Library & IT at Bucknell

ISR subscribes to the Knovel Digital Library, a large collection of important engineering reference books, all available full-text online. Really indispensable titles like Hawley's Condensed Chemical Dictionary are available campus-wide. Knovel includes a unit converter and periodic table of elements, and provides what they call "productivity tools" that allow users to take tables and data from some of their online engineering handbooks, and manipulate the data.

Now Knovel has given the Digital Library a new look, and will feature "usability enhancements including a cleaner interface, more efficient navigation, simpler search refinement and improved browsing capabilities." Take a look at http://www.knovel.com

Nine faculty members are using clickers (or personal response devices) this semester, with 10 courses taking part in our continued pilot exploration of the use of clickers to enhance student learning. A clicker is an "audience polling" device. It allows faculty members to test how well students understand key concepts by asking questions in the middle of a lecture. Students indicate their answer by pressing a response on their clicker, and software running on the instructor's computer records all the student answers and then displays a summary of how many students chose each possible response. The clickers help faculty members address common misunderstandings, and students get immediate feedback about how well they and their peers understand the lecture topics. Because the results are anonymous - in other words, the chart indicates what percent of students chose each answer, without identifying particular student responses - clickers can also be used for in-class surveys, to get a sense of the range of student beliefs about a topic.

Faculty members should contact itec@bucknell.edu if they are interested in using clickers in their courses.

Students are provided a PAC number to allow toll calls to be dialed directly and billed to the student's university account.

• There is no charge for a PAC.
• There is no monthly fee or setup fee for a PAC. You will only be charged for the calls that are made using the PAC.
• The student is responsible for charges related to the PAC code. All PAC policies must be adhered to.
• If you forget your PAC number, you can log into myBucknell and review your PAC information beneath the myBucknell for Students tab.

For more information, please visit http://www.bucknell.edu/x9626.xml

Here's a reminder that the Library is open during spring break and you might have items that are due during that time. In order to avoid overdue fines, be sure to renew those items before you leave campus or remember to renew online while you are away during break. To renew online:
•logon to myBucknell
•select the myLibrary tab
•then click on My Library Account (on the right hand side)
•from the online catalog page, click on myLibrary Account (white letters on blue background)
•to renew items, be sure to select "Renew my materials"
•if you want to simply see what is on your library account, select "Review my account"

Items that have already been renewed two times must be brought to the Circulation Desk for renewal.

If the system prompts you for your Banner PIN, go to the myBucknell homepage and follow the instructions shown on the right hand side of the page (under the orange logon box) to retrieve your Banner PIN.

If you are unable to renew your materials, please call the Circulation Desk at 577-1882.

Please visit the myBucknell Telephone channel to receive your voice mail password and instructions on establishing your voice mailbox. If you have recently moved, you can retrieve your new mailbox number here as well.

For additional information, please visit http://www.bucknell.edu/x9636.xml

Faculty: The Gladys Brooks Foundation was created under the Will of the late Gladys Brooks Thayer of New York. Its purpose is to provide for the intellectual, moral and physical welfare of the people of this country by establishing and supporting non-profit libraries, educational institutions, hospitals, and clinics.

At Bucknell, The Gladys Brooks Fund enables the Bertrand Library to build core collections for new courses and to add depth and/or new perspectives to existing collections. The fund supports a variety of one-time purchases, including books, audiovisual materials, electronic resouces and periodical backfiles.

Examples of past acquisitions purchased through the fund include:

-a collection of Spanish language children's' literature
-Expanding the library's jazz CD collection
-DVDs to support a film studies course in David Lynch and Alfred Hitchcock

If you are interested in submitting a Gladys Brooks request, please complete the request form. If you have questions, you may contact Jennifer Clarke.

Web of Science - Web of Knowledge

Many users of the Web of Science database will have noticed a name change.
The Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) is now calling their collection of research tools the Web of Knowledge. The name and the links are similar, and we still have access to the three ISI citation databases collectively called the Web of Science; The Science Citation Index 1900 -- present, Social Sciences Citation Index 1956 --, and Arts & Humanities Citation Index 1975 -- present.

Please note the changes to the search screen, the display of results, and some new search features which allow one to "analyze results" or "create a citation report." Especially interesting are the new personalization features in a menu bar at the very top right of the screen, which allow the searcher to set up a profile and receive customized alerts.

We also encourage the curious to explore the "Additional Resources" tab to find the Journal Citation Reports, a new tool called ISI Highly Cited, a comprehensive biological taxonomy and much more. If you want to know more about the Web of Knowledge, if you have any questions or comments, please contact your subject librarian.

Sending a Fax

You can fax any document on your Windows computer that can be printed. To fax a document, you must have an electronic copy of the document on your computer. Documents can be sent to any fax machine on or off campus.

To send a fax:

1. From within an application such as Word, select File Print.


2. Select Nortel Fax from the list of printers then select OK. (If you do not see the Nortel Fax
   Printer, stop here and follow instructions below for 'Install CallPilot Desktop Messaging'.)


3. If you do have the fax print driver, complete the 'Compose Fax' dialog box with the fax number you are sending to. You can also select to add a cover page. Enter the phone
   number the same way you would when you dial the number from your phone.


• Within the 570 area code, dial: 9 and the seven digit number


• Outside the 570 area code, dial 9 1 and the 10 digit number


• If sending to more than 1 fax machine, be sure to enter a semi colon to separate the numbers.


• If you choose to 'Receive a confirmation delivery', you will receive a message from
  the 'postmaster' indicating if your fax was sent successfully or if it failed.

The following step only needs to be done if the Nortel Fax Printer was not located in step 2.

Install CallPilot Desktop Messaging

1. Navigate to N:\applications\CallPilot Desktop Messaging


2. Double click Setup.exe


3. Accept the defaults and click Next until you get to the Setup Type Window


4. Once in the Setup Type window, select Custom and click Next.


5. In the Custom Setup window, deselect the Microsoft Outlook feature.


6. Click Next.


7. Click Install.


8. Click Finish when the installation completes

The circulating collection in the Library with call numbers ranging from P through PM has been moved from Lower Level 1 to Level 2 near the Collaborative Study area. This move allows for growth in the collection in all other areas. Signs have been created and posted in the area on Lower Level 1 where these books used to be, and updates are underway for the building wall signs, bookmarks, and floor plan handouts. The online catalog locations for these items will be updated.

Broadly speaking, P through PM includes philology, linguistics, and languages, plus literatures including classical, Slavic, Indian, East Asian, African and others.

The more complete breakdown of the LC classification system is:
P1-1091 Philology. Linguistics
PA1-199 Classical philology
PA201-899 Greek philology and language
PA1000-1179 Medieval and modern Greek language
PA2001-2915 Latin philology and language
PA3000-3049 Classical literature
PA3050-4505 Greek literature
PA5000-5660 Byzantine and modern Greek literature
PA6000-6971 Roman literature
PA8001-8595 Medieval and modern Latin literature
PB1-3029 Modern languages. Celtic languages
PC1-5498 Romance philology and languages
PD1-7159 Germanic philology and languages
PE1-3729 English philology and language
PF1-5999 West Germanic philology and languages
PG1-9665 Slavic. Baltic. Albanian
PH1-5490 Uralic. Basque
PJ1-9500 Oriental philology and literature
PK1-9601 Indo-Iranian philology and literature
PL1-8844 Languages of Eastern Asia, Africa, Oceania
PM1-9021 Hyperborean, Indian, and artificial languages

Please contact the Circulation Desk at x71882 or the Reference Desk at x71462 if you have any difficulty in locating these materials.

Take a listen! The Classical Music Library is an online database of classical music recordings. Browsing the site is easy because of the many search options. Classical Music Library also features a reference section with composer biographies, images, a glossary of musical terms and historical information.

Classical Music Library is found in the list of databases for library research and is available for use anywhere by Bucknell students, faculty and staff through this URL: http://internal.bucknell.classical.com/

Registration is required only if you want to save a playlist of recordings.

The Bucknell Anime Society is a student club dedicated to the study of Japanese culture, especially pop culture, and specifically the animated films and television programs known as anime.

Anime is an art form with a great variety of expression, from the full-length motion pictures of Hayao Miyazaki, to the cartoon series that kids watch every day on TV.

The Anime Society has made it their mission to introduce anime to the widest possible audience at Bucknell, and to do that, they have built their collection of anime films and TV series right in the Bertrand Library!

This student club has a unique approach. For the past five years they have budgeted a large part of their BSG funding to purchase anime and manga (illustrated novels) to add to the library collection. The carefully selected titles include many genres: fantasy and science fiction, but also romance, comedy, action adventure, and gothic horror.

To find our anime titles, search the online Library catalog for the subject heading "animated films Japan." To learn more, also check out the growing collection of books that offer an academic perspective on anime.
Thanks to the Bucknell Anime Society, the Bertrand Library may have one of the best-developed collections in the nation.

Special Collections/University Archives presents a new exhibit highlighting two book series promoted by the Black Mountain Institute, an international literary center advancing literary and cross-cultural dialogue.

Rainmaker Editions, a fine press book series, contains original works of notable writers from around the world, designed and printed by leading book artists. The sale of these works raises funds for the City of Asylum program that works to secure freedom to write for those whose voices are muffled by censorship and persecution.
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Rainmaker Translations, a joint Black Mountain/publisher imprint, represents a collaborative effort bringing the world's best contemporary literature into translation in the United States. The project addresses the real lack of translations in this country (less than 2% of all literary publishing, compared to Europe's more than 50%) by subsidizing the costs of translation and marketing of works.

See the exhibit in the James A. Russell Exhibit Area, Lower Level 1, Ellen Clarke Bertrand Library from January 28 - August 15, 2008.

The library no longer supplies Federal and Pennsylvania tax forms in paper format. You can print Federal tax forms and instructions from the Internal Revenue Service web site and Pennsylvania State tax forms and instructions from the Pennsylvania Department of Revenue web site.

Cellular discounts are available to Bucknell University Faculty and Staff when ordering through our Verizon Wireless representative.

In myBucknell, please visit the Quick Links channel in the 'Working at Bucknell' drop down menu and select Cellular Services for more information.