Knox College Library News

Seymour and Science Libraries will have extended hours during the following dates:

Seymour Library
Monday, May 21 - Monday, May 28 (8 a.m.-2 a.m.)
Tuesday, May 29 (8 a.m.-11 p.m.) *last day of finals

Science & Mathematics Library
Monday, May 21 - Monday, May 28 (8 a.m.-12midnight)
Tuesday, May 29 (8 a.m.-10:30 p.m.) *last day of finals

Naxos Music Library is an online classical music library offering streaming access to more than 50,000 CDs. The Library features classical, jazz and world music and liner notes are included for most recordings. Contents of the Library can be searched by composer, work, genre and label and more. Listeners can create personalized playlists or use predefined Naxos Music Library playlists. See a guide on using Naxos Music Library.

RIPM  Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals is a database with detailed content analysis of writings on musical history and culture between 1800 and 1950. RIPM currently indexes the contents of 140 music periodicals including articles, reviews, illustrations, music examples, advertisements, press reviews, and more. This trial lasts through April 30, 2012.

Anthropology Online is a new full text database comprised of 140 sources spanning from the 19th century to the present day covering a wide range of written ethnographies, field notes, seminal texts, memoirs, and contemporary studies. The majority of the content is in English, accompanied by some French and German material. Geographical coverage is global, with special focus given outside the developed world. This trial lasts through March 12, 2012.

Oxford Bibliographies Online  is a collection of authoritative research guides. “Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia, this cutting-edge resource guides researchers to the best available scholarship across a wide variety of subjects.” This trial lasts until March 23, 2012.

Plunkett Research Online is a business database focusing on market research and trends. The database also provides in-depth analysis of top companies and statistics for industries in 33 major areas. This trial lasts through February 23, 2012.

The Knox College Library now provides access to 100 titles in the Safari Books Online collection. This custom collection consists of 100 titles on software development, programming and computer engineering. Books are presented with tables of contents allowing you to navigate quickly and easily to specific sections with relevant content. The Safari site has a search function that allows you to search for terms and phrases across the whole custom collection of ebooks. Safari titles are integrated into the Knox Library catalog with direct links to the titles on the Safari site.

Over 300 electronic books from CABI are now available to Knox students, faculty and staff. The CAB eBook collection consists of books published from 2005 to the present in the areas of agriculture, environmental science, animal and veterinary science, human health and nutrition, leisure and tourism, and plant sciences. CABI is a not-for-profit international organization that improves people’s lives by providing information and applying scientific expertise to solve problems in agriculture and the environment.

CAB ebooks are displayed as pdf files, and you may display whole books or individual chapters. The search function on the site allows you to search for terms and phrases across the whole collection of books and chapters. The CAB titles are also integrated into the Knox Library catalog with direct links to the CAB eBook site.

Students doing Honors research at Knox have the option of applying for an office in the tower area of Seymour Library. Fill out the pdf form application, print it, and drop it off at Seymour Library. The deadline for applying for a tower office is October 3rd at 4:30 pm.

The Library is evaluating some products this fall. If you use any of these products and wish to make comments about them, please send those comments to Laurie Sauer.

• CAB Ebooks — The CAB Ebooks collection focuses on agriculture, animal and veterinary sciences, environmental sciences, human health, food and nutrition, leisure and tourism, and plant sciences. This trial includes over 500 ebooks published from 2000 to the present. Books are indexed and retrievable as chapters in pdf. This trial lasts through Sept. 30, 2011.

• Ebrary Computer and Information Technology Ebook Collection — This collection from Ebrary of over 3,000 titles focuses on computer and information technology: programming, operating systems, database management, internet and networks and more. The collection is fully searchable by keyword. Content is viewable online and you have the ability to save items to your virtual bookshelf. Printing by page permitted, but printing (or capturing to pdf) by chapter may be restricted by publishers. This trial lasts until Sept. 19, 2011.

• Safari Tech Books Online — The Safari Tech Books collection features over 11,000 titles from major tech books publishers: Addison-Wesley, Adobe Press, Cisco Press, Que, Sams, Microsoft Press and more. Content across all books is fully searchable. Downloading chapters is not permitted in Safari Books Online.  This trial expires on Sept. 18, 2011.

• Naxos Music Library — Naxos Music Library is an online classical music library offering streaming access to more than 52,677 CDs. The Library features classical, jazz and world music and liner notes are included for most recordings. Contents of the Library can be searched by composer, work, genre and label and more. Listeners can create personalized playlists or use predefined Naxos Music Library playlists. This trial expires at end of October, 2011.

• Education in Video — From Alexander Street Press, this streaming video collection is developed specifically for training and developing teachers. The collection contains teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms. This trial expires on Oct. 26, 2011.

The Library has the following databases available on a trial basis.

• Music Online: Listening — A comprehensive database from Alexander Street Press of streaming audio featuring recordings from the genres of classical music, contemporary world music, American song, jazz, opera, and recordings from the Smithsonian Global Sound collection. This trial expires on May 28.
• The American West: Sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection at the Newberry Library, Chicago — A full text collection from Adam Matthew Digital of original manuscripts, ephemeral material (trade cards, wanted posters, photos, claim certificates, news-sheets etc), maps, and rare printed works documenting the history of the U.S. West. NOTE: The full text pdf files are NOT available during this trial. This trial expires on April 30th.
• African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 — Provides online access to approximately 270 U.S. newspapers chronicling a century and a half of the African American experience. This unique collection features papers from more than 35 states—including many rare and historically significant 19th century titles. This trial is available until May 14.
  

Do you enjoy helping others? Do you thrive in a technologically dynamic environment? Do you have an interest in information research?  Several local librarians, representing the varied aspects of librarianship, will be present to discuss their career paths. All interested students, faculty and staff are invited to this open panel discussion. A short reception will follow.
When: Tuesday, March 1st at 7:45pm
Where: Seymour Library, Andrews Forum (first floor)
Contact: agiffey@knox.edu

Participants:
Karly Steele
Reference Librarian, Galesburg Public Library
Focus: Public Libraries, Adult Services, Reference and Big Read Coordinator

Linda Schultz
Youth Services Librarian, Parlin-Ingersoll Public Library, Canton
Focus: Public Libraries, Children’s and Youth Services

Megan Hayes
Visiting Public Services Librarian, Knox College Library
Focus:  Academic Libraries, Reference & Instruction

Becky Robinson
School Library Information Specialist, Galesburg High School
Focus:  School Libraries, Young Adults

CARLI purchased the Springer Medicine Collection of electronic books, which includes 1711 English/International titles published by Springer from 2005 through 2010. CARLI purchased this collection for all member libraries.

You can view all the titles in this new collection by performing a search on the term “SpringerLink” in either our new VuFind catalog or in the classic catalog. The ebooks are identifiable in our library catalog in several ways:

• There is a note about online access in the record of each title; it looks like this:   Online Access:     SpringerLink Restricted to Knox College affiliates

• There is a note in the record that indicates the item is an ebook. It looks like this:   Genres:    Electronic books.

• The call numbers have the suffix “eb” appended; an example looks like this:    RC685.H8 H7872 2005eb

The Springer Medicine collection of ebooks comes with guaranteed perpetual access to the content and Springer does not enforce Digital Rights Management (DRM). Springer’s policy allows for unlimited printing and emailing for scholarly purposes, and inclusion in non-commercial materials. Therefore, faculty are free to link to chapters on Moodle pages or via the library’s course reserves system.