Education Research Complete

In order to support the research activities of students in the School of Education’s several masters level programs and the doctoral program in Educational Justice, the Armacost Library provides access to the premier research databases in the field of Education: ERIC, Education Research Complete, and Education Research Retrospective.

EBSCO’s Education Research Complete (ERC) is the definitive resource for scholarly research and information relating to all areas of education. Topics covered include all levels of education from early childhood to higher education, and all educational specialties, such as multilingual education, health education, counseling, and testing. ERC also covers areas of curriculum instruction as well as administration, policy, funding, and related social issues.

ERC provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,500 journals and includes full text for over 900 journals as well as many books and monographs, and conference papers.

Education Research Complete (ERC) is one of the many resources available to students in the School of Education and the College’s Liberal Studies program. Talk with your librarian, your guide in the research process.

Share Your Thoughts

Our mission is to "to support the teaching, research and learning goals of the University community." So let us know what we're doing well, how we might offer better support, and any other concerns or questions you may have.

Website, catalog and database access restored, linking to e-journals to follow tomorrow

Dear library visitors,

Thanks to the assistance of our colleagues at University of Redlands ITS, Innovative and Springshare, our new website and catalog are now live! Access to the databases appears to be restored as well. Linking to journal articles will be available tomorrow morning after another one of our vendors, (Serials Solutions) refreshes its settings.

In the meantime, you should now be able to search for books and course reserves in the library catalog and log in to databases to look for articles. Databases that include full text as part of the database (such as Business Source Complete) should be ready to use now. However, databases that ask you to link to full text in another place won't be available until tomorrow morning.

On behalf of my colleagues at Armacost Library I apologize for any inconvenience this has caused you. I hope that you will be able to get your work done more efficiently once all elements of our new web site are running. I encourage you to report your experiences by replying to this post or filling out our short feedback form here.

Best regards,
Sanjeet Mann
Electronic Resources Librarian
University of Redlands

Update on systems outages

Dear library users,

I am writing to provide an update on this morning's systems outages. Our library website http://library.redlands.edu is now live, and the catalog has a new home at http://books.redlands.edu.

We are still working to restore database access and staff access to our integrated library system, and fixing some links to images on the site. There may be sporadic issues connecting to our systems from off campus for the next few hours, as the new addresses "propagate" throughout the Internet. Remember that you can contact us by phone at (909) 748-8022, email at reference@redlands.edu, or via chat if you need immediate help.

Best regards,
Sanjeet Mann
Electronic Resources Librarian
University of Redlands

Temporary catalog and database outages

Dear library users,

I am writing to let you know that our catalog and online databases are down temporarily this morning, related to the launch of our new website. We are working with our systems vendors and campus IT support to minimize the disruption, but it will likely take some time for the new settings to take effect. I'll update this blog with more information as soon as I know more.

Best regards,
Sanjeet Mann
Electronic Resources Librarian
University of Redlands

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Kachina Dolls from the Farquhar Collection on California and the Southwest

What beautiful treasures lurk in the corners of our campus? There are many, to be sure. And Armacost Library has just made a few of these more visible. Come to Armacost Library and see some beautiful Kachina dolls, part of a generous gift from Vernon (’21) and Helen (’22) Farquhar.

 

 

The Farquhar collection of Hopi and Zuni Kachina dolls are housed in the 3rd floor displays in Armacost Library. For inquiries about the Farquhar collection and the Kachina doll exhibit, please contact Trisha Aurelio at (909) 748-8079 or Trisha_Aurelio@redlands.edu. For inquiries about gifts and donations to Armacost Library, please contact Gabriela Sonntag at (909) 748-8092 or Gabriela_Sonntag@redlands.edu.

Preserve Your Treasures

Got Paper? Want to preserve it for the future? Do you have family treasures, personal photographs, memorabilia that you would like to keep for future generations to enjoy?

Learn about the importance of appropriate preservation techniques and check out the Preservation Display on the 2nd floor of Armacost Library near the Reference Desk.

Refreshing the Library Website

We're excited to announce that June 25, the Armacost Library will launch a newly redesigned website, furthering our mission to support the teaching, research and learning goals of the University community.

The Library's Web Team, with the assistance of Information Technology Services and Marketing & Strategic Planning, have been working to provide a better online experience for the University community. We hope these changes make the website easier and more enjoyable to use.

To prepare for upcoming changes, you may need to update your Library bookmarks. On June 25, the following changes will occur.

• The library website will move to http://library.redlands.edu
• Library Research Guides will move to http://library.redlands.edu/guides
• The library catalog will move to http://books.redlands.edu

As part of our commitment to inspire self-directed inquiry and the exchange of ideas, the Armacost Library will continue to reevaluate, redesign, and test the usability of our website. We invite you to share your experience with us, and actively participate in the website's development. To learn more contact Paige Mann at 909-748-8088.

ICPSR summer workshops at UC Berkeley

As part of Armacost Library's subscription to the ICPSR database of social science data sets, students and faculty at the University of Redlands are eligible to apply for summer workshops in quantitative research methods. This summer, two workshops will be held at UC Berkeley. Here's more information from ICPSR:

UC DATA is proud to be the local host for ICPSR Summer Workshops at UC Berkeley.

Two workshops are being offered:

Causal Inference in the Social Sciences: Matching, Propensity Scores and Other Strategies

Dominik Hangartner, London School of Economics

Marco Steenbergen, University of Bern

July 9 – 13, 2012 (5-day workshop)

This course provides an introduction to statistical methods used for causal inference in the social sciences. Using the potential outcomes framework of causality, we discuss designs and methods for data from randomized experiments and observational studies. In particular, the designs and methods covered in the course include (propensity score) matching, instrumental variables, difference-in-difference, synthetic control, and regression discontinuity. Examples are drawn from across the social science disciplines

The R Statistical Computing Environments: The Basics and Beyond

John Fox, McMaster University

August 6 - 9, 2012 (4-day workshop)

The goal of this four-day workshop is to introduce R and R programming. Each day will combine five to six hours of lectures and demonstrations with two to three hours of hands-on labs. We will begin with a basic overview of, and introduction to, R including statistical modeling - in effect, using R as a statistical package. After that, the workshop picks up where the basic material leaves off, and provides the background required to use R seriously for sophisticated data analysis and presentation. Topics to be covered in the workshop include an introduction to R programming, the design of custom statistical graphs, and unlocking the power of the R statistical programming environment.

More information and registration is at : http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/icpsrweb/sumprog/

Scenes from the ALURA Reception

Dr. John Glover, Bill Kennedy, Dr. James Sandos, Dr. Matthew Raffety, and Dr. Katherine Baber listen to ALURA recipient Bernadette Magallanes talk about her research.

Janelle Julagay, Director of the Library Gabriela Sonntag, and Bernadette Magallanes' parents listen to Dr. John Glover talk about the research process.

ALURA recipient, Bernadette Magallanes, pictured with her faculty advisers John Glover, Matthew Raffety, and Jim Sandos.

Jeff Martinez, Director of Physical Education and Athletics, pictured with ALURA recipient Bernadette Magallanes. Bernadette is a veteran sprinter on the Track & Field team.

Bernadette with members of the ALURA Selection Committee: Paige Mann (Librarian), Katherine Baber (School of Music), Janelle Julagay (Librarian), and Shana Higgins (Librarian).

Ebsco database access restored

Ebsco announced that they have fixed their system issues, and you should now be able to log in to all databases offered through EbscoHost. When I tested access from my office, I was able to log in successfully, though a couple of my login attempts timed out. Please let our reference desk know if you are still having trouble logging in to Ebsco databases.

Ebsco's president, Tim Collins, sent a letter of apology to users via email this morning. "We have obviously not performed at the level we desire in the past 24 hours," he acknowledged. "At this point, we can only apologize for the inconvenience caused by the outage and assure you that we will be doing a thorough analysis of the situation to identify root cause/s of the problem so that we can make the necessary improvements to insure that this does not occur again. We have already begun this process."

Best regards,

Sanjeet Mann

Electronic Resources Librarian

Armacost Library

Ebsco database outage

The blank white screen you may be getting this morning when trying to connect to an Ebsco database is NOT a new interface upgrade! :) This is a known error that has cropped up with Ebsco's database products and Ebsco tech support has informed me that they are working to fix the problem. I'll provide an update as soon as it is fixed.

In the meantime, contact our reference desk by phone at (909) 748-8878, by email at reference@redlands.edu, or by instant message (redlandsreference) and we will help you find alternative resources you can use.

Sanjeet Mann

Electronic Resources Librarian

Armacost Library

Celebrate Undergraduate Research @ ALURA Reception

The ALURA Selection Committee would like to announce and congratulate Bernadette Magallanes on being selected as the 2012 recipient of the Armacost Library Undergraduate Research Award for her chapter titled "The Mineral Revolution" from her thesis project titled “And Then There Were None: A Comparative Analysis of Anglophone Displacement of Indigenous Populations in California and South Africa.” Her faculty sponsor was Dr. John Glover, History Department.

The ALURA Selection Committee would also like to announce and congratulate Stephanie Grasso for an honorable mention for her paper, “Predictors of Language Growth in Young Bilingual Children.” Her faculty sponsor was Dr. Barbara Conboy, Department of Communicative Disorders.

Join us on Monday, April 2, 4:00-5:30pm for a reception in the Old Redlands Room (Library, 3rd Floor, South). We have asked Bernadette Magallanes and Dr. Glover to talk a bit about their research processes. We'd like to invite others to share about their research processes as well.

For more information, please contact Shana Higgins (shana_higgins@redlands.edu).

Short Article Linker downtime on Saturday afternoon

Dear weekend researchers,

I've just learned that our systems vendor Serials Solutions will be performing maintenance on their systems tomorrow, Saturday March 24, from 5 to 6 pm, in order to perform a system upgrade.

This means the following services will be unavailable during that hour:

Citation Finder

Index of Full Text Journals

Article Linker (links to get full text in library databases)

If all goes well, service will be restored by 6 pm and you should be able to continue your article linking and full-text-finding as normal.

Berkeley new music concert to honor Barney Childs next week

The new music series Tuesdays at Tom's Place will host two nights of music by the late University of Redlands professor Barney Childs next Wednesday, March 28 and Thursday, March 29 in Berkeley, CA.

Works scheduled for performance span the range of Childs' career, which included stops at the University of Arizona, Deep Springs College, and the Wisconsin College Conservatory before he arrived at the University of Redlands in 1971. Childs served the University as Composer-in-Residence, taught in Johnston College and the College of Arts and Sciences, was actively involved with the New Music Ensemble and co-edited Contemporary Composers on Contemporary Music, an influential anthology of compositional trends in the late twentieth century. Before he died in 2000 of Parkinson's disease, Childs willed his collection of letters, documents, concert programs and over 140 manuscript scores to Armacost Library.

Tuesdays at Tom's Place takes place at the home of Tom Duff, a Berkeley programmer and music enthusiast who seeks to present "contemporary art music, mostly improvised, in a living room setting," including "anything that surprises and delights us." The music of Barney Childs fits right in, and it's great to see it performed in such a convivial venue.

For more information about Barney Childs, visit the Barney Childs collection website.

ScienceDirect journal downtime on Saturday

Weekend researchers, be forewarned that five Armacost Library journals will be unavailable on Saturday, March 17 while the journal provider, Elsevier, undergoes an update to their ScienceDirect platform:

Ecological Modeling

Evolution and Human Behavior

Historia Mathematica

Personality and Individual Differences

Journal of Communication Disorders

The downtime will be between 5:30 AM and 6:30 PM PST only. For more information read this press release on the Elsevier website.

A Glimpse of the Future

Toward the end of April, we'll be launching a library catalog ripe with change. We're so excited, we thought you'd like a sneak peak. Take a look and tell us what you think. New features include book cover displays, the ability to create reading lists, rate items, find similar items, and more.

Stay tuned for more!

Patron record and ILLIAD login problems resolved

Dear Armacost Library users,

I'm happy to report that the problems involving patron record logins and ILLIAD authentication appear to be resolved. This morning, I uncovered a systems setting error in ILLIAD and corrected it. Thanks to OCLC technical support, University of Redlands ITS and our own library staff for collaborating to fix these problems! If you have been experiencing problems logging in to your patron record, electronic course reserves, the proxy server or ILLIAD, please try again and let me know about any further problems you encounter.

Best regards,

Sanjeet Mann

Electronic Resources Librarian

(909) 748-8051

sanjeet_mann@redlands.edu

Login problems affecting databases and interlibrary loan

We are currently tracking two problems affecting logins to databases from off campus and to ILLIAD, our interlibrary loan system, and I'm writing to provide an update on our efforts to fix them.

Late Saturday afternoon, we started to receive reports that students were not able to log in to databases through the proxy server. On Monday morning, we traced the problem to errors in login names in the library database of patron records, and globally replaced the erroneous information. I believe this has solved the problem, but please contact the library at reference@redlands.edu or (909) 748-8022 if you are still unable to log in to databases.

A separate problem arose Monday morning after an upgrade to our ILLIAD interlibrary loan software had unexpected consequences for the login page. The page is displaying a "username not found in database" error whenever anyone tries to log in, even though they have valid patron records in our interlibrary loan system. I am consulting with technical staff at OCLC, the vendor that supports this system, in order to get the login page updated. I anticipate the problem should be resolved by Tuesday afternoon. If you need to place an urgent request before then, we will accept requests through email at interlibrary_loan@redlands.edu until the problem is resolved.

I will post an update as soon as these problems have been resolved. In the meantime, I apologize for the inconvenience these outages have caused and hope to have them fixed soon!

Best regards,

Sanjeet Mann

Electronic Resources Librarian

University of Redlands