Zanesville Campus Library

Last week, Major Olmsted was killed by a sniper. He was a blogger and prepared a final post in the event of his death. This week his final blog was posted.

Major Olmsted’s final post.

NPR story about Major Olmsted’s last blog.

Fast Facts provides an estimate of the number of people who are members of the world’s top 10 religions.

The Top Ten: Organized Religions in the World

Tracey and Shana will be attending the ACRL Conference Wednesday through Friday. They will be back Monday.

Tracey stayed to attend a preconference workshop on marketing on Thursday. The workshop was presented by MARL, the ACRL group that recognized ZCL for its marketing efforts.

Shana will be staying for the whole conference which ends on Sunday.

Ask them about the conference when you see them.

The eight millionth scholarly research article was recently added to OhioLINK’s award-winning Electronic Journal Center. The EJC provides students, faculty and staff at participating OhioLINK institutions with instantaneous online access to more than 7,100 journals from 101 publishers.

OhioLINK users downloaded 4.9 million articles from the EJC in 2006. A total of 25 million articles have been downloaded from the EJC since its inception in April 1998.

Shana Fair, Tracey Humphrey, and Amy Underwood will be away Friday, November 3. They will be attending the Academic Library Association of Ohio 2006 Annual conference. This team was invited to give two presentations. Their first session is Double, Double Toil and Trouble: Brewing Up Successful Workers. During this 45 minute session, the ZCL library staff will present their ingredients for training and empowering student workers to handle all types of situations encountered at the circulation desk. These types of situations run the gamut from technical problems with printers and copiers to people problems requiring skills to deal with difficult and stressful situations.

Their second presentation, a poster session entitled Public Services Pizza: The Works, presents techniques to stretch the library staff and ensure students and staff at Zane State and OUZ get a nutritious diet of services even thought staffing is limited.

Why the food related titles? The theme for the 2006th conference is Recipes for Library Success: Ingredients, Process, and Product.

The FLI (Friends of Literary Improvement) student group sent Christmas greetings to local troops serving in Iraq. They donated books, personal items, and cash for phone cards to the Cambridge Support Your Local Troops organization. The materials will be shipped on Tuesday.

This week the library responded to an IM message from a potential student in Virgina. The student wanted more details about registering at Zane State College.

Libraries are the place to go when you have questions.
ask @ your library

Did you know?

• ZCL’s own guide to American Psychological Association style is available online.
• Look at examples of what books, full text articles, and websites should look like.
• Get an overview of how APA should be done.

Try it out on our library homepage at
http://www.zanesville.ohiou.edu/zcl/

• APA Style Guide (under “Class Resourcesâ€?)

Christmas shop early. Buy a book for a child.

ZCL and Jumpstart offer two ideas for getting into the mood for Christmas giving.

Jumpstart is sponsoring a Reading Tree at this year’s Book Fair. Purchase a book for the Careytown Child Care Center. Jumpstart elves will wrap your book. Santa will deliver it to the Careytown kids.

Help ZCL increase its selection of Ellison dies. Donate $1.00 to ZCL. Scholastic Books will MATCH all contributions with books for children’s charities.

Happy Holidays to all.

Ten new e-books have been added to OhioLINK’s Electronic Reference Books

The Electronic Reference Books Collection
(http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/reference/home) contains special-topic reference books–including encyclopedias, handbooks, biographical collections, guides–from ABC-CLIO, an educational reference publisher.

The most recent additions to the Electronic Reference Books Collection are:

-Brazilian Music: Northeastern Traditions and the Heartbeat of a Modern Nation
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/reference/BRAMUSE

-Defense and Security: A Compendium of National Armed Forces and Security Policies
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/reference/DEFSEC1E

-Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/reference/GEAMRLE

-Historic Cities of the Americas: An Illustrated Encyclopedia
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/reference/CITAME

-The Internet: A Historical Encyclopedia
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/reference/INTER2E

-Invasion of Privacy: A Reference Handbook
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/reference/PRIVAHE

-New Slavery: A Reference Handbook Second Edition
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/reference/NEWSLV2E

-Personal Perspectives: World War II
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/reference/PERSW2E

-U.S. Homeland Security: A Reference Handbook
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/reference/USHOSE1E

-World War I: Encyclopedia
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ebooks/reference/WW1E