New Books and Videos List Now Available

In response to increasing demand, the Library is now publishing a list of new books and video acquisitions.

You can see lists of new books, new videos, and new Reference titles here:

• http://ariadne.kzoo.edu/ftlist

These lists are also linked from the Library Home Page.

The New Books and Videos list is connected to the Library's online catalog, Ariadne. Clicking on a title will give you more information and allow you to request the item (if applicable).

If you have questions, please contact Ann Haight at 269-337-7144 or haight@kzoo.edu.

New Interlibrary Loan Service: ILLiad

The Library is pleased to offer Interlibrary Loan services through a new program called ILLiad. ILLiad will be available for placing requests on Thursday, September 1. ILLiad will replace all past methods of placing interlibrary loan requests. Paper request forms and the old online request forms are being discontinued.

ILLiad offers new features that we hope will make your use of Interlibrary Loan more streamlined, efficient and user friendly. In order to use the system, you will need to log in with your Kalamazoo College network username and password. First time users will fill out a short registration form. Once the account is established, you will be able to request books and articles without entering your personal information each time. In addition, you can check on the status of your requests, ask for renewals, or cancel requests. You will also enjoy instant email notification to let you know when your material has arrived.

Though you will still come to the Library circulation desk to pick up books, all articles will be delivered electronically through your ILLiad account.

If you have questions, call the Reference Department at 269-337-7152 or email reference@kzoo.edu.

New Database: In the First Person

The Library is pleased to announce a new database: In the First Person. This database is an online index to English language personal narratives, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and oral histories. It includes more than 2,500 collections of oral history and interviews in English from around the world. It allows for keyword searching of more than 260,000 pages of full-text by more than 9,000 individuals from all walks of life.

PLEASE NOTE that this database links to some free content and some subscription content. Kalamazoo College does not subscribe to all content indexed in this database.

Search In the First Person:

• Connect to In the First Person
  

Learn more about In the First Person:

• from the Library's website
• from Alexander Street
  

Keynote Speaker Selected for Library Dedication

Penelope Niven, Writer-in-Residence at Salem College, will be the keynote speaker at the Upjohn Library Commons dedication ceremonies on April 22, 2006. Niven is the author of Carl Sandburg: A Biography (Scribner, 1991; Eastern National Press, 2001); co-author, with the actor James Earl Jones, of Voices and Silences (Scribner, 1993; Simon & Schuster, 1994: Proscenium Limelight edition, 2002); author of Steichen: A Biography (Clarkson Potter/Crown/Random House, 1997; Eastern National Press, 2004); Carl Sandburg: Adventures of a Poet (Harcourt, 2003); and Swimming Lessons (Harcourt, 2004).

She has lectured in the United States, Canada, and Great Britain and was principal consultant for the PBS film biography "Carl Sandburg -- Echoes and Silences." She has served as a consultant for television films on Sandburg, Jones, Steichen and Wilder. She is currently working on a biography of Thornton Wilder.

For more biographical information on Penelope Niven, see the Salem College Center for Women Writers.

Jo Ellen Parker, Executive Director of the National Institute for Technology and Liberal Education (NITLE) and former president of the Great Lakes Colleges Association (GLCA) will also speak at the dedication.

Scopus Database Trial

The Library is pleased to announce a trial to Scopus. This database, a product of Elsevier publishers, offers access to 14,000 peer-reviewed titles from more than 4,000 international publishers in the areas of Health, Life Sciences, Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Engineering, Earth and Environmental Sciences, Social Science, Psychology, Economics, and Business and Management.

Scopus not only gives the abstract of an article, but it links to references within articles as well. Scopus is not a full text database, but you can check Ariadne or the Electronic Journal Finder to see if Kalamazoo College has access to print or electronic versions of the articles indexed in Scopus.

You can access Scopus in two ways:

• Directly: http://www.scopus.com/, or
• Through the Database Trials page on the Library website: http://www.kzoo.edu/is/library/indexes/trials.html

The Scopus trial is available until December 31, 2006.