Fall 2012
Volume 11, Issue 1
Utah Valley University
By Michael Freeman, Library Director
Welcome back to a new year with some reminders about available
faculty services.
The Library welcomes faculty input for new collection materials. Just
email the librarian assigned to your area (www.uvu.edu/library/about/
subjectlibrarians.html), or use the purchase request form on the library
services tab on the Library’s website. We welcome small and large lists
to order, particularly if your area is getting a new degree, upgrading an
existing degree, or facing a specialized accreditation. Most new
databases added are also directly linked to faculty requests.
The Library budgets $4,000, and the Bookstore matches an additional
$4,000, to purchase reserve textbooks. The Bookstore especially
deserves a note of thanks for this extra effort to serve students as this is
not normal practice at universities. What we purchase is usually
triggered by the third student requesting a book, or by faculty request.
We are also starting to look at high enrollment courses for automatic
inclusion. In addition, faculty may place personal copies of textbooks
and materials on reserve.
In any of your classes, if students need research help for assignments,
the librarian for your department will be happy to provide a workshop
on the relevant databases.
The Library Connection
INSIDE THIS ISSUE
WELCOME BACK!
Announcements 2
Librarian Spotlight 2
New “One Stop
Shopping” Research
Tool
3
New Check Out
Guidelines
4
Nook eReaders 4
New Databases 5
Sutherland Archives
News
6
Higher Education
Bibliography
8
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Banned Books Week
The 30th anniversary of
Banned Books Week
takes place September
30—October 6. This
year's theme is "30
years of Liberating
Literature."
Join us as we discuss
banned books on our Facebook page
(www.facebook.com/uvulib) and highlight
banned books in our first floor display.
Library Hours for Fall Break
The Library will be open 8:00 AM to 5:00 PM
October 11—13 for fall break.
New Library Site!
The Library launched a new version of its site
on September 17. This site uses the forthcoming
UVU web style. The homepage features a special
addition. Instead of choosing a database,
students can use the new OneSearch tab to
immediately search the Library’s collections.
Subject Specialty
Mathematics
Education
MLS University of
Missouri , Columbia
MS, History University of Utah
BS, English Education University of
Missouri , Columbia
Experience
Interlibrary Loan—University of Missouri,
Columbia
Head of Reference—University of South
Carolina
Mike has been at UVU since 1993.
LIBRARIAN SPOTLIGHT: MIKE FREEMAN
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NEW “ONE STOP SHOPPING” RESEARCH TOOL AT UVU LIBRARY
By Mark Stevens, Systems Librarian
During the summer, a UVU Library committee
pursued a “one stop shopping” research
resource to allow searchers to find articles,
books, and media simultaneously for all
subjects. Dubbed OneSearch, the result has
been quietly rolled out as a new link on the
Library’s homepage.
We believe that this new tool will provide a
general improvement in user friendliness
increasing the number of relevant “hits” for a
given search. Full text articles can be located
more quickly and easily than through the old
methods. A formatted citation (MLA, APA, etc.)
can be automatically generated for books and
videos in the Library collections (expanding
upon the same ability that EBSCO has provided
in the past for article citations). Searchers can
save sources to folders as well. For those of you
who are expert researchers, please rest assured
that your favorite databases are still available
for specialized research.
You may note that OneSearch’s interface looks
similar to a typical EBSCO database and reacts
to both Boolean search syntax as well as natural
language phrases that a person might enter into
Google. Limiters are found on the left of the
results page, and search expanders may be
found on the right.
We continue fine tuning to the software
configuration. We eventually want to have the
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) form populated
automatically from the database to save users’
time.
As you have feedback, questions, or
suggestions, please contact your subject
librarian or call the Reference Desk at x8840.
Thank you for helping us test this new research
tool.
UVU LIBRARY BY THE
NUMBERS
Did you know that during the
first week of the fall semester,
the Library checks out books,
videos, and other materials at
an average rate of one item
every 30 seconds?
FACULTY CHECK OUT PERIOD EXTENDED
Did you know faculty can now check out books
for a whole semester? We are pleased to
announce that the faculty loan period for books
is now 16 weeks. To renew items, bring your
books to the first floor Circulation Desk, and we
will renew them for an additional 16 weeks.
Check out periods remain the same for all other
items. If you need DVDs or videos for extended
classroom use, please contact Christy Cathro
Goodnight at x7421 for assistance.
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NOOK EREADERS AVAILABLE AT THE LIBRARY
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By Annie Smith, Reference/Instruction
Librarian
As the publishing world changes, so must the
Library. We offer hundreds of titles in our
eBook collections (available through the
Library’s online catalog). Barnes and Noble’s
Nook eReaders represent a likely future for
publishing and reading.
We have Nook Touch eReaders and Nook Color
eReaders available for check out at the first
floor Circulation Desk. The Nooks come
preloaded with over
fifty titles from
classic and current
fiction and may be
checked out for three
weeks. More titles
will become
available during the
academic year.
Nook Touch
LIBRARY
NEWS
BLOG
Keep
up
with
the
Library
by
following
our
new
blog,
the
Library
Connection
at
http://
uvulibraryconnection.blogspot.com.
The
blog
will
feature
content
speciically
for
UVU
faculty
such
as
new
database
announcements,
updates
on
library
services
for
faculty,
bibliographies,
and
more!
The Library Connection
By Annie Smith, Reference/Instruction
Librarian
In the past year, the Library has added several
new databases in education, the sciences, and
the social sciences.
TeachingBooks is a
specialized resource for
future teachers and
education professionals. It
offers a wealth of materials
and activities designed to
promote literacy in K-12 students. This
database makes matching up resources to
specific books a snap.
The Library has had
access to Chemical
Abstracts for a number of
years but we recently
renegotiated our access
with the vendor to offer
direct access. In the near
future we will add a link
to our list of databases to
instantly search for chemistry research,
conference proceedings, patents, dissertations,
and much more.
ArXiv is a free online
collection of
prepublication
articles from a wide
variety of physical
and life sciences as
well as mathematics. The articles available in
this database are not quite in their final form,
but they are freely available. ArXiv is
maintained by Cornell University’s library. They
welcome submissions from scholars around the
world. For more information about ArXiv, visit
http://arxiv.org/.
The Library also
purchased access to
The Mental
Measurements
Yearbook online
through EBSCO. The
MMY can be found on
our list of databases.
This resource has
been published by the
Buros Center for
Testing for decades and offers information
that’s not available anywhere else. Testing is a
key source of information in the social sciences.
While it doesn’t offer access to the tests
themselves, the MMY specializes in
descriptions and evaluations of hundreds of
different tests. Our subscription includes every
issue of The Mental Measurements Yearbook
from volume one, published in 1938, to the
present.
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NEW DATABASES
One of our favorite
molecules: caffeine!
An inkblot from the
Rorschach Test.
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By Catherine McIntyre, Archivist
Welcome back! We’ve had a busy spring and
summer and are looking forward to adding
more archival and digital collections throughout
the coming year. Toward that end, I’d also like
to ask all of you to contribute any historical or
scholarly materials that you or your students
may have, such as departmental or committee
proceedings, publications, research materials,
scholarly class projects (oral histories, etc.)
student theses, and so on. These types of items
help document and preserve the ongoing
history and scholarly endeavors of Utah Valley
University faculty and students.
New Archives Collection:
We received a donation last spring from area
businessman Steve Zolman which consists of
materials collected by and about the John
Varah Long family, his descendants, and their
families. John Varah Long (1826–1869) was a
personal clerk to
LDS Church second
president Brigham
Young, but fell out
of favor with him,
was
excommunicated,
and reportedly died
mysteriously. Long’s
death was, as the
rumor goes, because
he had overheard
Brigham Young’s
instructions to
George Albert Smith
regarding actions
related to the
Mountain Meadows Massacre.
The majority of this collection is from the
Hance and Watson families, who were in-laws,
descendants, or other relatives of John V. Long.
It includes many ambrotypes and photographs,
as well as scrapbooks, personal papers,
correspondence, legal documents, mining
documents, genealogical records, stock
certificates, and other miscellaneous items. It is
now completely processed and ready for use by
interested researchers, with a detailed finding
aid available online at http://
contentdm.uvu.edu/u?/UVUfindaid,290.
Digitization
We have been awarded a Library Services and
Technology Act (LSTA) grant of $10,000
toward digitizing the student newspaper back to
1966! Just like UVU, the student newspaper has
gone by several names reflecting its changing
role, from the Tradewinds to the UTC Press, to
the College Times and now the UVU Review.
These papers, which contain a wealth of
historical information, have been housed in the
student newspaper “morgue” under the care of
Robbin Anthony, and we are looking forward to
working with her to make them freely
searchable and accessible online for the first
time!
UVU Digital Repository
We now have 183 student theses online in our
UVU Digital Repository. This collection
Includes undergraduate Honors and Integrated
Studies theses as well as Master’s theses from
the Education and Nursing graduate programs.
Continued on next page.
GEORGE SUTHERLAND ARCHIVES NEWS
Unknown Civil War
soldier from the Long
Collection.
Tintype with gold paint.
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Continued from previous page.
If your students complete final theses or
projects for their degrees, please consider
having them contribute them to the UVU
Digital Repository at www.uvu.edu/library/
archives/digitalcollections.html.
Scholars’ Open Archive:
I encourage you to consider placing your
scholarly works in our Scholars’ Open Archive
(http://works.bepress.com/uvu/). Faculty who
have articles and other materials in Scholars’
Open Archive make their work available to a
wide audience online and also have searchable
access to the works of other contributors. You
can set up and maintain your own site and add
full-text or links to materials. You will receive
monthly statistics on how many times your
works are accessed, which can be valuable for
RTP purposes. I can assist with any questions.
Programs and Displays
Beginning September 17, 2012, we will
commemorate Constitution Day with a display
of our archival items that demonstrate how the
Constitution has relevance in our everyday
lives. The display will run through September
26. In October we will celebrate National
Archives Month with displays of items related
to the American West and cowboy traditions
(with assistance from Dr. Roger Blomquist of
UVU’s Department of History and Political
Science).
On March 21, 2012, the Sutherland Archives
hosted the Grand Opening of the Oral History
of Utah Peace Activists project, which was
conducted by Dr. Kathryn French of UVU. We
displayed materials from the Archives which
documented protests against the MX Missile,
the growth of nuclear testing in the West, and
the building of the Trident Missile. We
displayed the photographs of Dr. Alexis Kelner,
who has been photographing area protests for
over 30 years. We also sponsored several panel
discussions featuring activists who had taken
part in many of those protests, and who had
also participated in the oral history interviews.
You can listen to and/or read many of the
interviews at the oral history project website,
http://www.uvu.edu/library/archives/
Undated photo of protesters at the Utah State
Capitol, by Alexis Kelner.
PROXY
BORROWING
Don’t
have
time
to
come
into
the
Library?
Send
a
designated
proxy
to
check
out
books
and
other
materials
for
you.
Call
x8886
for
more
information
about
setting
up
a
proxy
borrower.
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By Lesli Baker, Assistant Director—Public Services
With higher education under increased scrutiny, higher education change and reform has been a
hot topic. Listed below are a selection of books available from the UVU Library addressing the
challenges and suggestions for solutions to many of the dilemmas that higher education faces.
BIBLIOGRAPHY: HIGHER EDUCATION
Title Author Call Number
American academic profession : trans-formation
in contemporary higher edu-cation
Joseph C. Hermanowicz,
editor
LA227.4 .A446 2011
Bridging the diversity divide : globaliza-tion
and reciprocal empowerment in
higher education
Edna Chun, Alvin Evans LC208.8 .C48 2009
Business of higher education John C. Knapp and David J.
Siegel, editors
LB2342 .B88 2009
Changing course : reinventing colleges,
avoiding closure
Alice W. Brown, Sandra L.
Ballard, editors
LB2823.2 .C46 2011
College choice and access to college :
moving policies, research, and practice
to the 21st century
Amy Aldous Bergerson LB2350.5 .B47 2009
Creating a class : college admissions and
the education of elites
Mitchell L. Stevens LB2351.2 .S755 2007
Crisis on campus : a bold plan for re-forming
our colleges and universities
Mark C. Taylor LA227.4 .T39 2010
Degrees of inequality : culture, class,
and gender in American higher educa-tion
Ann L. Mullen LC67.62 .M58 2010
Dewey's dream : universities and de-mocracies
in an age of education re-form
: civil society, public schools, and
democratic citizenship
Lee Benson, Ira Harkavy,
and John Puckett
LB875.D5 B46 2007
Ethical challenges of academic admin-istration
Elaine Englehardt, editor LB2341 .E65 2009
Ethnic and racial administrative diversi-ty
: understanding work life realities
and experiences in higher education
Jerlando F.L. Jackson, Eliz-abeth
M. O'Callaghan
LB2331.695 .E83 2009
Financing higher education worldwide :
who pays? who should pay?
D. Bruce Johnstone and
Pamela N. Marcucci
LB2341.98 .J64 2010
Globalization's muse : universities and
higher education systems in a changing
world
John Aubrey Douglass, C.
Judson King, Irwin Feller
(editors)
LB2322.2 .G57 2009
Grading education : getting accountabil-ity
right
Richard Rothstein, Rebecca
Jacobsen, Tamara Wilder
LB2806.22 .R67 2008
Great American university : its rise to
preeminence, its indispensable national
role, and why it must be protected
Jonathan R. Cole LA227.4 .C64 2009
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Higher education and the American
dream : success and its discontents
Marvin Lazerson LA227.4 .L39 2010
Higher education? : how colleges are
wasting our money and failing our kids-
-and what we can do about it
Andrew Hacker and Clau-dia
Dreifus
LA227.4 .H33 2010
Higher learning, greater good : the pri-vate
and social benefits of higher edu-cation
Walter W. McMahon LB2324 .M39 2009
International collaborations : opportu-nities,
strategies, challenges
Pamela L. Eddy, editor LC1090 .I5517 2010
Landmark issues in teaching and learn-ing
: a look back at New directions for
teaching and learning
Marilla D. Svinicki, Cathe-rine
M. Wehlburg, editors
LB2361.5 .L363 2010
Lost soul of higher education : corpo-ratization,
the assault on academic
freedom, and the end of the American
university
Ellen Schrecker LC72.2 .S36 2010
Partnerships and collaborations in
higher education
Pamela L. Eddy LB2331.53 .E32 2010
Philanthropy and fundraising in Ameri-can
higher education
Noah D. Drezner LB2336 .D749 2011
Planning and assessment in higher ed-ucation
: demonstrating institutional
effectiveness
Michael F. Middaugh LB2341 .M4437 2010
Policies and practices to improve stu-dent
preparation and success
Andrea Conklin Bueschel,
Andrea Venezia, editors
LB2343.4 .P6553 2009
Powers of the mind : the reinvention of
liberal learning in America
Donald N. Levine LB2361.5 .L48 2007
Presidents and analysts discuss con-temporary
challenges
John J. Prihoda, editor ;
Arthur M. Cohen, editor-in-chief
JC423 .P7475 2011
Price of admission : how America's rul-ing
class buys its way into elite colleges-
-and who gets left outside the gates
Daniel Golden LB2351.2 .G65 2007
Rise of gridiron university : higher edu-cation's
uneasy alliance with big-time
football
Brian M. Ingrassia GV959.5 .I64 2012
Saving alma mater : a rescue plan for
America's public universities
James C. Garland LB2342 .G37 2009
Strategic financial challenges for higher
education : how to achieve quality, ac-countability,
and innovation
Lucie Lapovsky, Donna
Klinger, editors
LB2342 .S7738 2008
Stress of change : Testing the resilience of
institutions
Martin Kramer, editor BL2341.S774 2010
Student affairs budgeting and financial
management in the midst of financial crisis
Lori E. Varlotta, Barbara C.
Jones, editors
LB2342.9.S78 2010
Turnaround leadership for higher educa-tion
Michael Fullan, Geoff Scott LB2341.F84 2009
THE LIBRARY CONNECTION
The Library Connection shares information regarding the
services, programs, and materials available to the faculty, staff,
and students of Utah Valley University.
The Library Connection is published twice a year, during the
Fall and Spring semesters. New editions are announced in
UVLink and UVAnnounce. Current and past issues are available
from the UVU Library’s web site.
For comments and suggestions, contact Lesli Baker, Assistant
Director-Public Services, via email (bakerle@uvu.edu) or phone
(863-8286).
Utah Valley University
800 W. University Pkwy
Orem Utah 84058
Phone: (801) 863-8265
Fax: (801) 863-7065
www.uvu.edu/library
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Twentieth-century higher education : elite
to mass to universal
Martin Trow LA227.4 .T77 2010
Understanding the new majority of non-tenure-
track faculty in higher education :
demographics, experiences, and plans of
action
Adrianna Kezar, Cecile Sam LB2331.72 .K49 2010
University : an illustrated history Fernando Tejerina, editor LA173 .U5513 2011
University against itself : the NYU strike
and the future of the academic workplace
Monika Krause, editor LB2335.845.U52 N53 2008
University of Google : education in the
(post) information age
Tara Brabazon LB2395.7 .B73 2007
Uses of intercollegiate athletics : opportu-nities
and challenges for the university
J. Douglas Toma, Dennis A.
Kramer II, editors
GV346 .U847 2009
What's happening to public higher educa-tion?
: the shifting financial burden
Ronald G. Ehrenberg, edi-tor
LB2328.62.U6 W43 2007
Why does college cost so much? Robert B. Archibald, David
H. Feldman
LB2342 .A685 2011
Women's status in higher education : eq-uity
matters
Elizabeth J. Allan LC1567 .A44 2011
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