If you happen to be on the Health Science Campus, please check out the Mulford Library’s HSC Artists’ Showcase, on display through February 21st. Here are some photos from the opening reception:
Calling all art students …
artist: Kilom691 / used under CC license
… and faculty … and others interested in art books and resources at the UT Libraries!
The Toledo Museum of Art Reference Library in collaboration with Carlson Library would like to hear from library users on your use of art books, databases and other resources and services. We primarily want to hear from art majors, students taking studio art or art history courses, and faculty and staff who use the libraries for art purposes. But all are welcome to take the survey who are interested in helping us improve our services and collections in the visual arts.
Please take a few moments now to fill out our survey. Or if you’d like to take it later, the link will remain up for most of the semester.
NOTE: You may also opt in for a prize drawing – an art book, of course!
Hooray for Bollywood!
New films added to our collections from the Bollywood genre:
Latest arrivals from the Public Library
New books have arrived for Carlson and Mulford Libraries from the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library. At Carlson, these popular fiction and non-fiction titles are located near the Circulation Desk, and at Mulford, titles are found on the low shelves on the 5th Floor. Use your Rocket ID Card and check out these bestsellers. A full list of books is available in our catalog, or you can browse the shelves by author’s last name. New items include:
New Items: Books, Movies, More…
The Libraries added many new items in October, including those featured below. Many new or replacement DVDs were added to the collection as well. (If the item you want is checked out, use the ‘Request’ feature to place a hold on it for when it returns.)
Health Science Art Show: Submissions Wanted
The Mulford Library is seeking submissions for its 2012 Health Science Campus Artist Showcase. To be considered for the show, faculty, staff and students in the health sciences, including nursing, medicine, pharmacy and the health professions, can send electronic images of their artwork to mulfordartshow@gmail.com.
For important submission guidelines and other details, please go to http://libguides.utoledo.edu/hscart.
Submission deadline is 5pm, Friday, December 9, 2011.
Contact Jodi Jameson (419-383-5152 or jodi.jameson@utoledo.edu) if you have any questions.
We look forward to seeing your artwork!
An Open Access Invitation for Faculty!
This week (October 24-30) marks the fifth annual Open Access Week, sponsored by The Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition (SPARC). It will be celebrated in a number of ways worldwide.
The UT Libraries and Open Access Steering Committee would like to take this opportunity to poll UT faculty, research professors, clinical professors, lecturers, postdocs and others about their experiences, perceptions and views of open access. You can help us by participating in Open Access – A Survey for UT Faculty.
Open Access. OA. You may have heard this term popping up more and more in your academic surroundings lately. But do you know exactly what it is?
OA is sometimes confused with open source which is a practice of sharing software code. Open Access, on the other hand, is a philosophy growing in acceptance and practice — that of communicating and sharing scholarly information, research and knowledge with few or no limitations or restrictions. A concise definition of OA can be found in the Budapest Open Access Initiative which emerged out of a meeting of the Open Society Institute in December 2001.
“By open access to … literature, we mean its immediate, free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search or link to the full text of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software or use them for any other lawful purpose…”
For a more detailed explanation, see “What is Open Access?” by Charles W. Bailey, Jr.
A small group of interested UT faculty have gathered together this fall to begin to investigate how the university might move in the direction of OA. Many faculty who have National Institutes of Health (NIH) grants are already familiar with the open access experience through the NIH Public Access Policy which “requires scientists to submit final peer-reviewed journal manuscripts that arise from NIH funds to the digital archive PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication.” PubMed Central is just one example of a subject-specific open access repository.
Many faculty, however, are not familiar with the process or philosophy of open access. We hope that Open Access Week can begin to help those who are unfamilar catch up. A recent Chronicle of Higher Education blog post mentions the headway made by at least one early adopting institution, The University of Kansas, and the obstacles it still faces. However, The University of Kansas is now joined by nearly two dozen institutions who have taken up the call to address the crisis in journal publishing costs by implementing open access policies.
Watch for more updates on open access during Open Access Week and beyond!
11/1/11 UPDATE: THE SURVEY IS NOW CLOSED. SURVEY DRAWING WINNER TO BE CONTACTED THIS WEEK AND RESULTS EXPECTED TO BE POSTED TO OUR OPEN ACCESS LIBGUIDE IN THE NEAR FUTURE.
National Information Literacy Month
October is National Information Literacy month. What is Information Literacy, you say? Well, in addition to being a new core competency for UT students, it is being able to locate, evaluate, and ethically use information in all formats. Your UT librarians are helping you develop this competency through course offerings like the Information Literacy for College Research class (COIL1130), by partnering with professors via our Information Literacy Program to bring information skills into your classroom, and even by working with you directly. So, celebrate today, and all of October! And if you want to find out about ways you can find and use information better, contact us!
Library Celebrates our Freedom to Read: Banned Books Week
We’ve created a display of books that have been banned, challenged (that is, petitioned for removal from a library), or otherwise restricted in celebration of our freedom to read during the upcoming ALA Banned Books Week. Other campus events include the Banned Books Week Vigil, happening Thursday, September 29th. (Click on pictures for larger view.)
UT Banned Books Week Vigil 2011
“BOOKS! Challenged or Banned in 2010- 2011.”
UT will celebrate the American Library Association Banned Books Week with the 14th Annual Banned Books Week Vigil on Thursday, September 29th, on the 2nd Floor of Sullivan Hall. This daylong event will feature speakers from all over campus giving 20-minute talks about topics relating to censorship and the freedom to read.
The day will begin at 9:00 a.m. with a greeting from UT President Lloyd Jacobs commenting on his favorite book. Scheduled morning speakers include Glenn Sheldon, David Tucker, Paul Many, Warren Woodbury, and Sumitra Srinivasan. At noon Sharon Barnes, Women’s and Gender Studies, will give the keynote address, “Dumbledore’s Gay?! Ten Years of Religious Suppression of Harry Potter.” Scheduled afternoon speakers include Rene Heberle, Carter Wilson, Larry Wilcox, Ben Pryor, and Tom Barden. Jason Mack, Web editor, of the Toledo Free Press will conclude the day at 4:30 p.m. Afternoon events include the screening of a short film, “The Lorax,” and the annual Banned Books Jeopardy Quiz hosted by Randiah Green and Vincent Scebbi of the Independent Collegian. Door prizes will be given throughout the day. Snacks and light refreshments will be offered.
2011 Banned Books Week University of Toledo Vigil
In Conjunction with the American Library Association
Sullivan Hall, Honors College, Room 2030
For details contact:
Professor Paulette Kilmer: paulette.kilmer@utoledo.edu
UT Communications Department, UH 4700D
Phone: 419-530-4672