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NDSU Main Library open 24 hours starting April 21 In order to allow ample study areas for students preparing for finals and finishing up the semester, the NDSU Main Library will be open 24 hours, including Saturdays and Sundays, from Monday-April 21 to Friday-May 9. Thanks to Blue Key, Student Government, and Greek Life for scheduling volunteers to provide coverage and making this possible! Social Media in Higher Education Conference All students, faculty, and staff are invited to the Social Media in Higher Education Conference will be held from 8:30 am to 5:30 pm on Tuesday, March 18, in the Memorial Union. Social media refers to collaborative, Web-based tools for communication and the creation of mixed-media content. This all-day conference will feature information on an array of new social media technology, including Wimba, wikis, blogging, podcasting, social bookmarking, virtual environments, and other Web-enhanced learning technologies. There is no charge for attending the conference. Registration for morning or afternoon sessions is requested (but not mandatory) to facilitate planning. Additional information regarding the conference, including links to registration and the schedule of morning and afternoon sessions, can be found on the conference web site. Library Off-Campus Storage Open To Researchers NDSU faculty, staff, and graduate students now have by-appointment access to materials at the Library's Off-Campus Storage Facility (Library Annex). Researchers with an NDSU ID will be allowed into the facility's reading room. Library staff will then retrieve needed items for use there or check-out. Photocopy service is also available but all patrons must charge back to an NDSU department. To make an appointment, call 293-6564. To ensure adequate staffing appointments must be made 24 hours in advance. The Library will continue the current Pull Service to bring requested materials to campus from the Annex facility. Tax Forms, Information, and Free Assistance The NDSU Library offers free copies of basic federal and North Dakota income tax forms; these are located near the Circulation Desk in the Main Library. The Library also has several tax guidebooks on reference and also available for circulation. Downloadable federal and state tax forms and information are also available online at the NDSU Library website. For more information, call the Reference Desk at 231-8886. Also, VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) is offering free tax preparation in the Library . Service is available Wednesday evenings from February 20–March 26, 5:00 PM–9:00 PM (except March 5 during Spring Break). New Retrieval Service for Faculty and Staff NDSU faculty and staff may now place holds for "on-shelf" materials not checked-out. Circulation (and branch library) staff will retrieve the material for later pick up by the user. The new service works similar to the regular hold feature in the online catalog in that it uses the OPAC request (Hold) through the My Account feature. To use the new service faculty and staff "sign-in" to the OPAC, locate the needed item, and from the item availability page display list, click the "Request" link on the left side. We allow holds for all available items except non-circulating materials such as reference and special collections. Items will be available at the Circulation Desk within 12 hours and returned to the shelf if not retrieved within a week. Dakota Memories featured in Horizons Magazine
"Dakota Memories: History videos preserving voices from the heartland" (PDF), by Andrea Winkjer Collin, North Dakota Horizons, Bismarck, North Dakota, Winter 2007, pages 18-21.
Read more about the GRHC's Dakota Memories Oral History Project: News and Media Releases.
Scopus database replaced by Web of Science NDSU no longer subscribes to the Scopus database. In its place NDSU researchers now have access to a new science database called Web of Science®. Web of Science® is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences and social sciences. It consists of two databases, Science Citation Index Expanded™ and Social Sciences Citation Index®, and fully indexes 7,625 major journals across 150 scientific and 50 social sciences disciplines. A key feature is the citation index containing the references cited by the authors of the articles covered by the index. You can use these references to do cited reference searching. A cited reference search enables you to find articles that cite a previously published work. In addition to cited reference searching, you can search these databases by topic, author, source title, and address. The database averages nearly 22,000 new records per week. Access Web of Science® from the NDSU Library's Databases page. Off-campus users may access the databases after logging in. For more information, call the Reference Desk at 231-8886. NDSU Main Library open 24 hours for Finals Week In order to allow ample study areas for students preparing for finals and finishing up the semester, the NDSU Main Library will be open 24 hours—including Saturday and Sunday—starting Monday, December 3 to Friday, December 14. The NDSU Blue Key Honor Society, Student Government, and Greek Life have scheduled members to provide coverage and make this possible; thank you! NDSU Library Moves New eJournal System Into Production The NDSU Library has purchased the EBSCO A-to-Z® system, "a locator tool listing all of a library's e-resources, including e-journals, titles in full-text databases, publisher packages and e-books." The number of titles available through the new NDSU Library eJournal system is more than doubled from the old. Searching is more flexible, subject categorization is streamlined, and multiple publisher / aggregator sources for the same journal are clearly indicated. Visual customizations are still forthcoming, but the system is now live and ready for use. New Homepage Mockup; Comments Welcome
Pride of Dakota Holiday Showcase
The GRHC Travel Schedule and Events page lists more upcoming events. Visit the Pride of Dakota homepae for more information; sponsored by the North Dakota Department of Agriculture. GRHC at the Women's Showcase The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection is attending Women's Showcase at the Fargodome Saturday, October 13 from 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM. We will have our cookbooks available for purchase and offer a 10% discount on all purchases $50 or more. Our booth is located on the north side of the Fargodome. National Coming Out Week Resource Display
National Coming Out Day, started in the 90s by the Human Rights Campaign, is a time for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer and ally people to celebrate their identities in healthy, visible, and active ways with the hopes of encouraging others to do the same. National Coming Out Day is Thursday, October 11th, 2007. Web of Science training seminar NDSU researchers now have access to a new science database called Web of Science®. NDSU's Web of Science® is a multidisciplinary index to the journal literature of the sciences and social sciences. It consists of two databases, Science Citation Index Expanded™ and Social Sciences Citation Index®, and fully indexes 7,625 major journals across 150 scientific and 50 social sciences disciplines. A key feature is the citation index containing the references cited by the authors of the articles covered by the index. You can use these references to do cited reference searching. A cited reference search enables you to find articles that cite a previously published work. In addition to cited reference searching, you can search these databases by topic, author, source title, and address. The database averages nearly 22,000 new records per week. NDSU Library has scheduled a Web of Science® seminar to be held Tuesday-October 2; 9:30-11:00 a.m. in IACC 116. The free session, conducted by a database representative, consists of an overview, live demo, hands on experience, help in setting up personal accounts, and other features. Access the Web of Science® database from the NDSU Library's Database page. Off-campus users may access the databases via the "My Library" login. For more information, call the Reference Desk at 231-8886. TRACES BUS-eum Exhibit on Midwest POWs
The BUS-eum will be parked in front of Minard Hall from 6:00–7:30 pm on Wednesday, September 12, and from 9:00–10:30 am on Thursday, September 13. John Cox, Head of the NDSU History department, will give a lecture on "U.S. Prisoners of War in Axis Lands" in conjunction with this visit.† The lecture is scheduled for 5:30, Wednesday, September 12, in the Library classroom. The BUS exhibit tells the stories of Midwest soldiers and airmen captured in WWII and kept as Prisoners of War (POWs) in Nazi Germany. (Few people know that, per capita, until the Battle of the Bulge—only six months before the war's end in Europe—the most American POWs in the Third Reich came from the Midwest!). This exhibit explores their experiences topically—looking, for example, at their capture, interrogation, camp life, art/theater in the camps, escape attempts, death marches at the war's end, liberation and return to the U.S. reconciliation, etc. Since March 2004 it has visited 405 communities in six Midwest states; 37,500 people have viewed it. The combined BUS tours have drawn more than 51,000 visitors to the two exhibits.† This is the second visit to NDSU by the TRACES BUS-eum with exhibits on WWII POWs. New Web Exhibit from the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studdies The Way it Was… Depression Era Memories of Richard Bostwick Take a backseat ride with Richard Bostwick through this vivid recounting of his experience as a Fargo, N.D. cabbie and welfare office worker. His accounts reflect a side of Fargo during the tough times of the 1920s and 30s, where people struggled day-to-day to get by, through both legal and illegal means. His occupations put him in a unique position that allowed him to observe an underworld of bootleggers, gamblers, hustlers and other interesting characters, long forgotten and hidden by modern day prosperity. Richard Bostwick had a talent for storytelling that grabs a hold of the reader, and leaves one wanting more. Take a look and enjoy the ride! NDSU Library Unveils New eJournal System The NDSU Library has purchased the EBSCO A-to-Z® system, "a locator tool listing all of a library's e-resources, including e-journals, titles in full-text databases, publisher packages and e-books." The system is still a work in progress, but is available online: the new NDSU Library Ejournal List. Visual customizations and additions to the over 39,000 titles already included will be forthcoming. The existing NDSU Library Electronic Journals system should still be used for research until further notice. "Voices of the Heartland: German-Russian Memories" radio series Mon, Jul 30, Prairie Public will begin airing a new radio series of unique and fascinating life stories collected by the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection's Dakota Memories Oral History Project. New NDSU Library Mission and Vision Statements After reviewing input from Librarians and staff, students, and faculty, the NDSU Library has adopted two new statements of purpose. An ad hoc committee was appointed to finalize the Library's Mission and Vision statements after several initial versions were proposed. Chaired by Dave Wahlberg (University Relations)—who was partly in charge of developing the NDSU mission statement—a diverse group from the NDSU community brainstormed ideas, created drafts, and responded to feedback from the Library's professionals. Read the Library Dean's Blog for insights into the process: Mission Statement, Getting a Vision, Tweaking the Mission The "final" versions are now available on the Library's About Us page. "We are considering these statements as living, working, documents," wrote Dr. James Council, Dean of Libraries. "They will be revisited in the fall or later if necessary." The current versions were produced by the following committee members:
New version of SciFinder Scholar SciFinder Scholar 2007 is now available for download. Upgrade with the installer that best meets your needs. There are several download options available: Mac OS X for Safari and Firefox, Windows, Mac OS 9.2 or less, and off-campus versions. SciFinder Scholar Access Off-campus The NDSU Library is currently trialing software which allows off-campus use of SciFinder Scholar. Resources at the Library of Congress Judith Graves, a Digital Projects Coordinator at the Library of Congress, recently conducted a videoconference with library professionals from NDSU and the surrounding area.† As part of the Library of Congress' distance learning outreach program, its goal is to introduce people to the resources of the Library; the focus is primarily—but not exclusively—the material on the web site. Quick reference guides from the videoconference included the following:
Members of the Digital Reference Team, plus staff specialists from other areas of the Library, conduct these programs and highlight the services and skills of Library staff who are available to help researchers. The objectives are to provide participants with:
Come to the National Library Week Picnic
Read the Dean's Blog An Academic in Libraryland: "Last April, I didn't even know there was a Dean of Libraries at NDSU, but that is what I became in May. I had spent years dealing with the library from the patron's side of the service desks, and now I was on the inside. I had no idea what a strange new world I was about to enter." PP broadcasts German-Russian narratives In March and April, Prairie Public's "Dakota Datebook" will feature narratives gleaned from the Dakota Memories Oral History Project. NDSU Celebrates Federal Government Documents Centennial The NDSU Library celebrates their 100th year of participation in the Federal Depository Library Program (FDLP) on Thursday, March 1, with a 2:00 PM. reception in the Main Library Lobby and a display of federal publications. The public is invited to attend. The FDLP was established in 1813 to ensure the American public has access to government information. Depository libraries collect, organize, maintain and the information and provide local, no-fee access to the public. Any person can visit the nearly 1,250 depository libraries and use the federal depository collections. NDSU's collection contains more than 525,000 items, including more than 300,000 print documents and 90,000 maps. Information on careers, business opportunities, consumer information, health and nutrition, legal and regulatory information, demographics and numerous other subjects can be found in books, reports, magazines, pamphlets, flyers, posters, CDs, DVDs, video tapes and Web pages. Library service at NDSU began in 1891. In 1907, federal legislation was passed designating all land-grant institutions as federal depository libraries. In 1969, the NDSU Libraries and the Chester Fritz Library at the University of North Dakota formed a joint regional depository. The arrangement ensures that every federal depository publication is received and retained by at least one of the two libraries. For more information, contact Kathryn.Thomas@ndsu.edu, or call 231-8863. Free Tax Assistance at the Library VITA (Volunteer Income Tax Assistance) is offering free tax preparation in the Library Computer Clusters 14A & 14B. This year services are available Wednesday evenings from February 21–March 28, 5:30 PM–7:30 PM (except March 14 during Spring Break). More eJournals from Elsevier NDSU students, faculty, and staff now have an additional 1,145 Elsevier titles available through ScienceDirect for research in eJournals. The new titles are part of a consortial subscription to the ScienceDirect electronic journal package and provide NDSU with access to nearly all titles (1,790) produced by Elsevier, one of the world's foremost scholarly publishers. The full-text is enhanced by an automatic table-of-contents service, hyperlinked references, and various download capabilities. In addition the system also serves as an abstracting and indexing database covering important journals in all fields of science. NDSU Library Catalog (ODIN) Planned Outage Sat Feb 10–Sun Feb 11, the online library catalog, statewide databases, and the Docutek electronic reserves system will be inaccessible. When: Saturday, February 10 from 5:00 AM–Noon; Sunday, February 11 from 4:30 AM–4:00 PM. These times are best estimates; the actual outage period may vary. What this means for libraries:
Background on why this is happening:The University of North Dakota, were these systems are hosted, is into a major capital improvement project to triple the capacity of the campus electrical distribution system. As part of this upgrade we have had several outages of live power so that contractors can work on the electrical distribution system. As this project has progressed library systems have not been impacted by the outages because of the standby emergency generator that was put in a couple years ago to keep the computer systems 'up' during campus power outages. To finish the project in the building containing all computer systems the contractor needs to turn power off completely to move transfer switches etc. This is a period where all power, including the generator, must be offline while this building is completed. There have been lengthy negotiations with the project engineer and contractors to minimize the outages time. Each outage requires, in addition to the electrical contractor's time, ITSS staff working several hours before an outage to take down equipment and several hours after an outage to re-boot everything. West Acres Cookbook Festival Saturday, February 3, 2007 from 10:00 AM–9:00 PM, the Germans from Russia Heritage Collection, NDSU Libraries, and the North Dakota Library Association will each have a booth at the West Acres Cookbook Festival. Cosgrove Seminar Series in the Weber Reading Room — Carol Pearson
Chicana writers have been finding ways to express their unique experiences in the last two decades. Pearson will endeavor to map the process by which the work of these contemporary writers have constructed abundant and varied possibilities for Chicana subjects, and she will consider ways in which the voices illuminate the oral histories of women from the Fargo-Moorhead Mexican-American communities. Refreshments will be served, and all are welcome to attend. If you are interested in being a presenter or have any suggestions regarding the Cosgrove Seminar Series, please contact Cindy Nichols, South Engineering 318F, 231-7024. Tax Information at the Main Library and website The tax season is upon us and again NDSU Libraries offers free copies of basic federal and North Dakota income tax forms. The Library also has several tax guidebooks on reference and also available for circulation. Federal and state tax forms and information are also available online at the NDSU Libraries website. For more information, call the Reference Desk 231-8886. New eJournal Collection NDSU now has access to the JSTOR Biological Sciences Collection. JSTOR is a nonprofit digital-archiving organization that collects, scans, and offers eJournal equivalents for full runs of scholarly journals. The Biological Sciences Collection immediately adds 37 titles to NDSU's electronic archive and will include at least 100 titles when it is completed in 2007. This collection brings together the twenty-nine journals available in our existing Ecology & Botany Collection with eventually more than seventy titles new to JSTOR. Coverage in this collection offers greater depth in fields such as biodiversity, conservation, paleontology, and plant science, in addition to introducing new areas such as cell biology and zoology. It is the sixth JSTOR journal archive collection NDSU has purchased. Initial funding for purchasing the collection comes from a grant from the Development Foundation's Centennial Endowment Fund. Access the Biological Sciences Collection from JSTOR. For more information call the Reference Desk (231-8886) or contact your subject librarian. New database vendor for PsycARTICLES and PsycINFO PsycARTICLES and PyscINFO can now be accessed through EBSCOhost. Books make great gifts! The North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies is now offering a 25% discount on all of its publications to NDSU employees for the Holiday shopping season. Check out the complete list of books and contact Wendy (231-8338) or Cathy (231-7857) with any questions. Cosgrove Seminar Series in the Weber Reading Room During the Spring 2007 semester, this English department lecture series will present scholarly papers, creative writing readings, reports on research, and more. The Weber Reading Room will be reserved the 4th Wednesday of each month for these seminars, which are open to the public. Update (2007-02-26): The Cosgrove Seminar presentations for February and March have been canceled. They will be rescheduled and relocated in combination with presentations by NDHC Remele Fellowship award-winners. Update (2007-04-23): The Cosgrove Seminar presentation for April has been canceled.
Candles at Canaan in the Weber Reading Room On December 6th at 3:30 PM, Tom Isern will present readings from his newly–released audio CDs of regionalist essays with "a message of hope—hope about living a good life on the prairies." Musical interludes will be performed by Bob Groves, professor of music at NDSU, whose music is featured on the CDs. Profits from CD sales during this event are designated for music scholarships at NDSU. Dr. Kathy Enger published in Educause Quarterly The NDSU Social Sciences Librarian's article, Minorities and Online Higher Education (also available in PDF), was recently published in Educause Quarterly, "the practitioner's journal about managing and using information resources in higher education." From the article: "Online education offers a color-blind environment to engage students from all backgrounds in mentored learning". Pride of Dakota Holiday Showcase The Germans from Russia Heritage Collection will have booths featuring books, DVD documentaries, cookbooks, CDs, and maps at the following Pride of Dakota Holiday Showcases:
Visit prideofdakota.com for more information; sponsored by the North Dakota Department of Agriculture. Greetings from North Dakota on Prairie Public Radio John Bye and John Hallberg of the North Dakota Institute for Regional Studies were recently guests on the Prairie Public Radio program Hear It Now, where they spoke about a recent Institute publication: Greetings from North Dakota, an address and date book featuring vintage postcards from North Dakota. Bye and Hallberg wrote the historical information about the postcards, which come from the collections of Lawrence Aasen and Ronald Olin. Greetings from North Dakota is one of the thank–you gifts during Prairie Public Radio's current membership drive. It is also available for purchase from the Institute for $13.95. You can listen to the podcast of the Hear It Now broadcast (November 15th, 2006), or browse the NDPR On Demand Jukebox. University Podcasting University Podcasting: A Series of Presentations and Discussions on Podcasting in the University Setting. New SilverPlatter/Ovid client for WinSPIRS The NDSU Libraries has recently moved its ERL/SilverPlatter/Ovid databases from a local server (WinSPIRS) to a server provided by OVID. The local server will be shut off on November 1st, 2006. Any users who currently use WinSPIRS as their primary client are strongly encouraged to switch to using the new WebSPIRS interface available at https://www.lib.ndsu.nodak.edu/spirsdist If you choose to continue using WinSPIRS, you will receive an error after November 1st. Please make the following change before this date. In order to discontinue this error message, you have to update a WinSPIRS configuration file, typically located at the following path on your computer: You can modify this file via Notepad and simply remove the line containing " You will know the change was successful when you no longer receive a "Message of the Day" dialog box. If you have any questions or concerns, please contact Jeremy Brown of the NDSU Libraries. Cancellation Project A list of serials changes for NDSU libraries (additions, cancellations, and format changes) is now available. Library institutes overdue fine Beginning August 21, the NDSU Libraries will institute a $5.00 processing fee for overdue materials. If item(s) are not returned within 30 days after the due date, the Business Office will bill patrons a non-refundable processing fee of $5.00 per item.† This nonrefundable fee applies to all faculty, staff, and students, and there will be no exceptions. After 60 days the Business Office will bill patrons for the cost of replacing the material. In order to maintain library privileges, the patron must return the item(s) or pay a replacement fee. All fees must be paid directly to the Business Office. For questions or more information, contact the Circulation Department (231-8888). |
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