Colorado College Tutt Library: Library NewsLetter February 2000


Library NewsLetter February 2000

In this Issue Colorado Digitization Project FirstSearch Databases New Look Applied Science & Technology Index Chemical Abstracts Student Edition International Affairs Database MathSciNet Project Muse Full Text History Database New Tutt Library Extended Hours Top of Page COLORADO DIGITIZATION PROJECT A $10,000 grant has been awarded to Tutt Library as a Primary Partner of the Colorado Digitization Project. The goal of the Colorado Digitization Project is to expand the number of institutions undertaking digitization activities and the number of primary source materials available in digital format. Participants include libraries, archives, museums and historical societies. In the next two years Tutt Library's Special Collections and Archives will digitize four glass plate negative collections that document historical landscapes of the Pikes Peak Region. Several collections of documents from the WWII Japanese-American Internment Camp (Camp Amache) in Granada, Colorado will also be digitized. The Tutt Library's first digitized collection is The Sand Creek Papers. View images and transcripts of letters concerning the Sand Creek Massacre on the Web at: www.ColoradoCollege.edu/library/SpecialCollections/Manuscript/SandCreek.html Ginny Kiefer Curator Special Collections/Archivist Top of Page FIRSTSEARCH DATABASES HAVE A NEW LOOK The FirstSearch databases on Tutt's Article Access page have an improved interface. FirstSearch is the vendor that provides access to more than 40 of Tutt's electronic resources including: WorldCat, ABI-Inform, ERIC, MLA Bibliography, Periodical Abstracts, SocioAbs, PsychFirst, and Basic Biosis. Some of the features in "new" FirstSearch are: Icons that indicate if items are full-text Icons that indicate if items are owned by Tutt library Phrase searching using quotation marks, ex: "minimum wage" Links to full-text articles from other databases Truncation using an asterisk , ex: aggressi retrieves aggression, aggressive, aggressiveness etc. The ability to rank search results by relevance or date As with the prior version of FirstSearch, Interlibrary Loan links are contained in every FirstSearch database. You can request an Interlibrary Loan when viewing the book's full record in WorldCat or when viewing an item's full record in the many other databases. New - Applied Science &Technology Index on First Search Applied Science and Technology Index covers about 400 English-language journals providing citations and/or abstracts to articles about: applied math and physics including acoustics computer technology and telecommunications science in the food industry and the construction industry energy resources and related industries aeronautics and space science all engineering fields Abstracts are given for articles back to 1994, citations only back to 1983. Follow the links from the Tutt Library Homepage clicking first on "Article Access," then on "Sciences," then on "Applied Science and Technology Index." Or http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Library/Reference/Databases/Internal/zApSciTch.html New - Chemical Abstracts Student Edition on FirstSearch Beginning Feb.1, 2000, the library will subscribe to the student version of Chemical Abstracts through FirstSearch. As we will be evaluating how this database serves our needs, feedback is encouraged. Searching the full Chemical Abstracts via Dialog will still be available – but it's important to note that this new limited version of Chemical Abstracts provides abstracts where Dialog does not. Chem Abs Student Edition covers 250 journals and 200,000 dissertations back to 1967 (Chemical Abstracts covers 8,000 sources, 74% of which are journals, back to 1907). The 250 journals included are intended to be those most useful for undergraduates and those widely available in libraries. Many of the journals to which we subscribe are on their list. Links to the full-text in other FirstSearch databases are included in the citations. The database is updated weekly. http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Library/Reference/Databases/Internal/zChemAbstracts.html Please give Nethery Wylie or Jan Keder a call at Ext. 6672 with comments or questions. Top of Page NEW - INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS DATABASE CIAO, Columbia International Affairs Online, from Columbia University Press has been added to the Tutt Article Access page. Updated weekly, CIAO is designed to be a comprehensive source for theory and research in international affairs. The site includes working papers from university research institutes, occasional papers series from non governmental organizations, foundation-funded research projects, and proceedings from conferences. There are also journal abstracts, books, links to related web sites, maps and country data. https://wwwc.cc.columbia.edu/sec/dlc/ciao/srchfrm.html Top of Page MATHSCINET - EXPANDED FEATURES MathSciNet 5.O has just been released, and its new features include: Earlier access to reviews: database is now updated daily A basic one-field search option in addition to full and specialized searches Browsing of current book, journal or item lists An increased number of direct links to journals MathSciNet provides Web access to Mathematical Reviews from 1940-present, and to current Mathematical Publications. Find MathSciNet at http://ams.rice.edu/mathscinet/search or use the links from the Tutt Library homepage clicking first on "Article Access," then on "Sciences," then on "MathSciNet." Top of Page SEARCH MORE JOURNALS THROUGH PROJECT MUSE! Project MUSE®, the online journals database published by the Johns Hopkins University Press has expanded to include full-text online access to 64 titles from other university presses. Journal publishers include Carnegie Mellon University Press, Duke University Press, Indiana University Press, MIT Press, Oxford University Press, Pennsylvania State University Press, University of Hawaii Press, University of Texas Press, and the University of Wisconsin Press. The new titles represent a broad array of interests, including African-American literature, gender studies, medieval studies, higher education, health policy, political science, and Asian culture and history. The full Project MUSE collection is accessible from the Project MUSE home page. Choose Article Access, Project MUSE from the Tutt home page. Tutt Library was able to purchase the collection at a substantial discount through the Oberlin Group Libraries Consortium. http://muse.jhu.edu/plweb-cgi/fastweb?searchform+muse Top of Page NEW – FULLTEXT HISTORY DATABASE CIS History Universe Access to African-American Studies provides an extensive collection of information resources on African-American history, including: Full text of every major law passed by Congress concerning race, from 1792 to 1994. Every Supreme Court decision pertaining to race for more than 200 years, including concurring and dissenting opinions. Nearly 900 biographical and reference articles on African-American history. Selections from manuscript collections featuring documents in both image and text format. Autobiographies of such noted individuals as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Walter F. White and James Forman. Articles from such academic journals as The Journal of Southern History, The Journal of Negro History, The Black Scholar and The Journal of Social History, as well as major anthologies. Follow the links from the Tutt Library Homepage clicking first on "Article Access," then on "Alphabetical List," then on "Academic Universe" to find "History Universe." http://www.coloradocollege.edu/Library/Reference/Databases/UNIVerse.html Top of Page TUTT LIBRARY 1999-00 Academic Year Hours Second Semester Monday - Thursday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7:15 a.m. - Midnight Friday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:15 a.m. - 10 p.m. Saturday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 a.m. - 8 p.m. Last Saturday of Block. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 a.m. – 10 p.m. Sunday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 a.m. - Midnight Extended Hours (CC Students - Study Space Only) Sunday - Thursday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Midnight - 2 a.m. Friday - Saturday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 p.m. - Midnight Block Break Hours Wednesday . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7:15 a.m. – 5 p.m. Thursday - Friday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Saturday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Noon - 5 p.m. Sunday. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Noon - 8 p.m. Second Semester Blocks Half-Block . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Monday, Jan. 10 – Thursday, Jan. 20 Block V. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Monday, Jan. 24 – Wednesday, Feb. 16 Block VI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Monday, Feb. 21 – Wednesday, Mar. 15 Spring Break . . . . . . . . . . . .Thursday, Mar. 16 – Sunday, Mar. 26 Block VII. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Monday, Mar. 27 – Wednesday, April 19 Block VIII . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .Monday, April 24 – Wednesday, May 17 Our hours are also posted through the campus network on the TIGER Library Information Screen. In response to student requests, Tutt Library is now opening at 7:15 a.m. each weekday of the block and staying open until 10 p.m. on Fridays and the last Saturday of the block. We would appreciate your feedback on this change.

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