November 2011 - UCA

Library Connection November 2011

Your Library...A Work in Progress By Art Lichtenstein, Director of the Library On May 7th, 2010, the UCA Board of Trustees passed the following resolution establishing a student fee for the support of Torreyson Library resources and services: "Library Fee: New fee of $3 per hour for Undergraduate and Graduate. Justification: This new fee was initiated by the students and brought up through the Student Government Association. The intent is to generate a carryover fund to support library resources and services not being met by the existing annual budget and frequently requested by the UCA students and faculty. It will en-

Hours Monday –Thursday 7am-12pm Friday 7am-5pm Saturday 8:30am-4pm Sunday 2pm-12am

hance funds for library acquisitions that support teaching and research (e.g., books, journals, databases), purchase additional electronic research collections and upgrade existing subscriptions, extend library hours of operation past midnight, subsidize the cost of printing and photocopying for students, and provide additional amenities. A Library committee made up of student and faculty representation will oversee the use of revenue from these funds; committee recommendations will be subject to appropriate administrative approvals. This fee is anticipated to generate more than $800,000 annually. This change equates to a semester increase of $45 for a student taking 15 hours." For the purpose of overseeing expenditure of these funds, a committee was established consisting of four students selected by SGA leadership, one student selected by the Undergraduate Dean, one student selected by the Graduate Dean and one faculty member repre-

senting each of the six UCA colleges. The Director of the Library serves as the permanent chair of this committee. Revenue from this fee has been collected since the Fall 2010 semester. Since that time expenditures have included both information resources and library improvements. Among the new information resources that this fee supports are America: History & Life, Oxford English Dictionary, SportsDiscus, and Communication & Mass Media, and Web of Science. Library improvements include furniture, electrical outlets, ceiling fans, and color scanners. Two areas that are currently under development with this fee money are extended library hours and subsidized printing. For additional information about this fee and its use, please contact Art Lichtenstein, Director of the Library, at [email protected] or 501-5405202. He will be happy to speak with you.

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Digitizing History By Chrissy Karafit, Serials/Microforms Librarian

Torreyson Library recently purchased a new digital microforms reader to make the microforms collection more user-friendly. Microforms, such as microfiche and microfilm, can contain dozens or hundreds of documents printed in miniature on a small card or roll of film. This format was widely used to efficiently preserve and store information in the years before the Internet. The library maintains a collection of historical newspapers and journals on microfilm and a number of government documents and other resources on microfiche. While the older microforms readers enable customers to view and print articles, the new microforms reader can convert microform documents into pdf files that customers can save to a flash drive or email to themselves. Users can increase or reduce the size of the text on screen and paper to improve readability, and they can adjust the scanning resolution to clarify dark or grainy photographs. Also, pdf files of articles can be formatted to allow full-text keyword searching. The new microforms reader can print articles on standard 8.5” by 11” paper or on the larger 11” by

17” paper. Customers can print an entire newspaper page on this larger paper size. The library’s microform collection includes newspapers, such as the Arkansas Gazette from 1819 to present and the Log Cabin Democrat from 1908 to present. The collection also includes journals and periodical collections, such as the American Periodicals Series, which contains American journals and magazines published between 1740 and 1900. These periodicals provide a wealth of historical information, offering first-hand accounts of events from the colonial and civil war eras. In addition, a number of government documents are available on microfiche, including congressional records and resources published by other federal agencies. The microforms collection is located in the Serials and Microforms Department on the second floor of the Torreyson Library. For more information or to schedule a training session on how to use the new microforms reader, please contact Serials Librarian Chrissy Karafit at [email protected].

Special Library Hours During the Holidays Thanksgiving Break: Wednesday, November 23rd: 8am—5pm Thursday, November 24th – Saturday, November 26th: Closed Sunday, November 27th: Reopen with regular hours

Finals Week:

Christmas Break:

Friday, December 9th: 7am— 9pm Saturday, December 10th: 8:30am—1am Sunday, December 11th— Thursday, December 15th: 7am-1am Friday, December 16th: 7am—5pm

Saturday, December 17th— Sunday, December 18th: Closed Monday, December 19th— Tuesday, December 20th: 8am—5pm Wednesday, December 21st— Tuesday, January 3rd: Closed

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The Philosophy of Dr. Suess By Susan Burks, Public Services Librarian

All those who remember Dr. Seuss from their childhood days will be fascinated to know that the books are far more than wonderful language and cute stories. Philosophers have been using Dr. Seuss books to explore concepts such as the nature of the good life in Oh the Places You’ll Go, the method and value of thinking critically in Oh the Thinks You Can Think, and morality and ethics in How the Grinch Stole Christmas, among many others. If you love Dr. Seuss books for the language or the wonderful stories, you will enjoy hearing Dr. Jacob M. Held, UCA Associate Professor of Philosophy, discuss how philosophy is being taught through these books. Dr. Held’s

specialty areas include Legal and Political Philosophy and Applied Ethics. His work can be found in journals such as Vera Lex, Idealistic Studies, Radical Philosophy Review and Public Affairs Quarterly. He also edits the journal, Dr. Seuss and Philosophy: Oh, the Thinks You can Think! Dr. Held will be giving a presentation entitled “PhiloSeussical Investigations-Teaching Philosophy through the Work of Dr. Seuss.” We are sure to hear fascinating thoughts on a favorite from childhood. Dr. Held will be speaking on Tuesday, November 15 at 3:00 p.m. in Torreyson Library 215. It is sure to be a good time with light refreshments provided.

What’s New– Databases and Electronic Resources Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970—Arkansas: Sanborn fire insurance maps are the most frequently consulted maps in both public and academic libraries. They are large-scale plans containing data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and function of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and sidewalk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers. Naxos Video Library: An extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera, ballet, live concerts and documentaries. Researchers can view over 1,335 full-length videos, and search videos by category, role, composer, artist, production personnel, work, venue or festival.

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What’s New– Services

Café style booths.

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10 new MacBooks LF for checkout in addition to the 20 PC laptops the library already owns.

Comfortable sofas and chairs.

5 new calculators for checkout.

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1 TI-84 2 TI-83 2 TI-89

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Paid for with student library fees.

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What’s New-Books -1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus created / Charles C. Mann. -After the orange glow / Mark Spitzer. -The age of movies : selected writings of Pauline Kael / edited by Sanford Schwartz. -Arkansas autumn : spectacular fall photos of "the natural state" / Tim Ernst. -The arrogant years : one girl's search for her lost youth from Cairo to Brooklyn / Lucette Lagnado. -Belong to me : a novel / Maria de los Santos. -The best of me / Nicholas Sparks. -Birds of paradise : a novel / Diana Abu-Jaber. -Blind faith / CJ Lyons. -Caim. [English: Cain] / José Saramago ; translated from the Portugese by Margaret Jull Costa. -The Christmas wedding / James Patterson and Richard DiLallo. -The digital condition : class and culture in the information network / Robert Wilkie. -Down these strange streets / edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois. -Drinking girls and their dresses : poems / Heather Sellers. -Free for all : Joe Papp, the public, and the greatest theater story ever told / Kenneth Turan and Joseph Papp ; with the assistance of Gail Merrifield Papp. --The future of the page / edited by Peter Stoicheff and Andrew Taylor. -Gadget nation : a journey through the eccentric world of invention / Steve Greenberg. -Good morning midnight / Jean Rhys. -Heat rises / Richard Castle. -Howard Cosell : the man, the myth, and the transformation of American sports / Mark Ribowsky. -Instruments of darkness / Imogen Robertson. -Jacqueline Kennedy : historic conversations on life with John F. Kennedy interviews with Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. 1964 / Jacqueline Kennedy ; foreword by Caroline Kennedy ; introduction and annotations by Michael Beschloss.

-Jagger : rebel rock star rambler rogue / Marc Spitz. -Jamrach's menagerie : a novel / Carol Birch. -Kate : the making of a princess / Claudia Joseph. -Lethal / Sandra Brown. -Life itself : a memoir / Roger Ebert. -Lives other than my own / Emmanuel Carrère ; translated by Linda Coverdale. -The manga guide to calculus / Hiroyuki Kojima, [illustrator] Shin Togami, Becom Co., Ltd. -Michelle : a biography / Liza Mundy. -My friend Michael : growing up with the king of pop / by Frank Cascio. -The night circus : a novel / Erin Morgenstern. -Obama and the Middle East / Fawaz Gerges. -The official rules of Major League Baseball. -Pigeon English / Stephen Kelman. -Rin Tin Tin : the life and the legend / Susan Orlean. -Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012. -The Rosetta key / William Dietrich. -Sarah's key / Tatiana de Rosnay. -The sense of an ending / Julian Barnes. -The sisters brothers / Patrick deWitt. -Sixkill / Robert B. Parker. -Snowdrops : a novel / A.D. Miller. -Statistics deMystified: hard stuff made easy -To die in Mexico : dispatches from inside the drug war / John Gibler. -Tutu : authorized / Allister Sparks & Mpho Tutu ; foreword by Bono ; introduction by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama. -A voice in the box : my life in radio / Bob Edwards. -The wicked wit of Winston Churchill / compiled edited and introduced by Dominique Enright. -Zombies! zombies! zombies! / edited with an introduction by Otto Penzler.

...and many more

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What’s New-DVDs -5 Day Fit Chi -300 -Affliction -Akeelah and the Bee -Alice in Wonderland (2010) -All About My Mother -And the Band Played On -Angels & Demons -The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford -August Rush -Blade Trinity -Blue Valentine: A Love Story -Book Of Eli -Bridesmaids -Burn Notice: Seasons 1-4 -Castle in the Sky -Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian -Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader -Class -Coraline -The Da Vinci Code -Dark Knight -Death at a Funeral -Dexter: The First Season -Donnie Brasco -Eat Pray Love -Eclipse -The Fighter -A Fish Called Wanda -Frost / Nixon -The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest -The Girl Who Played with Fire -The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -Grapes of Wrath -Great Expectations -Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets -Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire -Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban -Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone -Horrible Bosses -Inglourious Basterds -The Kennedys

-Lars and the Real Girl -The Last Emperor -The Lincoln Lawyer -Love is a Many Splendored Thing -Maria Full of Grace -Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey -My Sister's Keeper -New Moon -Northanger Abbey -The Old Curiosity Shop -The Other Boleyn Girl -Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills -The Polar Express -Priest -Rabbit Hole -Revolutionary Road -The Savages -Scott Pilgrim vs. the World -The Secret Garden -Shadow of the Vampire -Sixteen Candles -Sixth Sense -Splinter -Taken -Terminator 2 -Thor -The Time Traveler's Wife -Tremors -Trudie Styler's Weight Loss Yoga -True Blood: Seasons 1-3 -True Grit -Twilight -Unknown -Walking Dead: The Complete First Season -Watchmen

Did You Know… All students, faculty and staff are welcome to check out DVDs from the UCA Library. There is a check out period of two days with a limit of two DVDS at a time.

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