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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