Please join us for this semester's fine lineup of talks with UNC Asheville faculty authors!

Tuesday, January 26, 2012 Grant Hardy (Humanities) Great Minds of the Eastern Intellectual Tradition Ramsey Library's Whitman Room Click to add this event to your Google Calendar!
Thursday, February 9, 2012 Darin Waters (History) Barely Seen and Rarely Heard: Political Invisibility of Asheville's Black Community 1865-1900 Ramsey Library's Whitman Room Click to add this event to your Google Calendar!
Thursday, February 23, 2012 Sonya DiPalma (Mass Communication) Feeding the Beast: How Your Organization Can Avoid Getting Bitten, or Even Eaten, in a Social Media Storm Ramsey Library's Whitman Room Click to add this event to your Google Calendar!
Thursday, March 15, 2012 Jeffrey Wilcox (Environmental Studies) Regional Geology of the Colorado Plateau: A recap (with pictures) of the May 2011 UNCA Field Course Ramsey Library's Whitman Room Click to add this event to your Google Calendar!
Thursday, March 29, 2012 To be announced
Thursday, April 19, 2012 David P. Gillette (Environmental Studies) Can You Go Back Again? Some Lessons From Stream Restoration In Western North Carolina Ramsey Library's Whitman Room Click to add this event to your Google Calendar!

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We are pleased to announce that all our group study rooms are now equipped with large screen monitors that can be plugged into your laptop for easier group viewing. Stop by the Circulation Desk to check out a group study room key...or a laptop!

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Tuesday, December 1, 2011

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.

View flyer (pdf)

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On November 11, 2011 at UNC Asheville, 10 am in RL 101 (The Whitman Room)

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

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Proquest Statistical Insight enables easy access to statistical charts and tables produced by the U.S. government, major international and intergovernmental organizations, professional and trade organizations, commercial publishers, independent research organizations, state government agencies, and universities.

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.

Click to add this event to your Google Calendar!

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We're very pleased to announce the winners of the 2011 Ramsey Library Graphic Novel Contest!

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

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Dear library community,

We hope you find these small changes helpful. You'll find everything else just where it was. Email library@unca.edu to let us know what you think!

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We're proud to announce that our Special Collections department was awarded the Western North Carolina Historical Association (WNCHA) trophy for Outstanding Achievement on December 8, 2010. Kudos to Helen Wykle, Sallie Klipp and their fine group of student workers and volunteers.

You can view the library's extensive online historical collections via the Special Collections web site.

See a list of past winners.

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Tuesday, Nov. 16 - 12:30-1:30
Paul Howey
Magazine Editor and Author

Paul began his career in journalism as a crime reporter and photographer for the Columbus Dispatch in Ohio. His career path is varied and includes time spent in advertising, landscape design, fundraising, professional politics and ten-years in the oil and gas industry raising money for wildcat drilling. He reentered the journalism field in the mid nineties as an editor and staff manager for a children's book publishing company. He currently serves as editor for The Laurel of Asheville.

Paul has written books for a variety of audiences. His most recent book, Freckles:The Mystery of the Little Dog in the Desert, won several awards.

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Our Brown Bag Book Talks series continues today with Nan Chase, author of Eat Your Yard and Asheville: A History, among other publications.

Join us at 12:30 upstairs in Special Collections.

Find more information on our Brown Bag Book Talks series page.

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The library's Brown Bag Book Talks series continues today with journalist and author, Michael Cogdill. He'll be talking about his latest book, She-Rain: A Story of Hope.

Join us upstairs in Special Collections at 12:30pm.

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Robert Johnson's 8 Views of Mount Pisgah hangs prominently above our Research Desk and visitors can be seen stopping to admire and wonder at the striking painting. You may have even wondered about it yourself.

You can find out more about the artist and his work at the library, or you can meet him yourself thanks to the Meet the Maker series organized by UNC Asheville's Craft Studies Initiative.

More information: http://craft.unca.edu/meet-maker-robert-johnson

UPDATE: Read the Blue Banner article about this event.

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The Ramsey Library Internship Program is designed to encourage and promote future professionals for library, information, and instructional technology fields. The Program provides UNC Asheville undergraduate students with the opportunity to gain practical experience working in an academic library.

Download application (PDF)

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In support of busy end-of-semester schedules, we're opening early and/or staying open late for the next couple of weeks.

For more information, check our Hours page, where you can even subscribe to our Google calendar!

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Extended end of semester hours begin on Sunday, November 29!

Check our calendar for details.

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UNC Asheville has a new wireless network logon procedure. Faculty, staff & students, click here for instructions on how to connect: http://www.unca.edu/compcenter/wireless.asp


Don't forget that the ITS HelpDesk is located on the main floor of Ramsey Library and and may be contacted by calling (828) 251-6445 or by sending an email to helpdesk@unca.edu.


Also, the ITS Service Request System and online Knowledge Base are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. These services allow you to request assistance from ITS via a simple web form, access a Frequently Asked Questions list, and browse commonly requested "How-to" articles. Service requests placed via the web will be responded to by ITS staff during normal operating hours.


Breadloaf faculty, students & staff should check at the library circulation or reference desk for wireless logon instructions.

Happy computing!

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Ramsey Library, Classroom & Instructional Technology Support (CITS), and the entire UNC Asheville community has lost the long serving and loved Rudy Moorrees to the temptations of retirement and Hawaii. Thankfully, the also talented and committed John Myers, our Moodle and course support expert, has agreed to assume Rudy’s management duties on an interim basis in addition to his own important work with Moodle.

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Exam hours are in effect. Check out the details here:
http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/cal/month.php

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The University of North Carolina Libraries has just conducted an inventory of member schools' library collections. The inventory determined each library's holdings, sorted by subject, as well as the uniqueness of the holdings.

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The Modern Language Association has updated their guidelines for formatting bibliographies in scholarly works. The updates include changes in formatting for the titles of books, periodicals and other published materials, changes in citing online resources and more.

A guide to the new revisions can be found at Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab.

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Tuesday afternoon found the lobby of Ramsey Library full of students eager to see President Obama's historic inauguration. The plasma televisions in the lobby and Cafe Ramsey stayed tuned to inauguration coverage all day, so that students could stay abreast of the events in Washington, D.C.

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We'll be closed for Thanksgiving break Thursday - Saturday (11/27 - 29), but when we come back we'll be staying open longer for the last few weeks of classes. Check our CALENDAR for more info.

Sunday (11/30)
1pm - 1am

Monday (12/1) - Thursday (12/4)
8am - 1 am

Friday (12/5)
8am - 6pm

Saturday (12/6)
10am - 6pm

Sunday (12/7)
1pm - 1am

Monday (12/8) - Thursday (12/11)
8am - 1 am

Friday (12/12)
8am - 9pm

Saturday (12/13)
10am - 9pm

Sunday (12/14)
1pm - 1am

Monday (12/15)
8am - 1 am

Tuesday (12/16)
8am - 9pm

Wednesday - Friday (12/17 -19)
8am - 6pm

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Please join us as UNC Asheville welcomes award-winning author Robert Morgan for a reading and discussion on Friday, November 14 at 3:30 in the Laurel Forum, Karpen Hall. Morgan will be reading from his latest book Boone and discussing issues of Appalachian identity formation and authorship. This event, sponsored by Ramsey Library and offered in conjunction with the regional Together We Read program, is free and open to the public. Morgan, who was raised on a family farm in western North Carolina, is the author of eleven books of poetry and eight books of fiction, including the bestselling novel Gap Creek. Winner of a 2007 Academy of Arts and Letters Award for Literature, Morgan lives in Ithaca, NY, where he teaches at Cornell University. For more information about this event, contact Heather Stewart Harvey, Information Literacy & Outreach Librarian at Ramsey Library, at 828/251-6632 or hharvey@unca.edu

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This month we're highlighting our graphic novel and nuclear power collections with displays upstairs near the Writing Center and downstairs near the elevator, respectively.

You can also find a comprehensive list of our graphic novels on our web site, and you can do a subject search for NUCLEAR ENERGY in our library catalog or consult our Nuclear Power Research Guide.

Ramsey Library's nearly 200 volume graphic novel collection is on display this
month to coincide with Art Spiegelman's visit to Asheville on September 11.

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Summer classes have begun, and the library, like the rest of the campus, is a little bit quieter at this time of year, so, as the temperatures rise, we hope you'll find pleasant refuge here at Ramsey.

Our regular summer hours are listed below. Visit our hours page for holidays and other exceptions.

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In lieu of its annual booksale, Ramsey Library has joined the growing number of institutions currently partnering with Betterworld Books to support schools and literacy programs around the world and to most efficiently redistribute our unneeded books.

Betterworld Books has:

• collected books from over 900 libraries and generated over $1.4 million in library funding and $2.7 million for non-profit literacy initiatives.
• donated 100% of profits to literacy partners.
• kept 6,454 tons of books out of landfills and 1725 tons of carbon out of the air by using carbon-neutral shipping.

Visit Betterworld Books online.

Watch the Betterworld Books video.

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This month's exhibits are rooted in Carolina places.

Writers & Mountains : Western North Carolina Literary history
Special Collections Gallery
[web exhibit]

Upstairs, Ramsey Library

Sharing the Chores: Works on Paper
Jonathan Green vibrantly documents Gullah life.
Blowers Gallery
January 14 - February 28, 2008
[web exhibit]

Harry Harrison, Director of the YMI Cultural Center, discusses Jonathan Green

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We're open for some snowy day reading.

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We hope our library, your library, is many things: a place you can visit in person or online to find the information you need, a place to meet and collaborate, and a place to read and think for pleasure and edification.
We'd like your input on that last point. We've put together a list of magazines we think you might like for leisure reading. If you were to build the library's collection, which would you choose? What do you see on your library's shelves?

Take our MAGAZINE SURVEY and tell us.

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'Tis the season to burn the midnight oil.
In recognition of this, we've extended our hours.
Here's this week's schedule:

Monday - Thursday
8 am - 1 am

Friday
8 am - 9 pm

Saturday
10 am - 9 pm

Sunday
10 am - 1 am

Find the rest of our end-of-semester schedule here.

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Now available in the library vending machine: ear buds and flash drives.

Take advantage of our growing online audio collection with $3 ear buds and keep your files on your key chain with a $10 SanDisk 512MB flash drive.

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Tuesday 8 a.m. – 9 p.m.
Wednesday 8 a.m. -- 6 p.m.
Thursday - Saturday CLOSED

We'll REOPEN Sunday at 1:00pm

More info about library hours.

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Come by the library for a rare opportunity to view one of the original copies of the Bill of Rights.

North Carolina's copy of the Bill of Rights is one of 14 copies of the proposed amendments to the U.S. Constitution prepared by three federal clerks in 1789. A copy was drafted for the governor of each of the existing 13 states to peruse as the adoption of the 12 amendments to the Constitution was debated; the other copy was for the federal government. The document was stolen during the Civil War and remained lost to the state for 140 years, but is now on a statewide tour of 7 cities.

Free public viewings will be held from 5-7 p.m. on Thursday, Nov. 8; 3-7 p.m. on Friday, Nov. 9; and 8 am to 4 pm on Saturday, Nov. 10

MORE INFO

RELATED EVENTS, including a 1700s festival and panel discussions on freedoms in the 21st century

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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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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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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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Library Help, Now Even More Helpful!

You may have noticed by our signage and new faces that to the one-time Reference Desk has been added a new service: ITS Help. We hope the campus community will benefit from the pairing of research support and tech assistance at the Research & Technology Desk.

Please remember to direct your ITS queries to the help desk rather than to individual staff so they can be most quickly and accurately dispatched.

ITS HELP
contact: 251-6445 or helpdesk@unca.edu
hours: M-Th 8am-9pm, F 8am-5pm

RESEARCH SERVICES
contact: 251-6111 or libref@unca.edu
hours: M-Th 9am-9pm, F 9am-5pm, S 10am-6pm, Su 1pm-9pm

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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

Critical Thinking and Google
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
Tuesday, Sept. 18 from 12:30 - 1:30 pm
Thursday, Sept. 27 from 12:30 - 1:30 pm

African American Studies Resources
Workshop provides "how to" information for use of the new Oxford African American Studies Center database and other African American Studies resources. Anita is well known as one of the best teachers in the library instruction biz, so come treat yourself to this workshop.
Presenter: Anita White-Carter
Thursday, Oct. 25 from 12:30 - 1:30 pm

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Our regular summer schedule begins Tuesday.

Monday - Thursday
8 am - 9 pm
Friday
8 am - 6 pm
Saturday
CLOSED
Sunday
1 pm - 9 pm

more hours info

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

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

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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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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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The library will be open to 1am (Sunday through Thursday) beginning 4/29!

See our Hours page for more detailed information.

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Dear campus community,

As you well know, college libraries have experienced radical change beginning early in the second half of the twentieth century. Many of you will recall Ramsey Library’s card catalog from the early 1980s, a periodical collection which topped out at about 1,800 titles, and when the only computer in the library was a word-processor in the administrative office. I can. In addition to being more than twice as big and considerably more attractive, today’s Ramsey Library offers services and collections exceeding what would have been found in a small research library of the 1980s: access to full text articles from over 35,000 journals, magazines, and newspapers worldwide; a building brimming with more than 110 computers including nearly 30 laptops available free for student use; full access to library electronic library resources and the Web from fixed workstations or wireless; electronic course reserve; easy and direct remote access to all electronic products; and a virtual on-line publishing house making rich primary sources and images available from Ramsey’s growing Special Collections. And we continue to evolve to better meet the information needs of the UNC Asheville learning community.

Continue reading "Proposed Withdrawal of Bound Journals" »

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Tuesday, April 17
9:00am-2:00pm
Lipinsky Hall

Get there early before all the best titles are gone.

Hardbacks: $2; Paperbacks: $1; VHS & DVDs: $2; Mass market paperbacks $.50.

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Like the serendipity of browsing the library shelves? Now you can explore our materials online from macro- to micro-level subject divisions by clicking the "Browse" tab in the library catalog. With book cover images and links to reviews and Search Inside the Book, it's almost as good as being here.

Try it out here.

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In order to make room for our growing collection of DVD films, we have flagged 225 VHS films as candidates for withdrawal. These films meet one of the following criteria:

a) we have them on DVD;
b) we are in the process of replacing them on DVD; or
c) they don't fit our collection/support the curriculum

Review the list. Send any comments to sinclair(at)unca.edu.

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What's the story behind the art in the library? What's the best way to find an article? Who was D. Hiden? What time does this place close?

Spend those few minutes before class finding out.

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In light of our rapidly growing online holdings and ever-present budgetary and space concerns, the library has compiled a list of redundant microfilm titles for withdrawal, binding or limited retention. These titles have been carefully evaluated to ensure that we will not lose coverage by ending our microform subscription. In every case, the library has either a JSTOR, SCIENCEDIRECT, PROJECT MUSE, LION, or publisher subscription for the backfiles, or the subject bibliographer has approved cancellation based on either a decision to switch to binding or on the availability of the title in one or more of our aggregator services such as ACADEMIC SEARCH PREMIER or INFOTRAC.

The microfilm list is available for review. Members of the campus community may report any concerns to the appropriate subject bibliographer.

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We're sure Jay will be happily devoting himself more fully to books and politics, but he will be missed around here.

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