Bi-Weekly Update
10/26/12
Library Resources for Center for Ethics Events
A resource guide in support of several of this year’s Center for Ethics events is now in place. Library staff will add more resources to the guide in the near future, to accompany events planned for the spring. The guide highlights online materials from the library’s research databases, particularly Academic Search Premier, as well as print materials found in Trexler Library.
See especially the resources related to the upcoming screening of two films, The Corporation, showing on October 30, and Nothing Like Chocolate, showing on November 15.
How Open Is Open Access?
When is a publication considered to be “open access”? When is it not? Is there a gray area in the middle?
The Association of Research Libraries has joined forces with other entities promoting open access to provide a quick measure of the extent to which a publication is openly accessible.
The truly open-access publication has all of these features:
- Free readership rights/access immediately upon publication
- Generous reuse & remixing rights (Creative Commons license)
- Author holds copyright with no restrictions
- Author may post any version to any third-party repository or website
- Journals make copies of articles automatically available in trusted third-party repositories (e.g., PubMed Central) immediately
- Article full text, metadata, citations & data, including supplementary data, provided in community machine-readable standard formats through a community standard API or protocol
Infomaniac Tip
Upcoming NITLE Online Seminars
All events are free to Muhlenberg faculty and staff, thanks to our institutional NITLE membership sponsored by the Provost’s Office and Trexler Library.
On Thursday, November 1, Edward B. Burger, Francis Christopher Oakley Third Century Professor of Mathematics at Williams College, will lead “Teaching to Fail.” This seminar tackles the question of how educators can foster risk-taking and creativity in students and will emphasize the notion of “failing to succeed.” “Teaching to Fail” takes place at 3:30 – 4:30 p.m. (EDT). Register by Tuesday, October 30. This seminar will not be recorded.
On Thursday, November 8, “Re: Humanities Alumni in a Networked World” will present a panel of alumni from the Re:Humanities Symposium, an undergraduate symposium on digital media sponsored by the Tri-Co Digital Humanities Initiative. The alumni-Michael Suen (Middlebury College), Pollyanna Macchiano (San Jose State University), Evan McGonagill (Bryn Mawr College), Anna Levine (Swarthmore College), and Jen Rajchel (Bryn Mawr College)-will discuss the relationship between their undergraduate digital scholarship and their current work in a digitally networked world. “Re:Humanities Alumni in a Networked World” takes place at 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. (EST). Register by Tuesday, November 6.
On Friday, November 16, Adeline Koh, visiting faculty fellow, Duke University, and assistant professor of literature, Richard Stockton College, will lead “Race and the Digital Humanities: An Introduction.” Dr. Koh will survey the emerging field of race and the digital humanities, including digital projects informed by race, resources for those interested in the field, the genealogy of the field and its theoretical assumptions, and issues to consider in constructing a race and digital humanities project. “Race and the Digital Humanities” takes place at 3:00 – 4:00 p.m. (EST). Register by Wednesday, November 14. This seminar is open to non-members.
On Thursday, November 29, Thomas A. Warger, principal of Thomas A. Warger Consulting and a NITLE Fellow, will lead “The New Information Technology Organization for Liberal Arts Colleges,” outlining the changes that are affecting information technology at small liberal arts colleges and their implications for IT staff, library, faculty, students, and others. “The New Information Technology Organization for Liberal Arts Colleges” takes place at 1:00 – 2:00 p.m. (EST). Register by Tuesday, November 27.
NITLE Seminars are open to all active member institutions of the NITLE Network; no additional registration fee applies, but space is limited.
Calendar
November 8: Faculty author reception: Mike Huber’s Reasoning with Sabermetrics: Applying Statistical Science to Baseball’s Tough Questions (12:30-1:45, Fulford Room, Trexler Library).
November 13: Fall Trivia Night! MC Chris Borick. Submit your team member list at the front desk of the library beginning Nov. 1. Faculty or faculty-student teams especially welcome (7:30-9:30, Level A Concourse, Trexler Library).
November 29: Faculty author reception: Joe Elliott’s The Steel: Photographs of the Bethlehem Steel Plant, 1989-1996 (12:30-1:45, Fulford Room, Trexler Library).
FALL SEMESTER LIBRARY HOURS: thru Friday, December 14
Monday – Thursday 8:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m. – 10:00 p.m.
Saturday 10:00 a.m. – 7:00 p.m.
Sunday 11:00 a.m. – 1:00 a.m.
