Volume 15, Number 1 of From The Library (An Occasional Publication) has been posted on the library Website:
http://library.bowdoin.edu/news/newsletters/vol15no1.pdf

INSIDE

• Letter from the Librarian
• News from Special Collections:
  - Forty Years of Coeducation at Bowdoin
  - New Artists Books in Special Collections
  - Handmade Books by Printmaking Students
  - Digitized Books on the History of Bowdoin

• What’s New?
  - New Library Website
  - Laptop Storage,

• The Library numbers game.
• Staff News featuring Awards, Retirements, Appointments and a Wedding.

The Library has a new Wiley Blackwell “Article Select” pay-per-view tokens model where we pay for each journal article as it is accessed. We are now fully underway with over 1500 journal titles in the catalog and linkable from our databases!

A few important things for users to know:

• If you look up a Wiley Blackwell journal title in the catalog or get to it via one of our databases, and you have another choice for accessing it via JSTOR or Academic Search Premier, for example, please choose one of those instead of the WileyBlackwell link. That will save us quite a bit of money!
• If you want to include a Wiley Blackwell journal article on Blackboard, do not LINK to the journal article – you must download the PDF to your desktop and then upload it to Blackboard. If you link to it, we will get charged for every view! We created a webpage with information on how to do this, and this page is linked from the Library’s Services for Faculty page (under Reserves) and from the IT Blackboard page. Here is the link directly to the page: http://library.bowdoin.edu/services/reserves/wiley-blackwell.shtml

Spaeth’s domain is one of those stumble-upon places at Bowdoin.

Bridget Spaeth, Language Media Center and Technical Services Assistant.

She works at the Language Media Center, a branch of the Library tucked into the basement of Sills Hall—a place of intensive, but specialized, film and language study. There, she helps people access the College’s extensive film and language collection, catalogs books and collections, and creates archives of taped events for institutional record.

It’s not her only hidden treasure. Spaeth ’86 has a life outside the College that many people don’t know about: She is an artist. And for the third consecutive show, Spaeth’s work has been selected for the Center for Maine Contemporary Art’s Biennial Exhibition (CMCA).

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Tip #1: Advanced Searching

In the new CBBcat catalog, would you like to search for a music recording that features a particular instrument? Or perhaps a video with a specific cast member? Or an audiobook by your favorite author?

Try the Advanced Search feature, located to the right of the basic search box. It allows for keyword searching within specific fields such as instrument, contributor/cast, title, author, language, etc. Advanced search options will change according to the selected “scope” in the banner (scores, video, music…).

Tip #2: Printing, Exporting, and E-Mailing Results

Wondering how to print, export, or e-mail records in the Library’s new CBBcat catalog?

Printing

• Use the “Print” option on the search toolbar. It will reproduce the entire middle section of the page, or,
• Select items (checkbox) from a list of records. A drop-down at the top of the page will appear with the option to print, or,
• With a single catalog record on the screen (i.e., not a list of records), use the Share widget on the right-hand side of the screen; it is located under the “Related Resources” heading.

Exporting

• Currently, records may be exported only in Endnote format. Select items (checkbox) from a list of records. A drop-down at the top of the page will appear with the option to Export to EndNote.

E-Mailing or posting to social networking sites such as Facebook or Delicious

• With a single catalog record on the screen (i.e., not a list of records), use the Share widget located on the right-hand side of the screen under the “Related Resources” heading; a link to the record will be e-mailed or posted.

Arthur Monke Obituary

To Members of the Bowdoin Community,

I am very sorry to inform you of the death of Arthur Monke, the head librarian at Bowdoin’s Hawthorne-Longfellow Library from 1968-92. Art died Wednesday, January 27, in Topsham after a long illness. He was 84 years old.

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