Serials Review and Cancellation Project Spring 2009 - Final Lists

 
TITLES to be canceled Jan. 2010
Further information for faculty is located on the Serials Review and Cancellation Project - Spring 2009 website along with a letter from the University Librarian describing how the final list of titles to be cancelled was created and a link to the list of titles selected.
These cancellations will occur with the first issue published in 2010. Titles were chosen based on current and past use and this first round of cancellation focuses on titles with a cost per use greater than $300, titles which have seen little or no use in the past three years, or titles freely available through open access. We tried to apply this criteria equitably across all subjects while attempting to accommodate faculty desire to retain certain subscriptions due to curricular support.

Library Reserves Notice for Faculty

Deadline for submissions: Requests submitted by July 31, 2009 will be processed and materials will be available for student use by the first day of classes.  Materials submitted later will be processed as they are received. After all initial submissions for a semester have been processed; staff are normally able to make reserve items available to students within two business days of submission.  Early in the semester, processing time is dependent upon the volume of work and can not be guaranteed for items not submitted by the deadline.
 

Submission Options

The Blackboard list from a previous offering of the course

  • Is the preferred method of submission for re-use of materials
  • Must be marked appropriately to indicate that copyright permission has been requested if permission is needed (see below).

The online form at http://exlibris.colgate.edu/Reserves/OnlineForm.html

  • Can be used for any submission
  • Can be used for any hard copy reserve items owned by the instructor but must be printed and submitted with the item. 

The printed form at http://exlibris.colgate.edu/Reserves/LibraryReservesRequestForm.pdf  can be used for any submission.
 
Copyright Permissions Requests
Determining When Permission is Needed

Copyright law makes faculty responsible for copyright compliance regarding copyrighted materials they distribute to their students, including materials digitized and distributed at the faculty member’s request through library reserves.  Faculty are therefore responsible for seeking copyright permission when appropriate.  

Copyright law is inherently complex.  We have simplified the requirements for faculty as much as possible.  Information on the Library Reserves submission forms provide for most items all the information needed to determine whether permission is required.  Further information is available on the Library Reserves Web pages at http://exlibris.colgate.edu/reserves or by contacting Library reserves staff.

Options for Seeking Permission
 
Writing to the publisher
 
This can be done using either e-mail or “snail-mail.”  It involves slightly more work but is typically much less expensive, often resulting in no fees.  A sample permission request letter is available for your use at http://exlibris.colgate.edu/reserves/PermissionsLetter.doc.

Copyright Clearance Center
 
The Copyright Clearance Center Web site at http://www.copyright.com/ is convenient but can be very expensive.  The Colgate Libraries do not have funds available to assist with the paying of fee.

Other Information of Note

 
Loan Periods and Use Conditions

The 2-hour reserve periodn works well for required reading materials and keeps them available for frequent use. Students will be allowed to use CASE RESERVES in Case Geyer for a period of two hours. COOLEY RESERVES will retain the same borrowing policies as in previous semesters.

The 3-day reserve period is useful for materials which several students will need for writing papers during the term. 

The 1-day (24 hours) reserve period is useful for items that need a bit longer reading period but not enough to qualify for the 3-day loan. 

Personal copies and other miscellaneous items you place on reserve can not be removed from the library overnight without your written permission prior
to checkout.

All reserve videos and videos/DVD’s scheduled for class viewings are put on a 4-hour library-use only for students at Case Library.  If you need assistance showing a video please contact Media Services at x7239 or see the e-mail below.

Number of Copies for Hard Copy Reserves

Unless otherwise directed by the instructor and within the limits of budget and ownership, we will make available one copy of each hard-copy reserve item for every ten students.  If additional copies of books will be required, please let us know and we will order them.  Also, let us know if your bookstore order included extra copies the library could purchase.  Allow six weeks for delivery and processing of new books.  The library will pay for the first two books ordered: additional copies will be billed to your department.

Miscellaneous

Subject to the requirements of copyright law, journal articles and book chapters will be scanned and attached to your Blackboard course site and available ONLY to students registered therein.  There will be no paper copies of articles at Case Library/Reserves Desk.  If copyright permission requirements can not be satisfied, the libraries will place copies of books and journal issues we own on hard copy reserve. 
 

Contacts 
 

  • Case Library Electronic Reserves – Bonnie Kupris Ext. 6562  Email Bonnie
  • Case Library Hard Copy Reserves:  Books/Videos/CDs,DVD's - Ricki Mueller  Ext. 7941 Email Ricki
  • Cooley Library Reserves (Natural Sciences and Mathematics Division) - Marty Glenar Ext. 7312 Email Marty
  • To schedule a video viewing with assistance:  Nancy Miner Ext. 7239 Email Nancy
  • To order a new video/DVD for your course: Rhonda Pancoe Ext. 7858 Email Rhonda

FBIS Daily Reports releases Part 8: West (and Western) Europe

Added content in FBIS Daily Reports Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports The 8th release (of a total of 8 releases) of the FBIS Daily Reports online has been issued. Content from contained is from West (and Western) Europefrom 1974 through 1996.
 
There will be several small maintenance releases adding missing documents that will occur over the next 6 months when the collection will be completed.
 

Faculty Project Showcase Web Page

Check out the new Faculty Project Showcase page. This page features innovative course assignments and projects that focus on developing student facility and sophistication with information.
 
The first project was added today - Learn how Professor Haberkorn's PEAC 111 students were introduced to and then participated in information practices in the field through the highly successful "Marginalized Conflicts Podcast Project."
 
Projects will be added to the page on an on-going basis. If you know of a project that engaged students in a deeper understanding of information use and practices, please contact me (cmaybee@colgate.edu) about adding it to the site.

Possible server outage for Articles - Research by Subject (RxS) - completed

The server which runs Research by Subject (RxS) [Articles] is likely being moved one tonight, Wednesday - June 17th - which will result in RxS being unavailable for the evening.    Users can access databases by using the links on the Databases A-Z list.
 
Update: Server move successfully completed.

New Books and Videos list added during May created

The new book lists are available for the month of May.  New videos added during May have also been processed.

Cooley Early Closing June 2

Cooley Library will close at 3:20 PM Tuesday, June 2 due to the electrical shutdown of McGregory Hall.

Summer Reading 2009

It's that time of year again, when some of us put away the academic tomes and start thinking ... beach reading. If you're lucky enough to be heading to a beach this summer, or just want something light to take your mind off of your scholarly pursuits for a little while, you might try one of these recent award winners:

 
The cruelest month by Louise Penny won the 2008 Agatha Award for Best Mystery Novel. Winners of this award are modern works that best exemplify the "cozy", a traditional style of the genre often used by Agatha Christie. Cozies tend to take place in a confined space with characters who know eachother and never contain graphic violence or sex.
 
The Mystery Writers of America awarded three Edgar Awards this April. Blue heaven by C.J. Box won Best Novel for 2009. Paper towns by John Green won in the Best Young Adult Novel category and China Lake by Meg Gardiner won for Best Paperback Original. All three titles are available through ConnectNY or WorldCat and we should be getting Blue heaven in soon.
 
The Arthur C. Clarke Award is given to a work of literary science fiction published originally in Britain. This year's award goes to The song of time by Ian R. MacLeod. As with the Edgar Award winners, this title is available through Inter-Library Loan.
 
The Irish Literary Academy awarded Sebastian Barry the 2009 award for Listeners' Choice and Novel of the Year, for his novel, Secret Scripture, available at Case-Geyer.
 
The 2009 New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism went to Jane Meyer for her recent book, The dark side : the inside story of how the war on terror turned into a war on American ideals. We've got this book on the shelves, so if you prefer a little gritty reality in your off-time, you might pick that one up at Case-Geyer.
 
Not inspired by any of these titles? Here's the Editor's Choice list from a recent New York Times Book Review.
 
Happy reading.

CDC Swine Flu Portal

The Center for Disease Control (CDC) has created a web portal for all things regarding swine flu:
http://www.cdc.gov/swineflu/
Included on that page is a link to a  widget that can be embedded into other web pages to create a link to the most recent information offered by the CDC.
 

Serials Review and Cancellation Project Spring 2009

Due to the current economic situation, the University Libraries are preparing to reduce the amount we expend on serials over next two years.  We have prepared information for faculty so they might aid in the review of the titles selected.

 
Two factors influence the need for the present major cancellation review: potential budget cuts and anticipated inflationary costs for serials. For the next fiscal year, the budget for operations and materials has been reduced by 5%. Moreover, inflation for library materials has averaged 8%, well above the rate of consumer inflation. The two factors amount to a projected shortfall of 13%. Regrettably, the Libraries must prepare to reduce their level of acquisitions and subscriptions by this amount for next year based on usage and cost data.

 
Further information for faculty is located on the Serials Review and Cancellation Project - Spring 2009 website along with access to the lists of titles under review.

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