Archive for October, 2006
North Atlantic Population Project
The North Atlantic Population Project is a machine-readable database of the complete census of Canada (1881), Great Britain (1881), Iceland (1870, 1880, 1901), Norway (1865, 1900), and the United States (1880). This database contains the records of 17 million households and 83 million individuals. Registration is required: researchers must submit an abstract of their research project when registering for NAPP approval.
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This database provides a custom selection of more than 300 full-text journals for educators that is updated daily and provides 24-hour online access from school or home. The Professional Collection offers balanced coverage for any professional educator and is a product of Thomson Gale.
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The Hours link in the lower left hand side on the Auburn University Libraries homepage has been upgraded. Use the Hours link to find out when the libraries are open for the rest of the Fall Semester. This includes holidays and intersession hours.
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The Auburn University Libraries have moved to a new Interlibrary Loan management system. This system, named OCLC ILLiad, will simplify the request process by allowing patrons to: enter address and other personal information only once and view the status and history of all ILL/AUBIExpress requests within one form.
Access to the new system is available by clicking on the “Interlibrary Loan/AUBIExpress” link located near the center of the A.U. Libraries homepage . The system will request your Auburn user name and password. If you have any questions about this service, please contact Pambanisha King at illhelp@auburn.edu or 844-1728.
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International Civil Engineering Abstracts
This online version of the print publication with the same title is provided by MCB University Press (now renamed Emerald) and uses the “Emerald” search engine. Coverage is from 1986 onward and includes 100,000 abstracts from 150 major journals in the field. The print edition is available on the Fourth Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library under call number TA 1 .I7463.
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The HAPI Online database has been updated. New features include text available in Spanish and Portuguese in addition to English; the ability to do Boolean searching (i.e., using search operators AND, OR, and NOT), a “Quick Search” box that allows persons to search the entire HAPI Online database, and more. HAPI isthe online version of Hispanic American Periodicals Index. The database provides citations to over 265,000 journal articles (including 34,000 fulltext links) about Central America, South America, the Caribbean, Mexico, Brazil, and Hispanics/Latinos in the United States from 1970 onward.
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The Auburn University Libraries will play a leading role in a two-year National Leadership Grant of $113,427 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The grant, which was awarded through the Network of Alabama Academic Libraries (NAAL) to Auburn and six other Alabama universities, was one of 37 awarded in the 2006 IMLS funding cycle.
Titled “Alabama Digital Preservation Network,” the grant will be used to test the feasibility of employing LOCKSS (”Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe”) software to harvest and store locally-created digital assets in a low-cost statewide distributed preservation network. Currently used for electronic journals, LOCKSS creates a network of copies that can quickly replace any lost or damaged digital object. This project will create the Alabama Digital Preservation Network for digital repositories of all types, demonstrating a preservation solution for academic institutions, state agencies, and community cultural heritage organizations that are building digital collections for public access. Aaron Trehub, the director of library technology at AU, is the project director.
The participating institutions are the Alabama Department of Archives and History, Auburn University, Spring Hill College, Troy University, the University of Alabama, the University of Alabama at Birmingham, and the University of North Alabama. To read the full story, click to http://www.imls.gov/news/2006/092606.shtm . The IMLS is the primary source of federal support for the nation’s 122,000 libraries and 17,500 museums.
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