March 2001
Issue 12
Contents
netLibrary Books--Searchable from
the Polk Library Catalog
Educational Media Collection Weeding
Obsolete Formats
2000 Census Data
American History Index Available On-Line
BioOne: Biology Journals On-Line
Mental Measurements Yearbook Now On-Line
Could It Be in the EMC?
(You Ain't Seen Nuthin' Yet!)
Library Consultations
UW Oshkosh Web Accessibility Guidelines
& Resources
Open House--Disability
Services
netLibrary Books--Searchable from
the Polk Library Catalog
Sarah Neises
When you are searching Polk Library’s on-line catalog (http://polkweb.uwosh.edu/), you now have the opportunity to retrieve electronic book citations. Polk Library has added links within the catalog to the full-text versions of over 1900 scholarly and technical books. You can begin searching right from the library’s on-line catalog, and when you see an item with the location Electronic Book, click on the web site link. This will take you directly to the netlibrary item. You may then browse the item on-line for 15 minutes or check the item out for a 24 hour period. Like traditional library materials, only one user can “check out” electronic books at a time.
In January 2000, Polk Library joined with private colleges and universities in Wisconsin to form the Wisconsin Academic Library Consortium to provide scholarly, digital books to their students, faculty and staff through netLibrary. Since then, the consortium has grown to include all UW libraries and more private college libraries in the state. Currently, the collection has over 1900 titles, and new titles are being purchased on a regular basis.
To locate ebooks:
1. Go to the library’s catalog: http://polkweb.uwosh.edu/
2. Do an author or keyword search using the term “netlibrary.”
3. You can also perform a normal title or keyword search for a title or
topic and limit by the location “Electronic Book” and locate just ebooks.
4. When you locate a specific record, click on the “web site link” and
it will take you to the specific ebook.
If you have questions on how to locate these ebooks,
please contact the Reference Desk (4333).
If you would like to schedule a library instruction session, for your
department or for your classes, about ebooks, contact Marisa
Finkey (3436).
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Educational Media Collection Weeding
Obsolete Formats
Mary Keefer
The Educational Media Collection (EMC) plans to weed
out of date and low use audio/visual materials this spring. All ¾ in.
videos acquired from the early 1960s through the mid-1980s will be withdrawn
from the collection. The ¾ in. format is an obsolete technology and space
is needed to add more current materials to the EMC collection. The material
scheduled for weeding is rarely used.
Polk Library will try to obtain copyright permission to convert ¾ in.
videos to ½ in. videotapes if there is a video that you think is valuable
for our collection.
Some slides and other materials with very low circulation will also be withdrawn. The library would appreciate your comments on slide sets that you or your department find useful and wish to keep. EMC staff are aware that certain sets are of historical/rare value, and those slide sets will be retained. Additionally, other obsolete material such as filmstrips and some kits/games will be reviewed for withdrawal. Generally, media that is damaged or outdated will be withdrawn. Other criteria for withdrawing will include lack of use, dated content or lack of significant historical value.
If you or your department have favorite or “classic” media that fall within the categories described which you want Polk Library to retain, please contact Mary Keefer, EMC Coordinator, by April 6, 2001. If Mary is unavailable, contact Cynthia Huebschen, Collection Development Coordinator (424-7327 or huebschc@uwosh.edu). Withdrawal of these obsolete items will begin on April 9, 2001. keefer@uwosh.edu
Editor’s Note: Information regarding this project was distributed via memo to Academic Departments and Deans on March 5th. A similar announcement appeared in the March 8th edition of “The Bulletin.”
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2000 Census Data
Michael Watkins
The United States Census Bureau has begun releasing
data collected from the 2000 Census. The first data sets being released
are the Public Law 94-171 data (Redistricting data).
Data from the 2000 Census will be provided in several different formats including the Internet, DVD-ROM, CD-ROM, and paper. Some of the data products scheduled to be released will not be available in all formats. Currently, you can access Wisconsin data at the State of Wisconsin’s Department of Administration web site: http://www.doa.state.wi.us/dhir/boir/demographic/census_info.asp.
This site was constructed under the auspices of Bob
Naylor of the State Demographics Center.
More complete data information will be forthcoming and released over the
next two years.
The Government Documents Division of Polk library will most likely receive data in DVD-ROM, CD-ROM and paper format. Workstations are available in government documents to assist patrons in accessing the Census data from the Internet. Information products received by the Division are distributed through the Government Printing Office. It is anticipated that there will be fewer paper products distributed than in past years and a greater reliance on CD-ROM and DVD-ROM technology. This is the first Census to take advantage of the large storage capacity made available through the use of DVD-ROM technology.
Useful Web Links:
United States Census Bureau http://www.census.gov/
Census Redistricting Data http://www.census.gov/clo/www/redistricting.html
stateline.org--State News and Data http://www.stateline.org/
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American
History Index Available On-Line
Cynthia
Huebschen
For the first time, Polk Library users now have access to an on-line index on the topic of American history in America: History and Life. Purchased through UW System shared funds, this database is “a complete bibliographic reference to the history of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.” The index was first published in print in 1964, and now includes almost 400,000 bibliographic (no full-text) entries with abstracts. Published by ABC-Clio, America: History and Life indexes over 2,000 journals published worldwide (90% of the articles are in English), as well as book and media reviews from a selection of over 100 “key journals in U.S. and Canadian history.”
The database is searchable by subject, keyword, author or editor, title, journal name, publication date, and time period. ABC-Clio also offers a “CLIO Notes” section, which they suggest “will guide you through U.S. history by allowing you to browse through chronologies and hundreds of brief summaries of significant events and themes in American history.” For example, the user may choose from broad topics like “Exploration and settlement” or “the Northern colonies,”, then select “Chronology,” and see dates and summaries of events from various time periods, beginning with 1492.
Though America: History and Life does not itself provide any full-text articles, users will find that some of the journals indexed here are available in full-text format from other vendors. For example, the various EBSCO and/or Wilson databases offer American Heritage, American History, American Studies International, Canadian Dimension, Canadian Geographic, Canadian Review of American Studies, Catholic Historical Review, Church History, Contemporary Review, Dissent, Historian, History and Theory, History Teacher, History Today, Law and Society Review, Midwest Quarterly, Pacific Historical Review, Smithsonian, Social Forces, and Western Folklore. Journals available in J-Stor or Project Muse include Africa Today, American Jewish History, Eighteenth-Century Studies, Ethnohistory, Jewish Social Studies, and Journal of Black Studies. Even ABI-Inform and Academic Universe offer access to some indexed titles such as American Economic Review, American Journal of International Law, Canadian Ethnic Studies, and Land Economics.
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BioOne: Biology Journals On-Line
Cynthia Huebschen
Polk Library is pleased to announce the availability of a new database of electronic journals— BioOne, with a subscription purchased through UW System shared funds. BioOne was created by five collaborating organizations: the American Institute of Biological Sciences (AIBS), the Scholarly Publishing & Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC), the University of Kansas, the Big 12 Plus Libraries Consortium, and Allen Press, Inc. These groups have formed a non-profit corporation, and contracted with Allen Press and Amigos Library Services to make available “[an] aggregation of the full texts of high-impact bioscience research journals.”
The BioOne collection presently consists of over thirty journals, offering articles published in 2000 and 2001. As new issues are added, those now available will remain, so that the collection begins with the year 2000 issues. The consortium anticipates adding new journals in the future. The journals now include: AMBIO: A Journal of the Human Environment, the American Midland Naturalist, American Zoologist, the Auk, BioScience, the Bryologist, Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, the Condor, Environmental Entomology, Evolution, Journal of Economic Entomology, Journal of Eukaryotic Microbiology, Journal of Mammalogy, Journal of Paleontology, Journal of Parasitology, Mammalian Species, Northeastern Naturalist, Paleobiology, Photochemistry and Photobiology, Radiation Research, the Society of Wetland Scientists Bulletin, Systematic Botany, Wetlands, and the Wilson Bulletin. (Note: Polk Library does offer recent print holdings for about one-third of the titles contained in the BioOne collection).
Links to BioOne will be added to Polk Library’s Web references (“Articles and more”) page shortly, and the database will be available off-campus. The present search engine is rather unusual in that it does not permit traditional Boolean searching. However, users can search in specific fields such as title, author’s first name, author’s last name, and references. You may also limit a search by date or to a specific journal. Alternatively, one can simply browse the journal issues available under “current issues” or “journal archives.”
The Web site warns that BioOne “is a work in progress,” and “will be fully operational on April 1, 2001.” For the next few weeks users may experience some difficulties when first connecting to the BioOne “home” site. A statement of permissible copyright use is available on the Web site, as well as a “tour,” news releases, and descriptions of the journals included in the collection.
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Mental Measurements Yearbook Now On-Line
Cynthia Huebschen
Most students in Psychology, Education, and other social
science disciplines, have learned to use the Mental
Measurements Yearbook in its print form, looking up each test in
multiple editions to find test descriptions and reviews. Now a search
for recent test reviews will be easier with the on-line version of this
familiar product. Originated by Oscar Buros in 1949, and now produced
by the Buros Institute, the Mental Measurements
Yearbook contains information about all, and reviews some, English-language
standardized tests covering educational skills, personality, vocational
aptitude,
and other topics in psychology. For each test, the database provides the
name of the test author(s), publication information (where to order),
scoring information, the original Mental Measurements edition number,
a description of the test materials and time required, and in many cases,
one or more full-text reviews of the test.
The editions covered in the on-line edition are the ninth (published in print in 1985) through the fourteenth (to be published in print in March 2001), making it even more up-to-date than the print copies now in the library’s Reference collection. Test descriptions and reviews published earlier than 1985 can still be found in the print editions. The database may be searched by test name, author name, reviewer name, or key words from the description or score. Searches can be limited by edition or by number of reviews included.
Links to Mental Measurements Yearbook may be found on the library’s Web reference page under “Anthropology, Sociology, and History,” “Education,” and “Health Sciences, Psychology, and Nursing.” (The print edition may be found in the Reference area under the call number BF 431 .M442.)
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Could It Be in the EMC? (You Ain’t Seen
Nuthin’ Yet!)
Susan Kiedrowski
By now, surely everyone has heard about the EMC’s wonderful collection of the “Top 100 Films” of the century chosen by the American Film Institute. Public response to the display in the lobby case was very positive and circulation of our feature films (affectionately known as the “PN 1997’s”) is fast and furious. Despite this, there are rumblings among the masses. EMC sources have it that some people on campus have already viewed these films! One patron is said to have commented, “I saw To Kill a Mockingbird in my high school English class.” Another was seen actually yawning while reading the film notes for Citizen Kane! Even a young patron tugging at her mother’s sleeve supposedly remarked, “Is that the same Fantasia that we have at home?”
Well, luckily for any jaded patrons that may exist out there, you ain’t seen nuthin’ yet! The EMC also owns 88 of the Centenary Top 100 Films as selected by the London magazine Time Out. In compiling this list, directors, producers, actors and critics were asked to name the films which they felt had been the high points of the last 100 years in world cinema. This opens up a whole new world of film for all of us.
Here are a few titles to whet your appetite in world
cinema. Black Narcissus is a 1946 British
film about a group of nuns who “lead a tough, isolated existence in a
mountain convent, and find themselves psychologically disturbed by all
manner of physical phenomena.” The 1953 Japanese film Tokyo
Story contains the timeless theme of families growing apart when
a family moves to Tokyo from the country. A chasm is left between the
dispersed family and the visiting grandparents. In Le
Grande Illusion, French director Jean Renoir creates a film “lauded
as a warmly humane indictment of war,
a pacifist statement as nobly moving as All Quiet
on the Western Front.” Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski is
not to be outdone with his third film of the Three
Colors trilogy entitled, simply, Red.
One reviewer states, “Stunningly beautiful, powerfully scored and immaculately
performed, the film is virtually flawless, and one of the very greatest
cinematic achievements of the last few decades.”
Enjoy!
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Are you interested in learning more about library resources to support your research endeavors? Would you like to consider how a library instruction session could give your students the opportunity to discover the literature of your discipline?
Marisa Finkey is available to consult with you, at your convenience, regarding these professional concerns. We are happy to visit your offices or attend staff meetings and in-services to discuss library materials and instructional services.
To schedule a library consultation, please contact Marisa Finkey, 424-3436 or via email at finkey@uwosh.edu
Questions regarding this service may be addressed to Marisa Finkey, 424-3436 or via email at finkey@uwosh.edu
Attention--Graduate and Returning
Students
Are you new to campus? Just settling in?
If so, a Polk Library orientation may be just what you are needing to
feel comfortable with library resources and services available on this
campus. We are happy to meet with you, at your convenience, to discuss
the resources and services that will best serve your academic objectives.
Contact Marisa Finkey
to schedule an individual or small group session.
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UW Oshkosh Web Accessibility Guidelines & Resources
As our institutions of higher learning embrace exciting new technologies for delivering information and instructional content, it becomes imperative that our entire audience enjoy access.
UW Oshkosh is committed to improving this access for
its constituency. Please visit the following web site to learn how you
can participate. Recommendations, tips, and training opportunities await
your dedication.
http://www.uwosh.edu/programs/accessibility/
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Open House--Disability Services
Matthew Quick
Associate Dean of Students
Disability Services of the Dean of Students Office will
be hosting an open house to demonstrate software recently purchased for
students with disabilities. Examples include screen enlargement and screen
reading software for students with visual impairments as well as software
for students with learning disabilities. This software has been made available
at numerous campus locations by Disability Services in collaboration with
Academic Computing, Polk Library, MIO (Residence Life),
and the Student Technology Fee.
The open house will take place from 3-5 p.m. in the
Disability Study Lounge (Dempsey 120) on two dates: Tuesday, March 27,
for students and on Wednesday, March 28, for faculty and staff. If you
are unable to attend on your assigned day, you may attend the alternate
day. Light refreshments will be available in the hall outside of the study
lounge and staff will be on hand to answer questions.
If you have any questions about this open house please contact Disability
Services at 424-3100 and ask for Marla, Julie, or Matt.
For further information about Disability Services at UW Oshkosh feel free to also explore our website at http://www.uwosh.edu/dean/disabilities.htm.
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