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

Zach S. Henderson Library is pleased to announce that year-end funding from President Bruce Grube will enable the addition of significant new electronic collections in the near future. As we recently announced, these will include JSTOR Arts & Sciences II (124 electronic journals in such areas as economics, history, archaeology, classics, and Asian, African, Latin American, Middle Eastern, and Slavic studies), available in July 2008; and ebrary History and Political Science (5700 electronic books), which we plan to add in time for the Fall 2008 semester. Details on more new resources will be announced soon.

Meanwhile, in order to provide you with the best mix of information sources and tools in accordance with a tight budget, our library faculty continually evaluate our current offerings in light of their content, usage level, cost, and usability. As these factors change and alternatives appear, we find in some cases that a database is receiving little or no use, that rapidly rising costs (due to inflation, as well as increases in licensing costs based upon our FTE) make it impossible for us to maintain such subscriptions, or that there are better alternatives for our needs.

Following is a list of resources which will expire soon, along with the alternatives we provide for finding similar information. To access the resources in GALILEO from off-campus, please click here for the current password. Please ask a librarian (here for IM/phone or here for your own Subject Specialist Librarian) if you would like a personal introduction to a different interface, or assistance with a research strategy (including automatic journal or search alerts).

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• BNA Human Resources Library
  (Expires September 30, 2008)
  This has been available only on specific Henderson Library computers.
  Top Online Alternatives: Business Source Complete, Emerald Management Xtra, Public Administration Abstracts
• Constitutions of the United States: National and State
  (Expires December 31, 2008)
  The constitutions are now freely accessible online.
  Top Online Alternatives: Legal Information Institute (Cornell University Law School), Avalon Project (Yale Law School; state constitutions here)
• CSA Databases (Cambridge Scientific)
  (Expires June 30, 2008)
  While we plan to maintain a subscription to Sociological Abstracts, we now offer major alternatives to the other CSA databases.
  Top Online Alternatives: Medline with Full Text, Web of Knowledge, Biological Abstracts/BIOSIS Previews, IEEE Computer Society Digital Library, Environment Complete, ERIC (EBSCOHost)
• GROVE Music
  (Expires June 30, 2008)
  The contents are available in print format in the library, as The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, and The New Grove Dictionary of Opera. We can not afford to maintain the online subscription with our current funding.
  Top Online Alternatives: RILM Abstracts of Music Literature and Naxos Music Library.
• Index to Current Urban Documents
  (Expires December 31, 2008)
  This index of city government resources is rarely used.
  Top Online Alternatives: City of Savannah Government, City of Atlanta Online, georgia.gov, and Georgia State Government Documents at Henderson Library.
• Ingenta Gateway and Reveal
  (Expires May 31, 2008)
  We will continue to provide access to several alerting services through many of our databases, which provide e-mail and RSS options. This way you can receive free alerts (with direct links) through your e-mail or blog reader, for new articles which fit your own customized searches, or new tables of content from your favorite journals. We will also still be able to use IngentaConnect, the free component without alerts, which is not linked to our library holdings.
  Top Online Alternative: EBSCOHost (instructions for setting up your own customized e-mail or RSS notifications here)
• International Medieval Bibliography (IMB)
  (Expires December 31, 2008)
  This resource receives low usage due to other alternatives, and extensive coverage of the IMB is available in print in Henderson Library.
  Top Online Alternatives: MLA International Bibliography, Historical Abstracts
• Iter: Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance
  (Expires December 31, 2008)
  This resource receives low usage due to other alternatives.
  Top Online Alternatives: MLA International Bibliography, Historical Abstracts
• Kinesiology Publications
  (Expires May 31, 2008)
  This index of theses and dissertations is now included within SPORTDiscus.
  
• LexisNexis Statistical (with American Statistics Index)
  (Expires June 30, 2008)
  This resource receives low usage; current content is available in other sources.
  Top Online Alternatives: Statistical Abstract of the United States, GPO Monthly Catalog (US Government Publications), Federal Government Documents at Henderson Library
• MINABS Online (Mineralogical Abstracts)
  (Expires December 31, 2008)
  This resource receives extremely low usage.
  Top Online Alternatives: GEOBASE, Web of Knowledge
• Music Index
  (Expires June 30, 2008)
  We provide similar indexing elsewhere.
  Top Online Alternatives: RILM Abstracts of Music Literature, Naxos Music Library
• Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
  (Expires June 30, 2008)
  This British-focused database will be replaced with the American version, the American National Biography Online. The latest edition of the printed DNB (2004) is available in Henderson Library.
• ProQuest Database Package (Research Library, ABI-INFORM, Literature Online Reference Edition—LION, ProQuest Newspapers including Wall Street Journal)
  (Expires June 30, 2008)
  This decision was made after careful consideration. Our librarians have been studying this question since 2006, and have done a great deal of analysis of faculty-identified needs, as well as overlap with other resources, usage level, and budgeting concerns. In the meantime we have developed and upgraded our extensive and powerful alternative resources.
  Top Online Alternatives: Academic Search Complete, Business Source Complete, MLA International Bibliography, Newspaper Source, Wall Street Journal (The Wall Street Journal is available in print and microfilm in Henderson Library; current print issues and online access are provided by COBA for their students, staff, and faculty; and free online access is available via Google News and WSJ.com).

Dear Patrons,

In order to provide you with the best mix of information sources and tools in accordance with a tight budget, our library faculty continually evaluate alternative means of delivering resources. For example, in 2001 we initiated table-of-contents alerts via e-mail.

After May 31, 2008, the Zach S. Henderson Library will no longer have access to Ingenta Gateway and Reveal, which has been one of our tools for providing alerts for journal articles. We will continue to provide access to several alerting services through many of our databases, such as those on EBSCOHost (instructions here), which provide e-mail and RSS options. This way you can receive free alerts (with direct links) through your e-mail or blog reader, for new articles which fit your own customized searches, or new tables of content from your favorite journals.

In addition, we provide indexes and tables of content for a wide range of resources, available via GALILEO. And of course all of our electronic journals are available via the “Electronic Journals A-Z” button on the library homepage.

For assistance with journal alerts or other questions, your Subject Specialist Librarians are eager to help.

Or IM, call, or drop by the Reference Desk.

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 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

We are pleased to announce that on Monday, March 17, GALILEO (Georgia’s virtual library) will have a brand-new look. All of the 336 databases currently available will remain in GALILEO’s new interface, which is called GALILEO Scholar. You might have already seen this new look, which has been available for months as a “Preview the new, improved GALILEO!” link within the current GALILEO homepage.

Below are a few tips for using the new GALILEO site effectively.  The links will take you to the actual pages, using political science as a subject example.

Please ask a librarian whenever we can be of assistance. We’d love to help!

1. When browsing for databases by subject (yellow tab), after you choose a subject category, the Subject Search page (blue tab) appears, which only searches the databases available statewide. To see a comprehensive list (relevant to this subject category) including the many more databases funded by Henderson Library, just click on the Articles & Databases tab on the blue/gray bar (after you have clicked on a subject category).

2. The Search page (yellow tab) only searches the databases available statewide. (See #1.)
3. The Databases A-Z page (yellow tab) gives you a comprehensive list of all of our databases, including those available statewide as well as those funded by Henderson Library.
4. The Journals A-Z page (yellow tab) in GALILEO is a directory of electronic journals, but is not as comprehensive as the Electronic Journals A-Z page which is linked from Henderson Library’s website (blue tab at the bottom). Our own Electronic Journals A-Z is still the best place to locate full-text articles when you know the journal title you need.

There is a good possibility the renovation of the Zach S. Henderson
Library will be completed in time that the full building, housing all
our collections, furnishings, and personnel, will be available to the
public by the beginning of fall classes in August of 2008. Meanwhile,
in February of 2008 Georgia Southern University must raze the building
in which the Federal and Georgia documents collection is now temporarily housed. Therefore the documents collection will have to be temporarily housed in other quarters between February and August of 2008.

We have begun moving the most recently published, most often-used, and
reference government documents materials to the publicly accessible
portion of Henderson Library’s third floor. Government documents on
microform will be placed in a storage area on the Library’s bottom
floor and items will be paged for patrons upon demand. In addition, the law collection (which had been housed in the temporary government documents building) will be located on the third floor of the Library. Service for these collections will be offered from the Information Services Desk on the third floor. More information on the relocation is at http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/documents/govdocsmove.html, and more information on the government document collection and services is available at http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/documents/

In order to make room for the government documents and the law collection, the Bound Periodicals published earlier than 2000 have been relocated to the ARC (Automated Retrieval Collection) for the time being. We look forward to having more space on open shelves following the expansion. Thank you for your patience during the final exciting months of the expansion and renovation! As always, our many e-journals are available in our Electronic Journals A-Z list, as well as in the library catalog.

Welcome back and best wishes for a happy, successful spring semester! Just a reminder, we are almost always open.  Our official schedule is listed below.  As you can see, we are only closed from Friday at 10:00 p.m. until Saturday at 9:00 a.m. AND from Saturday at 10:00 p.m. until Sunday at noon.  

• Sunday: 24-hour schedule begins at 12:00 p.m. (noon)

• Friday: 24-hour schedule ends at 10:00 p.m.

• Saturday: 9:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.

NOTE: Exceptions to the above hours are noted at http://library.georgiasouthern.edu/calendar.html.