University Library Blogs

The library will be closed Monday September 1st for Labor Day but will reopen Tuesday September 2nd. Please see our hours page for the complete semester schedule.

Georgia State University students, faculty and staff can download the Windows version of EndNote X2 here.

When you download EndNote, it comes in a zipped package (endnoteX2win.zip). You will need to exctract the files (right click–>extract all) before running the installation file.

See what’s new in EndNoteX2: http://www.endnote.com/enX2info.asp

Please contact Joel Glogowski if you have any questions.

From the San Francisco Chronicle, Monday, August 25.

Wikimedia pegs future on education, not profit
“Analysts have pegged Wikipedia’s value between several hundred million dollars and $7 billion, the latter by Silicon Alley Insider, a technology blog known for its list of the World’s Most Valuable Digital Startups. But its keepers have thus far refused to sell ad space. They are adamant that the encyclopedia’s value is tied up not in potential advertising revenue but in something much loftier - its ability to positively affect the news industry, educational publishing and the nature of open-source knowledge creation and dissemination.”

Marketing First Impressions: Academic Libraries Creating Partnerships and Connections at New Student Orientations

Academic libraries look for successful marketing strategies to promote positive perceptions among students. To do this, librarians need to find venues and partnerships outside the library. Florida State University Libraries discovered that participating in new student orientation networking sessions creates opportunities to generate lasting first impressions among incoming freshmen and their families. After analyzing three years of successive student and family evaluations, which measured presentation rankings and attendance, the library was able to determine the utility and effectiveness of participating in the orientation program. Related literature and an analysis of the evaluations both indicate that universities and students benefit when libraries participate in new student orientations.

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2008 Table of Contents

The University Library is now open until 8:00 p.m. on Fridays.

The University Library is now officially available on iTunes U, here.

The library recently purchased the online version of the International Encyclopedia of Communication.  From the publisher:

The International Encyclopedia of Communication represents the definitive reference source in this interdisciplinary and dynamic field. This authoritative work is jointly published with the International Communication Association (ICA), the leading academic association of the discipline. Key features:

• 1,339 newly-commissioned A-Z entries, divided into 29 editorial areas representing major fields of inquiry, each of which is headed by a leading expert in the field
• Spans the breadth of communication studies, including coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas
• Simultaneously publishing in print and in this fully accessible and searchable online version
• Features sophisticated cross-referencing and search facilities and a lexicon by subject area
• Entries ranging from extended explorations of major topics to short descriptions of key concepts
• Written and edited by an international team of the world’s best scholars and teachers, representing the international character of the ICA
• Editorial areas include communication theory and philosophy, interpersonal communication, journalism, intercultural and intergroup communication, media effects, strategic communication/PR, communication and media law and policy, media systems in the world, and communication and technology.

General collection books in PZ1, PZ3 and PZ4 (subclasses used by the Library of Congress prior to 1980) are being reclassified to the appropriate subclasses of literature. This will bring works together in PQ, PR, PS, etc. that were previously shelved in different places. For example, Roald Dahl’s Kiss, Kiss has gone from PZ3.D1374Ki to PR6054.A35 K57 1960 along with the rest of the books we have by that author. The project to re-mark and re-shelve the PZs has already started and will take most of the summer.

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Join your fellow classmates for Freshmen Friday (8/22) in the University Library for games, movies, food, fun and more.  The fun begins at 10 a.m.

Pick up your passport on the 1st floor of Library North. With your passport, you can access the game stations on 2nd floor, t-shirt giveaways, etc.

Sponsored by Access and Media Services, with assistance from the Learning Commons.

Here’s the student perspective of the GA State Univ Library.