The Addlestone Report

LITE Workshop @ Addlestone

Creating Multimedia Presentations (with way cool free software)
Thursday, November 19, 2009

Two showings:  3PM and 6PM
Addlestone Library Room 122 | Register Now!

Powerpoint  is SO late 20^th century! Looking for an alternative?   Of course you are.  WOW your students and your colleagues and your conference audience (who will be delighted inasmuch as they are expecting the “Powerpoint bullets of death” syndrome).

You are savvy.  You are creative.  You will have attended this LITE workshop and learned ways to present a topic with flair, interactivity, and excitement!

Learn about creating interactive presentations with VoiceThread, using the slideshow feature in Flickr, or creating a video.  Check out 2-D images in a 3-D world using Microsoft’s Photosynth or Cooliris. Learn where to find images for your presentations using Creative Commons.  Having video player issues?  Try VLC, free software that plays nearly anything!

Its not too late to learn how to be exciting and interesting (or at least present so that you sound like you are).

Register at: http://tinyurl.com/Addlestone

Extra soft seats available to the first 10 people who bring their own seat cushions.

Given the continuing interest and concern on campus, James Williams (head, Public Services) has updated the library’s LibGuide for the Swine Flu or H1N1 Virus with a new database of government reports, documents and other materials from various agencies that are now publicly accessible.  (The direct link to the database is at  H1N1 Searchable Information Center.)

You are cordially invited to view photographs of Flannery O’Connor’s farm at the Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library – second floor – until December 18, 2009.

Nancy Marshall took these photographs in spring and summer of 2007 and winter of 2008 at Andalusia, the farm near Milledgeville, Georgia, where Flannery O’Connor (1925 -1964) spent the last thirteen years of her life. The photographs, which show interior views of the house and exterior views of the surrounding landscape, document the context in which O’Connor wrote some of her most acclaimed works, including A Good Man is Hard to Find and The Violent Bear it Away.

For more information about this exhibit, go to http://www.southernspaces.org/contents/2008/marshall/1a.htm

Special Collections Homepage

Sergey Brin, co-founder and technology president of Google, has an opinion piece on Google Book Search in the NY Times in which he talks about preserving and making books accessible (long after print versions have been forgotten) by putting them online HERE.

The College of Charleston Library is part of a consortium of 40+ academic libraries across the state that make borrowing quick and easy.  The consortium is called PASCAL (PARTNERSHIP AMONG SC ACADEMIC LIBRARIES) and the service is called PASCAL Delivers.  (We librarians are clever folks).

If  you don’t find the book in the College catalog, you might see the bright blue PASCAL Delivers logo.

Click on the logo and you’ll  see the other libraries in South Carolina that own the book at  Display Holdings of PASCAL Libraries .   And if you click Request this item, you can quickly request the book and get it delivered to your office within three days.

It’s that simple – as many of your colleagues have already discovered.

Of course,  you may need books that are not owned by any South Carolina academic library.  In those cases,  fill out the standard Interlibrary Loan Request form  and our staff will borrow the book from libraries beyond SC borders.  But  you’ll discover, PASCAL Delivers will make Interlibrary Loan even faster and easier than ever before.

Questions – call the friendly staff at Interlibrary Loan at 953-8010

Post information produced by Claire Fund

FROM THE ZENDER:

Yes, the rumours are TRUE!!!!

This Thursday, June 11th, at 8:00 p.m., the V-Tones return to the Communications Museum at 58 George to play a live (rhymes with “jive”) concert to accompany several short silent movies, including such faves as Buster Keaton. The fabulous V-Tones (don’t even think about asking what the “V” stands for!), Charleston’s premier ukulele-based band, are the perfect choice to add music and sound effects to classic silents, although they (the silent films, not The V-Tones) were never really silent, what with the pi-annies (pronounced “pi-annies”), the crunching of snacks, the non-permanent seats in the early days, the Wur

litzer organs, the human organs such as lungs and stomachs, the constant ringing of cell phones, the chatter, the nitrate-based film sputtering into flames when a frame jamming allows the carbon-arc projection light to ignite the film, the snores of the projectionist who really should be grabbing the scissors to cut the burning film from the rest of the reel, the gasp as he wakes up too late and finds the whole 15″ reel now on fire, the screaming of the panicked audience as they see the fire and flee towards the exit, the cursing of people getting shoved and knocked over, the slamming of the projection door in a vain attempt to isolate the fire, the crackling of the flames as they take down the whole theatre, well, you get the idea………and it’s all for FREEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!………………

Yes, I’m telling you about this on Monday, even though it doesn’t take place until Thursday, and, horror upon horrors, you will NOT receive ANY reminders. Ah, now I’ll call on Carnak the Magnificent to read your thoughts:

Tuesday-”Oh, well, I’m OK. I don’t need a reminder yet.”

Wednesday-”He’s really not going to send us a reminder?”

Thursday-”MSG, I mean OMG! No reminder still? We can’t just show up-it’s unheard of!”

Well, everyone under the age of, oh, I don’t know exactly, maybe 60 or 70, and surely 80 and above, will just have to act as if they were of that more advanced age, and actually show up

at the agreed upon time! One of the things I love about those folks is how you can just communicate something to them such as a date or a chore, they acknowledge it, and then it really happens! If THEY call to confirm, it’s probably because they’re worried about whether YOU are going to show up. (M)LOL. I know, I know, you’re saying, “My mind has been blown! This can’t possibly be true!!!” Well,

just try it yo self!….

Rick Zender, Curator
John Rivers Communications Museum

The following journals are joining Project MUSE, one of the Addlestone Library’s online databases:

Conservative Judaism,  sponsored by the Rabbinical Assembly and
the Jewish Theological Seminary, publishes articles which express a
serious, critical inquiry of Jewish texts and traditions, legacy, and
law; further the quest for a Conservative Jewish theology and ideology;
and explore today’s changing Jewish community. Its perspective is
worldwide and transcends denominational boundaries.

** From the Rabbinical Assembly**

Genocide Studies and Prevention provides a much-needed forum for
discussion, as it fosters awareness of the atrocities linked to genocide
while promoting the necessity of prevention. This peer-reviewed journal
publishes articles on the latest developments in policy, research, and
theory from various disciplines including history, political science,
sociology, psychology, international law, criminal justice, women’s
studies, religion, philosophy, literature, anthropology, and art
history.

** From the University of Toronto Press**

Information from Project Muse press release 5/11/09
Heads up information from Bob Neville

Sheila Seaman

After 28 years at the College, Sheila Seaman, Assistant Dean for Public Services, will be retiring at the end of this fiscal year. As many of you have told me, Sheila has had an extraordinary tenure here at the College. She has led the public services staff as it has evolved into the what is surely one of the most technically proficient and informed groups to be found in any college or university library. She is one of our very best teachers and a reference librarian with unparalleled knowledge and commitment. She will be missed by students and faculty alike. Sheila has asked me to encourage her friends and colleagues to visit her on the second floor of Addlestone between now and June 5, her last day at work. Please join me in wishing Sheila the very best.

–David J. Cohen
Dean of Libraries

Please join us in our quest of ending illiteracy. Better World Books, with the help of MUSC and the College of Charleston, is hosting a book drive. All books are welcome – textbooks, fiction, and non-fiction. A collecting bin will be in the rotunda of the Addlestone Library for the next week. All proceeds and books will go to charities supporting literacy in the United States and Africa.

What: Book Drive

How: Bring us the books you no longer need

When: May 6 – May 13, 2009

Where: Rotunda of Addlestone Library

Heads Up Data from:Claire Fund, Marlene and Nathan Addlestone Library

One day a year the library is not a quiet and relaxing environment.  But, it is stress relieving.  No explanation necessary (or barely possible).  Seeing is believing…and understanding…mostly.