Ramsey Library News

GOOGLE – READ ALL ABOUT IT!!
Want to know more about GOOGLE than you can find out by “Googling?” Check out Ramsey Library’s blog and Brandy Bourne’s posting “NEW READINGS on Google.” You’ll find everything from The Google Story and Google Hacks to the more sociological The Search: How Google ant Its Rivals Rewrote the Rules of Business and Changed our Culture!

NEW READINGS on Google
http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/mt/2007/09/google.html

IMPORTANT NEW SOURCE FOR SPORTS & HEALTH
Ramsey Library recently added the electronic resource SPORTDiscus, “the world's leading database in sport, health, fitness and sports medicine … providing access to fulltext and bibliographic references in such areas as sport medicine, physical education, coaching and training, arts and history, corporate wellness, engineering and health and safety.” This electronic and remotely accessible database “has over 700,000 qualified references from thousands of international periodicals, books, e-journals, conference proceedings, theses, dissertations, and websites as well as has direct links to fulltext articles.”

SPORTDiscus
http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/scripts/redirect.pl?db=0-search.epnet.com.wncln.wncln.org/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=ehost&defaultdb=s3h

NEW WEB RESOURCES
In separate articles, the Chronicle of Higher Education recently announced the advent of two new web resources that are of significant interest to higher education:

* On August 27 the Chronicle reported that “NASA’s storehouse of historic photographs, film, and video will be digitized and made available free on the Internet with the assistance of the Internet Archive, a nonprofit digital library, according to a written statement released Thursday by the two organizations.” See more at:

http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/scripts/redirect.pl?db=chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2335?=atwc.

* A bit earlier, on August 6, the Chronicle announced the debut of the online “Open Library” ~ “. . . a vast digital card catalog, (where) Web surfers will be able to edit entries, much like in Wikipedia . . . (and which) will also collect books in the public domain, a mission that will bring the library into competition with Google’s much-publicized book-scanning service.” Read more at: http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2235?=atwc.

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Infotrac has long been one of our most useful research databases, and the new version, Academic OneFile, has nearly twice the content, including full text.

Covered subject areas include the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, and literature.

Other features: Persistent urls so you can add an article link to an email or web page (TIP: use the "bookmark" link to do this), Email & RSS search alerts and Direct links to JSTOR & Web of Science content

Try the new version.

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The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced their 2007 "Genius Grant" recipients, so we thought we'd direct you to some of the recipients' work:

Stuart Dybek (writer)
ONLINE TEXTS & CRITICISM
American short-story writers since World War II
The International Association of Crime Writers presents Bad behavior
The Scribner anthology of contemporary short fiction : fifty North American stories since 1970
The eleventh draft : craft and the writing life from Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Norton anthology of contemporary fiction
I sailed with Magellan (ABC)
PP/FF : an anthology (ABC)
Our working lives : short stories of people and work (ABC)
The Vintage book of contemporary American short stories (ABC)

Dawn Upshaw (vocalist)
Ainadamar (CD)

Ayre (CD)

Jonathan Shay (clinical psychiatrist/classicist)
Achilles in Vietnam : combat trauma and the undoing of character

Odysseus in America : combat trauma and the trials of homecoming

Saul Griffith (Inventor)
Fab : the coming revolution on your desktop--from personal computers to personal fabrication (It discusses his work.)

Peter Cole (Translator/Poet/Publisher)
ONLINE CRITICISM
Hymns & qualms
Rift
The Dream Of The Poem : Hebrew Poetry From Muslim And Christian Spain, 950-1492

Mercedes Doretti (Forensic Anthropologist)
Following Antigone [DVD] : forensic anthropology and human rights investigations (ABC)

Michael Elowitz (Molecular Biologist)
"Synthetic Life" (online article)
"Microbes Made to Order" (online article)

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Back by popular demand, this workshop will explore the latest features and provide tips for using Google with a critical thinking approach. Good info and practical tips for both beginners and expert searchers alike.

PRESENTER: Bryan Sinclair
DATE: Thursday, Sept. 27 from 12:30 - 1:30 pm
LOCATION: Ramsey Library Kimmel Lab

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Google SketchUp for dummies
Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth
Google Maps hacks
The Google story
Google's PageRank and beyond : the science of search engine rankings
Google Analytics
Google advertising tools
The search : how Google and its rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture
Google powered : productivity with online tools
Google talking
Google : the missing manual
Google's PageRank and beyond
Google Maps hacks
Beginning Google maps applications with PHP and Ajax : from novice to professional
Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth
Winning results with Google AdWords
Messages : free expression, media and the west from Gutenberg to Google

online
The Google CheatSheet
Google Book Search
Google Alerts
Google Docs
Google Reader

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Starting Wednesday, September 19, The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site.

The Times Select subscription program, which used to charge $49.95/yr to everyone except print subscribers, students & teachers, will be discontinued. The entire site will now be free as well as archival content from 1987 forward and from 1851-1922. Users will be charged for some content from 1923-1986, but current UNC Asheville students, faculty & staff have access, as always, to the NYT from 1851 to the present.

New York Times (1980-present). Searchable full text; East Coast Late Edition. Includes NYT Book Review and NYT Magazine.

New York Times (1851-2001) - Historical Newspaper Collection. Full-image articles from the last 150 years. Includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue -- cover to cover -- in downloadable pdf files.

More online newspaper archives

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Back by popular demand, this workshop will explore the latest features and provide tips for using Google with a critical thinking approach. Good info and practical tips for both beginners and expert searchers alike.

PRESENTER: Bryan Sinclair
DATE: Tuesday, Sept. 18 from 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Thursday, Sept. 27 from 12:30 - 1:30 pm
LOCATION: Ramsey Library Kimmel Lab

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FRIDAY HUMOR

A treat for the end of your week ~ this week’s Chronicle of Higher Education reports that the editors of Motto magazine have come up with a list of “the 10 best college mottos” while casting critical aspersions towards the selection of Stanford’s “The wind of freedom blows” for being somewhat vulnerable to mockery. Following in the tradition of light night talk shows, the Chronicle then speculates on those that might not have “made the cut?” My personal favorites:

"Catering to 'C' students since 1987"
"Where the ill informed become somewhat-less-doltish"
"Now with fewer books!"

Check it out at:

“Dept. of Bad Ideas”
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i03/03a00701.htm

“The Top Ten College Mottos”
http://www.whatsyourmotto.com/Blogs/2007/08/08/college_mottos/

RESEARCH ON UNDERGRADUATE RESEARCH

If you haven’t seen it, you’ll want to check out “What Good Is Undergraduate Research, Anyway” in the 17 August Chronicle of Higher Education. Author Lila Guterman notes that “In the past few years, a small cadre of social scientists have, with grants from some of the largest supporters of undergraduate science research, begun systematically studying the effects on students. Three large studies verified some widely held notions about undergraduate research but challenged other assumptions.”

What Good Is Undergraduate Research, Anyway?
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i50/50a01201.htm

Research on Undergraduate Research
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v53/i50/50a01401.htm

AROUND THE STATE

The 7 September Chronicle reports that a “major biotechnology center in a downtrodden North Carolina mill town (Kannapolis) will test supporters' beliefs about economic renewal. Read all about it at:

Building a New Economy With Biotechnology
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v54/i02/02a00101.htm?=attw

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Using EndNote Web

EndNote bibliographic management software allows you to access your research references from any computer and export bibliographies in a variety of formats. Come learn how to import and annotate book & article citations from our library catalog and online databases.

Presenter: Brandy Bourne

Thursday, Sept. 13 from 12:30 - 1:30 pm

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Faculty Reception & Library Orientation Session

(for new, relatively new, and seasoned faculty alike)

Thursday, Sept. 6
12:30 - 1:30

Ramsey Library Special Collections
2nd floor, RL 205

Enjoy refreshments, meet your subject librarian,
and learn more about the following services:

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