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Do you like to rummage
through neighborhood garage sales in search of a hidden treasure?
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Do you enjoy exploring
granddad's attic looking for memorabilia from yesteryear?
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Do you like to peruse the
dusty shelves in the dark recesses of a used bookstore, seeking out that
elusive first edition from your favorite mystery author?
If you answered
"Yes" to any of these questions (and even if you didn't), you may be
interested to know that the HSU Library has scheduled its annual Fall Booksale.
During this event, we dispose of books, maps, pamphlets, CDs, phonograph
records, and other materials that are either no longer needed for the Library
collection, or were donated to the Library, but not added to our holdings.
Prices for most hardcover books and audio materials are $1 each, paperbacks are
$.50, and maps are $.25. Some specialty items, including reference books and
recent editions, will be priced higher as marked. Please join us for this
popular event, and come early for the best selection.
Where: HSU Library
Nordstrom Lobby
When: Wednesday,
October 25
Hours: 7:30 a.m. to
7:30 p.m.
The Library now offers a formal
1-unit class that provides strategies, sources, and techniques for effective
use and evaluation of library and other information sources in print and
electronic formats. We encourage you to
recommend this class to your advisees and students as a way to improve their
information competency skills. While
aimed at the lower division student, the concepts presented will benefit all
students who are lacking in information research skills. Two sections will be offered again in the
spring by Library faculty. For
additional information, see http://library.humboldt.edu/
infoservices/speech280.htm or contact Robert Sathrum @ Ext. 5600.
There is a new button on the
HSU Library Home Page, labeled Periodicals
List. Clicking this button takes
you to a new and very useful database that you can use to find journal titles
among the 1,600 titles of our print collection and the 5,500 titles available
in our online fulltext services. You
can search by exact journal title or by title keywords. Please contact your bibliographer or the
reference librarian on duty with further questions.
HSU Library continues to add
new databases. Databases added to the
menus since last semester include:
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ACM Digital
Library - fulltext of 25 Association for Computing Machinery journals
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ASTIS - Arctic
Science and Technology Information System - all aspects of northern Canada including earth and life sciences,
engineering, technology, and resources
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E*Subscribe
- fulltext ERIC documents from 1996 to the present in pdf format
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EBSCO
Online - online versions of 225 periodicals subscribed to in print at HSU
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Grove Dictionary of
Art - continuously updated online
version of 34- volume definitive reference work, including illustrations
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USA Trade Online - current US export and import data
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Health
Reference Center Academic - indexes over 230 journals and other
publications and provides fulltext to 160 of them
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OmniFile
Full Text Mega - indexes over 270 popular magazines and 2,500 scholarly
journals in many disciplines; includes fulltext for 1,300 titles
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Oxford
English Dictionary - continuously updated web version
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Past
Masters - fulltext files of several important western philosophers
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Policy.com - comprehensive US news and policy resource
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Sacramento Bee - online newspaper archive
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USA Trade Online - current US export and import data
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Wiley
Interscience - fulltext of 335 scholarly journals published by Wiley
Instructors of senior
seminars and capstone courses can arrange for a single semester of access to
Uncover for students enrolled in the class.
Please see your subject librarian to arrange for access.
What, you may be wondering,
is Pharos? It is the system-wide
project to provide anytime/anyplace access to the full range of knowledge and
information resources. Included in this
is a union catalog of all the CSU library holdings; databases with fulltext
articles; electronic indexing to many periodicals in all disciplines; and
user-initiated borrowing of materials from amongst the CSU libraries. This project has been a part of the CSU-wide
library planning document since the first document was published in 1994 and
remains central to the recently published, Working
Together: A Strategic Plan for the CSU
Libraries.
Testing of the union catalog
(all CSU library catalog) is occurring in October and should be ready for use
by the entire system in January. The
remote sharing system, self-initiated borrowing, is also undergoing testing
currently and should be available sometime in the spring semester.
This project has been a long
time coming to fruition, but should allow for much greater access to the
combined resources of the CSU libraries, as well as being able to search our
electronic files, and taking that same search out onto the internet. Watch for more word and the URL for this
project on the HSU Library home page!!!!
A year ago in
this Newsletter we reported receiving two grants from the California State
Library for preservation microfilming of the originals of the Susie Baker
Fountain local history collection and preservation of two collections of glass
plate negatives, the A.W. Ericson and the Swanlund/R.J. Baker collections,
which provide visual documentation of Humboldt County from the 1890s
-1920s. We are bringing these projects
to a close, and the results should be available as finding aids on the Humboldt
Room web page (http://library.humboldt.edu/infoservices/humco/links/findingaids.htm) by the first of the year. As part of the preservation effort, we were
able to digitize the A.W. Ericson Collection and look forward to providing access
to it on the Humboldt Room web page. We
are also happy to have been able to microfilm the massive card file index to
the Susie Baker Fountain Collection in collaboration with the Humboldt County
Library; this will soon be available for use at the HSU Library. Finally, we are exploring funding sources to
obtain a new, state of the art digital microfilm scanner to make our microfilm
collections accessible as online files as well as in paper copies.
We have recently completed a project to provide both
space in the Humboldt Room and more access for users to Humboldt Room
materials. Duplicate, circulating
copies of many books from the Humboldt Room are now available in either the
main Library collection or in the Case Collection (where they can be paged from
the Circulation Desk whenever the Library is open). This includes copies of all HSU theses as well as early years of
the catalog and the yearbook.
Circulating copies are noted in the Library's Catalog, Catalyst. Here's a hint on searching for HSU theses:
look under the following subject heading: Humboldt State University Theses,
followed by an alphabetical list of departments.
ROBERT A.
PASELK
SCIENTIFIC
INSTRUMENT MUSEUM
Dedication ceremony and the official
grand opening of the Robert A. Paselk Scientific Instrument Museum was held on
Friday, October 13, 2000, at 7 p.m. Dr.
Richard A. Paselk, who named the museum after his father, serves as
Curator. Located on the second floor of
the Library, the Museum houses a collection of scientific instruments purchased
by University’s departments of Chemistry and Physics between 1926 and
1970. Dr. Paselk began collecting these
obsolete instruments several years ago.
In conjunction with the Museum located in the Library, Dr. Paselk also
maintains a virtual catalog at http://www.humboldt.edu/~scimus/ which describes the artifacts in more
detail. Whenever possible the following
information is provided for each instrument:
a photograph, a brief paragraph on the usage and history of the
instrument, a detailed description of the instrument including its current
condition, and a scanned image of a contemporary vendor’s catalog description
of the instrument. Additional information
may include the following: brief
histories of manufacturers, contemporary and/or early descriptions of the
instruments and their usage, documents pertaining to the specific instruments,
and more detailed histories of the invention and development of select
instruments.
The Library was selected as
an ideal location for the Museum because of its archival mission which is
dedicated to the preservation of materials related to the University.
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