Aurora Ioanid, Assistant Librarian - Bibliographic
Control
Ioanid, A., & Bowman, V. (2001). Data and
metadata: An overview of organization in searchable full-text databases.
In J. L. Still (Ed.), Creating web-accessible databases: Case studies
for libraries, museums, and other non-profits (143 - 156). Medford,
NJ: Information Today.
Maria Larson, Assistant Librarian - Reference
& Information Services
Larson, M.V. & Azcuy, M.K. (2000). The labyrinth and library
instruction: Making mythology come alive. Research Strategies, 17
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Susan Kuykendall, Associate Librarian for Collection Development at the Guggenheim Library, will be retiring effective July 1st, after more than 20 years of dedicated service.
Within the Library, Susan has worked as Assistant Librarian, Associate Librarian, Interim Director and Interim Dean. She has overseen the budget, ensuring that the Library supports user needs and the Monmouth curriculum. Under Susan’s charge, the Library collection has grown from 217,000 volumes to just under a quarter million volumes today. Susan has also been instrumental in the implementation of technology in the Library. She worked as a key figure in the evolution from the card catalog to our automated Web-based catalog and played a major role in the development of our current array of online databases.
Susan’s involvement reaches beyond the Library, too. For the last eight years, she has served as faculty liaison to the Budget Committee of the Board of Trustees. She has also served on the Faculty Council, the University Qualifications Committee, the School Personnel Committee and the FAMCO Executive Committee. In 1997, Susan was awarded the Donald Warncke Award for exemplary dedication, perseverance and collegiality.
Good luck in your retirement, Susan. top
Online Tour of the Guggenheim Mansion with Period Photgraphs
Enjoy a virtual tour of the Murry and Leonie Guggenheim summer residence
by viewing a selection of period photographs scanned from the archives
of the Guggenheim Library.
http://www.monmouth.edu/library/GuggenheimTour.html
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AVALON PROJECT
AT THE YALE LAW SCHOOL
http://www.yale.edu/lawweb/avalon/avalon.htm
On this site you will find primary materials relevant to the fields
of law, history, diplomacy and government, and economics covering primarily
the 18th through the 20th centuries. Pre-18th century documents are also
available.
Thanks to scholars digitizing major treaties and documents from
around the world, these are available to download via this project. The
site's maintainers posit in their mission statement that this is
an ever-evolving website which may sometimes contain controversial political
documents. Site is searchable by century as well.
NATIONAL CRIMINAL JUSTICE REFERENCE
SERVICES
http://www.ncjrs.org
This U.S. government website serves as a clearinghouse for
much of theonline documents published in the U.S. Justice Department and
Office of Justice Programs. It deals with such areas as juvenile justice,
state
and local drug indicator profiles, and hate crimes. The site is
easy-to-navigate and is well-maintained.. Documents are arranged by subject
area and available for downloading in pdf or ASCII formats. An example
of a recently-highlighted document was entitled "Electronic Crime
Needs Assessment for State and Local Law Enforcement." The site is ideal
for students and faculty with research interests in criminal justice and
related areas. For those with a special interest in juvenile justice
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The Guggenheim Library has a wide range of subject encyclopedias in the reference area. These encyclopedias offer in-depth articles within a specific area. A recent edition is Encyclopedia of Microbiology. 2nd Edition, 4 vols. San Diego: Academic Press, 2000.
The Encyclopedia of Microbiology, edited by Joshua Lederberg, is now in its second edition. While it embraces new developments in the field and welcomes the Internet as a source for the most up-to-date details, it still aims to “survey the entire field coherently, complementing material that would be included in an advanced undergraduate and graduate major course of university study.”
Each article in the Encyclopedia is written by an expert on the topic and provides a comprehensive overview suitable for a wide spectrum of readers. There is a glossary at the beginning of each article and a useful bibliography at the end, giving the author’s recommendations for further study. The articles are clear and well organized, illustrated with diagrams and a few black and white photographs. Topics range from “Coenzyme and Prosthetic Group Biosynthesis” to “Phytophthora Infestans” (the potato virus involved in the Famine of 1845-1849).
The Encyclopedia of Microbiology is a valuable
tool in itself, especially for readers who need an overview of a microbiology
topic before proceeding to further research. It also supplements the Guggenheim
Library collection in a rapidly evolving area of science.
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Using the Web for Research Workshops
This Spring the Guggenheim Library and the School of Humanities and Social Sciences sponsored a very well received series of workshops on using web-based resources for research. The resources included a blend of high-quality resources freely available on the Web and special databases licensed by the Library and restricted to use by the Monmouth comunity.
Common to all the workshops was information
on searching across Library databases to find full-text journal articles
and on logging on to these databases from off-campus. The Series
included sessions on GOALS ( the Library's Online Catalog for books and
periodical titles), full-text databases, government documents, and Internet
directories and search engines. Special thanks to Helen Ciraulo for helping
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During the Spring 2001 semester, Librarian Mike Banick and History Professor Susan Douglass collaborated to develop an “archivist-in-training” program, designed to give two interested students from her history class a chance to experience the kind of work archivists and collection managers might be expected to perform. This semester’s project focused on The Outlook student newspaper.
The project consisted of two parts. The first phase focused on preservation issues, and involved the careful assessment of the entire run of The Outlook, from 1933 to today. The information gathered will be used to determine the best preservation treatment to use for this newspaper collection and to obtain accurate quotes from vendors for possible reformatting. The Outlook is a unique resource in two ways: first, it is the voice of Monmouth students; second, it reaches all the way back to our founding. It deserves to be safeguarded.
The second phase of this project related more closely to Professor Douglass’s History 298 Vietnam War class. Here, students prepared an annotated index to relevant articles retelling and interpreting the Vietnam experience at Monmouth, ca. 1965 – 1975. This index will hopefully be available for use this summer and will eventually be posted on the Web.
Many thanks to students Linda Silverstein and Bryan Kreher for their
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The twelfth annual Monmouth University Authors’ Reception was held
on Wednesday, April 4th, at The Club Lounge. Nearly forty attendees
helped celebrate the collective efforts of our authors. This year
we featured sixteen books – the most ever for one year – by thirteen faculty
members: Jess Boronico, Al Cavaiola, Priscilla Gac-Artigas, Bonnie Gold,
Peter Liu, Roy Nersesian, Guy Oakes, Mike Palladino, Steve Pressman, Thomas
Reiter, Alan Schwerin, Terry Webb, and Dan Weeks. An online version
of the Monmouth University Faculty Publications, 1999-2000, is available
at http://www.monmouth.edu/library/facultypubs9900.html.
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A warm welcome to our new librarians:
Heather Goyette - Adjunct, Reference & Information ServicesUsing Electronic Library Resources from Off-Campus
Michael Gutierrez - Adjunct, Reference & Information Services
Dawn Popoff - Adjunct, Reference & Information Services
Susan Stehle - Instructor, Reference & Instructional Services top
Access to almost 20 electronic databases licensed
by the Library are now available from off-campus. Many of these resources
include select full text of journal, magazine and newspaper articles as
well as other important research materials. (See database descriptions
and subject categories
available from the Library web site for more information.) .To use this
service you must have Internet access, a web browser, and a Hawkmail account.
Click on Remote
Access Help from the Library home page for detailed instructions on
how to configure your computer.
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*Please
Return Overdue Library Materials*
All Library books and materials must be returned by May 8, 2001.
Students with an unpaid library account balance
of $40 or more will not be allowed to graduate or have transcript requests
honored. Further, students who have long overdue books with a total value
of more that $100 have been blocked from registering for classes. Blocks
will not be removed unless ALL overdue materials are returned. Please note
that the above policy also applies to books borrowed through the Library's
INTERLIBRARY LOAN service. top
Contributors to this issue: Librarians Mike Banick, Rachel Gardner, Aurora Ioanid, Susan Kadezabek, Maria Larson
Please contact Rachel Gardner,
Associate Librarian, Instructional Services for questions or comments.
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