Read this great Huffington post article “This Book Will Change Your Life” about life changing books!
Join CWLT for a fun night of studying and anti-procrastination, as they celebrate the Long Night Against Procrastination – March 7!
We read this post a few months ago and were intrigued. We wonder – just how much of the literature goes Uncited?
The Collins Memorial Library Archives & Special Collections Summer Research Fellowship is back! The 2013 application is now available online. Applicants may choose one of the four suggested projects or design their own project!
Learn more about this summer’s opportunities:
And view the material in person at our Open House on Wednesday, February 27th from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. in the Collins Memorial Library, room 211. For more information, or if you are unable to attend the Open House, please contact Katie Henningsen, Archivist & Digital Collections Coordinator.
This week’s blog post about Black History Month focuses on the spoken word of African Americans. The playlist, available from our streaming music service Music Online, is compiled from the Smithsonian Folkways archive of recorded performances. It features oratory, poetry, selected songs, and prose by African American musicians, writers, speakers, and activists. The selections illustrate the evolution of Black expressive forms and testify to the vitality and spirit of a rich cultural tradition.
I also want to draw your attention to a playlist of 96 African American poems that African American Studies and English Professor, Hans Ostrom, has recorded for YouTube. Images and text are included.
Music Online Directions: You may listen to the entire playlist (click on the icon 
to play the track) or listen to an individual track by clicking the links below. –Lori Ricigliano
Oral tradition:
Testimony against Slavery
Reconstruction and Repression
Voices of Pride and Protest
The Sounds of Twentieth Century America
Voices of Civil Rights and Black Power
Contemporary African American Voices
Need a little research boost? Remember the liaison librarians are here for you! If you’re in need of research assistance, just want to chat about how best to approach a project, or would like some help in managing all those citations, just check in with the ‘Librarian on Call’ or the liaison librarian for your department.
And don’t forget we’re here 24/7 with some great virtual services and resources:
For John Finney, compiling his alma mater’s family photo album has been a labor of love. Read more.
See more archived photos in A Sound Past.
We agree with the White House and support Free Access to Scientific Information.
Focus on Interlibrary Loan (ILL)
Interlibrary loan (ILL) supplements the library’s collection by obtaining material needed for teaching and learning that are not owned by the library or available through Summit. It continues to be an important service as users become aware of publications through an array of discovery tools, including Puget Sound WorldCat, licensed research databases, and Google Scholar. Skyrocketing journal prices, new publishing models, a modest operating budget, and an increase in publishing output have also contributed to the library’s reliance on interlibrary loan to fill gaps in the collection.
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Last year ILL staff processed 7,301 interlibrary loan transactions. Users borrowed a wide range of resources, from books and music scores to films and conference proceedings. However, two out of every three requests were articles. The most requested journals were Quartenary Science Reviews and Manual Therapy, tied at 12 requests for each title. Other journals with a high number of requests include: Journal of Spine Cord Medicine, Journal of Bodywork and Movement Therapies, Biological Psychiatry, Clinical Journal of Sports Medicine, Aquatic Botany, Freshwater Biology, and Laryngoscope. About 95% of all articles are delivered electronically to the user’s ILLiad account.
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Students were the largest group of ILL users, representing 82% of the total number. Our overall fill rate for ILL was 66%. About 17% of the requests were cancelled because the library already owned the item and it was available. Other reasons for unfilled requests include: all possible sources were exhausted; the request could not be filled by the deadline; and the request was cancelled by the user.
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The bubble chart to the left shows a breakdown of interlibrary loan transactions by academic departments who submitted 200 or more requests last year. Submissions from faculty and students were included. By moving the mouse over a circle, you will see three numbers representing article requests, loans, and the total. For example, Psychology is the large blue circle on the chart. The department submitted 993 requests. Of those, 810 were articles and 183 were loans. The legend to the right of the chart lists the ranking of departments by number of requests. |
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Lending Libraries
This word cloud represents the 16 lending institutions from which we borrowed 50 or more items during the previous year. The University of Oregon tops the list with 333 filled requests. Rounding out the top five are Whitman College, Portland State University, University of Idaho, and Western Washington University. |
Cost
While largely invisible to the user, there are numerous costs associated with interlibrary loan. Staffing, software, equipment, supplies, and postage are needed to carry out daily operations. In addition, the library may incur costs from the lending library if there is no reciprocal borrowing agreement. Health Sciences libraries, large metropolitan public libraries, and research institutions typically charge fees. Last year the average cost was $14.00 per transaction for those libraries that charged fees. If an article is requested from the same journal five times within the last five years, the library also pays a copyright fee to the publisher. Fees vary by publisher and number of pages. In 2012 the library paid nearly $500.00 in copyright fees, ranging from $3.15 to $87.50.
–Lori Ricigliano, assisted by Jada Pelger
In honor of Valentine’s Day, the Crouch Fine Arts Library is highlighting books from its special collections that reflect the heart and things of the heart. Happy Valentine’s Day!
