Gallery of Fine Arts Exhibit, April 28 - May 11

Annual Congressional High School 2-D Art Competition

The public is invited to the Gallery of Fine Arts on the 3^rd floor of Cal U's Manderino Library to view the 2-D art of high school students from across the congressional district of Rep. John P. Murtha. Awards will again be presented by Dr. Angelo Armenti, Jr., President, California University of Pennsylvania.

Each year, the U.S. Congress sponsors district-level high school art competitions. The winner in each district is invited to attend a national exhibition in Washington D.C.!

This exhibition was made possible by the continued support from: Rep. John P. Murtha and his staff, Dean Douglas Hoover and the staff of the Manderino Library; with sponsorship: from the Cal U Student Activities Board, Cal U Associated Artists, Studio 224-Cal U Graphic Design, The College of Liberal Arts, and the Department of Art and Design at California University of Pennsylvania.

Gallery Hours are limited, so please check them before coming.

Trial Database: SocINDEX with Full Text

The library has just received a trial of EBSCO's new sociology research database SocINDEX with Full Text. Please click on the link and go try it out! EBSCO has designed this to offer not only better indexing than our current database Sociological Abstracts, but a significant amount of full-text (which is not offered by SocAbs). For more information about this new database, view EBSCO's information about SocINDEX with Full Text.

Please use this new database--and compare it with "Sociological Abstracts." The library would be most interested in your feedback. You can add a comment to this post, or use the Contact the Librarians page and send your comments to Loring. Thanks!

PS: You can also find a link to "SocINDEX with Full Text" on the Librarians' Page, under "Trial Resources."

Information Literacy Presentations--An Invitation

Marsha Nolf is pleased to extend an open invitation to attend the (HONORS 187) Information Literacy Presentations. The class presentation schedule is listed below. All presentations will be in the Manderino Library classroom #208.

Monday, April 25, 2005, from 5:00 to 7:30 p.m.

Valerie McCullough--Rolls Royce
Erica Smeltzer--George Bush and the Kyoto Protocol
Gertrud Huessy--Sweatshops and the Fashion Industry
Belinda King--International Monetary Fund

Monday, May 2, 2005--5:00 to 8:00 p.m.

Kyle Aldinger--Hybrid Vehicles
Danielle Glugla--Advertising and the Snack Food Industry
Christine Hager--Celebrities and their Pets
Brian Jacox--Economic Theories of Peter Bauer, Amartya Sen, and George Soros
Kevin Love--AIDS: A United Response to a Global Pandemic
Seth Oakman--Impacts of Tourism on a Country

We hope to see you there!

Suggested reading: Do Libraries Still Matter?

This interesting online article surveys the history of libraries in the U.S., and looks at their future in this Internet age: Do Libraries Still Matter? (Daniel Akst, Carnegie Reporter, Vol. 3, No. 2).

(The article says "Yes," by the way!)

Library Book Sale

ANNUAL USED/DONATED BOOK SALE
Louis L. Manderino Library

Room 135 (Follow the footprints)

April 18 - 22, 2005
8 am - 3:30 pm

Paperback books - .25 cents each or 5 for $1.00
Hardcover books - $1.00 each

Manderino Library Book Club--April Meeting

"In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing in it to sit down on or to eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that means comfort." J.R.R. Tolkien

Dear Fellow Readers:
Just a reminder.... The next meetings of the Manderino Library Book Club will be on Tuesday, April 19, 2005. The afternoon meeting will be from 3:30 to 5:00 p.m. in library classroom #208. The evening meeting will be from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m. in the Curriculum Area. We will be discussing J.R.R. Tolkien's The Hobbit, or, There and Back Again. Becky Nichols and Steve Arnowitz will be leading the book discussions.

Submitted by Marsha Nolf

New Resource: ACM Digital Portal

California University patrons now have access to the ACM [Association for Computing Machinery] Digital Portal. This resource provides a vast collection of citations and online full-text from ACM journal and newsletter articles and conference proceedings, including over 50 years of archives. You can find a link to this resource on the library's Science & Technology Resources page.

New Resources: Have you seen these yet?

At the beginning of the semester, the library added several new databases. In case you missed the announcement, here is a summary:

• American Meteorological Society Journals Online -- 7 AMS journals from first issue to 1997.
• Book Index with Reviews -- Full-text reviews for millions of books.
• Datamonitor Business Information Center -- Full-text reports profiling: Companies, Industries, and Countries
• Mental Measurements Yearbook -- Available again online in EBSCO.

Gallery of Fine Arts Exhibit, April 7-20

Intercollegiate Juried Art Exhibition, April 7 – 20, 2005

Undergraduate students from over forty colleges and universities in Western PA and West Virginia were invited to submit a maximum of 2 works per student. This exhibition is very competitive, with only 50 works from nine schools accepted last year! Students are also competing for $650 in cash awards and in-kind gift certificates from generous sponsors such as: Utrecht Art Supplies, The Clay Place, Battagliani Graphics, Lagerheads Restaurant, Dick Blick, Standard Ceramics, Graphic Chemical, and Youghiogheny Glass.

Gallery Hours are limited, so please check them before coming.

National Library Week

National Library Week is April 10th - 16th.

E-ZBORROW? UBORROW? A Little Confused?

E-ZBORROW is a direct borrowing program initiated by the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI) that allows CUP students, faculty, and staff to simultaneously search the online catalogs of forty-six (46) university libraries and request books that are currently not available or not owned by Manderino Library. The fourteen (14) Keystone Library Network libraries that comprise the UBORROW program are also participating members of the E-ZBORROW program.

To locate and request a book go to www.library.cup.edu, click on E-ZBORROW, log in using your CalCard number and start your search. Items are usually shipped within four to six days and notification is sent by e-mail when the books are available for pick up at the Circulation Desk in Manderino Library.

Faculty has an additional benefit of borrowing in person on site. To take advantage of this opportunity you must present a signed authorization form and a valid CalCard. Authorization forms can be obtained at the Circulation or Reference Desk in the Manderino Library.

UBORROW is a direct borrowing program initiated by the fourteen (14) academic libraries belonging to the Keystone Library Network that allows CUP students, faculty and staff to borrow books online or, in person on site.

To locate and request a book online go to www.library.cup.edu, click on PILOT, click the Simultaneous Search/UBORROW button and start your search. Books are usually shipped within three to five days, and notification will be sent when the books are available for pick up at the Circulation Desk in Manderino Library. The status of a request can be viewed by logging on to PILOT and clicking the My Account button.

To borrow books in person on site, you must present a valid CalCard. Borrowed books may be returned to the home or lending library.

Both programs allow one online renewal. Circulation policies and lists of participating libraries for both borrowing programs can be found at the library’s web site. If you have a question or are experiencing a problem using either program, please send an e-mail to Sabo@cup.edu.

Submitted by Barbara Sabo, Circulation Coordinator

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