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January 30, 2008
UT competes in RecycleMania 2008
Click the poster to visit the site.
The 2008 competition has officially started with over 400 schools across the country participating to see who can motivate their campus communities to recycle more and reduce overall waste. Schools will use the week from Sunday, January 27 through Saturday, February 2 to collect their recycling and trash data. The first reports are do by Wednesday, February 6 at 12pm EST, and initial rankings will be posted that Friday, February 8.
Posted by Allison Roberts at 01:09 PM | TrackBack
January 29, 2008
Check Out a Digital Camera @ Pendergrass
Pendergrass Library has a Canon Power Shot G1 with a 32 mb and 16 mb card available for 24 hr loan.
When you have all the photos you need, you can use the flash card reader at the Library to download the images onto a disk or hard drive
Posted by Allison Roberts at 10:52 AM
January 27, 2008
New Displays at Pendergrass
Come by Pendergrass Library and take a look at our new displays. This time we are focusing in the Biofuels Initiative at UT and New Government Document publications in our collection.
Posted by Laurel Donahue at 05:35 PM
January 25, 2008
The Great Backyard Bird Count
The Great Backyard Bird Count, a joint project between the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Audubon Society, is a nationwide citizen science* project happening Feburary 15-18, 2008. Participants simply count the number and kinds of birds they see for as little as 15 minutes during the Bird Count and submit an online checklist. Scientists compile the data to gain information on bird populations in winter. All ages and birding skill levels are welcome to participate in this project. Information can be found at: The Great Backyard Bird Count
*Citizen science projects are those that involve non-scientists to collect scientific data on such varied topics as water quality, variable star observations, and biodiversity. Scientists then analyze the data, allowing them to make discoveries that would be impossible to observe with only a small team of scientists.
For more information, contact Allison Scripa
Posted by allison scripa at 12:20 PM
January 24, 2008
New OVIDSP interface to Agricola, CAB, Bio Abst, FS&TA
Heavily used agriculture and veterinary medicine databases have a interface new to
UT searches. It is called OVIDSP.
If you search these databases, we have training aids and
guides that will help you learn how to search them with OVIDSP:
AGRICOLA 1970 to present
Biological Abstracts 1969 to present
CAB Abstracts 1973 to present
Food Science and Technology Abstracts 1969 to present
UTIA personnel please contact Ann Viera (4-9015 annviera@utk.edu) or Sandy Leach (974-7922 or sandra-leach@utk.edu) for assistance searching these or any other databases.
Printed guide to OVID SP available: contact Ann (annviera@utk.edu or 974-9015) for a copy of the printed Quick Reference Card from OVID SP or download the .pdf version.
High-quality training is available online now at your desktop produced by academic librarians at other institutions who have already produced podcast and written tutorials about how to search with the new OVIDSP interface.
Podcast:
Yale Medical Library OVID SP tutorials by Lei Wang--assumes you've used the old OVID interface. Medline is the database searched using OvidSP. Short, authoritative, highly recommended!
Written:
University of Leeds has two online workbooks dated 2/1/08:
OVID SP Starter Workbook
OVIDSP Advanced Workbook
Pros and Cons of the new OVIDSP from Dean Guistini/UCB Library
Additional tutorials and training aids will be posted on this blog as we find them. Thanks to the Krafty Librarian for alerting us to the work of our colleagues.
Posted by Ann Viera at 08:54 AM
January 22, 2008
NIH Public Access Policy to become Mandatory
To read more about the change from voluntary to mandatory open access of all NIH-funded
research, see the BioMed Central Blog.
A white paper by Michael W. Carroll, an attorney, copyright expert, and faculty member at Villanova University law school is available: "Complying with the National Institutes of Health Public Access Policy:
Copyright Considerations and Options"
Posted by Ann Viera at 01:50 PM
January 19, 2008
UTK's Inclement Weather Policy
The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, will remain open except in the most severe weather conditions.
* The Chancellor may officially close or suspend selected activities of the University because of extreme weather conditions. When a decision to close is reached, campus and local radio and TV stations will be notified so that appropriate announcements may be made.
* If the University is officially closed, certain essential activities such as food services, facilities services, police, steam plant, health service, and telephone services will continue to operate. Some facilities such as the Library and University Center will, if possible, continue to function as a service to students and faculty. When the University is officially closed, its policy of Days of Administrative Closing will apply for staff exempt and staff nonexempt employees.
* In the event of inclement weather when the University remains open, all faculty, administrators and staff will be expected to make every reasonable effort to maintain their regular work schedules, but are advised to avoid undue risks in traveling. Employees who anticipate arriving late or not arriving at work at all should notify their immediate supervisors. Employees have the option of charging their time off to annual leave or leave without pay; or, with approval, they may make up their lost work hours.
*Students will be responsible for any academic work they miss due to absences caused by severe weather conditions. It is the individual student's responsibility to take the initiative to make up any missed class work, and it is the instructors' responsibility to provide a reasonable opportunity for students to complete assignments or examinations missed due to such absences.
Posted by Shantel Agnew at 03:31 PM
January 16, 2008
Toss your trash outside the library
We all love the liberal food policy here at Pendergrass. So we should all do our part to protect the environment we enjoy by keeping pesky visitors to a minimum and protecting the books and computers.
Don't use the trash cans inside the library for food and drink trash.
Take a moment to throw away food trash in the receptacles outside the Library and
DON'T FORGET TO RECYCLE
Posted by Allison Roberts at 09:43 AM
January 10, 2008
Late Nite Rides with a UT ID
T: Link
Call from any Blue Phone or call 974-4080, and a van will be dispatched to connect you to the The T:Late Nite or to your destination. Service is on-demand and the service area includes UT's Main and Ag Campuses, and Ft. Sanders to Grand Avenue (excluding the Cumberland Avenue Strip).
Operates 6:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m.
Have your UT ID ready to show to the bus operator.
Posted by Allison Roberts at 09:53 AM
January 09, 2008
Catalog of U.S. Government Publications
The Government Printing Office has updated it's catalog interface.
Click the image above to use the new interface.
Posted by Allison Roberts at 02:19 PM
January 08, 2008
Spring Hours
Pendergrass Library will return to regular hours on Wednesday, January 9th.
Monday-Thursday 7:30am-10:00pm
Friday 7:30am-6:00pm
Saturday 10:00am-6:00pm
Sunday 1:00pm-10:00pm
Click here to view hours for all the UT Libraries.
Posted by Laurel Donahue at 11:19 AM
January 07, 2008
Publish With Newfound Press
Newfound Press
The Present Future
Today's scholarly publishing environment presents a strategic opportunity for academic libraries to expand their role in the publications process. Universities are both creators and consumers in the information economy. A digital library press offers the potential for making scholarly and specialized resources widely available at a reasonable cost.
The University of Tennessee Libraries is developing a framework to make scholarly and specialized works available
worldwide. Newfound Press, the University Libraries digital imprint, advances the community of learning by experimenting with effective and open systems of scholarly communication. Drawing on the resources that the university has invested in digital library development, Newfound Press collaborates with authors and researchers to bring new forms of publication to an expanding scholarly universe. We consider manuscripts in all disciplines, encompassing scientific research, humanistic scholarship, and artistic creation.
For more information, see Newfound Press website and/or contact Linda Phillips.
Linda chairs the Newfound Press editorial board.
Linda L. Phillips
Phone: 865-974-4702
Fax 865-974-9242
E-mail: llphillips@utk.edu
Posted by Ann Viera at 09:02 AM