<h2>Current News</h2><hr /><h3>Dean Romero Donates his Papers to Lovejoy Library<br /></h3><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="4"> <tr> <td>Dr. Aldemaro Romero Jr., Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at SIUE, recently donated his personal papers to Lovejoy Library. The collection is vast and contains thousands of scientific journal articles, various writings, photographic slides, audio tapes and source documents that date back to the 16th Century from the many fields of biology and oceanography. “As a person who used archives from many libraries in many countries, I know that documentation makes a difference in the nature of the modern library,” said Dr. Romero. <p>The entire collection consists of more than 50,000 items of interest, collected individually over a lifetime of research spanning four decades. “It is the most comprehensive collection of printed material on cave biology and the largest private collection of marine mammal documentation that I am aware of,” Romero said. The collection also contains Dean Romero’s personal archive of the saga of his journeys from around the world. </p> <p>Dr. Regina McBride said, “The collection is a great resource to SIUE students and faculty conducting research in the fields of biology, marine biology, political science and cultural history. The collection is part of what makes Lovejoy Library unique and we are very grateful for Dean Romero’s support”.</p> <p>“My contribution shows a commitment to SIUE, a belief in its excellence as an academic institution and demonstrates the importance of scholars to leave their academic legacies for future generations,” said Dean Romero. </p> <p>Aldemaro Romero Jr. was born and raised in Caracas, Venezuela. He obtained his bachelor’s degree in Biology (Zoology emphasis) from the University of Barcelona, Spain. </p> <p>After graduating from the University of Barcelona in 1977 Dr. Romero continued his work as a science writer in both Spain and Venezuela and, in 1981, began his career as a graduate student in the Department of Biology at the University of Miami, Florida, where he worked on evolutionary biology of cave fishes.</p> <p>Dr. Romero went on to work as the Venezuela Program Director of The Nature Conservancy in Washington, D.C., and in 1986 founded BIOMA, The Venezuelan Foundation for the Conservation of Biodiversity with headquarters in Caracas, Venezuela. </p> <p>He went on to become an Associate Professor and the Director of the Environmental Studies Program, at Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, where he continued his teaching and research work in the areas of cave fish behavior and environmental history of marine mammals. </p> <p>From 2003 until 2009, Dr. Romero was Chair and Professor of the Department of Biological Sciences at Arkansas State University (ASU). He created a host of new courses in the areas of biospeleology, marine mammals, history and philosophy of science, science in the cinema, and science communication. </p> <p>In 2009, Dr. Romero accepted the position of Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville. </p> <p>Throughout his career Dr. Romero has published more than 560 pieces including numerous books, peer-reviewed publications and monographs on a wide variety of subjects including cave biology, marine mammals, paleontology, environmental studies, and history and philosophy of science. He has produced, written, and, in many cases directed and hosted, about 1500 radio and 50 TV shows, including award-winning nature documentaries.</p> </td> </tr></table><hr /><h3>SCOPUS Day at Lovejoy Library<br /></h3><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="8" cellspacing="4"> <tr> <td>Scopus, the world’s largest abstract and cited-reference database of research literature, will be demonstrated at Lovejoy Library throughout the day on Wednesday, December 9, 2009. Basic training sessions are scheduled in the Library’s first floor instruction room at the following times: <p>9:00 am. to 10:30 a.m. (presentation for LIS staff)<br />11:00 a.m. to 12:00 noon<br />1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m.<br />2:30 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.<br /><br />No reservations are required; faculty and students are encouraged to drop by and learn more about the database and how it could be used to improve their research.</p> <p>Updated daily, Scopus covers 38 million records from 16,500 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 publishers, 600 trade publications, 350 book series, 3.6 million conference papers, 23 million patents and 435 million quality web pages – the broadest coverage available of scientific, medical and social sciences literature, including the arts and humanities.</p> <p>This database was built in close cooperation with leading libraries and would increase SIUE users’ access to current research and impact factors of scholarly research across all disciplines. Integrated tools allow researchers to track and analyze visual research. Alerts, RSS and HTML feeds allow users to stay updated on their subject areas and the Journal Analyzer provides quick insight into journal performance.</p> <p>Scopus (a competitor with Thompson ISI’s Web of Knowledge) is being considered to replace Current Contents, which expires at the end of December. Customized linking would be enabled to the full text journals and catalogs currently made available by the Library.</p> <p>Data from Scopus can also be easily exported to bibliographic managers such as RefWorks, EndNote, BibTeX and bookmarking with 2collab (an online collaboration tool) allowing researchers to share, connect and discuss scholarly information with peers around the world.</p> <p>An on-campus trial will be available from <a href="http://www.scopus.com" target="_blank">http://www.scopus.com</a> and more information about the database can be found online at <a href="http://www.info.scopus.com/overview" target="_blank">http://info.scopus.com/overview</a>.<br /><br />Questions about the database or Scopus Day can be sent to Charlotte Johnson, Director of User Services at <a href="mailto:cjohnso@siue.edu" target="_blank">cjohnso@siue.edu</a> (650-3830).</p> </td> </tr></table><hr /><h3>Rare Books Reloaded: Print Culture in the Digital Age<br /></h3><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td>FOCUS ON FACULTY RESEARCH<br /><br />Friday, November 13<br />1:30 -2:30 pm<br />Lovejoy Library<br />Third Floor Conference Room <p>Dr. Jessica DeSpain<br />Assistant Professor, Early American Literature, SIUE<br /><br />Dr. DeSpain specializes in transatlantic book history and the digital humanities. She is the editor of The Wide, Wide World Digital Archive, a website that collects the cover and illustrations from over 100 editions of Susan Warner's nineteenth-century domestic novel, The Wide, Wide World. She is also working on a project entitled, Streaming Across the Pond: Travel, Transatlantic Literary Culture, and the Nineteenth-Century Book, about how authors and publishers transmitted culture between Britain and the United States in the nineteenth century through the distribution of transatlantically reprinted literary texts.<br /><br />Focus on Faculty Research is a series of informal lectures on methodologies and resources for scholarly research.</p> <p>Sponsored by Library and Information Services’ & Research, Projects and Development Committee</p> <p>This presentation is open to all faculty, staff, and students.</p> <p>Refreshments will be served.</p> </td> </tr></table><hr /><h3>Lovejoy Library on ARTEAST Tour Schedule<br /></h3><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td>Lovejoy Library is once again participating in the ARTEAST Studio Tour on October 17th and 18th, 2009. SIUE's Lovejoy Library and the Department of Art & Design are just two of the more than 40 venues displaying the work of over 200 artists from the Metro East area. “Images and Inspirations from Char’s Garden East,” digital photos and artist’s books created by Charlotte Johnson, the Library's Director of User Services, will be on display through the end of October.<br /><br />Other exhibits currently on display in Lovejoy Library include the following: “Starting Small: Book Related Items from Our Personal Collections,” miniature and small books collected by Charlotte Johnson, miniature libraries collected by Bessie Richards, bookmarks collected by Lynn Fields, and pixi buchs collected by donors Leonard and Marlene Van Camp, as well as “Eighty Moods of Maya Angelou: Images from the Collection of Eugene B. Redmond.”<br /><br />More information about <a href="http://www.greatriverroad.com/arteast.htm">ARTEAST</a>, a program of the Madison County Arts Council, and a map of the self-guided tour are available online.</td> </tr></table><hr /><h3>Lovejoy Library Participating in Try-It! Illinois<br /></h3><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td>Once again, Lovejoy Library will be participating in <a href="http://www.finditillinois.org/tryit">Try-It! Illinois</a>. This program, now in its 10th year, allows the staff and users of more than 5,000 Illinois libraries the opportunity to survey and evaluate a wide variety of electronic resources. Thanks to the partnership between the Illinois State Library and participating vendors, there is no charge for accessing the more than 450 databases being offered through November 30, 2009. Call Lovejoy Library's Information Desk (650-INFO) for the login and password information for this year's trial.</td> </tr></table><hr /><h3>"Eighty Moods of Maya Angelou" on Display at Lovejoy Library<br /></h3><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td>“Eighty Moods of Maya Angelou”, a photographic exhibit from Lovejoy Library’s Eugene B. Redmond Collection featuring the poet, educator, performer, and best-selling author Dr. Maya Angelou, will be on display in Lovejoy Library, Monday, September 21, 2009, and will run through the end of October. The exhibit is a testament to the rich and enduring friendship between Dr. Angelou and Dr. Redmond. The photographs showcase Dr. Angelou socializing with fellow artists, performing poetry, celebrating achievements with friends and family, and entertaining guests at her home in North Carolina. The vibrant versatility of facial expressions, body language and hand motions that Dr. Angelou assumes in the photographs confirms Redmond’s notion about the eighty-plus “moods of Maya.” <p>Dr. Angelou was born on April 4th, 1928, in St. Louis, Missouri, spending part of her childhood there before moving to Stamps, Arkansas, where she endured the effects of racial discrimination but began developing a deep awareness of the value and values of black folk culture and African American artistic thought. Over the years, Dr. Angelou increased her interest in the arts, taking up dance, acting, singing, and creative writing. In 1970, her bestselling autobiography I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, was published. Over the last thirty years, Dr. Angelou has authored dozens of other celebrated books.</p> <p>Lovejoy Library’s Eugene B. Redmond Collection is one of the greatest post-civil rights collections of African American culture ever assembled; it contains hundreds of books, magazines, rare program booklets and flyers, audio recordings and historic posters. The Collection also contains more than 150,000 photographs of literary artists, musicians, entertainers, supporters of the arts and political activists, which Dr. Redmond has taken over the last four decades. Author, literary historian, and arts organizer, Dr. Redmond was named Poet Laureate of East St. Louis in 1976, the same year that Doubleday published his critical history, Drumvoices: The Mission of Afro-American Poetry.</p> </td> </tr></table><hr /><h3>VuFind</h3><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td> <p>On August 4, 2008, Lovejoy Library released an enhanced library catalog interface. This "next generation" search portal is designed to simplify and expand the search for library resources. Developed by Villanova University, it is being beta tested for the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois by SIUE and several other Illinois universities.</p> <p> Some new features include:<br />• faceted search results for quickly narrowing and expanding topics<br />• search results displayed in relevancy-ranked order<br />• “More Like This” resource suggestions<br />• current status and availability of items prominently displayed<br />• book cover art<br />• book reviews<br />• links to GoogleBooks for free online content , when available<br />• links to SFX for rapid access to the full text of journal articles<br />• ability for users to create an account, mark favorites and bookmark records for permanent access at a later time<br />• ability for users to contribute tags and comments to resource records<br />• simplified requesting of resources from other I-Share libraries</p> <p>Both the Lovejoy Library catalog and the I-Share (statewide) catalog will be available through the VuFind interface. Links from the Library’s homepage will route users to the new interface. Faculty who provide links to these catalogs in their courses will need to change them to the following URLs in order to accurately direct students.</p> <p>Lovejoy Library (SIUE) Catalog link: <a href="http://vufind-beta.carli.illinois.edu/vf-sie/" target="_blank">http://vufind-beta.carli.illinois.edu/vf-sie/</a><br />I-Share (Statewide) Catalog link: <a href="http://vufind-beta.carli.illinois.edu/vf/" target="_blank">http://vufind-beta.carli.illinois.edu/vf/</a></p> <p>Not ready to change just yet? The new interface will include a link in the upper right-hand corner of the search screen called “Classic Search” to access the previous catalog interface.</p> <p>Contact the Library's Information Desk (x2615) if you have questions or comments about VuFind.</p> </td> </tr></table><hr /><h3>IEEE Resources Expanded</h3><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td>Lovejoy Library has greatly expanded access to the IEEE full-text online resources that have been available through the <a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/dynhome.jsp" target="_blank">IEEE Xplore</a> portal. The enhanced subscription expands access in the following ways: <p>Coverage from 1988 (with some from 1950) to 131 IEEE journals, transactions and magazines.</p> <p>Coverage from 1988 (with some from 1950) to 600+ conference proceedings.</p> <p>Access to 40 IET journals, transactions, magazines and conference proceedings.</p> <p>Access to the full-text of Spectrum Magazine & Proceedings of the IEEE.</p> <p>Access to 9,000 current and active IEEE standards.</p> <p>The <a href="http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/Xplore/dynhome.jsp" target="_blank">IEEE Xplore</a> search engine (along with the <a href="http://portal.acm.org/guide.cfm?coll=portal&dl=GUIDE&CFID=33939983&CFTOKEN=69539268" target="_blank">ACM's Guide to Computing Literature</a>) is also useful for searching computer science content. Questions about any of these resources should be directed to the Business and Engineering Librarian, Paul Anthony, at <a href="mailto:panthon@siue.edu" target="_blank">panthon@siue.edu</a> or X3282.</p> </td> </tr></table><hr /><h3>The Rubricator</h3><table bgcolor="#ffffff" border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td>Lovejoy Library, as part of its "information literacy across the curriculum" program, is providing campuswide access to one of the most complete rubric construction tools available. <p>The Rubricator is a software application from New Measure. With this tool, faculty can create rubrics and align them to information literacy and curriculum standards. Automatic scoring and report features allow users to view an individual students performance on each task or standard.</p> <p>Take a tour of The Rubicator at <a href="http://www.rubrics.com/tour.html" target="_blank">http://www.rubrics.com/tour.html</a><br />Get The Rubricator at <a href="http://www.siue.edu/rubricator" target="_blank">http://www.siue.edu/rubricator</a></p> <p>Questions about this software should be directed to Lydia Jackson, Reference and Instruction Librarian, Lovejoy Library (618-650-2604 or <a href="Mailto:ljackso@siue.edu" target="_blank">ljackso@siue.edu</a>) <a href="/id0904f67a80337e87"><read more></a></p> </td> </tr></table><hr /><h3>The Historical New York Times Takes You Back to 1851</h3><table border="0" width="100%" cellpadding="10" cellspacing="5"> <tr> <td> <p>Lovejoy Library now provides access to The Historical New York Times online via the <a href="http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?RQT=302&COPT=REJTPUc1KzM0YTMrMjFkKzM0YTIrM2U3KzI1Yis0M2MrNDMxKzNlYys3NzIrM2YxKzI0MCZTTUQ9NCZUUk09MSZTUEw9MSZTRkQ9MSZJTlQ9MCZWRVI9Mg==&clientId=816&cfc=1" target="_blank">Newsstand database</a>. Lovejoy Library also provides online access to current issues of The New York Times as well as microfilm backfiles. <a href="/id0904f67a80337e87"><read more></a></p> </td> </tr></table>