Alana Kumbier joins us at Wellesley
Please welcome Alana Kumbier to IS. Alana is the newest librarian in the Research and Instruction Group. Alana comes to us most recently from Ohio State University, where she is completing her doctorate in Comparative Studies. She received her MLS from Kent State University in 2003.
We're thrilled that Alana's here at Wellesley, and I invite you to stop by her office in Clapp 244 to say hello.
JSTOR/ARTStor Searching
By creating and maintaining a trusted archive of important scholarly journals, JSTOR, like ARTstor, serves the scholarly community. In an effort to enhance the benefits of these two resources and to enable researchers to discover useful content across all formats, JSTOR has developed a way to search both JSTOR and ARTstor content simultaneously.
Specifically, users have the opportunity to keyword search JSTOR article content, JSTOR image captions, and ARTstor image metadata. The combined search result page is separated into three tabs - Articles, Images from Articles, and ARTstor Images — so that users can easily view and choose among their results. If your institution participates in ARTstor and JSTOR, you will see ARTstor image thumbnails as well as the title, creator and date information in your search results. You can click to view the full-sized image and complete metadata through the ARTstor website. www.artstor.org
Interdisciplinary Uses of ARTstor
ARTstor created a series of handouts to highlight the relevance and value of ARTstor to educators, scholars and students in a wide range of disciplines. We recently added new handouts in this growing series, including African-American Studies, Languages & Literatures, and Religious Studies.
Handouts for interdisciplinary subjects
Wellesley College does indeed subscribe to both JSTOR and ARTstor. These databases can be accessed via the Library catalog (http://www.wellesley.edu/library/ then search by title), and they are also located on the Databases A-Z page (http://luna.wellesley.edu/screens/a-zlist.html).
Please feel free to contact me or any of the other librarians if you need help with using these resources.
Brooke E. Henderson, Art Librarian
Tax forms have arrived at Clapp Library!
We have federal 1040, 1040A, and 1040EZ forms and instructions as well as Massachusetts resident and non-resident forms.
For additional federal forms visit the IRS Web site at http://www.irs.gov/formspubs/index.html
All state tax forms may be found at http://www.taxadmin.org/fta/link/forms.html
A new Web exhibit has been created as an abridged version of the Resonance and Response exhibition catalogue published in
conjunction with ABC: the Artists’ Books Conference, held at Wellesley College on June 15-18, 2005
New Exhibit
The Architecture of Books: Construction and Reconstruction
Crozier Reference Room, Second Floor of Clapp Library, Wellesley, MA
Through March 30, 2007
This exhibit features book structures, book repairs, and protective enclosures made in the Conservation Facility and the Book Arts Lab on the Fourth Floor of Clapp Library. Emily Bell, Senior Library Associate/Conservation, and Katherine McCanless Ruffin, Book Arts Program Director, collaborated on the exhibition.
Visitors may view the exhibit any time Clapp Library is open. Hours and directions can be found online at: http://www.wellesley.edu/Library/hours.html
The Research & Instruction Group, along with
ther rest of IS, welcomes Laura Reiner as one of our new Research and Instruction Librarians.
Laura comes to Wellesley College on January 24, 2007 with an MLS from Simmons College and more than 4 years' of experience at Brandeis University,
where she was Reference Librarian and Digital Services Coordinator. She was closely involved in many digital library projects at Brandeis,
and we are eager to add her expertise to our talent pool.
Her new phone number will be 781-283-2108 and her office will be in Clapp 241.
We are beginning the next stage
of renovation of the Margaret Clapp Library in late January 2006. In anticipation
of beginning the renovation, we have made preparations so that the most
frequently used library resources shelved on the first
floor (materials in the call number ranges A-C) will continue to be accessible
to you during this period of construction.
Library materials with call numbers in the “B” or “C” ranges
have been moved from the first floor to temporary shelving on the third
floor. Frequently used periodical titles with “A” call numbers
have been moved to areas on the 2d, 3d and 4th floors. A detailed map
of the changes in location of materials is available at the Clapp Circulation
Desk. Signage has been provided to guide you to the new locations.
Lesser used periodicals, microfilm periodicals, and books classed in “A” have
been boxed and stored and will be inaccessible during the renovation
period. If you need to obtain books or articles from journals that have
been stored, there are several alternative approaches for supplying them,
made possible through Wellesley’s resource sharing agreements with
other institutions. Wellesley’s interlibrary loan services, the
Boston Library Consortium’s Virtual Catalog and NExpress (offered
in collaboration with Bowdoin, Bates, Colby, Williams and Northeastern)
are all available to you. In addition, full text digital versions of
many periodical titles are now offered through the Library’s subscriptions
and databases.
The scope of work includes all first floor areas, excluding the Knapp
Center. As was previously announced, the Library Lecture Room and Seminar
Room 1 are included in the project and will not be available for use
until the renovation is completed in early summer. The following improvements
will occur:
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New shelving for collections
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Replacement or refurbishment of furniture
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Carpet replacement
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Installation of fire protection system
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Improved energy-efficient lighting
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Building system upgrades, including heating, ventilation and air conditioning
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Addition of wireless capabilities
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Increased number of individual and group study rooms for students
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Library Lecture Room: handicapped accessibility, improved lighting and
upgraded media equipment
We anticipate that construction will be completed
in June 2006
Megan Adams will join us as Research & Instruction
Librarian and Group Manager on February 13, 2006
Megan's most recent job was as Social Sciences Librarian at Swarthmore
College in Swarthmore PA (outside Philadelphia) but she has also worked
at Louisiana State University and the University of Northern Iowa. She
is active in the Women's Studies section of ACRL and has presented at
various conferences. RIG is looking forward to her energy and enthusiasm!
Samiya Ilmudeen '06 & Joana Kung
'08 have
been chosen as our 2006 Mellon Spring Interns.
The Wellesley College Library and the libraries of the
Mellon Library Recruitment program are pleased to announce that Sim
Thadani, '05, will be the Wellesley College Library Mellon Library
Associate for 2005-2006. Sim was chosen from a talented and diverse
pool of candidates for this one-year appointment.
Awardees from other schools participating in the grant include:
Teresa Collins, Oberlin College
Sarah Lehmann, Occidental College
Leilani Simmons, Robert W. Woodruff Library at Atlanta University Center
Evelyn Khoo, Swarthmore College
The two 2005 Summer interns in the Mellon Library Recruitment program:
Marda Hailu '06 and Jamie Lausch '05.
Marda will be interning on the Wellesley campus, spending four days
a week in the libraries and one day at the Wellesley Free Library. She
has been in the New York area this past semester, but, prior to this
off-campus experience, she has worked at the Wellesley Centers for Women,
the Alumnae Association, as a member of the IS ResNet staff, and at our
own Science Library.
Jamie will be interning at one (or more) of the public libraries in
the Ann Arbor/Ypsilanti, MI area. Jamie hopes to lend her strong art
background to a local library or libraries and help with children's programming.
Jamie has been a co-coordinator at our Art Library, has worked as a curatorial
intern at the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, MA, as a Book Arts Intern
in the studio of Jean Buescher, in Ann Arbor, and as Assistant to the
Director at the Holland Area Arts Council, also in Michigan.
Both interns will begin their work mid-June and finish in mid-August.
Congratulations, Marda and Jamie !
The recipients of two Mellon Librarian Recruitment Program Internships
for Spring 2005 were Kris Liu '05 and Simran Thadani '05
Kris hails from New York and is majoring in Cognitive and Linguistic
Science. She has been probing the questions and answers of her fellow
students as moderator of the Answers conference on FirstClass and has
also had research positions with professors at Harvard and MIT. She has
served as a First-Year Mentor, on House Council and on several committees
of student government, including CCI (Committee on Curriculum and Instruction).
Sim is from Mumbai, India, and is a double major in English and Spanish.
She has worked for Wellesley's Information Services team since her first
semester, and has interned at places as varied as MassPIRG and Cosmo.
Sim is also a First-Year Mentor. Her college years have inspired in her
a new appreciation of strawberries, foreign film, and all things medieval
or Renaissance, and from this last has stemmed an Honors thesis on Chaucer's
Canterbury Tales (entitled "Reuled by the sighte above": An
Exploration of Power in Chaucer's 'Knight's Tale').
Wellesley College Library is pleased to announce that Maren Mazzeo
'04 has accepted our offer to be the Mellon Library Associate for 2004-2005.
The one-year position is funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
as part of the Mellon Librarian Recruitment Program and is awarded
to a candidate who shows promise in the library field and who plans
to pursue a degree and career in library and information science.
Maren is an English major from Utah who has also spent time in Korea,
among other places. She'll be starting August 16, 2004, and will work
on a variety of projects and become familiar with all areas of the library.
We congratulate her and look forward to an exciting year.
The recipients of two Mellon Librarian Recruitment Program Internships
for Spring 2004 were Leia Dickerson '06 and Caroline (Carrie) Poon
'05
Leia has worked in Access Services at Clapp Library, tutors with Wellesley
Words on Wheels, and is interested in political science and international
relations. Carrie is an international student, a vocalist, and a carilloneur
who likes to hang out in the music library. She is a biology peer tutor
and also teaches the carillon to others.
The interns completed a mini-course that provides a full overview of
the library and related information professions and carry out project
work during the semester with close mentoring from library staff. The
internships are made possible by a grant from the Mellon Foundation to
Wellesley and 5 other colleges--Clark Atlanta University, Mt. Holyoke,
Oberlin, Occidental, and Swarthmore.
Past announcements :
Renovation
in Clapp Library
The
Ellen Boates Clark '76 Reading Area
Clapp
Library Statues Get Face Lifts
Wellesley
College Library receives the first ACRL "Excellence in Academic
Libraries" Award
Description
of our ongoing Work Redesign Process
We are
always interested in your comments,
questions and/or suggestions
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