causes and effects of Lehman Brother bankruptcy

[Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy-Causes and Effects], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Oct. 6, 2008, CIS/Index

House Education and Labor Committee

Oct. 7, 2008: impact of financial crisis on workers retirement security

[Workers' Retirement Security-Impact of Financial Crisis], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Education and Labor. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Oct. 7, 2008, CIS/Index

House Judiciary Committee

Sept. 26, 2008: examination of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, focusing on Lehman Brothers, Sharper Image, and Bennigan’s

[Lehman Brothers, Sharper Image, Bennigan's, and Beyond: Is Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Working?], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Judiciary. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 26, 2008, CIS/Index

House Financial Services Committee

Sept. 25, 2008: Department of Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency actions regarding government–sponsored housing enterprises

[Recent Treasury and FHFA Actions Regarding the Housing GSE's], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Financial Services. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 25, 2008, CIS/Index

Sept. 24, 2008: future of financial service industry and solutions for current market crisis

[Future of Financial Services: Exploring Solutions for the Market Crisis], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Financial Services. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 24, 2008, CIS/Index

Sept. 18, 2008: breakdown of auction rate securities markets and regulatory response

[Auction Rate Securities Market: A Review of Problems and Potential Resolutions], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Financial Services. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 18, 2008, CIS/Index

Sept. 17, 2008: implementation of FHA hope for homeowners program and mortgage industry efforts to address home foreclosure problem

[Implementation of the Hope for Homeowners Program and A Review of Foreclosure Mitigation Efforts], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Financial Services. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 17, 2008, CIS/Index

Senate Joint Economic Committee

Sept. 24, 2008: U.S. economic outlook

[Economic Outlook], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Economic. Joint, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 24, 2008, CIS/Index

Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee

Sept. 23, 2008: turmoil in credit markets, focusing on government sponsored entities, investment banks, and other financial institutions

[Current Credit Markets], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Senate, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 23, 2008, CIS/Index

Sept. 23, 2008: transparency in accounting rules

[Transparency in Accounting], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Senate, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 18, 2008, CIS/Index

SEARCH TIPS: If you know that a hearing has been held within the last day or two and your search fails to retrieve a temporary record with links to the transcripts, search by keyword on the Advanced Search form using a search that includes full text. Although the temporary record will be replaced with an authoritative bibliographic record once the hearing is published, remember that until that happens you may have to try more than one keyword to find what you are looking for since the temporary record title is merely descriptive and the indexing is not complete.

LEARN MORE: To find out more about using congressional information to study the economic crisis and the bailout, please go to http://wiki.lexisnexis.com/academic/index.php?title=Economic_Crisis_2008 and scroll down the page to read our article Bailout Bill, AIG, and Executive Compensation

Used with permission of Catherine Jervey, Legislative and Historical Services, LexisNexis Academic and Library Solutions

2009-01-12T16:45:00.000-10:00

Learn how to use Microsoft Word 2007 to quickly create and format your citations and bibliographies!

Click here for more info!

Bloom's Literary Reference Online: How to Write about...

2008-10-15T09:18:00.000-10:00

Blooms Literary Reference Online

Learn strategies for writing good essays on literature. Each author's section listed below includes an essay written by Harold Bloom examining the key features of the writer's work and possible topics for further expansion and research.

For example:

Emily Dickinson:

Bloom on How to Write about Emily Dickinson

How to Write a Good Essay

How to Write about Emily Dickinson

Others include:

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Toni Morrison

Edgar Allan Poe

J. D. Salinger

William Shakespeare

John Steinbeck

Mark Twain

Densho: The Japanease American Legacy Project

2007-02-20T11:34:00.000-10:00

In 1996, a Seattle community group formed Densho to begin videotaping the life histories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated by the U.S. government during World War II. In 1998 Densho created a digital archive of 75 interviews and 1,000 historic photos and documents. This digital archive was made available at the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle.

For more information and to register to gain access to the archive, please click here: http://www.densho.org/archive/

FIRST-EVER DIGITAL COLLECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS DOCUMENTS

2007-01-12T11:52:00.000-10:00

WASHINGTON-As the Nation pauses to remember the achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) teams up with the United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) and the Thurgood Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland School of Law, to provide the American public a website of authentic Civil Rights historical publications.

The Thurgood Marshall Law Library, which is a GPO Federal Depository Library, has been scanning hundreds of historical Civil Rights publications to make this digital collection possible. These documents are provided by USCCR. With a couple strokes of the keyboard, Americans can access Civil Rights documents such as The Civil Rights Act. These documents are accessible at:
<http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/index.asp>

Source: GPO-FDLP-L@LISTSERV.ACCESS.GPO.GOV Fri 1/12/2007

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines

2006-12-15T14:23:00.000-10:00

What? You missed the sequel to The Librarian: The Quest for the Spear? Not to worry; one review says it was ghastly, as most sequels tend to be. Still, if you're looking for a little post-finals mindlessness, it will be re-broadcast several times on TNT, and will be available on DVD on December 19th.
(CinemaBlend.com, 7 December 2006)
http://www.cinemablend.com/dvdnews/The-Librarian-Books-a-DVD-Appearance-1933.html

What Is "Truthiness?"

2006-12-15T14:21:00.000-10:00

According to Merriam-Webster, it's the word of the year. As defined by Stephen Colbert, it is “truth that comes from the gut, not books.”

“We’re at a point where what constitutes truth is a question on a lot of people’s minds, and truth has become up for grabs,” said the president of Merriam-Webster. “’Truthiness’ is a playful way for us to think about a very important issue.”
(ABC News, 8 December 2006)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2711832

Iraq Study Group (ISG) Report Available

2006-12-07T10:27:00.000-10:00

The landmark final report of the Iraq Study Group (ISG) by James A. Baker and Lee H. Hamilton (co-chairs) is now available online.

http://purl.access.gpo.gov/GPO/LPS76748

Google offers PDF files for out-of-copyright classics

2006-12-06T08:56:00.000-10:00

When you use Google Book Search http://books.google.com/ and select "Full View," you can find and download PDF files of out-of-copyright books to read. You many also read the book on the web if you prefer. Google has partnered with many libraries, including Harvard, University of Michigan, Stanford, University of California System and others, to digitize and offer PDF versions of out-of-copyright classics. This service is called The Free Library. For more information, please click the hyperlink below.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2006/08/download-classics.html

Zoho: Free word processing, spreadsheets & lots more!

2006-11-17T10:23:00.000-10:00

Zoho.com

"If you’ve never checked out the many web-based tools that Zoho provides (all free) they are MORE than worth a look. From word processing (now with several new features) to spreadsheets to web-based presentation tools (Zoho Show) and that’s just the tip of the iceberg." (From ResourceShelf).

The have something like powerpoint, to do lists, website tracking and all kinds of good stuff for free.

The Information Literacy Game

2006-11-17T10:21:00.000-10:00

From the University of North Carolina, Greensboro....check out the game and play!

http://library .uncg.edu/de/infolitgame.asp#

PureVideo & Blinkx: Video Search

2006-11-15T13:53:00.000-10:00

PureVideo at http://www.purevideo.com/

PureVideo searches the internet for videos from YouTube, AOL Music Videos, Stupid Videos, CollegeHumor, CNN, ESPN and hundreds more all at once.

Pretty much the same thing from Blinkx Video at http://www.blinkx.com/

Zotero: Managing Citations

2006-11-14T17:53:00.000-10:00

From the website:

Zotero [zoh-TAIR-oh] is a free, easy-to-use Firefox extension to help you collect, manage, and cite your research sources. It lives right where you do your work — in the web browser itself. (beta version)

Automatic capture of citation information from web pages

Storage of PDFs, files, images, links, and whole web pages

Flexible notetaking with autosave

Fast, as-you-type search through your materials

Playlist-like library organization, including saved searches (smart collections) and tags

Platform for new forms of digital research that can be extended with other web tools and services

Runs right in your web browser

Formatted citation export (style list to grow rapidly)

Free and open source

Check it out at: http://www.zotero.org/ and download Firefox 2.0 here.

Google Your Library's Mission & Google's Ten Things

2006-11-06T09:31:00.002-10:00

Library Journal article on using Google. Link to article: http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=21072518&site=ehost-live

Also Google.com's view on how to maximize and simplify usability: http://www.google.com/corporate/tenthings.html

Happy 100,000,000!

2006-11-03T16:25:00.000-10:00

CNN.com reports that the web now hosts over 100,000,000 web sites. There were only 18,000 sites in August of 1995. Need some help hunting down the information you really want? Stop by the reference desk. We'll be glad to assist you!

Read the complete article here:

(CNN, 1 November 2006)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/11/01/100millionwebsites/index.html

In the Beginning Was the Word: 100 Best First Lines From Novels

2006-10-23T16:12:00.000-10:00

100. The cold passed reluctantly from the earth, and the retiring fogs revealed an army stretched out on the hills, retiring -- Stephen Crane, The Red Badge of Courage (1895)

99. They say that when trouble comes, close ranks, and so the white people did. -- Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (1966)

98. High, high above the North Pole, on the first day of 1969, two professors of English Literature approached each other at a combined velocity of 1200 miles per hour. -- David Lodge, Changing Places (1975)

Intrigued? Read the complete list in the Jan-Feb 2006 issue of American Book Reivew (available in Academic Search Premier) or visit LitLine at http://www.litline.org/ABR/100bestfirstlines.html

Librarian Liaisons List

2006-10-23T09:13:00.000-10:00

Have a question about library resources? Need biblipgraphic instruction? Want to recommend a book, DVD or database?
Who ya gonna call?
Find your librarian liaison below!

Angela Ieli x3866
Art (2-Dimensional and 3-Dimensional)
Piano Pedagogy
Psychology
Vocal Studies

Becky Rathgeber x3852
Accounting
Computer Science
Hospitality and Tourism Management
Information Systems
International Business Management
Mathematics

Riley Moffat x3884
Biochemistry
Biology
Chemistry
Exercise and Sports Science
Physical Education
Political Science

Matt Kester x3869
History

Valerie Buck x3880
English

Marynelle Chew x3863
Social Work

Rose Ram x3882
Elementary Education
Hawaiian Studies
Interdisciplinary Studies**
International Cultural Studies (Anthropology, Communications, Humanities)
Pacific Island Studies
Secondary Education
Special Education
Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (TESOL)
TESOL Education

**All librarians assist with Interdisciplinary Studies

Grove Art Online Updated

2006-10-19T12:14:00.000-10:00

This month, Grove Art Online was updated to enlarge the broad coverage of women in Grove Art Online by adding nearly 120 new articles and essays on women artists and designers, and over 120 new images of works by women, to include over 850 women artists. New entries include Kara Walker, Shahzia Sikander, Hildegard of Bingen, Valie Export, Guerrilla Girls, Destiny Deacon, Sheila de Bretteville, Paula Scher and more.

This month, we are also celebrating The Dictionary of Art's 10th anniversary. The Dictionary of Art (34 volumes, 1996), created with the participation of over 6,700 scholars, is the foundation of this remarkable online resource. Today nearly 1,000 art historians contribute to Grove Art Online's editorial program. We hope you will continue to find the growing diversity and depth of this resource valuable and enjoyable.

We'd also like to announce the landmark agreement with The Metropolitan Museum of Art for 2,000 images to be included in the Grove Art Online by Summer 2007.

RedLightGreen service ending

2006-10-09T11:50:00.000-10:00

Message from the vendor:

RLG, RedLightGreen's parent not-for-profit company has combined forces with another organization that supports a similar service, WorldCat.org. We have decided to invest all of our efforts into developing and supporting a single product rather than continuing to support two.

We'd like to encourage you to update your RedLightGreen bookmarks to point to WorldCat.org, and to try out this new service that will help you find books and other research resources provided by nearly 12,000 libraries worldwide. Like RedLightGreen, WorldCat.org will help you get access to research materials at your local library. WorldCat.org is easy to use, and supports many of the same features as RedLightGreen; the one service that WorldCat.org does not currently support is citation formatting, but we are working on implementing this feature in WorldCat.org in the near future.

If you saved citations in RedLightGreen, you can retrieve your citation list from RedLightGreen until November 4th by following these steps:
- Connect to RedLightGreen Use the Sign In link (if you aren't automatically signed in)
- Click the Your List link in the upper right
- You can then select the E-Mail link to send your citations to your e-mail account, or get a printer-friendly view to print or download

If you have questions or comments, use the Feedback link on any page in RedLightGreen to let us know. We want to take this opportunity to thank you for using RedLightGreen. We wish you the best of luck in locating useful books and other research resources.

The RedLightGreen Team

Share the Love... Of Books!

2006-08-17T11:33:00.000-10:00

BookMooch: New Life for Old Books. This is a brand new web site that offers a valuable service: it lets you give away books you no longer need in exchange for books you really want. “Every time you give someone a book, you earn a point and can get any book you want from anyone else at BookMooch. Once you’ve read a book, you can keep it forever or put it back into BookMooch for someone else, as you wish.” There is no cost to join or use the service, only the expense of mailing your books to others.
http://bookmooch.com/

Search the Collections of the Worlds Libraries

2006-08-08T16:11:00.000-10:00

Web users can now search the catalogs of more than 10,000 libraries worldwide through WorldCat.org, a site that offers a downloadable search box to allow access to the world’s largest database and resource for discovery of materials held in libraries.

The Secret to Academic Success

2006-08-07T11:05:00.000-10:00

A college professor in Australia thinks she may have found the secret to success in education. She says that when she was an undergraduate “a departmental librarian called Anne was doing something any psychologist would say was impossible. Every year, with near-perfect accuracy, she would predict which third-year undergraduates would be awarded first-class degrees.

“Anne didn’t know how their essays were rated, what A-level grades they had under their belts, or how they scored on IQ tests. . . . All she knew was how often she had seen students in the department library: reading course notes, photocopying journals, borrowing books. And the handful of students who Anne saw a lot — conspicuously more often than the other students in the same year — were going to get a first.

“Anne was working on the principle that in academic achievement it is self-discipline, not talent, that counts. Ten years on, a study published recently in Psychological Science has come to exactly the same conclusion.”

So don’t waste your willpower on trifling things. Get those petty annoyances out of the way so you can concentrate on the important stuff. “If you are about to embark on a big project you court disaster if at the same time your life is cluttered and demanding, or you also commit to draining attempts at self-enhancement. . . . Where are the students whose self-discipline is constantly worn away by other concerns? Not in the library reading course-notes, photocopying articles or borrowing books. And if they are relying on their smarts to get them to the top of the class then there will be disappointment ahead.

“But don’t just take my word for it. Ask a librarian.”

(The Australian, 14 June 2006)
For complete article, please click below.
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19460829-12332,00.html

Students and Information Literacy

2006-08-01T15:25:00.000-10:00

From a recent article:"Of 10,000 high school and college students asked to evaluate a set of Web sites last fall, nearly half could not correctly judge which was the most objective, reliable and timely, according to preliminary results of a digital-literacy assessment. The Information and Communication Technology Assessment was administered by Educational Testing Service, a New Jersey nonprofit organization."
Read the Whole Thing

A web Search Engine for Multimedia

2006-07-13T14:38:00.000-10:00

From the information at the site "Singingfish is the premier audio/video search engine, and Singingfish.com is the place for consumers to find, explore, and experience the universe of free media. Unlike traditional search engines, Singingfish only indexes multimedia formats, including Windows Media, Real, QuickTime, and mp3s. Millions of people use the Singingfish service daily to search through categories spanning music, news, movies, sports, TV and radio, and finance. Audio/video search technology is fast becoming a must for today's digital lifestyle as more consumers gain access to high-speed Internet connections and consume more audio/video content that ever before. "

A Student's Assessment of Blackboard

2006-07-12T15:55:00.000-10:00

A recent graduate describes his experiences with blackboard as intructional technology. The article appears in Capmpus Technology

I Love Books!

2006-07-07T11:12:00.000-10:00

Do you ever wish your personal books were organized in an easily searchable catalog? Do you ever sneak a peek at other people's bookshelves when you go visiting? Do you wish you could discuss your favorite books with like-minded individuals? A website called The Library Thing http://www.librarything.com/ allows you to do all this and more. You may create your own personal library catalog of up to 200 books at no charge. To add more than 200 titles costs $10 per year or a $25 life-time fee. Cool features include a reader's advisory book recommendation section and the ability to interact with people who share the same tastes in reading as you.

Wicked. Evil. Foul. Bad.

2006-06-30T16:24:00.000-10:00

Those words mean essentially the same thing, but we don't talk about "wicked weather," "foul witches" or the "forces of bad." Understanding such subtle differences in usage comes naturally because our brains remember the millions of words we have processed over our lifetimes and which ones go together. But people learning English don't have that repository. So, Mark Davies is volunteering to be their English brains. The View: Variation In English Words and Phrases may be accessed at http://view.byu.edu/

Complete text of article: http://byunews.byu.edu/archive06-Jun-davies.aspx

Explore Shakespeare with Google!

2006-06-21T16:05:00.000-10:00

Google has created a new tool that allows users to find and search all of Shakespeare's plays.

"Search within Hamlet for "to be or not to be" to read the rest of his famous soliloquy. Find out who called the world his "oyster" and why. Browse through a familiar play – or follow your curiosity to discover a new one. And if you decide you want to buy a copy, "All editions" will show you every version in Google Book Search, many of which are available for purchase."

Note that some print editions of the plays may not have entered the public domain everywhere in the world. Where the copyright status is in question, the publication will not appear in "Full View."

To use: http://books.google.com/googlebooks/shakespeare/

New Tool For Genealogical Research from Google

2006-06-21T15:53:00.000-10:00

Google Book Search has been surprisingly useful in identifying ancestors who might have contributed to a book or who might be mentioned in the text of a book. ... "Genealogical research can be complicated by the fact that some books are so rare, the likelihood that you'll find them in even a single library is fairly low. ... If you, your patrons or students are interested in researching your family history, I encourage you to give Google Book Search a try at http://books.google.com. Especially if you've got a fairly unusual name (sorry to the John Smiths out there), enter your name and see what happens."

Complete text of article may be accessed here: http://www.google.com/librariancenter/articles/0606_02.html

The Fair Use Network

2006-06-19T13:21:00.000-10:00

"How much can you borrow, quote or copy from someone else's work? What happens if you get a 'cease and desist' letter from a copyright owner? These and many other questions make 'intellectual property,' or 'IP,' law, a mass of confusion for artists, scholars, journalists, bloggers, and everyone else who contributes to culture and political debate."

"The Fair Use Network was created because of the many questions that artists, writers, and others have about "IP" issues. Whether you are trying to understand your own copyright or trademark rights, or are a "user" of materials created by others, the information here will help you understand the system — and especially its free-expression safeguards."

http://fairusenetwork.org/

JFK Presidential Library to Launch Digital Initiative

2006-06-14T12:42:00.000-10:00

On June 9, 2006, Senator Edward M. Kennedy announced that the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) is to build a new library – a digital one - consisting of the entire collection of papers, documents, photographs and audio recordings of President John F. Kennedy, eventually making them accessible to citizens throughout the world via the Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum’s website. Some content is already available for your use. http://www.jfklibrary.org/

What if they gagged Gutenberg?

2006-06-14T12:32:00.000-10:00

What if they gagged Gutenberg? Big telecom is trying to throttle free access to democratic Internet

Five-hundred years ago, we had Johann Gutenberg, a German metalworker and inventor who pioneered the precursor to the Internet. His printing press became the first practical mass communications medium utilizing what was then an advanced memory technology -- paper....

Read the entire article from the San Francisco Chronical at:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2006/06/11/INGT6J4PVB25.DTL

From Business Week Online

2006-05-30T14:40:00.000-10:00

The Library: Next Best Thing to an MBA: Across the country, public libraries are giving would-be entrepreneurs a helping hand with resources and expert guidance.

Market Research Library

2006-05-22T14:08:00.000-10:00

From the Resource Shelf blog "Source: U.S. Foreign and Commercial Service and U.S. Department of State. Every year the U.S. Foreign and Commercial Service and the U.S. Department of State publish Country Commercial Guides (CCG) about doing business in a specific nation (from a U.S. perspective, of course). These reports contain info on the basic business situation in that country, investment climate, import issues, business travel and much more.

Enhancing the Use of Library Group Study Rooms.

2006-05-19T15:19:00.000-10:00

Enhancing the Use of Library Group Study Rooms.

The Library has purchased projectors, laptops, and interactive whiteboard software for use in library group study rooms. The software allows users to digitally capture information written on the white boards and manipulate the data. After patrons have signed up for a group study room they can check out an equipment cart at the circulation desk for use in the group study room. For information contact Reference at 3878 or Circulation at 3876

Academic Use of Digital Resources

2006-05-08T14:17:00.000-10:00

From Stephens Lighthouse comes the following :

"Darlene Fichter has a good post summarizing some of the results in "An Indepth Look at the Actual Academic Use of Digital Resources in the Social Sciences and Humanities"

The final report of the University of California at Berkeley's study on the Use and Users of Digital Resources: A Focus on Undergraduate Education in the Humanities and Social Science by Diane Harley et all was released April 5, 2006."

HT Stephen Abram

Best Places For Business And Careers

2006-05-08T13:51:00.000-10:00

From Forbes magazine comes an article about the best places for business and careers.

New Archives Collection

2006-05-05T08:17:00.000-10:00

The Joseph F. Smith Library Archives and Special Collections is now the official repository for the records of Malama Ohana Ko'olauloa Community Association. Malama Ohana is a community advocacy group representing the interests of Ko'olauloa communities from Ka'a'awa to Waimea, and has been active in bringing a wide range of community development programs to the families of windward O'ahu and the North Shore. The Archives is pleased to have been selected as a repository for these records. Our partnership with Malama Ohana furthers our institutional goal of preserving the history of the Ko'olauloa moku.

Archives hours

2006-05-05T08:09:00.000-10:00

The Archives will be changing hours during Spring and Summer terms: our new hours are M-F, 8:30am-4:30pm, closed Saturdays and Sundays. We will go back to incorporating evening hours for Fall 2006.

What Some Students Have Said About Library Research

2006-04-28T14:22:00.000-10:00

From the ACRLog a report on a "program featuring five of their students answering a variety of questions about using the library, their research behavior, and their use of technology".

HT Stephen Abram at Stephens Lighthouse

How to Handle All of Your Money

2006-04-28T13:55:00.000-10:00

From the U.S. Financial Literacy and Education Commission comes a resource called mymoney.gov. This site has resources "from across the spectrum of federal agencies that deal with financial issues and markets."

Heading Out Into the Sun?

2006-04-28T13:44:00.000-10:00

Here is a collection of articles and information on suntan products, sunscreens, and tanning from the FDA.

Ever Wonder About the Accuracy of Health News?

2006-04-28T13:36:00.000-10:00

Here is a source that reviews news about health. According to the information on the Website Health News Reviews is about:

improving the accuracy of news stories about medical treatments, tests and procedures
helping consumers evaluate the evidence for and against new ideas in health care.

Persuasive Presentations

2006-04-19T16:24:00.000-10:00

From the FastCompany website:osh Gordon, author of the new book Presentations That Change Minds has identified 14 core practices used by persuasive speakers in conference and meeting settings. Additional research shows that the top five practices are used by only half of business leaders surveyed.

The top five persuasive strategies:

Sharing facts: 73.5%
Offering a solution: 62.1%
Sharing a new idea: 52.8%
Telling a story: 51.6%
Changing a perception: 50.9%

The remaining practices include humor, creating excitement, audience involvement, building trust, inspiration, building a financial case, creating an emotional appeal, getting competitive, and overcoming hostility.

Changing Nature of the Library Catalog

2006-04-19T16:04:00.000-10:00

From a recent Library of Congress Report: "The library catalog is such an asset. Today, a large and growing number of students and scholars routinely bypass library catalogs in favor of other discovery tools, and the catalog represents a shrinking proportion of the universe of scholarly information. The catalog is in decline, its processes and structures are unsustainable, and change needs to be swift. "

Website to Rate News Coverage of Health Issues

2006-04-18T16:09:00.000-10:00

Starting Monday, a new Web site plans to rate the way top newspapers, magazines and other media outlets, including The Associated Press, cover health issues.

Access to the site and its findings, HealthNewsReview, http://www.healthnewsreview.org/ is free and open to consumers.

It was created by University of Minnesota journalism professor Gary Schwitzer, who said the hope is the site will help consumers "improve their critical thinking about claims in health care."

A team of 20 reviewers from universities and clinics across the country will rate articles on a scale of one to five stars and post comments.

While Schwitzer said he thinks the quality of health care journalism is improving, it still sometimes falls short. He said stories sometimes fail to spell out such things as the availability of a new treatment or the strength of the evidence behind a new study.

Web Based Applications

2006-04-17T15:22:00.000-10:00

Web based applicatons such as spreadsheets and word processors are becoming more common. Typically the applications are free. One such group of applications is produced by Zoho. The word processing and spreadsheet programs are free and they are working on other applications.

US Food Consumption Trends

2006-04-14T16:01:00.000-10:00

Several reports from different agencies and organizations prsented ont he website of the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center.

Information on Illegal Immigrants

2006-03-30T14:33:00.000-10:00

"This March 2006 report (based on a March 2005 population survey) evaluates the number and origin of the illegal immigrant population in the U.S. Topics include gender and family composition, families with children, workforce gender, occupations, and industries. Also include data on topics such as trends for 1980-2005 and legal status of foreign-born individuals, and links to related reports. From the Pew Hispanic Center, a project of the Pew Research Center. "

HT Librarians Internet Index

International Economic Statistics

2006-03-29T15:22:00.000-10:00

"The Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis Research Library's IES Database simplifies the search for world-wide economic indicators. Individual indicators (such as GDP and CPI) are linked, and each link has a description of the data. Included in each record is the title, corporate author, publisher, years covered in the data series, type of publication (text, table, chart), frequency with which the data is published, country of origin, a URL, available languages, subject headings, format (.pdf, .xls, etc.), a summary (where available), and any notes needed to clarify the data. The database is title, country, subject and keyword searchable. The links will be checked regularly to maintain accuracy. Indicators are continually being added. "

Newspaper Archives Available Online

2006-03-29T15:10:00.000-10:00

From the Resourceshelf . A company which is part of Heritage Microfilm based in Cedar Rapids, Iowa has been making available a steady stream of FREE, full text, full image, searchable/browsable newspaper archives focused on a specific topic at NewspaperARCHIVES.com. This week the company has released two new archives each containing tens of thousands of newspaper articles from various newspapers. Each article is delivered as a pdf file ready for printing or saving. Some of the archives avialable include:

+ FBI Newspaper Archive
More than 50,000 full text articles about the FBI, criminals, etc.
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+ September 11th Archive
More than 15,000 articles. Advanced interfaces are available for both databases.
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+ MartinLutherKingJrArchive
+ Pro Baseball Archive
+ College Basketball Archive
+ Abraham Lincoln Archive
+ AsbestosArchive.com (Asbestos and Asbestos Related Lawsuits)
+ HMS Titanic Archive
+ Winter Games Archive

Interesting Products from 37 Signals

2006-03-23T09:34:00.000-10:00

37 Signals is a company the offers web based applications the "get things done in a simple way". Their products include Ta-da Lists which is an online space where you can create multiple to do lists that can be accessed from anywhere. They can also be shared with others. Also Writeboard which is an online wordprocessor that allows you to "access, read, edit, and save a document from any connected computer; keep track of edits over time and discuss the document through blog style comments" If you are interested in web based applications check out 37 Signals

HT Libary Journal netconnect

Interesting Information on How Things are Made

2006-03-13T15:17:00.000-10:00

"Detailed explanations for "the manufacturing process of a wide variety of products, from daily household items to complicated electronic equipment and heavy machinery." Includes an illustrated overview of the assembly and the manufacturing process, a description of how the item works, a list of raw materials used, and related information. Products include air bags, artificial snow, popcorn, television, and much more. From Thomson Gale, a part of the Thomson Corporation."

Reading a Key to College Success

2006-03-02T14:22:00.000-10:00

According to a new study the ability of students to handle complex reading. Unfortunately most states don't have reading standards for high school.

Information Literacy Classroom

2006-03-02T14:07:00.000-10:00

Elmhurst College has created in their library an information literacy classroom where librarians and faculty show students how to find and critique the many resources the Web offers on specific topics.

Blackboard Unveils Blackboard Beyond Initiative

2006-03-02T13:55:00.000-10:00

From an article in Yahoo biz Blackboard exeutive Michael Chasen describes a new initiative for the blackboard company and product "The Blackboard Beyond Initiative calls for the creation of a series of Web properties that connect the institutions, faculty, and students who use Blackboard worldwide across education segments and disciplines. The sites will be shaped and run by Blackboard's client community of practice and developed by Blackboard."

Library Offering Video Down Loads

2006-02-22T14:02:00.000-10:00

From the Rocky Mountain News "Next month, the Denver Public Library system will become the first in the nation to allow people to download movies and concert videos from home with a click of their computer mouse."

Housing Prices In Different Cities

2006-02-22T13:57:00.000-10:00

"HousingTracker is an attempt to gain a more realtime understanding of the national housing market. For the most part, all we have to rely on the quarterly Realtor reports to get a sense of how the last quarter played out. HousingTracker data is compiled weekly from MLS listings which contains asking prices as opposed to the Realtor reported sale prices. HousingTracker gives you the 25th percentile, 50th percentile, and 75th percentile asking price for the metro areas covered. Additionally, the number of homes for sale (Inventory) for the metro area is reported."

New Development in Electronic Books

2006-02-13T16:41:00.000-10:00

"HarperCollins has announced the first free Web-based, ad-supported, full-text business book. Go It Alone! The Secret to Building a Successful Business on Your Own by Bruce Judson is now available on the author’s Web site, where an affiliate link to Amazon, not the publisher, can also be found. Not only can the book be read at the site, but it can also be searched. HarperCollins Publishers is calling the project a test of a new business model. Some self-published authors also offer ad-supported books online, but HarperCollins’ move is the first by a major publisher."

Source: InfoToday

What's Shaking?

2006-02-10T15:27:00.000-10:00

You can now keep up with earthquakes throughout the world by visiting the USGS Earthquake Hazards website. And if that is not timely enough they have a service that provides automated email notification for worldwide earthquakes. So you can always know what is shaking... or at least where is shaking.

Tables of Contents in Library Catalogs

2006-02-10T14:56:00.000-10:00

"A new JISC project is developing an RSS news feed service that will automatically feed publisher and e-journal information into library catalogues. Led by the publisher Emerald, and supported by library supplier Talis, the project will finish in July 2006". This is worth monitoring as it develops to see if we can apply it to our catalog to add value for the patrons.

Digital Library Projects in the News

2006-02-10T14:02:00.000-10:00

Libraries all of the country are working digital library projects. This article from Campus Technology takes a look at three different projects as examples of the types of things happening with digital libraries.

State Transportation Statistics (STS) 2005

2006-02-08T14:22:00.000-10:00

This report presents a statistical profile of transportation in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. This is the third annual edition of the State Transportation Statistics, and a companion document to the National Transportation Statistics (NTS), which is updated quarterly on the BTS website.

Homeschooling in the United States

2006-02-08T13:59:00.000-10:00

A new report from the National Center for Education Statistics presents the latest survey information on the prevalence of homeschooling in the United States. Homeschooling in the United States: 2003 uses the Parent and Family Involvement Survey of the 2003 National Household Education Surveys Program (NHES) to estimate the number and percentage of homeschooled students in the United States in 2003 and to describe the characteristics of these students and their families.

RSS Feeds from the Government

2006-02-08T13:43:00.000-10:00

FirstGov.gov is the official U.S. gateway to all government information, and is the catalyst for a growing electronic government. Now FirstGov.gov is offering a service that will allow people to stay on top of important government news and information with the FirstGov Updates - News and Features RSS feed

Educational Lectures on the Web

2006-02-03T10:24:00.000-10:00

There are many sources on the web of free educational lectures from many different institutions of higher education. One example is the Research Channel. The website has the following description :

"ResearchChannel is a completely unique viewing experience, similar in nature to C-SPAN, but with a very different focus: research. Some of the world’s premier academic and research institutions invite viewers inside the lab to learn about the current, ongoing research that will impact their lives and shape
the future. And unlike other education-based channels, ResearchChannel is broadcast 24 hours-a-day, seven days-a-week, with no commercial nterruptions. In addition to conventional television broadcasts, on-line audiences worldwide have access to ResearchChannel’s continuous webcast and searchable on-demand video library of over 1700 fulllength
programs. These resources are available at Internet2, cable, DSL and modem speeds."

Library Branding

2006-02-02T16:52:00.000-10:00

Library marketing sepcialist Chris Olsen has some ideas on library branding and what it might mean to our marketing efforts.

Rethinking Bibliographic Services

2006-02-02T16:43:00.000-10:00

The University of California Libraries Bibliographic Services Task Force has released a report on the nature of bibiliographic services and how they should be provided in the future.

"On the Library front, our bibliographic systems have not kept pace with this changing environment. The continuing proliferation of formats, tools, services, and technologies has upended how we arrange, retrieve, and present our holdings. Our users expect simplicity and immediate reward and Amazon, Google, and iTunes are the standards against which we are judged. Our current systems pale beside them."

A New Service to help Open Access to Research Information

2006-01-30T15:53:00.000-10:00

From a recent press release:

"OpenDOAR – the Directory of Open Access Repositories – is please to
announces the release of its primary listing of open access archives, available from www.opendoar.org.

This classifies archives holding research papers, conference papers,
theses and other academic materials that are available as “open access”. This means that anyone with an internet connection has access to this information without paying any charges."

State of the Union Addresses

2006-01-27T11:09:00.000-10:00

State of the Union Addresses of the American Presidents: Free Searchable Version

Search and analyze the the full-text of all State of the Union Addresses from 1790-2005. The State of the Union Address is an annual event in which the President of the United States reports on the status of the country. The address is also used to outline the President's legislative proposals for the upcoming year. The text is extremely useful in a searchable eBook.

Two database trials

2006-01-27T10:04:00.000-10:00

Routledge Religion Resource

Routledge Politics and International Relations Resource

These indexes provide access to the full text of reference works under the subjects of Religion and Politics and International relations. A wide breadth of subject matter that benefits students in a range of disciplines including philosophy, history, Asian studies, and sociology. Searches can be performed across articles and references at one time.
Trial links may be accessed from the library's home page or you may click here: http://www.reference.routledge.com/subscriber/uid=12405/?authstatuscode=202

Global Health Statistics

2006-01-26T15:45:00.000-10:00

GlobalHealthFacts.org, a project of the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, provides free, up-to-date and easy-to-access data by country on HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria and other key health and socio-economic indicators. The data are displayed in tables, charts, and color-coded maps and can be downloaded for custom analyses.

No Surprise. Digital Music is Big Business

2006-01-24T10:32:00.000-10:00

The IFPI has relased it's 2006 Digital Music Report. A couple of paragraphs from the press release:

Sales of music via the internet and mobile phones proliferated and spread across the world in 2005, generating sales of US$1.1 billion for record companies - up from US$380 million the previous year - and promising further significant growth in the coming year.

The findings are released today in IFPI's Digital Music Report 2006, a comprehensive review of the development of the digital music market internationally.

Study: College students lack literacy for complex tasks

2006-01-24T10:11:00.000-10:00

A study funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts has found that college students lakc basic literacy in three areas. Key paragraphs from the article:

The results cut across three types of literacy: analyzing news stories and other prose, understanding documents and having math skills needed for checkbooks or restaurant tips.

Without "proficient" skills, or those needed to perform more complex tasks, students fall behind. They cannot interpret a table about exercise and blood pressure, understand the arguments of newspaper editorials, compare credit card offers with different interest rates and annual fees or summarize results of a survey about parental involvement in school.

Music Information on the Web

2006-01-24T10:02:00.000-10:00

A column at the ACRL ( Association of College and Research Libraries) website surveys many quality websites related to music.

Will 2006 Be the Year of the E-book?

2006-01-24T09:59:00.000-10:00

Sony is coming out with a new e-book reader in early 2006. Other companies are set to follow later in the year and in early 2007. Key issues are rights management and usability.

Perceptions of Libraries Report

2005-12-29T09:31:00.000-10:00

Perceptions of Libraries Report

How do people perceive libraries? OCLC has commissioned a study on how libraries are perceived by various information consumers. The Perceptions report provides the findings and responses from the online survey in an effort to learn more about:
· Library use
· Awareness and use of library electronic resources
· The Internet search engine, the library and the librarian
· Free vs. for-fee information
· The "Library" brand

Report on Literacy of American Adults

2005-12-29T09:30:00.000-10:00

Report on Literacy of American Adults
The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) measures the English literacy of America's adults (people age 16 and older living in households and prisons).

Library Best Sellers for 2005

2005-12-29T09:29:00.001-10:00

At the end of the year everyone starts coming out with their “best” or “most” list of the year that is coming to a close. Libraries are no different and the Library Journal has published the lists of the most checked out fiction and non-fiction books for 2005.

How many of these gadgets have you had?

2005-12-29T09:29:00.000-10:00

How many of these gadgets have you had?

PC magazine has released an annotated list for the top 50 gadgets of the last 50 years. Interesting reading especially for those of us who remember the first Sony Walkman or the first CD player.

I Don’t Want to Hear It

2005-12-29T09:28:00.000-10:00

Looking for creative ways to express your displeasure with intrusive cell phone conversations? Are you tired of hearing the details of private conversations as you try and study at the library and/or sit in class, or standing in line at Foodland, or at the airport, or sitting in Church, or… well the list is endless. You might try handing out some of these friendly SHHH! Cards from the Society of Handheld Hushing.
(HT Tinfoil Raccoon)

Perceptions of Libraries Report

2005-12-22T09:12:00.000-10:00

Perceptions of Libraries Report

How do people perceive libraries? OCLC has commissioned a study on how libraries are perceived by various information consumers. The Perceptions report provides the findings and responses from the online survey in an effort to learn more about:
· Library use
· Awareness and use of library electronic resources
· The Internet search engine, the library and the librarian
· Free vs. for-fee information
· The "Library" brand

Report on Literacy of American Adults

2005-12-22T09:11:00.000-10:00

Report on Literacy of American Adults

The 2003 National Assessment of Adult Literacy (NAAL) measures the English literacy of America's adults (people age 16 and older living in households and prisons).

Which are the most popular search engines?

2005-12-15T08:25:00.000-10:00

Which are the most popular search engines?

According to the latest Nielsen/Net ratings over 5.1 billion searches were conducted in October. In terms of market share the top search engines are Google, Yahoo!, MSN, and America Online.

The Handhelds are Coming

2005-12-13T08:22:00.000-10:00

Handheld devices such as PDA’s are moving into the world of education. According to a recent AP article at wired.com:

“Educational sales of personal digital assistants, laptop computers and
handheld remote controls called "clickers" are ballooning nationwide. Last year,
a survey by Quality Education Data found that 28 percent of U.S. school
districts offered handhelds for student and teacher use. One of every four
computers purchased by schools was a laptop.
One of the frontrunners was Yankton High School in South Dakota, which
adopted Palm handhelds in 2001 and found they improved students' grades.
Electronic learning has become so popular that one school in Arizona went
textbook-free this year, instead equipping its students with laptops. Seventeen
schools outside Eugene, Oregon, now use handhelds on most science field
trips.”

Are you ready for the Handhelds? (HT techmorandum)

Google Searching: Who’s on the First Results Page?

2005-12-13T08:19:00.000-10:00

The majority of Google searchers never go past the first page of results. Search engines like Google develop searching algorithms to determine how results of a search are returned. Because placement on the results page is critical to attracting customers, many businesses are turning to the services of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) consultants. SEO’s will study the latest algorithms from the major search services and manipulate their client’s web pages so that they appear on the first page of search results. Not all SEO’s are reputable. So called black hat SEO’s resort to tricks to push their clients to the top. So when you use Google for your research it is good to be aware of what is going on behind the scenes. For a brief discussion of SEOs see this recent Newsweek article.
(HT techmorandum)

Dear Librarian

2005-12-09T08:50:00.000-10:00

Dear Librarian,
My name is Cory Peterson and I am a 13 year old boy
who lives in Suisun City, California, about 45 minutes from the capitol
of California, Sacramento. I attend Vacaville Independent Study Program
in Vacaville, California.

Anyway, I collect library cards from around the
world. I have over 1,000 cards! If you could please send a card to me,
I would be honored. However if you do not have library cards, please
email me at calbaseballdude12@yahoo.com to let me know. If you cannot
permit me to have a library card, I would be happy to apply for one if
this is possible. Please email me to tell me the requirements to apply
for a library card. For those of you, who can send me a card, please
send it to this address:

Cory Peterson
1210 Rebecca Drive
Suisun City, CA 94585
U.S.A

Please visit my website at
http://librarycards.expage.com . There you can find out a little about
the collection. I have put up a few scans of library cards and you may
view them. Right now I am working on getting the Northern California
library cards up on the website. Keep checking back for updates! If you
have any questions or concerns, you may also email me at
libcrdcolectr9692@comcast.net .

Thank you for helping my collection grow.

Sincerely,
Cory Peterson

Copyright Myths

2005-12-09T08:47:00.000-10:00

The area of copyright law can be confusing. The statutes are broad, especially in the area of fair use. There is no list of specific dos and don’ts. Because the statutes are vague several myths about copyright and fair use have arisen. There are some helpful websites that address some of the more common myths. A good place to start is the BYU Copyright and Licensing Office (http://www.lib.byu.edu/departs/copyright.html ). There you will find several important resources among which are links to a couple of outside sources that specifically address copyright myths. One of the sites is Copylaw.com which has an article by Lloyd Jassin called Ten Copyright Permission Myths (http://www.copylaw.com/new_articles/copy_myths.html )
In his article Jassin addresses the following ten myths:

1. The work I want to use doesn't have a copyright notice so I don't need permission.
2. If I give credit I don't need permission
3. Since I'm only using a small portion of the original work, I don't need permission
4. I don't need permission because I'm going to adapt the original work.
5. Since the work is in the public domain, I don't have to clear permissions.
6. The material I want to reproduce was posted anonymously to an online discussion or news group. That means the work is in the public domain.
7. I can always obtain permission later.
8. The material I want to quote is from an out-of-print book. That means the work is in the public domain.
9. Since I'm planning to use my work for nonprofit educational purposes, I don't need permission.
10. I don't need permission because the work I want to use was published before 1923 and is over 75 years old.

Be sure and look at this helpful copyright information

Withdrawal List

2005-12-05T09:59:00.000-10:00

Revew list posted through 12/16/2005

The current list of materials under consideration for withdrawal is now posted. Items for your consideration are in the subject areas of general world history and British history. The complete list appears in the link that follows, as do the library's deacquisition guidelines and rationale: http://w2.byuh.edu/library/libraryinfo.htm

The review period is through Friday, December 16. Materials may be examined in the Technical Services Offices, Monday-Friday, 8:00-5:00. Please communicate any comments or concerns to Riley Moffat (x3884) or Doug Bates (x3850).

SPECIAL COLLECTIONS ODDITIES

2005-11-30T10:54:00.000-10:00

What sort of strange items to libraries keep in their special collections? This short article describes a few odd specimens from academic libraries around the world. For example:

• England’s Royal Astronomical Society owns a log, warranted genuine, cut from Sir Isaac Newton’s apple tree.

• The University of California at Santa Barbara recently purchased a zodiac bone calendar, from Sumatra, with inscriptions carved in the thigh bone of a water buffalo. It’s part of the university’s collection of items that document the history of writing and printing.

• The Johns Hopkins University’s Institute of the History of Medicine keeps hair - framed, no less - from the cow Edward Jenner used to develop the smallpox vaccine in 1796.

(Chronicle of Higher Education, 28 October 2005) (online copy available from the "Search our Article Indexes & Databases" page)

FAITS - Faulkner Advisory for IT Studies

2005-11-04T11:32:00.001-10:00

The FAITS database is now avialble for your use. FAITS contains hundreds of reports designed to hlep you keep up with the critical issues , trends, market conditions, products, services and vendors driving the information technology industry. Please visit the library's home page and click "Search Our Article Indexes & Databases" to use this resource.

IEEE Computer Society Digital Library trial

2005-11-04T11:32:00.000-10:00

Library trial of IEEE Computer Digital Library now through December 2, 2005. This database contains the full-text of 23 premier computer science journals, with archives going back to 1988, plus over 1,700 conference publications since 1995. To use, visit the library's home page. Feedback welcome at x3863 or chewm@byuh.edu

Featured ebook

2005-11-01T11:56:00.000-10:00

Check out our featured ebook from ebrary Academic Complete:

Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam
James M. McPherson
(Oxford University Press, 2002)

The Battle of Antietam, fought on September 17, 1862, was the bloodiest single day in American history, with more than 6,000 soldiers killed – four times the number lost on D-Day. In Crossroads of Freedom, Pulitzer-prize winning historian James M. McPherson paints a masterful account of this pivotal battle, the events that led up to it, and its aftermath. (Source: Publisher)

www.ebrary.com

PsycArticle database trial

2005-10-31T11:29:00.000-10:00

PsycARTICLES is a definitive source of searchable full-text, peer-reviewed scholarly and scientific articles in psychology. The database contains more than 40,000 articles from 56 journals - 45 published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and 11 from allied organizations. It includes all journal articles, letters to the editor and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1985 to present.

Please visit the library's home page to log in. Please send feedback to chewm@byuh.edu or x3863.

Europa databases trial

2005-10-31T11:25:00.000-10:00

Europa World Plus is the online version of the Europa World Year Book and the Regional Surveys of the World series. Included in this trial is Europa World Year Book and The Far East & Australasia.

First published in 1926, the year book is renowned as one of the world's leading reference works, covering political and economic information in more than 250 countries and territories, from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe.

Trial runs through November 23. Please visit the library's home page to connect. Please send feedback to chewm@byuh.edu or x3863.

New withdrawal list

2005-10-27T10:05:00.000-10:00

Revew list posted through 11/4/2005

The current list of materials under consideration for withdrawal is now posted. Items for your consideration are in the subject area of religion (not LDS). The complete list appears in the link that follows, as do the library's deacquisition guidelines and rationale: http://w2.byuh.edu/library/libraryinfo.htm

The review period is through Friday, November 4. Materials may be examined in the Technical Services Offices, Monday-Friday, 8:00-5:00. Please communicate any comments or concerns to Riley Moffat (x3884) or Doug Bates (x3850).

New RefWorks 2.0 Interface is here!

Post Borrowed from: Eastern University's Warner Memorial Library

RefWorks 2.0: Brand new display!

Library Lua Letter

For more detailed information on these Google search tricks please visit lifehacker.com by clicking on the link and read the original article.

Financial Crisis and Bailout… Learn More With LexisNexis

Please cut and paste the titles into Lexis Nexis Congressional and check them out!

Learn how to use Microsoft Word 2007 to quickly create and format your citations and bibliographies!

Bloom's Literary Reference Online: How to Write about...

Densho: The Japanease American Legacy Project

FIRST-EVER DIGITAL COLLECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS DOCUMENTS

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines

What Is "Truthiness?"

Iraq Study Group (ISG) Report Available

Google offers PDF files for out-of-copyright classics

Zoho: Free word processing, spreadsheets & lots more!

The Information Literacy Game

PureVideo & Blinkx: Video Search

Zotero: Managing Citations

Google Your Library's Mission & Google's Ten Things

Happy 100,000,000!

In the Beginning Was the Word: 100 Best First Lines From Novels

Librarian Liaisons List

Grove Art Online Updated

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The Secret to Academic Success

Students and Information Literacy

A web Search Engine for Multimedia

A Student's Assessment of Blackboard

I Love Books!

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Explore Shakespeare with Google!

New Tool For Genealogical Research from Google

The Fair Use Network

JFK Presidential Library to Launch Digital Initiative

What if they gagged Gutenberg?

From Business Week Online

The Library: Next Best Thing to an MBA: Across the country, public libraries are giving would-be entrepreneurs a helping hand with resources and expert guidance.

Market Research Library

Enhancing the Use of Library Group Study Rooms.

Academic Use of Digital Resources

Best Places For Business And Careers

New Archives Collection

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What Some Students Have Said About Library Research

How to Handle All of Your Money

Heading Out Into the Sun?

Ever Wonder About the Accuracy of Health News?

Persuasive Presentations

Changing Nature of the Library Catalog

Website to Rate News Coverage of Health Issues

Web Based Applications

US Food Consumption Trends

Information on Illegal Immigrants

International Economic Statistics

Newspaper Archives Available Online

Interesting Products from 37 Signals

Interesting Information on How Things are Made

Reading a Key to College Success

Information Literacy Classroom

Blackboard Unveils Blackboard Beyond Initiative

Library Offering Video Down Loads

Housing Prices In Different Cities

New Development in Electronic Books

What's Shaking?

Tables of Contents in Library Catalogs

Digital Library Projects in the News

State Transportation Statistics (STS) 2005

Homeschooling in the United States

RSS Feeds from the Government

Educational Lectures on the Web

Library Branding

Rethinking Bibliographic Services

A New Service to help Open Access to Research Information

State of the Union Addresses

Two database trials

Global Health Statistics

No Surprise. Digital Music is Big Business