The Addlestone Report

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.

The Friends of the Library Fall series is “Hard Luck, Good Times . The theme of the series is that despite (or perhaps because of) the ‘hard times’ of the 1930s, Charleston saw a flourishing of cultural, artistic and political activities. Dates have not been confirmed, but here’s the current plan

Porgy and Bess: “Plenty of Nuttin”
Speaker: Harlan Greene

Little known facts about the play which premiered on Oct 10, 1935

Dock St Theatre (A WPA project, now undergoing another major renovation)
Speakers: Christopher G. Parham, Theatre Manager

Jazz in the Lowcountry … and beyond
Location: Avery Research Center
Speaker: Karen Chandler

Heads Up Data: provided by Claire Fund

• August 18 New faculty reception @ Addlestone
• Sept 21 Women’s symposium – Based on the success of the Ashley Hall archive, Marie Ferrara and Sharon Bennett are reaching out to identify and collect other materials related to the women in the region.
• Sept 23 Eleanor Heldrick has donated a great collection of pop up books and will giving a talk about her collection at 6 pm. Bring the kids!
• October 2 Tim 0′Brien will on campus to talk about The Things They Carried. This will be the first Campus Reads event – lots of details to follow about this new event)
• Oct 12 – 13 The library is hosting the Southern regional Content DM conference @ Addlestone and Stern Center
• Oct 24 Jewish Studies Program will be celebrating its 25th anniversary with a tour of the Jewish Heritage Collection, a lunch and lecture.
• Nov 10 Winthrop Roundtable dinner with Richard Norton Smith
• Upcoming Exhibits in the Wachovia Gallery (second floor)
• Oct 1-31 Ingeborg Bachmann (Austrian author) – Morgan Koerner in German dept. is organizing the exhibit and public talk.
• Nov1-Dec 15 Photographs of Flannery O’Conner’s home

Heads Up Data from Claire Fund

Amazon.com Inc. on Wednesday plans to unveil a new version of its Kindle e-book reader with a larger screen and other features designed to appeal to periodical and academic textbook publishers, according to people familiar with the matter.

Beginning this fall, some students at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland will be given large-screen Kindles with textbooks for chemistry, computer science and a freshman seminar already installed, said Lev Gonick, the school’s chief information officer. The university plans to compare the experiences of students who get the Kindles and those who use traditional textbooks, he said.

Link to rest of article at Wallstreet Journal

The WorldCat database has over 60 million listings of many types of material (books, journals, audiovisual, etc.) cataloged by libraries around the world and is updated daily.  Recently, WorldCat has announced a detailed record redesign.  “There’s a brand new detailed record design on the site to help users find location information more quickly. It also puts evaluative content directly into the page layout. The changes were made after months of rigorous usability testing with university students, public library users and general Web searchers. In addition, the redesign will make library results even more visible to major search engines.”

Quoted from WorldCat press release: April 29, 2009