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The library has added approximately 200 new journals, and added online access for another 200 currently held journals by purchasing JSTOR V and JSTOR VII Arts & Sciences collections.

From JSTOR’s Available Collections webpage:

“Arts & Sciences V … builds on previously introduced disciplines, adding important literary reviews and state historical journals. It will also widen the scope of core disciplines in the arts and humanities, such as philosophy, history, classics, religion, art and art history, and language and literature. When complete, the collection will number at least 120 titles….With over 180 titles across thirty-five disciplines, the Arts & Sciences VII Collection includes more journals in more disciplines than any other JSTOR collection. Its eclectic range of disciplines in the arts, humanities, and social sciences complements research in core disciplines such as history, political science, sociology, art and art history, and language and literature, and the collection represents the largest cluster of health policy titles in JSTOR.”
 

• View JSTOR Arts & Sciences V Title List
• View JSTOR Arts & Sciences VII Title List  

Updates on the library’s most recent additions, check out our new materials lists, including direct catalog links, printable lists, and subject based RSS feeds.

• New Books

• New Videos

• New CDs

• New Gov. Documents

Previously added...

A trial for Digital National Security Archive has been added to the Articles and eResources A-Z list. Trial is available on campus only and expires December 3, 2009. Please take our survey after previewing the trial.

In 2008 the North Carolina Coastal Federation donated their papers to Randall Library. Covering the first 20 plus years, these papers highlight the issues the Federation has been involved in since 1982. Included in the collection are correspondence, scientific papers, minutes of board meetings, flyers, photographs, maps, newspaper articles, books and much more. The federation will be systematically adding to the collection; keeping the current five years of material at the headquarters in Ocean, NC.

Currently online access to the NCCF publications Coastal Review and State of the Coast as well as abstracts of oral histories with NCCF members is available online here.

Visit the corresponding exhibit in Randall Library Special Collections from October 25, 2009 - May 15, 2010.

Students asked for more quiet study space in the library and we are working on it! Beginning October 19, 2009 the library designated the 2nd floor as a quiet zone. We hope this will help you when you’re studying! You can still collaborate and work in groups on the 1st floor and in group study rooms.

What does this mean?

• Signs are in place on the 2nd floor designating the quiet zones
• All library staff, office holders, and departments housed in the library will be notified of this change
• Noisy activities such as watching a movie in groups, loud group discussions, rtalking on cell phones or group social conversations should move to the 1st floor
• Other library users and/or staff may be asking noisy groups or individuals to be more quiet

We appreciate your support of this change and encourage you to direct comments and questions to the Library Administrative Office, RL #1010, 962.3270.
 

For updates on the library’s most recent additions, check out our new materials lists, including direct catalog links, printable lists, and subject based RSS feeds.

• New Books

• New Videos

• New CDs

• New Gov't. Documents

Credo Reference, formerly Xrefer, offers completely customizable online reference solutions for libraries. It features full-text, aggregated content from over 275 reference books from over 60 publishers, covering such subjects as medicine, art, technology, history and more. Credo continually adds new content in all subjects, with such notable recent additions as the Bridgeman Art Library Archive, with over 16,000 art images and the interactive Hutchinson Unabridged Encyclopedia including Atlas. The collection includes encyclopedias, dictionaries and thesauri, as well as subject-specific titles.

From the President’s Proclamation: "…Americans have unprecedented access to the diverse and independent sources of information, as well as institutions such as libraries and universities, that can help separate truth from fiction and signal from noise." Read the entire proclamation here.



 

We have created a new webpage that simplifies all the ways you can give to the library. Visit the new page.

The new ABC-CLIO E-book Collection offers access to the following publications: American Slavery; Daily Life Through History; Critical Companions to Popular Contemporary Authors; Historic Events of the 20th Century; Literature in Context.

Due to the current economic climate, Randall Library, other libraries across the state of North Carolina and the whole country have had to reduce their expenditures on purchased materials, whether they are one-time purchases such as books and DVDs or continuing subscriptions, such as journals, magazines, newspapers, and databases.

During fall term 2009/2010, the library will be contacting the various academic departments and asking them to consider titles to which the library has subscribed using the portion of the library budget that has been allocated to individual departments’ subscriptions. Each department will be asked to decide (and communicate with library faculty) whether these titles are essential, useful, or not useful.

In addition, library faculty will collect information on how heavily these resources are used and whether they are critical to the library’s mission. Library faculty will then decide which titles to cancel, taking into account faculty input and library-gathered data. For more information on this project please see the following webpage.

• Improved subject indexing and faceted searching
• Printing, e-mailing and exporting ability
• Text-to-audio feature and article translations
• Easy and intuitive bookmarking
• Citation generator with exporting to End Note, ProCite, RefWorks and Reference Manager
• Cross-search capability

• MLA Citation Format Change—The citation generator is being updated to reflect the MLA documentation style found in the seventh edition.
• Author Naming Adjustments—In the citation generator area, author names will be presented in Last Name, First Name format. This is only for content that captures the author meta-data in a more granular format. This change reflects content from 2007 moving forward and will be added to archival content over time. Instances such as “staff writer” will not fit this format.

In March 2009, NC LIVE increased the size of its electronic book collection by acquiring 204 new E-books on topics relating to job attainment, vocational guidance, and employment. Click here to view the complete list.
These books, now available through NetLibrary, were added to enhance the content of the State Library’s new JobSearch Program, which includes training in career skills for 270 library staff members in nine workshops at public libraries across the state. The JobSearch Program will utilize NC LIVE databases and the new eBooks to support the rising number of North Carolina job hunters.

Genetics Tutorial - The Genetic Science Learning Center at the University of Utah offers a fantastic introductory tutorial into the study of genetics. The site is part of the Center'sLearn. Genetics outreach initiative.

Learn.Genetics delivers educational materials on genetics, bioscience and health topics. They are designed to be used by students, teachers and members of the public. The materials meet selected US education standards for science and health.