Library & IT at Bucknell

Please plan to attend Sam Lundquist's Books that Made a Difference talk on April 14, noon to 1 p.m., in the Library's Traditional Reading Room. Sam Lundquist, VP for Development & Alumni Relations, will be talking about the impact that Bill Bryson's A Walk in the Woods: A Short History of Nearly Everything had on his life. The Books That Made a Difference series is wildly popular and open to all.

If you heard Lawrence Lessig's talk, Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy, you may be interested in learning more about the Creative Commons, a non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to legally build upon and share. Creative Commons provides free tools to help authors, scientists, artists, and educators share and protect their works.

Bucknell University's Digital Initiatives Group is pleased to announce the upcoming Mid-Atlantic Regional Digital Library Conference. The conference will be held on the Bucknell University campus on July 9, 2008.

The conference goal is to bring together librarians and technologists from a wide range of cultural heritage institutions such as colleges and universities, libraries, museums, historical societies, and art galleries, who are interested in providing digital access to their collections. The conference seeks to support this community through a mix of speakers, contributed papers and posters, workshops, and engaging discussion.

Proposals are being accepted on a rolling basis through May 1. For more information visit the Conference blog at http://blogs.bucknell.edu/DigitalLibraryConference2008/

Lawrence Lessig, renowned copyright and intellectual property rights author, will present a talk "Remix: Making Art and Commerce Thrive in the Hybrid Economy" Thursday, March 27 at 7 p.m. in Trout Auditorium. Lessig, a Stanford Law School professor, is founder of Stanford's Center for Internet and Society, and also Stanford's Fair Use Foundation. He is the author of Free Culture (2004), The Future of Ideas (2001), Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace (1999), and Code 2.0 (2006).

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.

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.

The Library hours have been updated for the spring 2008 semester. To view the revised hours, please visit the ISR website and click on the calendar icon in the middle of the page.

In February 2006, ISR administered the Merged Information Service Organization (MISO) survey to faculty, staff and students at Bucknell University. The MISO Survey is a Web-based survey designed by Bryn Mawr College to gather user feedback about the full range of resources and services offered by merged technology and library organizations such as Information Services and Resources (ISR). Twenty institutions, including Bucknell, participated in the spring 2006 survey. Based on the comparative data shared among all the participating schools, ISR ranked first in multiple categories and scored among the top three schools in other categories as well. We have posted our analysis of the survey results, with results organized by constituent group (faculty, staff, and students) at the following Web site: 2006 MISO Survey Results.

From Freakonomics to Einstein and Obama to Vonnegut, find out What They're Reading on College Campuses...and know that Bertrand Library has them all! This red-hot reading list from the Chronicle of Education along with the accompanying books is on display on the main floor of the library in the New Book area near the Reference/Information Desk. Please check the library catalog for availability.

Do you struggle with citing your sources using the APA, MLA or Chicago formats? RefWorks can help!

RefWorks is web-based software that allows you to do things like:

• automatically format citations in a variety of styles (e.g. MLA or APA) with a few clicks.


• import citation information from online databases about books, journal articles, videos, etc.,


• organize and store your references into folders according to your topic of interest or particular assignment or project.


• generate a correctly formatted reference page or bibliography.

Please contact the Reference Desk with any questions.

Did you know that the Library has a subscription to "Journal Citation Reports" (JCR) from Thompson-ISI?

The following information is taken from ISI's website:

"JCR is a comprehensive and unique resource that allows you to evaluate and compare journals using citation data drawn from over 7,500 scholarly and technical journals from more than 3,300 publishers in over 60 countries. It is the only source of citation data on journals, and includes virtually all areas of science, technology, and social sciences. JCR can show you the:

* Most frequently cited journals in a field
* Highest impact journals in a field
* Largest journals in a field

Citation and article counts are important indicators of how frequently current researchers are using individual journals. By tabulating and aggregating citation and article counts, JCR offers a unique perspective for journal evaluation and comparison."

Special Collections/University Archives is happy to announce a new exhibit, "Exploring the Past: WWII Posters, A Visual Adventure," available for immediate viewing. This unique exhibit features research completed by the students of Professor David Del Testa's History 100 class using original posters from the University Archives WWII collection.

We invite you to experience this interesting, historical journey and to appreciate a fine example of student collaboration and research highlighting the World War II era. The exhibit is located on Lower Level I of the Bertrand Library, adjacent to the Library Lab.