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Carleton University Library is pleased to offer a new collection of historical newspapers:  ‘The Guardian (1821-2003) and the Observer (1791-2003)’.

Together, these important British newspapers provide facts, firsthand accounts, and opinions of the day about political, business, sports, literary, and entertainment events from the past 200 years.

The resource features full text content and article images that are easily downloadable in pdf format.

The Guardian, published in Manchester, was founded in 1821 to promote liberal interests following the Peterloo Massacre. The newspaper was originally published weekly on Saturday, but became a daily in 1855 with the abolition of Stamp Duty on newspapers.

The Observer is published in London, and is the world's oldest Sunday newspaper. Noted for providing serious coverage of politics and literature, contributors to The Observer have included George Orwell, Vita Sackville-West, Clive James, and Philip Toynbee.

The two newspapers share a common search platform, and can also be searched simultaneously with other ProQuest Historical resources.  Access the database: ProQuest Historical Newspapers: The Guardian (1821-2003) and The Observer (1791-2003)

Blackwell reference online: Business and management will be unavailable for 12 hours starting at 4:00 pm on April 13th, 2013 due to site maintenance.

Carleton University Library has just added a new collection of online primary source material to the Library catalogue. Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice from the publisher Adam Matthew Digital is a collection of over 2,300 rare books, correspondence, maps, manuscripts, pamphlets and paintings which covers the international history of slavery from 1490-2007.

Key subjects include: slavery in the early Americas, African coast, the Middle Passage, slavery and agriculture, urban and domestic slavery, resistance and revolts, underground railroad, the abolition movement and the slavery debate, legislation enactment and enforcement, freed slaves and the free black settlements, slavery and the Islamic world, the legacy of slavery and slavery today.

To browse over 2,300 titles in this collection, title search “Slavery, abolition & social justice” in the Library catalogue.

Other highlights available on the Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice website include:

• Specially commissioned essays from leading scholars on related subjects
• Historical maps digitized in colour
• Secondary resources including an interactive chronology and extensive bibliography
• Links to over 100 scholarly resources on the web

For more information on using the Library’s ebook collection please visit Find ebooks.

(Image from Slavery, Abolition & Social Justice collection)

Black Women Writers, Music Online: Classical Music Library, Music Online: Classical Scores Library, and Theatre in Video will be unavailable on Sunday, March 31, 2013 between the hours of 10:00 am and 12:00 pm EST / UTC-5 due to scheduled maintenance at Alexander Street Press data center.

March 22nd is World Water Day and the focus this year is on ‘shared cooperation’. This is an international day instituted by the UN to celebrate the importance of freshwater and to advocate for the development of sustainable freshwater resources.

Check out some of the library’s outstanding electronic resources that highlight the importance of all aspects of water research.

• The World’s Water: the biennial report on freshwater resources
• Drinking water disinfection techniques
• Meeting the water reform challenge
• Water-energy-food security: new challenges iand new solution for water management
• The Global Water Crisis

Much more information and events about this day can be found on the UN Water website or follow their Twitter feed.

Read more about the International Decade for Action ‘WATER FOR LIFE’ 2005-2015.

Thanks to many generous donors to Carleton’s Campus Community Campaign, the Library is now pleased to offer access to the entire digitized version of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports from 1941 to 1996 inclusive.  This is a unique resource, providing translations into English of foreign broadcasts and news reports on such topics as military affairs, politics and government, the environment, social issues, economics, and science and technology.

 Click to access the FBIS Daily Reports

Carleton Library, the Graduate Student Association (GSA), and the Office of the Vice President (Research & International) (OVPRI) are pleased to announce the winners of the 2012-2013 Graduate Student Open Access Award. This monetary award of $1000.00 was established to support Carleton University graduate students in publishing research in open access journals.

For recipient names, bios, and links to the winning papers, please visit our Scholarly Communications website for more information.

Drama Online offers a new way to experience plays, from curriculum classics to contemporary writing. It provides contextual and critical background through scholarly works and practical guides. Drama Online will launch with initial content and be continually added to throughout 2013.

We welcome your feedback.

The trial ends on March 17, 2013.

Academic Charts Online is a new and unparalleled database of popular music chart data from around the world. From the US, UK, Europe, South America and Asia, ACO delivers access to an authoritative database under exclusive academic license from Billboard, the Official Charts Company and many more.

We welcome your feedback.

Trial ends on February 28, 2013.

On January 25, 2013, Natural Resources Canada (NRCan) launched the new version of the Atlas of Canada website. This version was developed to meet the new web standards for the Government of Canada regarding web accessibility and usability. It contains all of the content from previous versions; however, some of the dynamic map viewing functionality is no longer available. The site will continue to evolve.

The Toporama web map service has been improved and includes more up-to-date data.

Library and Archives Canada (LAC) ended its Interlibrary Loan (ILL) service in December 2012.

Please note: Interlibrary Loan borrowing from other institutions is not affected.

Any material that you require for your research that is not available from Carleton’s collection can be requested through Carleton’s Interlibrary Loan services via your RACER account (http://www.library.carleton.ca/services/interlibrary-loans). Carleton ILL staff will find a location for the material that you require and attempt to obtain it for you. If a location that is willing to lend cannot be found and the material is held at LAC, patrons able to travel to LAC can use the material onsite at LAC.

Options for material held exclusively at LAC include:

• Visiting LAC and using the material onsite at their reading rooms at 395 Wellington Street, Ottawa. For information on LAC’s services please see: http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/the-public/index-e.html.
• LAC’s existing digitization-on-demand services: Reproduction requests can be sent directly to LAC using their online order form (http://www.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/reproduction-requests/pages/reproduction-requests.aspx). Please note that there will be costs to the user associated with this option so it is best to place a request with ILL at Carleton University for any material required.
• LAC’s proposed “lender of last resort” policy: This process will be in place September 2013. The details of the service, such as how requests will be placed, what material will be eligible, and how the user will demonstrate that LAC is the only lending copy, are still being worked out.
• Digitization of high-demand material: This is an ongoing project that involves digitizing the majority of the archival material that is currently on microfilm, including the collections most in demand. 40,000 reels have been identified for digitization with a completion date of approximately 24 months. 7,000 reels have already been completed and are available through the LAC website www.collectionscanada.gc.ca. LAC is creating a digitization schedule that will be available early 2013 so that users will know what is being digitized and when.

For any questions about access to LAC’s collection, please contact: reference@bac-lac.gc.ca.

Our Citation Management workshops are back. Come and find out how online tools like RefWorks, Mendeley, Zotero, Wizfolio... can help keep your research work organized and save you time when you need to prepare properly formatted bibliographies and in-text citations. See Full schedule for details.

Library staff in the Cataloguing and Acquisitions Department are currently working on a project to improve access to the Library’s collection of print music scores. Work includes re-cataloguing, re-labeling and binding scores. In the process of doing this work, staff are finding “hidden gems” in the collection which were previously difficult to access. For example, music cataloguer Geoffrey Wale has just finished re-cataloguing a set of scores published by Möseler Verlag encompassing madrigals, masses, motets, polyphonic chansons, settings of psalms in Latin, German, Dutch, French, with and without accompaniment, featuring composers including Josquin Des Prés, Giovanni Gabrieli and Orlando di Lasso.

Catalogue Maintenance Assistant, Anne Kang, has also corrected a number of invalid (ETC) call numbers to make scores easier to find.

The Möseler Verlag scores are available at Library call number: M2.C6325 or title search “Chorwerk” (series title)

To search music scores in the Library catalogue, visit the keyword search page in the Library catalogue and limit to “music scores”

Image from: http://www.brisbanegrammar.com/blogs/library/?tag=public-domain

Due to construction in the library, an alternative silent study area has been created in Paterson Hall during the exam period in rooms 111, 112, 114 and 118. These spaces will be open Monday to Friday 9 a.m. - 4 p.m.

Your patience and co-operation is appreciated.

We are looking for student volunteers for a brief video interview to discuss the Library games collection and how games are used to complete course work at Carleton.

The interview process which will take about 30 minutes, will take place before December 21 and be featured in an online publication produced by the Ontario College and University Library Association.

If you are interested, please contact Robert Smith robert_smith@carleton.ca (Library Subject Specialist, Computer Science, Electronics, Systems Engineering) or Emma Cross emma_cross@carleton.ca (Cataloguing Librarian)  

Thank you!

Image courtesy of: http://inkscapetutorials.wordpress.com/tag/video-games/

There will be excessive noise on Level 3 in the Learning Commons area tomorrow, Tuesday, Nov. 27. The noise will last throughout the day and is part of the ongoing construction project at MacOdrum Library.

Please be advised that during the upcoming exam period that begins on Dec. 6, there will be additional study space made available in Paterson Hall. Information about the location of the study space will be announced once it is confirmed.

Your patience and co-operation is appreciated.

The Library has just added the 50th board game to the immersive media collection: Eclipse: new dawn for the galaxy.

The board game Eclipse places participants in control of a vast interstellar civilization where success depends on exploring new star systems, researching technologies, building spaceships and planning strategic defense and expansion.  Eclipse is a new release from the award winning Finnish game company Lautapetlit.fi Oy.

The Library collects video and board games to support courses in game development in the Schools of Computer Science and Information Technology. Board games have also been used in a number of courses at Carleton to demonstrate and teach strategic thinking.

To find this game in the Library catalogue:

Title search: eclipse new dawn for the galaxy

To find other board games in the Library catalogue:

Subject search: board games

Photo curtesy of: http://www.thegeekestlink.com/board-games/eclipse-new-dawn-for-the-galax...

An important notice to our RACER patrons:

Library and Archives Canada has asked that we forward the notice below:
Interlibrary Loan (ILL) services at Library and Archives Canada (LAC) will end in December 2012.  Users of LAC’s current services should note the following dates:

• November 16, 2012: End of renewals. All items loaned after this date will be non-renewable.
• December 11, 2012: End of loan requests, location searches, and ILL-related photocopying services.

If you need any material from Library and Archives Canada, you should be sure to place your request in RACER by December 3, 2012.

Data Citation Index on the Web of Knowledge platform provides a single point of access to quality research data from repositories across disciplines and around the world. The data can be viewed within the context of the scholarly research it supports and connects digital research to powerful new discovery tools.

We welcome your feedback.

Trial ends on November 30, 2012.

Black Women Writers presents 100,000 pages of literature and essays on feminist issues, written by authors from Africa and the African Diaspora. Facing both sexism and racism, black women needed to create their own identities and movements. The collection documents that effort, presenting the woman’s perspective on the diversity and development of black people generally, and in particular the works document the evolution of black feminism.

We welcome your feedback.

The trial ends on November 21, 2012.

Did you know...

• Carleton has an open access policy http://www.library.carleton.ca/sites/default/files/about/projects/OA%20Policy%20-%20ARC%20version.pdf
• Applications are now open for the 2nd annual Graduate Student Open Access Award http://www.library.carleton.ca/about/projects/scholarly-communications/open-access/graduate-student-open-access-award
• Applications are ongoing for CURIE funding- Provides funds to offset article processing fees of open access journals http://www.library.carleton.ca/about/projects/scholarly-communications/curie-fund

For more information on open access, please visit our website. http://www.library.carleton.ca/about/projects/scholarly-communications/open-access

Please be advised that there will be some construction work being done in the Paterson Hall/Southam Hall tunnel area beginning Tuesday, Oct. 16 and is expected to be completed by the end of the week. This work is part of the library renovation. As a result of this work, the tunnel floor may be wet but every effort will be made to keep the area dry.

While this tunnel area will be a little more congested than usual, there will be no access issues for wheelchairs or golf carts.

Your co-operation and patience is appreciated.

Oral History Online is a landmark database of English language oral histories. The full-text material includes Ellis Island oral history narratives and rare Black Panther Party interviews. It is also an index to free oral history information on the Web. Working with archives, repositories and individuals, we've indexed oral histories held by organizations around the world.

We welcome your feedback.

The trial ends on November 11, 2012.

The documents in Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 cover the whole of the modern period of European colonization of the continent. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet, and to heads of British missions abroad. They are essential sources for the study of African history and the understanding of Africa today.

We welcome your feedback.

The trial ends on Nov. 10, 2012.

Canadian Who’s Who is the standard reference source of contemporary Canadian biography. Canadian Who's Who online includes more than 9,000 archived Biographies of Record, in addition to the 13,000 current biographies found in the 2011 print edition.

Please log out when you are finished. Canadian Who’s Who is accessed through Canada's Information Resource Centre which has a limited number of simlutaneous users (4).

We welcome your feedback.

The trial ends on October 31, 2012.

In celebration of its 50th year of publishing, the Carleton Library Series invites you to a panel on: "Robert McDougall, The Carleton Library Series and the Founding of Canadian Studies" with Stuart Adam, Michael Gnarowski, Jill Vickers and Brian McKillop.

Wednesday October 10
4:30-6:00 pm
2017 Dunton Tower

The Carleton Library Series is the most enduring and significant initiative taken in the history of Canadian publishing where the editing, reprinting, and dissemination of documents important to the history of Canada is concerned. Initiated in the 1950s  by Carleton University professor of English, R.L. McDougall, and a number of colleagues in disciplines cognate to English Language and Literature, the Series was intended to be a non-fiction counterpart to the New Canadian Library, a series dedicated to re-publication of classic works of Canadian literature in poetry and prose, begun by literary scholar Malcolm Ross. Like the NCL, the Carleton Library Series was first published by McClelland and Stewart, with the first title appearing in 1963. Over the next forty-seven years, well over 200 titles have appeared on a wide variety of subjects related to Canada’s past.

The Illustrated London News Historical Archive gives students and researchers full color digitized images of the entire run of the ILN from 1842 to 2003.

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers are a rich compendium of British history from the early 1600s to the first years of the 19th century.  This collection provides access to the newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney.  It is one of the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media.

We welcome your feedback.

These trials end on November 16, 2012.

Professional Skill Workshops for Graduate Students - Introduction to Data Management

Wednesday October 17, 2012
9:00 am - noon
Room 252 ML

Cost: FREE

Space is limited.  Please register here.

Course description:

Research data are the building blocks of knowledge and understanding of the world around us.  As graduate students, data will likely be an important part of your research endeavour, whether you collect it yourself or reuse existing data.  Increasingly granting institutions such as SSHRC, CIHR and NSERC will require you to have a Data Management Plan in place as part of your grant application.

The workshop will begin by examining what we mean by research data management, why it is important to your work as a graduate student and how research data management is becoming an essential professional skill.  We will then introduce you to tools and exercises that will familiarise you with the process of creating a data management plan and equip you with on-line tutorials that you can use to further your knowledge at your own pace.

This course was offered during the winter term in 2012 and the most frequent comment we heard from participants was: “We wish you had given this early in the fall term.”

We've just added the 40th board game to our immersive media collection: Nine Men's Morris.

Nine Men's Morris is a strategy board game for two players that emerged from the Roman Empire. One player has nine black playing pieces, the other has nine white playing pieces. The first player to reduce their opponent to two pieces wins. Players capture the opponent's pieces by forming "mills." A mill is three or more pieces of the same color in a row, along a board line.
This game was suggested to us by an alumnae, and was selected to complement our other two-person strategy board games:  Chess, Chinese Checkers, Eastfront, and Smart Go.

Board games are located in a cabinet on the main floor of the Library. Students, faculty and staff can borrow these games from the library for a 14-day loan period, with 3 renewals.  Please see the Circulation Desk staff for access.

The Library collects video and board games to support the game development stream in the faculties of science and engineering.
Please follow this link to suggest new purchases.

The Bloomberg workstation is up and running in its new location at the back of the main floor of the library. 

The Capital IQ workstation is still out of order, though we are trying to get it back in action as quickly as possible.  You can call the Welcome Desk at 613-520-2600 x 2733 to find out its status over the week-end. When Capital IQ is working again, it will also be relocated to the back of the Library.

Once again we are offering NVivo workshops as part of our Professional Skills Development for Graduate Students series of workshops. NVivo is a software package that helps with qualitative data analysis. Registration for some sessions is limited, so sign up soon! Details can be found at http://www.library.carleton.ca/services/tours-and-workshops/nvivo-workshops

American Film Scripts Online contains 1,009 scripts by numerous writers together with detailed, fielded information on the scenes, characters and people related to the scripts. In addition, the database includes facsimilie images for more than 500 of these screenplays.

We welcome your feedback.

The trial ends on September 26, 2012.

Due to construction the  main entrance hallway will be closed for two weeks starting August 14th.   The Library entrance remains the same, but once inside the rest of the Library is reached through the Circulation office on the left, and then a smaller corridor. 

We do apologise for the inconvenience and appreciate your patience.

Library Reserve requests are now being accepting for the upcoming winter term. Ares, our reserve management system makes it easy for you to put your course readings, whether print or electronic, on reserve at the library. Ares helps ensure copyright compliance by only allowing you to post material with the proper clearance.

For your students, Ares integrates seamlessly with cuLearn for convenient access to your course readings.

If you are new to Ares or would like to submit your reading list please email library_reserves@carleton.ca for assistance.

For more information, see:

Library Reserves - Faculty and Instructors
 

On Wednesday, August 1st at 10pm, the domestic water supply in MacOdrum Library will be shut off in order to repair a broken valve.  The shutdown is anticipated to last about one hour.  Water will be turned back on once the repairs are complete.

The Faculty of Public Affairs is launching its first annual FPA Reads event by encouraging people to read George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. In addition to several copies on the shelves, the Library is also providing two additional print copies on reserve. There’s also an electronic version available on Project Gutenberg. For more information, please visit the FPA website.

Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) joins Public Knowledge Project as major development partner in open access scholarly publishing

Building on an established record of success in supporting nearly 100 open access journals using Open Journal Systems (OJS), the Ontario Council of University Libraries (OCUL) announces a major development partnership with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP). The partnership means that OCUL will contribute to software development, testing, support, and hosting of the PKP open source software suite - Open Journal Systems (OJS), Open Conference Systems (OCS), and Open Harvester System (OHS), with Open Monograph Press (OMP) due for release this year.

Chuck Eckman, Dean of Library Services at Simon Fraser University, stated "The Ontario Council of University Libraries has a long record of accomplishment based on inter-institutional collaborations, and we are looking forward to the successes that will no doubt flow from this new 'mega-partnership' between OCUL and PKP.”

“The open access momentum is building in Ontario’s universities, mirroring the transformation of scholarly communications practices everywhere” noted Margaret Haines, OCUL Chair and University Librarian at Carleton University, “Staff in five of our libraries have a wealth of experience with OJS, having worked with these systems over the past 8 years. In late 2011, OCUL decided to support its members by opening an OJS hosting service provided by Scholars Portal, our shared technology infrastructure; as a result, there are already two new libraries supporting OJS on their campuses.” The OJS and software development expertise held by staff in OCUL member libraries and the Scholars Portal Operations Team will contribute greatly to the partnership with PKP.

OCUL strives to be a leader in the development of partnerships to expand Canada’s digital research infrastructure. Scholars Portal preserves and provides access to information resources collected and shared by Ontario’s university libraries, including more than 13,000 full-text journals. OCUL has committed to support open access journals by including this content in Scholars Portal. Haines stated, “We expect continued strategic open access activity; with the support of all of our members this year, OCUL has welcomed the opportunity for a major development partnership with PKP.”

John Willinsky, Khosla Family Professor of Education at Stanford University, Distinguished Scholar in Residence at SFU Library and Professor (Limited Term) in Publishing Studies at Simon Fraser University, and founding Director of PKP, stated “The extensive and effective cooperation that OCUL has brought about among research libraries in Ontario is very much in the spirit of PKP’s own efforts to contribute to a broader intellectual commons, and as a former Ontario school teacher, as well as one who found his early inspiration in a few of those very libraries, I am especially delighted to be entering into a partnership with OCUL.“

OCUL is a consortium of Ontario’s 21 university libraries. Its strength lies in its commitment to work together to maximize collective expertise and resources. OCUL enhances information services in Ontario and beyond through collective purchasing and shared digital information infrastructure, collaborative planning, advocacy, assessment, research, partnerships, communications, and professional development. (For further information contact Kathy Scardellato, OCUL Executive Director, at kathy.scardellato@ocul.on.ca, 416-946-0578.)

PKP is dedicated to improving the scholarly and public quality of research.  With more than 12,800 installations of Open Journal Systems (OJS); Open Conference Systems (OCS); and Open Harvester Systems (OHS) around the world, the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) has proven that open source software can be a game changer in scholarly publishing.

In September 2011, PKP officially launched a major sustainability campaign to ensure the continued development and enhancement of its open source software suite and to provide better support for the growing PKP user community.  To find out more about this initiative and how your site can become a PKP sponsor visit the PKP Web site at http://pkp.sfu.ca.

Due to construction in the Library, a section of floor 5 will be closed for about 3 weeks.  The books affected will be indicated in the catalogue.  To get books in a closed section listed below, please fill out a form at the Welcome Desk.  There will be several pick-ups a day.  Most books will be retrieved within 4 hours during the day, Monday – Friday,  but cannot be retrieved evenings or week-ends.
Once the book has been retrieved, it will be put on “HOLD”  for you at the Circulation desk.

The earlier schedule announced at the beginning of June had to be altered. The dates for work on Level 4 will be announced as soon as they are determined.

The Fine Arts and Music Collection provides support for research in areas such as drama, music, art history, and filmmaking. The collection has more than 150 full-text magazines and journals which are covered in databases such as the Wilson Art Index and RILM.

We welcome your feedback.

The trial ends on Aug. 3, 2012.

Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive contains the essential primary sources for studying the history of the film and entertainment industries, from the era of vaudeville and silent movies through to 2000. The core US and UK trade magazines covering film, music, broadcasting and theater are included, together with film fan magazines and music press titles. Magazines have been scanned cover-to-cover in color, with granular indexing of all articles, covers, ads and reviews.

We welcome your feedback.

The trial ends on August 3, 2012.

The Circle will no longer charge a membership fee but will continue to host events of interest. Announcements will be available via email and on our web page. To subscribe or unsubscribe to the email list please send an email to Marsha Poole at marsha_poole@carleton.ca .

The Library now has online access to State Papers Online, 1509-1714 - a collection of English government documents originating from the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

The papers feature the office archives and correspondence of the secretaries of state serving the Monarch as facsimile manuscript documents accessed directly or via the fully searchable Calendar entries (abstracts or transcriptions). This collection contains information on every facet of English government, including social and economic affairs, law and order, religious policy, crown possessions and intelligence gathering as well as Britain's international relations and foreign policy.

Check it out: http://www.library.carleton.ca/find/databases/state-papers-online-government-britain-1509-1714

The International Index of Music Periodicals Full Text is an unrivaled resource for music research. This database provides indexing and abstracts for several hundred international music periodicals from over 20 countries, plus full text for more than 140 of the indexed journals. It covers the full spectrum of subjects and all aspects of music, including music education, performance, ethnomusicology, musical theatre, theory, popular music forms and composition.

The trial ends on July 15, 2012.

We welcome your feedback.

New titles have recently been added to the Recreational Reading Collection that is located on the main floor of the Library. There are now over 400 titles in the collection including;

The Help by Kathryn Stockett
Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett
The Forest Laird : a Tale of William Wallace by Jack Whyte

Have you read a good book lately? Let us know! Submit your book review to the Carleton Recreational Reading Blog!
http://curecreading.wordpress.com/

The March of Time is a newsreel series which was produced by Time Inc. from 1935 to 1967. The newsreels have been restored and are now available in online streaming video in a single, cross-searchable collection.

The trial has been extended until July 20, 2012.

We welcome your feedback.

Due to construction in the Library, sections of floors 3, 4 and 5 will be closed for about 3  weeks each.  The books affected will be indicated in the catalogue.  To get books in a closed section listed below, please fill out a form at the Welcome Desk.  There will be several pick-ups a day.  Most books will be retrieved within 4 hours during the day, Monday – Friday,  but cannot be retrieved evenings or week-ends.

Once the book has been retrieved, it will be put on “HOLD”  for you at the Circulation desk.

Staff from the Research Help Desk/Reference Department are still available to assist with your research.  We are temporarily located in the Dunton Tower. Please make an appointment with your subject specialist for assistance.  Here is the list of available specialists:  http://www.library.carleton.ca/services/research-help

The John Johnson Collection, an Archive of Printed Ephemera is the product of a partnership between the Bodleian Library and ProQuest which conserved, catalogued and digitised 67,754 documents (a total of 174,196 high-resolution colour images) drawn from the John Johnson Collection of Printed Ephemera. It provides access to a wide array of rare or unique archival materials documenting various aspects of everyday life in Britain in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

This trial ends on June 22, 2012.

We welcome your feedback.

The Carleton University Library invites you to apply for the Carleton University Research Impact Endeavour (CURIE) Fund. The CURIE Fund is a pilot project to provide funds for the reimbursement of reasonable article processing fees for articles authored or co-authored by Carleton researchers. It is available to researchers whose work is published in eligible peer-reviewed open access journals, for which no alternative funding is available.

Applicants are encouraged to read more about the CURIE Fund online, which includes eligibility guidelines, information about how the fund is administered, publicity, and application procedures.  http://www.library.carleton.ca/about/projects/scholarly-communications/curie-fund

If you have any questions about the process, please contact curie@cunet.carleton.ca

Photo curtesy of: h_pampel, Flickr. Uploaded on June 7, 2009; accessed April 30, 2012.

Scholars Portal Earth Day 2012 Library Guide 
See this library guide for resources on climate change, environmentalism, agro-farming and more available through Scholars Portal and the library.

Due to the construction in MacOdrum Library, an alternative Silent study area has been created in Porter Hall (University Centre) during the exam period.

Open from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m:

Thursday April 5
Tuesday April 10 – Friday April 13
Monday April 23 – Tuesday April 24

Due to the ongoing construction to renovate MacOdrum Library, the south side walkway between the library and Southam Hall will be closed to all pedestrian traffic April 12 and 13 due to heavy construction occurring on the outside of the library building.

Persons requiring drop off or pick up by Para Transpo in the Library/Southam Hall area during these two days, should use the University Centre or Paterson Hall pick up and drop off areas.

Please note that access to the library parking garage will not be affected.

Your co-operation and patience during the library construction is appreciated.

"Cambridge Books Online offers access to eBooks covering subjects from all disciplines across science, technology and medicine, as well as humanities and social sciences."

This trial ends May 3, 2012.

We welcome your feedback.

The Brill Middle East and Islamic Studies and the Brill Social Sciences e-book collections, as well as the Martinus Nijhoff International Law collection, have been updated to include all 2011 publication titles. 

For more information on these titles, or to provide feedback, please contact Reference Services

Renovations to update the MacOrdrum Library will require the removal of asbestos containing materials (i.e.textured ceiling finish on the 3rd and 5th floors). Each floor will take approximately two weeks to complete. The asbestos removal work is expected to be finished by the end of April.

The asbestos remediation operations will be completed in accordance to Ontario Regulation 278/05: Asbestos on Construction Projects and in Building and Repair Operations under the Ontario Occupational Health and Safety Act. Carleton’s Environmental Health and Safety Department will be reviewing and inspecting the operations performed by the asbestos abatement contractor, as well as collecting air samples, to ensure the safety of the occupants within the Library and to ensure that compliance with Ontario Regulation 278/05 is maintained at all times.

Facilities Management and Planning appreciates your co-operation.

Irwin Law E-Library currently offers over 100 titles in Law.  New titles are added regularly as they are published.

The trial ends April 9, 2012.

We welcome your feedback on this database.

This new GIS portal will allow access to selected large scale geospatial datasets owned and licensed by Ontario institutions.  Sophisticated search, discovery and analysis tools will make vector and raster data readily available to you at your fingertips.  The data can be exported in a number of popular formats, including as a shapefile, DWG, DXF, GeoTiff, and MrSID.

Scholars GeoPortal is being officially launched on March 1.   Access the Portal at:
http://www.library.carleton.ca/find/databases/scholars-geoportal

For more information, please contact the GIS Librarian, David Sharp
 

Congratulations to Carleton student Verina Defalco, the lucky winner of an iPad. She was one of 350 students,staff and faculty who completed a library feedback form in February. Thanks to everyone who took the time to take the survey about Circulation Desk services. Your ratings and comments will help us to know what we are doing right and what we could do better!

Now share your RefWorks folders to Facebook, Twitter…

Now when you go to share a folder of references in RefWorks you will get more options than just sending a link to someone. You can choose to share to Facebook, Twitter, Linked In… and many more via the usual Add It “Share” toolbar.

We have a trial to Canada Supreme Court Reports (1876-2010) from HeinOnline. This title includes Reports of the Supreme Court of Canada (1876-1923), Canada Law Reports (1923-1969) and Canada Supreme Court Reports (1970) -.

The trial runs until Feb. 29, 2012.

We welcome your feedback on this title.

As part of the Library Renovations, the Reference Collection will be moving into the MADGIC area.  This will make space for the construction of a new Instruction Centre, next to PageBreak, replacing room 102 on Floor 1.  This  new room will provide an excellent space for instruction and be made available as a computer lab and study space for students when not required for teaching. Completion is scheduled for August 2012. 

For a map showing the new location of the Reference Collection, please refer to the Floor Maps page.

For more news on the ongoing renovations, please see the Renovations Category of the News Archive.

Register for a citation management workshop

Come and discover a variety of tools that can help you organize and manage your citations and documents, as well as create bibliographies and papers formatted in a variety of styles (APA, MLA, Chicago...). Tools covered include RefWorks, WizFolio, and Mendeley.

Workshops begin on Feb 7, see full schedule for details

Update: The elevator is now functioning normally.

The elevator serving the 4th and 5th floors of the library is out of service.  We are waiting for a replacement part.  Once we have more information we will post it here.  For assistance in retrieving items for these floors, please ask at the Welcome Desk.

Contact valerie_critchley@carleton.ca for more information.

The Benezit Dictionary of Artists has over 190,000 entries on artists from antiquity to the present day and is one of the most comprehensive and definitive resources on artists in the English language. It contains thousands of auction records, museum holdings and bibliographies, has superb coverage of obscure artists and also includes images of artists’ signatures, monograms and stamps. The database is updated 3 times per year to reflect new scholarship, artists and updates to existing entries.

The Benezit Dictionary of Artists is available on Oxford Art Online and is cross-searchable with Grove Art Online and other Oxford art reference resources.

Guided Tour of database.

The trial has been extended until Feb. 15, 2012.

We welcome your feedback on this database.

Please be advised that the technology-free room (room 507) is no longer available for individual study.  

Instead the room will be used to meet the growing needs of Archives and Research Collections to give access to and host teaching opportunities using their collections. Silent study space is available throughout the floor 3 and floor 5. 

If you have any concerns please contact Valerie Critchley, Associate University Librarian - Building Management and Operational Planning.

The Library staff would like to wish you a safe and happy holiday!

As a reminder, the library building will be closed from Saturday December 24 until Sunday January 1.  Operating hours will resume on Monday January 2 – please see our Library Hours page for the complete Winter term 2012 hours.

Due to the library expansion project, we will be unable to hold exhibits until after the renovation work, expected to be in late 2013.

See our Exhibits Policy for details.

Several units in the compact shelving on the first floor need to be repaired.  The work will take place from Tuesday, November 8 to Thursday, November 10.  At times, some books may be inaccessible for an hour or two.  Library staff will be on hand to help you get material as quickly as possible. 

We are sorry for the inconvenience.

For further information, please contact the Welcome Desk.

Ares will be down on Sunday, November 6th from 8:00 am - 10:00 am to install a new server.
Please email library_reserves@carleton.ca with any questions. We apologize for the inconvenience.

We've just added the 300th video game to our immersive media collection: Rage.

Rage is a mix of first person shooter with driving and RPG elements. Produced by Bethesda Softworks, and recently released, Rage uses the company's new OpenGL based id Tech 5 engine. The game is similar to Fallout 3 and Doom 3, and has won many awards:

• "Best Game" and "Best First Person Shooter"  (Electronic Entertainment Expo) by IGN Media
• "Game of the Show" (E3) by Game Trailers

The Library purchases games in three main platforms: Xbox and Xbox 360, PlayStation 2 and 3 and Wii. Search by title in the library catalogue using the platform name to see which games are available for your console. For example: <title search> Xbox 360.

The Library collects video and board games to support the game development stream in the faculties of science and engineering.

Please follow this link to suggest new purchases.

The Graduate Student Open Access Award, sponsored by the Graduate Student Association, the Library and the Office of the Vice President (Research & International), was established to support Carleton University graduate students in publishing research in open access journals. 

Up to five monetary awards of $1000.00 will be distributed. 

Any GSA member who has a paper published or accepted (pending minor revisions) in an open access journal can apply.  Go to the Graduate Student Open Access Award page to learn more about deadlines and eligibility requirements. 

Back by popular demand, the MacOdrum Library Silent Auction for the United Way.  The auction site is up and ready for your bids. This is a great opportunity to start your Christmas shopping. The last day for the auction is November 2.

Please read the rules carefully before bidding. Bids are only posted twice a day, not immediately.  You will not receive email notification of your bidding, so please keep track.

If you have any questions, please contact silent_auction@carleton.ca. Thank you for supporting the United Way and good luck!

The Library Circle of Friends continues the tradition: Ottawa's best academic book sale!

When

• Thursday, October 27*, noon–9:00
• Friday-Sunday, October 28-30, 9:00am-5:00pm ($2 parking fee)
• Monday, October 31, 9:00am-1:00pm

*Opening day reserved for: students, donors to Carleton University Library, and members of the Circle of Friends (membership available for $25.00).

Where

Galleria – in the UniCentre

What is Open Access?

Open Access provides readers with barrier-free access to journal articles and digital information published on the Web. There is no fee for accessing, printing or downloading material, and is free of most copyright and licensing restrictions.

The Library is celebrating Open Access week by sponsoring three presentations:

• Introduction to DataCite Canada
  Karen Morgenroth (CISTI) and Wendy Watkins (Carleton University Library)
  Monday October 24th, from 2:00-3:00 pm, in Room 235 of the Library
• Data Management and Improving Access to the Products of Research
  Wayne Johnston (University of Guelph)
  Wednesday October 26th, from 3:00-4:00, in Room 235 of the Library
• Open Access Week Celebration (Including announcements about Graduate OA Award and CURVE- Carleton's new Institutional Repository)
  Friday October 28th, from 12:00-1:00.  Please RSVP the Library to attend.

For more information, please contact Laura Newton Miller.

Join moderator Mary Jane Maffini as she talks with book panellists Paulette Bourgois, Dave Cannon, Mark Frutkin and Kate Heartfield about what makes for good books and good reading.

The plenary will begin with each panellist championing his or her favourite book before having a conversation with Mary Jane about books and reading in general.

The book panel takes place on Sunday, October 23 in 303 Paterson Hall from 2 to 4 p.m. For more information and to register, visit the Carleton Reads website.

Register early and you might win a free pass to the Ottawa International Writers Festival!

Vogue is a unique record of American and international popular culture that extends beyond fashion. The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day, with no embargo period.

The trial has been extended until Nov. 25, 2011.

We welcome your feedback on this database.

Come and discover a variety of tools that can help you organize and manage your citations and documents, as well as create bibliographies and papers formatted in a variety of styles (APA, MLA, Chicago...). Tools covered include RefWorks, WizFolio, and Mendeley.

Workshops begin on Sept 22, see full schedule for details

We're getting ready for the coming expansion and renovations.  During construction the library will remain open, and its collections will be made available, during normal hours of operation.

In order to accommodate the changes in the floorplan that the expansion and renovations make necessary, we have to relocate some collections to the Storage Facility.

So far, from the first floor (in compact shelving) our full collection of theses, some law materials, and some government documents have already been moved. The first floor folios have been moved to the third floor.  On the second floor much of the reference collection in print has also been moved.  Many of these materials are available online and we can still retrieve them from Storage for you. Please check the catalogue for details on how to access them.

Stay tuned for more information in the coming weeks about the impact on library space and services.

Carleton's Archives and Research Collections (ARC) has received an investment of $273,000 from the Virtual Museum of Canada (VMC) Investment Programs of the Canadian Heritage Information Network (CHIN) to merge archival holdings with digital interfaces. Under the direction of Stephen Fai (Architecture), Patti Harper (ARC), Brian Greenspan (English) and their partner the Bytown Museum, "Heritage Passages: Bytown and the Rideau Canal" will bring together extensive archival holdings and diverse expertise for the creation of a dynamic web-based exhibition that presents an architectural history of the construction of the Rideau Canal.

Drawing on material from ARC, Ottawa’s Bytown Museum and various archives within Canada and the UK, the project will reveal a series of intertwined narratives that tell the story of the Rideau Canal's building campaign between 1826 and 1855. The exhibition will be available remotely through a website featuring digital models of the area bordered by the East Block and the Chateau Laurier to the west and east respectively, to the north by the Ottawa River, and to the south by Rideau Street. The locks and associated buildings constructed and demolished over the period will be modelled in detail based on archival documentation. Additionally, visitors to the canal will be able to download a GPS-enabled, “augmented reality” smart phone application providing on-site access to interpretive paths directly from significant locations along the canal.

For more information on this project, please contact Carleton's Archives and Research Collections (ARC).

For faculty and instructors: In light of the recent copyright changes, we've implemented a new online system for library reserves - Ares.

Ares makes it easy for you to put your course readings, whether print or electronic, on reserve at the library.  For your students, Ares integrates seamlessly with WebCT for convenient access to your course readings. 

Best of all, Ares helps ensure copyright compliance by only allowing you to post material with the proper clearance.

If you are new to Ares please email library_reserves@carleton.ca for assistance.

For more information, see:

• Library Reserves - Faculty and Instructors
• Copyright at Carleton

Starting this week you’ll notice that we are starting to relocate to the Library Storage Facility the large collection of Carleton theses that are currently located in the compact shelving on the first floor of the Library. There are about 11,500 of them, dating from 1955 to present, and they have to be moved in order to accommodate some other shifts of collections that are going to be happening on the first floor during the summer (and beyond) – specifically, the books on the first floor in the classification ranges from Q through Z are going to be shifted into the compact shelving, and so the theses, government documents, and some law and other materials have to be relocated to storage in order to make room.

You can still access Carleton theses though. The best way is online, as nearly all of the printed theses are also available in electronic format. Just search them in the catalogue, or in the Dissertations and Theses @ Carleton University database, and follow the links. You can also request the retrieval of the preservation copy of a thesis, but it may only be used in the building: you won’t be able to borrow and take it home with you.

The shift likely won’t be completed until the end of August, and until then the printed theses will in effect be inaccessible, as they’ll be in boxes or in transit to the Storage Facility on campus. Once everything is finished, you’ll be able to make a request, and Library staff will retrieve the printed version and have it delivered, generally within 24 hours.

We regret the inconvenience this might cause, but encourage you to use the online versions of the theses in the meantime. If you have any questions, please let us know.

This summer the Scholars Portal Search interface, used by many of our databases, will be discontinued. Most of these databases will be moving to the new ProQuest interface, which promises to help you “discover more”.

As well, all of our existing ProQuest databases on the old ProQuest interface will be updated to this new interface. 

The remainder of the databases on the Scholars Portal Search interface that are not part of the ProQuest family will be redirected to the appropriate vendor site.

Which databases will be affected?

• EconLIT
• Linguistics & Language Behavior Abstracts (LLBA)
• PAIS
• Philosopher’s Index
• PsycINFO
• Sociological Abstracts
• Canadian Newsstand
• CBCA
• Dissertations & Theses Full-Text

... and many more

What this means for you:

• Same content: no loss in coverage
• Updated interface with easier navigation using lightboxes
• Improved ability to refine searches
• All the same advanced features: special thesauri, ability to print, export to RefWorks, search alerts

For help with the transition:

• Quick Start Overview
• Brochure
• Contact our Research Help with any of your questions

When will this happen?

We will be starting to change our links over in early July and hope to have everything migrated by the end of the month.

Official press release from the Carleton Newsroom: Carleton Students to Benefit from Multimillion MacOdrum Library Project.

According to the plans, two floors will be added to the library extension and the entire façade will be replaced (see picture).  All told this will double the study space available to students, as well as create new facilities such as a digital media centre.

Stay tuned for information in the coming weeks about the impact on library space and services. 

We are pleased to announce that we’ve been named as one of the participants in the National Research Council’s DataCite Canada pilot project.

Research data are an important part of Canada’s scientific record. Currently, huge amounts of data are inaccessible or at risk of being lost altogether. As a result, researchers are missing out on the opportunity to re-use and build upon this existing research.

To address these issues and make it easier for researchers to access, share and manage their data, NRC’s Canada Institute for Scientific and Technical Information (NRC-CISTI) is establishing DataCite Canada, a central registration centre for Canadian research data sets.

Wendy Watkins, data librarian and manager of Carleton University's Library Data Centre, is pleased to participate in the pilot because, besides many other social science datasets, the centre holds the only copies of the Canadian Millennium Scholarship Foundation research data collection and is now starting to process it and its metadata to ensure future use.

To view the NRC press release about the pilot project, please go to: http://cisti-icist.nrc-cnrc.gc.ca/eng/services/cisti/datacite-canada/news/2011-06-09-pilot-participants.html.

Would you like your library account to keep track of items you borrow?  If you answered ‘yes’, you’ll need to opt-in to the My Reading History feature. 

To do so, simply login to your Library Account and click on My Reading History, then Opt In.  From that point onward, whenever you borrow a book or other material from the library, it will appear on your My Reading History list. 

For detailed information and instructions, see Enabling My Reading History.

Did you watch the federal election?  Now visit our Elections subject guide to find statistics, maps, books, websites and more on provincial, national, and international elections.  Visit the MADGICAL Web blog to learn more about online election resources and material available in the Maps, Data and Government Information Centre (MADGIC).

Effective August 31, 2011, Carleton University will no longer operate under the interim Access Copyright tariff.  As a result, common University copying practices will need to be changed.  In some cases this will require modifying the way we make copies for teaching, research and administrative purposes.

What does this mean for Carleton faculty, instructors and staff?  Check out the new Copyright at Carleton website for all the relevant information, including guidelines, resources, FAQ and support.

We are delighted to announce that Wayne Jones has accepted the post of Associate University Librarian, Collections and Technical Services.  His first day at Carleton will be June 6, 2011.

Wayne arrives from Queen’s University, where he was the Head of Collection Development and E-Resource Management.  Wayne has worked at Queen’s for 7 years, and has previously worked for M.I.T. and Library and Archives Canada.  He is the author of many books and articles in his field, and is an active member of numerous professional library organizations.

We hope you will join us in welcoming Wayne to the library.

As part of a contest promoting Disabilities Awareness Week (March 21st – 25th), forty-nine Carleton students shared their thoughts on the role of the Library in helping them achieve their academic success. 

The winner received an iPad, which was generously donated by Ristech, suppliers of the Library’s Kirtas 2400 high speed scanner, which enables print resources to be converted to alternate formats.

The top three submissions were:

First prize

The high academic standard and competitive nature that thrives at Carleton University can be very challenging for even the top students. The additional obstacles resulting from a disability can be overwhelming. However, because of the amazing support from Carleton University’s library, these obstacles have become easier to overcome. Library staff has been a big part of my academic success at Carleton, especially Pamela Williamson who I cannot speak highly enough about! She has made sure that my course material is in a format that allows me to accomplish my goals. The addition of the Kirtas 2400 scanner has ensured that all material is available in a timely manner, which has helped me stay on top of my studies. The University library plays a cornerstone role in academic success. Additionally, for those students with disabilities and other challenges, the support staff and services are critical and greatly appreciated.

Second prize

The Carleton library has been instrumental in helping me achieve my academic goals as the technological advancements, amazing support staff and the large resource database continues to evolve. The “Joy Maclaren Adaptive Technology Centre” is the best support centre that I have seen as there are numerous adaptive technologies that I can use to fit my needs and abilities, such as larger keyboards, Dragon Naturally Speaking software and Kurzweil just to name a few. Not only that, but they will also transform my textbook into a pdf or word document so I can easily access my book on the computer and not have to worry about turning pages. Outside of the Centre, the library staff is amazingly helpful if I need to find a book anywhere within the library or from external sources. For the above reasons, I am extremely happy to say that I am a Carleton University student!                                           

Third prize

As a PMC student the MacOdrum Library has helped me achieve academic success by offering convenient student support and services. The knowledgeable resource desk staff have helped me master searching for reference materials, they’ve also provided information about other Library services such as on-line access to books, journals, and articles, and information about RefWorks, and Transcription Services. The people from Writing Tutorial Services have helped me complete several essays, definitely adding to my academic success.  The numerous computer stations, and study areas throughout the Library create an inviting environment making it easy to work when I’m by myself or with others. The copy shop comes in handy, and of course I won’t complain about how easy it is to grab a Starbucks coffee when I need a break. MacOdrum Library offers great student services and support putting the necessary tools for academic success in one convenient location.
 

Once again, the Library observed Earth Hour this year on Saturday March 26 from 8:30pm to 9:30pm.  Thanks to everyone involved, it was another success story, with a 12% energy reduction being recorded at the library building.

We turned off lights on all floors, as well as all computers and photocopiers not in use. Emergency lighting was on at all times, and staff were on duty to assist anyone that needed help.  Normal lighting and computer operation resumed at 9:30pm.

Tell your friends about Earth Hour!