Ohio University Libraries News and Events

After the closing yesterday due to weather conditions, Alden Library and the Music/Dance Library are back to normal hours today. See our Hours page for complete details.

The Learning Commons on the 2nd floor of Alden Library will open at 5:00 PM and will remain open overnight. The other floors of Alden Library and the Music/Dance Library will remain closed. Weather permitting, all of Alden Library and the Music/Dance Library will re-open at 8:00 AM tomorrow morning, Jan. 29.

The Libraries’ InfoTree system will be down for maintenance from approximately 6:00 am till 6:30 am on Monday, January 26.

Alden Library will be providing three venues for anyone who wants to view the inauguration of Barack Obama next Tuesday. A streaming video of CNN’s coverage of the event will be running from 11:30 am till 1:30 pm in the Friends of the Library Room (Alden 319), where seating is available. The plasma screens in the lobbies of both the 2nd and 4th floors will be running streaming video with closed captions.

If you’re interested in a historical perspective on presidential inaugurations, Hulu has mounted video clips of 23 presidential inaugurations, dating all the way back to William McKinley. The US Senate’s website has a gallery of still images going all the way back to Franklin Pierce in 1853!

An exhibit of photographs by
Frank Norton

This exhibit offers a glimpse into the daily culture and environment of the city of São Paulo, and the coast of  São Paulo State.

A 1971 graduate of OU, Frank Norton has been traveling to and capturing his passion for Brazil on film since 1980 through images of its people and locales.

Accompanying this captivating photographic display is information about Ohio University’s growing Portuguese language program and the summer study abroad program in Brazil.

Alden Library 2nd floor Learning Commons ~ exhibition will run through winter quarter.

Opening reception ~ 220 Alden Library ~ Thursday, January 15 from 4-6pm

You can make an appointment with a librarian. Now. Free. With an expert in your field. Yes, you. Any student, faculty, or staff of Ohio University. It’s very easy, just fill out a form and we’ll make a date. Can’t wait to talk to you!

http://www.library.ohiou.edu/ask/appt.html

Photographs by Tieliang Zhang

In these photographs, experience the grandeur and magnificence of a part of the Great Wall at Jiankou, a mountainous suburb less than 100 miles northwest of Beijing. The Jiankou portion of the Great Wall was initially built in the fifteenth-century in the early Ming Dynasty. Also see other portions of the wall in Jinshanling, built at about the same time. The Great Wall and it’s famous gate towers yield excellent photographic opportunities, as its breath-taking beauty changes over the different seasons.

On view at the Frederick and & Kazuko Harris Art Library on the 3rd floor of Alden Library from Jan. 9th through winter quarter.

If you need a book located in Alden Library when the Learning Commons is open and the rest of the building is closed, ask at the Library Services desk on the 2nd floor. We’ll send someone to retrieve it for you! This applies to the hours of 12:01 a.m. to 8:00 a.m. Mondays through Fridays and 7:00 p.m. to 11:45 p.m. on Fridays and Saturdays.

This is an extension of the paging service that we have been offering during summer session and winter intersession classes. (This service is not available when classes are not in session. In other words, it is not available over Spring Break.)

December 31, 2008, was the last day that Medline using the OSearch interface was available. In other words, if you have been used to using Medline with a screen that looked like this, you will need to use a different version now.

The Medline database continues to be available through PubMed and EBSCO. We recommend PubMed for Ohio University users. We also strongly recommend that you access PubMed through either InfoTree or ALICE, in order to facilitate access to the full text of online journals. We are keeping the InfoTree records for Medline, but they will now take you to PubMed:

If you have been used to connecting to Medline via OhioLINK, you need to know that the database listings on OhioLINK website will redirect the connection to the EBSCO version of Medline called Medline with Full Text. Please note, however, that this database is limited to full text articles only, coming from about 1370 journals dating back to 1965. PubMed, on the other hand, covers many more journals and dates back to 1950 and contains OhioLINK FindIt! links to all full text journals available to Ohio University.

More about Medline and PubMed: Medline is the largest component of PubMed, part of the Entrez series of databases provided by NLM’s National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). PubMed links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. PubMed is searchable by using MeSH terms, author names, title words, text words or phrases, journal names or any combination of these. This is the same when searching through Medline.

For more information about Medline and PubMed, contact Health Sciences Librarian Debi Orr (Alden Library, 3rd floor; 593-0249; orrd@ohio.edu).