Involvement Opportunity Fair for faculty and staff

Monday, August 22nd, from 9:30-10:30 am.in the Kachel Center
"Digging Deeper into the Online Content of the University Library," a Learn Center-sponsored faculty workshop

WHEN: Thursday, August 25th, from 8:45-10 a.m.

WHERE: Library Bibliographic Instruction Laboratory

WHO: Carol Elsen, Reference & Instruction Librarian

WHAT: This hands-on session will focus on three of the more than 150 databases the Library makes available for students, faculty and staff to use: LexisNexis Academic, Web of Science (citation indexes), and UlrichsWeb
General Library orientation session for faculty and staff

Monday, August 29th, from 11 am-noon in the Library's Bibliographic Instruction Laboratory
Graduate Student Orientation

Monday, August 29th, from 5-7 pm in the Hamilton Center

Coming Very Soon

A listing of the fall semester events sponsored by the Friends of the University Library

Fall Displays

The first fall display in the Library lobby will honor Banned Books Week (September 24-October 1, 2005) and Constitution Day (September 17, 2005).

New Circulation Coordinator

Patricia Fragola, joined the University Library as the new Coordinator of Circulation/Reserves on August 1, 2005. Please stop by the Circulation Desk and say hello!

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Fines Increase Notice

Fines for overdue materials will increase effective Sept. 7, 2005, to 25 cents per day.

Please bring your overdue materials in before then to avoid paying fines at the higher rate!

The fines for overdue videos and reserve items are unchanged. See the library's webpage Fines & Charges for Lost Materials for more information.

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SuperSearch is here! This powerful new tool allows you to search up to eight databases at once, including databases from different vendors. In the past, if you wanted to search Ebscohost's Business Source Elite and ProQuest's ABI/Inform databases you would have to search them one at a time. SuperSearch will allow both to be searched at once!

Unfortunately, not quite all databases work with SuperSearch. Some, such as LexisNexis Academic, still will require that you go to the database's own search interface by clicking on the name of the database.

There are two search modes: QuickSearch and Custom Search.

In QuickSearch you can select from broad categories, such as "Sciences (General)", and type a search that will be run against a set of databases selected by the librarians as appropriate for that subject area. A search with the Sciences set selected, for example, will be run in these databases: Academic Search Elite, Applied Science and Technology, Biological Abstracts, Biological & Agricultural Index Plus, General Science Full Text, and IOP (Institute of Physics) Journals. These databases come from five different vendors, meaning that without SuperSearch you would have to repeat your search at least five times to use the same resources.

The other search option is Custom Search. Here you may select a subject category such as Business and see that there are subcategories from which to select. For all broader categories there are subcategories for the databases the librarians consider "core" and then a subcategory for "more" resources that may apply to your research topic. There is always an option to view all of the resources assigned to either the "core" or "more" subcategories. You have an option to select or unselect resources for simultaneous searching. You may also be referred to resources that, while they are appropriate for your selected subject category, are not available for simultaneous searching in SuperSearch (denoted by the lack of a selection box). You may click on the names of these databases to go to them directly for searching.

Have SuperSearch Your Way

In order to use these features you will need to login with your Net-ID. Login also will be required in order to search the databases via SuperSearch from off-campus computers.

SuperSearch gives you the option to create your own sets of databases for searching. Use the "Find Resources" option to search for databases by name, by subject categories, or by other means such as keywords or vendors. On a list of databases click on the plus sign to the right of the database name to add it to your personal set ("My Set") clipboard. Go to "My Space" and then "My Resources." On the left side of the screen select a set you've already created, or create and name a new one (click on the folder icon with an asterisk). Then use the left arrow by the desired database to move it into the set. You can always remove a database from one of your personal sets by displaying the set on this same page, then clicking on the "X" to the right of the database name. You can also alter or delete sets you have created. That's it! Whenever you login to SuperSearch your sets will appear on the Quick Search page above the library-defined quick sets, and it will appear on the Custom Search page if you select "My Resources" on the left side of the screen (under "Identify resource").

You can save selected searches and search result records to your "eShelf" in "My Space." Saved searches can be scheduled to run at set intervals (called an "Alert") and e-mail the results to you. Saved records are initially saved to the basket in a default "eShelf" folder, but you can create and name new folders to organize your saved search results.

It Ain't Over Yet

The library will be continuing to tweak this complicated resource as the semester continues, so let us know if you have any suggestions. We will be adding resources as we are able, including useful websites. Contact a Reference librarian (phone: 262-472-1032 or e-mail: refdesk@uww.edu). This "MetaLib" software (locally called SuperSearch) is being implemented on all UW System campuses, so if you find yourself in another campus's library this resource may be available, although the name may be different. The quick sets and custom search categories will vary by campus.

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Color Printing & Computer Changes

Color, Anyone?

Color printing is available in the library. Select the color printer when sending a print job from a library computer, and pick up your color print jobs at the Circulation Desk. Cost: 50 cents per page. Sorry, no special papers available.

Login Please

Most of the computers in the library have been updated to require a login with your Net-ID. You can ask for your Net-ID at http://post.uww.edu. Your default password is your 7-digit UW-Whitewater ID number. If you need to change your password, please go to http://password.uww.edu. If you have forgotten your password from last year, please contact the Computer Help Desk in the Andersen Library building.

Save Me

Once you login with your Net-ID at a library computer, you are automatically connected to your student storage account on the web, so that when you save a document to My Documents it goes to your storage account. If you have not created such an account, the process is practically instantaneous! Go to http://post.uww.edu and click on "Web & Storage account request" in the lower left corner. Alternatively, you may save to a flash/thumb/jump/USB device. On some computers you may save to a floppy drive or to a DVD. The newest computers (including all computers in the alcove across from the Reference Desk and all computers in the Bibliographic Instruction Laboratory) do not have floppy drives.

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Collection Development News

Faculty and teaching academic staff:

Every department receives an allocation from the library's acquisitions funds to be used to add materials to the library's collections that support the department's courses. So if there are particular texts or videos that your students should be using for the research assignments you are giving them, be sure to contact your department's library representative with the ordering information.

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General Custer Items Digitized

Seven titles from the Library's Kenneth M. Hammer Special Collection have been digitzed as part of the UW Digital Collection called "Nineteenth-century European-American views on Life in, and the Peoples of, the American West." They are available at http://digital.library.wisc.edu/1711.dl/History.SetInd. The digitized titles are:

War-Path and Bivouac, or the Conquest of the Sioux by John F. Finerty, 1890
Reno Court of Inquiry. 1951 Transcript of 1879 Record by Marcus A. Reno
Eleven Years in the Rocky Mountains and Life on the Frontier by Frances F. Victor, 1877
The Origin of the North American Indians by John McIntosh, 1844
The Complete Life of Major General George Custer by Frederick Whittaker, 1876
Thrilling Scenes among the Indians by T.M. Newsome, 1884
Personal Recollections and Observations of Nelson A. Miles by Nelson A. Miles, 1896

For more information about these titles and other materials in the Hammer Collection, please contact the Archives staff (phone 262-472-5520 or email Archives@uww.edu).

Live Online Reference 24/7

Reference help via live chat online now is available seven days per week, 24 hours per day. The software used for the service is called 24/7 Reference, and has been purchased by OCLC, which provides the QuestionPoint software used previously for reference via chat (and still in use for reference via e-mail).

The University Library is part of a consortium of public and academic libraries in Wisconsin that offer the service. Librarians from UW-Whitewater monitor the chat reference sessions on Mondays from 3-5 p.m. and 7-9 p.m., but even at those times it is possible that staff from other libraries will respond to a chat session that comes from this campus. During some times, especially late-night and weekends, chat sessions are responded to by staff from libraries that are not in Wisconsin.

To initiate a chat session for reference help, go to http://library.uww.edu/subject/askwi.htm and click on the "Chat Now" button. The form for submitting a question via e-mail is on the same page. E-mailed questions always are answered by UW-Whitewater librarians, Monday-Friday during the day with an approximate 24-hour turnaround time.

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Database Developments

New Additions

Biomedical Reference Collection: Basic (EBSCOhost) - Off-Campus access requires UW-W login

Designed for doctors, research scientists, students and clinical specialists, this database provides full text from over 100 journals in a variety of areas pertaining to medical study. All titles in this resource are indexed in MEDLINE.
Columbia Encyclopedia (EBSCOhost) - Off-Campus access requires UW-W login

Access to this encyclopedia, which contains more than 51,000 entries on current hot topics and provides updated geographical, political, and statistical information, is through the MAS Ultra-School Edition database. To limit your search results to encyclopedia entries, search for columbia encyclopedia and <your topic keyword(s)>.

Use It While You Can

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography - Off-Campus access requires UW-W login

Complimentary online access expires September 30, 2005 (it came with the purchase of the set in print). This resource contains the complete text of the new 60-volume Oxford DNB featuring 50,000 biographies and 10,000 portrait illustrations of people who have shaped the British past over the last 2400 years. The print set will remain available in the University Library Reference Collection at DA28 .O95 2004.

Name Change

Westlaw Campus has changed its name to Campus Research. - Off-Campus access requires UW-W login

No Longer Available

CCH Product Liability & Safety Law subscription discontinued June 2005 (at the OESH department's request.
PAIS International access discontinued as of July 2005.

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