Ramsey Library News

Thanks to speakers & attendees for a fruitful & lively morning.

http://toto.lib.unca.edu/digiconf.html

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Also in our collection:
Learning Express Library: GRE & other standardized test preparation materials online. UNCA login required.

Removing barriers : women in academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
50 success classics [electronic resource] : winning wisdom for life and work from 50 landmark books
Training and education in professional psychology [electronic resource]
Planning, proposing, and presenting science effectively : a guide for graduate students and researchers in the behavioral sciences and biology

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Join us Friday morning for Living in a City of Bits, one of Buncombe County's Historic Preservation Month events.

Free (please RSVP hwykle@unca.edu)

PROGRAM

9:00-9:30 Morning refreshments
9:30 Welcome - Jim Kuhlman, Director
9:35 Introduction - Helen Wykle, Special Collections
9:40 Kevin Cherry - NC ECHO
10:30 Break and Luke Withrow - Hands-on Demonstration
11:00 Paul Jones - IBIBLIO
12:00-1:00 Panel Discussion - Questions
Brandy Bourne - Web Services Librarian, D. H. Ramsey Library
Jeff Brown - Information Technology Services User Support Manager
Neil Thomas - GIS Specialist and Developer
Norah Sinclair - Instructional Technology Facilitator, Asheville City Schools
Mark Sidelnick - Education Dept., UNCA
Sarah Judson - History Dept., UNCA
Bryan Sinclair - Associate University Librarian for Public Services, D.H. Ramsey Library (Moderator)

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additional Summer hours info

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PROPOSED WITHDRAWAL OF BOUND JOURNALS

You’ll recall a mid-April email (http://facstaff.unca.edu/kuhlman/Bound_Journals.pdf) describing emerging and evolving plans for Ramsey Library and, most immediately, the library’s recommendation that we withdraw bound journals to make space for future development. You’ll also recall that these bound copies of paper journals and microforms duplicate “. . . holdings that we currently and will continue to subscribe to in a stable electronic format (JSTOR) and for which there is a duplicate and readily available hard-copy at either ASU or WCU (in some instances, both).”

Many thanks for your thoughtful responses. As a result, the library will retain the bound, paper copies of the following titles:

Art Journal

Bound: v. 32, 1972/73 - v. 64, 2005

Classical Journal
Bound: v. 52, 1956/57Bound: v. 55, 1959/60 - v. 71, 1975/76

Once again, many thanks for your help.

Related Links:
Proposed Withdrawal of Bound Journal (email of 4/17/07)
http://facstaff.unca.edu/kuhlman/Bound_Journals.pdf

Proposed Journal Backfile Withdrawals (Microform and Bound)
http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/collections/journal_withdraw07.html

Library Space Planning Project
http://facstaff.unca.edu/sinclair/spaceplan/

Collaborative Learning Commons Proposal
http://facstaff.unca.edu/sinclair/spaceplan/clc.html

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On the web:
The Language of Song: An Interview with Donald Kroodsma (Scientific American)
Birds sing in their sleep (BBC News)
Listen to nature: the language of birds (British Library)

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Use SketchUp, Google's free (and very powerful) 3-D design software product to draw a campus map and win a trip to Google!
Deadline: June 1 (work fast!)

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As part of our ongoing space planning initiative, the printed indexes listed below have been flagged for withdrawal. Many of these have an electronic equivalent or are seldom used and no longer meet the needs of our curriculum. Please send comments or concerns to Bryan Sinclair (sinclair@unca.edu).

Abstracts for social workers -- 1965-1973; 1977-1993
America, history and life -- 1965-1973
Biological & agricultural index -- v18, 1962-v49, 1995
Bulletin of the Public Affairs Information Service -- v46, 1960-v54, 1968; 69-71
Cumulative index to nursing literature -- 1975-1976
Index to legal periodicals & books -- 1994 - 1995
Index to U.S. Government periodicals -- 1970-1987
Int'l bibliography of economics -- v. 12 1963-v.17 1968; v.19 1970-v.53 2004.
Internet & personal computing abstracts -- 2002-2003
Microcomputer abstracts-- v. 15, 1994 - v. 20, 1999, Indexes v. 17, 1996 - v. 20, 19
Microcomputer index -- v. 6, 1985 - v. 14, 1993
MLA Bibliography 1921; 1925-1955, 1970-1975
Physical education index -- v.10 1987-v.24 2001
Physical fitness/sports medicine -- v. 9, 1986 - v. 16, nos.1-3, 1993/94
Physical Review & Physical Rev. letters --1986; 1994 - 2002
Public Affairs Information Service Bulletin -- v. 1, 1802 - v. 6, 1806, 1960-1971
Research in education -- 1969-71; 1973-74
Sage urban studies abstracts -- v. 3, 1975 - v. 30, 2002
Social work abstracts -- v. 30, 1994 - v. 39, 2003
Social work research & abstracts- 1988-1993; MF 1977-87
The Wall Street Journal -- 1978 - 1993.

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EXTENDED LIBRARY HOURS

Based on student interest and library night supervisor Jon Wheeler's willingness, Ramsey Library extended evening hours to 1 A.M. beginning Sunday, April 29. Updated library hours for the end of semester are as follows:

Sunday, April 29
1 pm - 1 am
Monday, April 30 - Thursday, May 3
8 am - 1 am
Friday, May 4
8 am - 9 pm (Final exams begin)
Saturday, May 5
10 am - 9 pm
Sunday, May 6
11 am - 1 am
Monday, May 7 - Wednesday, May 9
8 am - 1 am
Thursday, May 10
8 am - Midnight (Last day of final exams)
Friday, May 11
8 am - 6 pm

Many thanks to Jon and the Public Services staff serving our students in this way.

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The Chronicle's daily report now available to everyone

As you’ll recall, the Chronicle of Higher Education is available to everyone on campus via a library site license (http://chronicle.com/). Until now, however, you had to receive a personal subscription in order to receive Academe Today, the Chronicle's daily e-mail report. We’re very pleased to announce that Academe Today now available free, with no restrictions. You can sign up for this popular e-mail newsletter, which summarizes the latest news in higher education and provides links to the complete news articles posted on The Chronicle's Web site every day. The daily briefing also summarizes the news, career advice, and essays published in the current issue of The Chronicle's print edition and provides links to the full text of each week's issue on the Chronicle’s Web site.

Signing up is simple, but YOU HAVE TO SIGN UP FROM ON CAMPUS SO IT WILL RECOGNIZE THE IP ADDRESS:

* Go to https://chronicle.com/services/?slm to create a free
Chronicle account, or log in if you already have an account.

* Choose the format in which you want to receive Academe
Today--either HTML or plain text.

* Once you have confirmed your e-mail address, you'll receive your
own copy of Academe Today the next weekday morning (Eastern Time).

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Lessons from student engagement

On Monday, 30 April the Chronicle noted an article in peerReview that reported that “Large numbers of students avoid engaging in educationally purposeful activities that research shows will help them succeed in college, according to the Beginning College Survey of Student Engagement. But there are ways to increase the odds that students will engage in productive activities, the survey center's director writes.” Check it out at:

“A glance at the current issue of Peer Review: Lessons from student engagement”
http://chronicle.com/daily/2007/04/2007043001j.htm

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