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

Check out this new resource from the US Government Printing Office (GPO):  Federal Digital System (FDsys)

Click here for the announcement, including a video clip, from the Public Printer of the United States.

According to Lori Lester, our Government Documents Librarian, “This database will gradually replace GPOAccess. For the time being, we will use both.”

In the present economic climate, which has seen library budgets decrease, and South Carolina’s PASCAL (their counterpart to Georgia’s GALILEO) lose 90% of its funding, one thing remains steady:  the rising prices of periodical subscriptions and electronic resource licenses.  For the rundown, including tables with periodical costs by discipline, please visit this link to Library Journal’s annual Periodicals Price Survey.

Come join us to celebrate Henderson Library’s newest acquisition!

The Waddie Welcome Archive is a photographic archive of hand-painted African American signs from Savannah, Georgia. The archive will be housed in Special Collections at Georgia Southern and online with the new EagleSpace database.

Authors and photographers Tom Kohler and Susan Earl will be present to talk about their photographs and their book Waddie Welcome and the Beloved Community. An exhibit accompanies the talk. Refreshments served.

Thursday, April 30, 4 PM

Library Exhibition Room, 1st floor

(through the main entrance and up the stairs past the main desk,

returning to the first floor from inside the security gates)

Contact: Robert Batchelor, batchelo@georgiasouthern.edu

As the Zach S. Henderson Library continues with our library budget review,  with assistance from faculty campuswide, we need to know about resources that we should add to our wish list, pending availability of funding.  We invite you to try out the databases below, to which we have access during this free trial and evaluation period.  Each of these databases is also listed in GALILEO during the trial.  Please tell us what you think, by contacting one of our Subject Specialist Librarians, or Jonathan Harwell, Collection Development & Assessment Librarian, at jharwell@georgiasouthern.edu

Art Museum Image Gallery provides images & related multimedia gathered from collections of museums around the world.  Our trial access is through May 31.

Children’s Core Collection provides information about fiction & nonfiction works, story collections, picture books & magazines recommended for readers from preschool through sixth grade.  Our trial access is through May 31.

Cinema Image Gallery includes still images, links to film reviews & other articles about titles, links to biographies of the stars of film & TV, portrait photography, & more.  Our trial access is through May 31.

OmniFile Full Text Mega provides the full text of articles from over 1,750 publications, and article abstracts & indexing from over 3,500 publications, in a variety of subject areas.  Our trial access is through May 31.

R2 Library is a collection of electronic books available for individual purchase, in the areas of allied health, medicine, and nursing.  Our trial access is through May 21.

Congratulations to the winners of the 2009 First-Year Experience Awards!  Henderson Library would also like to recognize one of the nominees for the Faculty Outstanding First-Year Advocate Award, and point you to some online tutorials for first-year students, which are useful in locating, evaluating, and citing research sources while avoiding plagiarism.

Kudos to Ms. Lisa Smith, Information Services Librarian, for being nominated for this award by another faculty member involved with the First-Year Experience. The two worked together on the FYE task force, and Lisa’s hard work and dedication were justifiably commended.  In addition to presentations that Lisa has done on the FYE work, she has been an excellent campus representative for the library in her work in this area, and has dedicated considerable time and effort to collaborating with colleagues across campus in creating several information literacy modules, which are used by almost all FYE professors at Georgia Southern.

Here are links to the tutorials, which now reside on the Henderson Library’s “Information Literacy page” at http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/libref/literacy.html
(Click on #4 Henderson Library Information Literacy Tutorials):

Evaluating Information Overview

(5 minutes, 23 seconds)

Currency

(2:01)

Relevancy

(3:16)

Authority

(5:34)

Accuracy

(3:10)

Purpose

(4:09)

Avoiding Plagiarism

(4:04)

Citing Sources

(5:59)

Great job, Lisa!  (And thanks to Lori Lester for supplying the story!)

Find your very own Subject Specialist Librarian here!

April 22, 7 p.m.
Zach S. Henderson Library

You are invited to the closing reception for the Benjamin Franklin touring exhibit. Winners of the poetry and prose contests will be announced, prizes awarded and readings of the winning entries given. The event begins at 7 p.m. on Wednesday,  April 22, 2009, on the bottom floor of the Library.

Brought to you by Zach S. Henderson Library as part of the “Ben’s Ten” series, honoring Franklin’s 300th birthday. Visit the Franklin exhibit on the bottom floor of Henderson Library through April 22, sponsored by the American Library Association and the National Endowment for the Humanities.

As we recently announced, the University System of Georgia has a new copyright policy, effective immediately, that will directly affect all of us.  Along with reading the new policy, we also strongly recommend that you become familiar with this handy 6-page brochure, “Know Your Copy Rights,” from the Association of Research Libraries, as well as this copyright guide from Georgia Southern University’s Office of Legal Affairs.

Please pass it on!

We’re pleased to announce that Henderson Library is featured in the new issue of American Libraries, in its 2009 Library Design Showcase!  You can view the issue online here.  We’re on page 17.  (If you happen to have the print edition of the April 2007 issue of American Libraries, the same feature is found on page 37.)  For more information on Henderson Library’s completed expansion and renovation project, please click here.

We strongly recommend that you read the new copyright policy adopted by the University System of Georgia.  Included are important statements on your rights and responsibilities regarding copyright, and please notice the links on the left side of the page, which point to details on the new policy–  in particular the fair use checklist and the guidelines for electronic reserves.  We all must become familiar with this new policy, so please pass it on!

The Information Services Department invites you to the Bibliographic Instruction Group, Georgia Eastern Region Conference (BIGGER) to be held at the Zach S. Henderson Library on Friday, April 17, 2009.

http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/libref/bigger2009.html

Attendance to the conference is free, but advance registration is required. Please register here.
http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/libref/2009registration.php

BIGGER IS BACK!! It’s BIGGER, BETTER and FREE!!

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