Feel free to pass it along!

You are savvy. You are creative. You will have attended this LITE workshop and learned ways to present a topic with flair, interactivity, and excitement!
Learn about creating interactive presentations with VoiceThread, using the slideshow feature in Flickr, or creating a video. Check out 2-D images in a 3-D world using Microsoft’s Photosynth or Cooliris. Learn where to find images for your presentations using Creative Commons. Having video player issues? Try VLC, free software that plays nearly anything!

Its not too late to learn how to be exciting and interesting (or at least present so that you sound like you are).

WHEN: Thursday, November 19, 2009 @ 3 and 6PM
WHERE: Addlestone 122

Feel free to download and share our session flyer (pdf). For more information about the LITE sessions visit http://blogs.cofc.edu/LITE

Creating Multimedia Presentations (with way cool free software)
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Two showings: 3PM and 6PM
Addlestone Library Room 122 | Register Now!

Powerpoint is SO late 20^th century! Looking for an alternative? Of course you are. WOW your students and your colleagues and your conference audience (who will be delighted inasmuch as they are expecting the “Powerpoint bullets of death” syndrome).

You are savvy. You are creative. You will have attended this LITE workshop and learned ways to present a topic with flair, interactivity, and excitement!

Learn about creating interactive presentations with VoiceThread, using the slideshow feature in Flickr, or creating a video. Check out 2-D images in a 3-D world using Microsoft’s Photosynth or Cooliris. Learn where to find images for your presentations using Creative Commons. Having video player issues? Try VLC, free software that plays nearly anything!

Its not too late to learn how to be exciting and interesting (or at least present so that you sound like you are).

Register at: http://tinyurl.com/Addlestone

Extra soft seats available to the first 10 people who bring their own seat cushions.

“Give me a child until he is seven, and I will give you the man.” Thus begins the premise of 7-UP, a documentary directed by Paul Almond in 1964. Almond interviewed fourteen British schoolchildren from three different social classes, gauging their views about social class and gender, and questioning them about their future expectations regarding marriage, family, and career. Michael Apted, a crew member on the original film, decided to interview the same children seven years later to see if their views had changed. The documentary was so stunning that Apted has revisited these same people every seven years (49-UP is the most recent installment), asking them about their lives, their families, their jobs, and their children. The entire series provides an amazing window into the developmental process.

I watched the series on sequential evenings last summer while visiting my parents. Despite the fact that we all have different tastes in film, the three of us could hardly wait to watch each installment. As each human being continued to unfold before our eyes like a flower filmed in high speed motion, we worried about some of the people, rejoiced for others, and were quite surprised by some of the changes. I don’t know of any other medium that has so well captured the developmental process of a human being over the course of so many years. Any film in this series, as well as the series as a whole, makes a wonderful classroom tool for psychologists, sociologists, and educators.

Has the original premise of the film held up to scrutiny? It has in some ways, but it could not be known in 1964 that many social movements would arise later in that very era, prompting individuals to question indoctrinated assumptions about class, race and gender. Although today in Great Britain, the class system remains quite intact, the individuals who are portrayed in the UP SERIES are less deeply affected by it than they would have been in previous eras.

- Cathy Evans

1. Online: log into “My library account” under Quick Links. If you renew online, make sure that you do it before the due date. Otherwise, call or come to the desk.

2. In person: just bring your CofC ID.

3. Over the phone–call 953.8001.

If you have any questions or have problems renewing, call 953.8001.

Directed By:Andrew Neel
DVD: 82 min

A look at the life and struggles of being a single mother and female artist, that became one of the great artists of the 20th century, with subjects such as Andy Warhol, Allen Ginsberg, and more.

Special features: Director’s commentary with Hartley Neel and Richard Neel; painted by Alice; Communism and social consciousness; Alice’s apartment; The Porsche story.

ND1329.N36 A45 2008

Subject Areas:
Neel, Alice, 1900-1984.
Portrait painting, American.
Painting, American — 20th century.

You are cordially invited to view photographs of Flannery O’Connor’s farm at the Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library – second floor – until December 18, 2009.

Nancy Marshall took these photographs in spring and summer of 2007 and winter of 2008 at Andalusia, the farm near Milledgeville, Georgia, where Flannery O’Connor (1925 -1964) spent the last thirteen years of her life. The photographs, which show interior views of the house and exterior views of the surrounding landscape, document the context in which O’Connor wrote some of her most acclaimed works, including A Good Man is Hard to Find and The Violent Bear it Away.

For more information about this exhibit, go to http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2008/marshall/1a.htm

Special Collections Homepage

A table of Exam Planning Resources–including Calendars, Final Exam Schedules, Class Assessment worksheets, the Exam Study Plan, Test Preparation and other study handouts–is set up in the Center for Student Learning. Please drop by and pick up the resources you need for exams and download the Four Week Study Plan Fall 2009!

Also, Cougar Countdown is coming November 30! Cougar Countdown is a 2 week series of events and activities designed to support and assist students during Exam Week. Offices from Academic Affairs and Student Affairs have joined forces to provide a full calendar of events—check it out in next week’s GSO! Activities will be hosted in the Addlestone Library and the Stern Student Center.

You can also join COUGARcountdown on Facebook.

• Zotero to collect, manage, and cite your resources
• Delicious to organize and share your web research
• Citulike to discover, manage, store, and share scholarly references
• Flickr to share photos and create slideshows
  • Flickr Album Maker
  • picsviewer
• Wordle to create word clouds
• Mind Mapping to problem solve and promote creativity

Thursday, November 12, 2009 @ 3 AND 6PM
Collecting and Organizing your Work
Addlestone Library Room 122

What other reason do you need to live in the early 21^st Century? Come to learn yourself or print out the FLYER (pdf) to let your students know how to improve their research capabilities. Please hand out the flyer in your classes. Their research will improve. Their papers will improve. Your free time will increase (okay, two out of three is not bad).

FEEL FREE TO DROP IN OR REGISTER AT http://tinyurl.com/Addlestone

Session Description:
Need help managing all your sources for your paper? Use Zotero to collect, manage, and cite your research sources. Access your bookmarks anywhere, share them with study partners and organize your web research using Delicious. Use Citulike to discover, manage, store and share scholarly references. Share photos and create slideshows with Flickr. Use Wordle to generate word clouds. Need help getting a handle on your research project? Mind Mapping promotes creativity, helps you solve problems, and helps your brain remember information.

For more information about the LITE sessions visit http://blogs.cofc.edu/LITE

Dr. Marlene O’Bryant-Seabrook will present the colorful and expertly-crafted quilts that are visual tributes to South Carolina bandleaders and ensemble musicians who became well-known during the jazz heyday of the 1930s. The evening will also feature Dr. Karen Chandler, Associate Professor of Arts Management and Co-Principal of the Charleston Jazz Initiative at the College of Charleston, who will share stunning photographs and other images of the jazz musicians featured in Dr. O’Bryant-Seabrook’s quilts.
6pm. Avery Research Center, 125 Bull Street. Free.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows/downloads/upgrade-advisor

Professor Farrell offers the below questions for discussion.

Question 1: Discuss the book’s form and the ambiguities between truth and fiction. What does O’Brien gain in playing with audience expectations in the book?

Not surprisingly, the web browser recently turned 15, and a slideshow made by PC World magazine illustrates how far they have come

They have since clarified the instructions on the download site, but if you had previously downloaded the incorrect installation package, you’ll need to follow the instructions at the link above to get the correct version.

Please bring your donated pink Yoplait lids to the Circulation Department and placed them in the pink collection box on the Circulation desk.

The drive is being sponsored by the College of Charleston’s Women Studies Group.

Windows 7 for $29.99. (Offer Expires Jan 3,2010.)

Microsoft Office 2007 for 59.95

To take advantage of these prices, you must be a current student at have a valid .edu address.

Christopher G. Parham, Theatre Manager for the country’s first theatre building, talks about the ongoing renovations of the Dock Street Theatre and previews plans for its highly anticipated reopening in 2010.
6pm. Addlestone Library, Room 227. Free.

Twitter Basics
Even if you are not sure if you want to play around with Twitter, you might want to consider signing up for an account. It is very easy for your name or brand to get hijacked in social networking sites and very difficult to get them back. I recommend this for most social media sites, even if you aren’t sure you want to use the application.

Here’s the basics for Twitter:

• To Tweet means to send a message.
• You can only Tweet/post 140 characters. Shorten words and be brief, use slang and abbreviated words just like you would if you were sending a text message.
  • Twictionary: The Dictionary for Twitter! is a great place to find the meanings of abbreviated words on Twitter.
  • Use URL shortening services like tinyurl to save characters in your messages.
  • If you want to send pictures with your tweets, use a content hosting service like Twitpic.
  • @twittername sends a message to a specific user – EVERYONE SEES IT
  • d twittername sends a PRIVATE direct message. YOU CAN ONLY SEND DIRECT MESSAGES TO PEOPLE YOU FOLLOW AND THEY ACCEPT THE REQUEST AND FOLLOW BACK.
  • BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU TWEET – You can protect your updates with a privacy setting but it will be very hard to understand the nature of twitter, promote yourself, or make new contacts if you do. YOU CAN DELETE A TWEET BUT THEY DON’T EVER REALLY GO AWAY.
  • DON’T SPAM! Don’t send messages to people you don’t know.
  • DON’T BE SELF PROMOTING! Mix your messages. It’s best if you use Twitter for personal contact most of the time and self promoting occasionally.

• Followers are people who want to see what you are tweeting
  • Remember to use Twitter to relay interesting news, valuable information, your opinions on current events…
  • Don’t follow everyone. Be selective until you get the hang of it.
• ReTweeting is when someone resends a tweet that someone else said.
• Hashtags are used to search the Twitter system for tweets about a particular topic. Users can define their own hashtags by using #before a word or phrase.
  • I monitor #cofc, #chs, #Addlestone Library, and #club addlestone right now on the CofC Twitter Account. I monitor other hashtags on my personal twitter account.
  • #hashtags is a good place to look for twitter trends.
• Sending and Receiving Tweets
  • You can send tweets from the Twitter website, your phone, or with external applications.
  • I like tweetdeck and hootsuite because they allow me to manage multiple searches and twitter profiles.
  • You can also tie your twitter account to your Facebook profile. When you do this, anything you post on your wall is automatically sent out via your twitter account.

How Can I Use It In My Every Day Life?

• Watch Twitter hashtags to keep abreast of current trends
  Bates Information Services provides many useful tips for using Twitter in real life in her October 2009 Bates Info Tip available at www.BatesInfo.com/tip.html One of Bates’ suggestions is to use word-cloud generators to see what words are most frequently used in conjunction with a news event. She uses Search Cloudlet, an add-on for Firefox.

• Analyze current trends
  One of today’s hot topics is Balloon Boy (found via the new Bing Twitter Search)
  

• A very quick Wordle visualization based on the tweets produced this – Balloon Boy Hoax, and some comparisons to Kanye. I find this humorous.

There are lots of ways to visualize twitter trends. A good starting point to find out how is to read the article 17 Ways to Visualize the Twitter Universe by flowingdata.

• Monitor Mentions
  Bates also provides a useful suggestion to “monitor mentions of your organization’s names…” in her October 2009 Bates Info Tip. As I noted above, I monitor #cofc, #chs, #Addlestone Library, and #club addlestone right now on the CofC Twitter Account. Although it is fairly quiet on twitter in the library right now, we do have times when activity increases. For example, we see more activity on #cofc, #chscool, and #rave when students plan a rave in the rotunda.

YouTube Video by sultanolli3

It is nice to know what’s going on around you. Especially if in the next 15 minutes there are going to be a lot of students dancing in the rotunda. I’ve been watching the library hashtags for most of the fall 2009 semester and there are a growing number of students using it to communicate with each other. They seem to use it primarily to communicate where they are in the library or to relay information about where they are going after they leave.

• Gather Highlights from a Conference or Event
  Another great suggestion from Bates in her October 2009 Bates Info Tip is to “Gather hightlights from a conference.” She suggests searching for the conference hashtag within a week of the conference and copying and pasting all the tweets into Wordle.net to generate a word cloud that can help identify dominant conference themes. Using a hashtag for a conference or event helps facilitate communication during and after the conference. It allows attendees to keep in touch, plan meet-ups, discuss information, ask questions, and clarify information that is being presented during the conference. After the conference attendees many groups continue using their hashtag to stay in touch and continue communicating after the conference is over.

• Community Involvement
  I think one of the best parts of twitter is the ability to keep in touch with people you meet and add them to your social network. How many times have you added someone to your phone, scribbled emails on your hand, scraps of paper, or a restaurant napkin, and couldn’t ever seem to get back in touch?

  I also think twitter is a wonderful way find local and global events happening that you might not have been aware of otherwise. Two such events/organizations in Charleston I have been able to contribute to and be a part of due to my daily interactions on twitter are the Social Media Club Charleston (#smcchs) and BarCamp Charleston (#barcamp) an ad-hoc, user generated “unconference” taking place October 24, 2009 at the Lowcountry Innovation Center. I have also found it helpful to follow certain organizations on twitter like CAA (College Arts Association), ALA (American Library Association), and wfh?! (user-editable encyclopedia for hashtags found on Twitter that tells you what is trending).

  My best advice about twitter is to try it out. Initially, I was skeptical myself about the usefulness of this particular social web app. Now I think that I couldn’t do without it. It is my instant line of communication to people with the same interests as me, exposing me to places, events, and organizations I want to know about.

If you don’t find the book in the College catalog, you might see the bright blue PASCAL Delivers logo.

Click on the logo and you’ll see the other libraries in South Carolina that own the book at Display Holdings of PASCAL Libraries . And if you click Request this item, you can quickly request the book and get it delivered to your office within three days.

It’s that simple – as many of your colleagues have already discovered.

Of course, you may need books that are not owned by any South Carolina academic library. In those cases, fill out the standard Interlibrary Loan Request form and our staff will borrow the book from libraries beyond SC borders. But you’ll discover, PASCAL Delivers will make Interlibrary Loan even faster and easier than ever before.

Questions – call the friendly staff at Interlibrary Loan at 953-8010

Post information produced by Claire Fund

simply go to their site and follow the prompts to upgrade to the latest plug ins for you system.

Jacob Murray was one of Charleston’s most outstanding citizens. He was an entrepreneur and was widely known through out the business community.

Applications may be submitted to the Circulation Department at the Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library Monday through Thursday from 7:30 AM to midnight, Fridays from 7:30 AM to 8:00 PM, Saturdays from 10:00 AM to 8:00 PM and Sundays from 10:00 AM to midnight by November 16, 2009. Applications for submission may be downloaded from the Jacob Murray link.

If you think you have been affected by something like this, you can bring your laptop to the student computing support desk in the Addlestone library and we can take a look at it for you.

http://www.pcworld.com/article/173497/snow_leopard_bug_deletes_all_user_data.html

Starting today, the Department of German and Slavic Studies and the Addlestone library is hosting an exhibit on the 20th century Austrian poet and novelist Ingeborg Bachmann.

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926-73) is one of the most famous German language poets of the 20th century. Her poems, stories, and novels focus on questions of gender identity, war, and the belated Vergangenheitsbewältigung (coming-to-terms with the Nazi past) in postwar Austria. Bachmann wrote a dissertation on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger and existentialist philosophy and language critique permeate her oeuvre. Since her death, her writings have assumed a prominent position in the 20th century German literary canon and an iconic status among feminists in Germany and Austria. Contemporary authors such as the 2004 Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek view Bachmann’s work as a crucial turning point in the emergence of new female voices in German language literature.

The exhibit will be held on the second floor of the Addlestone Library throughout the month of October. In conjunction with the exhibit, the Bachmann scholar Kirsten Krick-Aigner (Wofford College) will give a public lecture entitled “Ingeborg Bachmann: A Voice for the 21st century” on Friday, October 16th, at 3:30pm in room 227 of Addlestone Library.

For additional information about the exhibit or the special lecture, contact:

Morgan Marcell Koerner, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of German
The College of Charleston
Department of German and Slavic Studies
9 Liberty Street, JC Long 421
Charleston SC, 29424
koernerm@cofc.edu
843-9530-1997

Looking on Amazon for a book? Rather borrow it than buy it? Make life easier by installing the Amazon/Library Catalog search plugin. Download the LibGuides Facebook application to view our research guides directly from Facebook. Need an answer quick? Chat or text a librarian from your dorm, your classroom, or during your break between classes. Want to make a Facebook Page for your sorority, fraternity or club or get updates about what’s going on in the library when checking your Wall? Ever wondered why you might want to check out Facebook’s privacy settings? Check out this great video in 50’s style from yourtango. Nick O’Neill has a great blog post titled 10 Privacy Settings Every Facebook User Should Know that provides a thorough overview on how to protect your privacy on Facebook.

Feel free to drop in. We hope to see you there!

NEED HELP? CHAT WITH A LIBRARIAN TODAY!

Above you will find a selection of images from Eleanor Heldrich’s Pop Up Book Collection found in Special Collections at the Addlestone Library. Visit Special Collections for a personal view of Mrs. Heldrich’s whimsical pop up books.

College of Charleston archivist Harlan Greene will discuss the 1935 opera by the Gershwins and the Heywards that brought a glorious new sound and story to the world in the midst of economic depression.
6pm. Addlestone Library, Room 227. Free.

Writing against War: Ingeborg Bachmann, 1926 – 1973, is a nationally traveling exhibit about the experience of war in the life and works of celebrated Austrian writer Ingeborg Bachmann.
Wachovia Gallery, Addlestone Library, 2^nd floor.

CustomGuide makes the reference sheets for a variety of programs and platforms (Mac/PC). They have quick reference guides for the new Office Suite, Adobe Products (CS3), operating systems and Internet browsers. I highly recommend them.

Here’s the Quick Reference Guides they developed for Office 2007:

• CustomGuide’s Office 2007 Quick Reference (pdf)
• CustomGuide’s Word 2007 Quick Reference (pdf)
• CustomGuide’s PowerPoint 2007 Quick Reference Guide (pdf)
• CustomGuide’s Outlook 2007 Quick Reference (pdf)

CustomGuide makes the reference sheets for a variety of programs and platforms (Mac/PC). They have quick reference guides for the new Office Suite, Adobe Products (CS3), operating systems and Internet browsers. I highly recommend them.

Here’s the Quick Reference Guides they developed for Office 2007:

• CustomGuide’s Office 2007 Quick Reference (pdf)
• CustomGuide’s Word 2007 Quick Reference (pdf)
• CustomGuide’s PowerPoint 2007 Quick Reference Guide (pdf)
• CustomGuide’s Outlook 2007 Quick Reference (pdf)

The Training & Materials page has downloadable resources for training and education, to save you time:
-Webinars on using JSTOR (online live and recorded)
-PowerPoint presentations to train others on using JSTOR
-JSTOR Search widget for your library web page (can include your proxy server for remote access)
-Materials to download: How-to poster, FAQ Handout, JSTOR logos & screen shots and more

The Help documentation includes detailed search help, which spells out how to refine a search.

The Tutorials page has many short videos on using JSTOR. New: Finding or Avoiding Reviews; Advanced Search; Primary vs. Secondary Sources; and more. The YouTube versions can be embedded into your LibGuides.

The Resources for Librarians page has links to stats, policies, upcoming events, and more.

Some of the training resources, such as the “How to Use JSTOR” poster and the “Reviews in JSTOR: How to Find or Avoid them” video tutorial were suggested by librarians as materials that would be helpful to them. What do you wish JSTOR could help you with? If you have questions or suggestions, please contact training@jstor.org.

This is a well-deserved promotion for James and we are excited for him!

Why Would I Want To?

• I have 3 blogs and I am tired of posting the same content to each of them
• I want to post ALL my content in one place and select which post goes where
• I want other people to contribute to my blog via their own blog/posts

How Do I Do it (on my Blogs.cofc.edu Blog)?

You can enable the plugin in the Dashboard of your blog by selecting Plugins and Activating Feed WordPress. After you have activated the Feed WordPress plugin, you will need to add the website/blog/feed URL for syndication, adding it to your syndicated sources. For more information on the Feed WordPress Plugin visit: http://feedwordpress.radgeek.com/

Other Useful Uses for Syndication

• Integrate social networking apps - for example, what you post on Facebook automatically appears in Twitter
• Gather content from all over the web in one place without having to visit each site individually
• Collect a “Reading List” from the web to feed on your blog as a widget
• Gather multimedia from all over the web on one topic

Once you get the hang of using RSS to gather and read information, you may want start creating your own customized feeds to suit your needs. Yahoo Pipes is a free tool that allows you to aggregate, manipulate, and mashup content from around the web.

Mon – Thur 10am -7pm
Friday 10am – 5pm
Sunday 2pm – 7pm

For those of you who use them, which one do you like better?

http://www.shelfari.com/addlestone

http://www.librarything.com/profile/AddlestoneBrowsing

As you come in to use the library for the first time or if you’re a seasoned veteran, keep in mind these few points:

1. No food is allowed in the library–you can eat in the cafe or on the porch. Covered drinks are allowed.

2. If you need to check something out (even something that is on reserve), you will need to have your Cougar card.

3. The second and third floors are quiet areas. If there is a problem on one of those floors, contact the Public Safety officer at the Security desk.

4. If you want to reserve a study room, you need to have 3 people present at the desk, a valid Cougar card and no overdue books or fines over $3.00.

Those are just the highlights–if you have more questions, come by the desk and ask!

Have a great semester!

Of the early news published about it, most people are doing fine, but it appears that many HP printers do not yet have drivers for this version of the operating system, so be aware that if you upgrade, you may not be able to print until drivers are available.

• More information on Snow Leopard
• List of supported HP printers
• HP Instructions for All-in-one printers

Updated 9/22

Apple has released updated printer drivers for Snow leopard.

With the all-new platform, powerful navigation tools will surface the most relevant full-text/image content to provide the complete story in its original context as well as critical tables and figures in publications that would be missed with other searches.

We’d like to give you a glimpse of the range of content that users will be able to cross search when the new platform launches in 2010. So we searched across just a small sampling of available resources on our current interface to demonstrate the various types of current and historic content that provides insight on renewable energy and stimulus funding resulting from the economic downturn. Click here to see the examples!

Soon, users will be able to search across content like this and more with all-new ProQuest platform. And we’re grateful to information professionals, like you, who have paved the way on the path to discovery with your input along the way.

For more information, click here.

0.0 Contents

1.0 Purpose

2.0 Evaluation

3.0 Eligibility

4.0 Promotion

5.0 Conduct

6.0 Benefits and Incentives

7.0 Demotion

1.0 Purpose

The Purpose of the Team Leader policy is to identify, recognize, and reward student employees who have outstanding work ethics, demonstrated strong leadership qualities, and practice excellent customer service skills.

2.0 Evaluation

The student employee coordinator will evaluate each student employee at the end of the second semester of employment. Upon completion of the evaluation, the student employee will be selected and considered for promotion to team leader the following semester.

3.0 Eligibility

After one year of employment in the Circulation Department, student employees will be considered for the team leader position based on performance, work ethics, leadership qualities, customer service skills, and conduct. Also, the student employee must be responsible, dependable, and have the ability to encourage, motivate, and inspire a team.

4.0 Promotion

Student employees receiving promotion will be determined by recommendations from the Head of Circulation and shift supervisors.

5.0 Conduct

Student employees are expected to conduct themselves in accordance with the guidelines as set forth in both the College of Charleston Student Handbook and the Circulation Student Assistant Manual.

6.0 Benefits and Incentives

The benefit of becoming a student employee team leader is a leadership opportunity with lifetime career benefits. The position was designed to inspire and empower the student employee with leadership skills and experience. Team leaders will be given incentive rewards for outstanding performance.

7.0 Demotion

Failure to adhere to the guidelines described in both the College of Charleston Student Handbook and the Circulation Student Assistant Manual will result in demotion.

We will be adding additional evening hours Mon-Thursday till 7pm and Sunday 2pm-7pm by September

Nested folders ARTstor has also enhanced the functionality of folders in the Digital Library. Instructor-level users can now create nested sub-folders that can be moved easily from one folder to another by dragging and dropping. For example, you may build draft versions of your image groups in a private folder and simply drag them to a public folder when they are ready to be shared. The addition of nested folders allows you to organize ARTstor content in ways that are meaningful and intuitive to you. Learn more. (http://help.artstor.org/wiki/index.php/Sharing)

Export image group to PowerPoint ARTstor has released a new feature to Instructor-level users that streamlines the process of exporting images and descriptive data from ARTstor. You may now export image groups to Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 in just a few clicks. When viewing an image group, look for the Export to PowerPoint icon (  ) in the utility bar or click Tools > Export to PowerPoint. The resulting PowerPoint file will include:

• A title slide displaying the name of the image group.
• Individual slides for each image in the group, in the order in which they appear in the image group.
• ARTstor descriptive data for each image, appearing in the notes field of each slide.
• Embedded hyperlinks in each image that will launch the ARTstor Image Viewer when clicked in presentation mode (requires web access).

ARTstor has instituted certain export limits during the Beta period and will be evaluating the performance of this new feature over the fall semester. Learn more. (http://help.artstor.org/wiki/index.php/Presenting#Export_to_PowerPoint_.28Beta.29)

For more information about using these new features, please contact ARTstor’s User Services team at userservices@artstor.org.

Kind regards,

ARTstor User Services

check back for news and information!

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Other Alternatives

• Many of our Library journals allow photocopying for educational purposes
• Legally link to free Internet sources
• Place multiple copies of the book on hard copy reserve
• Use different sources each semester

If you have any questions please feel free to contact the Circulation Department at 953-8001. We will be happy to assist you!

Yes, the rumours are TRUE!!!!

This Thursday, June 11th, at 8:00 p.m., the V-Tones return to the Communications Museum at 58 George to play a live (rhymes with “jive”) concert to accompany several short silent movies, including such faves as Buster Keaton. The fabulous V-Tones (don’t even think about asking what the “V” stands for!), Charleston’s premier ukulele-based band, are the perfect choice to add music and sound effects to classic silents, although they (the silent films, not The V-Tones) were never really silent, what with the pi-annies (pronounced “pi-annies”), the crunching of snacks, the non-permanent seats in the early days, the Wur

litzer organs, the human organs such as lungs and stomachs, the constant ringing of cell phones, the chatter, the nitrate-based film sputtering into flames when a frame jamming allows the carbon-arc projection light to ignite the film, the snores of the projectionist who really should be grabbing the scissors to cut the burning film from the rest of the reel, the gasp as he wakes up too late and finds the whole 15″ reel now on fire, the screaming of the panicked audience as they see the fire and flee towards the exit, the cursing of people getting shoved and knocked over, the slamming of the projection door in a vain attempt to isolate the fire, the crackling of the flames as they take down the whole theatre, well, you get the idea………and it’s all for FREEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!………………

Yes, I’m telling you about this on Monday, even though it doesn’t take place until Thursday, and, horror upon horrors, you will NOT receive ANY reminders. Ah, now I’ll call on Carnak the Magnificent to read your thoughts:

Tuesday-”Oh, well, I’m OK. I don’t need a reminder yet.”

Wednesday-”He’s really not going to send us a reminder?”

Thursday-”MSG, I mean OMG! No reminder still? We can’t just show up-it’s unheard of!”

Well, everyone under the age of, oh, I don’t know exactly, maybe 60 or 70, and surely 80 and above, will just have to act as if they were of that more advanced age, and actually show up

at the agreed upon time! One of the things I love about those folks is how you can just communicate something to them such as a date or a chore, they acknowledge it, and then it really happens! If THEY call to confirm, it’s probably because they’re worried about whether YOU are going to show up. (M)LOL. I know, I know, you’re saying, “My mind has been blown! This can’t possibly be true!!!” Well,

just try it yo self!….

Rick Zender, Curator
John Rivers Communications Museum

The American Library Association (ALA) Video Round Table Notable Videos Committee has compiled its 2009 list of Notable Videos for Adults, a list of fifteen outstanding programs released on video within the past two years and suitable for all libraries serving adults. Its purpose is to call attention to recent video releases that make a significant contribution to the world of video recordings. The selections were made during the ALA Midwinter Meeting in Denver, Colorado. The winning titles are:

The Business of Being Born. 87 min. New Line Home Video. DVD: $27.98 (Available most distributors) http://www.thebusinessofbeingborn.com/

Cats of Mirikitani. 74 min. Arts Alliance America. DVD: $29.95. (Available most distributors) http://www.thecatsofmirikitani.com/

Deep Water. 93 min. IFC Films. DVD: $24.95. (Available most distributors) http://www.deepwater-movie.com/

Fat Chance. 52 min. Icarus Films. DVD: $390. http://icarusfilms.com

How I Am. 49 minutes. Fanlight Productions. DVD: $249. www.fanlight.com

Miss Navajo. 53 min. The Cinema Guild. DVD: $295.00 www.cinemaguild.com

No End In Sight. 102 min. Magnolia Home Entertainment. DVD: $19.99. (Available most distributors) http://www.noendinsightmovie.com/

The Order of Myths. 80 min. Cinema Guild (with PPR): DVD: $395.00. http://cinemaguild.com/ New Yorker Video: DVD: $29.99. http://www.theorderofmyths.com/

Price of Sugar. 90 minutes. New Yorker Films. DVD: $29.99. (Available most distributors) http://www.thepriceofsugar.com/

Sharkwater. 90 minutes. Warner Home Video. DVD: $19.99. (Available most distributors) http://www.sharkwater.com/

Steal a Pencil for Me. 94 min. Westlake Entertainment. DVD: $24.98. (Available most distributors) www.westlakeent.com

To See If I’m Smiling. 60 min. Women Make Movies. DVD: $295.00 for Universities, Colleges & Institutions; $89.00 for K-12, Public Libraries & Select Groups. http://www.wmm.com/filmcatalog/pages/c719.shtml

War Dance. 107 min. THINKfilm. DVD: $24.99. (Available most distributors) www.thinkfilmcompany.com

What Remains: The Life and Work of Sally Mann. 80 min. Zeitgeist Films. DVD: $29.99. http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/what_remains/index.html

White Light, Black Rain. 86 minutes. Films Media Group (with PPR): DVD: $169.95 http://ffh.films.com/; HBO Home Video: DVD: $19.98 (Available most distributors) http://www.hbo.com/docs/programs/whitelightblackrain/

Members of the 2008-09 committee are: Chair, Meghann Matwichuk, University of Delaware Library; Nora Dimmock, University of Rochester, New York; Tom Ipri, University of Nevada – Las Vegas; Cynthia Knight, Hunterdon County Library (N.J.); Chet Mulawka, San Mateo (Calif.) County Library; Jeff Pearson, University of Michigan; Sam Readman, Miami-Dade (Fla.) Public Library; Joan Skowronski, Hillsborough(Fla.)County Public Library; and Sue-Ellen Beauregard, consultant, Booklist magazine, Chicago.

For more information about the list and the Video Round Table please visit:

http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/rts/vrt/initiatives/notablevideos/index.cfm

Conservative Judaism, sponsored by the Rabbinical Assembly and
the Jewish Theological Seminary, publishes articles which express a
serious, critical inquiry of Jewish texts and traditions, legacy, and
law; further the quest for a Conservative Jewish theology and ideology;
and explore today’s changing Jewish community. Its perspective is
worldwide and transcends denominational boundaries.

** From the Rabbinical Assembly**

Genocide Studies and Prevention provides a much-needed forum for
discussion, as it fosters awareness of the atrocities linked to genocide
while promoting the necessity of prevention. This peer-reviewed journal
publishes articles on the latest developments in policy, research, and
theory from various disciplines including history, political science,
sociology, psychology, international law, criminal justice, women’s
studies, religion, philosophy, literature, anthropology, and art
history.

** From the University of Toronto Press**

Information from Project Muse press release 5/11/09
Heads up information from Bob Neville

Sheila Seaman

After 28 years at the College, Sheila Seaman, Assistant Dean for Public Services, will be retiring at the end of this fiscal year. As many of you have told me, Sheila has had an extraordinary tenure here at the College. She has led the public services staff as it has evolved into the what is surely one of the most technically proficient and informed groups to be found in any college or university library. She is one of our very best teachers and a reference librarian with unparalleled knowledge and commitment. She will be missed by students and faculty alike. Sheila has asked me to encourage her friends and colleagues to visit her on the second floor of Addlestone between now and June 5, her last day at work. Please join me in wishing Sheila the very best.

–David J. Cohen
Dean of Libraries

What: Book Drive

How: Bring us the books you no longer need

When: May 6 – May 13, 2009

Where: Rotunda of Addlestone Library

Heads Up Data from:Claire Fund, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

Media Collections Summer 2009 Operation Hours
May 11- August 9

Mon – Thursday: 10am -5pm
Friday: 10am – 4pm
Sunday: 2pm – 7pm