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What's New - Fall 2000

Library Catalog Features Added!

ADVANCE WARNING! The catalog interface will change during 2000/2001. Stay tuned...

View & renew materials you've checked out
Click on "Personal Record," enter your 7-digit UW-W ID number and last name where prompted, then click on the "Login" button. A list of materials checked out to you will display. To renew an item, click on the box left of its title (in the "Renew?" column). Also displayed will be information about fines owed.
Place holds on materials checked out by other patrons
When displaying a record in the catalog for an item that is checked out, click on the "Request" button (one of the purple buttons at the top of the screen) and login as for a renewal. Click "OK" with the "Hold" option highlighted. On the "OPAC Request:Hold screen, type your UW-W ID number in the "Barcode" box and click on the "Submit Request" button at the bottom of the screen. When the item is returned to the library, you will be notified that it is waiting for you on the "Hold" shelf at the Circulation Desk.
Please note: This is not a recall, where another patron is asked to return an item to the library. It is necessary to come to the Circulation Desk and complete a form to have materials recalled from other patrons.

Improved Off-Campus Database Access

A proxy server enables UW-W students, faculty, and staff to access almost all of Andersen Library's electronic subscription indexes and other databases from off-campus computers.

See the Library's "Off-Campus Users webpage" for details and instructions for configuring WWW browsers on off-campus workstations to take advantage of this improvement.

Staff

Bobbie Borchardt started work as a Library Services Assistant in July, splitting her time between processing reference & documents materials and staffing the Area Research Center.
Jake Carlson left Andersen Library in July to be a reference librarian at Bucknell University, PA.
Sarah Knoble is working as an LTE in Circulation.
Kathy Schmidt left Andersen Library's technical processing service in August to become head of reference at Manitowoc Public Library.
Martha Stephenson became Andersen Library's newest reference librarian on August 1st. In addition to staffing the Reference Desk, she will be coordinating the library's instruction program and selecting materials in the sciences. Previously she was a reference librarian at the Moraine Park Technical College.

ARC/University Archives Hours Extended

The UW-W Area Research Center office, which also houses the Library's Special Collections and the University Archives, will have expanded hours this year: 9 a.m. - 4 p.m. Mondays through Fridays

Bobbie Borchardt, Archives Assistant, will staff the office in the mornings. Karen Weston, University Archivist, will continue to staff the office in the afternoons.

Online Resources - additions and changes

NOTE: Database links below work from UW-W campus workstations. UW-W students and staff may access databases from off-campus workstations by following instructions on the library's Off-Campus Users page.

AccessScience

This WWW site provides the full contents of the McGraw-Hill Encyclopedia of Science & Technology, 8th ed., as well as Yearbooks of Science & Technology since 1998, biographies of scientists, links to web sites, and learning resources and study guides. Search by keywords or browse by topics. Yearbook articles are identified as "Research Updates" in search results. Under "More Search Options" (under the "Quick Search" box) it is possible to limit a search to the "Research Updates" yearbook material, biographies, or encyclopedia articles.
Advertiser & Agency Red Books Plus

Previously available as a CD-ROM on a designated workstation in Andersen Library, The Red Books: Advertisers and Agencies Online is now on the WWW. In addition to searching for profiles of advertising agencies (by agency name or field of specialization), researchers may search for a brand name's owner or view lists of leading advertisers in print, radio, and television.
CCH Health and Human Resources

Labor Law Reports in looseleaf binders has been discontinued in favor of this searchable WWW-based database that includes journal articles, state and federal law, and other resources on human resource management, personnel practices, compensation, Equal Employment Opportunity, employment relations and OSHA compliance. Either select the sources in which to search and then type search terms, or click on a source title to browse its contents.
Early English Books Online

This WWW site contains over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640), Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700), and the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661)--of potential interest to scholars in the areas of English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, and the fine arts. Search for materials by author, title, printer, date, or type of illustration (maps, music, coat of arms, etc.).
Earthscape
Created by Columbia University and the Columbia University Press, this WWW site provides a wide range of online resources for researchers, teachers, students, and decision-makers involved in earth sciences, including full-text books, a quarterly online magazine, video clips, journal articles, lectures and seminars, conferences, policy papers, maps and models, searchable databases, links and live web-casts of conferences. The site is divided into four sections:
- Research: conferences, seminars, books and journals
- Education: multi-media classroom resources for students and teachers
- Earth Affairs Magazine: quarterly publication on the Earth and environmental policy
- Links and Resources: searchable data sets, modeling systems, and links to other resources that contain current research, news, policy debates and curriculum models for teachers
Emerald Library

Emerald (Electronic Management Research Library Database) provides access to over 130 journals by MCB University Press, such as European Journal of Marketing, International Journal of Operations & Production Management, Personnel Review, The TQM Magazine and Library Management. Articles from 1994 on are available online.
Encyclopedia of Human Nutrition

This searchable online encyclopedia combines "up-to-date information on fundamental nutrition science with practical, operational issues." The encyclopedia topics come from a number of disciplines, from molecular biology to agriculture and food science, from social sciences and human behaviour to clinical medicine. A paper copy of the encyclopedia is in Andersen Library's Reference Collection at QP141 .E526 1999.
FirstSearch databases will look different this fall because the interface has been changed.
Here are some of the improvements:
- Now it is possible to search up to three databases at one time.
- Search terms may be truncated using an asterisk, e.g. child* will retrieve children and childbirth in addition to child. (A plus symbol still searches for plural forms of search terms that are formed by adding -s or -es to the term's singular form, e.g., melon+)
- Wildcards may be used to search for spelling variations within a search term:
  
  # replaces one character, e.g., wom#n will retrieve woman as well as women
  
  ? replaces any number of characters (or none), e.g., colo?r will retrieve colour and colonizer as well as color
  
  ? followed by a number limits the number of characters replaced, e.g., colo?1r will retrieve colour and color but NOT colonizer
International Index to Black Periodicals (IIBP)

This WWW database contains searchable content from more than 150 international scholarly and popular periodicals in Black studies (art, cultural criticism, economics, education, health, history, language and literature, law, philosophy, politics, religion, and sociology). Full text articles from some publications are included.
International Index to the Performing Arts (IIPA)

This WWW database contains searchable content from more than 200 scholarly and popular performing arts periodicals, as well as a variety of documents such as biographical profiles, conference papers, obituaries, interviews, discographies, reviews and events. A broad spectrum of the arts and entertainment industry is covered--including dance, film, television, drama, theater, stagecraft, musical theater, broadcast arts, circus performance, comedy, storytelling, opera, pantomime, puppetry, magic and more. Full text from some publications is included.
netLibrary

An electronic collection of published books. A consortium of UW System libraries and private colleges and universities in Wisconsin has purchased access to about 2000 titles, including many university press publications, reference books, scholarly monographs and consumer books. In addition, there are over 2500 public domain titles. To protect publishers' copyrights, only one person can view an eBook at a time when the consortium pays for just one copy.
New York Times Book Review

Registration is required, but free. Search for book reviews published since 1980.
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)

Search for a term's definition using the box at the top right corner of the screen, or conduct a search through the complete text, or selected segments of the OED text (definitions, etymologies, and quotations) by clicking on "Search" at the bottom left corner of the screen.
Periodical Contents Index is no longer available (previously one of the databases available via FirstSearch).
Poem Finder - Use is restricted to Andersen Library workstations.

This WWW database indexes approximately 750,000 poems from 3,500 anthologies, 5,000 single-author works, and 6,000 periodical issues. Search by any word(s) in a poem title, first line, last line, book title, author, and subjects. The full text of more than 70,000 poems is provided.
Short Story Index

This WWW database indexes 69,000 short stories, written in or translated into English and published in anthologies or periodicals from 1984-1997. Most entries provide bibliographic citations to the publications which contain the stories, but the full text of 1,175 stories also is included.
Tablebase (RDS)

This WWW database provides tabular information such as: market share, market size, capacity, production, imports, exports, sales, product and brand rankings, forecasts, healthcare statistics and demographics. Tables are drawn from the more than 1000 sources that go into the Business & Industry database and from statistical annuals, brokerage reports, trade association reports, and governmental reports.

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