Past announcements: Academic Year 2003-2004

• New database: PAIS Archive has been added to OCLC FirstSearch. It presently provides coverage of 1957-1976; it will eventually cover 1915-1976. See PAIS International for 1972 to present. More info. 6/15/2004
• Database removed: Internet & Personal Computing Abstracts has been removed from this website, as it is no longer available from OCLC FirstSearch. You might try either Applied Science Full Text or Expanded Academic Index, which index some of the same journals and magazines. 6/15/2004
• Website survey period Thursday, June 10, noon - 2 p.m. More info. 6/9/2004
• See the many exhibits in the cases in the Level 1 grand staircase lobby and Ginkgo Reading Room. 6/1/2004
• Website survey period Monday, May 10, 10 a.m. - noon. More info. 5/7/2004
• Online survey period, Friday, April 23, noon - 2 p.m. 4/22/2004
• Database trial: We are trialing PsycARTICLES, which contains full-text articles from APA and other journals, through May 15. The actual subscription will begin July 1, 2004. More info. 4/15/2004
• New website goes live! More info. 4/14/2004
• New database: Washington University users have access to a new database, due to a Becker Medical Library subscription: Essential Science Indicators. It provides Internet access to a unique and comprehensive compilation of essential science performance statistics and science trends data derived from ISI's databases. More info. 4/8/2004
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to China Academic Journals (Literature/History/Philosophy series), a full text periodical database covering more than 300 major periodicals currently published in China, including articles from 1994 to date. More info. 3/31/2004
• New interface: Ethnic NewsWatch and GenderWatch have been moved to the ProQuest search interface. More info on Ethnic NewsWatch. More info on GenderWatch. 3/31/2004
• Kranzberg Illustrated Book Studio Open House, Friday, April 23, 5-7 p.m. West Campus Conference Center, 7425 Forsyth, lower level. 3/26/2004
• The Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections, invites you to: Mendelssohn, Lessing, and Friends, a talk by Hillel J. Kieval, Gloria M. Goldstein Professor of Jewish History and Thought, Department of History. Wednesday, April 21, 4-5 p.m., in Special Collections, Olin Library, Level 1. 3/26/2004
• Event: Thursday, April 8, 7:30 p.m., Material as Metaphor, a slide lecture by Richard Minsky. Steinberg Hall Auditorium, Washington University (near Forsyth & Skinker, 2nd building west of intersection). 3/26/2004
• Olin Library book move is complete. Olin Library Collections Location Guide. 3/26/2004
• Online survey period, Monday, March 29, noon - 2 p.m. 3/26/2004
• The Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections, invites you to the Assembly Series/Neureuther Lecture: Regarding the Pain of Others, by Susan Sontag. Wednesday, March 24, 11am - noon, Graham Chapel. 2/27/2004
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to Television News Archive from Vanderbilt University. This database indexes evening news broadcasts from ABC, CBS, NBC, and CNN. Since 1999, online video is available for CNN. More info. 2/25/2004
• The Washington University Libraries, Department of Special Collections, invites you to a lecture: Volney and Earthquakes: French Views of Young America, by Conevery Bolton Valencius, Assistant Professor, Department of History, Program in American Culture Studies, and Program in Environmental Studies. Thursday, February 26, 4-5 p.m. in Special Collections, Olin Library Level 1. More info. 2/19/2004
• The Libraries are participating in a LibQUAL+ survey February 9 - 27. More info. 2/9/2004
• New database access: AMICO is now available via LUNA Insight Browser. The access via RLG Eureka will be expiring as of June 30, 2004. More info. 2/6/2004
• We now have access to Methods in Enzymology and the Life Sciences Book Series on ScienceDirect. More info. 2/4/2004
• Want to know where books are in Olin? Here's a current list! 1/30/2004
• The Secret Year: Photo and Manuscript Exhibit. The Modern Literature Reading Series continues a fourth year with an event as part of the Tennessee Williams Symposium. Exhibit opening is Friday, February 13, 5:00-6:00 p.m. in Special Collections, Olin Library Level 1. More info. 1/30/2004
• New database: Current Protocols in Bioinformatics is a new joint subscription of the Biology Library and the Medical Library. More info. 1/6/2004
• New database: Clase and Periódica. CLASE indexes documents published in Latin American journals specializing in the social sciences and humanities. PERIÓDICA covers journals specializing in science and technology. More info. 12/5/2003
• New database: The Civil War: a Newspaper Perspective, containing the full text of major articles gleaned from over 2,500 issues of The New York Herald, The Charleston Mercury and the Richmond Enquirer, published between November 1, 1860 and April 15, 1865. More info. 12/5/2003
• New info: we've put together a page of resources for our Alumni & Friends. 11/25/2003
• Links to full text from journal databases. Updated to show some examples! 10/9/2003, 11/13/2003
• Search for articles or citations in many e-journals at one time: increasingly valuable e-journal publisher search engines. More info. 11/11/2003
• New database: Bioone Abstracts and Indexes. More info. 11/11/2003
• New feature: browse ejournal titles by subject. 11/6/2003
• Renewed access: the Libraries have re-instituted our access to MEDLINE via OCLC FirstSearch. More info. 11/5/2003
• Online survey period, Monday, November 3, 10 a.m. - noon. 10/31/2003
• Find out more about teaching with technology: plan to attend ITeach, January 14-16. Co-sponsored by the Teaching Center, University Libraries, and The Teaching Lab in Arts & Sciences. 10/28/2003
• Another upcoming event: The Digital Cathedral: New Media and the Spaces of Medieval Architecture, a lecture by Stephen Murray, 6 p.m. Tuesday, November 18, Auditorium, Washington University Gallery of Art, Steinberg Hall. Stephen Murray teaches in Columbia University's Department of Art History and Archaeology and directs the Visual Media Center. He has written extensively on the cathedrals of Amiens, Beauvais, and Troyes. Murray will speak about using 3-D simulation, digital imaging, and video in his cathedral studies. Sponsored by the Washington University Libraries and the Sam Fox Arts Center. 10/28/2003
• Washington University Libraries invite you to attend Spoils of War: Building Libraries in the 17th Century, a talk by Jill Bepler, Herzog August Library (Germany), 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, October 28, Brookings Hall, Room 300. Jill Bepler, Ph.D., heads the Fellowship Program at Germany's Herzog August Library, a research center for medieval and early modern studies in cultural history. She will discuss how war affected the movement of books throughout Europe in the 17th century when important collections were being destroyed just as the foundations were being laid for some of the most important libraries in German. The threat that wars pose to cultural heritage remains a concern today. 10/7/2003
• Modern Literature Reading Series: John Morris: Selections, 4 p.m. Wednesday, October 22, in Special Collections, Olin Library, Level 1. Faculty and graduate students will read from their work and that of poet John Morris (1931-1997). Morris taught in the English Department from 1967 to 1996. Though Morris never sought the limelight, many of his peers consider him to be one of the leading poets of the last half-century. 10/1/2003
• Online survey period, Monday, September 29, 2 - 4 p.m. 9/26/2003
• Catalog unavailable Tuesday, September 30, beginning at 5:00 P.M. 9/26/2003
• Washington University Libraries invite you to attend Our Favorite Books: Hector Berlioz (1803-1869): Sources and Documents at 4 p.m. Thursday, October 16, in Special Collections, Olin Library, Level 1. Hugh Macdonald, the Avis H. Blewett Professor of Music, is a recognized expert on composer Hector Berlioz. Macdonald will discuss sources and documents he used putting together the composer's complete work and correspondence. For more information, call the Special Collections Department at 314-935-5495. 9/25/2003
• Several events with Matthew Carter, type designer, co-sponsored by the Libraries:
  • Typographically Speaking: Artist's Talk, Thursday, October 9, 7:30p.m., Auditorium, Washington University Gallery of Art, Steinberg Hall.
  • Typographically Speaking: The Art of Matthew Carter, Exhibition Opening Friday, October 10, 6-8p.m.; Exhibition October 10 - November 30, The Des Lee Gallery of Art, 1627 Washington Avenue, St. Louis.
  For more information, call the Special Collections Department at 314-935-5495. 9/22/2003
• Washington University Libraries invite you to attend: Modern Literature Reading Series, Recollecting Howard Nemerov at 4 p.m. Wednesday, September 24, 2003 in Special Collections, Olin Library, Level 1. The June 2003 publication of the Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov by Swallow Press occasions this reading of Nemerov's works. Nick Admussen and Carl Phillips will be reading poems by Nemerov and some of their own work. Free and open to the public. Reception will follow. For more information, call the Special Collections Department at 314-935-5495. 9/18/2003
• Washington University Libraries invite you to Book Arts, a slide presentation by Carol Barton at 4 p.m. Monday, September 15, 2003 in the Arc Presentation Room on Level A of Olin Library. Reception follows in Special Collections. Carol Barton is an award-winning book artist and curator whose work is held in many collections, including the Library of Congress, the Museum of Modern Art, the Smithsonian, and Washington University Libraries. Barton teaches at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and is at work on a how-to book on paper engineering. For more information, call the Special Collections Department at 314-935-5495. 9/8/2003
• Please join us for a lecture: Five Centuries of Judeo-Spanish. Gad Nassi will speak on En Tierras Ajenas Yo Me Vo Murir, a contemporary book in Judeo-Spanish. Gad Nassi is editor of a new anthology of contemporary short stories, legends, and memoirs written in Judeo-Spanish, an endangered language passed down by Sephardic Jews who were expelled from Spain in 1492; today the language is spoken by fewer than 200,000 people worldwide. To raise awareness of Judeo-Spanish writing and to encourage more work in this area, Dr. Nassi collected written works and illustrations from 36 contributors around the world. Roz Kohen Drohobyczer of Olin Library’s Reference Department is one of five contributors from the United States. Dr. Nassi, a native of Istanbul, currently practices psychiatry in Israel. Wednesday, September 3, 2003, 4:00pm, ARC Presentation Room, Level A, Olin Library. Free and open to the public; for more information, contact Roz Drohobyczer, Olin Reference Department, 935-8179. 8/29/2003
• You are cordially invited to the next event in the Modern Literature Reading Series: Reading Stanley Elkin, on Monday, August 25, 7:00p.m., in Special Collections, Olin Library, Level 1. More info. 8/20/2003
• Two new databases, one additional access: The Social Work Library has subscribed, for all WU campuses, to Sociological Abstracts, and to Social Services Abstracts. Included in the subscription is access to ERIC from the same vendor, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. More info. 8/14/2003
• Academic year 2003-2004 hours begin Wednesday, August 27. 8/14/2003
• New database: ARTFL (American and French Research on the Treasury of the French Language) contains over 2000 texts from the 12th through the 19th centuries. More info. 8/11/2003
• New database: Anthropology Plus contains both Anthropological Literature and Anthropological Index. More info. 7/11/2003
• Database removed: DataTimes has been removed from this website, as OCLC has removed it from the FirstSearch service. 7/11/2003