Grove Art Online is now part of Oxford Art Online, a comprehensive and authoritative guide with extensive surveys and in-depth articles on the history of art; provides links to museums, galleries, and art collections around the world, as well as images. More info.
The Libraries have subscribed to the (New) Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume, which contains over 1,850 articles by more than 1,500 of the world's leading economists. More info.
The revised NIH Public Access Policy is effective today. It requires NIH-funded investigators to submit (or have submitted for them) their final, peer reviewed manuscript to PubMed Central upon acceptance of publication to be made publicly available within 12 months of publication. This policy applies to manuscripts accepted for publication on or after April 7, 2008. The University Libraries stand ready to help you with questions you may have about compliance, copyright policies of journals where you may want to publish, etc. Save Your Time! Ask Us: Subject Librarians for NIH Public Policy Compliance & Journal Policy Concerns.
The Libraries have subscribed to Archäologische Bibliographie (via Projekt Dyabola). Based on the catalog of the German Archaeological Institute, this is the major bibliographical database for classical archaeology. More info.
On Tuesday, April 8, we will be performing maintenance on the servers that run the ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan) software. We expect the service will be unavailable from 7am until about noon that day. We apologize for any inconvenience.
Back in January we announced that the Libraries had subscribed to a service that provides full-color cover images and links to author notes, fiction and biography profiles (see this announcement). Now we've added more features: through a service called LibraryThing for Libraries some records have these additional fields:
About 38% of the records for books in the catalog now have this added content. LibraryThing continues to add features; in the future you may be able to add your own tags to catalog records, contribute your own reviews, and add ratings to books.
The Libraries have subscribed to Chemical Business NewsBase (CBNB), a leading provider of global chemical business news and information. More info.
WU Libraries will host focus groups in April on how to reconfigure Olin Library and better meet student needs for space and for technology. Undergraduate and graduate students are invited to give feedback about how they currently use and would like to use Olin space. Do you need more quiet study space? More group study space? What are your software and hardware needs? Let us know what you think!
Undergraduate groups (start at 5pm): Wed., April 2 or Tues., April 8
Graduate Students groups (start at 4pm): Thurs., April 3 or Wed., April 9
Attendees receive a $10 gift card to the WU campus bookstore. All sessions are one hour, meet in Olin Library, and food is provided.
Register online to help us plan for food, chairs, & space (!). However, if you're unsure of your schedule, show up at the start time in Olin's lobby and we'll fit in as many participants as we can.
Questions: dkatz@wustl.edu (Debbie Katz) 314-935-4822
Miniature Books: 4,000 Years of Tiny Treasures, on display in the Grand Staircase lobby and Ginkgo Reading Room in Olin Library, until June 6, 2008. It is accessible during normal Olin Library hours.
You are invited to attend a talk, part of "Our Favorite Books" Series, on Thursday, April 10, 4:15pm, in the Ginkgo Reading Room: 'The Growth of the Small' by Joseph Loewenstein. Is this remarkable collection of miniature books a set of beautiful curiosities, mere oddities, or can they be opened to afford a tiny window into a much larger past? Professor Loewenstein will situate the collection in the development of Early Modern European (and especially English) book culture.
Articles about Julian Edison and his collection of miniature books can be viewed at:
