What’s New at the GSU Zach S. Henderson Library

We are pleased to announce that GALILEO has unveiled a brand-new resource on civil rights. Check out the Atlanta Journal-Constitution article here, and access the new Civil Rights Digital Library here.

The following announcement comes from Fred Smith, Access Services
Department Head for the Henderson Library.  Thank you.
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During the course of this academic year, all books checked out to
faculty and staff were given the due date of May 2, 2008, although they
could be recalled at any time after the first 21 days. As we do every
spring, we ask that faculty return books they are not using and renew
those they are using.  If you have books to return but can’t come to
the Library now, call us at 478-5647 or email me at
fsmith@georgiasouthern.edu and we will send you padded envelopes
which you can use to return the materials through campus mail.   You can
see a list of what our records show you have out and renew any you still
need until May 2, 2007 by clicking here and following the directions.

If any of the items are overdue, you will not be able to renew them.

Please note that the academic year checkout period only pertains to books and government documents; most a-v materials only circulate for three days.

We will also soon send you a printed list of these items.  If you would
like us to renew some or all of them for you during this special
initiative, you will be asked to indicate which ones we should renew and
sign a statement declaring that you are in possession of them.  Items
not renewed or returned will become overdue on May 25.  Those who do not
renew by this date will no longer be able to check materials out, put
materials on reserve, or request the GALILEO password online.   We thank
you for your cooperation during this end of year project.

Fred Smith, Access Services Department Head
Zach S. Henderson Library

The link below is one example of the new and updated data sets in the ICPSR database, available via GALILEO here:

Longitudinal Data on Social Structure and Personality, Based on Interviews With a Random Sample of Men and Women Living in the Urban Areas of Ukraine in 1992-1993, and Re-interviews With a Subsample in 1996

The following announcement comes from Jocelyn Poole, Head of Information Services at the Henderson Library. Thank you.
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The GALILEO password changes on May 5, 2008.  The new password will be valid until June 14, 2008.  To get the password, go to the library catalog and click on “Your Account.” After you log in using your Eagle ID number, click the request button at the top of the screen to get the password. For more detailed instructions see http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/forms/galpass.html.
ONLY Georgia Southern faculty, staff and students may have this password.
Do not give this password to anyone who is not a student at Georgia Southern or employed by the University. Please do not post this password on publicly accessible web sites. If you give this password to your students, please ask them not to share it with anyone else.

GALILEO is a service of the ! University System of Georgia. The 150+
databases available through GALILEO may be reached from the GALILEO home
page. The password allows you to have access to most of the databases when you are not on campus.

The GALILEO password also gives users working from home or other off campus
locations access to the databases Georgia Southern subscribes to directly.
See http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/forms/galpass.html for more
information.

Jocelyn Poole
Head of Information Services
Zach S. Henderson Library
P.O. Box 8074
Georgia Southern University Statesboro, GA 30460-8074
jpoole@georgiasouthern.edu
(912)478-7818

The following announcement comes from ICPSR, which is available via GALILEO here:

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (provided to the Georgia Southern campus by Henderson Library) is pleased to announce the development of several managed email lists that are intended to serve both a broader and a more focused community within your institutions!

Why have we developed these? For some time now, we have received requests that additional individuals beyond the designated campus representative be enabled to receive general announcements about ICPSR developments. There have also been requests for targeted announcements regarding programs/projects including the Summer Program and the emerging Online Learning Center.

More information and sign-up for all of these lists can be found here on the ICPSR website: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/org/lists/index.html

OLC-Announce

This list will carry announcements from ICPSR staff specifically related to the Online Learning Center and teaching with data issues. Announcements might include notices of new DDLGs or other teaching resources and tools added to the site as well as upcoming presentations of our teaching resources at professional meetings.

This list is available to the public.

Summprog-Announce

This email list will carry announcements specifically related to ICPSR’s Summer Program in Quantitative Methods. Announcements might include updates on particular courses or information on new courses or scholarships.

This list is also available to the public.

Kind regards,

-ICPSR Staff

Linda Detterman

Marketing & Membership Director

ICPSR

University of Michigan

734.615.5494

lindamd@umich.edu

Zach S. Henderson Library and the Faculty Learning Community on Information Literacy invite Georgia Southern faculty to visit two new web pages designed for those seeking to integrate research competencies into their classes.

The following link http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/libref/literacy.html will take you to a resource page summarizing support programs and resources from the Library for teaching students to recognize when information is needed and to locate, evaluate, and use effectively the needed information.

The following link http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/libref/fyseminar.html will take you to sample assignments and tutorials designed to teach research or “information literacy” competencies. The sample assignments were developed by Georgia Southern faculty as well as faculty from around the country, and were compiled by the Faculty Learning Community on Information Literacy:

Kathy Albertson, Acting Chair, Department of Writing and Linguistics
Frank Atuahene, Department of Construction Management and Civil Engineering
Chris Caplinger, Director of First Year Experience
Tom Case, Acting Chair, Department of Information Systems
Bob Fernekes, Information Services Department, Henderson Library
LiLi Li, Information Services Department, Henderson Library
Bede Mitchell, Dean of the Library
Lisa Smith, Information Services Department, Henderson Library
Rebecca Ziegler, Information Services Department, Henderson Library

Below is an announcement from ICPSR, which you can access via GALILEO for premium content, or directly for publicly available files:

1990-2006 versions of TIGER/Line Files are now available for download. The new Web site, TIGER/Line Files@ICPSR offers data no longer available online from the US Census Bureau. TIGER is an acronym for Topologically Integrated Geographic Encoding and Referencing and provides users with the appropriate data to prepare maps through geographic information system (GIS) software packages. As the Census Bureau states, “The TIGER/Line files are a digital database of geographic features, such as roads, railroads, rivers, lakes, legal boundaries, census statistical boundaries, etc., covering the entire United States. The database contains information about these features such as their location in latitude and longitude, the name, the type of feature, address ranges for most streets, the geographic relationship to other features, and other related information.” The cartographic information in these files reports on all counties and statistically equivalent entities in the United States as well as files for Puerto Rico and the Island Areas. Since its inception in 1988, the TIGER Line Files have been continually improved with updated address and more precise geographic data. Researchers use TIGER data to build shapefiles that contain geographic attributes for points, lines, or polygons and are used in a variety of mapping applications. Once the shapefiles are loaded into GIS software packages, researchers can input subject matter data, such as Census population and housing information, as overlays on the maps. ICPSR has the 1990 version of these files available as well as several versions based on Census 2000 information, including the most recent second edition files from 2006. Data for individual counties can be downloaded from special map or table interfaces on the Web site. Data for entire states may also be downloaded.