Thursday, September 28, 2006
New Books List
Want to know what's new in the library? You can easily keep up with the library’s new acquisitions by going to http://library.hiu.edu/ and click on New Books List. From there you can search for everything put on the shelves in the last month to four months, or limit to only certain types (i.e., musical recordings), subjects, or specific authors or titles.
Monday, September 25, 2006
Cool Resource: Search with Three Engines at Once
Do you ever wonder if Google really is the best search engine? Do you wonder if you are missing something? If so, try the meta-search engine Jux2 at http://www.jux2.com/. It takes your search terms and employs Google, Yahoo! and MSN Search capabilities to give you one list of results. Then, if you're curious, you can analyze the search by clicking on tabs to compare the results of each of the big three against the others. It will show you what only one of them found, and what it didn't.
Cool!
Cool!
Monday, September 11, 2006
Cool Resource: Interactive Map of Urban Growth
Interactive Map of Urban Growth on the BBC News web site. See how the map changes when you drag the slider along the timeline on the bottom of the page.
Cool!
Cool!
Wednesday, September 06, 2006
Better World Books
Better World Books is a service we use to discard books. In the past, the Library has held a perpetual used book sale. We would bring the books to the entry area of the Library during peak times in order to draw attention to them, but for the most part these books stayed around the Library for a long time. The used book sale shelving was quite full.
Why did we have so many discarded books? There are two ways we typically end up with extra books:
1.) We receive donations that either don't fit with our mission and purpose, or that we already have in the collection. When donating books to a library, donors are made aware that not all books will be retained.
2.) Books that have been withdrawn (weeded) from the collection due to excessive or lack of use over time, irreparable damage, or simply out-living their usefulness to the Hope International University community.
Public libraries often have "Friends of the Library" organizations that receive all book donations and discarded library books on behalf of the library. This organization of volunteers then sells these books at annual book sales. In some cases the "Friends of the Library" even maintains a used book store on the library premises. The proceeds from those sales go back to the library so they can purchase new books that are needed by their patrons. Most academic libraries do not have such an organization, so the library staff must handle these books.
Our Library began using Better World Books during Summer 2006. This organization sends us boxes and packing tape and then pays the shipping costs for us to mail our discarded books to them. Then they sell these books to organizations in developing countries that are in need of English language reading materials. We get a percentage of the sales to buy more books that our students need. The Library staff doesn't have to maintain a book sale, we have more shelving space, we help others, and we get funding for new books. Everybody wins!
Why did we have so many discarded books? There are two ways we typically end up with extra books:
1.) We receive donations that either don't fit with our mission and purpose, or that we already have in the collection. When donating books to a library, donors are made aware that not all books will be retained.
2.) Books that have been withdrawn (weeded) from the collection due to excessive or lack of use over time, irreparable damage, or simply out-living their usefulness to the Hope International University community.
Public libraries often have "Friends of the Library" organizations that receive all book donations and discarded library books on behalf of the library. This organization of volunteers then sells these books at annual book sales. In some cases the "Friends of the Library" even maintains a used book store on the library premises. The proceeds from those sales go back to the library so they can purchase new books that are needed by their patrons. Most academic libraries do not have such an organization, so the library staff must handle these books.
Our Library began using Better World Books during Summer 2006. This organization sends us boxes and packing tape and then pays the shipping costs for us to mail our discarded books to them. Then they sell these books to organizations in developing countries that are in need of English language reading materials. We get a percentage of the sales to buy more books that our students need. The Library staff doesn't have to maintain a book sale, we have more shelving space, we help others, and we get funding for new books. Everybody wins!
Friday, September 01, 2006
What's new with the Library staff?
The Library added much needed administrative help with Bethany Dye (BA, 2005), Support Manager. Her responsibilities and work hours were expanded to full-time at the end of the spring semester. She added Administrative Assistant to her list of roles which includes providing support in nearly every area of the Library -- focusing particularly on coordinating and troubleshooting in the Information Commons and supervising Library operations in the evenings. This is in addition to her "extra-library" role in Instructional Support Services in which she assists faculty with classroom supplies, audiovisual services, and general campus orientation in the evenings.
Terri Bogan, Reference and Instruction Librarian, has been re-elected for another three-year term on the Board of Directors for the Statewide California Electronic Libraries Consortium (SCELC). SCELC is a consortium of private academic libraries and research institutions in the state of California. Terri and her husband, Dave, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary July 18th. Congratulations you two!
Nicole McDermott (BA, 2002), Public Services Manager, with the tireless summer student Library Assistants, John Davies (BA, 2006) and Krystal Harris, completed an inventory of the entire collection. Small incentives and celebrations along the way kept them from going "stir-crazy". John has left us to pursue graduate school in English Literature. Krystal will continue working in the Library as she continues her schooling at Pacific Christian College this fall. Nicky also found some time to vacation with her husband, Louis (BA, 2002), and daughter, Gracie, visiting extended family in New York.
Joe Watson, Cataloger and Audiovisual Services Technician, spent a lot of time doing clean-up of weeding activities (see "Out with the Old..." post) and making progress on several back-burner projects. He also began serving on the University's Safety Committee. But it was not all work for Joe -- he was able to take an Alaskan cruise with his wife, Nancy, and a large family contingency as well.
Sarah Kimakwa (MBA, 2003), Acquisitions Manager, successfully completed her second Fiscal Period Close. She also investigated and started using a service called Better World Books to sell books that have been donated but not added to the collection or withdrawn from the collection. With this service, English literacy programs in developing communities receive the books for practice and the Darling Library recieves funds with which to purchase materials needed to support the Hope curriculum. In late October through November Sarah will take a much needed trip to visit family in Kenya.
Robin Hartman (BA, 1981), contributed to the Hope International University faculty Sunday School Curriuculum project Hope for the Future (Hope International University Press, 2006) providing additional resources. She spent a few long weekends vacationing in and around California with her husband, Gene (BA, 1980), and daughter, Emma.
Terri Bogan, Reference and Instruction Librarian, has been re-elected for another three-year term on the Board of Directors for the Statewide California Electronic Libraries Consortium (SCELC). SCELC is a consortium of private academic libraries and research institutions in the state of California. Terri and her husband, Dave, celebrated their 25th wedding anniversary July 18th. Congratulations you two!
Nicole McDermott (BA, 2002), Public Services Manager, with the tireless summer student Library Assistants, John Davies (BA, 2006) and Krystal Harris, completed an inventory of the entire collection. Small incentives and celebrations along the way kept them from going "stir-crazy". John has left us to pursue graduate school in English Literature. Krystal will continue working in the Library as she continues her schooling at Pacific Christian College this fall. Nicky also found some time to vacation with her husband, Louis (BA, 2002), and daughter, Gracie, visiting extended family in New York.
Joe Watson, Cataloger and Audiovisual Services Technician, spent a lot of time doing clean-up of weeding activities (see "Out with the Old..." post) and making progress on several back-burner projects. He also began serving on the University's Safety Committee. But it was not all work for Joe -- he was able to take an Alaskan cruise with his wife, Nancy, and a large family contingency as well.
Sarah Kimakwa (MBA, 2003), Acquisitions Manager, successfully completed her second Fiscal Period Close. She also investigated and started using a service called Better World Books to sell books that have been donated but not added to the collection or withdrawn from the collection. With this service, English literacy programs in developing communities receive the books for practice and the Darling Library recieves funds with which to purchase materials needed to support the Hope curriculum. In late October through November Sarah will take a much needed trip to visit family in Kenya.
Robin Hartman (BA, 1981), contributed to the Hope International University faculty Sunday School Curriuculum project Hope for the Future (Hope International University Press, 2006) providing additional resources. She spent a few long weekends vacationing in and around California with her husband, Gene (BA, 1980), and daughter, Emma.
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