Auburn University is switching over to a new electronic management system called Banner.  The change will affect Auburn University employees and students and other patrons of the A.U. Libraries as the University switches over from using Social Security Card numbers to an alternate form of identification for logging in and using University services.  This will also include access to library services including document delivery services, logging in from off campus to electronic databases, and the checking out of library materials.  Library patrons most likely to be affected currently include retired faculty, adjunct faculty, non-Auburn University patrons, and some patrons whose identification numbers end with the number 5.

If you have a problem with logging into any library service or system, please contact the Circulation Department at  844-1701.  For problems with Document Delivery Services, please contact 844-1745 or illhelp@auburn.edu .

From 4:45 p.m. on August 10 until 7:45 a.m. on August 19, access to the Interlibrary Loan (ILL) and AUBIExpress web forms will be restricted.  The Library will be installing a new interlibrary loan system called ILLiad.  ILLiad will allow users to track their AUBIExpress and Interlibrary Loan requests and will provide detailed request histories.  Please be aware of this necessary disruption in interlibrary loan and document delivery service.

Please contact Pambanisha King (844-1745) or Glenn Anderson (844-1741) at the Draughon Library for more information.

The Journal Citation Reports database is a resource for journal evaluation, using data drawn from over 8400 scholarly and technical journals worldwide.  The Science Edition contains data from roughly 5000 journals in the areas of science and technology.  The Social Sciences Edition contains data from over 1700 journals in the social sciences.  This database is limited to 10 simultaneous users.

This database includes plot summaries, literary criticism, author biographies, and full text of literary journals and book reviews.  It also includes poems, short stories, and full text of many classic novels.  Literary Reference Center is a product of EBSCO and is a different database from the similarly titled Literature Resource Center, a product of Thomson Gale.

The Auburn University Graduate School now requires electronic copies of theses and dissertations.  Consequently, the Graduate School has created a database making these works freely available on the World Wide Web and the A. U. Libraries have added a link to this AUETD (Auburn University Electronic Thesis and Dissertation) database under the Articles and Databases link located in the upper left hand side of the A. U. Libraries homepage . The database mainly covers the period from 2004 onward.  It is possible to arrange titles by date, department, and author.  It is possible to search titles by keyword, title, author, department, major professor, and year.  Theses and dissertations are available online but researchers will need to load Adobe Acrobat software to view the documents.

Edited by Helene Henderson, this is the Third Edition and it provides information on nearly 2500 holidays, festivals, etc. from more than 100 countries and all 50 states of the United States.  Located in the Reference Collection on the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number GT 3925 .H64 2005.