BiblioTech Connections
Newsletter of the Tisch Library
Tufts University
Spring, 1997, No. 19
Contents:
- Full-Text Science Comes Online
- Tisch Library and Career Planning Center: A Great Partnership
- Contemporary Fiction Discussion
- Artwork Additions
- Changes in Staff
- Year in Review
- Forthcoming Developments
- Summer Hours/Helpful URL's
By now it's no secret that the library is continually expanding its collection of electronic resources. The science disciplines have been in the forefront of electronic publishing, and there are increasing requests by Tufts scientists for material in electronic formats. In answer to these requests, the library is now offering the full text of a number of electronic science journals.
The Institute of Physics (IOP) initiated its Online Journal Service at the beginning of 1997. The service includes the full text of the fifteen print journals published by the IOP. The library now offers these journals both in print and online. One title, Waves in Random Media, is available only in electronic form.
BioMedNet is another full-text electronic journal service. The library is currently offering access to all thirty-four journals provided by BioMedNet. In May, this electronic access will be limited to those journals that the Tisch Library also subscribes to in print.
Both the IOP Online Journal Service and BioMedNet can be found from the TULIPS homepage by going to "Web Subject Resources" and choosing "Science, Technology, and Engineering." (They can also be accessed at http://www.iop.org/ and http://BioMedNet.com/entrance/565 respectively.) In addition, the IOP journals are available from the Web version of the online public catalog via the title of the journal. Access to the journals is open to all members of the Tufts community, including those connecting to TULIPS from dormitories, offices, or home. All that is required is Internet access through the campus network, Netscape, and Adobe Acrobat. Patrons can download and print selected material or entire articles.
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The Career Planning Center in Bolles House and the Tisch Library have been working together to provide guidance, instruction, and encouragement to Tufts students looking for career information.
Identifying Career Resources
In 1994 Jean McManus, Humanities Bibliographer, joined forces with Marcia Markwardt,
Assistant Director of the Center, to introduce the library and its career collection
into the sophomore workshops in career planning. A bibliography was developed
that listed, in addition to traditional print materials, many career planning
resources that were just beginning to emerge on the WWW. Consequently, noteworthy
Internet resources including career guides, online job services, job listings
and sources of company information were given their own "Career Resources"
webpage, accessible from the "Web Subject Resources choice on TULIPS and
at http://www.library.tufts.edu/tisch/Subject/careers.htm.
Hosting Instructional Sessions
One of the four meetings of the workshops, which run twice a semester, is now held in the library's Electronic Resources Center (ERC) and is wholly devoted to an examination of the library's print and electronic career planning resources. In addition, Kerry Santry, Associate Director of Career Planning, and Regina Raboin presented a job-hunting strategies session this March in the ERC. Kerry advised the students about obvious job-hunting tools, hidden job-hunting opportunities, networking, and creative use of sources. Regina discussed and demonstrated print and/or Internet resources that supported these strategies. Because of its success, this session is scheduled again for April.
Sharing Library Resources
As a result of this partnership, certain career planning titles held by Tisch are routinely routed or "recycled" to the Career Planning Resources Library in Bolles House. Though small, this specialized collection provides a variety of books, periodicals, and other materials needed for career guidance. The Tisch Library continues to expand its print and Internet career planning titles and business information sources to build a current and comprehensive collection. Both Tisch Library and the Career Planning Center look forward to a collaborative, growing, and important partnership for many years!
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Faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and library staff participating in several informal brainstorming discussions hosted by the Collection Development Department have helped to define directions for purchasing contemporary fiction in English and English translation. Identification of publishers producing quality fiction and questions of what to exclude from the collections, how to ask for input from the campus community, and how to provide for "leisure reading" were among the issues discussed.
This ambitious project can still use your help. If you have suggestions concerning the fiction collection, please send them to Jean McManus, Humanities Bibliographer, Tisch Library, x2398, or reach her at jeanmcmanus@infonet.tufts.edu.
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In celebration of the completion of the Tisch facility, an art competition was launched in order to find a "piece de resistance" to grace the barrel vault in the lobby entrance. This event, which sparked considerable interest from local artists, invited the use of a wide variety of media. Through a jury process, the proposal submitted by Sarah Hollis Perry and Rachel Perry Welty was selected. Their scroll sculpture depicting a poem translated into binary code brings together tradition and technology. This sculpture, the first large-scale collaboration by the mother-daughter duo, will be installed in time to welcome students and faculty this fall.
Soon to appear as well are two original oil paintings of special significance to our Tufts constituency. Graduating senior Neil Jaffe, a Biology major, and his father Stephen Jaffe (Engineering '64) have donated a painting of Jumbo and a campus landscape. Both renditions are the work of Neil's grandmother Alice Jaffe, who was inspired by her son's acceptance to Tufts in 1961. She is honored by her family's generous gesture.
Many Wessell Library visitors will recognize pieces now reappearing at Tisch. Yuan Yunsheng's mural "Two Ancient Chinese Tales," which hangs prominently above the central stairway; a Grecian urn from the fourth century B. C.; Rhoda Cohen's "Long White Cloud"; Mirtala Bentov's "Silent Hour"; and Carl Milles' "Man and Pegasus" have all been assigned new places of honor in the Tisch Library.
In addition, library administrators, working closely with the Tufts University Art Gallery, are reviewing art from the permanent collection to be displayed at Tisch. Director David McDonald views this prospect as yet another way that the Tisch Library can enhance the educational experience of students. As funding is obtained, more artwork will appear in the Tisch Library.
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The Tisch Library staff welcomes with pleasure its most recently appointed members: Charlotte Keys, who assumed the position of Head of Tisch Library Systems in early April, and Alan Pochi, arriving in May to serve as Head of Cataloging. Charlotte was formerly the Systems Librarian at Brandeis, where, along with support of a library system much like our own, she met responsibilities for staff training and desktop support of public and library staff PC's. Alan has been serving as Technical Services Librarian at San Antonio College Learning Resources Center. New to the Reference Services Department is Jennifer Hendrickson, formerly in Access Services, who began working as part-time Reference Library Assistant in March. Congratulations to these staff members on their new positions; we look forward to their contributions to our programs.
With much regret but also best wishes for the opportunities sure to await her, the staff will bid farewell this summer to Jean McManus, Humanities Bibliographer. Her move to South Bend, Indiana, follows her husband's acceptance of a position in history at the University of Notre Dame. Jean joined the library staff in 1993 as a Reference Librarian. She leaves with our thanks for improving the reference collection, building collections in the humanities, and furthering goals of reference service and outreach, all with a personal touch much appreciated.
A milestone development was the retirement recently of Erna Steeves, who was a support staff member of the Cataloging Services Department from March 1967 to December 1996 (the second longest tenure of any Tisch staff member). On February 5 the staff enjoyed a chance to celebrate her years of service and wish her the very best of retirements at her new home in Maine. Many fond best wishes to Erna; we will miss her ever-cheerful presence among us, as well as her ability to cite birthdays for us all.
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- Sept.
- Class of 2000 and other groups tour library; new food-drink policy implemented; ERC workshops begin.
- Oct.
- Tisch Library dedication takes place; Banned Book Week exhibit displayed.
- Nov.
- Library hosts Saturday a.m. Parents' Day presentations; Eliot Pearson class visits library for Children's Book Week; BLC librarians tour library.
- Jan.
- Library acquires, through Project Muse, over forty full-text electronic journals; History of Medicine Seminar students get a head start with library projects.
- Feb.
- Newly acquired Britannica Online features special Black History Month site; Librarians' Assembly hosts Assistant Professor of Music Guy Ramsey for lunchtime talk about his research.
- March
- Bio 14 students embark on library Web assignment.
- April
- For National Library Week, Tisch Library sponsors a reading festival and, with the Tufts Film Series, a showing of Fahrenheit 451.
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The latest Internet subscription to be purchased and cataloged by the library,
STAT-USA/ Internet, is the U.S. Government's primary Internet source
of business, economic, and international trade information, comprising information
from over fifty federal agencies. At http://www.stat-usa.gov/,
it is also fully accessible from the Web version of the online catalog or by selecting
"Web Subject Resources," then "Government Resources" (or "Social Sciences" and
either "Economics" or "Statistics") from the library homepage.
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- A university-wide conference on using technology in teaching, sponsored
by the Center for Teaching and Advising (CENTA), will take place on April
30, 1997. Many of the sessions will be held in Tisch Library.
- A redesign of the TULIPS interface offering access to additional library-selected
Websites can be expected next fall.
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May 10 - May 19, 1997
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Saturday, Sunday: CLOSED
BiblioTech Connections is published three times a year: in the
fall, winter, and spring. It is also available at bibliotech.htm.
- Contributors to this issue:
- Stephanie St. Laurence
- Regina Raboin
- Laura Walters
- Jean McManus
- Jim Walsh
- Pauline Boucher (Photography)
- Editor: Margaret Gooch
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