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The State Library managed to find enough other things to cut that they saved the databases. Thank you State Library!
We don't yet know what we might lose, or how we will get replacement access, but here is the latest message from the CT State Library. It's the iConn funding that will affect us the most. Watch this space for more info.
"Yesterday Governor Rell ordered $34,076,998 in state budget cuts to address the growing state deficit. For the State Library the total cuts were $250,805.
Personal Services $ 50,000
Equipment $ 5
State-Wide Digital Library (iCONN) $ 98,440
Legal/Legislative Library Materials $ 57,000
State-Wide Data Base Program (reQuest) $ 33,735
Info Anytime $ 2,125
Computer Access $ 9,500Connecticar and State Aid were not cut.
We are currently reviewing how we will deal with and implement these new cuts which we believe are in addition to our hold backs. The press release that announced the cuts also indicated that the Governor is working on a new deficit mitigation plan. This could result in future budget cuts in the coming weeks. As we learn more, we will let you know."
Wednesday, November 11, 2-4 p.m.
What students are saying about the Artists' Book Collection…
For more information please contact: Tina Re, ret1@southernct.edu
Library catalog, e-reserves, book check in and check out, and database access (via login) will be affected.
The Buley Library is currently participating in a trial of the Springer eBooks collection, which consists of titles divided into ten subject collections, encompassing Physical Sciences, Computer Science, Mathematics & Statistics, Life Sciences and Medicine. This content includes access to textbooks, monographs, handbooks and major reference works, all of which are fully indexed, searchable and printable at the section and chapter level. Springer is the world's largest scientific, technical and medical publisher (STM) and publishes more than 3,000 new titles each year.
Important points for you to note with respect to this trial are:
The Buley Library is hopeful that future budget cycles will allow us to purchase selected eBook content and collections from this distinguished publisher, as they are deemed appropriate for the instructional and research needs of the university. To access this trial, please visit the Buley Library Home Page and click on the link that is provided there. Please email your comments relating to this trial to the library liaison for your department, directly to Dr. Christina Baum, Director of Library Services, or use the form in the trial announcement on our Research Guides page..
Remember, this trial period will expire at the end of October, 2009. Your participation is very much appreciated.
By proclamation of President Barack Obama, October, 2009 is Information Literacy Awareness Month. Get started improving your information literacy with BILT (Basic Information Literacy Tutorial) and our new Library Tutorial.
To "celebrate" National Information Literacy Awareness month, Buley Library is offering three more Library Basics classes. Classes will cover the basics of finding books and scholarly articles, and then students will have the opportunity to work on their own research projects with the reference librarian present for additional assistance.
Classes will be:
Thursday October 15, 1-2 PM
Wednesday October 21, 1-2 PM
Tuesday October 27, 10-11 AM
Contact Lisa Bier to sign up at bierl1@southernct.edu
iCONN, the State Digital Library, announced Thursday afternoon that it has decided to drop access to Westlaw Campus Research, AP Photo Archive, and the Boston Globe as of Thursday, October 1. iCONN is also dropping the full text portions of CINAHL, but Buley Library will be extending our own subscription to cover the missing content. There will be no interruptions in access to CINAHL.
We are looking into alternative access to the other databases. In the meantime, please try these databases and websites:
For AP Photo Archive, try Google Images http://images.google.com, Google News Images, http://news.google.com/news/image, ArtStor http://0-www.artstor.org.www.consuls.org/, or the image search feature in some of the Ebsco databases like Academic Search Premier.
For Westlaw cases and statutes, try these sites: Findlaw http://www.findlaw.com/casecode/ (link goes directly to cases and codes portion of the site); Justia http://www.justia.com/index.html ; or Public Law Online Library http://www.plol.org . Academic Search Premier indexes several law reviews. For legal news, law reviews, and business news, try LegalTrac.
For Westlaw business news, try Business Source Premier, ABI/Inform Global and Dateline, and LegalTrac.
For local news (Westlaw), try the Hartford Courant (Proquest Newspapers) and General Reference Center Gold.
For the Boston Globe, try General Reference Center Gold.
Our databases and other electronic resources (including electronic journals) have new URL's. If you have links to specific databases or articles, your links may need to be updated. Please contact the Reference Desk (eref@southernct.edu) if you can't find the new link for a resource.
Our Research Guides also have new links. We now have the LibGuides content management system and our old guides are being replaced.
We think we've found all the old links and fixed them, but if you find something that doesn't work, please let us know! (eref@southernct.edu)
We've moved the DVD's, VHS, and CD's (in process!) from the 3rd floor Learning Resources Center to the 1st floor just in front of the Circulation Desk. Come browse our world films, feature films, music CD's and educational video and audio. In CONSULS, audio and video are now marked as part of the "SCSU Media Collection 1st floor".
Media Reserves are also now at the Circulation Desk. Poster printing, laminating, and other multimedia production services are still on the 3rd floor in the Learning Resources Center.
The Governor has indicated that she is going to let the new budget pass into law without her signature with only minor vetos. Library funding is kept at last year's levels, so we will keep our iConn databases. Please thank our legislators for their hard work!
Governor Rell's latest budget proposal includes elimination of funding for essential library services. Perhaps most important to the Southern community is the dismantling of Connecticut Digital Library (iCONN). iCONN databases are core collection resources, essential to providing basic library service to the University. These resources are currently available to us for $350.00 annually; they will cost Buley in excess of $100,000 to provide independently. Absorbing their cost will require significant redistribution of dollars in the already reduced library budget for the coming academic year.
Through licensing arrangements with multiple vendors, iCONN core databases are available to every state citizen through public libraries and schools, and more specialized research publications are available to students and faculty at public and private universities and colleges throughout the state. The cut will especially affect the research needs of students and faculty in Southern's nursing program, the graduate program for speech language pathology, business graduate programs, and every undergraduate program on campus. Distance learning students will also be greatly affected.
At Southern, iCONN supplies 3 of the top 10 most-used databases--PsycInfo, CINAHL, and the ABI group. (Number of searches last year: 80,210; 43,060; 42,504 respectively) The databases Southern receives through iCONN are:
We lose:
If this service is lost, it will have an immediate and lasting impact on the availability of library resources. It will effect the types of assignments students are able to complete, the research support available to the faculty, the ability to collaborate on projects with other universities, and the academic preparation available to high school and community college students seeking to attend SCSU.
In addition to the digital library, iCONN provides interlibrary loan support and access to the ReQuest catalog of statewide library holdings. The library faculty and administration are analyzing the scenario facing them and the challenges it presents.
Library Directors protest proposed budget cuts June 19,2009 in Hartford.
Exhibit: Icons, Crosses and Eggs, portion of exhibit in Buley Library (through June 30, 2009)
Retirement Party for Ed Hoyer, Periodicals Librarian, May 14, 12-2pm in the Periodicals Reading Area on the Ground floor of Buley Library. Gift donations are welcome. Please forward to Peggy Weiler by April 30th. Please make checks payable to "Buley Cares Club". If you have any questions please call Peggy Weiler @ 2-5737, Buley Library room 016-U.
Book Arts Workshop, April 27 & 28
Friends of Buley Library Book Sale,
April 23, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. & April 24th 10
a.m. to 2 p.m., in front of the library (outside). Hardbacks will be $1.00, paperbacks $0.50. (There may be other materials, like videos, priced separately.)
Holocaust Remembrance, Panel Discussion: Surrender On Demand (April 22, 1-2 pm)
Library Exhibit: Lincoln Bicentennial (closed)
ICPSR: social science data at your fingertips!
ICPSR is the world's largest collection of digital social science data. These data can be used for secondary research, instructional activities, and to write articles, papers or theses. ICPSR does not provide publications, reports, or ready-made statistics. What ICPSR does supply are the numeric raw data used to create publications, reports, and figures.
Data cover topics including sociology, political science, economics, demography, education, child care, health care, crime, minority populations, aging, terrorism, substance abuse, mental health, public policy, and international relations. In addition to the general archive, ICPSR hosts a number of special topic archives, including the Health and Medical Care Archive (HMCA), Child Care and Early Education (Research Connections), Data Preservation Alliance for the Social Sciences (Data-PASS), Data Sharing for Demographic Research (DSDR), the International Archive of Education Data (IAED), the Minority Data Resource Center (MDRC), the National Archive of Computerized Data on Aging (NACDA), the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), Project on Human Development in Chicago Neighborhoods (PHDCN), and the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Data Archive (SAMHDA).
Students, faculty, and staff have direct access to ICPSR data holdings from any campus computer and may download data from ICPSR's Web site at www.icpsr.umich.edu . First-time users will be asked to create an ICPSR MyData account; thereafter, you will need your email address and password to download data.
ICPSR also hosts the renowned Summer Program in Quantitative Methods for those desiring to study beginning or advanced social science research methods and statistics. For undergraduates, ICPSR provides additional opportunities in the form of student internships and a student research paper competition.
A Data Use Tutorial ( http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/help/newuser.html ) is available online to help you get started. Assistance in locating and accessing data is available through the library. Please contact Lisa Bier at bierl1@southernct.edu if you have questions about ICPSR.
Final Exams Week and Intercession Hours posted.
Estelle Pope joins Buley Library as Systems Librarian. She comes to us from Yale University Libraries. Welcome Este!
Lexis Nexis Academic Universe access ended June 30. Academic Universe was paid for by iConn, which is changing to WestLaw for legal information. Westlaw contains legal cases, law review articles, and legislation, as well as news and business information. Congressional Universe and Statistical Universe are SCSU subscriptions and will continue.
The New Library is Open! Please use the entrance near the Adanti Student Center. This will be the main entrance until the renovations on the old library building are finished. Watch the library website for tours and events in our new spaces.
The Library Book Arts Workshop took place on November 7th.
Join the Library and Southern in the Southern Read of Out of Africa.
Fall semester hours are posted on the library website.
The Library will be closed May 19-26 for the move to the new building. At 8 AM, May 27 (Tuesday), the Library will reopen to the public. The new entrance will be near the Adanti Student Center. (Summer Hours)
See the Buley Bulletin (Spring 2008) for more information on the new library.
Hear Buley Director, Christina Baum, interviewed on NPR on the Future of Libraries.
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