Sculpture and 2-D Art Exhibit

Student sculptures and artwork from Professor Renée Azenaro's Art 132: Two-Dimensional Design and Art 145: Introduction to Sculpture are currently on display in the 2nd floor foyer of the Armacost Library. Come visit the library soon to view these amazing student works, as they are only on display until November 8th!

Two-dimensional design pieces on display feature black and white texture and symmetry balance and color works.

Sculptures shown on display are carved from plaster. The awesome news is that both of these art classes are open to art and non-art majors!

Boo!

Scary Books @ the Armacost Library

Brave Readers,

Submitted for your approval, a selection of seasonal readings.  Delve in... if you dare!

Yours truly,
Mr. Bones


   


 

    

Open Access Week

Open Access Week

October 19-25, 2015

“’Open Access’ to information – the free, immediate, online access to the results of scholarly research, and the right to use and re-use those results as you need – has the power to transform the way research and scientific inquiry are conducted. It has direct and widespread implications for academia, medicine, science, industry, and for society as a whole.

Open Access (OA) has the potential to... ...increase the exposure and use of published research, facilitate the ability to conduct research across available literature, and enhance the overall advancement of scholarship. Research funding agencies, academic institutions, researchers and scientists, teachers, students, and members of the general public are supporting a move towards Open Access in increasing numbers every year.”

Open Access resources available to all, and linked from the Armacost Library website:

arXiv.org

“Open access to 1,084,095 e-prints in Physics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Quantitative Biology, Quantitative Finance and Statistics.”

Bielefeld Academic Search Engine (BASE)

“BASE is one of the world's most voluminous search engines especially for academic open access web resources. BASE is operated by Bielefeld University Library.”

Approximately 70% of the 75,000,000+ documents indexed in BASE are open access, full-text.

Digital Commons Network

“The Digital Commons Network brings together free, full-text scholarly articles from hundreds of universities and colleges worldwide. Curated by university librarians and their supporting institutions, the Network includes a growing collection of peer-reviewed journal articles, book chapters, dissertations, working papers, conference proceedings, and other original scholarly work.”

UR’s InSPIRe is a part of the Digital Commons Network.

Digital Public Library of America

“The Digital Public Library of America brings together the riches of America’s libraries, archives, and museums, and makes them freely available to the world. It strives to contain the full breadth of human expression, from the written word, to works of art and culture, to records of America’s heritage, to the efforts and data of science.”

Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ)

“DOAJ is an online directory that indexes and provides access to high quality, open access, peer-reviewed journals.”

David Nuffer Hemingway Collection

Armacost Library is honored to be the recipient of the David Nuffer Hemingway Collection. Please join us for a first viewing of this collection on Saturday October 24, 2015 from 10:00-11:30am at the Armacost Library, 2nd floor lobby. Light refreshments will be served.

David Nuffer (’54) was well known as a Hemingway aficionado. His research, which included travel to both France and Cuba, led to a pair of self-published books and an opportunity to present at the Hemingway Society conference in Lausanne, Switzerland.

When David passed away in 2011, Mary (’56) and the family wanted to find a proper home for his beloved collection of first editions and other Hemingway works. Armacost Library was a good choice. We want to thank them and show off the collection at this event scheduled during Homecoming Weekend. Please RSVP to Debbie Alban, 909-748-8092 or Debbie_Alban@redlands.edu

Your Learning Toolbox (Fall 2015 edition)

Welcome new and returning students! Have you taken full advantage of the librarians and Library website? Consider the following whether you're a novice or an ol' research pro.

Cultivate your research & critical thinking skills

Use the "Ask Us" bulldog to meet or speak with, chat or email a member of the library faculty. Contact us when you're developing ideas for a research topic, deciding to use or forego a source, identifying useful search terms, or any other activity that makes use of information sources.

Use Research Guides (by subject and course)

Library faculty have crafted these guides to help you learn about research strategies, habits of mind, and anything else that can develop your scholarship, including recommended resources.

Get quick answers to questions with "How Do I?"

Use "How Do I?" when you want to know, "How do I renew my books? How do I read scholarly articles? How many items may I borrow at a time?"

Read a specific journal, magazine, or newspaper

Sometimes your professor will recommend a specific journal, magazine, or newspaper. To see if the library has it, go to Article Databases & Online Resources and click the "Find a journal, magazine, or newspaper" button to search.

Look up a specific article

When all you have is a citation and you want full text, if the item being cited is an article go to Article Databases & Online Resources and click the "Look up a specific article" button to search.

Find a book

To locate a book or a book chapter, print or online, use the Library Catalog. To access online books, click on the hyperlink provided in the record, to find print books look at the book's location, call number, and availability. Click on the location (e.g. Reference, Periodicals, etc.) to view a map.

Find more books & media in Link+

When searching the Library Catalog, extend your search by clicking "Find in Link+" near the top of your screen. Link+ is like a quicker version of interlibrary loan for books and media only.

Save it to a list

When you search the Library Catalog and find a book, music score, CD, or DVD but don't have time for just yet, save it to a list. Select the item, click on "Save," and select the list to which you'll save it.

Request, Recall, or Place a Hold

Ever search for something in the Library Catalog and find it's not available? Request, recall, or place a hold by selecting the item, then click on "Request" and follow the directions provided.

Recommend a Library Purchase

Found an excellent book that's missing from the Library Catalog? Log into your library account and suggest that the Armacost Library purchase it and list the course(s) to which it relates.

Receive Alerts When the Library Acquires Something You Like

If you've made a purchase suggestion or if you simply want to know when Armacost Library acquires the latest book from your favorite author log into your Library account, run a search, then click "Save this search." To receive an email when a new title matching your search arrives, view your record, click on "Saved Searches," and select the "Mark for Email" box.

Do you have a favorite learning tool? Let me know by adding a comment below.

Thanks,
Paige

Paige Mann
Physical Sciences Librarian and Web Experiences Librarian

Syrian Refugees -- What you said

Nearly every week, I pose a question on a dry-erase board near the entrance of the library. It's the Library's way of engaging with students, learning from you, and providing a space where you can learn from each other. Last week, we asked,

"Syrian Refugees:  What Should We Do?"

Moved by some of your thoughtful responses, I wanted to keep the conversation open by posting what you wrote.

Some are harder to read so here are a few close ups.

Thank you for your honesty and willingness to respond to a complex question.

Paige

Paige Mann

Physical Sciences Librarian/Web Experiences Librarian

Banned Books Week

September 27 - October 3 is Banned Books Week, a time in which we can celebrate our freedom to read and explore diverse ideas. This year Banned Books Week focuses on challenges to young adult literature. Events planned over the next several days include a a lunch time Read-Out, a discussion of young adult literature and why it is frequently challenged or banned, a literature display in the Library, and an introduction to a year-long program focusing on subversive literature.

Banned Books Week events are sponsored by the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, and Armacost Library. Special thanks (in advance) go to Leela MadhavaRau, M.G. Maloney, Heather King, Zack Ritter, Sigma Tau Delta, and the students of the Harry Potter and the Widely Applicable Skill-Set first-year seminar.

Banned Books Display
When: All week
Where: Library entrance, 2nd floor
The Armacost Library will highlight banned and challenged literature available in its collection.

Hunsaker Read Out
When: Tuesday, September 29, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Where: Outside the Irvine Commons
Brave members of the community will read from their favorite banned or challenged book. Stop and listen for a spell, or join in the freedom to read. Banned and challenged books will be available for perusal.

Subversive Verses & Courageous Conversations
When: Wednesday, September 30, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Larsen 126 
Leela MadhavaRau, Associate Dean, and Zack Ritter, Associate Director, of Campus Diversity and Inclusion, will introduce a year-long program of subversive literature and films that have been challenged or banned. These fine works will lead us as a community to engage in courageous conversations.

Why YA?
When: Thursday, October 1, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Orton Center
Join Heather King, Professor of English, and M. G. Maloney, Assistant Director of the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, in a discussion of young adult literature to consider why it is frequently challenged and banned.

Welcome back Bulldogs!

Photo of Thurber by Carlos Puma, 2012, Redlands Visual Assets

Armacost Library welcomes everyone back to campus.
A new semester means new classes, and new research assignments! Fortunately we have new resources to help you out. Some of which include the following:

Link+
Link+ allows the University of Redlands community to borrow books and other tangible items from libraries across California and Nevada. The service is free and items can be delivered to the Armacost Library and other, select locations. Check out our blog post on Link+ to learn more!

CQ Researcher Plus Archive
Expands CQ Researcher’s 12,000 word, journalist-authored reports to include the time period from 1923 to ten years ago.

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance Full Text
An index to reviews and scholarly articles covering the performing arts, maintained by the Theatre Research Data Center at Brooklyn College.

Loeb Classical Library
Access over 520 volumes of classic Greek and Latin texts presented in parallel translation.

Psychotherapy.net
View streaming videos of counseling sessions with master psychotherapists.

LINK+

The Armacost Library is now a member of LINK+, a resource-sharing system that allows current University of Redlands students, faculty, staff and administrators to borrow books and media at no charge from over 50 academic and public libraries throughout California and Nevada. LINK+ enhances the Armacost Library's existing interlibrary loan program by adding several useful, time-saving features. LINK+ requests can be placed through the Armacost Library catalog or the shared LINK+ catalog, and items you borrow arrive faster (generally in 3 - 4 days) because they are delivered to us by courier rather than shipped through the mail.  In addition, the status of LINK+ requests can be monitored at any time by checking your personal library account online.

To access LINK+, go to the LINK+ catalog. Once you identify an item you need that is not available in the Armacost Library, click the "Request this item" link. During this process, you will be asked to verify your University of Redlands affiliation by logging in to your Armacost Library account.  After an item you request has arrived, we will notify you by email that it is available for pickup at the Armacost Library's Help Desk. You may keep books borrowed through LINK+ for 21 days and request one 21-day renewal.  Most media, including DVDs and audio CDs, may be kept for 7 days but cannot be renewed.

Some LINK+ member libraries also participate in two optional programs called Pick-up Elsewhere and Visiting Patron. Pick-up Elsewhere enables you to have items you request delivered to a different LINK+ library. Visiting Patron allows you to  use your University of Redlands ID card to check out items directly from a LINK+ library you visit in person. Both of these programs are useful if you are away from the Armacost Library and would like to use a library closer to your home or workplace.

For more details and complete instructions on how to use LINK+, check our  LINK+ information page.  You can also ask at the Armacost Library's Help Desk or call us at 909-793-8022. 

Library Open House

Greetings new students! The Armacost Library will host an open house on Friday, September 4th, from 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Please drop by to enjoy light refreshments, short tours, and discussions with your Librarian. That's right, all students have their own Librarian depending on what their major is. For example, there is an Arts Librarian, a Natural Sciences Librarian, and so on. We look forward to introducing you to all the ways in which the Library supports student research.

Summer Reads

August brings us the last lazy summer days and a reminder that there's still time to spend laying in the sun with an enticing book for company. Consider the following highlights from the Armacost Library collection as you decide on your end-of-the-summer reading material.

Adventure
Kon-tiki: Across the Pacific by raft by Thor Heyerdahl
On April 28, 1947, Thor and five other Norwegians set sail from Peru in a balsa raft to try to reach the Polynesian islands.

Wild: From lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
"Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her." ~From the publisher.

Romance
Blue is the warmest color by Julie Maroh
"...a young woman named Clementine discovers herself and the elusive magic of love when she meets a confident blue-haired girl named Emma." ~From the publisher

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. ~From the publisher.

The time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Love between an artist and time-traveling librarian who has been diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder.

Comedy / Satire
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Meet Bridget Jones - a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she could: a. lose 7 pounds. b. stop smoking c. develop Inner Poise. ~Back cover

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
"Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny." ~From the publisher.

Cat out of hell by Lynne Truss
"...much of what we fear about cats is true. They do think they're smarter than humans, for one thing. And, well, it seems they are! What's more, they do have nine lives. Or at least this one does - Roger's older than Methuselah, and his unblinking stare comes from the fact that he's seen it all." ~From the publisher.

Fantasy / Horror
Alif the unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Winner of the 2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
"In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients—dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups—from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif—the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind. [...] Alif must struggle for life or death, aided by forces seen and unseen." ~From the publisher. 

Fledgling by Octavia Butler
An incredibly unique vampire story. A "novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human." ~From the publisher.

The hundred thousand kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
"Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had." ~From the publisher

Science Fiction
Wool by Hugh Howey
"In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo's rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside. His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events." ~From the publisher

Lovestar: A novel by Andri Snær Magnason ; translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.
"LoveStar, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the LoveStar corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves, thus freeing mankind from wires and devices. Cordless modern men and women are paid to howl advertisements at unsuspecting passers-by, REGRET machines eliminate doubt over roads not taken and soulmates are identified and brought together. Indridi and Sigrid, two happy young lovers have their perfect worlds threatened when they are 'calculated apart' and are forced to go to extreme lengths to prove their love." ~From the publisher

Summer Book Sale and Clothing Drive

This year the book sale will be held on Thursday, June 18th, from noon - 4:00 p.m. and Friday, June 19th, from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. You will find us at the Armacost Library's North Patio, Garden Level.

You are also welcome to bring clean work clothes on hangers for the Ready to Work clothing drive.

For complete details, please refer to the flyer below:

Redlands and the Citrus Industry

Silent film actress Colleen Moore and the San Bernardino Mountains
Cover of The California Citrograph, October 1923, Vol. 8, Iss. 12

The citrus industry has quite a history in Southern California, and Redlands is one of the cities in which groves were tended for many years. As a citrus town, active packing houses packaged and shipped fruit, smudge pots were lit when the temperatures dropped to protect citrus trees from freezing, and growers prepared to bring their best fruit to the annual Orange Show in San Bernardino, California, to compete for awards.

In the Armacost Library, industry specific publications bring to life the history of citrus in Redlands. The California Citrograph, aimed at citrus growers, published on topics such as propagation, pest control, packinghouse technology, and highlighted people and cities in the industry. After a scan of the covers from the first decade (1915-1925), two were of interest, showcasing the San Bernardino mountains in the background, and a silent film actress in the foreground. For example, here is a close up of silent era film actress Virginia Valli, preparing orange juice, with the Redlands citrus district behind her.

The California Citrograph, June 1923, Vol. 8, Iss. 8.

The California Citrograph also covered the annual Orange Show held in San Bernardino, California, which the Redlands Chamber of Commerce and Redlands area citrus growers attended regularly.

In fact, the Redlands Chamber of Commerce won 2nd prize for a motion exhibit in both 1921 and 1922:

Interested in discovering more local gems like these? Come check out The California Citrograph in the bound periodicals section of the Library. Or, pick up an issue of Citrus Leaves, published beginning in 1921 by Redlands based Mutual Orange Distributors (MOD), a cooperative association of local citrus shippers.

Who's Reading the Reader?

"Who's reading the reader?" is the theme of this year's Choose Privacy Week (May 1-7, 2015).


"During Choose Privacy Week the American Library Association invites librarians and library users to engage in a conversation about protecting and defending reader privacy rights and how to acquire the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to address the widespread surveillance and data mining that collects information about users’ communications, reading and web surfing habits."


The American Library Association will be hosting a week-long online forum for Choose Privacy Week featuring various speakers on privacy and surveillance.  Librarians have long been advocates for their patrons' privacy.   

In 1972 Zoia Horn became the first U.S. librarian ever jailed for withholding information as a matter of conscience by refusing to testify against antiwar activists accused of a bizarre terrorist plot.  She was the chief reference librarian at Bucknell University at the time.   

Librarians have been and continue to be opponents of the broad surveillance power afforded by the Patriot Act. 

"Sonnie and Macrina both see privacy as not just an issue of intellectual freedom, but also of social justice. 'We serve members of communities who have been historically under greater surveillance than the rest of the population: immigrants, Muslim-Americans, people of color, political dissidents,' Macrina explained." http://www.thenation.com/article/206561/librarians-versus-nsa

Recently privacy and security concerns were raised about Adobe Digital Editions platform for ebooks collecting and transmitting user data over insecure networks.  "Adobe’s total failure to protect user information during transmission may be a violation of privacy laws." 

Interested in protecting your own privacy?  Check out the Surveillance Self-Defense toolkit from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 

Tune in to the forums taking place during Choose Privacy Week, and check out some of the books, films, and other resources on privacy and surveillance available at Armacost Library.