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

Treaties in Force is prepared by the Department of State for the purpose of providing information on treaties and other international agreements to which the United States has become a party and which are carried on the records of the Department of State as being in force as of its stated publication date, January 1, 2009.

A paper edition of this government document is forthcoming and will be available for checkout at call number S 9.14:

In the meantime, you may access the electronic edition of Treaties in Force, presented in Adobe Acrobat PDF format, which allows text searches and printing of individual pages or the entire document. It is available here: http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/122713.pdf

Brought to you by Government Documents Librarian, Lori Lester.

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.”

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.

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!

Did you know that WorldCat, an international one-stop searching portal for library catalogs, is available  online for free, and as a Facebook app, and now as a download for PDA’s and smartphones?  (Thanks, Debra!)

Please join us for the opening reception of the Benjamin Franklin exhibit!  Details here.

Did you know you can link directly to our Electronic Journals A-Z list, individual articles, specific databases, e-reserves, and even individual titles in the library catalog?  It’s a snap!  We’ve developed a handy set of quick tutorials to show you how.

Linking to Library Resources from GeorgiaView or other web page applications

• Tool #1: Linking to Electronic Journal A-to-Z List
• Tool #2: Linking to Individual Journal/Book Titles in Library Catalog
• Tool #3: Linking to Booklists in Library Catalog
• Tool #4: Linking to Databases
• Tool #5: Linking to Electronic Reserves
• Tool #6: Linking to Specific Journal Articles from GALILEO

“Best of 2008″ lists are popping up all over.  Feel free to comment here about your favorite and/or least favorite books, music, movies, etc., of 2008.

Henderson Library’s hours are here, by the way.  Happy New Year!

Google Book Search announced today that they are adding magazines and journals (a.k.a. serials or periodicals).  Here’s the scoop.  Here’s the search.  Remember also that you’ll be able to access more full-text online articles via GALILEO, and Henderson Library’s collection (online, print, etc.) contains a wealth of resources that you won’t be able to access via Google Book Search.  These should all be parts of your research repertoire, along with our Subject Specialist Librarians who are at your service, ready to assist you anytime in person, or via IM/chat, e-mail, or phone.