Library News - University of Tasmania Library

Library news:

From the University Librarian

Richard Dearden, Morris Miller Librarian, and Dr Samantha Hardy, Faculty of Law, recipients of Carrick Institute Citations for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning

Samantha Hardy, Gail Hart and Richard Dearden at the awards ceremony

Richard Dearden's contribution to Teaching and Learning recognised

Congratulations to Richard Dearden on his Carrick Institute Citation Award for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning.

Richard’s citation reads "For leadership in developing partnerships between library and faculty to promote information literacy skills. These skills help students to become independent lifelong learners".

Richard has a commitment to the development of lifelong learning skills in students, and has developed this in conjunction with academic staff over a number of years. He has encouraged other librarians to develop links with academic staff to promote information literacy, and coordinated a state-wide information literacy conference in 2004. Richard was presented with his award in Melbourne on Wednesday 9th August.

Linda Luther
University Librarian

Promoting Research Support

Chris Evans, as Science Librarian, has a library-wide responsibility to coordinate library support for researchers at UTAS. To this end, a group of liaison librarians has formed, representing the interests of each of the faculties. So far this year, activities of this group, or individual members, have included:

establishment of a "welcome" letter to new PG candidates (copied to supervisors)
learning about the Research Quality Framework (RQF), as well as the UK RAE and NZ PBRF in order to be informed about the library's potential role in guiding researchers to bibliometric data
reviewing the content and format of generic Postgrad/Staff workshops
becoming familiar with and promoting institutional repositories (such as our own ePrints)
consultation with the Faculty of Arts researchers about their library needs

Liaison librarians look forward to providing ongoing support with literature searching for your research projects, as well as offering advice about evaluating and increasing your research impact.

Chris Evans

Phone: 6226 2132
Email: Christine.Evans@utas.edu.au

'Imaging the Thylacine - from trap to laboratory'
Exhibition in the Morris Miller Library Foyer
July - mid-September 2006.

For two hundred years, visual images of the extinct thylacine (Tasmanian tiger) have played an important role in influencing attitudes and actions toward the species and suggesting how the animal is perceived.

This exhibition focuses on images in zoological works, commercial and official sites, and in the scientific and popular imagination. Early illustrations of the thylacine had a crucial role in the extermination of the species. In Tasmania today, a thylacine logo or emblem carries different, but equally powerful and persuasive, political and commercial messages. Meanwhile, technoscience attempts to create the ultimate representation a walking, stalking thylacine.
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/whatnew/thylacine.html

'Imaging the Thylacine: from trap to laboratory' includes rare books, prints, the University mace, original
photographs, a power point presentation showing 80 thylacine images, commercial and official
logos which use the thylacine, cartoons, and much more...

EPrint Archives Staffing Update

Lynn Davies has been appointed as Digital Archives Librarian, working on the implementation of the ePrint Archives, including development of the system and increasing the deposit of scholarly communication throughout the University. Lynn will be working half-time and began her position on the 31 st July. The appointment is for one year initially, but it is hoped that the position will be extended beyond that. Lynn will be well known to many people having previously been the Science Librarian.

Email: Lynn.Davies@utas.edu.au
Phone: 6226 1895 (temporary)

Upgrade to EndNote 9

The Library will be providing access to EndNote 9 soon! All of our public machines will be upgraded to the newer version of the software in August 2006.

EndNote 9 will provide many more Reference Types, including common electronic reference types such as electronic journal articles and newspapers.

There are backward compatibility issues with the EndNote 9. Once you have converted your data to EndNote 9 you cannot easily go back to using a previous version of EndNote. If you have EndNote on your own private machine and are unsure if you should upgrade please contact your Liaison Librarian for guidance.

If you are using a Mac or collaborating with others already using EndNote 9 you may need to upgrade earlier, please contact your Liaison Librarian or the Service Desk.

Never used EndNote before?
EndNote is a bibliographic management tool that allows you to save, organise and use references found from a variety of sources. Using EndNote you can:

create a database (library) of references
search and download references from electronic databases and library catalogues
generate citations and bibliographies in specific styles

The Library offers Introductory EndNote Workshops.

For workshop details:

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/assist/tours_workshops.html

For more information on EndNote: http://www.utas.edu.au/library/assist/apps/endnote/index.html

Microform collection on the move!

As a result of the impending refurbishment of Level 1 of the Morris Miller Library, the microform collection has been temporarily moved to the Law Library. After the renovations have been completed it is intended the microforms will be moved back to the Morris Miller Library.

The collection comprises material in both microfiche and microfilm format covering a range of subjects and includes back runs of major newspapers. The Microform collection is located on Level 1 of the Law Library with the microform readers and reader-printers available on the ground floor.

We apologise for any inconvenience caused by this move.

News from Sections

Clinical Library

Staff Changes

Ian Barton, Clinical Librarian, will be on leave from August 1st to September 15th. During this time Debbie Wright will be taking over Ian’s responsibilities as Clinical Librarian.

Debbie’s contact details will be as follows:

Phone: 6226 4812
Email: Debbie.Wright@utas.edu.au

Document Delivery

During 2005 we supplied 3,629 loan items from other libraries to our eligible UTAS clients. This compares with 3,578 loan items supplied in 2004. This slight 1% increase continues to highlight the gaps in our monograph collection which we are seeking to address through our additional acquisition funding which began last year.

Copies received from outside sources, mainly journal articles, totalled 10,464 in 2005. In 2004 we obtained 12,256 copies. This 15% decrease reflects the significant growth in the availability of electronic journals at UTAS over the last couple of years. Many journal titles are now purchased as part of a larger package. All UTAS clients now have access to over 20,000 electronic journal titles.

Update on VDX – our new DD/ILL management system

Later this month an OCLC Pica representative is visiting the Library to discuss options we will be using for configuring our VDX server. After this occurs the new system will be installed and tested.

Hobart Phone: 03 6226 2230
E-mail docdel.hbt@lib.utas.edu.au

Launceston Phone: 03 6324 3571
E-mail docdel.ltn@lib.utas.edu.au

Launceston Library

Staff activity
Dr Di Hodge gave a paper at the 7th International Conference of the Australasian Children's Literature Association for Research (http://www.aclar.org.au/). The conference was held in Melbourne at the city campus of the Australian Catholic University. Most delegates were from Australia and New Zealand but there were also delegates from China, Japan and America. Most of those attending were academics from English or Education faculties, including a PhD student from the UTas School of English. Other Librarians included Juliet O'Connor the Children's Literature Research Librarian from the State Library of Victoria and Karen Nelson Hoyle, Curator of the Children's Literature Research Collection at the University of Minnesota Libraries, an amazing collection of original artwork, correspondence, drafts and other memorabilia of famous children's authors. Di’s paper was called Teenage Chick Lit: Smart, witty and literate as hell?

Launceston Campus Library Learning Hub
Changes are always afoot at the University of Tasmania, and the Library is no different. We are always trying to find new ways to improve the service to the clients of the Library.

Changes that have occurred in 2006:

Log In times to the computers have been improved.
New 43 pages per minute CAPS printer has been installed to replace the Copier/Printer. This should improve the quality and speed of printing.
A very fast A3 24bit colour scanner has been installed. This should be a great boon to all the Environmental Design and Architectural Students.
New A4 Colour Laser Printer has been added to the Hub, and we are able to offer printing for the low price of 50 cents per page.
The Computers of the Learning Hub have been upgraded to Windows XP, which will allow students to Burn CDs.

Other Services

We still have a Coin Machine and Self-Serve EFTPOS (Debit Cards Only ) for placing money on your CAPS account or you may choose to do this at the front desk, where one of our staff will assist you with your transaction.
Email and Novell Passwords can still be obtained and reset at the Front Desk and assistance with your IT queries is also available.
UANA wireless and wired access is also available in the Learning Hub and staff will assist you in setting your machine up for this.
You can still book Group rooms 1 & 2 for your study needs at the front desk, as well as ad hoc use of e-Learning Room 2 when available.

If you have any enquiries about the Learning Hub and its facilities, come to the Front Counter of the Library and one of the staff will be happy to assist with your questions, or find someone who can assist you.

Phone: 03 6324 3276
E-mail: Ltn.Reference@utas.edu.au

Morris Miller Library

Joshua Andersen-Ward has joined the Morris Miller team as trainee library assistant for the next year. Joshua's traineeship includes undertaking a Certificate II Library/Information Services. Joshua's traineeship will involve working mostly in client services at Morris Miller, but will also include experience in other branches and behind the scenes in the Collection Management Unit. The traineeship is part of the Aboriginal Employment Strategy. We welcome Joshua.

Phone: 03 6226 2225
E-mail: MML.Reference@utas.edu.au

Service Desk

As a result of the Service Desk Review in 2005, from the start of semester 2 the Service Desk phone and email service will be handled by Information Technology Resources. The "Service Desk" is still an entity, but the "virtual Service Desk" is run from ITR, with the physical Service Desks available in the Morris Miller and Launceston Campus libraries as usual. The Library client service desks in Morris Miller and Launceston will continue to provide basic library, CALT and IT support for staff and students. There is also face-to-face advanced IT support available in the Morris Miller and Launceston libraries. In semester 2 this will still be provided by Library staff - Carlos and Tony in Morris Miller and Mark and Steve in Launceston.

During semester 2, 2006 basic IT and CALT support will be rolled out to the other branch libraries - Art, Law, Clinical, Science and Music. We hope that this service will be available from October 2006.

Di Worth
Phone: 6226 2208
Email: Di.Worth@utas.edu.au

New Electronic Services

Business Source Premier

Business Source Premier is the industry's most used business research database, providing full text for more than 8,800 serials, including full text for more than 1,100 peer-reviewed business publications. Business Source Premier contains full text from the world's top management and marketing journals including Harvard Business Review, Administrative Science Quarterly, Journal of Marketing Management, Journal of Marketing Research (JMR), Journal of International Marketing, etc. All the full-text journals indexed in Business Source Premier are now listed individually in the Ejournal web pages and will also be listed in the Library Catalogue.

The database also includes other sources of full text information such as country economic reports from the EIU, Global Insight, ICON Group and CountryWatch and detailed company profiles for the world's 10,000 largest companies

Journal ranking studies reveal that Business Source Premier is superior to the competition in full text coverage in all disciplines of business, including marketing, management, MIS, POM, accounting, finance and economics.

Access Business Source Premier through the Library’s database pages:

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/dbases2.html

Elsevier training day
On the 13 th July, Frances Bludhorn from Elsevier visited the Morris Miller Library to provide training in the use of two of their electronic databases – EMBASE.com, a biomedical and pharmacological database and Scopus, the largest abstract and citation database of research literature and quality web sources.

Both sessions were well attended by librarians and academic staff and everyone left the training feeling much more competent in the use of these databases.

Access EMBASE.com at: http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/dbases2.html#e

Access Scopus at: http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/dbases4.html#s

IEEE Proceedings Online

The Library has now subscribed to the IEEE Proceedings online package. This is a core collection of conference proceedings of IEEE meetings, approximately 125 titles, with a backfile to 1998. If you go to the Access Information tab at the top of the search screen you can see a list of the included conferences.

Users can choose to search across only our subscribed publications or across all IEEE Xplore resources. Please note, if searching across all resources the full-text of some results will not be accessible. Full-text access is indicated by a “green blank page” icon.

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/dbases3.html#i

Journal Citation Reports

2005 data has now been added to JCR. The new 2005 data ensures that you have access to the most current information available to determine a publication's impact and influence in the global research community.

Journal Citation Reports allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. By tabulating and aggregating citation and article counts, JCR offers a unique perspective for journal evaluation and comparison.

Journal Citation Reports can show you the:

Most frequently cited journals in a field
Highest impact journals in a field
Largest journals in a field

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/dbases3.html#j

Contact your Liaison Librarian (http://www.utas.edu.au/library/about/liais.html) for more information on using JCR.

Nature Journals Online

Two new journal subscriptions from Nature Journals Online are now available:

Nature reviews. Genetics
Nature neuroscience

Access is via the Ejournal web page:

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/ej/index.html

Oxford English Dictionary (OED Online) Quarterly Update

The latest quarterly update to OED Online is now available. This update includes over 2,500 new and revised words from yadda yadda to hacktivist to speed dating.

Other key features include:

A Learning Resources Centre
Add OED Online to your browser toolbar
Get the OED word of the day by email

PsycArticles

PsycARTICLE is a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. The database includes all material from the print journals with the exception of ads and editorial board lists. (from the PsycArticles website)

The collection consists of 56 titles from 1985 onwards, but coverage is to be extended back to 1894 later this year.

You will soon be able to access all titles through the Library catalogue, and all are now listed and accessible using our e-journals webpages. PsycArticles is also listed as a database in its own right in our database listings.

PsycInfo database users will notice a link to the full text of APA journal articles when they scan their search results.

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/dbases3.html#p

Web of Science

Backfiles - 1900-1944
ISI have given us 3 months free access to the remaining backfiles of Web of Science - 1900-1944. We currently have access back to 1945. Access to these backfiles will be available until the 30 th September.

New search features
ISI have recently improved their topic search results with the aim of providing better results when entering multiple search terms. The major change to searching is that phrase searching is no longer implied. This means that the Boolean operator ‘AND’ is automatically placed between words. Quotation marks must now be used to search an exact phrase. The use of wildcard characters and Boolean search operators is still permitted. These changes apply to all Web of Knowledge databases.

Author Finder
The new Author Finder function is useful for differentiating between authors who share names and initials. A quick, four-step process has been designed to help you go through an author search and locate the correct author you are searching for.

The four steps are:

Enter a name – only the last name is required
Select Author Variant (if appropriate)
Select Subject Category
Select Institution

Check out the changes and new features of Web of Science at:

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/dbases4.html#w

Westlaw

Access to the following reports is now available via Westlaw:-

Australian Criminal Reports
Australian Tax Reports
Commonwealth Law Reports
Federal Court Reports
Federal Law Reports
Local Government & Environmental Reports
South Australian State Reports (1971)+
Unreported Judgments (1999)+

Database Trials

FirstConsult

An evidence-based clinical information tool that synthesizes findings from journals and other sources to provide tools for differential diagnosis, evaluation and management of medical topics, patient education and procedure skills review. It is fully-integrated with MDConsult and searches on MDConsult will include results from FirstConsult. The FirstConsult logo in the top right hand corner of the MDConsult screen will take you to FirstConsult alone.

Trial access to this database is available on and off campus by IP authentication until 30 August 2006.

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/trials.html

OneSource Global Business Browser: Asia Pacific edition

This database contains information on the top private and public companies including 85,000 global companies, 260,000 Asia Pacific companies (including the top 17,500 Australian companies).

Trial access to this database is available on and off campus by IP authentication until 31st December 2006.

http://www.utas.edu.au/library/info/dbase/trials.html

Teaching and Help

New Titles
Many exciting new resources have been added to the Library collection during the past few months. If you want to know what new items have been added don’t forget there is a Library Web page which lists recent additions at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/new_titles/newtitles.html

Workshops and Library Classes
Our branch libraries will continue to offer a wide variety of classes and hands-on workshops during second semester. For details of forthcoming library workshops for staff and postgraduate researchers and other information literacy classes please see:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/assist/tours_workshops.html

To arrange information skills classes or hands-on workshops, which focus on specific subjects or courses, please contact your Liaison Librarian directly. Liaison Librarians and their contact details are listed at:
http://www.utas.edu.au/library/about/liais.html

For any enquiries/comments please contact:
Sarah.Crosswell@utas.edu.au

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