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Faculty Feature: Celebrating Faculty Scholarship

faculty_scholarship As you may have seen in your email, this fall, the Libraries are collaborating with Faculty Affairs, the Center for Faculty Development and the Grants and Research Office to celebrate UST faculty scholarship. In preparation for an event on November 20th, the Libraries are putting together a list of faculty publications between July of 2014 and September of 2015.

We monitor faculty publications throughout the year and already have a good start on this list. In an effort to make the list as comprehensive as possible, we’re making additional request of you to send us the citations of your publications – including (again, from July 2014 – September 2015):

Books
Chapters
Articles
Refereed Conference Presentations

We’ll be creating a physical and virtual display of what we know will be an impressive collection of the scholarly and creative output of our faculty.

We’d hate to miss anything! Please send your citations to Laura Hansen at O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library. Any questions, please call Laura at 962-5011.

Thanks!

October 22, 2015 by

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O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library Rearranged its Book Collection

Over the last 17 months the OSF Library has shifted 250,000+ books over 5 floors in order to potentially provide more study space for students.

A big thank you to all of our student staff who put in many hours to make this move possible (those who helped complete this project: Meg, Maria, Andrew, Maddie)!

The purpose of this project is so that we can move all Bound Journals to the Sub Level of the library and start the book collection on the Lower Level, extending up to Level 4.

Books are now on these floors: dan

Lower Level: A – DX

Level 2: E – HV

Level 3: HX – PN

Level 4: PQ – Z

Bound Journals are currently being shifted from Levels 3.5, 3, and Lower Level down to Sub Level.

If you have questions or comments about this project, please let us know.

See the Library’s March 12^th, 2014 blog post for more details on the project

Photo: Dan, the Director of the UST Libraries, shelving the last book!

October 20, 2015 by

Faculty News, Libraries, News & Events

Coming Soon: Copyright Workshop with Nancy Sims

Hey Professor! Do you have questions about copyright? We have the workshop for you!

UST libraries are pleased to host an event with copyright specialist Nancy Sims, who will speak about the issues and challenges of copyright from a faculty member’s perspective. nancy

Join us on Wednesday, November 11 from 3:30-5:00pm in ASC’s Hearth Room. Refreshments will provided; register here to reserve your seat!

We’ve asked Nancy to address the following topics:

what constitutes Fair Use
choosing/providing access to course materials
obtaining permission to use a copyrighted work

But come prepared with any other questions you may have: her presentation will be followed by a question-and-answer period.

Nancy is the Copyright Program Librarian at the University of Minnesota libraries. She holds a JD from the University of Michigan Law School and an MLIS from Rutgers University and says that her job is not to be the “copyright police” on her campus, but to help individuals and groups throughout the University community to understand issues surrounding copyright and scholarly communication. She is fascinated by copyright law in all of its aspects, and in particular, how individuals construct understandings of copyright as it relates to their own scholarly, artistic, professional, personal, cultural, and communicative activities.

She has published articles and presented at conferences about copyright issues, technology, and emerging forms of scholarship.

October 15, 2015 by

News & Events

RESOLVED: TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES – JSTOR

Full JSTOR access was restored on October 15th.

This is still happening, sadly. Here’s the latest update from JSTOR:

Service Update – October 14, 2015

We are continuing to make progress restoring full access to JSTOR. Users should be able to search, browse, and access most journal articles and primary sources on www.jstor.org. Access to books as well as journal content published in the most recent few years may be intermittent. If you need help, please feel free to email us at support@jstor.org.

JSTOR is currently experiencing technical difficulties. It seems there is intermittent access. This has been happening since yesterday. The JSTOR technical support team is aware of the problem and working on it. We apologize for any inconvenience.

October 13, 2015 by

Charles J. Keffer Library, Faculty News, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library

Faculty Feature: Display Student Research in the Library!

Did you make it to Inquiry at UST this year? It always includes such an impressive amount of research, and I can only imagine how you as faculty members must be proud of what your students have accomplished.

We at UST Libraries share your pride, and we are always willing to share the research itself, too!

We have several options to help ensure that students’ work can be shared with the larger UST community for longer than the typical 90-minute presentation window:

OSF Library Rotunda: We have several easels on which we keep a rotating display of student posters – to catch the interest of everyone who seems to swing by this hub of Tommie activity. We’d be happy to add yours to the list!
OSF Reference Area: The lower shelving in the OSF reference area is also a great place to display projects – it generates a lot of attention from people at Coffee Bene! We look forward every year to the amazing feats of the Physics 101 roller coasters. Does your class produce anything similar?
Digital Display Monitors: If a physical poster is not available, monitors at both OSF and Keffer Libraries can display PDF versions.

Sound intriguing? Contact Laura Hansen to arrange a time to get your student’s work its time in the UST Libraries limelight!

October 8, 2015 by

Libraries, News & Events, O'Shaughnessy-Frey Library

Summit Singers and Cadenza in Concert in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library

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The Summit Singers

On Thursday, October 8, beginning at 8pm you are invited to the second floor of the library. Follow the sounds of your friends singing in the “Harry Potter” room. There will be popular songs, a chance to relax with friends, some refreshments, too. These two a cappella groups have received growing notoriety and accolades and are so much fun to hear. Read on for more information about each of these student groups – Summit Singers and Cadenza.

October 1, 2015 by

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noonartsound: Wilkinson James to perform at noon Oct 6 in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library

Tuesday, October 6, 2015

Noon to 1pm

O’Shaughnessy Room in the O’Shaughnessy-Frey Library

As explained by our performers, Drs. AJ Scheiber and Liz Wilkinson – members of UST’s English Department, traditional country music was once defined as “three chords and the truth.” It’s a song tradition in which simplicity of expression is valued, and which describes the everyday struggles of ordinary people to put food on the table, to find love, community, and justice, and to go forward with hope despite the frequent scarcity of all these things. It is a song tradition that is realistic and unsentimental, yet capable of artfully expressing longing, love, and pride — sometimes with passion, sometimes with humor.

Folk/honky-tonk duo Wilkinson James will perform some of their original songs in this genre of “three chords and the truth,” and Dr. Shelly Nordtorp-Madson of UST’s Art History Department will present and discuss some visual artifacts that reflect these musical themes and attitudes. Please plan to join us!

For background on the library’s noonartsound series which began in March of 2013, please read on.

noonartsound presentations are free and open to the public

light refreshments will be provided

Questions? Please call Julie Kimlinger at 651-962-5014

October 1, 2015 by

Faculty News, News & Events

Faculty Feature: BrowZine – Not Just for Tablets Anymore!

We’re thrilled to announce that as of this summer, our ever-popular BrowZine service is also available on a web platform!

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Two years ago, UST Libraries introduced BrowZine, a service used by hundreds of institutions around the world that allows you to browse, read and follow thousands of the library’s scholarly journals from your Android and iOS mobile devices. Now its features are also available on the web! To learn more, please take a look at this short introductory video. Some current highlights are listed below:

With BrowZine, you can:

Browse and read journals: Browse journals by subject, easily review tables of contents, and download full articles
Share your reading list with students and colleagues: Use the durable linking capability of browzine.com to easily link to subject-specific and personalized “shelves” in BrowZine. (Imagine the possibilities of embedding a widget of titles in Blackboard to help students familiarize themselves with journals in their field!)

In the mobile app, you can create a personal experience as well:

Create your own bookshelf: Add journals to your personal bookshelf and be notified when new articles are published
Save and export articles: Save articles for off-line reading or export to services such as DropBox, Mendeley, RefWorks, Zotero, Papers and more

More features are on their way as BrowZine.com develops this new interface. You can look forward to additional updates in the months to come!

Start using BrowZine today by visiting browzine.com. On your mobile device, download the free app from the Apple App Store, Google Play Store or Amazon App Store. One simple authentication with your UST credentials is all it takes to create an account and start exploring (and sharing!) our collection in this dynamic new way.

We hope you enjoy using BrowZine. Please send any comments or questions to Laura Hansen.

October 1, 2015 by

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Faculty Feature: Have you Scheduled a Library Session?

We’ve gotten past the first two weeks of the semester – yay! From what I’m hearing many of you, it also means that you’re gearing your students up for some research projects.

Please remember that we at UST Libraries are here to help out! Each year we go into an average of 300 different classrooms to be another voice teaching students how to find and evaluate information and to make use of the Library’s services. FullSizeRender

UST Librarians will work with you to make sure the session fits with your needs and expectations. Lower level courses are often geared towards more basic skills, while upper-level class sessions can help your students learn some of the research skills they will need as they prepare for graduate school.

Courses can take place in your classroom or one of the library’s computer labs and are taught using a mix of lecture and hands-on activities. We’re always happy to incorporate any library assignments you have for the day, and we can also build a course-specific subject guide (see examples here) that will include all of the resources/ideas covered in class (these can be embedded into Blackboard). After the session, librarians are available for follow-up sessions or individual consultations for both you and your students, as well.

We teach from the American Library Association’s Information Literacy Framework, and here are some ideas of what this involves:

The “nuts and bolts” of using the library
- How to find things on the shelves
- Navigating the website
- Setting up RefWorks and ILLiad accounts – and why you’d need them
How to construct a research strategy
- Brainstorming appropriate search terms
- Forming a research question
- Determining scope of search (choosing filters such as date, geography, etc)
Where to locate information
- Finding the appropriate (electronic or paper) resources and services
- Determining the difference between sources
  - Type of research: Primary v. Secondary
  - Audience: Peer-Reviewed/Academic v. Professional v. Popular
- Familiarization with databases and journal titles important in their field
Evaluate and synthesize the information discovered
- How to effectively read a research paper
- Determine the authority of the source
- Finding an “Academic Conversation” within their area of interest (searching by author, cited references, and more)
- Building an annotated bibliography

Information Ethics
- How to navigate the world of copyright
- Importance of citation and some basic how-to’s for a variety of citation styles
- Effectively using citation management tools

If you have any questions, please let us know. Otherwise we look forward to working with your classes!

September 24, 2015 by

Libraries, News & Events, Recently Read

President Sullivan’s 2015 Reading List

During her convocation address yesterday (view the video of it here), President Sullivan reflected on some great titles she read over the summer that she explained were part of her “typical dose of insightful nonfiction: books that remind you what’s important and how to do it.” She found all of these very relevant to UST’s mission to advance the common good and thought each had an important lesson to impart.