Ohio University Libraries News

Check out Patricia and Adam - two of our $100 winners from last quarter’s Library Technology Survey.

If you didn’t take the first survey, or if you didn’t win last time - please stop crying! You have another chance to win $100 from the OU Libraries, just by taking the second installment of our anonymous survey. This one is much shorter, and should only take 5 minutes or so of your time:

click here to take the survey!

The survey will be open until June 14th, and we’ll draw the winner on June 15th. (We’ll mail the check to the winner if they’re not in town over the summer.)

The Friends of the Libraries at Ohio University will hold a book sale on May 8-10, 2008 located in Alden Library’s 4th floor lounge. The hours are:

Thursday, 7-9 pm (Presale for members only)

Friday, 10-6 pm

Saturday, 10-4 pm

“When you support the Friends, you are supporting all of Ohio University-every discipline, every student, every faculty-by helping to build and maintain a great library.”

This presentation has been cancelled; it will be rescheduled for a later date.

As part of the Alden Library Diversity Committee’s Culture Corner Series entitled Portraits of Appalachian Women, author Nancy Bain will be giving a talk entitled, “Women in Mining Communities: Information from Archival and Documentary Sources”. The presentation will be held on May 7^th at 3:00pm on the third floor of Alden Library in the Friends of the Libraries Room.

Dr. Nancy Bain is a professor emeritus in Geography. Originally from Minnesota, she completed her graduate work at the University of Minnesota. At OU she has served as department chair, University Ombuds, and was the first director of Women’s Studies. Her research interests include impact analysis, land change, and coal.

Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.

University Libraries and Friends of the Libraries are excited to once again take part in the Annual Student Research and Creative Activity Expo by providing three awards to Expo participants.

Sponsored by Friends of the Libraries, an award of $100 each will be given to one undergraduate and one graduate project. In addition, a $50 Librarian’s Choice Award will be selected the day of the Expo.

Not just filled with books and computers, the library has many friendly librarians ready to help with your latest paper or project, and to aid you with our numerous services. Winning applicants will demonstrate their exceptional use of our library resources, services, and facilities for their research projects and creative endeavors.

To be considered for a library sponsored award, Expo participants need to complete an online application (http://www.library.ohiou.edu/info/awards.html) no later than May 1, 2008.

Winners will be selected by library staff committee members Araba Dawson-Andoh, Joyce Douglas, Michael Farmer, Sherri Saines and Dawn Walter-Gagliano.

We are pleased to announce the availability of an online index to The Post, Ohio University’s campus newspaper, that covers the time period from Fall 1985 through Spring 1995. You may find this index listed in Infotree as Post Index (online). The direct link is www2.library.ohiou.edu/post2/.

The library also has a printed index to The Post covering the years 1939 through 1950, and 1961 through 1985. These volumes are available in Alden’s reference stacks on the 2nd floor (call number LD4191.O82 G7x Index). More information about our holdings and indexing to The Post is available among our Newspaper Timelines.

As part of the Alden Library Diversity Committee’s Culture Corner Series entitled Portraits of Appalachian Women, author Sharon Hatfield will be giving a talk entitled, “Marry in Haste; Repent in Leisure: Edith Maxwell and the National Woman’s Party”. The presentation will be held on April 16^th at 3:00pm on the third floor of Alden Library in the Friends of the Libraries room.

Sharon Hatfield is the author of Never Seen the Moon: The Trials of Edith Maxwell (University of Illinois Press, 2005) and co-editor of An American Vein: Critical Readings in Appalachian Literature (Ohio University Press, 2005). She grew up in the Cumberland Mountains of Lee County, Virginia. After college she became a newspaper reporter in Wise County, Virginia, covering the justice system in the same courtroom Edith Maxwell was tried for murder.

Hatfield holds a master’s degree in Journalism from Ohio University and an MFA in Creative Nonfiction from Goucher College. She lives in Athens, Ohio, with her husband Jack Wright, and teaches writing at Hocking College.

Admission is free and light refreshments will be served.

The Culture Corner display this quarter includes a group of photographs taken of women in this area during the last century. The photographs are all part of the Manuscript Collection located in the Mahn Center for Archives and Special Collections which is on the fifth floor of Alden Library. Included in the Culture Corner exhibit are photographs from the Lloyd Moore Collection, the Buhla Collection, and the Dairy Barn Collection, as well as publications from the Fine Arts collection on the third floor. The exhibit contains artifacts from the Athens County Historical Society and Museum as well as the College of Fine Arts, School of Theater’s costume shop. So stop by the Culture Corner on the fourth floor and take a trip back in time, or check us out online to see lists of titles and materials relevant to this quarter’s theme of Portraits of Appalachian Women.

The Library has revised its policy about eating food in public spaces of
the building.

• Snack foods such as nuts, pretzels, cookies, and candy are now allowed.
• Foods such as bagels, muffins, pizza, hamburgers, fries, sandwiches, salads, soup are not considered snack food and must be consumed in Café BiblioTech on the 2nd floor.
• Please report spills to the nearest service desk immediately, so that they can be cleaned up quickly and damages can be
  minimized.

(As always, please enjoy your beverages in containers with lids.)

A poster exhibit dealing with the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atomic bombings will be on display in the lobby area in front of the Friends Room on the third floor of Alden Library from April 1 to April 25.

This exhibit is partially supported by the Alden Library “Article 9 — Katsumori, Ichioka, Overby — Endowment.”

A photography exhibit entitled “Perspectives: Visions of Southeast Asia” will be on display on the first floor of Alden Library in the Center for International Collections until the end of March. The sixteen photos, taken throughout Southeast Asia, were chosen through a contest held during winter quarter which was open to faculty, staff and students.


The goal of this exhibit is to promote awareness in Athens and surrounding
areas of Southeast Asia and of the Southeast Asian Studies program’s 40th
anniversary, 1968-2008. It is supported by Southeast Asian Studies Program
and Ohio Valley International Council and has also been on display in area
elementary and middle schools.

We are pleased to announce the launching of our new distance education blog. This blog, updated twice a week (usually on Tuesdays and Fridays), will provide tips and
tricks to help distance learning students with the many special situations
they may encounter as they attempt to use library resources. It is
maintained by the library’s distance education coordinator, Marne Grinolds.

In less than an hour per year, in one minute at a time, you can learn about the services and resources available in the library! Topics so far:

First Minute : Introduction
2nd Minute : Tech survey — win $100
3rd Minute: Library Workshops
4th Minute: Library Hours
5th Minute: Getting Help
6th Minute: Group Study Rooms
7th Minute: Ohiolink and Intercampus Requests
8th Minute: Media Loan
9th Minute: Learning Commons 24/5 

Podcast Blog or iTunes (Search “Alden Library” in Store)

The Friends of the Libraries at Ohio University will hold a book sale on Jan. 31-Feb. 2, 2008 located in Alden Library’s 4th floor lounge. The hours are:

Thursday, 7-9 pm (Presale for members only)

Friday, 10-6 pm

Saturday, 10-4 pm

“When you support the Friends, you are supporting all of Ohio University-every discipline, every student, every faculty-by helping to build and maintain a great library.”

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Black History month is this February and Alden Library will be honoring this occasion by celebrating the Bicentennial of the Abolition of the Anglo-American Trade in African Captives. The law, which went into effect on January 1, 1808, put an end to the importation of slaves from Africa. A poster project commemorating this event was created by the African American Studies Department, the Social Work Department, and the Multicultural Genealogical Center of Chesterhill, Ohio, with images from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities and the University of Virginia. The display, available in February, will be located on the fourth floor of Alden Library and copies of the legislation will be available and distributed for free at the display so stop by, have a look, and walk away with a little piece of history.

This is a link to the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities page that includes the images used for the exhibit as well as many more.

Historical Statistics of the United States, the standard source for the quantitative facts of American history, is now available online.  HSUS provides data on social, behavioral, humanistic, and natural sciences including history, economics, government, finance, sociology, demography, education, law, natural resources, climate, religion, international migration, and trade - quantitative facts of American History.  The fully searchable and downloadable electronic edition permits users to graph individual tables and create customized tables and spreadsheets reflecting their own particular areas of interest.

This database is available to all campuses of Ohio University.

Copies of the printed version of HSUS are available at the service desk of the Government Documents Department (5th floor) and on the 6th floor. The call number is HA202 .H57 2006.

From Sunday, November 25 through Saturday, December 15, the Library is providing a paging service during selected hours when the Learning Commons is open and the rest of the building is closed. Anyone needing books or journals from other floors during these hours may place a request for their retrieval at the Library Services desk in the Learning Commons.

• Mondays through Thursdays - 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
• Saturdays and Sundays - Noon to 9:00 p.m.

Faculty members and graduate students may also request passes at the Learning Commons Library Services desk for access to the rest of the building during these hours.

For all library hours, see our Hours page.

Do you use Microsoft Office 2007 for Windows?
Do you send your documents to your professor via email or Blackboard?
Can your professor can open your documents?

If your professor uses Office 2007, you’re good to go.

However, if your professor uses Office 2003 for Windows or Office 2004 for
Macintosh, he or she may not be able to open your Office 2007 documents.

View this video to learn how to solve this problem.

The video is also available on YouTube.


Addendum for Macintosh Users: Since the new version of Office for Mac is still a few months away, here’s what you can do to open documents created in Office 2007 for Windows.

• The Pages, Numbers, and Keynote programs in iWork ‘08 can open files created by Word, Excel, and PowerPoint for Office 2007 for Windows. The filename extensions are .docx, .xslx,and .pptx, respectively.
• NeoOffice, a free, open-source program can open Office 2007 files. For more information and downloading, see the NeoOffice site.
• Microsoft has provided a free utility program which will translate Word 2007 (Windows) documents into RTF (Rich Text Format) files which can be opened by Office for Mac.

With any luck, all should be resolved when Office 2008 for Mac is released this Winter.

Even though they love you to stop by and/or call to renew your videos, you can now renew them ONLINE. Just go to YOUR LIBRARY ACCOUNT and renew just like you would a book!
The same renewal dates apply:

• Undergrads: 2 videos, 2 days. One renewal for 2 more days
• Grad Students, Faculty and Staff: 5 videos, 1 week. One renewal for one more week.

The Friends of the Libraries at Ohio University will hold a book sale on Oct. 18-20, 2007 located in Alden Library’s 4th floor lounge.

The hours are: Thursday, 7-9 p.m.; Friday, 10-6 p.m.; and Saturday, 10-4 p.m.

“When you support the Friends, you are supporting all of Ohio University every discipline, every student, every faculty-by helping to build and maintain a great library.”