"SHOP EARLY - SHOP OFTEN" AT THE LIBRARY BOOKSALE
Make
plans now to attend the annual Library Booksale, which will be held in the Library's
Nordstrom Lobby from 7:30a.m.-6:00 p.m. on Wednesday, October 27. As
usual, we will have thousands of items to choose from, including books
in virtually all subject areas, maps, videos, phonograph records, etc.
Most of these materials will be for sale at rock bottom prices, except for some
specially marked items. All proceeds from the sale directly benefit the Library.
Keep in mind that the Library is always willing to accept your donations of
books, videos, CDs, etc., which we will either add to the collection or offer
for sale, depending upon our needs. So, think of us as you are cleaning up around
your home or office. Those unwanted items that are collecting dust on your bookshelves
just might find new life in the Library!
STATUS OF LIBRARY BUDGET 2004/2005
Alas, once again
we are in the position of having to tell you about further reductions to our
budget due to the cuts to the University's budget. This year's materials spending
will have to be reduced by another $322,000 to meet required cuts. These reductions
will be handled by cutting an additional $25,000 from periodicals subscriptions,
canceling several lower use databases, and stopping the library book purchasing
plan. As we start the year, only $11,000 is available to purchase new books
and videos this year for the campus. This small sum will be spent to support
essential services such as reserve, as long as it lasts. Interlibrary loan and
the Ingenta document delivery service will continue to be available to assist
in meeting campus information needs.
Under these circumstances, fundraising efforts are underway. See article below for further details on this.
We
are pleased to announce that an anonymous donor has offered to match gifts received
by December 15, 2004, up to a total of $10,000. All matching gifts will be used
to purchase books, videos, and other materials in support of the curriculum.
If you wish to make a donation, print and fill out this form.
Last November, this same donor graciously made one of the single largest donations
to the Library for the purchase of books in support of new faculty instruction
and research and for video materials. We are delighted with this match, which
will significantly increase our ability to serve our students and faculty.
Through the generosity of Fujitsu Laboratories of America in Sunnyvale, California, the University Library is the beneficiary of upgraded equipment for our public computer stations and for the Digital Literacy Closet. Among the items received was a PC that, modified for Library use, is now the server for The Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century project (see below). We very much appreciate this gift, which will assist us in providing enhanced service to Library users.
The
Digital Literacy Closet Presents
THE
ONLINE VIDEO ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE 20TH CENTURY
The
Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century is being digitized for use by
the HSU community. The contents of 42 laserdiscs are now available as online
video clips that can be viewed online or downloaded for use in presentations.
Altogether, over 80 hours of video are available from this single source. They
are currently available in a single computerized video format, MPEG1, but other
formats will be added during the semester.
There are over 2,300 clips searchable online by keyword and dates. The clips are compilations of historic film footage. The dates of the videos range from the early work of Thomas Edison, in the late 1890s to events in the early 1980s. Each video clip has a description of its contents and a listing of the multiple clips that may be contained in a single title. If you are curious about what history looked like, consider adding The Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century to your web browser's bookmarks for frequent use. The Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century is available from the Library's databases page or directly at the following url: http://library.humboldt.edu/vetc/
If you are going to use The Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century
from off campus, have your University ID handy, this resource is for HSU users
only, and because the files are very large, a high-speed network connection
is recommended. To see a brief
clip of Muhammad Ali Discusses Misuse Of Word "Black" - 1968
speech, click on the image.
The Library has
continued to update the services provided through ONCORES, the HSU Library Online
Course Reserve System. Our goal is to stay current with available technology,
while serving as many of our faculty and students as possible. We recently made
the following important changes to the ONCORES program:
We have updated the ONCORES Reserve Request
Form to incorporate these changes. For more information about ONCORES, go
to the main ONCORES
web page, or call us at 826-4401.
HUMBOLDT ROOM PHOTOGRAPH COLLECTIONS
At present, three
of the Humboldt Room's many photograph collections are searchable in a single
database. These include the Ericson Collection (497 images, call number 1999.02)
and the Swanlund-Baker Collection (1,001 photos, call number 1999.01). More
information about these collections is available on the collection pages: Ericson
Photograph Collection and Swanlund-Baker
Photograph Collection.
The third collection accessible in the searchable database is the general Humboldt Room Photograph Collection which consists of approximately 2,850 photos of multiple origins covering all aspects of northwestern California. This collection continues to grow.
Please see the Humboldt Room Collections page for descriptions of other photograph collections.
The
Library has "elected" to maintain a website of notable links pertaining
to the upcoming election in November, the campaign, and the candidates. Easily
accessible from the link on the library's homepage (click button on the left),
users will be taken to a page providing quick access to sites within the following
categories: Educating the Electorate; Media Links; National Platforms; Campaign
Finance; Polls; PAC's and Humor.
Site selections were compiled from a variety of sources to include reputable non-partisan groups, popular media, government agencies, and general links to lists of political action committees. This site is not intended to be a comprehensive listing of all election-related websites but rather a concise starting point from which the user can explore beyond that which is presented.
COLLECTION REFINEMENT PROJECTS
This
year, due to the budgetary constraints we are operating under, we have decided
to take the time formerly devoted to the purchase of new materials and use it
do another important aspect of collection management, the task of reviewing
older and underutilized titles for withdraw. This work has the good effect of
freeing up space for the new publications to come in future years, plus making
the newer books in our collection easier for students to find. Our goal is to
withdraw 10,000 old and outdated volumes this year across all subject areas.
We need teaching faculty advisory help on these projects, so please consider
helping your subject librarian review titles when the request comes.
NEW PUBLIC PCs FOR THE LIBRARY
You may not immediately notice a change in the Library's public PCs. The monitors and keyboards are more or less the same, but the processing power and software are undergoing a major upgrade this semester. When you use one of the Library's new public stations you may recognize the look and feel of Windows XP, the same operating system in use at the Academic Computing Open Access Labs.
This new software configuration also includes the latest assistive technology on every workstation. This includes the JAWS® screen reader software, ZoomText® screen magnification software and ReadPlease® text reading software. Please note that for now, the headphone connections are on the rear panel of the new machines.
The workstations are now protected from tampering and unwanted installations
by the same Deep Freeze® software used in the AC Labs. You will be able
to return your station to a completely clean configuration by restarting it.
Despite
the severe funding constraints for this year which prevent the HSU Library from
purchasing of new items, the CSU System continues to provide low-cost or subsidized
access to selected new databases.
This summer all CSU campuses have been given access to Safari TechBooks Online,
containing about 400 technology e-books from O'Reilly Press, Addison-Wesley,
Adobe Press, Prentice-Hall and more. You can search across the titles as a database,
or you will find the individual titles in our catalog.
Acting on another CSU system offer, HSU Library was able to subscribe to the
Classical Music Library, an online database of downloadable digital
recordings. The list of publishers includes EMI, Vox and Hyperion, and all musical
forms are represented. The recordings have stable links and can be assigned
for student listening.
Other new databases this year include Child Development & Adolescent
Studies, CQ Electronic Library, CQ Weekly,
Social Services Abstracts (replacing Social Work Abstracts),
and our growing local digitization project, the Video Encyclopedia of
the 20th Century. You can find them on the HSU Library Databases menus,
at
http://library.humboldt.edu/infoservices/indexes/alphafast.html
The Library's web pages have a new addition, a simple, fill-in-the-blanks form
that can help you turn references into full-text articles with a minimum of
effort. The form asks for the usual reference information: the author's last
name, the article's title, the journal's title, date, volume, issue and the
starting page of the article. Instead of having to know the journal's exact,
proper title, you can search for the title using the sometimes cryptic abbreviations
in references, keywords, or just a partial title. You have the option of choosing
the correct title from a list of titles matching your searching. When you find
the title, you can send all of your citation to the SFX system, representing
over 10,000 full-text titles. It will send your entire citation to the system
so that you may be one click away from the full text of the article.
The HSU Library does not have every journal and that is why we have a busy interlibrary
loan department. When your citation doesn't match any journals we have in the
collection, the Citation Linker becomes an automated interlibrary loan form.
Since no title matched your request, you can search the title again, this time
against a list of over 40,000 journal titles. By doing this, and confirming
that the journal title is correct, the request can be processed most quickly.
When you find the title that matches your request and click the button to send
the interlibrary loan request, the Citation Linker will automatically call up
the interlibrary loan form and fill in all of the information about your article.
You only need to check the information one last time and fill in the information
about your identity and your request is done.
The Citation Linker is available at http://library.humboldt.edu/cite/citesearch4.html
NORTHWESTERN
CALIFORNIA NEWSPAPERS WEBSITE
The
Northwestern California Newspapers website was unveiled by Special Collections
Librarian Joan Berman, along with two HSU students, Nathaniel Haas and Drogheda
NiFaolain, in a presentation in Eureka on September 24, 2004 for the annual
conference of the California Council for the Promotion of History. This website
(http://library.humboldt.edu/nwcnews/)
is the culmination of a year-long project to develop a model for providing access
to the newspapers of a region as a companion to the California Newspaper Project
(http://www.cbsr.ucr.edu/cnp/). The
project was supported in part by the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services
under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act, administered
in California by the State Librarian. The Library team working on the project
includes Joan Berman, Edie Butler, Laurie Maxwell-Chamberlain and Gisela Rohde.
We will be refining and adding to the website over the next couple of months,
so any feedback will be welcome!
