12:30-1:30pm

Amy Borg, Paul Loomis, Dana Middleton, Jesse Rice-Evans, Mesha Maren-Hogan and Matt Owens

Redaction is a community-based, peer-facilitated creative writing workshop meeting weekly on Fridays in the University Writing Center. They welcome all comers to talk about and share their prose and poetry.

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Ramsey Library invites you to the following presentation:

"What Does a Person Have To Do To Use a Computer Here?"
Presented by Jill Ellern and Robin Hitch from Western Carolina University

This is a repeat presentation originally given at the North Carolina Library Association 59th Biennial Conference in Hickory on October 7, 2011.

Find out how North Carolina academic libraries (including all community colleges, private colleges and the UNC system) control patron use of computers in their public areas. This presentation looks at the results of a statewide survey into the authentication practices to see how libraries deal with privacy, authentication, guest access and data retention.

The co-researchers are from Western Carolina University - Jill Ellern, Systems Librarian, Shandon Bates, former Director of Systems and Operations but now at University of Oregon, and Robin Hitch, Computer Support Analyst in the Hunter Library.

Open to all. No registration required.

For more information contact: Anita White-Carter (whitecar@unca.edu) or 828 251-6434

The database includes demographic data as well as data about crime, economics, health, education, labor, the environment and more.

Thursday, September 8, 2011 at 12:30pm

Ramsey Library's Kimmel Lab

Faculty, staff, students & community members are all welcome to attend.

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The fall closing of the Charlotte office providing assistance in the use of U.S. Census data is one of the many, though not the most tragic, victims of our current economy and governmental belt tightening. At the very time that software changes are making accessing large census data sets on the web more difficult, the valued assistance of this office will no longer be available.

Ramsey Library has arranged for a trainer from Charlotte Regional Census Bureau to offer a workshop in Ramsey Library on Monday, August 15. This workshop will cover some important details about 2010 reports and the new search interface for American Fact Finder2. This is a great chance to get hands on training on how to locate data on the census site.

The workshop is 2 pm - 4:30 pm in Ramsey Library, Kimmel Room, 119.

To sign up or ask questions, please contact Anita White-Carter, Research Coordinator, UNC Asheville - Ramsey Library, 251-6434, whitecar@unca.edu.

VARIETE!

Virtual And Real Integrative Educational Technology for Everyone! The Center for Teaching & Learning and Teaching & Learning with Technology Resources recently announced VARIETE, a program introducing innovative ways in which UNC Asheville faculty use technology to facilitate student excitement and learning. Sessions will address instructional technology novices and pros. Participants will also have a chance to interact with colleagues interested in exploring enhanced uses of instructional technology or blended/hybrid learning opportunities.

VARIETE will take place on Wednesday, August 17th, in the Ramsey Library Whitman Room, from 12:30-4:30 p.m. Lunch provided! Reserve a spot by emailing Melissa Himelein (himelein@unca.edu); let her know whether you prefer a vegetarian or non-vegetarian lunch.

RECENT NEWS OF NOTE FROM TLTR

• Humanities Scholars Discuss Their 'Shared Mental Map' for a New Age of Digital Communication, By Jennifer Howard. A select group gathered to talk about the skills and energy needed in an "era of remaking and rebuilding scholarly communication."
• New Digital-Humanities Grants for Small Projects at Colleges The National Endowment for the Humanities is backing 32 projects, such as a digital field journal for archaeologists.
• 'Big Tent Digital Humanities,' a View From the Edge, Part 1, By William Pannapacker New technologies, alliances, and career paths redefine the future of higher education in the humanities, but not everywhere.
• Technology Is Changing What We Do Social media has altered teaching, research, and other aspects of global higher education--and created new problems, says Nigel Thrift.
• Innovations: A Skeptic of Online Learning Weighs Its Pros Frank Donoghue analyzes some strengths of a virtual education, including its flexibility and accessibility to students in any location.
• College Students Lead in Internet Use and Tech Gadgets, Study Finds Speedy Internet connections were more common among students, but nonstudents were more likely to use social networks like Facebook, according to the Pew Research Center.

OTHER RECENT NEWS OF NOTE

• NCAA Student-Athlete Experiences Data Archive ~ The Inter-university Consortium for Political & Social Research recently announced that the NCAA Student-Athlete Experiences Data Archive has updated its data on Division I Academic Progress Rates. The dataset, NCAA Division I Academic Progress Rate, 2011, now includes the 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 seasons. The data contains team level academic performances available by division, by conference, and by school.
• Amazon Announces Digital-Textbook Rentals Just in time for fall, a new option has emerged on the e-book front: Students can now rent textbooks for Amazon's Kindle.
• Boston College Digitizes Yeats's Unpublished First Play Now scholars and admirers of the Irish poet and playwright have digital access to his unpublished first play.
• Rogue Downloader's Arrest Could Mark Crossroads for Open-Access Movement, By David Glenn To charge, or not to charge: That is the question Aaron Swartz, accused of abusing MIT's computer network, has brought to the forefront of debate in scholarly publishing.

AND, JUST FOR THE FUN OF IT!!

Immortal Quotations About Higher Education

NOTES wants to take just a moment to share some views of our beautiful campus from these early summer days and from the cooler days of last fall. NOTES also hopes that you will join in thanking and congratulating MELISSA ACKER and her hard-working grounds crew for what they've done over many years to make UNC Asheville into a beautiful physical environment.

FEATURED RESOURCE

One of Ramsey Library's new, digital resources that is fully accessible 24/7 is Political Science Complete (PSC). PSC provides the full texts of articles in more than 530 journals (e.g., Public Opinion Quarterly, Political Science Quarterly, Peace & Change, Human Rights Review, Environmental Politics, Background Notes on Countries of the World, Political Risk Yearbook, and African Studies Quarterly) as well as indexing and abstracts for over 2,900. Searchers will find a world-wide focus, "reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse." PSC also offers over 340 full-text reference books and monographs, and over 38,000 full-text conference papers, including those of the International Political Science Association. Be sure to check it out!

Political Science Complete

TLTR: RECENT NEWS OF NOTE

CLICKERS ~ Using or interested in using Classroom Response Systems (or "clickers" to the "rest of us") in your classroom? Teaching & Learning With Technology Resources is collaborating with Melissa Himelein and the Center for Teaching in Learning in sponsoring a Google Groups-based campus discussion forum, cleverly enough named "Clickers," on just that technology. Instructors, technology staff, and others with an interest can use the forum to connect with others with similar interests, share ideas and debate pedagogy, or simply eavesdrop (NOTES' personal favorite). All you have to do to join is follow this link and follow the directions: https://groups.google.com/a/unca.edu/group/clickers/topics. (Let the guy behind the curtain know if you have any trouble. )

There's still time to get in on the ground floor of two interesting discussions. One explores student reaction to buying their own clicker and whether they think it worth the investment (both the model of the department providing the clickers and the one in which students purchase their own exist on campus). The other discussion has introduced current news reports on suits by students claiming that the use of clickers disadvantages students with visual and other challenges.

For further info:
Join "Clickers" at: https://groups.google.com/a/unca.edu/group/clickers/topics
"Blind Florida State U. Students Sue Over E-Learning Systems"
"Classroom Response Systems, an Accessibility Viewpoint" (Michigan State University)

OTHER RECENT NEWS OF NOTE

Darwin Library, Now Online, Reveals Mind of 19th-Century Naturalist
The portion of Charles Darwin's library on the Web even includes handwritten notes he scribbled in the margins of his books.
My Battle With E-Pirates, By Clement Vincent
A scholar claims victory in his first salvo against an illegal download of his book. But was engagement a mistake?
Hot Type: Publishers Say They Are Not the Enemy in University Copyright Disputes, By Jennifer Howard, Whatever happens in a court battle over fair use, it has made the divisions between librarians and publishers more evident than ever.
Wanted: Your Ideas on How to Build a Digital Public Library of America

Saving Asheville area forests: WNC gave birth to forestry.
Harsh logging began nearly 200 years ago, but WNC also gave birth to forest conservation

This issue's featured resource is the first iteration of a major revision to Ramsey Library's main web page. After discussing student comments and the library's 2009-2011 assessment results, Ramsey librarians concluded that feedback indicating concerns about sufficient information resources might have more to do with sorting through library search results than with any objective insufficiency in available content. You'll recall that on last spring's library web site you landed on a home page that then required that you navigate either to conduct a search for books, etc. in the "catalog" or to select specific journal databases to locate individual articles. In both cases, increasingly and due to the disparate sizes of Ramsey Library and the libraries at Western Carolina and Appalachian State (the combined holdings of which comprise the online catalog), UNC Asheville searchers were finding more and more electronic books or journal articles not available to our campus. Inevitably, this resulted in frustration AND the perception that Ramsey Library did not offer sufficient resources. In some cases, for example e-books devoted to computer software, the searcher had to navigate several screens of titles available at ASU but not UNC Asheville before finding anything.

Brandy Bourne, ace Web Services Librarian, has redesigned the the library's main page so that:
You're ready to search on the first page.
The default is for individual articles with a quick search box similar to a Google search (note that the Quick Search covers only a limited number of the most popular databases) with results limited to articles available at UNC Asheville.
Tabs for searching journal titles, videos, course reserves, and books.
Note that searching under "Books & more" in the quick search box produces results which are fully accessible to folks at UNC Asheville.
So, what if you don't find what you need or for whatever reason you want your search to cover the holdings of all three libraries, or you want to use the Aquabrowser feature. All you have to do is click on t he "Books & more tab" on the left above the "Quick Search" box, and then click on "WNCLN." That'll take you back to the original search screen.

We plan to conduct focus groups with students this fall to see if these changes are an improvement. If we can figure out how to do it without being to intrusive, we'll also ask for user reactions via a voluntary online survey. In the meantime, if you have any comments or suggestions, please send them along to Brandy Bourne.

TLTR: RECENT NEWS OF NOTE

In the Public Domain

This is the first entry in a recurring if irregular series designed to help the campus community locate copyright-free materials for use in the classroom, on websites, or for basically anything you want. Suggestions here will come largely form NOTES FROM RAMSEY's reading of Stephan Fishman's The Public Domain: How to Find & Use Copyright-Free Writings, Music, Art & More (5th ed., Nolo Press, 2010)(available from Amazon and other book sources). Today, we'll share Fishman's definition (more than likely the last quote): ". . . the words 'public domain' mean creative works that for one reason or another are not protected by copyright law and are ordinarily free for all use." (p. 4)

Other TLTR News

Check out Teaching & Learning with Technology Resources' (TLTR) web page "In-House Productions." Here you'll find a listing of local campus programs representing the fine work of Kent Thompson, many of your students, and the campus community. One of the newer features with a link to the actual program is "Multimedia Arts & Sciences Annual Juried Student Exhibition." This is great stuff!!

Creating a Meaningful College Experience in an Era of Streamlining, By William G. Tierney
With class sizes in the hundreds of students, distance learning can begin in the fifth row. (NOTES finds this an interesting perspective!)

OTHER NEWS OF NOTE

Digging Into Data in the Humanities, Day 1
Digital humanists have converged on the headquarters of the National Endowment for the Humanities to talk about cutting-edge work with big data in history, linguistics, literature, and other fields.

Digging Into Data, Day 2: Making Tools and Using Them
Projects explored at the meeting included a database in which scholars can mine a year's worth of spoken English, and another with digitized records of 200,000 trials at London's Old Bailey.

National Academies Press Puts All 4,000 Books Online at No Charge
Recent cost-cutting measures have allowed the leading publisher of scholarly books to offer its catalog gratis, as PDF downloads.

Publishers Grapple With Thorny Issues of Protecting Property and Going Digital, By Jennifer Howard
Value copyright laws, attendees at the Association of American University Presses' annual meeting were advised.

SUMMER READS

Geeks at the Beach: 10 Summer Reads About Technology and Your Life
Recent books (and a video) highlight how tech is turning culture and parts of higher education upside down.

Novel Academic Novels, By Ms. Mentor
Ms. Mentor offers her annual summer reading list for faculty members. (With a respectful nod to our friend and colleague, Professor Merritt Mosley)

RECENT COPYRIGHT NEWS OF NOTE

What You Don't Know About Copyright but Should, By Jennifer Howard
In a maze of rights confusion, Nancy Sims, copyright-program librarian at the University of Minnesota, guides colleges to safety
A Professor Takes His Rights Fight to the Supreme Court, By Marc Parry
Lawrence Golan, music teacher and conductor, has a case whose outcome could affect access to many books and films, as well as to some composers' scores.
2 Universities Under the Legal Gun (includes update on Cambridge University Press et al. v. Patton et al. (Georgia State University) that will like have seminal impact on the copying of and electronic access to copyrighted materials in the classroom and library).
What's at Stake in the Georgia State Copyright Case
Experts in scholarly communications comment on what the case may mean for the use of reproduced copyrighted material in the classroom.
Out of Fear, Institutions Lock Millions of Books and Images Away from Scholars, By Marc Parry
Confronted with the murky copyright status of many works, academic archives are playing it safe and limiting online access to scholars.
Pushing Back Against Legal Threats by Putting Fair Use Forward, By Jeffrey R. Young
Two professors at American University fight against "copywrongs" with common-sense guides to the law.
QuickWire: Parties in Google Books Settlement Get More Time

OTHER RECENT NEWS OF NOTE
Students Say Tablets Will Transform College, Though Most Don't Own Tablets
Nearly half said they expected the devices to replace textbooks within the next five years.
Textbooks Go the iTunes Route, but Buying by Chapters May Not Save Students Money, By Ben Wieder
Publishers are now giving students the option to buy e-textbooks by the chapter. Will it do for academic publishing what iTunes did for the music industry?
Academics, in New Move, Begin to Work With Wikipedia
The Association for Psychological Science uses its prestige-and some new software-to motivate scholars to help fix inaccuracies in the everyone-can-edit encyclopedia.
U. of Chicago Students Hope to Revolutionize Course Packs
Two students are developing a cheaper, online alternative to printed course materials that they want to bring to campuses nationwide
When You Can't Judge a Book by Its Cover, By Ann Kirschner
E-readers have changed the packaging picture.
Leading Economics Journals Drop 'Double Blind' Peer Review

This issue's featured resource is easy access to help. NOTES FROM RAMSEY is proud of the many electronic and paper texts we offer as well as images and videos in many formats to aid learning and research. But the greatest and most powerful of all our resources are the Ramsey folks who are here and eager to help you and your students. One fun and easy way to access that help is through the library's Ask a Librarian service. In the far left column of the library's home page (green section) you'll find the "Ask a Librarian!" link. The next screen shows frequently asked questions ~ a click will take you to the answer. At the top of the screen beneath "LibraryAnswers - Ask us" you'll find a box in which you can enter a question. And, if you don't want to try either way, you can always email us libref@unca.edu. Posting a question through "Ask a Librarian!" or emailing libref@unca.edu are dependable ways to receive quick, written help often with useful hotlinks embedded.

TLTR: RECENT NEWS OF NOTE

ICPSR

• ICPSR recently announced the first-place winners of the 2011 ICPSR Research Paper Competitions. This is a prestigious, national competition for undergraduates and students at the masters level focusing on the use of quantitative data. As ICPSR noted, it's not too early to start researching for the 2012 competitions!


• On June 6, 2011, ICPSR will welcome four outstanding undergraduate interns who will experience ICPSR and its Summer Program for 10 weeks and complete a research project. See details on the ICPSR internship. This could be a rich opportunity for the right UNC Asheville student scholars.


• ICPSR's Online Learning Center is pleased to announce the release of eight new Data-Driven Learning Guides (DDLGs). DDLGs were designed by teaching faculty and geared toward building data literacy in undergraduate classrooms.

Other TLTR News

• Make Wikipedia More Useful to Students
  If students need to find good sources related to a Wikipedia article, a new Web service may be of help.


• Info Tech on Campuses
  Students' views about how technology is applied on campus are mixed.


• Understanding the New Culture of Learning, By Goldie Blumenstyk
  Douglas Thomas and John Seely Brown espouse a shift from the traditional lecture to "experiencing, playing, and occasionally failing."


• A Tool for Writing-Intensive Courses
  Keeping track of discussions about a work in progress is now a lot easier with a new feature in Google Documents.


• 5 Tools for Building a Next-Generation 'Hybrid' Course Web Site
  A guest author, Nicholas Martin, describes a suite of open-source and commercial tools he used to design a Website for a hybrid class that would promote engagement more than a traditional LMS.


• Better Googling
  The most widely used search engine on the Internet features some powerful--if sometimes little-known--features.


• Social Web Sites Are Popular Sources for Student Plagiarists

Here's a nifty (NOTES' colloquialisms may need a bit of updating?) one you and your students may have missed. SimplyMap is a web-based mapping database for developing thematic maps -- and reports -- using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Covers census block-groups, census tracts, zip codes, cities, counties, states, and the entire United States. Includes Mediamark Research (MRI) data, covering usage and consumption for thousands of products, including actual brand data, details of frequency of usage, and more. Data and maps can be exported. Requires user to create an account.

Check it out at http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/scripts/redirect.pl?db=www.nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?rsrc=247

CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION ONLINE

As I hope most of you know already, Ramsey Library subscribes to the Chronicle of Higher Education online. As a result of this site license, each of you has electronic access to the contents of the Chronicle and can choose to receive a variety of newsletters. In a recent development, once you've logged into the Chronicle web site, you can stay logged in for a full year. Just check the "keep me logged in" box. You don't have to log in to read premium content so long as you're using a computer on campus. You have IP access to all of Chronicle.com. But you do need to be logged in to take advantage of other Chronicle services such as e-mailing an article, posting a comment, subscribing to any free e-newsletter, creating a job alert, and more.

Check it out at http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/scripts/redirect.pl?db=chronicle.com/section/Home/5.

UNC ASHEVILLE YEARBOOKS ONLINE

In its last issue, NOTES announced the availability of UNC Asheville yearbooks online as part of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. NOTES is very pleased to announce that all 39 years of The Summit (1939-1985 with gaps) are now up and available.

Be sure to take the tour, accessible from UNC Asheville's page in the Digital NC Library.

TLTR: RECENT NEWS OF NOTE (from a variety of perspectives!)

New Technologies to Get Your Students Engaged, By Ryan Cordell
Online tools can help with teaching while allowing student to engage with one another and with larger academic communities.
College 2.0: Across More Classes, Videos Make the Grade, By Jeffrey R. Young
Some traditional courses are beginning to accept multimedia projects in lieu of final papers.
In Learning, the Lasting Value of Place,By Joseph E. Aoun
Online education will be part of the future, but on-site instruction brings benefits beyond the obvious.
The Humanities, Done Digitally, By Kathleen Fitzpatrick
What is digital humanities? Or more important, what are they? (Is there an English major in the house? There's that troublesome correct grammar that just refuses to sound right!)

OTHER RECENT NEWS OF NOTE
The Library of Congress Adds a Jukebox
The new National Jukebox makes more than 10,000 early-20th-century recordings available for free streaming online.
What They're Reading on College Campuses

First Place Gus Frisbee The Physics of Paper	Honorable Mention Kyle Branham The Boy and the Tree	Honorable Mention Lorca Lechuga-Haeseler Dirty Laundry

Thanks to all who entered! We are excited to see so much promising work from our students.

And a special thanks to our jurors for their considered evaluation of the work submitted:

Robert Dunning, Art Department, UNC Asheville
Blake Hobby, Literature Department, UNC Asheville
Katherine Min, Literature Department, UNC Asheville
Lei Han, Multimedia Arts & Sciences Department, UNC Asheville
Chance Whitmire, Fanaticon
Laurie Corral, Asheville Bookworks