What's New Archive 2005

You told us the Library needs more print, media, and online resources and better ways to find out about the resources. The Library responds by purchasing additional online journal backfiles. Read more about other ways the Library continues to improve its collections and services
The Library has received a $249,85 National Leadership Grant for Libraries – Building Digital Resources award from the Institute for Museum and Library Services. The award will enable the Library to produce a digital collection of the Goodspeed Manuscript Collection housed in the Special Collections Research Center. These 65 Greek, Syriac, Ethiopian, Armenian, Arabic, and Latin manuscripts date from the seventh to the nineteenth centuries.
Use Cross search to search multiple electronic resources simultaneously and quickly retrieve a list of citations to relevant articles and other references. The CrossSearch “QuickSearch” option is an easy way to find books and articles on a general topic.
Use RefWorks a web-based tool to quickly and easily create bibliographies or cite resources. Download records directly from the Library's electronic resources into your RefWorks database. Then insert your downloaded citations into your research paper in the style of your choice using RefWork's Cite-n-Write feature.
In addition to discovering New Acquisitions online, you can now physically browse selected new books in Regenstein. Each day, Monday -- Friday, selected new books are shelved along the west wall of the Current Periodicals Reading Room. Books remain in that location for one week; they are then shelved in the Stacks
The University of Chicago is offering a variety of Orientation programs for new students, faculty, and staff. Learn more.
With input from students, faculty and staff, the Library has redesigned our Web site. Send Comments.
Read about the planned addition to Regenstein, recently approved by the University Board of Trustees, and featured in the June 5 Chicago Tribune, the June 9 Inside Higher Education and the June 9 University of Chicago Chronicle.
Effective August 1, overdue interlibrary loan material will accrue fines at the rate of $3/day per volume. The replacement fee for lost interlibrary loan items is $125/volume. For additional information, contact interlibrary-loan@lib.uchicago.edu.
The Special Collections Research Center will be undergoing an extensive environmental control project this summer. During construction, the collections will be completely inaccessible and the Center will be closed to researchers. Details and dates of closing will be posted as soon as this information is known. Please contact the Center if you are planning a research visit for the summer or early fall.
Congratulations to Tyjuan Edwards, a Library staff member, on receiving the 2005 Marlene F. Richman Award for Excellence and Dedication in Service to Students! For more details, click here.
SFX has changed its look. Click on to link directly to full-text resources, search the Library Catalog for a book or journal, or make interlibrary loan requests. Learn more.
The John Crerar Foundation Science Writing Prizes for College Students have been awarded to Stephen Brusatte for his essay "Engineers of our own Disaster: Dike Construction, Land Reclamation, and their Hidden Consequences" and to Bihui Li for his essay "Kin".
The T.Kimball Brooker Prize for Undergraduate Book Collecting has been awarded to 4th-year student Benjamin Troffatter for "INIM.MES, AMATU, uddar ("Words [Sumerian], Words [Akkadian], Words [Hittite]": A Collection of the Languages and Literatures of the Ancient Near East with Historical, Cultural and Archaeological Supplements."
The Spring issue of LIBRA, (LIBrary Reports and Announcements), a newsletter written for the faculty and University community, is now available online. LIBRA is also published in print form. University community members who would like to be added to the hard copy mailing list, or who have questions or comments about an issue of LIBRA, please contact libra@lib.uchicago.edu.
Faculty and all currently registered students are eligible for borrowing privileges from the JKM Library at 1100 E. 55th Street. The JKM Library supports the missions and programs of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago and the McCormick Theological Seminary.
Starting Spring Quarter, the Ask a Librarian Service Desk at Regenstein Library will be open on Saturdays from Noon-5:00 p.m.
In order to allow you to discover, access and use library resources efficiently, Microsoft Word was added to all of the Library's public access workstations as a pilot project for Spring and Summer Quarters. Please send your comments about this pilot project to Jeffry Archer, Head, Reference and Business Information Center at jdarcher@uchicago.edu.
The University Library has begun a pilot project with NSIT’s Learning Technology to provide direct links to course reserve materials within Chalk, the University's course management tool.
Catalog users can now locate the Library's Chinese, Japanese and Korean (CJK) language materials by selecting keyword searches and inputting search terms in CJK characters. Click here for instructions.
The East Asian Collection, recognized as one of the most comprehensive and distinctive East Asian collections in North America, recently redesigned its web site.
Steps for the Future, a series of 25 videos on AIDS in Southern Africa, was recently added to the library's collection.
2/1/05: Black Short Fiction contains approximately 760 stories and folktales by 19 African, African American, and Caribbean authors. When complete this collection should have approximately 8000 works of short fiction.
2/1/05: North American Women's Drama contains 715 plays by 152 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. When complete, the collection will include more than 1,500 plays, of which some 20% have never been published before. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays.
1/27/05: The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, founded at the University in 1945, is now available online to the University community from the first issue up to the current issue. The digital archive allows you to search, browse, and download articles or entire issues in PDF format and view them exactly as they appeared in print.
1/17/05: AnthroSource is now available to the University community. This resource is a complete electronic archive of all the journals published by the American Anthropological Association (AAA) through 2003. It also contains current issues for 11 of the AAA's most critical peer-reviewed publications.
1/17/05: Faculty, students and staff are now eligible for borrowing privileges from the Chicago Theological Seminary's Hammond Library located at 58th and University Avenue. For details, click here.
1/17/05: Mintel Marketing Intelligence provides market research reports on consumer markets in the United States, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain. These detailed analyses of consumer markets include statistics on market size and segmentation, key players and demographics of market segments and product users. Mintel's analysis of markets usually includes information on supply structure and brand level sales information that is otherwise difficult to find. A personal profile must be created in order to conduct searches in the database.
1/17/05: Learn (more) about EndNote, a bibliographic management database, Thursday, January 27 in the Crerar Library Board. A basic class will be held from 9 a.m. to noon; a class on connection files and filters from 1 p.m. to 2:30 p.m; and a class on styles from 2:45 p.m. to 4 p.m. For additional information, click here. To R.S.V.P., please contact Barbara Kern by January 26.
1/11/05: New search limits for Language, Location and Format have been added to the Library catalog. Limits can be applied at the beginning of any keyword search (click the Advanced subtab from the Main Catalog page) or to summary search results. Users can now:
1. find works in Bosnian or Croatian;
2. limit a search to titles only in Regenstein, Stacks;
3. restrict results to titles that are considered books or textual material.
The latter limit includes anything that a cataloger--using current rules and standards--identifies as a book, a thesis or dissertation, a microform or online version of a printed work, including Web sites--in fact, any type of published textual material. [Users can limit a search to Web sites or microforms by using either the Internet Resource or Microform limits.] Users who have suggestions for additional limits should send them to the Library by clicking on the Have a Comment about the Catalog? link at the bottom of every Catalog page.
1/7/05: The Library joins the University's commemoration of Martin Luther King Jr. on January 10-17th with several book displays highlighting materials in our collection on African American culture and history. For a list of displays in Crerar and Regenstein, visit: http://www.lib.uchicago.edu/e/using/instruct/mlk.html. For more information on the University's week-long celebration, "M.L.K: Living the Legecy", visit http://mlk.uchicago.edu.