Faculty Book Delivery

Did you know that you can have Library materials delivered to you in your office, anywhere on the Orem Campus? To request an item for delivery, fill in this short form: http://www.uvu.edu/library/faculty/delivery.php.

Books are usually delivered within 24 hours of sending a request. (Requests submitted over the weekend or during holidays may be delayed.) If you request an item that is already checked out to someone else, a hold will be placed on it. We will deliver the item as soon as it returns to the Library.

For questions about the delivery service, contact J. O'Day at x7168 or by email at odayja at uvu.edu.

Happy Holidays!

We'd like to thank all thank all the students who participated in this year's Food for Fines program. I looks like we might have garnered a record number of donations this year. Donations are  all sent to local food banks.

The Library will be closed December 22 - December 25 for the Christmas holiday. We will also be closed December 29 - January 1 for New Year's.

We will stay on our shortened schedule (8:00 AM to 5:00 PM) until January 7, when the spring semester begins. Text a librarian and chat with a librarian will stay open during the semester break. If you have questions about research or the  Library, please get in touch with us.

Research Guides

By Annie Smith, Reference/Instruction Librarian

Every semester, we add new research guides to an already extensive list. The guides cover both broad subject areas and specific issues to help students decide on topics for their papers.

The guides contain a list of books to provide valuable background information, recommended databases, and vetted websites. By using the guides, students can be sure that
they’re getting the best possible start on their research projects.

We get ideas for new guides from controversial issues that appear on the news and from popular topics we hear at the Reference Desk, but we’re always on the lookout for more topic ideas. If you have an idea for a research guide, please let us know by contacting Annie Smith at x8752 or smithan@uvu.edu.

News from the Sutherland Archives

By Catherine McIntyre, Archivist

In September and early October, we interviewed four people in connection with the art exhibit at the Woodbury Art Museum, called “Global Spotlight Russia: Pastoralism,” running through December 15. We edited the interviews into a nice ten-minute loop on a DVD that runs continually in the museum while the exhibit is open. By request of curator Melissa Hempel, we interviewed: Trent Olsen, an art student at BYU who also fulfilled an LDS mission to Russia; Dr. Rusty Butler, Associate Vice President of International Affairs at Utah Valley University and the Honorary Consul General for the
Russian Federation in the State of Utah; Dodge Billingsley, who trains combat troops to be psychologically ready for war and is an avid collector of Russian art; and Ellie Sontag, who runs an art gallery in Salt Lake City and specializes in Russian pastoral art. If you attend the exhibit, be sure to look for the stand-alone screen and headphones where you can see and hear the interview clips!

Catherine McIntyre attends the American

Associations for State and Local History conference

I recently attended the Conference of the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) in Salt Lake City to promote the Mountain West Digital Library (www.mwdl.org) and the Utah Digital
Newspapers (http://digitalnewspapers.org).  The Mountain West Digital Library is a freecentral search portal for digital collections from institutions in the Mountain West region, including our own Utah Valley University Digital Collections. The Utah Digital Newspapers provides free access to historical
newspapers from around Utah. We had a great turnout at the conference. I’d be thrilled to provide information about these great free resources, which are made possible by the Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC), to any faculty member or department—just let me know!

And we’d like to congratulate newly-retired UVU professor Dr. Kathryn French, who won this year’s Gandhi Peace Award for her six years of work culminating in the Oral History of Utah Peace Activists project. We are honored to have worked with Dr. French to archive and digitize this important record of Utah peace and justice activists. The project interviews can be accessed at www.uvu.edu/library/archives/peace.html.

Librarian Spotlight: Jacques d'Emal

Jacques d'Emal serves as Access Services Librarian and subject liaison for psychology, sociology and social work, anthropology, and emergency services.

Jacques has a Bachelor of Art in History from the University of Utah, a Master of Art in History from Texas A&M University, and a Master of Library Science from the University of Arizona.

LibCast, the UVU Library Podcast

By Ben Wilson, Reference/Instruction Librarian

The UVU Library publishes a monthly podcast called LibCast. The goal is to highlight services the Library offers to students and faculty in a creative, fun, and exciting way. Watching LibCast regularly can help students and faculty remain up to date on what is happening in the Library.

To view a LibCast visit the Library’s podcast page www.uvu.edu/library/podcast.html or YouTube Channel www.youtube.com/user/uvulib?feature=results_main.

Librarian Spotlight: Trevor Young

Trevor Young is our media librarian and science liaison.

Trevor holds a Bachelor of Science in Aviation Technology from Utah State University (2003) and a Master of Library Science from Emporia State University (2008).

OneSearch at a Glance

By Kim Rollins, Reference/Instruction Librarian


You’ve likely heard about or tried the new OneSearch tool that provides you with access to UVU Library’s entire collection via a single, customizable entry point. However, to get more controlled results you can take advantage of all of the available search modes, limiters, and expanders within the research tool. For example, from the home screen you can check the Library Catalog Only limiter to limit results to only those items available from UVU Library’s catalog or the Available in Library
Collection limiter (which restricts results to items from our online databases, e-journal vendors, institutional repositories, and content physically available in the Library).

You can still search specific databases using the Articles tab to find our databases by subject lists and the complete list of databases. You can also search for items in the Library’s book, media, and map collections by clicking on the Books and Media tab.

OneSearch

Borrowing Books from Other Utah Academic Libraries

By Jacques d'Emal, Access Services Librarian


Many faculty and students don't know that they can visit other academic libraries across the state and borrow their books. Every college and university library in the state is a member of the Utah Academic Library Consortium (UALC). As members, we agreed to share resources with each other’s students and
faculty.

When visiting another UALC library, you will register an account with that library. You will need to present your UVU ID card and another picture ID, generally your driver’s license. Some of the libraries may also require more information.

As you might expect, the University of Utah and Brigham Young University libraries lend the most to UALC members. On a recent Friday afternoon, the Marriott Library had over 600 items checked out to students and faculty from other UALC institutions. In 2010, the Harold B. Lee Library checked out over 2,800 items to members of UALC institutions and lent more than the 2,400 items through interlibrary loan.

Sadly, both of these libraries lose thousands of dollars’ worth of items every year to fraud. To help minimize their losses, they have stricter procedures for registering users. The University of Utah, in addition to asking for a UVU ID and picture ID, will ask for proof that you are currently affiliated with a UALC institution. Students and faculty can do this by printing off a current class schedule. BYU has one system in place for all non-BYU patrons. They require a UALC ID, a state ID, and proof of address. The in-library BYU police verify the state ID. The patron is then sent to another office to get a BYU ID card. This process takes at least 30 minutes.

Of course, if you do make use of one of the other libraries, you will be required to follow the borrowing rules of that library.

Journal and Database Requests

By Michael Freeman, Library Director


The Library is more and more frequently fielding requests for electronic journal packages, especially those specific to individual disciplines. We recognize this need to support quality university programs. The Library currently spends about $355,000 a year on digital journals and approximately $115,000 a year on print. Joint monies held in the Regents’ office deliver a core set of journal databases to all schools in the higher education system in Utah. These databases include all EBSCO databases, JSTOR, Project Muse, MLA International Bibliography, Mergent, BioOne, CINAHL, Institute of Physics (IOP) journals, American Mathematical Society Journals, and Art Full-Text. In addition, UVU contributes money to a common statewide pool that purchases America: History and Life, PsycINFO, ComAbstracts, and GenderWatch.

We welcome suggestions for additional databases and make these a part of the PBA process. Full-text databases can range from $4,000 a year to $35,000 a year. Any additional purchases must have new
budget money (knowing that inflation will be 5-6% per year), and almost all new base money has gone to electronic journals. You can help us by informing your respective deans how important these databases are to you and your students. Deans need to present a united voice of support to the administration at PBA in order for the Library to respond to your need. Your support is both needed and appreciated.

Librarian Spotlight: Annie Smith

Annie is a Reference and Instruction Librarian and serves as subject liaison for American Studies and Literature.

Annie holds a Bachelor of Arts in Literature from Idaho State University and a Master of Library Science from Emporia State University.

Food for Fines

The UVU Library will be accepting donations of non-perishable food in lieu of late fines until December 14. Most food can be exchanged at a rate of one can of food per $1.00 in fines. Please see the first floor Circulation Desk for details.

Finding Your Subject Librarian

by Annie Smith, Reference/Instruction Librarian

Your subject librarian is your link to requesting books and videos for the Library's collections, teaching workshops for your upper division class, and designing great library assignments. If you're not sure who your subject librarian is, just visit the list here.

We'd love to hear from you!

News from the George Sutherland Archives

By Catherine McIntyre, Archivist


Welcome back! We’ve had a busy spring and summer and are looking forward to adding more archival and digital collections throughout the coming year. Toward that end, I’d also like to ask all of you to contribute any historical or scholarly materials that you or your students may have, such as departmental or committee proceedings, publications, research materials, scholarly class projects (oral histories, etc.) student theses, and so on. These types of items help document and preserve the ongoing
history and scholarly endeavors of Utah Valley University faculty and students.

New Archives Collection

Unknown Civil War soldier.
Tintype with gold foil.
From the Sutherland Archives.

We received a donation last spring from area businessman Steve Zolman which consists of materials collected by and about the John Varah Long family, his descendants, and their families. John Varah Long (1826–1869) was a personal clerk to LDS Church second president Brigham Young, but  fell out
of favor with him, was excommunicated, and reportedly died mysteriously. Long’s death was, as the
rumor goes, because he had overheard Brigham Young’s instructions to George Albert Smith regarding actions related to the Mountain Meadows Massacre.

The majority of this collection is from the Hance and Watson families, who were in-laws, descendants, or other relatives of John V. Long. It includes many ambrotypes and photographs, as well as scrapbooks, personal papers, correspondence, legal documents, mining documents,  genealogical records, stock certificates, and other miscellaneous items. It is now completely processed and ready for use by interested researchers, with a detailed finding aid available online at http://contentdm.uvu.edu/u?/UVUfindaid,290.

Digitization

We have been awarded a Library Services and Technology Act (LSTA) grant of $10,000 toward digitizing the student newspaper back to 1966! Just like UVU, the student newspaper has gone by several names reflecting its changing role, from The Tradewinds to the UTC Press, to the College Times and now the UVU Review.

These papers, which contain a wealth of historical information, have been housed in the student newspaper--morgue--under the care of Robbin Anthony, and we are looking forward to working with her to make them freely searchable and accessible online for the first time!

UVU Digital Repository  

We now have 183 student theses online in our UVU Digital Repository. This collection Includes undergraduate Honors and Integrated Studies theses as well as Master’s theses from the Education and Nursing graduate programs.

Nook eReaders Available for Check Out

Nook Color

As the publishing world changes, so must the Library. We offer thousands of titles in our eBook collections (available through the Library’s online catalog). Barnes and Noble’s Nook eReaders represent a likely future for publishing and reading.

We have Nook Touch eReaders and Nook Color eReaders available for check out at the first floor Circulation Desk. The Nooks come preloaded with over fifty titles from classic and current fiction and may be checked out for three weeks. More titles will become available during the academic year.

For the past year, we've also been filling interlibrary loan requests with Nooks. When you next request a book through this services, you may be offered the choice of "Paper or digital?"

Librarian Spotlight: Catherine McIntyre

Catherine McIntyre is our archivist. She holds a Master of Library Science from Brigham Young University and a Bachelor of Arts in History from the University of Utah.

You can learn more about our amazing George Sutherland Archives here.

New Databases

By Annie Smith, Reference/Instruction Librarian

In the past year, the Library has added several new databases in education, the sciences, and the social sciences.

TeachingBooks is a specialized resource for future teachers and education professionals. It offers a wealth of materials and activities designed to promote literacy in K-12 students. This database makes matching up resources to specific books a snap.

The Library has had access to Chemical Abstracts for a number of years but we recently renegotiated our access with the vendor to offer direct access. We recently added a link to our list of databases to instantly search for chemistry research, conference proceedings, patents, dissertations, and much more.

ArXiv is a free online collection of prepublication articles from a wide variety of physical and life sciences as well as mathematics. The articles available in this database are not quite in their final form,
but they are freely available. ArXiv is maintained by Cornell University’s library. They welcome submissions from scholars around the world. For more information about ArXiv, visit http://arxiv.org/.

The Library also purchased access to The Mental Measurements Yearbook online through EBSCO. The
MMY can be found on our list of databases. This resource has been published by the Buros Center for
Testing for decades and offers information that’s not available anywhere else. Testing is a key source of information in the social sciences. While it doesn’t offer access to the tests themselves, the MMY specializes in descriptions and evaluations of hundreds of different tests. Our subscription includes every issue of The Mental Measurements Yearbook from volume one, published in 1938, to the present.

Librarian Spotlight: Ben Wilson

Ben Wilson serves as instruction coordinator and subject librarian for business and law.

Ben holds a Master of Library and Information Science degree from the University of North Texas and a Bachelor of Science in Business Management. He is currently working on a Bachelor of Science in Digital Media.

Faculty Checkout Period Extended

Did you know faculty can now check out books for a whole semester? We are pleased to announce that the faculty loan period for books is now 16 weeks. To renew items, bring your books to the first floor Circulation Desk, and we will renew them for an additional 16 weeks. Check out periods remain the same for all other items. If you need DVDs or videos for extended classroom use, please contact Christy Cathro Goodnight at x7421 for assistance.

Librarian Spotlight: Mike Freeman

Mike Freeman, our current director holds a Master of Library Science from the University of Missouri--Columbia, and a Master of Science in History from the University of Utah. He also has a Bachelor degree in English Education (also from UM-Columbia).

Mike has been at UVU since 1993.

New One Stop Shopping Research Tool

By Mark Stevens, Systems Librarian

During the summer, a UVU Library committee pursued a one stop shopping research resource to allow searchers to find articles, books, and media simultaneously for all subjects. Dubbed OneSearch, the result has been quietly rolled out as a new link on the Library’s homepage.

We believe that this new tool will provide a general improvement in user friendliness increasing the number of relevant hits for a given search. Full text articles can be located more quickly and easily than through the old methods. A formatted citation (MLA, APA, etc.) can be automatically generated for books and videos in the Library collections (expanding upon the same ability that EBSCO has provided in the past for article citations). Searchers can save sources to folders as well. For those of you who are expert researchers, please rest assured that your favorite databases are still available for specialized research.

You may note that OneSearch’s interface looks similar to a typical EBSCO database and reacts to both Boolean search syntax as well as natural language phrases that a person might enter into Google. Limiters are found on the left of the results page, and search expanders may be found on the right.
We continue fine tuning to the software configuration. We eventually want to have the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) form populated automatically from the database to save users’ time.

As you have feedback, questions, or suggestions, please contact your subject librarian or call the Reference Desk at x8840. Thank you for helping us test this new research tool.

Welcome Back!

By Michael Freeman, Library Director


Welcome back to a new year with some reminders about available faculty services.

The Library welcomes faculty input for new collection materials. Just email the librarian assigned to your area, or use the purchase request form on the library services tab on the Library’s website. We welcome small and large lists to order, particularly if your area is getting a new degree, upgrading an existing degree, or facing a specialized accreditation. Most new databases added are also directly linked to faculty requests.

The Library budgets $4,000, and the Bookstore matches an additional $4,000, to purchase reserve textbooks. The Bookstore especially deserves a note of thanks for this extra effort to serve students as this is not normal practice at universities. What we purchase is usually triggered by the third student requesting a book, or by faculty request. We are also starting to look at high enrollment courses for automatic inclusion. In addition, faculty may place personal copies of textbooks and materials on reserve.

In any of your classes, if students need research help for assignments, the librarian for your department will be happy to provide a workshop on the relevant databases.