On Wednesday, July 23, the IWU campus website will change over to its new design. We will be working on the Ames Library site to ensure all information and links to library resources are correct after the transition. If you are looking for a link and cannot find it, please email Stephanie Davis-Kahl.
You can also use these direct links to resources and services:
Research Guides
MegaSearch
Ames Catalog
I-Share
ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan)
RefWorks
Digital Commons
Thanks for your patience!
In the coming weeks, we’ll be working to update our website to prepare for the launch of our redesigned campus website. If you are looking for something and can’t find it, please call Help@Ames at x3900 or email Stephanie Davis-Kahl for assistance.
Thanks in advance for your patience!
Our academic library consortium CARLI has negotiated a multi-publisher program that allows e-books to be shared among all CARLI library users in Illinois. The program provides over 29,000 titles in all disciplines; the publisher list is included at the end of this message.
Catalog records for these titles are available in our local catalog and the I-Share catalog. You may also visit the CARLI eBook website to access the titles directly. You will be prompted to authenticate, whether or not you are on campus, to enable tracking of circulations. These e-books have a 7 day loan period and users can view content online, download and print. Once a title has been used 9 times, it is purchased by CARLI for permanent use by all libraries.
This pilot program comes as part of our CARLI governing library membership and follows months of negotiations by the CARLI staff. Shared consortial e-book programs are still quite unusual, as publishers are leery of this changing marketplace. The library faculty look forward to your feedback on this program. If you have comments to share, please contact Karen Schmidt, University Librarian.
Publishers include:
· Bloomsbury Academic
· CABI
· Diplomica
· Edinburgh University Press
· Guilford Publications
· Indiana University Press
· Jessica Kingsley Publishers
· John Benjamins Publishing
· McGraw-Hill International UK
· Morgan & Claypool
· Princeton University Press
· Sage Publications
· University of California Press
· University of North Carolina Press
· Zed Books
Stressed out? IWUF1RST is bringing therapy dogs to The Ames Library Patio on Wednesday, April 23 from 2 pm – 6 pm. There will also be massage chairs and yoga, and we’re excited about those too, but mostly we’re looking forward to hanging out and snuggling with cute dogs. Thanks to IWUF1RST for sponsoring this event! (“Black Labrador Lotte” by Andreas, CC-BY-NC-ND)
You are invited to the 25th John Wesley Powell Undergraduate Research Conference beginning on Friday, April 11 with posters and presentations by students from Educational Studies in The Ames Library from 4 pm – 7 pm. On Saturday, April 12, the conference begins at 9 am in the Center for Natural Sciences with posters and presentations from students in the humanities, social sciences and sciences. Composition students will present their work during the luncheon, and students from the School of Art will present their work beginning at 1 pm in the Ames School of Art. Our keynote this year is Paul Black, Ph.D., a postdoctoral fellow from Wake Forest Baptist Health. For the full schedule, please see the conference website. For programs and presentations from past conferences, please visit the conference archive.
For presenters: If you are printing a poster at the library, you can pick it up at the Circulation Desk during regular library hours. If you’d like to add your work (poster, presentation, art work, composition, photos) to the conference archive, please contact Stephanie Davis-Kahl.
The IWU Board of Trustees recently approved tenure and promotions for nine faculty, including Ames’ own Meg Miner, University Archivist & Special Collections Librarian, and Chris Sweet, Information Literacy Librarian! Congratulations to Meg and Chris and to our faculty colleagues on this momentous achievement!
Holidays Organized Neatly, by Lauren Manning, CC BY 2.0
Holiday Break Hours for The Ames Library:
Friday, December 13th:
7:45 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, December 14th & Sunday, December 15th:
CLOSED
Monday, December 16th – Friday, December 20th :
8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Saturday, December 21st – Wednesday, January 1st :
CLOSED
Thursday, January 2nd & Friday, January 3rd :
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Saturday, January 4th & Sunday, January 5th: :
CLOSED
Monday, January 6th & Tuesday, January 7th :
8:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
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Congratulations to the winners of the 2012-13 Best Gateway Essay contest!
First: Christine Peterson, “Lost in Translation,” Instructor: Tina Isabelli
Runner-up: Lydia Rudd, “Down a Dusty Haitian Road,” Instructor: Kathy Zurkowski
Runner-up: Valerie Mack, “Reputation and Social Perfection: The Social Creation of Mr. Hyde.” Instructor: Adam Woodis
These students will have their achievements cited in the upcoming Honors Convocation program. They have also agreed to have their essays submitted to IWU’s Digital Commons, where they will be available to the IWU community. Submissions, which were first nominated by Gateway faculty, were vetted by Writing Center tutors. The Writing Committee made the final decisions from a list of finalists.
Image credit: Hands Writing in Class by bgblogging (CC BY-NC-SA)
FYI: the BioOne website will be undergoing maintenance starting Friday, June 20. Scheduled downtime will begin at 9:30 p.m. Eastern Time and may last up to 4 hours. During this time content and services on bioone.org will be unavailable.