Chesnutt Library Blog

iMacs at the Library!

2011-11-07T08:52:00.005-05:00

Greetings Broncos,

The library has purchased five Apple iMacs for your use in the library. The computers are located in the Media Center on the 2nd floor of the library. Software loaded on these powerful machines included, iPhoto, iMovie, FaceTime and GarageBand. Each computer also has a built in webcam for your convenience. Also in the Media Center, a Media Technician is available to provide assistance in creating presentations in power point, creating video albums or slide photo shows. Students will use their FSU network user name and password to log on to these computers.

Small groups of students are welcome from 8:00 am. until 6:00 pm. Monday to Friday. Stop by and check out the new iMacs in the Media Center and learn about the media center and its collections.

New Self Check Out Kiosk in the Library!

2011-10-19T14:37:00.005-05:00

Good news Broncos,

The library has purchased and set up a self checkout kiosk for your convenience. At times when the circulation staff is busy, you may simply check out your materials at the kiosk. At this time books are the only resources that may be checked out through the self-checkout kiosk. Other items, such as media, will still need to be checked out by a circulation staff member. To utilize the self checkout machine, you will need to have your Bronco id to begin the process. We hope you find this service to be convenient!

Use the following procedures to checkout your materials.

STEP 1: Swipe your BRONCO ID card.

STEP 2: Scan the Item Barcode in the red laser (usually found on theback inside cover of the book).

STEP 3: Place the book in the “V” slot. After you hear the beep, take the book out. Repeat step 2 and step 3 as needed.

STEP 4: Touch Print Receipt on the monitor.

STEP 5: Take your receipt.

Welcome Broncos!

2011-10-12T10:57:00.000-05:00

Hello Bronco Family,

The staff at Chesnutt Library is eager to assist you in utilizing the variety of library resources and services available to you. We hope that you will use the library to enhance your research in your chosen fields of study.

For this semester we have implemented some changes to create an easier experience for you when trying to access resources. When off campus, you will use your FSU network username and password to log into the databases available to you as an FSU student. You will no longer need to use or remember a pin, as was previously the case.

Additionally, the library staff has been busy identifying better ways to enrich your library experience. More changes may be forthcoming and we will endeavor to keep you updated on any changes that will affect you.

Sincerely,

Shamella Cromartie

Celebrate National Library Week, Thursday, April 14, 2011 at 12:30

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Celebrate National Library Week, Wednesday, April 13, 2011

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There will be several speakers, authors and artists, faculty and students, so please come join us in the J.C. Jones Board of Trustees Room at 12:00 and 1:00. Light Refreshments will be served.

April 13, 2011 at 12:00 p.m. Director Robert Rehder, Veterans Outreach Business Center; Publication: Start-Up! A 60-Minute Guide to Starting Your Business

April 13, 2011 at 1:00 p.m. Professor Shane Booth, Department of Performing and Fine Arts; Art Work: Exhibition of Photographs, Art Space Gallery, Virginia, January-February, 2009 Vulnerability's Groom

Student Presenter: Mr. Jobin Turnbull Art Work Concentration: Printmaking Student Presenter: Ms. Joanna Ali Art Work Concentration: Photography Student Presenter: Ms. Stacey Robinson Art Work Concentration: Printmaking

Tuesday, April 12, 2011, Ms. Alice Phair, National Library Week

2011-04-11T20:00:00.002-05:00

Charles W. Chesnutt Library Celebrates National Library Week - April 10, 2011 - April 16, 2011

2011-04-11T16:38:00.015-05:00

The Charles W. Chesnutt Library invites you to attend events celebrating National Library Week, beginning Sunday, April 10, 2011 through Saturday, April 16, 2011. The theme is “FSU Talent Create Your Own Story @ Chesnutt Library.”

Authors and Artists are scheduled to speak about their works. Classes are welcome and presentations are open to the public. Please come and join us. Presentations are to be held in the J.C. Jones Board of Trustees Room on the Second Floor of the Library. Light refreshments will be served.

Provided below is a calendar of presentations:

Monday, April 11, 2011, at 10:00 a.m.

Faculty Presenter: Rev. Dr. Joseph Osei, Associate Professor of Philosophy, Department of Government and History Publication: Osei, J. (2011). Ethical Issues in Third World Development: A Philosophy of Social Change. Lewiston, N. Y.: Edwin Mellen Press.

Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at 1:00 p.m.

Student Presenter: Ms. Alice Phair, Visual Arts Major, Department of Performing and Fine Arts Art Work Concentration: Ceramics

Wednesday, April 13, 2011, at 8:30 a.m. CANCELLED; TO BE RESCHEDULED

Faculty Presenter: Dr. Oliver Johnson, Assistant Professor of Social Work, Department of Social Work Publication: Risk, Resiliency, and Protective Factors Among Cocaine Dependent African American Men: Implications for Social Work Practice

Wednesday, April 13, 2011, at 12:00 p.m.

Faculty Presenter: Mr. Robert Rehder, Director, Veterans Business Outreach Center Publication: Rehder, R. (2010). Start-Up!: A 60-Minute Guide to Starting Your Business. Wilmington, N.C.: Broadfoot Publishing Co.

Wednesday, April 13, 2011, at 1:00 p.m.

Faculty Presenter: Professor Shane Booth, Assistant Professor of Photography, Department of Performing and Fine Arts Art Work: Exhibition of Photographs, Art Space Gallery, Virginia, January-February, 2009 Vulnerability’s Groom (This “body of work deals with HIV and some of the feelings and emotions that one goes through while dealing with a positive diagnosis.”)

Student Presenter: Mr. Jobin Turnbull, Visual Arts Major, Department of Performing and Fine Arts Art Work Concentration: Printmaking

Student Presenter: Ms. Joanna Ali, Visual Arts Major, Department of Performing and Fine Arts Art Work Concentration: Photography

Student Presenter: Mr. Stacey Robinson, Visual Arts Major, Department of Performing and Fine Arts Art Work Concentration: Printmaking

Thursday, April 14, 2011, at 12:30 p.m.

Faculty Presenter: Dr. Gregory Sadler, Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Department of Government and History Publication: Sadler, G. B., ed. (2011). Reason Fulfilled by Revelation: The 1930’s Christian Philosophy Debates in France. Washington, D.C.: Catholic University Press of America.

Thursday, April 14, 2011, at 2:00 p.m. CANCELLED; TO BE RESCHEDULED

Staff Presenter: Mr. Craig Tuttle, University Archivist, Charles W. Chesnutt Library Publication: Tuttle, C. (2011). Ounce of Preservation: A Guide to the Care of Papers and Photographs.

Please contact Jan Whitfield for more information at jwhitfield@uncfsu.edu or 910-672-1750.

Chesnutt Library Film Festival

2011-04-04T10:15:00.005-05:00

New Movie for March 23, 2011

2011-03-23T11:10:00.003-05:00

The movie for March 23 at 2:00 pm will be Daughters of the Dust. We apologize for any inconvenience; the movie Fly Girls will be shown at a later date.

Women's History Month Movies at Chesnutt Library

2011-03-11T16:59:00.003-05:00

Join us as we celebrate women trailblazers @ Chesnutt Library!

Celebrate Black History Month @ Chesnutt Library

2011-02-22T10:43:00.003-05:00

Dr. Annie McCullough-Chavis, FSU Professor, Author and Alumna will speak on Genograms and African Americans on Wednesday, February 23, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. in the Library Conference Room, 3rd Floor, Charles W. Chesnutt Library. FSU. Light Refreshments Provided.

Celebrate Black History @ Chesnutt Library

2011-02-15T18:48:00.006-05:00

Dr. Terence Hicks, The Educational Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward County, Virginia (1959-1964): Personal Accounts and Reflections on Thursday, February 17, 2011 at 2:00 p.m. in the J.C. Jones Board of Trustees Room, 2nd Floor, Charles W. Chesnutt Library. FSU. Light Refreshments Provided.

Black History Month Movies at Chesnutt Library

2011-02-11T10:13:00.003-05:00

Blood Done Sign My Name on Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 11:00 a.m. in the J.C. Jones Board of Trustees Room, 2nd Floor, Charles W. Chesnutt Library.

"The 2011 McGraw-Hill Black History Month Essay Contest"

2011-02-07T14:33:00.001-05:00

The McGraw-Hill Companies, recognized as the #1 employer on the HBCU Connect Top 50 Employer list for 2 consecutive years, along with HBCU Connect, is proud to announce the 2nd annual Black History Month Essay Contest!

The Essay Contest is open to all undergraduate and graduate students who attend a Historically Black College or University. Students must be able to show proof of enrollment status.

The top three winners will receive an Amazon Kindle and a copy of the e-Book: "Influence: The Power to Change Anything". The 10 runners up will receive a hard copy of the same book.

All participants who submit an essay are also encouraged to submit a resume if they are interested in an internship at The McGraw-Hill Companies.

Instructions:

In 500 words or less, explain how being educated at a Historically Black College or University will help you be a future influencer.

• Essay submission deadline: February 28, 2011

• Essay word limit: 500 maximum

• Participants are encouraged to submit their resume along with the Essay

• Contact scholarships@hbcuconnect.com if you have any questions

• Winners will be announced by March 31st

Submit your essay by visiting:

http://hbcuconnect.com/scholarships/mcgrawhill.shtml

Carlotta Walls LaNier to Speak January 20, 2011 at 6:00 p.m. Seabrook Auditorium

2011-01-18T19:41:00.006-05:00

Images and Captions from Chesnutt Library Databases

© Getty Images
Source: GETTY
Copyright: ©Getty Images
Location: United States
Caption: "1957: The 'Little Rock Nine'. Reading from top left, Gloria Ray, Terrance Roberts, Melba Patillo, Elizabeth Eckford, Ernest Green, Minnijean Brown, Jefferson Thomas, Carlotta Walls and Thelma Mothershed, students who were barred from entering high school by the Arkansas National Guard and a white mob. For their bravery they were awarded the 1958 Springarn medal. (Photo by MPI/Getty Images)" -- Image Date: 1/1/1957 Accession Number: imh219020 Date: 19570101 Database: Image Collection

© @ 1999 by United Press International
Source: UPI
Copyright: © @1999 by United Press International
City: Washington
State: DC
Location: USA
Caption: WAP99110905 - 09 NOVEMBER 1999 - WASHINGTON, DC, USA: Left to right the members of the Little Rock Nine: Terrance Roberts, Elizabeth Eckford, Gloria Ray Karlmark, Thelma Mothershed Wair, Minnijean Brown Trickey, Carlotta Walls LaNier, Melba Pattillo Beals, Jefferson Thomas, Ernest Green, and President Clinton during the presentation of the Congressional Gold Medal at the White House, November 9. The Little Rock Nine are the nine African-American students that integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas, under armed protection from segregationists in 1957. jr/jr/Joel Rennich UPI
Accession Number: imh127568
Date: 19991109
Database: Image Collection

African American History Sources and Databases in Chesnutt Library

2011-01-18T18:46:00.003-05:00

Databases contain full text articles, books, music, biographies, poems, drama, philosophy, pictures and much more. Get acquainted with these resources that focus on African Americans and their history. They are available through your 24 X 7 access to Chesnutt Library's online resources. FSU affiliated patrons can login through My Library Record to access these resources. They are listed under the Articles and Databases link on the Library's home page.

Black Studies Center Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals and historical newspaper articles.

Oxford African American Studies Center The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 8,000 articles by top scholars in the field. The core content includes: Africana Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present Black Women in America, Second Edition African American National Biography.

Race Relations Abstracts Bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 43,000 records.

African American Music Reference Contains 50,000 pages that offers the first comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. This release includes 4,426 essays and images from 128 sources, over 35411 pages.

African American Poetry Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Indexed from 1750 to 1900.

African American Song African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. This release features some 16,000 tracks. Earphones are required to use the resource in the library.

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography A collection of the life histories of former slaves in the United States compiled through nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves.

Black Drama This edition of Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. An Alexander Street Press database.

Black Short Fiction Black Short Fiction contains approximately 4,919 stories and folktales by 435 African, African American, and Caribbean authors. When complete this collection should have approximately 8,000 works of short fiction.

Black Thought and Culture Black Thought and Culture contains 989 sources with 947 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.

Black Women Writers Black Women Writers will contain approximately 100,000 pages of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean. It will also present essays by scholars and feminists about the history of feminism and genre studies in these regions. There are 13,000 pages of text in this first release.

Twentieth Century African-American Poetry "A database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century."

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month

2010-10-28T10:58:00.003-05:00

Chesnutt Library staff members dressed in pink on October 27, 2010 in recognition of October being Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Breast cancer is the most common form of cancer, other than some types of skin cancer, that occurs in women. It is the leading cause of cancer deaths among Hispanic women and the second leading cause of cancer deaths among women who are white, black, Asian/Pacific Islander, and American Indian/Alaska Native. Several risk factors may affect the likelihood of developing breast cancer including age and individual or family history of breast cancer, among other factors. Screening methods for breast cancer include mammograms, clinical breast exams, and breast self-exams.

Book Signing “Secrets of the Negro Leagues” Friday, October 23, 2010 at 10:00 a.m.

2010-10-22T08:12:00.006-05:00

Fayetteville State University Welcomes
Dennis L. Biddle "Bose Biddle and Carl Long
From the former Negro Baseball League

Carl Long
"Birmingham Black Barons"
1952-1953

Dennis L. Biddle "Bose Biddle
"Chicago American Giants"
1953-1955

Friday October 23, 2010
Book Signing "Secrets of the Negro Leagues"
Location: CHARLES CHESNUT LIBRARY
FAYETTEVILLE STATE UNIVERSITY
10:00 am - 11:30 am

Chesnutt Library Fellows Information Literacy Program

2010-10-18T10:48:00.002-05:00

Are you interested in including information literacy in your classes? Then you should become a Chesnutt Library Fellow! According to the Association of College & Research Libraries Information Literacy Standards & Guidelines:
“Developing lifelong learners is central to the mission of higher education institutions. By ensuring that individuals have the intellectual abilities of reasoning and critical thinking, and by helping them construct a framework for learning how to learn, colleges and universities provide the foundation for continued growth throughout their careers, as well as in their roles as informed citizens and members of communities. Information literacy is a key component of, and contributor to, lifelong learning.”

The Chesnutt Library Fellows Program consists of three faculty/librarian collaboration presentations/workshops scheduled for December 13th & 14th, 2010. The goal of these workshops is to integrate information literacy into the classroom. Through these workshops faculty and librarians can work together to create activities and exercises that will promote resource-based learning outside of the classroom, encourage use of library resources, and equip students with the skills they will need in higher education and beyond. These workshops will be facilitated by consultants and a $ 2,000 stipend will be provided to each participating faculty member. The first $ 1,000 will be provided at workshop conclusion and proof of attendance for both days. The second $ 1,000 will be presented after all required grant elements have been completed.

The three workshops will cover:

December 13th AM Session includes: Chesnutt Library Fellows Second Cohort Presentations
December 13th PM Session includes: ACRL Information Literacy Competency Standards in Higher Education; Learning Styles; and Identifying Student Information Literacy Skills
December 14th, AM Session includes: Teaching Research Skills Using Web 2.0 & Other Technologies; and Development & Design of Assessment Tools and Rubrics
December 14th, PM Session includes: Plagiarism & Academic Dishonesty; and Plotting Information Literacy Strategies for the Next Semester

Participants are expected to:

Attend all workshops and present findings
Attend four collaborative sessions with designated librarians
Modify a course to include information literacy objectives
Give a pre-assessment & a post-assessment
Include an assignment in their syllabus that requires students to find, evaluate, and effectively use information literacy

There will be opportunities to attend regional and national conferences dealing with Information Literacy.

To apply please fill out the information listed below and return it, along with your syllabus & statement of interest, to either Andrea Putnam, amputnam@uncfsu.edu or Jan Whitfield jwhitfield@uncfsu.edu. The deadline for submissions is Thursday, October 28, 2010.
The Chesnutt Library Fellows initiative is supported with funds from Title III.

CHESNUTT LIBRARY FELLOWS PROGRAM APPLICATION

Contact Information

Name

Campus Address

Home Address

Department

Work Phone

E-Mail Address

Assigned Courses

Research Interests

Do you currently have a library assignment in your course syllabus?

In a 250 word statement, please explain why you believe information literacy should be incorporated into course syllabi.

Global Market Information Database Training, October 12, 2010 at 3:00 p.m.

2010-10-08T12:55:00.002-05:00

There will be training offered on Euromonitor’s Global Market Information Database - GMID on Tuesday, October 12, 2010 in Chesnutt Library, 3rd Floor Library Conference Room, Fayetteville State University. All faculty, students and staff are welcome to atend. Light refreshments will be served.

The Global Market Information Database (GMID) allows one to search countries for consumer and industry information. The following information is avaialable: Consumer Markets; Industrial Markets; Service Markets; Business Environment; Consumer Behavior; Consumer Expenditure and Prices; Economy and Finance; Energy and Environment; Foreign Trade; Government; Health; Households and Homes; Income; Industrial Output and Agriculture; IT and Communications; Labor and Education; Leisure and Lifestyles; Population; Savings; and Transport and Automotives. It contains:

· 8 million internationally comparable statistics
· 17,000 full market reports
· Comments on emerging industry, country and consumer trends
· Thousands of sources providing further research information
· Powerful data analysis functions allowing you to customize data for specific needs

GMID supports teaching and research across a range of disciplines:

· International business and marketing
· Economics
· Social sciences
· Humanities
· Geography
· Travel and tourism
· International hospitality management
· Food marketing
· International relations
· Environmental health

Please contact Jan Whitfield for further information at jwhitfield@uncfsu.edu or 910-672-1750.

North Carolina Archives Week is October 4th – 10th 2010

2010-10-06T13:06:00.003-05:00

This week was established to recognize the importance of archival and historical documentation in our society. During archives week institutions throughout the state conduct open houses, exhibit their holdings, conduct lectures and workshops, and hold other events to enhance public awareness and understanding of the role that this documentation plays in our lives.

The Archives and Special Collections Depatment, http://library.uncfsu.edu/Archives/ArchivesSpecialCollectionsDept.htm at Chesnutt Library, Fayetteville State University, invites everyone to visit the department to learn about our archival and historical holdings.

For further information regarding North Carolina Archives Week, please visit the following links:

http://www.ncarchivists.org/archives_week/

http://www.archives.ncdcr.gov/archives_week/index.htm

http://news.ncdcr.gov/2010/09/30/nc-archives-week-oct-4-10-connecting-you-to-the-past/

http://ncarchives.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/north-carolina-archives-week/

Chancellor’s Reading Club 2010: There Are No Children Here

2010-09-16T09:44:00.005-05:00

There Are No Children Here: the Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America by Alex Kotlowitz

Chancellor’s Reading Club Website http://www.uncfsu.edu/readingclub/index.htm

Chesnutt Library’s Subject Guide http://library.uncfsu.edu/reference/ThereAreNoChildrenHere.pdf

Author’s Visit to Fayetteville State University on September 16, 2010 at 11:00 a.m. Book Signing in FSU Bookstore and 2:00 p.m. Presentation in Seabrook Auditorium

“Alex Kotlowitz is perhaps best known for the bestselling There Are No Children Here: The Story of Two Boys Growing Up in the Other America. The book, which was published in 1991 and has since sold over half-a-million copies, was the recipient of numerous awards, including the Helen B. Bernstein Award for Excellence in Journalism, the Carl Sandburg Award and a Christopher Award. The New York Public Library selected There Are No Children Here as one of the 150 most important books of the century. In the fall of 1993, it was adapted for television as an ABC Movie-of-the-Week starring Oprah Winfrey.” From: AlexKotlowitz.Com: http://alexkotlowitz.com/01.html

Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week, September 12 - 18, 2010

2010-09-13T10:06:00.002-05:00

The White House

Office of the Press Secretary

For Immediate Release September 10, 2010
Presidential Proclamation--Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week

A PROCLAMATION

Early in our Nation's history, higher education was not possible for most African Americans, and simple lessons in reading and writing were often conducted in secret. With a unique mission to meet the educational needs of African Americans, Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) have been valued resources for our country since their inception before the Civil War. Historically Black Colleges and Universities have opened doors and cultivated dreams, and the contributions of their founders, faculty, students, and graduates have shaped our growth and progress as a Nation. During National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week, we honor these pillars of higher education in America, and we pay tribute to those who have worked to realize their promise.

Bastions of heritage and scholarship, HBCUs have produced African American medical professionals, lawyers, educators, and public officials throughout their history. Countless individuals have worked tirelessly to cultivate HBCUs, and their legacy is seen in graduates whose achievements adorn the pages of American history. From Booker T. Washington to Mary McLeod Bethune, Dr. W.E.B. DuBois to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., HBCU visionaries and graduates have set powerful examples of leadership, built our middle class, strengthened our economy, served in our Armed Forces, and secured their place in the American story.

HBCUs are important engines of economic growth and community service and will continue to play a vital role in helping America achieve our goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020. This year, I was proud to sign an Executive Order to strengthen the White House Initiative on HBCUs, which will collaborate with government agencies, educational associations, philanthropic organizations, the private sector, and other partners to increase the capacity of HBCUs to provide the highest-quality education to a greater number of students. Together, we will ensure HBCUs continue fostering determination in their students, instilling pride in their alumni, and adding rungs to our Nation's ladder of opportunity for future generations.

During National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week, we celebrate the immeasurable contributions these crucibles of learning have made to our Nation. As we continue strengthening the capacity of HBCUs, let us also recommit to preserving and enriching their long tradition of hope and success, and to sustaining our collective effort to meet and exceed America's goals for educational excellence.

NOW, THEREFORE, I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, by virtue of the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States, do hereby proclaim September 12 through September 18, 2010, as National Historically Black Colleges and Universities Week. I call upon all public officials, educators, librarians, and Americans to observe this week with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities that acknowledge the tremendous achievements HBCUs and their graduates have made to our country.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of September, in the year of our Lord two thousand ten, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and thirty-fifth.

BARACK OBAMA

New Liaison Program at Chesnutt Library

2010-09-02T16:41:00.006-05:00

Dear FSU Faculty:

Welcome back to another busy and exciting school year at Fayetteville State University. We trust that you are in agreement that 2010-2011 will be an unparalleled year of excellence and unprecedented accomplishments for FSU.

As a vital resource of the institution, Chesnutt Library is initiating its liaison program to academic departments in order to better collaborate with faculty to provide enhanced services and quality educational materials for our students. The objective of the liaison program is to provide faculty with a voice in library collection development as it relates to their particular departments and subjects.

To supplement the many academic programs FSU offers, the library provides a wide array of services and resources. Each of these services will serve to enhance the quality of learning for students here at Fayetteville State University. Those services include, but are not limited to:

An impressive collection of databases that can be accessed on and off campus
A shared online catalog with UNC-Wilmington and UNC-Pembroke in which their book materials can be sent to FSU for student pick-up
Interlibrary loan services that offers access to materials that Chesnutt Library does not own. This service includes materials that can be accessed through DocLine.
Custom bibliographic instruction sessions for your classes
Media collection with sources in multiple formats and on many disciplines with viewing areas and a production facility
Statistical information from numerous government agencies available within the Government Documents department
Archives and Special Collections, which maintains and develops a collection of official records and materials of significant historical value related to Fayetteville State University
Thousands of academic journal and periodical titles in current and back issues.

We look forward to working you throughout the semester. Again, please note that your library liaison is available to attend departmental meetings, to relay purchase requests to the library’s collection development department, to serve as a first contact for faculty and students in your department, to arrange training in the use of electronic information resources, as well as bibliographic instruction, and to keep you informed about new Library resources and programs.

Library liaisons will be reaching out to you in the coming weeks. For more information, please contact Jan Whitfield, Head of Public Services, jwhitfield@uncfsu.edu, 910-672-1750.

Fayetteville State University featured in Diverse Issues in Higher Education

2010-07-27T10:48:00.003-05:00

Fayetteville State University to Launch College Journalism Program

by Kenneth J. Cooper , July 27, 2010

Dr. Todd S. Frobish, interim chairman of the Department of Communication at Fayetteville State University

The news industry has been shrinking, so much so that some civic leaders worry the country’s democratic future may be threatened if there aren’t enough independent watchdogs to keep an eye on government.

But at Fayetteville State University, media studies are growing. This fall, the historically Black school in North Carolina launches an undergraduate program in journalism, four years after creating one in mass communication.

Fayetteville State appears to be one of the few campuses in the country starting new academic programs in those fields. Nationally, enrollment in journalism and mass communication programs has increased slightly in recent years, mostly because more students are pursuing coursework in public relations and advertising. In 20 years, they have risen from 23 to 42 percent of total enrollment.

The pattern is similar for students of color but the small upticks in their numbers have pushed enrollments to record levels. In 2008, the latest figures available, 31 percent of undergraduates in journalism and mass communication programs were racial or ethnic minorities, the most since University of Georgia researchers started taking an annual survey in 1989. The figure was 40 percent for master’s students and 52 percent for doctoral candidates, both also records.

Black undergraduates made up 13 percent of those preparing for media jobs. Most attended traditionally White schools. About 3.5 percent of all undergraduates enrolled in the programs went to historically Black colleges and universities, according to a Diverse analysis of the 2008 Annual Survey of Journalism & Mass Communication Enrollments.

Fayetteville State decided to establish the new degree programs in journalism and mass communication after lengthy deliberations. As part of the University of North Carolina system, the campus had to submit its plans to state higher education bodies for approval.

Dr. Todd S. Frobish, interim chairman of the Department of Communication, says almost twice as many students are majoring in mass or speech communication as the university had projected. The program’s first graduates, he says, have taken jobs at broadcast or cable television networks or pursued graduate degrees — the last a pragmatic choice often made in a weak economy.

Frobish says future journalism graduates from Fayetteville State could find work in the southeastern section of North Carolina that the school serves, although it’s not a particularly fertile media market, or doing one of many nontraditional journalism jobs, such as Web producers or video production assistants, around the country that he has seen listed on online employment services.

“We still need professionally trained journalists in the world,” he says. “That’s our job — to train these journalists for the new world of journalism.”

The leader of the main accrediting body for media studies agrees there are opportunities, despite the shrinkage and flux in the news business.

“There are still jobs. They [employers] want students with multiple skills,” says Susanne Shaw, executive director of the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications.

Fayetteville State is making its bold moves into an uncertain media future in part to fix some awkwardness in its academic structure. For more than two decades, the field closest to journalism offered at the school — communication — was placed under theater studies. “That wasn’t working,” Frobish says.

So in 2006, the school began to offer a bachelor’s degree with a concentration in either speech or mass communication. It took a year and a half to gain needed approvals from the University of North Carolina system and its board of governors.

Frobish, a speech communication specialist whose research focuses on computer technology as a tool to persuade the public, was made coordinator of the new communication program. Despite the academic upgrade, the media field initially remained part of the Department of Performing and Fine Arts, along with theater, music and visual art.

Campus surveys had indicated the communication degree program would prove popular with students. Actually, demand was underestimated — without a boost from advertising and public relations tracks, which the school does not offer. Frobish says 80 majors were anticipated but after four years the number has reached 140. Of that total, 90 to 100 are in mass communication, with the rest in speech communication.

The rapid growth led to Frobish’s successful request, a year and a half ago, to create a separate Department of Communication. “We grew so fast and so large. We’re bigger than the other three areas combined,” he says.

It may grow bigger still with the addition of a journalism concentration this fall. Three new professors have been hired: two journalists and an audio-video production specialist. Another journalist is already on the faculty. Initially, about 20 journalism majors are expected to choose from print, broadcast and graphics tracks.

The nearest public institution with a journalism degree program is the University of North Carolina at Pembroke, located 35 miles away from Fayetteville State.

“There’s no school in this area that does journalism,” Frobish says. “We’ll be a job training site for local media. We’ll be filling that need in this area.”

He says Fayetteville State’s journalism courses will be supplemented by student work on an Internet radio station and National Public Radio affiliate WFSS, both on campus, as well as television studio that will begin to produce closed-circuit programs after being unused for two decades. This fall, the frequency of the student paper, The Voice, will be increased to weekly from biweekly.

D. Jordan Whichard, former publisher of the Daily Reflector in Greenville, N.C., says a continuing demand exists in the state for journalism graduates who have writing and editing skills, an ethical grounding and an understanding of the humanities and social sciences. “Those are valuable skills, and they’re valuable in the job market,” he says.

Whichard notes a decline in the number of traditional newspaper jobs but “students who come out of journalism jobs aren’t limited to that,” pointing to new opportunities in Internet-based media and niche publications.

Neither the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication, which represents educators, nor the Accrediting Council on Education in Journalism and Mass Communications keeps a count of new academic programs.

But Shaw says, “There are new schools each year that seek initial accreditation.” Some have relatively new programs that have operated for a few years before pursuing specialized accreditation, as Frobish says Fayetteville State plans to do within the next five years.

This fall, for example, the council has scheduled site visits to three colleges, including one HBCU that she declined to identify to spare the school embarrassment in the event it is turned down. The council accredits programs at 113 colleges. Nine are historically Black universities: Howard, Florida A&M, Savannah State, Grambling, Southern, Jackson State, North Carolina A&T State, Hampton and Norfolk State.

The 2008 survey covers 480 colleges, including 30 HBCUs, which together enrolled nearly 7,000 undergraduates in journalism and mass communications. The sample of Black schools was not complete; Howard and Fayetteville State were omitted — apparently because they are not listed in either of the journalism education guides that the researchers used as sources.

The average enrollment in the HBCU programs was about 230. The largest program in the survey was Clark-Atlanta University’s, with 720 undergraduates.

Shaw, a former newspaper editor who is a journalism professor at the University of Kansas, says academic programs have experienced “rapidly changing curriculum” to keep up with changes in the news business. Now they are teaching students how to write a story, shoot video and post it all on the Web.

Frobish says Fayetteville State will start with a traditional journalism program and, once the three new faculty arrive this fall, discuss changes to suit the new job market.

“I think anytime you create a new program, it’s experimental,” he says. “Journalism is in such a transitional state. We’ll have to evolve the program as journalism evolves.”

New Employees at Chesnutt Library!

2010-07-22T09:06:00.005-05:00

Andrea Putnam is the Bibliographic Instruction and Distance Education Librarian.
She began her position at Charles Chesnutt Library on March 15, 2010. Andrea graduated from University of Toronto, Canada with a Bachelor of Arts double major in Political Science and English in 2005, and a Master of Science in Library and Information Science from Drexel University, Philadelphia in 2008. She has 14 years experience in public libraries, working in over 25 library branches. Andrea encourages professors and instructors to reach out to her for in-class library instruction, as well as consultations with students. She supports the US Military by her dedicated service as a military wife. She can be reached at 910-672-1242, or by email at amputnam@uncfsu.edu.

Shamella Cromartie is the Government Documents and Reference Assistant at the Charles W. Chesnutt Library at Fayetteville State University. She began her position on February 1, 2010 after working in a public library over 10 years. She works half time in the Government Documents department and half time in the Reference Department. Shamella is an alumni of Fayetteville State University, having graduated in 2008 with a Bachelor of Science in Criminal Justice and Bachelor of Arts in Political Science. She is currently pursuing her MLS from North Carolina Central University. She can be reached in the Government Documents Department (9:00-1:00) at 910-672-1519 or in the Reference Department (2:00-6:00) at 910-672-1230, or by email at scromart@uncfsu.edu .

Editorial: Diversity on Capitol Hill: HBCU’s Should Take the First Step

2010-07-14T16:54:00.000-05:00

The following is an editorial by Elesia Summers-Thomas, an alumnus and current graduate student at North Carolina A&T State University and congressional intern.

November 4, 2008 was a remarkable day. We had new leadership, President Obama, the first African American President. After that day many believed America had arrived and all were accepted. We had overcome that someday sung by so many of our ancestors, so some thought. Many have had and have a false reality of what truly exist.

On a recent trip to Capitol Hill in one of the House of Representatives Office Buildings, I became increasingly excited by the number of young people working with the policies that affect our daily lives. Yet, I noticed young African Americans were few and far between. My excitement shifted to curiosity as I wondered where all the young people like me were. Where were the political science majors, Young Democrats, and even student government association members? Then it dawned on me, they weren’t there. Don’t get me wrong, there are some young black people working in policy on Capitol Hill. But from what I saw, it just wasn’t many.

My excitement was restored when I met a young lady all suited up. I assumed she worked somewhere in the building which gave me some piece of mind because I hadn’t seen any African American females. Unfortunately, after speaking with her I found out she was a college student and was just visiting.

As the generation that is speaking out more than ever, voting more than ever, and eager to change the world, why are we underrepresented? Does our generation not understand the very things we complain about would be easier to change if we played a direct role in the policies being made?

We are more than capable to play the role of the policy maker or at least work for one. We should be knowledgeable of our politicians and hold them accountable to keep our generation in mind as they are voting. We can do more, and we need to do more or I’m afraid twenty years from now the policies being made won’t represent us at all. We complain and tell ourselves we are making big strides, but truthfully, we are not taking the steps to make the difference we claim to be making.

How can HBCU’s help? There are so many ways to gain experience and exposure to the political world. Congressional internships are a great way to get your feet wet. The Congressional Black Caucus offers great opportunities for minorities. I believe HBCU’s could help enormously by pushing politics beyond political science majors. People on Capitol Hill have various degrees. HBCU’s should influence students to use their degrees to advance our community.

There is a great need for more young African Americans on Capitol Hill. Someone has to continue to speak for us when no one will. One African American president can not do it by himself. After him, who else will make the difference? Who better to step up to the plate than students of the institutions that spoke on our behalf when no one else would?

Improving the Image of HBCU's (An Urgent Need)

2010-07-06T16:34:00.005-05:00

From: The Chronicle of Higher Education, Wednesday June 30, 2010

June 27, 2010
Black Colleges See a Need to Improve Their Image
By Eric Kelderman
Durham, N.C.

The nation's historically black colleges are being challenged from within to overhaul their operations and image as they face outside pressures for more accountability.

Once the only higher-education option for black students, historically black colleges now enroll just 12 percent of black students, although they award 30 percent of the baccalaureate degrees earned by all black students. While a handful of the 105 colleges maintain a strong national reputation, many have long struggled with limited finances and questions about how well they are managed and the quality of their education.

The urgent calls for change were made at a two-day symposium capping the centennial celebration of North Carolina Central University, the nation's first public liberal-arts institution for black students. College presidents, faculty members, and experts in the education of minority students said at the June event that historically black colleges must improve fund-raising strategies and student services, diversify their curricula, and adapt technologically. The goal, say leaders of black colleges, is a major transformation in how the American public, and especially high-performing potential students, view the institutions. The survival of the minority-serving institutions depends on their ability to change, said several speakers.

Roderick J. McDavis, president of Ohio University, said his institution and other traditionally white institutions are in competition for the best minority students, who once would have automatically enrolled at black colleges. Yet if most historically black colleges are going to survive, they need to reclaim their role as the best place for black students to succeed, said Mr. McDavis and others.

"I came today to challenge you to take your rightful place back," he said at the end of a speech that sparked a standing ovation. "Other institutions are trying to take your students."

The federal government, too, has put pressure on historically black institutions to improve. White House officials have touted the promise of historically black colleges and successfully pressed for billions more in federal dollars for them and other minority-serving institutions. Administration officials also expect the institutions to improve graduation rates to help fulfill President Obama's goal of having the highest proportion of college graduates in the world by 2020.

The colleges are feeling pressure as well from cash-strapped states, with lawmakers in Georgia and Mississippi suggesting that some historically black colleges be merged to save money.

Bricks Without Straw

The factors forcing change on historically black colleges have reached a tipping point over the past two years, as the economic downturn has led institutions of all kinds to re-examine their missions and consider how they will survive in a changing higher-education landscape.

The effects of the nation's fiscal woes have fallen largely on colleges, including historically black colleges, that primarily serve the fast-growing number of low-income, first-generation students who generally require more support and financial aid from the institutions to succeed academically.

Leaders of black colleges fear that the nation's changing demographics and economic situation will exacerbate the historical disadvantages of their institutions, which were mostly founded in the late 19th and early 20th centuries to lift the population of newly freed slaves from illiteracy and poverty.

Historically black colleges were "created and sustained on faith" instead of generous amounts of seed money, said Haywood L. Strickland, president of Wiley College, in Marshall, Tex. "We still live on that bricks-without-straw concept," he said, referring to the Bible story of the Hebrew slaves in Egypt who were forced to make bricks with mud only.

Marybeth Gasman, an associate professor of higher education at the University of Pennsylvania who studies historically black colleges, said federal programs meant to erase the effects of historical inequities in resources—such as Title III grants that can be used for endowments or faculty development, and the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, established in 1981—have been well-meaning but insufficient. The average grant for Title III, for example, is $2-million, she said, which is too little to bring the colleges to parity with other institutions.

Most historically black colleges have not been able to improve their finances by winning federal research grants, Ms. Gasman said, in part, because they lack staff and faculty members with expertise in seeking those awards. And, similar to traditionally white institutions, the research grants that are awarded go to a select few. The top 10 historically black colleges receive nearly 53 percent of the federal research money that is given to any historically black college, according to a 2008 report by the Congressional Research Service.

While speakers at the symposium called for more help from the federal government, including aid in applying for research grants, they acknowledged that colleges had to do a better job of helping themselves. For instance, they must solicit support from board members and alumni, who have a poor record of donating to their institutions' endowments, speakers said.

In North Carolina, for example, the average endowment per full-time student in 2006 was $2,183 at the state's 11 historically black colleges and more than $17,500 at other institutions, according to North Carolina Central University.

The disparities in endowment values have often been blamed on higher rates of poverty among black people generally, but board members must also do their share to support the colleges with donations, Mr. Strickland said. "Board members pray a lot," he said, "but they don't give money."

More colleges also should begin asking students to think about giving back to the institution when they set foot on campus as freshmen, Ms. Gasman said. In her interviews of 400 alumni of black colleges for a research project, Ms. Gasman found that the two most common reasons former students did not donate were that the college had not asked and because the students had had a bad experience with some administrative office at the institution.

Adapting to Students' Needs

Dianne Boardley Suber, president of St. Augustine's College, in Raleigh, N.C., expressed her frustration that complaints about student services were so persistent. "Why is it we're continuously talking about being nice to people in the registrar's office? That's a no-brainer," she said. "There is no excuse for mistreating students."

Beyond the basics of student services, historically black colleges need to update their curricula and classroom experiences to remain relevant to students and employers, Mr. McDavis said.

"If the paper we're using to teach students has turned yellow, it may be time for a change," he quipped.

Mr. McDavis urged black colleges' leaders to create more opportunities for international study and internships, increase the number of chances for undergraduates to do research, and form more partnerships for academic programs with other historically black colleges.

Many black colleges also remain technologically challenged, with only a small number offering online courses and many using paper filing systems for administrative tasks.

Jarrett Carter Sr., executive director of the Center for HBCU Media Advocacy Inc., said many black colleges defer upgrading their Internet service, for example, because of the cost, feeling that other construction or program expenses are more important.

Mr. McDavis said historically black colleges need to make better use of technology to provide better instruction to the students they already enroll and to simply remain competitive. Today's students, who have grown up without institutionalized segregation, expect the same experience at a historically black college as they do at other institutions, he said. "Civil rights have come, and students know they have choices," he said.

A New Image?

Most troubling to many officials at the June symposium was the fact that many of the best black students are opting not to attend historically black colleges.

When segregation was legal, black colleges enrolled practically all black students. But more than 50 years after the U.S. Supreme Court ruled to desegregate schools and colleges, nearly 90 percent of black students are not enrolled at historically black colleges, according to a paper John S. Wilson Jr., executive director of the White House Initiative on Historically Black Colleges and Universities, presented to symposium attendees. That figure could mean that the colleges are no longer valued within the black community, he wrote.

And those black students who do attend black colleges are more likely than their peers who enroll elsewhere to be financially and academically challenged, said Willie J. Gilchrist, chancellor of Elizabeth City State University, in North Carolina. Even educators in historically black colleges don't necessarily send their children to black colleges, he added.

"How much do we really believe in the HBCU experience?" Mr. Gilchrist asked the symposium attendees. "How many of us send our children somewhere else but expect someone else to send their best to us?"

The major challenge going forward, say many historically black college leaders, is not just to attract more minority students to historically black colleges, but also to get better-performing students to enroll at the institutions. And that means changing the image and quality of historically black colleges.

For Mr. Wilson, one solution is to change the message and mission of historically black colleges from a focus solely on accepting the least-prepared students to a focus on graduating students who are well prepared for the work force.

"We do want to stop saying that we enroll the kids that nobody wants," Mr. Wilson said. "It's not about who they are when we enroll them—it's about who they are when we graduate them."

Access and Success

Mr. Wilson and other representatives of the Obama administration are stressing that black colleges need to fulfill that new role with measures to ensure that more of their students complete their degrees.

In 2006, the six-year graduation rate for black students at historically black colleges was a little less than 38 percent, compared with 45 percent for black students at other colleges. And other institutions are starting to eclipse black colleges in raw numbers of graduates. The University of Phoenix has conferred the largest numbers of bachelor's degrees on black students in both the 2007-8 and 2008-9academic years, according to an annual survey by the publication Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.

Some leaders of black colleges bristle at those comparisons, saying the six-year graduation rates are an unfair measure of their success, in part because many of their students attend sporadically, taking longer to get a degree, and the colleges have fewer resources and less financial aid to offer than other colleges.

But there is also a recognition that the institutions must succeed at graduating students in order to survive.

Sandra White, director of the Center for Science, Math, and Technology Education, at North Carolina Central University, said her institution has largely been open-access, "but what we see all too often are borderline students."

"We need to provide access and ensure success," she said.

Several historically black colleges across the country are experimenting with creative new ways to keep students in college to finish their degrees.

At Philander Smith College, in Little Rock, Ark., President Walter M. Kimbrough has taken a personal approach to engaging students, exchanging messages with them via e-mail, Facebook, texting, and tweeting. He has also overhauled the admissions process and increased the amount spent on merit scholarships to attract and retain better students.

In 2007, Charlie Nelms, chancellor of North Carolina Central University, created a University College on the campus to cater to the needs of freshmen and transfer students. The program provides intensive advising and requires students to sign a contract that specifies their responsibilities, including community service.

Mr. Nelms, who was host at the symposium, urged other leaders to be bold at their institutions.

"If we're going to be around as a group of institutions 25 years from now, we have to change our narrative and our approach and be strategic," he said.

What They're Reading on College Campuses

2010-06-28T08:26:00.000-05:00

What They're Reading on College Campuses


1.	The Girl Who Played With Fire by Stieg Larsson	2

2.	The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson	4

3.	Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler	2

4.	Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler	8

5.	Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner	6

6.	The Help by Kathryn Stockett	9

7.	The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine by Michael Lewis	—

8.	Last Song by Nicholas Sparks	1

9.	The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest by Stieg Larsson	—

10.	Oh, the Places You'll Go! by Dr. Seuss	—

	The Chronicle's list of best-selling books was compiled from information supplied by stores serving the following campuses: American U., Beloit College, Case Western Reserve U., College of William & Mary, Drew U., Florida State U., George Washington U., Georgetown U., Georgia State U., Harvard U., James Madison U., Johns Hopkins U., Kent State U., Pennsylvania State U. at University Park, San Francisco State U., Stanford U., Tulane U., U. at Buffalo, U. of California at Berkeley, U. of Chicago, U. of Florida, U. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, U. of Miami, U. of Nebraska at Lincoln, U. of New Hampshire, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, U. of North Dakota, U. of North Texas, U. of Northern Colorado, U. of Oklahoma at Norman, Vanderbilt U., Washington State U., Washington U. in St. Louis, Wayne State U., Williams College, Winthrop College, and Xavier U. (Ohio). Reports, which include data provided by Barnes & Noble and the Follett Higher Education Group, are for sales of hardcover and paperback trade books in May.

Meet Tiffany Chacon!

2010-06-18T14:37:00.002-05:00

Tiffany M. Chacon is our newest staff member at Chesnutt Library. Tiffany is a graduate of Mary Baldwin College in Staunton, Va with a BA in Political Science/International Relations. She has been employed in library systems for most of her career, with the most recent being Cumberland County Public Library, Spring Lake Branch in Circulation. Tiffany is married to George Chacon and the proud fur parent of two adorable Shih Tzu puppies (Teddy and Bella). Enjoys reading, foreign films and creative writing.

Welcome Takiyah Jemison!

2010-06-16T10:41:00.002-05:00

Takiyah Jemison is the new Cataloging Librarian at Chesnutt Library.

Takiyah Jemsion received her B.A. in History from Fayetteville State University in 2006. She received her Masters in Library Science From North Central University in 2009.Takiyah began her position as Cataloging Librarian on January 18, 2010.

June is Black Music Month

2010-06-14T10:06:00.002-05:00

In honor of Black Music Month, Chesnutt Library would like to highlight the following database: African American Music Reference Database

The African American Music Reference Database brings together 50,000 pages of text reference, biographies, chronologies, sheet music, images, lyrics, liner notes, and discographies which chronicle the diverse history and culture of the African American experience through music. The database is constantly expanding to include comprehensive coverage of blues, jazz, spirituals, civil rights songs, slave songs, minstrelsy, rhythm and blues, gospel, and other forms of black American musical expression. The first release includes over 3,900 pages of reference, including a comprehensive set of biographies on the top 185 African American composers, edited by Samuel Floyd, Jr., as well as 5,000 pages of liner notes from Document Records. Other materials in this release include African American iconography, collections of spirituals and slave lyrics, and reference on important ensembles and musicians such as the Fisk Jubilee Singers, Jelly Roll Morton, Wynton Marsalis, Stevie Wonder, and more.

Congratulations Sharon Brown!

2010-05-27T11:38:00.004-05:00

On behalf of the Chesnutt Library staff, we would like to congratulate Ms. Sharon Brown on her graduation from North Carolina Central University on May 15, 2010. Ms. Brown began her graduate studies at NCCU in August 2008 as one of the esteemed North Carolina Central University School of Library and Information Science Diversity Scholars.

Ms. Brown focused on the Special Librarianship and Digital Librarianship track and completed her studies successfully. She now holds a Master of Library Science degree.

Ms. Brown has worked in the circulation department and the media center at Chesnutt Library since July 2006.

Congratulations again to Ms. Sharon Brown, MLS!

The Big Read 2010 was a hit!!!

2010-05-21T14:41:00.010-05:00

Chesnutt Library participated in The Big Read Project in conjunction with Cumberland County Public Library on April 20, 2010. The crowd participation in the discussion of Carson McCullers novel The Heart is a Lonely Hunter was energetic and lively. The program began with Evelyn Council, Associate Library Director reading from the first page of the novel.

The remainder of the discussion was facilitated by Shamella Cromartie.

Several audience members read passages of interest to them.

At the end of the discussion prizes were raffled off to audience members. Refreshments were also served at the event.

Stay Up to Date with Chesnutt Library!

2010-04-27T08:32:00.001-05:00

Students, faculty and staff you can now follow us on Twitter and friend us on Facebook for the most current news on Chesnutt Library!

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The Big Read, April 20, 2010

2010-04-14T19:48:00.002-05:00

Attention students, faculty and staff,

Don't forget to join us on Tuesday, April 20, 2010 at 12:30 p.m. at Chesnutt Library for The Big Read @ Fayetteville State University. The program will be held in the library’s third floor conference room. Light refreshments will be provided at the event.

This year’s book is The Heart is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullers. The book entails the life of John Singer, a deaf-mute in a Georgia mill town during the 1930s, and on his effect on the people who confide in him. When Singer's mute Greek companion of 10 years goes insane, Singer is left alone and isolated. He takes a room with the Kelly family, where he is visited by the town's misfits, who turn to him for understanding but have no knowledge of his inner life.

Several copies of the book are still available for checkout in the library, as well as, on course reserve. Audio guides and readers guides are also available under “Course Reserve”. Be sure to check one out, you still have time to read this work from a one-time Fayetteville resident before the program.

For more information about The Big Read call 910-672-1233. This Program is Part of the Big Read Project of Cumberland County Public Library, an initiative of the National Endowment for the Arts.

FSU Authors Speak During National Library Week, April 11-17, 2010

2010-04-06T17:24:00.003-05:00

The theme for National Library Week (April 13 – 17, 2010) is Communities Thrive @ Your Library-FSU Authors Speak. We have a very talented pool of authors here at Fayetteville State University. We invite you to come and share in our community. Come hear our own FSU Authors read and discuss their works and their writing process. Be enlightened, entertained, and most of all informed.

• Ms. Suzetta Perkins 4/13/10 - 11am Author of Déjà Vu, Nothing Stays the Same, Behind the Veil, EX-terminator: Life After Marriage, and A Love So Deep

• Dr. Trela Anderson 4/13/10 - 12:30pm Author of The Cinderella Stories: Lessons I Learned From My Grandmother, A Spiritual Memoir

• Dr. Timothy Ajani 4/14/10 - 11am Author of Streams of Refreshing: Inspirational Poems for Our Time and Rivers of Refreshing

• Dr. Charles Tryon 4/14/10 - 12pm Author of Reinventing Cinema: Movies In the Age of Media Convergence

• Dr. Joseph Osei 4/14/10 -1pm Author of The Challenge of Sustaining Emergent Democracies: Insights for Religious Intellectuals and Leaders of Civil Society

• Dr. Abul Pitre 4/15/10 - 11am Author of Educational Philosophy of Elijah Muhammad: Education for a New World, An Introduction to Elijah Muhammad Studies:The New Educational Paradigm, The Struggle for Black History: Foundations for a Critical Black Pedagogy in Education, Educating African American Students: Foundations, Curriculum, and Experiences, and Co-Author with Dr. Terence Hicks of Educational Lockout of African Americans in Prince Edward County, Virginia (1959-1964): Personal Accounts and Reflections

• Dr. Dean Swinford 4/15/10 - 12:30pm Author of Through the Daemon's Gate: Kepler's Somnium, Medieval Dream Narratives, and the Polysemy of Allegorical Motifs

Dr. Todd Frobish 4/16/10 - 11:00 am Author of Crises In American Oratory: A History Of Rhetorical Inadequacy

• Dr. Maria Orban 4/1610 - 12:00pm Author, with Contributor Dr. Kim Kirkpatrick of Charles Chesnutt Reappraised: Essays on the First Major African American Writer

Light refreshments will be served.

LOCATION:
Charles W. Chesnutt Library
Library Conference Room, Third Floor
FSU/1200 Murchison Road/Fayetteville, NC 28301

CONTACT:
Jan Whitfield, 910-672-1750

Black History Month Database Highlights

2010-02-23T12:32:00.002-05:00

There are many databases that provide information on persons of note with African American heritage and their works. Here are a few that Chesnutt Library makes available through their Database Finder page at http://library.uncfsu.edu/edatabases.html.

African American Poetry Nearly 3,000 poems written by African-American poets in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Indexed from 1750 to 1900.

African American Song African American Song is the first online resource to document the history of African American music in an online music listening service. The collection contains a diverse range of genres such as jazz, blues, gospel, ragtime, folk songs, and narratives, among others. This release features some 16,000 tracks. Earphones are required to use the resource in the library.

American Slavery: A Composite Autobiography A collection of the life histories of former slaves in the United States compiled through nearly 4,000 interviews with ex-slaves.

Black Drama This edition of Black Drama contains approximately 1200 plays by 201 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. An Alexander Street Press database.

Black Short Fiction Black Short Fiction contains approximately 4,919 stories and folktales by 435 African, African American, and Caribbean authors. When complete this collection should have approximately 8,000 works of short fiction.

Black Studies Center Black Studies Center is a fully cross-searchable gateway to Black Studies including scholarly essays, recent periodicals and historical newspaper articles.

Black Thought and Culture Black Thought and Culture contains 989 sources with 947 authors, covering the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans.

Black Women in America In nearly 600 entries, Black Women in America celebrates the remarkable achievements of black women throughout history, highlights their ongoing contributions in America today, and represents the new research the first edition helped to generate.

Black Women Writers Black Women Writers will contain approximately 100,000 pages of fiction, nonfiction and poetry by women from North America, Africa and the Caribbean. It will also present essays by scholars and feminists about the history of feminism and genre studies in these regions. There are 13,000 pages of text in this first release.

Oxford African American Studies Center The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 8,000 articles by top scholars in the field. The core content includes: Africana Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present Black Women in America, Second Edition African American National Biography.

Race Relations Abstracts Bibliographic records covering essential areas related to race relations, including ethnic studies, discrimination, immigration studies, and other areas of key relevance to the discipline. The index contains more than 43,000 records, which are carefully selected from the most important sources within the discipline.

Twentieth Century African-American Poetry "A database of modern and contemporary African American poetry, featuring almost 9,000 poems by 62 of the most important African American poets of the last century"

America: History and Life Historical coverage of the United States and Canada from prehistory to the present.

American National Biography The premier biographical resource for notable people in American history. Click on the "Subscribers Click Here" link in the menu at the top of the page.

Need to Find a Journal or Magazine Title Quickly? Use Journal Finder

2010-01-06T11:15:00.002-05:00

Journal Finder allows you to determine if Chesnutt Library provides electronic access to a journal, magazine or newspaper or owns a print copy. You can also fnd out which other libraries may have copies and order copies of articles through Interlibrary Loan.

Simply enter the name of the journal in the search box. View a How To Video. Try the Advanced Search to see seleceted subject coverage.

Welcome Back Broncos! Spring 2010 Semester Hours

2010-01-06T10:04:00.002-05:00

Library Hours for the Spring 2010 Semester

Monday - Thursday 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Friday 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday 2:00 p.m. - 11:00 o.m.

Top 100 Books: Banned and Challenged Classics

2009-09-30T16:30:00.002-05:00

Top 100 Books: Banned and Challenged Classics

"Each year, the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom records hundreds of attempts by individuals and groups to have books removed from libraries shelves and from classrooms.
According to the Office for Intellectual Freedom, at least 42 of the Radcliffe Publishing Course Top 100 Novels of the 20th Century have been the target of ban attempts.

The titles in bold represent banned or challenged books. For more information on why these books were challenged, visit challenged classics and the Banned Books Week Web site.

1. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
2. The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger
3. The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
4. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
5. The Color Purple by Alice Walker
6. Ulysses by James Joyce
7. Beloved by Toni Morrison
8. The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
9. 1984 by George Orwell
10. The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner
11. Lolita by Vladmir Nabokov
12. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
13. Charlotte's Web by E. B. White
14. A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man by James Joyce
15. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
16. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
17. Animal Farm by George Orwell
18. The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway
19. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
20. A Farewell to Arms by Ernest Hemingway
21. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
22. Winnie-the-Pooh by A. A. Milne
23. Their Eyes are Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
24. Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
25. Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
26. Gone with the Wind by Margaret Mitchell
27. Native Son by Richard Wright
28. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
29. Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
30. For Whom the Bell Tolls by Ernest Hemingway
31. On the Road by Jack Kerouac
32. The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
33. The Call of the Wild by Jack London
34. To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
35. Portrait of a Lady by Henry James
36. Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin
37. The World According to Garp by John Irving
38. All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren
39. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
40. The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien
41. Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally
42. The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
43. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
44. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
45. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
46. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
47. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum
48. Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence
49. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
50. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
51. My Antonia by Willa Cather
52. Howards End by E. M. Forster
53. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
54. Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
55. The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
56. Jazz by Toni Morrison
57. Sophie's Choice by William Styron
58. Absalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
59. A Passage to India by E. M. Forster
60. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
61. A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O'Connor
62. Tender Is the Night by F. Scott Fitzgerald
63. Orlando by Virginia Woolf
64. Sons and Lovers by D. H. Lawrence
65. Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
66. Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
67. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
68. Light in August by William Faulkner
69. The Wings of the Dove by Henry James
70. Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
71. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
72. A Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
73. Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs
74. Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
75. Women in Love by D. H. Lawrence
76. Look Homeward, Angel by Thomas Wolfe
77. In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway
78. The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein
79. The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
80. The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer
81. Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys
82. White Noise by Don DeLillo
83. O Pioneers! by Willa Cather
84. Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller
85. The War of the Worlds by H. G. Wells
86. Lord Jim by Joseph Conrad
87. The Bostonians by Henry James
88. An American Tragedy by Theodore Dreiser
89. Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather
90. The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame
91. This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald
92. Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand
93. The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles
94. Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
95. Kim by Rudyard Kipling
96. The Beautiful and the Damned by F. Scott Fitzgerald
97. Rabbit, Run by John Updike
98. Where Angels Fear to Tread by E. M. Forster
99. Main Street by Sinclair Lewis
100. Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie"

From ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom
http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/frequentlychallenged/challengedclassics/index.cfm

Banned Books Week, September 26 - October 3, 2009

2009-09-30T14:59:00.003-05:00

Banned Books Week: Celebrating the Freedom to Read
September 26−October 3, 2009

"Banned Books Week (BBW) is an annual event celebrating the freedom to read and the importance of the First Amendment. Held during the last week of September, Banned Books Week highlights the benefits of free and open access to information while drawing attention to the harms of censorship by spotlighting actual or attempted bannings of books across the United States.

Intellectual freedom—the freedom to access information and express ideas, even if the information and ideas might be considered unorthodox or unpopular—provides the foundation for Banned Books Week. BBW stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints for all who wish to read and access them.

The books featured during Banned Books Week have been targets of attempted bannings. Fortunately, while some books were banned or restricted, in a majority of cases the books were not banned, all thanks to the efforts of librarians, teachers, booksellers, and members of the community to retain the books in the library collections. Imagine how many more books might be challenged—and possibly banned or restricted—if librarians, teachers, and booksellers across the country did not use Banned Books Week each year to teach the importance of our First Amendment rights and the power of literature, and to draw attention to the danger that exists when restraints are imposed on the availability of information in a free society."

From the American Library Association http://www.ala.org/ala/issuesadvocacy/banned/bannedbooksweek/index.cfm?gclid=CPvNrtSPmp0CFdVL5QodsHWt2Q

Value Added "Reference Shelf" Features Helpful Collections of Online Websites

2009-09-02T17:36:00.002-05:00

The "Reference Shelf" link http://library.uncfsu.edu/reference/VirtualReference.htm features websites that were selected by the librarians and library staff to make life easier. We also incorporated student and faculty suggestions. We do not endorse any business over another and links are provided as a starting point. We are not responsible for the content availale at theses sites.

For instance
Addresses, Phone Numbers, Email; Biography and Genealogy; Books, E-Books, Bookstores, Publishers, and Open Access Journals; Calculators and Converters and Mathematical Formulas; City, County and State Resources; College Guides and Financial Aid; Encyclopedias, Dictionaries, Thesauri and Other Reference Web Sites; Ethnic Minority Resources; Maps and Mapping; News and Newspapers; Radio Stations; Statistical Sources; Style Manuals and Information on Writing Papers; and Television Networks and Stations.

Library Full-Text Databases Cover Many Disciplines

2009-08-21T11:42:00.013-05:00

Hello -
Are you aware that there are over 300 databases and websites available through the Library's Database Finder at http://library.uncfsu.eud/edatabases.html.

Databases contain different kinds of information: Articles from scholarly journals, magazines and newspapers; Statistical data from places like the Census Bureau, other federal and state government entities and opinion polls; Biographical information on authors, scientists, business people, nurses, educators and other persons of note; and Encyclopedic information, opinion essays and legislative and legal information.

Below are listed some of the databases and websites we have that you may find interesting and will certainly help you get started this semester:

Multidisciplinary Databases contain information on a lot of different topics and make good starting points for background information needed to write papers or make arguments for debates and speeches:

Academic Search Premier (Indexing: 1984+, full-text: 1990+). Indexing and abstracts of scholarly journals covering the social sciences, humanities, education and more.

Access Science Access to 7100+ articles, 115,000 dictionary terms, and hundreds of Research Updates in all areas of science and technology.

Business and Company Resource Center Business and Company Resource Center is a fully integrated resource bringing together company profiles, brand information, rankings, investment reports, company histories, chronologies and periodical articles.

CQ Press Includes CQ Weekly, CQ Reseacher and Global researcher also "Political Reference Suite". Search all of these resources from this link. "All content is produced and vetted by scholars, seasoned journalists, and CQ Press editors."

Dynamed Provides clinically-organized summaries for more than 1,800 topics. A simple yet powerful topically-driven menu allows physicians, medical students and other health care professionals to research high-end synthesized information from respected publications, associations, and contributing clinicians.

Environment Complete (Ebsco) Environment Complete (created by the International Academy at Santa Barbara), Environment Index offers deep coverage in applicable areas of agriculture, ecosystem ecology, energy, renewable energy resources, natural resources, marine & freshwater science, geography, pollution & waste management, environmental technology, environmental law, public policy, social impacts, urban planning, and more.

ERIC Coverage is from 1966 - present of journal articles and documents such as reports, handbooks, and monographs in education. ERIC, the Educational Resource Information Center, provides access to education literature and resources. The database provides access to information from journals included in the Current Index of Journals in Education and Resources in Education Index. ERIC provides full text of more than 2,200 digests along with references for additional information and citations and abstracts from over 1,000 educational and education-related journals.

Expanded Academic ASAP This premier database offers balanced coverage of every academic concentration — from advertising and microbiology to history and women's studies. Combining indexing, abstracts, full text and images.

Facts on File: World News Digest Contains information from seven core reference databases covering events, issues, statistics, and people through several decades.

Health Source: Consumer Edition Provides consumer oriented information on many health topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine, and general health.

Historical Statistics of the United States The Millenium Online Edition of the Historical Statistics of the United States now contains "37,000 data series -- three times more than in the previous edition -- and dozens of new topics, among them slavery, American Indians, and poverty." REQUIRES POPUPS and JAVASCRIPT.

JSTOR A not-for-profit organization with a dual mission to create and maintain a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, and to provide access to these journals as widely as possible.

Lexis-Nexis Academic Universe Provides access to a wide range of news, business, legal and reference information.

Lexis-Nexis Congressional Universe CIS indexing and abstracting of congressional publications and the CIS Legislative Histories (1970-present), bill tracking and more.

Lexis-Nexis History Universe Rich database of primary historical resources

Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe The world's most comprehensive access to U.S. statistical information from Congressional Information Service, Inc.

Literature Resource Center The Literature Resource Center contains full-text scholarly articles from more than 300 academic journals and literary magazines—the majority peer-reviewed—as well as excerpts from scholarly monographs, literary correspondence and diaries. Also included are reviews of books of all sorts, from children's literature to adult fiction, from popular non-fiction to scholarly studies. Substantive biographical essays on more than 130,000 authors. There are full text of poems and short stories and overview essays on thousands of books and literary topics. Links to editorially selected websites on authors and their works, and pictures of well-known authors round out the content.

Master File Premier Provides full text for over 1,770 general reference, business, consumer health, general science, and multi-cultural periodicals.

Military Library FullText Military Library FullTEXT includes abstracts and indexing for nearly 400 titles providing cover to cover full text for nearly 350. The database also includes full text for 245 pamphlets.

NCLIVE A core group of reference and research materials online in the form of full-text electronic information and indexes.

NetLibrary Access to the full text of more than 13,000 reference, scholarly, and professional books.

New York Times Indexing: 1980+, full-text: latest 90 days rolling file

New York Times Historical The New York Times Historical (1851-2006) offers full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue.

Opposing Viewpoints Draws on the acclaimed social issues series published by Greenhaven Press, as well as core reference content from other Gale and Macmillan Reference USA sources to provide a complete one-stop source for information on social issues. Access viewpoint articles, topic overviews, statistics, primary documents, links to websites, and full-text magazine and newspaper articles.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography "50,000 biographies of people who shaped the history of the British Isles and beyond, from the earliest times to the year 2001."

ProQuest Newspapers Search a large collection of newspapers throughout the United States.

PsychInfo 1887-current). Indexes and abstracts journal articles and book chapters in psychology and behavioral sciences.

Readers Guide Retro Readers' Guide Retrospective is a database containing comprehensive indexing of the most popular general-interest periodicals published in the United States and reflects the history of 20th century America.

Science Direct ScienceDirect is the unsurpassed single source for scientific, technical and medical information on the Internet. Researchers can access a critical mass of the world's STM journal titles and full-text articles

SIRS Researcher (Indexing: 1988+, Summaries: 1994+). Thousands of full-text articles exploring social, scientific, historic, economic, political, and global issues.

SocINDEX SocINDEX with Full Text offers comprehensive coverage of sociology, encompassing all sub-disciplines and closely related areas of study. These include abortion, criminology & criminal justice, demography, ethnic & racial studies, gender studies, marriage & family, political sociology, religion, rural & urban sociology, social development, social psychology, social structure, social work, socio-cultural anthropology, sociological history, sociological research, sociological theory, substance abuse & other addictions, violence and many others. In addition, it features over 5,000 Author Profiles.

State Center for Health Statistics Contains data and some maps concerning the health of North Carolina residents. Highlights include birth and mortality data and a small collection of NC health research papers categorized by ease of use for the general public.

State Data Center North Carolina economic and population statistics, county profiles.

State Demographics Population data for North Carolina. Projections are available as well as current estimates.

Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition With Full text of articles from over 1,750 publications and Article abstracts and indexing from over 3,500 publications, Wilson OmniFile is especially convenient for users with inquiries in areas that cross disciplines—ethnic studies, women’s studies, history, and more. Wilson OmniFile is even helpful to those who are unsure which specialty to search for their topic of interest.

World Cat Union catalog of materials (books, journal titles and non-print items) held in libraries world-wide. Coverage: Updated regularly.

World Fact Book U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Country profiles.

Welcome Fall 2009 Students!

2009-08-18T08:38:00.005-05:00

We are so glad to see the new student Broncos and those returning Broncos.

Regular Library Hours Begin Thursday, August 20, 2009

Fall 2009 Hours
Monday - Thursday
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Friday
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday
8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.
Sunday
2:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

The Library's staff is here to assist you with your questions, and the Library's resources are here to help you have a successful academic year. The resources are available 24 x 7 if you set up "My Library Recored" at https://uncclc.coast.uncwil.edu/patroninfo~S1, which allows you to create a Library PIN number so you can access those resources anytime. We are ready to assist you if you have any questions. Call 672-1233 (Reference Desk) or 672-1231 (Circulation Desk).

We have a great collection of new books that include popular titles.

Again, welcome and we look forward to seeing you!

New Spring 2009 Hours

2009-01-02T17:21:00.008-05:00

Due to University Budget Reductions, There Are New Library Hours For Spring 2009

Regular Library Hours Begin Thursday, January 8, 2009

Regular Spring 2009 Hours:
Monday - Thursday
8:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m.
Friday
8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Saturday
9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Sunday
2:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.

Latest Pew Report Predicts the Future of the Internet

2008-12-15T11:42:00.002-05:00

The Future of the Internet III, the title of the latest Pew Report, surveyed technology stakeholders & critics about the future political, social, & economic impact of the internet. A summary of their finding is below:

The mobile device will be the primary connection tool
to the Internet for most people in the world in 2020.
The transparency of people and organizations will
increase, but that will not necessarily yield more personal
integrity, social tolerance, or forgiveness.
Voice recognition and touch user-interfaces with the
Internet will be more prevalent and accepted by 2020.
Those working to enforce intellectual property law and
copyright protection will remain in a continuing “arms race,”
with the “crackers” who will find ways to copy and share
content without payment.
The divisions between personal time and work time and
between physical and virtual reality will be further erased for
everyone who’s connected, and the results will be mixed in
terms of social relations.
“Next-generation” engineering of the network to
improve the current Internet architecture is more likely than an
effort to rebuild the architecture from scratch.

Of specific interest to me was the difficulty ahead in enforcing intellectual property laws and copyright. The report states, "Three out of five respondents (60%) disagreed with the idea that legislatures, courts,the technology industry, and media companies will exercise effective content control by 2020. They said “cracking” technology will stay ahead of technology to control intellectual property (IP) or policy regulating IP. And they predicted that regulators will not be able to come to a global agreement about intellectual property. Many respondents suggested that new economic models will have to be implemented, with an assumption that much that was once classified as paid content will have to be offered free or in exchange for attention or some other unit of value." What will this mean for the academic community and is this an even greater push towards open access?

Click here for the complete report.

Via Stephen's Lighthouse

Best Business Books of 2008

2008-12-15T11:29:00.002-05:00

Business Week has listed its ten best business books of 2008 and I am happy to report that most of the titles are either in our library or on order!

The Trillion Dollar Meltdown by Charles R. Morris
[HG4910 .M667 2008]

The Snowball: Warren Buffett and the Business Life by Alice Schroeder
On Order

The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs by Charles D. Ellis
On Order

Hell's Cartel: I.G. Farben and the Making of Hitler's War Machine by Diarmuid Jeffreys

Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions by Dan Ariely
On Order

The Gridlock Economy: How Too Much Ownership Wrecks Markets, Stops Innovation, and Costs Lives by Michael Heller

The Game-Changer: How You Can Drive Revenue and Profit Growth with Innovation by A.G. Lafley and Ram Charan

Hot, Flat, and Crowded: Why We Need a Green Revolution - and How It Can Renew America by Thomas L. Friedman
On Order

Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China by Leslie T. Chang
On Order

Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

For the complete article visit BusinessWeek.

What is NAICS?

2008-11-19T12:28:00.002-05:00

I was just asked this question at the Reference Desk and thought "What a great opportunity to show off this website!" Ask Dr NAICS created by US Census Bureau gives an overview of NAICS (North American Industry Classification System) including what it is and how it's used. It lists 25 popular questions about NAICS and if your question still isn't answered you can email the Census Bureau.

via Biz Ref Desk

PrintWhatYouLike

2008-11-14T16:28:00.002-05:00

Have you ever wished that you could print out an article without all the advertisements and other junk on the pages? On the website PrintWhatYouLike you can! PrintWhatYouLike allows you to cut out the advertisements and also resize text. It's as easy as 1, 2, 3:

How It Works

Enter the url of a page you wish to print
Edit the page until it contains only what you want to print
Print It! Only your modified page will be printed

via infodoodads

LinkedIn Applications

2008-10-30T16:49:00.002-05:00

I know several faculty & staff are members of LinkedIn, the professional social networking site. Well, you can now add applications to your LinkedIn profile. Yeah!

"LinkedIn Applications enable you to enrich your profile, share and collaborate with your network, and get the key insights that help you be more effective. Applications are added to your homepage and profile enabling you to control who gets access to what information."

Applications include Amazon Reading Lists, Slideshare, and Wordpress. So get your reading lists together and share it with your colleagues!

For the complete article visit BusinessWeek Online.

Homecoming Hours

2008-10-16T16:06:00.003-05:00

The Chesnutt Library will be closed this Saturday, October 18th in celebration of FSU Homecoming 2008. We will resume regular hours on Sunday, October 19th from 2:00-11:00pm.

Meet Our Newest Staff Member:

2008-10-16T16:02:00.002-05:00

Velappan Velappan (VV) joined the Chesnutt Library staff on September 02, 2008 as a Reference Librarian. He holds a B.Tech., in Textile Engineering from P.S.G. College of Technology, Bharathiar University, India. To continue his Engineering and professional interest of Information Science, he obtained his Masters Degrees in “Computer Information Systems” from Rivier College, Nashua, NH and “Library Information Science” from Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, CT.

Velappan has previously worked as a Technical Services Librarian/Reference Librarian/Technical Systems Librarian/Access Services Supervisor at Daniel Webster College, Nashua, NH for 5 years. He also worked in Educational Resource Center as a Cataloging/Circulation Asst., at Rivier College in Nashua, NH for more than a year. Velappan served as a Textile Engineer in the Textile Manufacturing Industries in India for several years.

He's been married since 1994 to his wife Uma Ramanathan, who for the last 16 years has worked for different software companies and is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer at Fidelity Investments in RTP, Durham. He is living in Cary with his wife and their two beautiful daughters; Keerthana age 13 and Krithika age 7.

As a Reference Librarian, Velappan assists students, staffs, and faculties with all of their research needs including identifying resources, locating books, searching the library’s databases in person, by online, and by phone. In addition to that Velappan assists students for trouble shooting of hardware and software at the reference desk computers. And also Velappan assists technical services staffs with their troubleshooting of cataloging software and its future enhancements.

His office is located in room # 104 on the first floor of the library. You also can contact him at 672-1230 or vvelappa@uncfsu.edu

Online Lectures: What Students Want?

2008-10-15T11:24:00.004-05:00

Last month a study by the University of Wisconsin-Madison found that “an overwhelming 82 percent of students said they would prefer courses that offer online lectures over traditional classes that do not include an online lecture component.” The study included about 7,500 undergraduate and graduate students. This article from Campus Technology points out that although this seems to be what students want, it isn’t necessarily what they’re getting. The article goes on to state, “about 60 percent of institutions do not routinely make captured lectures available to students online.” So FSU faculty, are you making your lectures available online?

via iLibrarian

Banned Books Week Sept 27th -Oct 4th

2008-09-30T15:51:00.002-05:00

Well, it's been a while since we've posted anything on our blog and we sincerely apologize. We'll definitely do better in the future!

The last week in September we celebrate Banned Books Week. "Banned Books Week (BBW) celebrates the freedom to choose or the freedom to express one’s opinion even if that opinion might be considered unorthodox or unpopular and stresses the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all who wish to read them. After all, intellectual freedom can exist only where these two essential conditions are met." (ALA)

As I was setting up our Banned Books display a student came by to see what I was doing. He expressed surprise at some of the titles listed and asked me why in the world James and the Giant Peach would be banned. Although I knew that most books are challenged for being “sexually explicit”, having “offensive language” or being inappropriate for a particular age group, I had no ready answer for him (ALA). However, I have since come across this site Forbidden Library: Banned and Challenged Books. Most of the information is taken from the American Library Association’s Banned Books Resource Guide and the Ready Reference Censorship. According to this site, James and the Giant Peach has been challenged for being inappropriate for the age group, containing crude language, promoting drugs and encouraging children to disobey their parents. So now we know!

Early Closings

2008-09-05T14:22:00.003-05:00

Due to the impending Hurricane Hanna, the library will close today at 6:00pm and also be closed tomorrow, September 6, 2008. As of now, we will open Sunday at 2:00pm. Please check the library's homepage for the latest information.

Holiday Closings

2008-08-28T14:15:00.002-05:00

The library will be closed this Monday, September 1, 2008 for Labor Day. For those of you not going out of town this weekend, the library will be open Saturday, Aug 30 (8-9pm) & Sunday, Aug 31 (2-11pm). The library will resume regular hours on Tuesday, September 2, 2008. Have a safe holiday weekend!

HBCUs Are Experiencing Rising Enrollment

2008-08-11T16:00:00.004-05:00

According to a new study by the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, HBCUs are growing in popularity:

"Although HBCUs only comprise 3 percent of American colleges and universities, they enroll nearly one in every four African-American college students. The annual report, “Thurgood Marshall College Fund Demographic Report,” is based on the 2005-06 academic year and reveals an enrollment growth trend at public HBCUs."

For more information click here.

via The Kept-Up Academic Librarian

ERIC Gets a Makeover

2008-08-11T14:19:00.002-05:00

From ERIC news:

"ERIC announces the release of a new Web site structure and design at http://www.eric.ed.gov/. The new ERIC Web site features several enhancements that will make the experience of using the site easier and faster for individual researchers, along with improvements to aid librarians in supporting ERIC users. These enhancements include improved navigation, expanded help and training, an information area for librarians, and a lighter visual design."

For more information click here.

via Resourceshelf

Goodbye & Good Luck Gloria!

2008-08-07T16:17:00.007-05:00

Last week we sadly said goodbye to Gloria Garner, former Access Services Librarian. We showed our appreciation for her service to Chesnutt Library by sending her off in style with not one, but two, farewell parties:

Staff Lounge:

Mi Casitas Mexican Restaurant:

We will miss you!!!

Meet Chesnutt Library's New Archivist - Craig Tuttle

2008-08-07T15:59:00.005-05:00

Craig Tuttle holds a B.A., M.A. in History, a degree in Archival Management from New York University, and a Masters in Library Science from Rutgers University. Since 1986, he has specialized on the preservation of papers, books, photographs, and audio/video recordings.

He served as Project Archivist for the Fiorello LaGuardia Mayoral Papers, Manuscripts Curator/Archivist at the University of South Florida, and Special Collections Librarian/Archivist for Florida Atlantic University. Worked as an archival consultant for the Thomas Edison National Historical Site in West Orange, New Jersey, Brevard County government, Florida, and the Block Drug Company, Jersey City, New Jersey, and as Archivist/Historian for the City of Tampa, Florida.

He can can be found on the library's fourth floor amid Fayetteville State's historical documents and artifacts. Or you can reach him at 672-1613 and ctuttle@uncfsu.edu.

Directory of Open Access Journals

2008-08-04T15:48:00.004-05:00

What is open access? According to the Library of Congress, open access refers to " a publication model where in neither readers nor a reader's institution are charged for access to articles or other resources. Users are free to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles." The Directory of Open Access Journals aims to cover all subjects and languages and currently contains 3,539 journals in its directory including 1,210 searchable at article level. You can browse by title or subject. Examples of journal titles:

Journal of Interactive Advertising
Game Studies
Nineteenth Century Art Worldwide
International Journal of Biomedical Studies
African Journal of Criminology and Justice Studies
Current Research in Social Psychology
Advancing Women in Leadership
Electronic Journal for the Integration of Technology in Education

via Resourceshelf

New Printers @ Chesnutt Library

2008-07-16T19:19:00.007-05:00

If you’re one of the many that have been traipsing through the library during the summer sessions you are painfully aware of the new printers located on the first, second and fourth floor of the library. I thought I’d take the time to go over a few of the new features.

First, the actual printing process you go through at the computer remains the same. In the past, we've had a number of printers (libref-1, libref-2, etc.) where you could send your print jobs but that is no longer the case. The printer installed (FSUPRINT1 on hpps02a) is the default.

In order to release your print jobs you need to touch this screen located on top of the printer:

Next, touch "printing" and then enter the LAST SIX DIGITS OF YOUR BANNER NUMBER. Your print jobs should appear on the screen. Once there, you can select the ones you want to print, delete the ones you don't or "print all."

A few other things you should know about these new printers. Printing defaults to printing on both sides with collating and stapling. You can change the default by selecting "Properties," under "Finishing" and uncheck "Print on Both Sides." We recommend that you wait till your print job is done printing before taking it out of the printer otherwise a printer jam may occur. Students are allowed 375 pages per semester. If you go over you will receive an "insufficient funds" message and you will then have to contact ITTS at 672-2085 to resolve the issue.

Instructions on how to use the new printers are located by the printers:

And, of course, you're welcome to ask for assistance at the Reference Desk.

CustomGuide

2008-07-16T18:46:00.002-05:00

CustomGuide has created "cheat sheets" to help you navigate through some of the new software upgrades available. These PDF files cover several applications including Office 2007. Along with new versions they also have old versions of the cheat sheets. I am especially happy to have come across these guides because I have been trying to figure out Microsoft 2007 for weeks! These will sure come in handy. Check them out for yourselves at CustomGuide.

via LibrarianInBlack & WRAL

New Books @ Chesnutt Library

2008-07-16T13:35:00.002-05:00

The following books are located in the Main Stacks (2nd floor) of Chesnutt Library:

H - Social Sciences

Population: an introduction to concepts and issues
[HB871 .w43 2008]

Population decline and ageing in Japan: the social consequences
[HB3651 .C63 2007]

Natural resources and conflict in Africa: the tragedy of endowment
[HC800 .Z65 A43 2007]

Pension revolution: a solution to the pension crisis
[HD7105.4 .A63 2007]

The PDMA toolbook 3 for new product development
[HF5415.153 .P3549 2007]

Modeling consumer adoption of the Internet as a shopping medium: an integrated perspective
[HF5415.32 .L58 2007]

The policy-based profession : an introduction to social welfare policy analysis for social workers
[HV91 .P677 2008]

Encyclopedia of gangs
[HV6439 .U5 E53 2008]

SuTree - How to Videos

2008-07-13T15:21:00.002-05:00

Ever wondered how to paint outdoors? Or how to play chess? Maybe you need tips on how to write a winning resume? The website SuTree has thousands of how-to-videos on these topics and much more. SuTree has several categories including Arts & Hobbies, Business & Career, Fitness & Nutrition, and Education. The Education category contains subcategories such as Biology & Chemistry, Business & Economics, Humanities & Arts, and Law. For example, the Law subcategory includes the video Introduction, Basics of Legal Research; Legal Citations from a copyright course given at MIT. These videos might be useful for students taking online courses, but needing some visual help in understanding concepts.

via Sounds & Soundbytes

PolicyArchive

2008-07-11T15:48:00.001-05:00

PolicyArchive is an innovative, new digital archive of global, non-partisan public policy research. It makes use of the power, efficiency, and economy of modern Internet technology to collect and disseminate summaries and full texts, videos, reports, briefs, and multimedia material of think tank, university, government, and foundation-funded policy research. It offers a subject index, an internal search engine, useful abstracts, email notifications of newly added research, and will soon expand to offer information on researchers and funders, and even user-generated publication reviews. Over time, it will grow to include policy content from international and corporate organizations.

- from PolicyArchive
via Resourceshelf

New Reference Books @ Chesnutt Library

2008-07-11T15:35:00.002-05:00

The following new books are located on the first floor of Chesnutt Library:

Encylopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World [CB311 .E533 2008]

Hoover's MasterList of U.S. Companies, v.1 & 2 [HF5035 .H66]

Comprehensive Handbook of Personality and Psychopatholoty [RC456 .C66 2006]

Encyclopedia of Portal Technologies and Applications [ZA4201 .E53 2007]

New Books @ Chesnutt Library

2008-07-03T16:27:00.002-05:00

The following new books are located in the Main Stacks (2nd & 3rd floors) of the library:

EDUCATION

Counseling strategies that work!: evidence-based interventions for school counselors [LB1027.5 .P3177 2007]

Skills for preschool teachers [LB1115 .B325 2008]

A practical guide to early childhood curriculum [LB1139.4 .E54 2008]

Creating meaning through literature and the arts: and integration resource for classroom teachers [LB1591 .C67 2007]

Teaching strategies for students with mild to moderate disabilities [LC3969.45 .P73 2007]

Early childhood special education: bieth to eight [LC4019.3 .b69 2007]

Mergent Online - Trial Modules

2008-06-26T11:12:00.005-05:00

Chesnutt Library has database trials available through Mergent Online. The Mergent Global Private Company Database is available through July 25, 2008. Provided by insight from Dun & Bradstreet, this module contains

Up to 4 years of key financial information on over 400,000 Global Private Companies
Integrated screening and searching for Public and Private Companies
Full company reports in printable .PDF file format
Ability to view competitors on both Private and Public companies

To access it, go to Database Finder and type in Mergent. Check the "include private companies" box to include them in your search.

In addtion to the Global Private Companies Database, we have summer trials for the following MergentOnline modules:

Mergent Equity Research Reports
Industry Reports (North America)
Industry Reports (Asia Pacific)
Industry Reports (Europe)
Industry Reports (Latin America)

These trial modules run through August 31, 2008. If you have any questions or comments be sure to contact the Reference Department 672-1233.

Firefox 3

2008-06-19T15:39:00.002-05:00

For those of you using Firefox as your preferred browser, you’ll be happy to know that Firefox 3 was made available on Tuesday, June 17, 2008. The Associated Press reported that it was downloaded more than 8 million times within 24 hours of its release! The latest update promises to be more secure, easier to use and more personal.

Meet Chesnutt Library's Newest Staff Members...

2008-05-16T10:58:00.007-05:00

You may have noticed some new faces in and around the Chesnutt Library. We're happy to introduce you to them:

Maggie Chan, Library Assistant, Periodicals Department

Maggie Chan joined the Chesnutt Library in December 2007. As Library Assistant in the Periodicals Department, her main responsibilities include maintaining bound journals in the first and second floor and preparing paper journals for binding and shelving. Occasionally, she works with Mrs. Angela Rich to maintain current journals and newspapers in the library. She also works at the circulation desk occasionally.
Maggie is a graduate of Fayetteville State University. She is a Hong Kong native who speaks fluent Cantonese. If you are interested in Chinese culture or Hong Kong style cuisine, she will be glad to share some of her experience with you. Although you'll usually find her in the Bound Journals section of the Periodicals Department, she can also be reached by email at mchan@uncfsu.edu.

Jinong Sun, Government Documents Librarian

Jinong Sun joined the Chesnutt Library staff on March 3, 2008 as the Government Documents Librarian. Jinong has previously worked as a librarian at Florida College of Integrative Medicine and University of Central Florida for more than three years. Jinong was a journalist/editor in China for many years. To continue her professonal interest of “Keep people informed”, Jinong obtained her Masters Degree in information studies from Florida State Unverisity as an Beta Phi Mu recognized member in 2004.

As Government Documents Librarian, Jinong is reponsible for selecting, receipting, and processing the Federal depository library materials as well as the State depository materials. Jinong is currently working on compiling government documents subjects guide and web contents for the webpages of Government Doucments. Jinong also assists students with all of their research needs including identifying resources, locating books, searching the library’s databases at reference reference desk. Jinong’s office is located on the fourth floor of the library in Room 408. You also can contact Jinong by email jsun@uncfsu.edu or by telephone 910-672-1752.

David Sprague, Library Assistant, Acquisitions Department

David was born in Fajardo, Puerto Rico and also lived in Spain for eight years. He then moved to South Jersey where he attended and graduated from Burlington County Institute of Technology High School, majoring in Computer Data Processing. In 1992 he relocated to Fayetteville and started working for the North Carolina Division of Motor Vehicles. He had the privilege of becoming a training officer with the Field Operations Support Unit of DMV and has worked with the City of Fayetteville Police Department. He's been married since 1995 to his wonderful wife LaVonne, who for the last 12 years has worked for Branch Banking and Trust and is currently a Certified Relationship Banker. They have two wonderful sons; David age 9 and Devon age 3. You can usually find him in the Acquisitions Department or email him at dsprague@uncfsu.edu.

New Reference Books @ Chesnutt Library

2008-04-29T15:36:00.003-05:00

The following books are located in the Reference Department on the 1st floor:

21st Century Psychology: A Reference Handbook v. 1-2
[BF131 .A15 2008]

The African American National Biography v. 1-8
[E185.96 .A4466 2008]

International Encyclopedia of Oraganization Studies v. 1-3
[HD31 .I564 2008]

Encyclopedia of Business Ethics & Society v. 1-5
[HF5387 .E53 2008]

21st Century Sociology: A Reference Handbook v. 1-2
[HM585 .H33 2007]

Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media v. 1-2
[HQ784.M3 E53 2007]

Encyclopedia of Political Communication v. 1-2
[JA85 .E65 2008]

An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films, 1895-1930 [PN1998.2 .L686 2004]

Manual of Clinical Microbiology v. 1-2
[QR46 .M425 2007]

Encyclopedia of Health & Aging
[RA777.6 .E534 2007]

Reminder - Finals Library Hours

2008-04-28T15:39:00.003-05:00

Later Library Hours for Finals:

Monday, April 28 - Thursday, May 1
7:00am -12:30am

Friday, May 2
7:00am - 10:00pm

Saturday, May 3
8:00am - 10:00pm

Sunday, May 4
2:00pm - 11:00

Monday, May 5 - Thursday, May 8
7:00am - 12:30am

Friday, May 9
8:00am - 6:00pm

New Serial Titles

2008-04-19T14:16:00.002-05:00

Come browse the new additions to our journal collection. There's something for everybody - whether you're watching what you eat (Cooking Light), thinking of picking up a new hobby (Cross Stitch Gold or Golf), or stimulating your mind (Mental Floss):

1. Biology of Reproduction
2. Cooking Light
3. Criminal Justice Research Reports
4. Cross Stitch Gold
5. Cultural and Social History
6. Experimental and Clinical Psychopharmacology
7. European Journal of Social Theory
8. Golf Magazine
9. Information Systems Control Journal
10. Informed Librarian
11. Journal of Andrology
12. Journal of Higher Education Outreach and Engagement
13. Mental Floss
14. Music Perception
15. Neuropsychology
16. O: The Oprah Magazine
17. Out
18. Psychological Methods
19. Psychology of Addictive Behaviors
20. Rehabilitation Psychology
21. Sophisticates: Black Hair Styles and Care Guide
22. TIFERT: A Journal of Spiritual Literature
23. Travel and Leisure
24. Upscale
25. Vibe

These magazines are all located on the first floor of the library in the Periodicals Department behind the stairs.

Student Awards for Library Service

2008-04-19T13:55:00.002-05:00

Congratulations to Michael Jones in Acquisitions & Regina Satchell in Circulation. Both received the 2008 Jacqueline C. McLeod Student Award for Library Service. We really appreciate all your hard work and dedication to Chesnutt Library.

Click here for more information.

Trial Databases

2008-04-19T13:43:00.004-05:00

Try out these new trial databases & let us know what you think:

Natural Standard
Trial Begins: April 15, 2008
Trial Ends: May 15, 2008
Username: carolina
Password: trial

Lexis-Nexis Statistical Universe DataSets
Trial Begins: April 14, 2008
Trial Ends: May 13, 2008
Please contact Reference Desk at 672-1233 or a Library Staff Member for the Username and Password

Sage EReference
Trial Begins: April 9, 2008
Trial Ends: May 9, 2008
Select: "Enter Sage eReference"
Username: ereference
Password: carolina
Click “Go”

CQ Press Political Reference Suite of Online Editions
Trial Begins: April 3, 2008
Trial Ends: May 3, 2008

CQ Global Researcher
Trial Begins: April 3, 2008
Trial Ends: May 3, 2008

Praeger Security International Online
Trial Begins: March 26, 2008
Trial Ends: April 25, 2008
UserName: carolinaconsortium
Password: library

For more information visit Chesnutt Library's homepage.

America's Best Graduate Schools

2008-04-07T22:33:00.002-05:00

Graduation is fast approaching and for those of you considering graduate school you should pick up this week’s issue of US News & World Report. The magazine ranks America’s best graduate schools in law, business, medicine, engineering & more. Other articles in this issue include Debt Doesn’t Have to Clip Your Wings – with tips on how to save money in graduate school; These Law Schools Mean Business – detailing the increasing trend of making business classes part of the traditional law school coursework; & Speaking the Global Language –focusing on the importance of learning foreign languages in today’s global society.

If you'd like to browse through a print copy visit our Periodicals Department located on the first floor behind the staircase.

REMINDER - The Big Read is Tomorrow!

2008-04-01T12:28:00.002-05:00

This is just a reminder to join us for Chesnutt Library's contribution to The Big Read. We will be discussing this year's book selection, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, from 12:00pm-1:30pm in the library's conference room on the 3rd floor. If you haven't yet picked up your copy - it's not too late! Swing by the Reference Department, pick up a copy, & join us for what is sure to be a lively discussion. (Refreshments will be provided).

New Books @ Chesnutt Library

2008-04-01T12:17:00.004-05:00

The following new books are located on the 3rd floor:

EDUCATION

The art of educational leadership : balancing performance and accountability [LB2805 .E638 2008]

Differentiated school leadership : effective collaboration, communication, and change through personality type [LB2805 .K524 2008]

Caring enough to lead : how reflective practice leads to moral leadership [LB2805 .P375 2008]

Don't teach the canaries not to sing : creating a school culture that boosts achievement [LC210 .R36 2008]

Closed for Easter Holiday

2008-03-20T15:08:00.001-05:00

Don't forget... the library closes today at 6:00pm and won't reopen till Monday, March 24, 2008 @ 7:00am. Hope everyone has a safe & happy Easter Holiday.

Women's History Month

2008-03-18T15:31:00.002-05:00

This month is Women's History Month so please visit our homepage to view a list of selected databases on women. If you're looking for some fast facts the U.S. Census has created a document covering subjects such as Motherhood, Earnings, Education, Voting and Businesses.

For example:

894,000

The projected number of bachelor’s degrees that will be awarded to women in the 2007-08 school year, who are also projected to earn 380,000 master’s degrees during this period. Women would, therefore, earn 59 percent of the bachelor’s and 61 percent of the master’s degrees awarded during this school year. In addition, women would earn a majority (52 percent) of first-professional degrees, such as law and medical.
Source: National Center for Education Statistics, Projections of Education Statistics to 2015 <http://nces.ed.gov/pubsearch/pubsinfo.asp?pubid=2006084>

Source: ResourceShelf

Big Read @ Chesnutt Library

2008-03-13T10:27:00.002-05:00

This year's Big Read book is Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. Please join us on April 2, 2008 from 12:00-1:30pm in the Library Conference Room (3rd floor) for a Book Reading and Discussion. Click here for more information on Big Read events in our community.

Light refreshments will be served so be sure to drop in!

New Reference Books @ Chesnutt Library

2008-02-23T14:15:00.005-05:00

The following book is located on the first floor in the Reference Department:

From Books in Print:

"The Book Report Coauthored by a medical writer and the associate chief of medical oncology at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York, this updated A-to-Z resource provides more than 2,500 accessible definitions and terms for cancer patients and their families guiding them through much of the confusion that surrounds the latest claims of this enigmatic disease. This updated volume covers everything you need to know about this disease, including details about individual cancers, their causes, incidence levels, stages, and treatement. In addition, information about diagnostic tests; symptoms; surgeries; radiation therapies, their side effects, and risk factors; carcinogens; and prevention are also presented in this essential volume to highlight all the important aspects of this timely topic."

Business Source Complete

2008-02-08T16:59:00.000-05:00

Chesnutt Library is now offering access to Business Source Complete:

"Business Source Complete contains far more active, peer-reviewed, business related journals than any other database currently available. As part of the comprehensive coverage offered by this database, indexing and abstracts for the most important scholarly business journals back as far as 1886 are included. In addition to the searchable cited references provided for more than 1,200 journals, Business Source Complete contains detailed author profiles for the 20,000 most-cited authors in the database."

Also, last month EBSCO added 7,500 Life Science Analytics company profiles to Business Source Complete. According to EBSCO, every LSA company profile contains "detailed and accurate company information drawn from the MedTRACK database, including product details, management information and company news."

Skip the Tuition: 100 Free Podcasts from the Best Colleges in the World

2008-02-05T17:17:00.000-05:00

The OEDb (Online Education Database) is offering 100 free podcasts from several of the best universities in the country. So if you ever wanted to learn about world geography you can now listen to a podcast lecture from Stanford University rather than sitting in a classroom. Some others include:

Quantum Mechanics - Stanford University

Juvenile Delinquency & Juvenile Justice - UC Berkeley

Introduction to Copyright Law - MIT

Nintendo: A History of Innovation - Duke

50 Years in Media: Changes in Journalism - Harvard

Money & Banking - UCLA

So start your extracurricular learning now! For a list of the 100 clicke here.

Source: ilibrarian

New Reference Books @ Chesnutt Library

2008-02-02T16:38:00.000-05:00

The following titles are located on the 1st floor in the Reference Department:

Historical Dictionary of Japanese Business [REF HF 3824 .P53 2007]

from Books in Print:

"The Historical Dictionary of Japanese Business is an examination of the origins and characteristics of Japan's business culture. This handy reference book includes most of the important words or company names that foreign business people visiting Japan might encounter and provides an overview of Japanese corporate culture both from an historical standpoint and with reference to its most distinctive features as they affect organization and management."

Feminists who Changed America 1963-1975 [REF HQ 1412 .F46 2006]

from Books in Print:

"It tells the stories of more than two thousand individual women and a few notable men who together reignited the women's movement and made permanent changes to entrenched customs and laws. The biographical entries on these pioneering feminists represent their many factions, all parts of the country, all races and ethnic groups, and all political ideologies.

The Encyclopedia of American Law Enforcement [REF HV 8133 .N49 2007]

from Books in Print:

"A handy guide to the history of American law enforcement and crime-fighting. Written in a clear and engaging style, The Encyclopedia of American Law Enforcement gives the official lowdown on the exciting world of law enforcement, providing an A-to-Z history of the police and law enforcement authorities in the United States--from the 17th century to the present. With more than 600 entries, this book goes behind the scenes and takes a closer look at this intriguing topic. Biographical information on figures such as U.S. attorney generals and FBI directors, various police chiefs and commissioners, sheriffs, criminologists, detectives, and victims is also included."

AND JUST IN TIME FOR BLACK HISTORY MONTH:

Historical Dictionary of African American Cinema [REF PN 1995.9 .N4 B433 2007]

from Books in Print:

"On top of the films, brief biographies of African American actors and actresses such as Sidney Poitier, James Earl Jones, Halle Berry, Eddie Murphy, Whoopi Goldberg, Denzel Washington, and Jamie Foxx can also be found in this reference. Through a chronology, a list of acronyms and abbreviations, an introductory essay, a bibliography, appendixes, black-&-white photos, and hundreds of cross-referenced dictionary entries on actors, actresses, movies, producers, organizations, awards, film credits, and terminology, this book provides a better understanding of the role African Americans played in film history."

Library of Congress on Flickr

2008-01-28T22:52:00.000-05:00

Many of you may already be familiar with Flickr, a popular photo sharing website. Much to our benefit, the Library of Congress has launched a project to easily share its photos with us. According to Matt Raymond:

"If all goes according to plan, the project will help address at least two major challenges: how to ensure better and better access to our collections, and how to ensure that we have the best possible information about those collections for the benefit of researchers and posterity. In many senses, we are looking to enhance our metadata (one of those Web 2.0 buzzwords that 90 percent of our readers could probably explain better than me).

The project is beginning somewhat modestly, but we hope to learn a lot from it. Out of some 14 million prints, photographs and other visual materials at the Library of Congress, more than 3,000 photos from two of our most popular collections are being made available on our new Flickr page, to include only images for which no copyright restrictions are known to exist."

So be sure to take a look - you'll be surprised at all the wonderful images available.

Source: Resourceshelf

Library of Congress Classification Game

2008-01-28T21:39:00.000-05:00

We know many of you have been attending our Bibliographic Instruction classes where we show you how to find books and other materials in Chesnutt Library. If the Library of Congress Classification system seems a little confusing play this game to practice your knowledge!

FSU Sponsors Chesnutt Symposium

2008-01-23T12:33:00.000-05:00

Fayetteville State University (FSU) is hosting a symposium honoring Charles W. Chesnutt. The symposium includes the unveiling of the United States Postal Service's 41-cent stamp honoring the author. The stamp is part of the "Black Heritage Series."

The symposium is today, January 23, 2008 from 1 - 5 p.m. in the J.C. Jones Board Room of the Charles W. Chesnutt Library. The public is invited to attend.

New Media @ Chesnutt Library

2008-01-10T17:02:00.000-05:00

The following items are located on the 2nd floor in the Media Center:

A jazz message [sound recording]/Art Blakey Quartet

Tender lover [sound recording]/Babyface

Back to back [sound recording]/Duke Ellington & Johnny Hodges

Oral interpretation made easy [videorecording]

Bunraku [videorecording]: masters of Japanese puppet theater

Kabuki techniques [videorecording]

Purple Butterfly [videorecording]

Journey to the Western Xia Empire [videorecording]

Best Careers 2008

2008-01-10T15:32:00.000-05:00

For those of you with undeclared majors, maybe this might help you decide:

US News & World Report has come out with a list of the Best Careers 2008. Some of the professions on the list include dentist, firefighter, optometrist, pharmacist and librarian (yes, librarian!) For a complete list click here.

Oh, and be sure to check out Most Overrated Careers. Among those are attorney, teacher and advertising executive.

Source: Jackson Blog