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The Library Connection: A Newsletter for UVU Faculty, 2012 Fall
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| Creator | Utah Valley University Library |
| Contributors | Utah Valley University Library |
| Title | The Library Connection: A Newsletter for UVU Faculty, 2012 Fall |
| Description | The Library Connection is an online newsletter created by Library staff for UVU faculty, to help them keep abreast of new developments and services in the UVU library |
| Edition | Electronic |
| Date Original | 2012-09 |
| Publisher Digital | Utah Valley University Library |
| Physical Description | Online newsletter |
| Owning Institution | Utah Valley University |
| Subject | Utah Valley University. Library; |
| Local Subjects | Newsletters; Library newsletter; Faculty newsletter; |
| Language | eng |
| Collection Name | Utah Valley University Library Collection |
| Rights | http://www.uvu.edu/library/irinfo.html |
| Copyright Status/Owner | Copyright 2012 Utah Valley University Library |
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| Contributor Metadata | McIntyre, Catherine |
| Metadata Entry Date | 2012-10-01 |
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| Full Text | 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/" target="_top">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 The Library Connection 2 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)" target="_top">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 3 The Library Connection 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. 4 NOOK EREADERS AVAILABLE AT THE LIBRARY The Library Connection 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. 5 NEW DATABASES One of our favorite molecules: caffeine! An inkblot from the Rorschach Test. The Library Connection 6 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. 7 The Library Connection 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. The Library Connection 8 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 9 The Library Connection 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 The Library Connection 10 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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