Illustration: Darwin, C. R. 1871. The Descent of Man, and Selection in Relation to Sex. London: John Murray. 1st edition. Volume 2. Reproduced with permission from John van Wyhe ed., The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online

When was the last time you got a good look at a Neandertal’s skull? Well check out the Georgia State University Library’s Exhibit on “Darwin’s Impact.” This display is part of the university’s commemoration of the 200^th anniversary of Charles Darwin’s birth and the 150^th anniversary of the first publication of On The Origin of Species. Placed in our display case on Library North 1, across from Saxbys Coffee,  this exhibit highlights works in the library’s collection that show the expanse of work Darwin has inspired: from the obvious disciplines of anthropology and biology to art, psychology, literature and philosophy. This exhibit has three distinct components: the books in our collection, an online Darwin research site and a display of five molds of fossil skulls, tracing the evolutionary process of human origins.

Firstly, the exhibit draws attention to 14 books in our vast collection of Darwin related material, pulled by our subject librarians in the fields of art, anthropology, history and biology. We have listed the book titles together with their location in the building, along with their call number. We also paired each title with a unique illustration from one of the publications of Darwin’s original works. These amazing illustrations were reproduced with permission from John van Wyhe editor of The Complete Work of Charles Darwin Online. His site is another fantastic resource for researching Darwin and his impact.

In fact, it was such a great source that we included it in our own research guide to Charles Darwin and On The Origin of Species. The online guide includes even more Darwin related resources in our collection, a video interview with Dr. Sean Carroll and a calendar of Darwin related events both on campus and across the world. Dr. Carroll (a professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics at the University of Wisconsin) gave a Darwin related lecture on campus earlier this semester, so if you were unable to attend that event, this is an excellent way to hear about how molecular biology provides profound evidence in support of Darwin’s evolutionary theory. As with all of our research guides, there is a convenient chat window embedded on the page, in case you need to contact a librarian with any questions.

Finally, Dr. Frank L’Engle Williams, Professor of Anthropology at Georgia State University was kind enough to loan us a set of five fossil skull molds. Each of these stunning molds demonstrates a different stage of evolutionary development and Dr. Williams provided us with a short description of each of their significance.

So if you are interested in researching Darwin further for one of your projects, or even if you just want to look at some cool skulls, please stop by the exhibit and participate in our celebration of Darwin’s Impact and his anniversary! As always, we welcome your feedback!

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Georgia State University Library’s Joel Glogowski will be presenting a workshop on November 18, 2009, introducing users to EndNote. The presentation will be from  11:00am – 12:30pm in Classroom 1 (on the first floor of Library North). In this session you will learn the basics of building an EndNote library and using EndNote to create formatted bibliographies.

Please contact Joel to register. Using software like EndNote can be very extremely helpful when working on a research paper or article. It could potentially shave hours off of your work. If you currently use EndNote, or have previously attended one of our EndNote instructional workshops, please let us know about your experience in the comments below!

To support this event, the Georgia State University Library has created an online research guide on Darwin. This guide features Darwin related books in our collection, a video about how molecular biology provides profound evidence in support of Darwin’s evolutionary theory, as well as useful links to researching Darwin. It also features a calendar of events listing the lectures on campus, as well as links to various other calendars of Darwin anniversary events around the globe.

The next lecture in the Darwin’s Impact series will be by Sean Carroll, professor of Molecular Biology & Genetics from the University of Wisconsin. Professor Carroll speaks at 4:00 pm on October 26, 2009 in the Speakers Auditorium at the Student Center.

The Zotero workshop will be in Classroom 1, first floor of Library North next to Saxby’s, on Tuesday April 14 from 1-2 p.m.

For more information about Zotero, see our Zotero guide or the Zotero home page.  To sign up for the workshop, e-mail Jason Puckett at jpuckett@gsu.edu.

The Zotero workshop will be in Classroom 1, first floor of Library North next to Saxby’s, on Thursday March 12 from 10-11 a.m.

For more information about Zotero, see our Zotero guide or the Zotero home page.  To sign up for the workshop, e-mail Jason Puckett at jpuckett@gsu.edu.

Library Classroom 1 

This free crash course will teach you everything you need to know to get started using EndNote.

Topics include entering and organizing your citations, connecting directly to online resources, importing citations from article databases, and using EndNote with Word to generate bibliographies. To sign up, please contact Joel Glogowski.

Georgia State students–do you have a research paper to write, but you’re not sure where to begin?  Attend one of these basic library resource sessions to save yourself time and frustration. There are two remaining online drop-in sessions scheduled for Spring semester 2009.

For more information about using EndNote, check out our new EndNote web guide.   To register for the workshop, e-mail Jason Puckett.

(Want to try a different citation manager?  A workshop on Zotero for Firefox is coming later this semester.)

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.”

Grainne Conole of OpenLearn presented a talk titled Technologies or New Pedagogical Possibilities at the Eduserv Foundation Symposium 2008. She focused on the “informational aspects” of Web 2.0 technologies in the classroom, particularly how they might (or might not) change pedagogical models.

The video can be viewed here at iThinkEd.

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Also, once the desired drive (H-drive or jump drive) appears, if you select the scanned item you want to transfer, a menu on the left side of the screen will appear.  This will allow you to move or copy the item to another location.