Past announcements: Academic Year 2005-2006

• New database: The Times Digital Archive contains the entire contents of The [London] Times, including articles, obituaries, advertising, and classifieds, for 1785-1985. More info. 6/30/2006
• New database: New York Times, Historical (1851-2003). Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. More info. 6/30/2006
• New database: Wall Street Journal, Historical (1889-1989). Full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. More info. 6/30/2006
• New database: ASSIA: Applied Social Sciences Index and Abstracts, an index covering health, social services, psychology, sociology, economics, politics, race relations, and education. More info. 5/31/2006
• New database: Quarterly Index of African Periodical Literature, an index of over 300 selected periodicals (mostly scholarly) from 29 African countries. More info. 5/30/2006
• A workshop on the construction and pedagogical use of digital archives is being held in the Arc, May 22-June 30, 2006. More info. 5/26/2006
• Catalog and proxy server status: The problems resulting from the catalog upgrade seem to have been solved, including logging in to Find it! and to ILLiad. If you notice problems, please report them to the Library Webmaster. 5/26/2006
• Catalog and proxy server status: The catalog and proxy server are available, but problems that occurred during the upgrade yesterday are still being resolved. Access may be intermittent; please try again later if you run into problems. Logging in to Find it! is not yet available. 5/25/2006
• Catalog and proxy server outage, Wednesday, May 24, starting at 5am. WU Libraries holdings can be viewed in the MOBIUS catalog during the outage. 5/19/2006
• Summer hours begin Thursday, May 11. 5/4/2006
• This Saturday, April 29, Olin Library and Whispers will close at 6pm, due to WILD. The Arc will close at 5pm. 4/27/2006
• The University Libraries announce the publication of Off the Shelf, a bi-annual magazine that reports on library services and collections, special events, building improvements, staff accomplishments, and major donors. For information about how to be added to the mailing list, contact the editors at offtheshelf@library.wustl.edu. Click here to see the magazine online. 4/26/2006
• Do you have questions about GIS data and software? "Come and Ask" at weekly GIS Drop-in Sessions at Rettner EPSc Library, EPSc Building, Room 301, beginning Tuesday, April 25, 11am - 1pm. The EPSc Library staff can offer assistance in:
  • planning your GIS project
  • locating GIS datasets
  • learning more about data resources at Washington University
  • accessing GIS software
  Please call 935-5406 for further information. 4/21/2006
• Workshop TODAY, April 18: Using GIS Data in Research at WU. Come to the Ronald Rettner Library in the EPSc Building, Room 301, to see examples of current graduate research incorporating GIS. Presentations:
  • GIS and Mapping the Agricultural Landscape in the Taraco Peninsula, Bolivia, by Maria Bruno and Eduardo Machicado
  • Creating a Geologic Map of North Madagascar Using GIS Data, by Robert Buchwaldt
  Tuesday, April 18th, 12:30 - 1:30pm. Please call 935-5406 for further information. 4/18/2006
• Interested in learning about the large format printer and scanner in the EPSc Library? Come to the Ronald Rettner Library in the EPSc Building, Room 301, to learn:
  • How the scanner can be used for maps and other documents
  • How to use the large format printer
  • Tips for scanning and printing
  Friday, April 7th, 9am-10am or noon-1pm. Please call 935-5406 for further information. 4/5/2006

• Washington University librarians are experimenting with Instant Messaging. Three of us currently have addresses on AIM and Yahoo Messenger (let us know if you use different IM software). Ask a question and put us on your buddy list!

  • WULibrarianJoy: Joy Weese Moll, Reference/Web Services Librarian
  • wubiolibrarian: Ruth Lewis, Biology Librarian
  • wulibweb: Carol Antoniewicz, Library Webmaster
  3/21/2006
• Try out this WorldCat pilot which presents the search results by grouping similar items together. 3/21/2006
• There are several exhibits on display in the Olin Library Lobby and the Cube in Whispers Café: Black Caucus of the American Library Association Literary Awards, 2006; Passover at Hillel; University Libraries' Endowed Book Funds Exhibition (about the Neureuther Competition, below); Celebrating National Women's History Month; and African Film Festival. For dates and locations, please see Olin Library Exhibitions. Stop by and take a look! 3/15/2006
• Catalog and proxy server outage, Tuesday, March 14, starting at 3pm. WU Libraries holdings can be viewed in the MOBIUS catalog during the outage. 3/8/2006
• Exhibitions in Olin Library & Whispers Café is a new website that informs the university community about mounting exhibitions in Olin Library & Whispers Café. Take a look! 3/7/2006
• New database: Japan Knowledge includes dictionaries, an encyclopedia, a biographical dictionary, a news database, and other information sources. More info. 3/7/2006
• The Black Film Promotional Material Collection is a new collection held in University Archives. This significant collection of non-film promotional material documents how blacks were portrayed in films from 1915 to 1980. The collection contains ca. 2,700 promotional items including photographic stills, programs, trade advertisements, advertising materials, advertising supplements, lobby cards, pressbooks, and posters, representing approximately 400 films, ranging in date from 1915 to 1980. The finding aid for the collection can be found online at: http://library.wustl.edu/units/spec/archives/guides/pdf/black-film.pdf. The press release can be found online at: http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/6703.html. 3/6/2006
• Have you used Find it!? Please tell us how you like it, by filling out this brief survey. 3/1/2006
• Neureuther Competition Underway! The 19th annual Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition is underway. Full-time Washington University students are eligible to compete for cash prizes by submitting a short essay, bibliography, and a few items from their private book collection by April 3, 2006. A first-place award of $1,000 and second-place award of $500 will be given in each of two categories, graduate and undergraduate. See the competition website for more details, including the entry form, previous winning essays, and resources about book collecting. 3/1/2006
• There are currently two exhibits on display in the Olin Library Lobby. The exhibits will run through March 5, 2006. Stop by and take a look!
  
  • One exhibit celebrates Black History Month. The theme this year is "Celebrating Community: A tribute to Black Fraternal, Social, and Civic Institutions." The Exhibit is entitled "BAG - Black Artists' Group." Materials for the exhibit were supplied by Benjamin Looker, also author of the book entitled BAG.
  • The other exhibit is entitled "Much Ado About Nothing." It was mounted by Joy Ryan, Performing Arts Department, to advertise the Performing Arts Department production of Shakespeare's play on Feb. 24, 25, 26 and March 3, 4, and 5.
  2/2/2006
• Upcoming Olin Library workshops:
  • Finding Data and Statistics
    Wednesday Feb. 15, 7-8 PM or Tuesday Feb. 21, 5-6 PM
    This workshop will help you get started in identifying, locating, and retrieving relevant data and statistics for your research.
  • Research in Popular Culture
    Thursday Feb. 16, 5-6 PM or Wednesday Feb. 22, 4-5 PM
    Discover library resources that cover topics in popular culture. Learn how to search for digital images of advertisements, comics, fashion, television, and more. Locate primary and secondary documents in mass media and scholarly publications.
  All workshops will be held in the Arc Lab, Olin Library. Sign up is appreciated but walk-ins are welcome. Contact Rina Vecchiola, rvecchio@wustl.edu, to sign up. 1/30/2006
• Find out about spring 2006 events and exhibits by visiting the Libraries' new events calendar web site. 1/26/2006
• An exhibit entitled "Celebrate Mozart's 250th Birthday" is currently on display in the lobby of Olin Library. The exhibit will run through January 30, 2006. Please stop by and take look. 1/18/2006
• See the Celebrating 100 Years of Federal Information display in Olin Library Lobby, as well as online. 12/22/2005
• Problem with access to databases and full-text journals, due to campus DNS problems, has been fixed. 1/17/2006
• NOTE: Olin Library will have shorter hours now until Jan. 17. Most departmental and school libraries also have shorter hours. See WU Libraries 2005-2006 Hours for links, dates, and times. 12/22/2005
• Catalog and proxy server outage: The online catalog will be unavailable beginning about 6am on Wednesday, December 28, while the software is upgraded. When the catalog is offline, so is the proxy server, so off-campus access to licensed databases and ejournals will not be possible. It is expected to be unavailable most of the day. WU Libraries holdings can be viewed in the MOBIUS catalog during the outage. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. 12/22/2005
• New database: In the First Person: Index to Letters, Diaries, Oral Histories, and Other Personal Narratives provides in-depth indexing of oral history in English; indexing of other resources coming soon. Freely available on the web. More info. 12/19/2005
• New database: The Gerritsen Collection-Women's History Online, 1543-1945, a full-text collection of over 4,700 publications. More info. 12/15/2005
• Database change: Dissertation Abstracts Online has been changed from the FirstSearch interface to ProQuest, as Dissertations & Theses (ProQuest). Among the advantages of this change is the ability to see free 24-page previews of many recent dissertations & theses. See note about ordering full-text copies. More info. 12/15/2005
• New databases: International Index to Music Periodicals Full Text and International Index to the Performing Arts Full Text. We have subscribed to three concurrent users in each database. More info about IIMP FT. More info about IIPA FT. 12/15/2005
• Looking for someplace to study late at night? 12/9/2005
• New ebook: The Libraries have purchased online access to The Oxford Encyclopedia of Economic History. More info. 12/6/2005
• An exhibit entitled, "Rosa Parks: A Celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Montgomery Bus Boycott" is currently on display in the lobby of Olin Library. The exhibit will run through December 31, 2005. Please stop by and take a step back into an important part of our history. Also, you can watch an Interview with Rosa Parks from the Hampton Film Archive (Quicktime required, see link on that page to download). 12/6/2005
• Find it! unavailable Nov. 21, 2005. 11/16/2005
• A small exhibit announcing the GIS (Geospatial Information System) Symposium on November 18th is on display in the Olin Library. The display also highlights some of the materials available on GIS from the Earth & Planetary Sciences Library as well as Olin. For more information on the Symposium, please visit: http://www.gis.wustl.edu. 11/10/2005
• You can find out about upcoming events and exhibits by visiting the Special Collections Calendar of Events. 11/3/2005
• Check out the exhibit in the south display case in the Olin Library lobby: ITeach Symposium 2006. The exhibit focuses on faculty teaching and innovation and technology in the classroom. The exhibit will run through November 30, 2005. 11/7/2005
• Washington University Libraries & its Department of Special Collections will host a reception Thursday, October 27, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. for the American Writers at Home exhibition now on view in the Ginkgo Reading Room and Grand Staircase Lobby on Level 1 of the John M. Olin Library on the campus of Washington University. The reception is free and open to the public. 10/26/2005
• On Wednesday, Nov. 2, at 7:00 p.m., Professor Murray Weidenbaum will speak about his new memoir, "Advising Reagan: Making Economic Policy, 1981-82." Admission is free; persons who wish to attend should respond via the recorded RSVP line: 314-935-8003. More info. 10/24/2005
• Catalog outage: The Catalog outage scheduled for Thursday, Oct. 20, did not occur due to unforeseen circumstances. It has been rescheduled: The Catalog will be unavailable for 1-2 hours beginning at 5pm on Monday, Oct. 24, to be upgraded. The MOBIUS Union Catalog will be available during the upgrade. 10/21/2005
• Upcoming Olin Library Workshops:
  Research in Popular Culture offered Tuesday Nov. 1, 1-2 PM or Wednesday Nov. 9, 3-4 PM. Finding Data and Statistics offered Wednesday Nov. 2, 2-3 PM or Tuesday Nov. 8, 1-2 PM. All workshops will be held in the Arc Lab, O lin Library. Sign up is appreciated but walk-ins are welcome. Contact Rina Vecchiola to sign up. 10/20/2005
• In celebration of Bauhaus Week, students from the school of architecture have mounted a wonderful exhibit entitled "Architecture Student Exhibition: Bauhaus Week 2005." The exhibit is mounted in the Whispers' Cube and will be on display October 23-29, 2005. 10/18/2005
• New database: Design & Applied Arts Index indexes design and craft journals and newspapers published since 1973. More info. 10/13/2005
• Changes to databases: Both Avery Index to Architectural Periodicals and Bibliography of the History of Art are moving from the RLG interface to Cambridge Scientific Abstracts. Access to Avery on RLG will cease as of 10/31/05; access to BHA on RLG will cease as of 12/31/05. 10/13/2005
• New databases: The Libraries have enabled access to two databases which complement Academic Search Premier: MAS Ultra and Military & Government Collection. More info about MAS Ultra and More info about Military & Government. 10/11/2005
• An exhibit celebrating Awareness Week is on display in the cube in Whispers Café, mounted by the student group Pride Alliance, through October 16, 2005. 10/10/2005
• Check out Citation Linker. When you have a citation (or a partial citation) to a journal article, try this tool. If the Libraries subscribe to the full text of that article online, you'll be linked to it. If we don't, you'll be given other options for acquiring it. 10/5/2005
• A new exhibit that celebrates the United Nations 60th anniversary, entitled "Translating War into Peace," is on display in the Olin Library lobby through October 31, 2005. You may also want to view this research guide that was prepared in conjunction with the exhibit. 10/5/2005
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to Knovel Library, a full-text source that contains over 600 major science and technical reference books and databases merged into one searchable web interface. More info. 9/15/2005
• Giving program! The Most Wanted List uses donations to purchase new books, journals, and electronic databases, thereby expanding the Libraries' ability to pro vide world-class research opportunities to its students and faculty. 9/13/2005
• Constitution Day is September 17th. Here are some resources to help you celebrate it! 9/12/2005
• Try Find it! Search multiple databases at once! 8/22/2005
• Academic year hours begin Wednesday, August 31. 8/22/2005
• The Washington University School of Medicine Bernard Becker Medical Library is pleased to announce the release of a revised digital exhibit, Deafness in Disguise: Concealed Hearing Devices of the 19th and 20th Centuries. For more information contact Barbara Halbrook at halbrookb@msnotes.wustl.edu or 314.362.2786. 8/5/2005
• New database: The Libraries have subscribed to L'Année Philologique Online, the online version of the annual index of scholarly publications relating to the civilizations of ancient Greece and Rome (500 BCE to 800 CE). More info. 8/5/2005
• Database change: The Libraries have purchased the remaining years of HarpWeek. We now have access to 1857-1912, covering the Civil War era, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age. More info. 7/29/2005
• Database change: MLA Bibliography on FirstSearch is back! The access via SilverPlatter will remain until 8/31/05. More info. 7/1/2005