CU Boulder Libraries News and Events

Norlin Security and the Writing Center Have Moved in Preparation for Construction to Begin on the 24 Hour Learning Commons

The Security Office (also where the Lost and Found is located) has moved to S205 near the Science Library.

The Writing Center has moved to M-250 near the West Entance to Norlin Library. For information about appointments, hours, and services visit the The Writing Center website: http://www.colorado.edu/pwr/writingcenter.html

November 2008 Employee of the Month: Linda Rogers of the Government Publications Library

Linda Rogers of the Government Publications Library is Employee of the Month for November.

She was nominated by her supervisor, Peggy Jobe, for her cheerful and dedicated work on preparing many aspects of the Government Publications collection as the department prepares to join the Research Desk effort.

When the Research Desk opens this semester, staff from the Government Publications Library will join their colleagues from Science and Research and Instruction in the provision of all reference services from one location. For some, Government Publications are an arcane and intimidating branch of librarianship. In order to make its collections more intelligible and accessible to colleagues, the department has undertaken a massive shift of materials.

Linda has supervised all of the above with cheerfulness and dedication. And she has done all it all at the start of a new semester -- hiring, training, and coordinating a small army of student and community service workers. We could not have done it without her.

Congratulations and thanks for the hard work!

The University Libraries’ Employee of the Month award is intended to recognize the special effort of faculty, staff, or student employees. The award is granted at the discretion of the Associate Director for Administrative Services.

Visit our Employee of the Month page to see past honorees.

This Friday! The Libraries Will Offer Snacks and Chair Massage Keep You Stress-Free For Finals

Final Bites will be Friday, December 12th from 9:30-10:30pm in the Center for British and Irish Studies (Norlin's 5th Floor). This year we're giving away free pizza, bottled water, vitamin water, and energy drinks to fuel your studies.

We will also have chair massage and aromatherapy provided by the Student Wellness Center in the HotSpot on the first floor.

Text your friends and let them know! C U Friday and good luck on your finals!

Final Bites is a Zero Waste event thanks to CU Recycling. Final Bites is sponsored by the Friends of the Libraries.

Final Bites returns to Norlin Library on Friday, December 12

We all need a break sometimes, and the Friends of the Libraries have stepped up to provide you with one. Final Bites will be Friday, December 12th from 9:30-10:30pm in the Center for British and Irish Studies (Norlin's 5th Floor).

This year we're giving away free pizza, bottled water, vitamin water, and energy drinks to fuel your studies.

Text your friends and let them know! C U Friday and good luck on your finals!

Final Bites is a Zero Waste event thanks to CU Recycling.

Fall Break Hours for the Libraries

On Friday, Nov. 21, we will close at 5:00pm. We are closed Saturday and Sunday, Nov. 22 & 23. Monday - Wednesday, Nov. 24 - 26 (Fall Break), we are open 8:00am - 5:00pm.

We are closed Thursday, Nov. 27 through Saturday, Nov. 29. On Sunday, Nov. 30, regular hours resume, we are open noon to midnight.

Branch libraries set their own hours, available here:

For questions, please contact: libpub@colorado.edu

Additional Information: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/hours/

"Google Previews" Now Linked to Some Chinook Records

A new feature in Chinook provides links to "Google Previews" from most Chinook titles that are available in Google Books. Look for the top center "Google Preview" button and click on it to view tables of contents, images, reviews, and more. Not all Chinook titles available in Google Books will have a "Google Preview" button, however. Another recent Chinook enhancement, “Find More Resources,” provides direct links to Open WorldCat, Amazon.com, Encyclopedia Britannica Online, Center for Research Libraries Catalog, Google Book Search, Google Scholar, and RefWorks. You asked – we continue to upgrade your library services and facilities.

Matt Hamilton of Outreach chosen for the Colorado Association of Libraries' first Leadership Institute

Matt Hamilton, Marketing and Promotions Coordinator, is among 25 people in libraries throughout Colorado selected for the first Colorado Association of Libraries Leadership Institute 2009.

The Leadership Institute is designed to develop outstanding leaders within CAL and the Colorado library community.

Participants will engage in a year long-process of leadership development activities including self-assessment, networking, and skills development.

Program goals include:

Allowing an exploration and understanding of personal leadership styles.
Developing key relationship among participants, presenters, and the larger library community through inquiry (listening and understanding others), advocacy (learning about issues and taking a stand), and networking (building collaborative networks and creating coalitions for change).
Participate in professional development opportunities to enhance leadership skills.

Jack Maness of the Engineering Library named as one of ALA's "Emerging Leaders"

Jack Maness of the L.H. Gemmill Engineering Library was named one of more than 100 librarians from across the country who will participate in the third annual Emerging Leaders program sponsored by the American Library Association. Special activities for participants are planned for ALA conferences and with ALA committees. Networking and leadership development are emphasized in the program, including training opportunities and an online learning and networking environment for six months.

October 2008 Employee of the Month: Sean Peneyra of the Earth Sciences Library

Sean Peneyra of Earth Sciences is the Employee of the Month for September.

Brittany Reed of the Jerry Crail Johnson Earth Sciences Library, writes:

I would like to nominate my student assistant Sean Peneyra for student employee of the month. Sean is an amazing asset to the Earth Sciences Library. He is smart, quick and always helpful This summer, he has played a huge role in our library shift. We have shifted our entire collection, some 50,000+ pieces. Sean himself moved more than 75% of these. This shift has included not only moving books around in the stacks, but moving books from the first floor to the second floor and vice versa. Incredibly, this has taken less than two months to accomplish. There is no doubt that the speed of the shift was made possible by Sean.

On top of all the physical labor Sean has mastered, he also helped come up with a beautiful system for tracking books while they were in temporary locations. He made an incredible spreadsheet and mapping system that laid out where each title was located. This has helped immensely when a patron required a book that was not in its normal location. All we had to do was check the chart and we could find the book in only a few minutes.

Even during this huge shift, Sean was still our main student assistant for the summer. He maintained his regular duties, running our circulation desk and helping patrons. He always helps cover other students’ shifts and comes in whenever asked.

Sean is funny and smart, and makes the Earth Sciences library a great place to work. I truly enjoy supervising him and he has proven that he is not only dedicated to the libraries, but always goes above and beyond the work of a student assistant.

Congratulations and thanks for the hard work!

Visit our Employee of the Month page to see past honorees.

To nominate an employee, please email a letter of support to John.Culshaw@colorado.edu.

IMPORTANT NOTICE! POWER OUTAGE!

A power outage will occur on Friday night (October 17) and most of Saturday (October 18) on Norlin's second and third floors.

Lights will remain on during this time; however, students will not be able to plug in laptops, or any other electrical appliances. There will be no phone service to the area. Computers in offices will also be unavailable.

Government Publications, Science, and study rooms, printers and card machines in those areas will be affected. Wireless access may be out as well. Other unexpected outages are also possible during this time.

Because of this, the Government Publications reference desk will be closed Saturday. Special Collections will not be affected. There are no fire or safety issues.

Thank you for your patience as we continue to make improvements to your library!

October is American Archives Month! Free Workshop Hosted by Special Collections

Learn how to care for family papers and photographs in a free workshop hosted by the Special Collections Department of the University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries, Saturday, October 25th, from 12-2 pm.

We will discuss how to deal with acidic papers and inks, common types of photographs, what to do with old photo albums, and safe storage conditions. Examples will be provided from the Department’s collections. Registration is limited to 15 people.

To register or for questions, contact:

Elizabeth.Newsom@colorado.edu, or call (303) 492-2720

Don't Know What To Do With Your Master's Degree? Consider Becoming A Provost's Fellow In The University Libraries

Did you know that librarians are often tenure-track faculty members? Here at CU librarians are heavily involved in research and service, as well as librarianship. By combining your graduate degree with a Master's in Library Science, you can enter a career filled with innovation and challenge.

In conjunction with the Graduate Teacher Program (http://www.colorado.edu/gtp/), the Libraries is offering four $2500 fellowships in spring 2009 to explore academic librarianship as a career.

Contact: Stephanie.Alexander@colorado.edu

Additional Information:
http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/librarianship/fellowship.htm

Special Collections is proud to welcome visiting artist Libby Rowe

What does it mean to be a woman?

What does femininity really mean?

Who controls the definitions?

Special Collections at the University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries is proud to welcome visiting artist Libby Rowe as she presents “Pink: A Study on Being Female,”an informational and confrontational look at what it means to be a woman.

Visit her website at www.libbyrowe.com for more information.

When: Monday, October 6, 2008, at 7 pm.

Where: Center for British and Irish Studies, Norlin Library room M549. The library’s West entrance will be open at 6 pm for elevator access to the 5th floor.

Parking: The nearest lot is the Euclid Parking terrace, between Broadway and 18th. There is a flat fee of $3 from 5 pm until midnight.

Transit Information is available at www.rtd-denver.com; the stop nearest Norlin is at Broadway and 16th.

September 2008 Employee of the Month: Pam Stanfield of Acquisitions

"We would like to nominate Pam Stanfield as employee of the month. Pam is our bookkeeper extraordinaire! It may not be evident to most people in the libraries that invoices for library materials have to be posted in Chinook and then paid in AP/PeopleSoft. It's fairly easy to make an error on one or the other, and if left to the end of the year, the problems fester and book closing turns into a dreaded, painful time. But not with Pam! She loves her job working with numbers.

She keeps constant spreadsheets of what's in and out of both Chinook and PeopleSoft, and handles problems as they come along. Not only does she work well, she works well with others, and has a great non-confrontational manner when she approaches us with problems. She has definitely taken all the stress out of book-closing! WooHoo for Pam!!"

Congratulations and thanks for the hard work!

Visit our Employee of the Month page to see past honorees.

To nominate an employee, please email a letter of support to John.Culshaw@colorado.edu.

The Norlin Renovation - Opening a New Door to Discovery

You asked. We listened.

You told us you wanted:

More open hours, especially late night
More welcoming and comfortable environments
More technology
More individual and group study spaces
More flexibility to accommodate your collaborative and interactive style
More food and drink options
More personalized assistance
More technology
More fun!

We acted to change the way the library is here for you. For the first time in more than 30 years, a major renovation in Norlin Library adds a new 24/7 entry into a physical learning portal with facilities and services that will open your new door to discovery.

The former second floor periodical and main reading rooms are under construction during fall 2008 to create a Research Floor that will increase and enhance access to electronic resources and research services. The combined Research & Instruction Department and periodicals collection now on the first floor east will be moved to and permanently located on the Research Floor when the construction is complete.

The new 7,770 square feet research Floor will include:

Centralized reference service desk
Private research consultation rooms
Individual and group spaces
Reference and periodical collections
Photocopiers, printers, scanners, microfilm readers
Library instruction classrooms

During construction, Reference Librarians remain available to assist you at the desk, by appointment, phone, email, or chat. In the current reference area, you will find current newspapers located by the north windows, current journals directly behind the Reference Desk, and microfilm equipment by the north windows. For information on how to retrieve articles during construction, see our How Do I? page.
The next step, in spring 09, is conversion of the current reference area into a 15,050 square feet Learning Commons, including:

24/7 access separate from the rest of the building
New coffee shop with indoor/outdoor seating
Comfortable and flexible furnishings
Collaborative and individual work spaces
Team technology rooms
The Writing Center
Hot topics reading area
Technology classroom

The Learning Commons, a joint project of the University Libraries and Information Technology Service, will integrate content, technology, and services to provide seamless access to information sources and productivity tools, enabling the full continuum of learning and discovery. The Learning Commons and Research Floor will work together to meet your research and information needs.

The Writing Center, operated by the Program for Writing and Rhetoric and now located on the first floor east of Norlin in E156, will continue to be available in the first floor area, with only a minor adjustment to its location. The Libraries works closely with the PWR first year writing classes, providing information literacy instruction and research support. The continuation and strengthening of this collaborative effort demonstrates the type of access along the continuum of learning that the Learning Commons and Research floor will support.

In a separately funded project, the current Norlin east sundial plaza will also be significantly renovated in summer 2009. Plaza concrete will be replaced with softer, more ecological and porous surfaces. Most existing trees will be retained, and new trees and plants will be added. The sundial area will be enlarged and enhanced. Outdoor seating will include power for laptops, and even the existing wall will be enhanced for seating and include electrical outlets. The outdoor lighting will also be upgraded.

The estimated cost of the Norlin building renovation is $5.2 million. $1 million of this budget comes from student computing fees over three years. The budget includes remodeling in spring 09 of the current third floor northwest Mac Lab into a new graduate student study area because the older fifth floor graduate facilities are extremely outdated and insufficient.

For more information and updates, visit our construction update page.

New Chinook Features include RSS Feeds for New Books

Looking for an easy way to keep up with new books in areas that interest you?

The Libraries has automated it for you!

From the Chinook home page http://libraries.colorado.edu/, you can click on the New Titles page and even subscribe to an RSS feed.

The feeds are updated daily to list new titles purchased in the subject area in the last 30 days. Newest titles head the list. More subjects and more new books are being added, and you can request a subject area that you would like added by contacting the appropriate subject specialist listed at http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/services/bibliographers.htm.

You can also learn more about RSS feeds at http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/how/rssfeeds.htm.

Other recent service enhancements brought to you by your Libraries include the addition of book cover images in Chinook and the option to designate an item pick up location in one of our five branch libraries rather than in Norlin when placing a request in Chinook on an eligible item.

Supporting Library Research in Biotechnology

Gabby Wiersma, a temporary faculty member, and Kaitlin Hoke, a staff member, both in the Engineering Library and students in the University of Denver Library and Information Science program, conducted an analysis of the Libraries holdings in biotechnology, an important new research focus on campus.

In spring 2008, they conducted a gap analysis on journals, books, e-books, and abstracts and indexes and made recommendations in each category as well as in general. Overall, they determined that our collections appear strong and that there are some gaps to be addressed.

Their analysis, reviewed by Cabinet, evidences the Libraries ongoing commitment to collection evaluation, especially to ensure that we meet emerging areas of research on campus. In addition, this effort demonstrates how the Libraries is growing the profession of librarianship by providing research opportunities to its pre-professional employees.

August 2008 Employee of the Month: Dick Bryant, Access Services

Dick was nominated for his hard work and dedication with the Periodicals and Reference Room Projects this spring.

"Access Services received word in October 2007 that we would be physically responsible for moving the entire collection of journals, both bound and current, out of the Periodicals Room in preparation for construction and renovation. Planning started soon after, with the complication of having half of the journals go down to the basement for eventual removal to PASCAL, our off-site storage facility, and half of the journals go down to temporary storage in the basement. An additional factor was the fact that the shelving available for temporary storage in the basement was inadequate both in condition (broken ‘moveable’ shelving) and in the number of shelves actually available. This required a delicate balancing act of removing as much as possible each day, but not so much that we got ahead of the company PSI, who was selected to come several times a week to clear out the items going to PASCAL. To further complicate matters, journals in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean were to be identified and stored in a separate area, to be incorporated into the Asian Collection.

Dick calculated how many existing students we could spare from regular shelving duties, and how many we would need to hire extra, in order to get the task done by the deadline of May 15, 2008. He calculated how many volumes could be moved per cart, per hour, and per week, and factored in how many volumes PSI could take away each trip and how many shelves would thus be freed up for more volumes. He personally trained the new student hires, and supervised their work. He worked closely with the Periodicals Transition Group, attending meetings when invited, so that everyone understood which journals would be shelved where, and how they were to be labeled, all the while managing Shelving and Materials Management in Access Services.

The fact that the project was completed just before the deadline of May 15, 2008, with little disruption or confusion, and the least number of student assistants, displays superb planning and analytical skills, and I feel he should be recognized by the Libraries for his excellent work."

Congratulations and thanks for the hard work!

To nominate an employee, please email a letter of support to John.Culshaw@colorado.edu.

Recent Publications and Presentations by Janet Swan Hill, Associate Director of Technical Services

Janet Swan Hill, professor and CU Boulder library associate director for technical services, made several presentations this spring. “You Are the Most Important Tool You Have” was the keynote address at the Ohio Library Council Technical Services Retreat.

She delivered the conference summary and an invited paper titled “The Radical, the Not-So-Radical, and the Next Steps” for the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control.

Hill also gave the keynote, titled "Entering an Alternate Universe,” at the New England Technical Services Librarians Annual Conference in Worcester, MA, At the Massachusetts Library Association, she presented an invited paper on the “Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control – What’s Happened, and What Can You Do?”

In addition, her refereed article, “Is It Worth It? Management Issues Related to Database Quality,” was published in Cataloging and Classification Quarterly, and “A Winding Path to Cataloging Leadership” was published in Library Resources and Technical Services.

Hill was co-editor and one of the authors of “On the Record: Report of the Library of Congress Working Group on the Future of Bibliographic Control,” published on the web.

The Government Publication Library's Subject Guides Featured in Resource Shelf

Resource Shelf, a blog dedicated to resources of interest to information professionals, educators and journalists, named the Boulder library web page Subject Guides from the UC-Boulder Government Publications Library resource of the week in its March 24 issue. Jennie Gerke, Katie Lage, Stephanie Alexander, and Rick Losoff created the database, which was described as a”large and beautiful collection of government-oriented subject guides covering everything from Acronyms to Worldwide Demographic Information.”

Debbie Hollis of Special Collections and Reference is Awarded the 2008 Ralph E. Ellsworth Award for Excellence in Librarianship

The Awards, Elections, and Faculty Support Committee received worthy nominations for the 18th annual Ralph E. Ellsworth award which recognizes a member of the libraries’ faculty for outstanding contributions to the Libraries, the University and the library profession.

While it was a difficult task for those of us on the Committee (Jennifer Gerke, Holley Long, Michael Dulock, Caroline Sinkinson, and Anna Ferris) to make a final decision—since all the nominees were deserving of the award—it was also gratifying for us to recognize such excellence among our own colleagues. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who made an effort to submit nominations and letters in support of the Ellsworth nominees.

Based on the information provided in these letters, the Committee unanimously agreed that one nominee’s professional accomplishments, position of leadership in the profession, and accolades from employees, and peers alike, stood out from all the others. Therefore, in recognition of these truly exceptional achievements, the Committee is delighted to award the Ralph E. Ellsworth award for 2008 to Deborah Hollis.

Debbie Hollis joined the Libraries’ faculty in 1993 as the State & Foreign Documents Librarian. While her work in Gov Docs as an expert in genealogical and state resources is commendable, it is the contributions she has made in the past 8 years, since taking on the position of Interim Head of Special Collections in 2000 and then permanently becoming the Faculty Director of Special Collections in 2001, that are the focus of today’s recognition. Perhaps her most tangible and successful accomplishments during this period of time are 1) her outreach to CU faculty, students & patrons through classroom instruction, special exhibits and other events, 2) her efforts to make SPC a world-class research facility for photobooks and other materials, and 3) her creative approach to enhancing online access to SPC resources by encouraging the use of new technologies and fostering a strong collaboration with technical services, especially the Cataloging and Metadata Services Department.

Some excerpts taken from the letters supporting Debbie’s nomination include:

Debbie is an excellent and dedicated librarian … throughout her long career here, she has gained a reputation of going far beyond what is required of her.

Over her years as Faculty Director of Special Collections, Debbie has turned what was previously a vault of treasures for the few into an outreach program to the many. … She reaches out to a great diversity of groups that normally would not be considered SPC “targets,” such as school children.”

Hands-on work with unique materials is now a regular feature of both graduate and undergraduate classes … This can have a profound impact on users. To illustrate my point, I’d like to share a recent experience I had on an airline flight. When a young man sitting next to me learned that I was a librarian at CU-Boulder, he excitedly asked me if I was familiar with SPC. He then went on to discuss his classroom experience in SPC in an almost reverential manner. That experience was one of the best he had ever had at CU.

Debbie’s tenure will be most remembered for forging a strong and effective cooperative relationship between SPC and the Cataloging Dept. Because of cataloging and data projects too numerous to mention, there are now well over 30,000 bib records, and other files such as scannings and EAD projects, bringing international attention to us.

Hollis has worked hard on collection development providing SPC with the goal of becoming a world class research facility for photobooks and the history of photo reproduction. Focusing like this on an area where the University Libraries can excel and distinguish itself from other academic libraries… takes foresight, planning, patience and excellent collegial and donor relations. Her efforts in this direction are placing the University of Colorado on the map as a national and international resource in photography.

The experience of reviewing historical manuscripts at the American Antiquarian Society has been described as studying ‘under a generous dome.’ That is an apt description regarding the transformation of SPC under the duration and facilitation of Debbie Hollis. … Debbie’s efforts are progressive and inclusive, advocating access to the institution’s crown jewels. It is my hope that we acknowledge Debbie’s contributions as an architect and designer of a ‘generous dome.’

Whereas Debbie Hollis’ contributions to the Libraries, the University and to the library profession these past 8 years have been truly “transformational,” the Committee is proud to award her the Ralph E. Ellsworth Award for Excellence in Librarianship.

Meri Willett of Cataloging and Metadata Services is Awarded the 2008 Marie and Martha Campbell Award for Staff Excellence

The Marie and Martha Campbell Award is given each year to a deserving staff member, who, because of their work and interaction with students, faculty and staff, has been nominated by their peers. Thank you to all of you who took the time to nominate and write letters of support for this award.

In 1994 when the Library Staff Association began to discuss presenting a staff excellence award, the idea of naming the award after Marie and Martha Campbell was greeted with unanimous enthusiasm. It seemed to be common knowledge that Marie and Marta epitomized the very concept of service to the libraries. Between the two of them, they logged 86 years of dedicated service as members of the Libraries’ staff and both are still active as volunteers.

This year, the winner of the Marie and Martha Campbell award is also a very dedicated staff member who has worked at the CU Boulder Libraries for 30 years.

Some of the comments from her colleagues:

During the three years the department was absent a permanent Director and with long term staff vacancies in her unit, she steadily took on new, higher level responsibilities, such as batch data loading, CJK troubleshooting and complicated data management tasks. Instead of complaining about the radical changes in her job assignment, she has consistently taken the bull by the horns and tackled new challenges.

She is primarily responsible for the maintenance of the entire Chinook database, containing over 2.8 million bibliographic records and over 700,000 authority records. Under her leadership, her Unit’s work allows the Chinook catalog to stay clean and consistent for the benefit of our clients. Faculty and staff from all areas of the Libraries send her errors or problems they see in Chinook and she handles them efficiently, courteously and in a timely manner. She is deserving of special commendation for her outstanding problem-solving skills.

Over the years, she has contributed beyond our department, conducting tutorials and training sessions, serving on search committees, library-wide committees and task forces. Some of the projects have been:

The Media Transition Team/Off-site storage/Uncataloged Media Material

Strategic Planning Committee

Volunteering at the reference desk

Authority Control training

Key words to describe our award winner are: CURIOSITY – a continuing interest in what is new and how best to make it work; and ACCOMPLISHMENT – projects given to her get done, efficiently and correctly.

She has worked here a long time, but for her the history does not hold back…… but serves as a stepping stone for new opportunities. We are proud to recognize Meri Willett for her significant contributions to the University Libraries and present her with the Marie and Martha Campbell award for staff excellence.

The Libraries Honor Years of Service for 2008

LENGTH OF SERVICE HONOREES
(as of December 31, 2007)
Susan Anthes (25 years......).................................................... Public Services
Carla Bledsoe (5 years).................................................... Access Services/ILL
Regina Carlyon (20 years)............................................... Access Services/ILL
Christopher Cronin (5 years)....................... Cataloging & Metadata Services
Daniel Davidson (15 years).............................................. Mail Room/Supplies
Christine De Vries (5 years)........................................................... Preservation
John Dziadecki (25 years).................................................................... Systems
Elizabeth Gould (20 years)..... ......Access Services/Materials Management
Cynthia Hardey (5 years)................................................................ Acquisitions
Eugene Hayworth (5 years)................................................... Business Library
Charlene Kellsey (10 years)........................................................... Acquisitions
Cheryl Koelling (10 years)......................................................... Public Services
Mathew Marquardt (5 years)........................ Cataloging & Metadata Services
Patricia Morris (5 years).................................................................. Preservation
Gregory Robl (15 years)............................................................. Science Library
Justin Stein (5 years)............................................................................... Security
Carl Stewart (15 years)................................................................... Preservation
Dylan Wiersma (5 years)............................................. Administrative Services
Susan Williams (25 years)............................................................................ Gifts
Meri Willett (30 years).................................... Cataloging & Metadata Services

RETIREMENTS
Diana Anderson............................................... Cataloging & Metadata Services
Wendy Baia....................................................... Cataloging & Metadata Services
Tomiko Dobson........................................................................ East Asian Library
Carla Gholson..................................................................................... .Acquisitions
Ann Miller.................................................................................................. Reference
Daniel Morimoto................................................................................... Acquisitions
Cassandra Volpe............................................................................... Music Library
Pamela Wilson............................................................................... Science Library

New Search Scopes Added to Chinook, the Libraries Online Catalog

A number of new scopes were recently added to the "collections" drop down list from the main page of Chinook, these include books, journals/serials, maps, music recordings, scores, spoken recordings, theses, video recordings, and more.

To allow patrons to perform advanced searches within the scopes (for example, limiting a search in "video recordings" to "DVD"), links to advanced searches within each scope have also been added above the Chinook search box.

We will continue to add functionality to make the online catalog easier to use. Stay tuned!

The Periodicals Room has Been Emptied in Anticipation of the Start of Construction

Click the image above to learn more about Norlin's Revitalization project.

As we move closer to the start of construction for Norlin’s “revitalization” project, the Periodicals Room has been emptied.

On Tuesday, May 6, the Periodicals Room service desk was officially closed.

Asbestos abatement necessitates sealing off the room prior to the start of construction. If you're interested in seeing photos of the process, you can view them here.

Current periodicals may be found on the first floor in the Reference stacks (behind the Reference desk)
Information on how to retrieve article from bound periodicals is available here.
Current newspapers are located by the north windows in Reference.
Microfilm/fiche equipment is also located by the north windows.

The Libraries would like to acknowledge the hard work of the Periodicals Room transition team and thank them for their efforts in accomplishing the move ahead of schedule.

John Culshaw, Interim Head of Administrative Services, Selected for Emerging Leaders Program

University Libraries is pleased to announce that our interim head of Administrative Services, John Culshaw, has been selected as one of seven faculty members from the Boulder campus to participate in the University Leadership Development Institute's Emerging Leaders Program (ELP) for 2008-09. Culshaw was nominated by the Dean of Libraries and selected for this honor by Provost Phil DiStefano.

As an Emerging Leaders Program fellow, Culshaw will join colleagues from other University of Colorado campuses as participants in this system-wide program, which consists of a year-long series of events designed to enhance the leadership skills of faculty members who have demonstrated the potential for higher-level leadership responsibilities. The Program will give fellows in-depth exposure to a variety of leadership principles and theories.

When informed of Culshaw's selection, Dean James Williams said, "I am delighted that John has been selected as a Fellow in the AY08/09 Emerging Leaders Program. He is one of our finest faculty citizens, and he has stepped-up to a host of leadership opportunities of increasing responsibility within and beyond the campus, again and again. He makes us proud."

Come to Final Bites: Free Food @ Norlin Library on Friday Night!

We all need a break sometimes, and the Friends of the Libraries have stepped up to provide you with one.

Final Bites is Friday, May 2 from 9:30-10:30 pm on Norlin Library's 5th Floor.

We're giving away free breakfast burritos, fresh fruit, hummus and pita, juice, and energy drinks to fuel your studies.

Final Bites is a Zero Waste event thanks to CU Recycling.

Text your friends and let them know! C-U Friday and good luck with your finals.

Experts to Discuss Climate Change @ the next CU Salon

A trio of noted scientists will discuss climate change on Thursday, April 17, from 6 – 8 pm in The Center for British and Irish Studies (Norlin Library's 5th Floor West).

This is the third in an ongoing series of discussions moderated by Richard Brenne, author of the forthcoming book The Truth About Everything.

The next panel on May 15 will address how climate and energy issues affect social justice.

Dr. Kevin Trenberth is head of the Climate Analysis Section at NCAR, and was a lead author on the last three IPCC Reports, giving the last report as testimony to Congress.

Dr. Brian Toon is the Chair of the CU Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences Department and has studied the effects of volcanic eruptions, pollutants and nuclear weapons detonations on climate, also drawing parallels between the climate of earth and that of neighboring planets.

Dr. Patricia Romero Lankao has two Ph.Ds, one from Germany and the other from her native Mexico. She is a distinguished social scientist at NCAR who has made important contributions to the latest IPCC Report, sharing the Nobel Peace Prize with the likes of our other two panelists and Al Gore.

In addition to many other experts in the audience joining the discussion, the strongest statements made by atmospheric scientists and others will be projected on a screen, discussed and amended to determine how best to help the public and policy makers understand the magnitude of the climate change problem.

The panel will also discuss what positive feedbacks can accelerate climate change and what manifestations of climate change concern them most, including sea level rise, increased severity of droughts, heat waves, hurricanes and other storms as well as the effect on agriculture and thus human population. Pollution, global dimming and the possibilities of geo-engineering will also be discussed.

The effects of population and consumption on climate and how climate change affects social justice will be explored, as well as solutions in energy and lifestyle changes.

These events are sponsored by the University Libraries, and are free and open to the public.

Refreshments are provided with generous support from the Boulder Junior Chamber Internationaland CU Boulder Friends of the Libraries. All events are "Zero Waste" thanks to the support of CU Recycling.

Are We Getting the News? A Discussion on the State of News Media

Do you get your news from Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert? If so, you’re not alone, last year, a Pew Center research study found that as many young people got their news from Comedy Central as they do from the “real” news networks, and further study revealed that those audiences were more informed! Another survey recently found that 69% of journalists said that their profession was “headed in the wrong direction.”

So are we getting the news? Are we learning what we need to participate in civic life? Do journalists do original research any more or is there too much emphasis on “official sources”? What role does the media play in public life in America today? And what does determine news content—corporate consolidation, the pr industry, government agencies, journalists, or the audience? Do bloggers or “citizen journalists” help or make the problem worse?

If you are concerned or confused, attend our next panel discussion on Wednesday, April 9 from 7 – 9pm in Norlin Library’s fifth floor Center for British and Irish Studies.

For this event, our panelists will be:

Mike McDevitt - is an associate professor at CU School of Journalism and Mass Communication, teaching journalism and theory courses in media ethics and political communication. Prior to his teaching career, he worked for eight years as a reporter and editorial writer for newspapers in the San Francisco Bay Area. His research interests include political communication, political socialization, and journalism sociology. In the area of journalism sociology, McDevitt is conducting research on how anti-intellectualism in news media functions in social control through depictions of political dissent. Findings are derived from a case study on newspaper coverage of Ward Churchill.

Richard Brenne - Brenne is the author of the forthcoming book The Truth About Everything, and has organized and moderated a series of discussions in Norlin Library highlighting Climate Change, Peak Oil, and Renewable Energy issues. He earned his bachelor’s degree and a master of fine arts from the University of California Los Angeles film school. For more than three decades he’s been a successful screenwriter, winning the Jack Nicholson Award for Screenwriting and writing screenplays most recently produced by HBO and Warner Brothers. He has also had work published in The Christian Science Monitor, Sports Illustrated and other national newspapers and magazines.

Sue Salinger - Salinger has been working in alternative participatory journalism for the past few years collaborating with citizen journalists and grass-roots social change organizations. She produced a newsweekly for national distribution on Free Speech TV for two years. She is an active member of the Media Consortium, a working group of independent, progressive publishers and producers that include the Nation and Mother Jones. Prior to this, she worked for two decades in mainstream radio and television in Detroit, Miami, San Francisco, Boston and Los Angeles.

Juliet Wittman - Wittman is an instructor in the Program for Writing and Rhetoric at the University of Colorado, as well as the theatre critic for Westword, a Denver weekly. She contributes regular book reviews to the Washington Post. She began her journalism career with an anti-war newspaper in San Diego, worked as an investigative reporter for Westword, and served as an editor, reporter, and columnist for the Boulder Daily Camera for over 12 years.

The discussion will be moderated by Polly McLean, an associate professor in the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. McLean teaches courses in media theory, culture and society. She has vast international experiences in applied research having worked as a consultant for UNESCO, USAID, the Academy for Educational Development and Pathfinder International. In 1999 and 2000, she was awarded a Fulbright to the University of Namibia in teaching pedagogy and curriculum development in media studies. She has taught at Howard University, Washington, D.C., University of Zambia-Lusaka and at the University of Namibia, Windhoek.

Little space wins BIG! (Congrats to the Norlin Underground)

Housing & Dining Services would like to thank the staff and patrons of the Norlin Underground. Your fantastic support has enabled this great little space to receive the NACUFS (National Association of College & University Food Services) “Best in the Business Award,” given to the establishment, that in this case, makes best use of limited space.

Since Dining Services has acquired this space the Norlin Underground has gone through many changes, both in physical design and in the products offered.

We will be traveling to Washington DC in July to accept this honor and to be part of a panel discussion on what it takes to be “The Best in the Business.” Keep an eye out for a NACUFS film crew in the near future; they will be filming a documentary about this phenomenal space!

Thanks again for making it possible for Housing & Dining Services to receive such a prestigious national award!

Government Publications Announces the Completion of its Country Guides

The Government Publications Library at the University of Colorado at Boulder is happy to announce that its country guides for all countries of the world are now complete.

You can access the pages directly from the Government Publications web site under "Foreign Gvts/ International Orgs" OR by searching the Research & Subject Guides Database by country name. The guides database is linked at the bottom of the opening Chinook menu.

For ease of use, each page is arranged in a consistent manner. A navigation menu at the top provides quick access to frequently-requested information:

Government Information
Country Profiles
Articles & Databases
Diplomatic Relations
Health
Peacekeeping & Military Information
Resources in the Catalog
Related Topics

Selecting one of the resources in the catalog links generates a live Chinook search for country-specific e-resources on economics, history, or politics. There is also an option to limit your search to government information only.

A number of instructors direct their students to use these guides. The country pages are also among the most frequently-searched-for items in the guides database.

Although some of the links are limited to CU-Boulder because of license restrictions, a majority of the links are to freely available resources.

We would like to extend our special thanks to Darci Card who worked at breakneck pace to complete the guides before leaving the Libraries for her new position at the Utah State Library.

University Libraries Announces a "Pilot" Project Beginning March 24, Patrons May Now Select New Pick Up Locations for Holds and Off-Site Material Requests

Responding to requests from many students and faculty on campus, beginning Monday, March 24, patrons are now able to specify the library location where they would like to pick up hold/recalls, PASCAL materials and new acquisition rushes.

When placing a request in Chinook on an eligible item, a drop down menu of pick up location choices appears at the point of authentication. A pickup location must be selected, otherwise a message appears asking that a choice be made before the request can be placed.

The choices for new pick up locations are any of the branch libraries: Business, Earth Sciences/Maps, Engineering, Math/Physics and Music, as well as the current Norlin circulation desk.

Deliveries of these materials will be each afternoon, so in many cases if you choose to pick up a PASCAL item at a branch rather than Norlin, there will be a delay of one extra business day. Note that this service does not apply to Prospector books at this time, though it may at some future date if all goes well.

Also note that only materials which are eligible to be requested in Chinook can be requested for pick up, books that are currently on the shelf must still be retrieved from their respective locations.

We anticipate that this new service will be very popular, so please have patience with us during this initial trial phase.

Experts Discuss Peak Oil and the Future of Energy

A cross-disciplinary panel of noted scientists and experts representing national, state and University of Colorado organizations will discuss “Peak Oil and the Future of Energy” on Thursday, March 20 from 6 – 8 pm in the Center for British and Irish Studies (Norlin Library's 5th Floor).

The panelists are chemistry professor and CU Renewable and Sustainable Energy Initiative Director Carl Koval, Association for the Study of Peak Oil-US President Steve Andrews, Colorado Governor’s Energy Office Representative Morey Wolfson, and National Renewable Energy Laboratory Biofuels Group Manager Jim McMillan.

This is the second in an ongoing series of third Thursday discussions moderated by Richard Brenne, author of the forthcoming book The Truth About Everything.

Additional panels are scheduled to address climate change April 17 and what climate and energy issues might mean to social justice May 15 at the same time and place each month.

The events are sponsored by the University Libraries, and they are free and open to the public.

UPDATED: CU-BOULDER TO HOST DIALOGUE ON AFFIRMATIVE ACTION AT NORLIN LIBRARY FEB. 20

Please note: Roberto Corrada has had a death in the family and will be unable to join us for tonight's discussion. However, Melissa Hart of the CU law school and one of the authors of Initiative 61 (a counter initiative to the proposed anti-affirmative action initiative) has agreed to join us in his absence.

Also, due to an event in the UMC, we suggest that you park in Lot 380 (north of Macky Auditorium) rather than Euclid AutoPark.

Boulder campus map | Libraries on campus map | Parking -- general information.

A panel discussion titled "Affirmative Action: Institutionalizing or Eliminating Racism?" will be held in Norlin Library on Feb. 20.

The panel will begin at 7 p.m. in the Center for British and Irish Studies on the library's fifth floor and is free and open to the public. The panel is part of a series of discussion forums on current topics sponsored by University Libraries.

The panelists will discuss the role of affirmative action and other policies designed to address the historical legacy of racism and segregation, whether it is the role of government to "level the playing field," and if such policies are both effective and fair.

Panelists include Robert F. Nagel, the Ira C. Rothgerber Jr. Professor of Constitutional Law at the CU Law School and author of "Judicial Power and American Character: Censoring Ourselves in an Anxious Age"; Michele Moses, associate professor in the School of Education and author of "Embracing Race: Why We Need Race-Conscious Education Policy"; Roberto Corrada, associate professor at the University of Denver College of Law and former head of the Colorado ACLU; and Brad Jones, political consultant, former head of CU's College Republicans and webmaster for FaceTheState.com.

The event will be moderated by Eric Juenke, assistant professor of political science at CU-Boulder.

The event series is co-sponsored by the Boulder Junior Chamber. Light refreshments will be provided.

The next event in the series will take place April 9 and will discuss the news media.

The Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies presents its 2008 Conference: "From Buddha's Belly to St. Bridget's Head: Sacred and Devotional Objects East/West"

All sessions will take place in Norlin Library, Center For British and Irish Studies, Room, M549 (Fifth Floor West).

All events are free and open to the public. For more information about this conference or the Center, please contact Elizabeth Robertson or Beege Harding.

See the CMEMS web site for further information.

Conference Schedule:

Thursday, February 14th

8:30-9:00 Tea and coffee

Opening remarks: Elizabeth Robertson, Director, Center for Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Graham Oddie, Associate Dean of Humanities

Session One:

9:00-9:25 John Strong, Bates College, “Relics and the Life of the Buddha”

9:30-9:55 Stephen Bokenkamp, Arizona State University, “Script as Sacred Object in Early Medieval Daoism”

10:00-10:25 Diliana Angelova, University of Colorado at Boulder, “The Empress Helena and the Finding of the True Cross”

10:25-10:45 Questions

10:45-11:15 Tea and coffee

Session Two:

11:15-11:40 Elizabeth Robertson, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Dilatory Julian of Norwich”

1l:45-12:10 Sarah Stanbury, Holy Cross, “Chaucer’s Constance: Translations of a Roman Relic”

12:15-12:40 B. G. Harding, University of Colorado at Boulder, “‘Thorgh a cristal bryht and pure’: Osbern Bokenham’s Textual Reliquary”

12:40-1:00 Questions

Session Three:

2:30-2:55 Catherine McKenna, Harvard University, “Gone to Ground: The Holy Well

in Medieval and Early Modern Ireland”

3:00-3:25 Richard McCoy, CUNY, “The Object Poisons Sight: Theatrical Recoil from Violence and the Sacred”

3:30-3:55 Jen Jahner, University of Pennsylvania, “Law’s Sacred Objects: Legal Records and the Historical Imagination”

4:00-4:15 Questions

4:15-4:45 Tea and coffee

Session Four:

4:45-5:10 Katarzyna Rutkowski, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Renaissance Saint-Fashioning: Milton’s Re-formation of Lydgate’s St. Edmund”

5:15-5:40 Thomas Williams, University of South Florida, “Credo ut mirer: Anselm on Sacred Beauty”

5:45-6:00 Questions

6:00-7:00 Reception

Friday, February 15th:

8:30-9:00 Tea and coffee

Session Five:

9:00-9:25 Mary Elizabeth Perry, Occidental, “Moriscos and the Sacralization of Stories in Early Modern Spain”

9:30-9:40 Diane Sieber, University of Colorado at Boulder, Response to Mary Elizabeth Perry

9:45-10:10 Jeanette Favrot Peterson, University of California at Santa Barbara, “Sacred Cloth and Veiled Body: Guadalupe’s tilma and Other Relic-Textiles”

10:15-10:40 Andres Prieto, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Christianizing Demonic Knowledge: Piety and Healing in the Jesuit Reductions in Paraguay”

10:45-11:00 Questions

11:00-11:15 Tea and coffee

Session Six:

11:15-11:40 Claire Farago, University of Colorado at Boulder, “The Sacred, the Secret, and the Ethics of Historical Interpretation: What I Learned from the Santos of New Mexico”

11:45-12:10 Christopher Braider, University of Colorado at Boulder, “Image, Relics, Effigy: Poussin’s Self-Portrait for Chantelou”

12:15-12:30 Questions

12:30-1:15 Response: Peter Stallybrass, University of Pennsylvania, Paul W. Kroll, University of Colorado at Boulder

Announcing the University of Colorado Digital Library: Digital resources for teaching, learning, and research

Explore a treasure of digital images, audio and text from our local collections or peruse the 50+ collections of digital content from institutions around the world.

Subject matter includes anthropology, architecture and planning, art and art history, history, literature, maps and geography, political science, science and technology, sociology, and so much more!

Use the University of Colorado Digital Library to incorporate multimedia in your lectures and enrich assignments with primary source material.

This resource is available thanks to a collaboration between the University of Colorado System and institutions of the Auraria Higher Education Campus.

Norlin Library to be Revitalized!

A new “Learning Commons,” will be the first stage of a gradual renovation process that will bring Norlin up to date and provide services in keeping with user’s needs and expectations. The Learning Commons will be located on the first floor northeast side of Norlin in the current reference department space. It will include features identified from a tour of some of the nation’s most sophisticated and successful academic library learning facilities.

Construction on the 15,050 square feet, technologically-sophisticated, academic, study, and social area will begin in May of 2008 and be completed in spring or summer 2009. The renovated space will remain open beyond regular library hours, perhaps on a 24/7 basis. A coffee shop facility will be moved from the first floor west to the Commons area and expanded. Modifications to the east entrance of the building include patio seating.

The renovation aims to create a learning library that integrates technology in a flexible innovative design, and user ease and flexibility will be emphasized in every aspect. Group study areas in the Commons will feature furniture and equipment that can be reconfigured for different sized groups. The consolidation of group study space in the Commons area will also return other space in the library to quiet, single-reader space.

The Learning Commons is a joint project of the University Libraries and Information Technology Services. The blending of ITS and the Libraries will give students comprehensive assistance with information sources and productivity tools. Through the merging of content, technology, and services the new space will enable the full continuum of student learning and discovery with flexible individual and collaborative work spaces, team technology rooms, a “hot topic” reading area, a technology classroom, and the coffee shop.

The estimated cost of the project is $5.2 million. $1 million of this budget comes from student computing fees over three years. The budget includes remodeling of the current third floor northwest Mac Lab into a new graduate student study area because the older fifth floor graduate facilities are extremely outdated and insufficient.

As a first step, the current reference and second floor periodical services will be reconfigured to increase and enhance access to electronic resources and research services. The second floor east area will be converted to a Research area, including facilities for research consultation, a central reference desk, the reference and periodical collections, and new instruction classrooms. The Learning Commons and the Research floor will work together to meet the research and information needs of the campus community in a new revitalized library.

In preparation for this restructuring, Libraries bibliographers and subject liaisons are reviewing the collections and services of Reference and the Periodicals Room. They are working with faculty to determine which print collections may be moved to other locations, usually our off-site storage facility, PASCAL. Although approximately 50% of each collection must be moved or transferred to accommodate the remodel, all content will be maintained. We will continue to provide desk top delivery from PASCAL for journal articles that are less than 50 pages and one business day delivery on print materials.

The Writing Center, operated by the Program for Writing and Rhetoric and now located on the first floor east of Norlin in E156, will continue to be available in the first floor area, with only a minor adjustment to its location. The Libraries works closely with the PWR first year writing classes, providing information literacy instruction and research support. The continuation and strengthening of this collaborative effort demonstrates the type of student access along the continuum of learning that the Commons and Research floor will support.

In order to further improve existing reference services and determine desired services for the Learning Commons itself, the Libraries is conducting focus groups with undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty and staff. We look forward to creating state-of-the-art learning environments for today's students and scholars.

The architects are H & L Architects and JBA Incorporated. Additional technical consulting, planning and design is provided by the Sextant Group.

News, updates, and photos of the construction are available at the renovation web page. The Program Plan is available online. Questions may be directed to library liaisons or the Associate Director for Public Services, Susan Anthes at 492-6897.

Norlin Library Hosts Panel Discussion, "Affirmative Action: Institutionalizing or Eliminating Racism?"

With an upcoming ballot initiative, the topics of diversity and discrimination are on the minds of many Coloradans. On Wednesday, February 20 at 7:00 pm in the Center for British and Irish Studies (Norlin Library’s fifth floor) University Libraries will host a panel discussion, “Affirmative Action: Institutionalizing or Eliminating Racism?”

Join our panelists, Roberto Corrada of the University of Denver College of Law, Michele Moses of CU’s School of Education, Robert F. Nagel of CU’s School of Law and Brad Jones, former head of CU’s College Republicans, as they discuss the role of affirmative action and other policies designed to address the historical legacy of racism and segregation, whether it is the role of government to “level the playing field” and if such policies are both effective and fair.

This event is co-sponsored by the University Libraries and the Boulder Junior Chamber and is free and open to the public.

Light refreshments will be provided.

CU-Boulder to Host Global Warming Panel Discussion at Norlin Library February 7

The University of Colorado at Boulder will host a panel of experts who will participate in a public discussion on global warming and related issues on Thursday, February 7.

Panelists include population expert and CU-Boulder physics Professor Emeritus Al Bartlett, National Center for Atmospheric Research scientist Jeff Kiehl, CU-Boulder anthropology Professor Paul Shankman, CU-Boulder energy expert and physics Professor Jamie Nagle and Michael Brownlee of Boulder Valley Localization, a group advocating community self-sufficiency. Kiehl has been involved in recent Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports.

Sponsored by the University Libraries, the free, public event will be held from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in Norlin Library's Center for British and Irish Studies, located on the fifth floor. The event is the first of four related panel discussions to be held this spring at Norlin.

The February 7 panel will examine the challenges of global warming, the coming energy crisis, population growth and social justice. Topics will include climate change scenarios, species extinction rates, natural resources, sustainable energy and the risks of nuclear energy.

The panel will be moderated by Richard Brenne, author of the forthcoming book, "The Truth About Everything." Brenne has interviewed dozens of scientists and experts for his book, some of who will be featured in the February 7 panel and upcoming panels. Local experts in climate, energy and natural resources will attend the presentations and participate as audience members.

"We're inviting scientists, professors, authors, post-docs, graduate students, undergraduates and members of the public to attend and participate in insightful, creative, dynamic and democratic discussions," Brenne said.

Related panel discussions will be held March 20, April 17 and May 15 in Norlin's Center for British and Irish Studies on Thursday evenings at 6 p.m.

Caucus Training in Norlin, Wednesday January 23, 7 p.m.

The University Libraries will be hosting a caucus training for all students, faculty and staff at the University on Wednesday, Jan 23, 7pm, Norlin Library in the Center for British and Irish Studies. Invited guests to conduct the training are members of the Boulder County Democrats and the Boulder Country Republicans.

The purpose of this training is for all members of the university community as well as the general public to become educated in caucus process in anticipation of the February 5th Caucuses. This event is sponsored by the University Libraries and Junior Chamber International, Boulder, and is free and open to the p

Major Shift in Government Publications Stacks

Last week staff in Government Publications completed a major shift of the collections. The UN materials were moved up to 3A from the floor below and the international documents (local call numbers starting with 1000) were moved down to the floor below.

The "floors" I refer to are the half stacks starting in the Science Library and continuing up to Government Publications. In other words, two major collections were flip-flopped. With the move, the department was able to: 1) create growth room for the collections; 2) create a more coherent and logical arrangement for international documents in the 1000 range; 3) make the heavily-used UN collection accessible to all users; and 4) box significant portions of the deteriorating UN collection.

Please join us in extending congratulations to the staff on a job well

New features added to Chinook, the Library Catalog

Thanks to the power of WebBridge, we've recently added a few features to the Find More Resources button that you can access within Chinook.

First, by request we have added a link to Open WorldCat. Any material that has an ISBN can searched in Open WorldCat. For example, try searching Chinook for "Baseball Love" (go Rockies) and clicking on the Find More Resources button to the right. You will see the link to Open WorldCat under Book Information.

The other new feature is a link to IMDB (Internet Movie Database) for films and videos. For an example of this one, try a search in Chinook for "House of Flying Daggers" and scroll down to the Find More Resources button. Click on the IMDB link under Resources for DVDs & Videos. You can also see Open WorldCat info on this film.

Matt Hamilton is our January Employee of the Month

Matt Hamilton, Marketing and Promotions Coordinator in Outreach, is our January 2008 Employee of the Month. Matt consistently performs “above and beyond,” but some recent activities prompt this acknowledgement.

In a letter to the dean, the head of Special Collections commended Matt for his skill and efficiency in managing the installation and strike of the significant and challenging Antarctica photo exhibit.

On the heels of the labor-intensive dismount of that show and the Weather Report show, Matt swung into action to disperse and arrange A LOT of furniture – much of it big and heavy – in the west side study area and the HotSpot. He actually relished this job because he is so committed to enhancing the experiences of undergraduates in our library. He took great care to arrange the furniture in concert with his student assistant as attractively and usefully as possible, noting the locations of outlets.

Matt has also taken on the task of upgrading “temporary” signage in Norlin. He designed a template for consistency, surveyed the building and area managers for needs, and quickly began to produce a variety of polished, laminated signs that should serve to reduce the sense of clutter in this building. Matt is also establishing a Student Advisory Committee in conjunction with Reference and an ongoing event series that promises to offer a new draw to the Libraries. As a library school student and verifiable “techie,” Matt brings an array of skills and developing knowledge that position him to contribute to the Libraries in many ways that are above and beyond. Please join us in acknowledging his contributions!

Kudos to David Hays of Archives

David M. Hays of our Archives department published an article, Student Archivists Train Through University of Colorado-Boulder Archives and U.S. National Park Service Partnership in the Winter 2007 edition of "The Rocky Mountain Archivist", a publication of the Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists (SRMA).

CU Boulder Friends of the Libraries to host Information Day January 10

The Friends of the Libraries will hold its annual Information Day at Norlin Library on the CU-Boulder campus on Thursday, Jan. 10.

The event will begin at 9:30 a.m. in the Center for British and Irish Studies on the fifth floor of the library. Information Day is free and open to the public and no reservations are required.

Jim Williams, dean of the CU Libraries, and Claudine Garby, president of the Friends, will welcome participants. Guests will view the exhibit titled "Selected Artists Books and Materials" in Special Collections and reference librarians also will provide training for Chinook and databases in the computer lab.

A light catered lunch will be served at noon.

Immediately following the lunch break a program titled "Learning Commons: Transforming Learning and Scholarship" will be presented by reference librarians Jennifer Knievel and Caroline Sinkinson. They will give an overview of plans for the new learning commons area, reference area and east entrance courtyard at Norlin Library.

The purpose of Information Day is to inform citizens that Norlin Library is accessible to them and to familiarize people with how to use Norlin when remodeling projects begin in May 2008.

The event is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the Daily Camera newspaper. Pay parking available in Lot 380 (north of Macky) or Euclid AutoPark.

For more information call the Friends of the Libraries at (303) 492-7511.

Mark Mabbett is January Student Employee of the Month!

The Periodical Transition Group would like to acknowledge, Mark Mabbett, who was hired to assist the Periodicals Transition Group (PTG), with the student employee of the month award.

He has become the major go-to-person for the project juggling multiple responsibilities including creating complex excel spreadsheets, communicating with multiple departments in Norlin library, tracking project progress, supervising students, flagging and pulling items as well as doing whatever has been necessary to keep this enormous project going forward and on time.

He has accomplished these tasks with minimal supervision. Completing the Periodical room project without his participation would have been very difficult. Based on these reasons we feel that he deserves recognition for the work that he has done to advance the goals of the University Libraries.

Thank you for your excellent work, Mark!

Another Success for Final Bites

Final Bites was Friday, December 14th from 9:30-10:30pm in the Center for British and Irish Studies (Norlin's 5th Floor). Over 400 students came by for a much needed break!

This year we gave away free breakfast burritos, fresh fruit, hummus and pita, juices, and energy drinks to fuel your studies.

The Libraries would like to thank the Friends of the Libraries for their generous support in making Final Bites possible this semester, Housing and Dining for their excellent cuisine, and CU Recycling for making it a "Zero Waste" event.

See you again in May!

Norlin Offers Extended Hours for Finals

This year we will again have extended hours for Norlin, December 14 - 19, remaining open until 2:00 am during finals.

Our hours for the rest of the fall semester are as follows:

Friday, Dec. 14 (Last day of Classes) 7:30 am - 2:00am

Sat - Wed, Dec. 15 - 19 (Exams) 7:30 am - 2:00am

Thursday, Dec. 20 (Last day of Exams) 7:30 am - 5:00 pm

Friday, Dec. 21 (Commencement) 8:00 am - 5:00 pm

You can always check the most up to date information for Norlin on our hours page.

Prospector Services Will Be Unavailable Monday, December 17, Please Plan Accordingly

We have received word from the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries that their digital services will be down temporarily as they perform an upgrade.

From the Alliance:
“On December 17th, the Colorado Alliance of Research Libraries will be upgrading its networking bandwidth to a 10 megabit per second line. This will represent a threefold increase in capacity which will improve performance of all Alliance services including the Alliance Digital Repository (ADR), Prospector, Colorado School of Mines Voyager System, Gold Rush and other services. This will mean that all Alliance services will not be available the day of December 17, 2007 as we make the necessary changes to our network.”

Please make any expected Prospector requests before Monday, December 17, if possible.

If there is any delay in restoring the service, we will post an announcement here on the News and Events page. If you'd like more information about the upgrade you can see the FAQ on the Alliance web site.

Thank you for your patience. Other Interlibrary Loan services will still be available as normal.

Feed More Than Your Head... Join Us for Final Bites This Friday Night!

We all need a break once in a while, and the Friends of the Libraries have stepped up to provide you with one. Last year's Final Bites fed almost 500 students!

Final Bites will be this Friday, December 14th from 9:30-10:30pm in the Center for British and Irish Studies (Norlin's 5th Floor).

Once again, this year we're giving away free breakfast burritos, fresh fruit, hummus and pita, juices, and energy drinks to fuel your studies.

Text your friends and let them know not to miss out on the fun!

C U Friday and good luck with finals!

Final Bites: A Late Night Snack to Ease Your Pain!

We all need a break once in a while, and the Friends of the Libraries have stepped up to provide you with one.

Final Bites will be Friday, December 14th from 9:30-10:30pm in the Center for British and Irish Studies (Norlin's 5th Floor).

Once again, this year we're giving away free breakfast burritos, fresh fruit, hummus and pita, juices, and energy drinks to fuel your studies.

Text your friends and let them know not to miss out on the fun!

C U Friday and good luck with finals!

Hours Reduced Fall Break/Thanksgiving

The Fall Break/Thanksgiving library hours are as follows:

Open Friday, November 16, 8 am-5 pm.

Closed Saturday and Sunday, November 17-18.

Open Monday-Wednesday, November 19-21, 8 am-5 pm.

Closed Thursday-Saturday, November 22-24.

Regular hours will resume Sunday, November 25, 12 pm-12 am. Hours are available at http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/hours/index.htm. Branch libraries post their own hours for holidays on their individual web pages, listed at http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/about/departments.htm.

Contact: libpub@colorado.edu

Antarctica - Passion and Obsession Exhibit Opens in Norlin's HotSpot Nov. 1

Award-winning photographs by two of the world's top polar region photographers, Pat and Rosemarie Keough, will be on display at the University of Colorado at Boulder from Nov. 1 through Dec. 31.

The traveling exhibit, "Antarctica - Passion and Obsession," illustrates the extreme landscape of the world's 7th continent and is composed of more than 70 images from the Keoughs' acclaimed book "Antarctica," which won 11 international gold honors.

"Antarctica - Passion and Obsession" is free and open to the public and will be housed in the HotSpot Gallery on the first floor of Norlin Library. The exhibit will be open during normal library hours from 8 a.m. to midnight Monday through Thursdays, 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Fridays, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Saturdays and noon to midnight on Sundays. The book "Antarctica" is available for viewing in Norlin Library's Special Collections.

The Keoughs' work, which captures the rare beauty of Antarctica's mountains, glaciers and wildlife, is the result of two austral summers spent on the Antarctic continent.

In a statement about their photography experience the Keoughs said, "We keenly felt the immensity of Antarctica and also a certain vulnerability. . . Antarctica is a harsh land of extremes . . . and of superlatives. It is the coldest and the windiest of the seven continents, as well as the most isolated.

"Antarctica is the highest of all continents with an average elevation over triple that of North America. Antarctica is also a desert; and although it is the driest of continents, Antarctica's great polar ice cap smothers nearly the entire landscape locking 70 percent of the world's freshwater in ice and snow. . . . Our photographs, many of which we composed together using one camera on one tripod, reflect our shared emotional response to what could easily be construed as overwhelming stimulus."

The exhibit has been brought to the CU-Boulder campus in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the CU-NOAA Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES. CIRES is the oldest and largest of the NOAA cooperative institutes and one of two in Colorado.

"We are delighted to be able to share the Keough's stunning photographs of Antarctica with the public," said CIRES director Konrad Steffen, an expert on Greenland and climate change. "Several CIRES scientists conduct research in Antarctica, and many of us also study the effects of global climate change in the polar regions."

Cryospheric and Polar Processes is one of six formal research divisions at CIRES. Other research at CIRES spans atmospheric chemistry, weather and climate connections, ecosystem science and geophysical science. In all, the institute employs more than 500 researchers, staff and students.

For more information about "Antarctica - Passion and Obsession," please visit http://cires.colorado.edu/news.

Chinook, the Library Catalog, continues to develop with new features added monthly

YOUR University Libraries Chinook catalog just got smarter! Here’s what it can do for you now. From the screen displaying the information on a book or journal article, you can click on Find More Resources and get links to:

Amazon.com for books
Encyclopedia Britannica Online for the subject(s) of that book or journal title
Google Scholar based on the subject(s) of that book or journal title
Google Book Search option for books
RefWorks to export the citation
CU in-house subject guides

And, for many books published since 2006, you will now find tables of contents included with the online records. You can navigate from an article author to other works that author may have written, and search many chapter titles and authors.

You have told us that you want such enhancements in your catalog, and these are among the Libraries first steps towards answering such requests. Look for even more as we continue to respond to your input!

Howard B. Waltz Music Library digitized sheet music collection is ALA's Digital Library of the Week

The Music Libraries digitized sheet music collection is the Digital Library of the Week in the 10 October 2007 American Libraries Direct.

The Howard B. Waltz Music Library sheet music collection has approximately 150,000 items including examples from the late 18th through the 20th centuries. The Digital Sheet Music Collection provides access to digital versions of some of the categories of sheet music within the physical collections. The digitized sheet music was originally published between 1890 and 1922. Users may browse by title or title cover graphic. A grant from the Collaborative Digitization Program provided partial funding for the digitization of the sheet music for this site.

Special Collections photobook collection featured on Association of Research Libraries website

The Special Collections photobook collection is featured on the new Celebrating Research: Rare and Special Collections from the Membership of the Association of Research Libraries website and book. Here is an excerpt from the text written by Deborah Hollis, head of Special Collections:

The University of Colorado at Boulder Libraries owns a significant photo-illustrated book collection containing over 15,000 volumes. The collection is interdisciplinary in nature and contains a dizzying array of images and artists from the iconic to the virtually unknown. The foundation of the Photobook Collection was laid with the purchase of two separate collections. The first was acquired in 1991 from collector David H. Tippit who began formation of the collection in 1978. The Tippit collection focuses on books that illustrate the works of important 20th-century American and European photographers whose original photographs are either too rare or too expensive to purchase. The second collection, purchased in 1994 from Alan Scuba, emphasizes architectural, travel, and ethnographic photography. The scope of the combined collections has since been expanded to include new subjects and processes as well as an international array of lesser-known and emerging male and female photographers.

From an interdisciplinary standpoint, the CU Boulder Photobook Collection is a rich visual archive of images that encapsulate and bear witness to the peoples, events, places, cultures, sciences, technologies, and world views of the modern era. The collection is an integral tool in teaching visual literacy in the humanities and the sciences. From a purely artistic point of view, these books document 19th- and 20th-century photographic movements and contain the images of photography's formative years.

Elsevier Backfiles on ScienceDirect

E-Resource in the Spotlight:

Elsevier Backfiles on ScienceDirect

We have acquired access to several Elsevier subject backfiles. This was made possible through an Alliance initiative and member contributions. The value of this collection is over 1.7 million dollars. The Libraries did not contribute to this purchase, however we are participating in the Alliance Science Direct contract.

We previously purchased a few backfiles, listed below. This Alliance acquisition provides access to 19 new backfile collections in the sciences and social sciences. For a list of titles in each collection go to: .

ALREADY PURCHASED:
*Chemical Engineering
*Inorganic Chemistry
*Organic Chemistry
*Physical and Analytical Chemistry
*Economics, Econometrics and Finance
*General Physics

NEW BACKFILES:
Agricultural and Biological Sciences
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology
Business, Management and Accounting
Cell Press
Earth and Planetary Sciences
Energy and Power
Engineering and Technology
Environmental Sciences
High Energy, Nuclear Physics and Astronomy
Immunology and Microbiology
Lancet
Materials Science
Mathematics
Medicine and Dentistry
Neuroscience
Nursing and Health
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics
Psychology
Sociology

Access to Elsevier Backfiles on ScienceDirect is provided by the CU-Boulder Libraries.

For more information, please contact Heather Wicht, Electronic Resources Librarian. Remember, when using library resources off campus, you have to follow our Off-Campus Access guidelines.

Fall Deadline for Instructional VHS/DVD Requests

It's time for academic departments to request instructional videos and DVDs needed for the Spring 2008 semester. The deadline to submit requests to Norlin Library is Nov. 7.

As in the past, departments are strongly encouraged to share in the purchase costs of desired titles. A description of the request process and the request form are available at http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/accessservices/purchaserequest.htm

Many technology classrooms on campus are now equipped with DVD players and the Library encourages purchasing titles in DVD format rather than VHS when available. Please consider this option when submitting requests.

Please note that the Library does not buy from marketplace sellers (used and new) who sell through Amazon.com and does not purchase from EBAY. For more information about the request process or forms, please contact Cris Johnson at cris.johnson@colorado.edu or 303-492-8469.

Don't Know What To Do With Your Master's Degree? Consider a Provost's Fellowship In The Libraries.

Did you know that librarians are often tenure-track faculty?

At CU librarians are heavily involved in research and service, as well as librarianship. By combining your graduate degree with a Master's in Library Science, you can enter a career filled with innovation and challenge.

In conjunction with the Graduate Teacher Program (http://www.colorado.edu/gtp/), University Libraries offer $2500 fellowships to explore academic librarianship as a career in Spring 2008.

Contact: Jennifer.Parker@colorado.edu

Additional Information: http://ucblibraries.colorado.edu/librarianship/fellowship.htm

ECOARTS on Campus in its Final Week!

ECOARTS (www.ecoartsonline.org): more than 28 major science, arts, environmental, educational, indigenous, and other organizations presenting performances, exhibits, talks, tours, and parades through Saturday October 6th at a variety of locations in Boulder county and beyond, including the following on the Boulder campus:

Thursday, October 4, Wolf Law Courtroom, 7-8:15pm, “Music Meets Science” Carolyn Anderson Surrick, founder of Ensemble Galilei, and, schedule permitting, CU College of Music faculty Steven Bruns, and NOAA scientist James H. Butler in a discussion about music and climate change in advance of the Ensemble Galilei performance Friday at Macky.

Friday, October 5, Macky, Room 102, Pre-Concert Talk 6:45–7:15 pm with NSIDC sea ice scientist Julienne Stroeve, concert at 7:30 pm, Macky concert hall: “First Person: Stories from the Edge of the World,” Ensemble Galilei and NPR’s Neal Conan Boulder in a collaboration with National Geographic, featuring slides, original texts by great explorers, and music to evoke some of history’s most extraordinary expeditions.

Friday October 5, 5-8pm and Sat October 6, noon–5pm, “TOAST,” Sibell-Wolle Art Building: exhibition and reunion of the CU Art and Art History communities, including a site-specific response to the history of Sibell-Wolle prior to its demolition with an emphasis on green awareness.

Through October 6, ATLAS Main Lobby Video Wall, 5:30 to 7:30 pm daily: “Airlight,” Weather report installation of networked real-time sound and visual using updated data from EPA air-quality monitoring stations in Boulder, Taipei and Southern California, indicating various air pollutant levels and resulting in a rhythmic pulse that transforms over the course of the day.

Through December 21
Norlin Third Floor Gallery and East Lobby
Selections from “Weather Report: Art and Climate Change”
Presented by the Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art (BMoCA) and curated by internationally renowned art critic, historian, and writer Lucy R. Lippard. Featuring 51 artists from around the world –many of who collaborated with scientists for this show–and including sculpture, installation, video, photography, and other media on display at 17 indoor and outdoor venues.

Also Through December 21 in Norlin’s Special Collections Department: “Weather or Not: Atmospheric Books from Special Collections”

Norlin to Host "World Cafe" as part of Border Crossings Event

A “World Café” will be featured on Thursday, Sept. 13, from 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the fifth floor of Norlin Library. The event is free, open to the public, and cosponsored by the local nonprofit group Dialogues on Immigrant Integration and the University Libraries.

Participants will enjoy an international buffet, a reading by local immigrant author Ghada Kanafani, comments by art curator Dr. George Rivera of the CU Art and Art History Department, and thought-provoking small group discussions.

The Café is part of a series of activities taking place on campus through called “Crossing Borders/Border Crossings: A Collaborative Exploration of Geographic and Cultural Boundaries Through Art, Conversation and Film,”

A “Border Crossings” exhibit is in Norlin’s HotSpot Gallery through Thursday, Oct. 25. A related exhibit, “Crossing Borders,” is showing at the University Memorial Center Art Gallery through Friday, Sept. 28. The UMC Art Gallery will host a panel discussion on Monday Sept. 17 from 3 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. to explore the U.S.-Mexico border in both literal and figurative terms.

Climate Change: Is It Debatable?

Science or politics? Scientists say climate change is a reality we must come to terms with, while others suggest that more study is needed. Is more discussion what we need or it is time to focus on action? And who decides what we do next? Come hear the response of our panel members to these questions and more.

Join the discussion with our panelists:

Dr. Chuck Kutscher from the National Renewable Energy Lab
Lisa Dilling from CIRES
Diane Dandeneau from ConservEd/Interfaith Power and Light

Tuesday, September 25, 7 - 9:00 p.m.
CU-Boulder Norlin Library’s Center for British and Irish Studies 5th Floor

FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, LIGHT REFRESHMENTS SERVED

This event is part of Eco Arts and is brought to you by the University Libraries and The Boulder Junior Chamber International.

Reference Desk Closed During Home Football Games

Due to extraordinarily low traffic and the high burden of coming to campus both for patrons and for staff, the reference desk will be closed on home football game Saturdays this semester. This will have no effect on building hours. During this time, you may still use the "Ask Colorado" chat reference service.

New Research and Subject Guide Database

Not sure where to start your research? Looking for help using that database or citing an article? Check out the library's new "Research and Subject Guides" database. You can search for guides on everything from art to zoology.

University Libraries Announces Fall Event Series

Too busy to keep up with the news? Learn about it at the library—come find out more about the topics that mean the most to you.

Our fall event series will bring together faculty, authors, community leaders, and local experts to discuss and debate issues while they are still HOT!

This Fall’s event series topics include:

Tuesday, Sept. 25 – Climate Change-Is it Debatable?
Thursday, Oct. 18 – HPV Vaccination
Tuesday, Nov. 13 – Affirmative Action Debate

These events will take place in the Center for British and Irish Studies, Norlin Library's 5th Floor and are free and open to the public.

Current Exhibits in Norlin: A Fairy's Point of View

July 31 - September 8

Third Floor Gallery

A Fairy's Point of View

These photographs, taken by local artist Amber Richards, present us with “what a fairy might see as she was flying around.”

All these whimsical delights are naturally occurring— and that fact that each moment contains this beauty lets us know that there has to be something good going on.

All images were taken in various locations around Boulder county—open spaces, streets, places you might miss… You just have to stop and look.

New Research and Subject Guides online

Publish Not Perish: The Art and Craft of Publishing in Scholarly Journals

Publish Not Perish, http://www.publishnotperish.org, is a free online tutorial designed to introduce graduate students, junior faculty, and other potential authors to the mysterious world of scholarly publishing, from getting ideas and choosing a journal to submitting and revising a manuscript.

"Publish or perish" has been the standard marching order since the creation of the tenure system, and faculty and graduate students often must fall in step with it. The tutorial can help maximize chances of publication and minimize frustrations. Learn about the variables of scholarly publishing, how to control the ones you have influence over, and how to learn and grow from the ones you can’t control.

This tutorial was created through a collaborative effort of the CU system libraries, with funding from the CU President’s office.

For more information and assistance, please contact your campus library:

University Libraries at CU-Boulder Contact Jennifer Knievel