Georgia Tech Library News

Adam Ferrara hosts the Southern Regional Grand Finale of Campus MovieFest, the world’s largest student film festival. Come enjoy the best student short movies from around the area during, have a chance to win huge door prizes including an Apple computer, and find special guest presenters such as Emma Stone (Superbad, The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past), all at this red-carpet extravaganza at Atlanta Symphony Hall. It’s an event you won’t want to miss, so take advantage of discounted tickets online by using code ATL12.

Sunday, March 29, 2009 8pm
Atlanta Symphony Hall
1280 Peachtree Street NE Atlanta, GA 30309
Visit: www.campusmoviefest.com/srgf for tickets and more information

Journal Review Project (2010)

Due to the increasing costs of journal subscriptions and budget reductions, the Library is carefully reviewing the journal collection in preparation for potential journal subscription cancellations in the 2010 calendar year. To do this with the best interests of the Institute in mind, we need your help.

We have prepared a list of journal titles that may have to be cancelled. We excluded titles from publishers such as Elsevier, Springer, and Wiley with whom we have contracts that prohibit cancellations. The list includes titles with high cost per use and titles for which we have insufficient use data. We included and marked many titles which could be cancelled, but to which you would still have access electronically via full-text databases.

We are asking you to tell us in the comment boxes which titles on the list are crucial for your research and teaching. For example, if you find a title on the list that contains articles required for a course, tell us. If you use a specific journal in your research or publishing activities, tell us. If you are an editor or reviewer of a journal, tell us.

Your feedback is vital to our decision-making about which information resources are critical to the teaching and research programs at Georgia Tech. If you have questions, please contact your college/school subject librarian or Nancy Simons, Head of Collection Development. We greatly appreciate your assistance with this review and your continuing support.

Catherine Murray-Rust
Dean of Libraries

Research for all of us! The Georgia Tech Library sponsors a lecture series featuring research by Georgia Tech faculty “presented for the rest of us.” Lecturers discuss their research in laymen’s terms. The aim of the series is to make research understandable to all of us in the Georgia Tech community.

April 7, 2009
2 – 3:30 pm
Neely Lobby (1 West) – Library and Information Center

Speaker: Bruce Walker; Associate Professor
School of Psychology & School of Interactive Computing

Poster

Title: The GT Accessible Aquarium Project

Abstract:
The goal of the GT Accessible Aquarium Project is to make dynamic exhibits such as those at museums, science centers, zoos and aquaria more engaging and accessible for visitors with vision impairments by providing real-time interpretations of the exhibits using innovative tracking, music, narrations, and adaptive sonification. It is an interdisciplinary collaboration between GT researchers, bringing together the fields of Psychology, Computing, Music, and Assistive Technology.

This presentation is free and open to all! No pre-registration is needed.

Questions? Contact: Lori Critz, Information Services Department
Lori.critz@library.gatech.edu 404-385-4392

The Library is your source for tax forms, both federal and state of Georgia. Stop by the Library’s 2nd floor east Services Desk [see map] for forms and information.

Between Friday, March 6th and Thursday, April 30th, Georgia Institute of Technology has free access to thousands of Springer English-language eBook titles. These titles are divided into thirteen subject collections: Architecture, Design & Arts; Behavioral Sciences; Biomedical & Life Sciences; Business & Economics; Chemistry & Material Science; Computer Science; Earth & Environmental Science; Engineering; Humanities, Social Sciences & Law; Mathematics; Medicine; Physics & Astronomy; and Professional & Applied Computing.

View Springer eBooks and take advantage of this free trial.

To search these Springer eBook titles as well as Springer eBook titles we already subscribe to, search Springerlink on the A to Z List of Databases.

We need your help. The Georgia Tech Library is looking for a visual identity. Send us your original sketches, graphics, logos, symbols, or any other ideas that can be used online, in print, and in the Library.

An example of the type of thing that we’re looking for is the College of Architecture’s Centennial Celebration symbol.

Follow along on the Library’s Forum to see what others have developed.

For additional information, contact Brian Mathews

Research for all of us! The Georgia Tech Library sponsors a lecture series featuring research by Georgia Tech faculty presented for the rest of us.

Lecturers will discuss their research in laymen’s terms. The aim of the series is to make research understandable to all of us in the Georgia Tech community.

March 3, 2009
Neely Lobby (GT Library – 1st Floor)
2 – 3:30 pm

Speakers: Henry S. Valk; Professor Emeritus – School of Physics & Bill Hunt; Professor – School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Title: Music, Science, and Technology

Music and its performance have been part of our inheritance since primitive times. But what is music? How do we produce it and hear it? How are popular instruments that we use to perform it such as the guitar and piano evolving? These and related questions will be discussed from the standpoint of current science and technology.

This presentation is free and open to all! No pre-registration is needed.

Poster

Questions?
Contact: Lori Critz, Information Services Department
Lori.critz@library.gatech.edu
404-385-4392

A trial for the NTRL: National Technical Reports Library is now active through March 31 and is made available to the public. The NTRL offers access to the largest collection of U.S. government-sponsored technical reports acquired, indexed, abstracted, and archived by the National Technical Information Service.

NTRL is listed on the List of Databases or can be accessed directly at: https://ntrl.ntis.gov/

The message below doesn’t say which EBSCOhost databases will be affected, so I assume it’s possible that any of them could be.  Please be aware that you may experience some access problems or slowness on EBSCOhost databases this weekend, 1/31/09 and 2/1/09.

—– Forwarded Message —–
From: “EBSCO Publishing <epaes@epnet.com>”
Sent: Wednesday, January 28, 2009 1:57:57 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
Subject: System Maintenance Planned

Dear EBSCO Customer,

Please be advised that this weekend, from January 31 through February 1, 2009, you may notice some intermittent access interruption, due to planned system maintenance.

We are conducting this necessary system maintenance during off-peak hours in order to minimize the impact it will have on our customers, and apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause.

Visit EBSCO’’s Support Site (http://support.ebscohost.com) to learn about new features, search among thousands of FAQs, download Flash tutorials, Help Sheets or User Guides, or communicate with Technical Support at any time, using the EBSCO Support Form (http://support.ebscohost.com/contact/askus.php).

Sincerely,

Marcie Brown
Technical Communications Manager
EBSCO Publishing

The Library has implemented an easy to use, faster interlibrary loan service with access to journal articles from 40 major research libraries, including MIT, Purdue, Columbia, and the University of Michigan. RapidILL provides improved access to a wide variety of journals with strengths in the humanities and social sciences as well as engineering and sciences. The service provides a quick turnaround time, in many cases a matter of hours rather than days.

Your requests are made using the Library’s existing ILLiad Interlibrary Loan system, so there’s nothing new that faculty or students need to learn. The articles are delivered to you electronically.

Try the Library’s new service . . . we feel certain that you will be pleased with the outcome.