Great news for all you book lovers out there. If you have a book collection of any kind, it could earn you money! In this week’s Library Minute Anali tells us all about the ASU Libraries Student Book Collection Contest, which awards cash prizes to undergraduate and graduate student collectors. The deadline for the 2010 contest is February 18: Enter today!
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ASU Libraries’ Archives and Special Collections and the Arizona Historical Foundation will feature a gallery talk at 1 pm on Monday February 15, 2010 on the fourth floor of Hayden Library for the Museums, Galleries and Collections Committee’s open house.
The gallery talk will focus on the two current exhibits now installed on the fourth floor of Hayden Library, Arizona Space Frontiers in the Luhrs Gallery, and Dane Coolidge’s Wild Wild West in the Arizona Historical Foundation’s gallery.
Explore other ASU collections by visiting the other participants of this open house. The schedule is:
9 am: Center for Meteorite Studies – Bateman Physical Sciences Center, C Wing, Room 139
10 am: Lunar Recon Orbital Camera – Interdisciplinary A-Wing, Room A120C
11 am: Mars Space Flight – Moeur Bldg
Noon: Carillon – Lower Level of Old Main
1 pm: Arizona Historical Foundation/Archives and Special Collections – 4th Floor Hayden Library
2 pm: Institute for Human Origins – Social Sciences Building, Room 103
3 pm: Archaeological Research Institute –Tempe Center 164
When you see an ant wending its way to its nest or a bee flitting from flower to flower, it’s hard to imagine that we, with our architecture, our airlines or our medical delivery systems have much to learn from insects. However, we have much to discover in nature’s innovations and benefits to reap due to our insect companions.
Social Biomimicry is part of the Frontiers in Life Science workshop series sponsored by ASU’s School of Life Sciences. Conceptually, it’s a creative partnership combining the concept of “how does nature do it” – espoused by the study of biomimicry – and scientific studies explored by students and faculty in the Social Insect Research Group at ASU. How can we design green buildings? Optimize delivery and transportation systems? Develop complex adaptive systems? Or formulate better approaches to networks and robotics? The collective behavior and nest architecture of social insects can inspire more efficient and sustainable solutions to human challenges and are already changing, for the better, the world we live in.
This conference will be held February 18-20 at the Memorial Union on the Tempe campus.
To further research the concepts embodied in Social Biomimicry, consult the Social Insect LibGuide created by ASU Librarian Olivia Sparks. This guide includes a list of relevant books from the ASU Libraries, links to related videos on the topic and more.
For more information about the conference, please contact the School of Life Sciences.
We’ve got 4 quick tips on printing in the ASU Libraries in just one minute. This week’s Minute covers using your Sun Card, library print station locations,printing from your laptop and even how to save trees by taking advantage of double sided printing.
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The ASU Libraries is looking for ASU undergraduate and graduate students who are book collectors to participate in an annualStudent Book Collecting Contest which will run from October 2009 to February 18, 2010. Undergraduate and graduate student winners of the contest receive cash prizes, with the top prize in each category being $600.
Entries will be judged by a panel of judges on the extent to which the collection represents a well-defined field of interest – either focused on the works of one author or on a particular subject. Judge/student interviews will be held March 25 and 26, 2010. Contest winners will be notified the week of March 29, 2010. Cash prizes will be awarded at a donor reception April 21, 2010.
In addition to this contest, Fine Books & Collections Magazine sponsors a national Collegiate Book Collecting Championship with a top prize of $2,500 (date for 2010 to be announced.) Top ASU book contest winners that meet the criteria of the collegiate national championship contest will automatically be eligible to compete.
For more information, pick up a brochure at any of the ASU Libraries, the Memorial Union, the Graduate College, Barratt Honors College, and campus bookstores, see the Student Book Collecting Web page atlib.asu.edu/bookcontest or call Rosa González at (480) 965-3956.
Exhibit: Acts of Peace Building
Location: Fletcher Library at the West campus
Available: Through February 19, during normal library hours
Description: An exhibit featuring paintings and sculptures of students from the Phoenix South Mountain High School visual arts magnet program and artists from within the Cultural Arts Coalition. Presented in collaboration with South Mountain magnet arts high school students, the exhibit also includes the artistry of Irma Turtle, who has spent the last 22 years in Africa doing humanitarian work through her TurtleWill organization.
For more information see the ASU News article online
Image information: ”The Family,” by ASU professor emeritus Dr. Eugene Grigsby Jr.
University Academic Success Programs and Noble Science and Engineering Library are teaming up to provide tutoring on the second floor of Noble Library! Our tutors can tutor in math and the sciences including chemistry, physics, biology, and engineering.
The Noble Tutoring Center is open Monday-Thursday, 12-8pm, and is located in Room #252. A complete list of courses and times can be found at http://studentsuccess.asu.edu.
The Library One Search is a new discovery tool which allows users to quickly search and access a variety of library items including books and other materials from the catalog, journal and magazine articles, and digital objects within local repositories. This is an all-new service which will be accessed through the library home page as well as the library tool bar, MyASU (under “Resources” > “Library”), Blackboard and more.
Library One Search uses the new Summon unified discovery service by Serials Solutions. From a single search box, users can access resources normally only found in the 275 separate subscription databases, catalog records, and the local digital repository. Instead, Library One Search searches most of what the library owns and/or has access to from one box. The simple and easy to use interface also allows you to limit your search to online full text articles only, or limit to results in “scholarly” or peer-reviewed publications.
In addition, Library One Search has a built-in citation formatting feature that lets you quickly cut and paste citations in your preferred style as well an export feature that lets you easily export citations to bibliographic management software applications such as RefWorks, EndNote and ProCite. In addition, users can search Library One Search from a mobile device by going directly to http://asu.summon.serialssolutions.com on your mobile web browser.
If you have any questions about Library One Search, or any other library resource, please don’t hesitate to Ask a Librarian.
The ASU Libraries have recently added the following new or expanded online resources to our collection:
If you have any questions about these or any other library resource, please Ask a Librarian.
Starting this spring semester, the Fletcher Library has a new combined”Information and Check Out” service desk in its lobby. This new desk is located immediately on the west side of the lobby and provides a one stop location to check out library materials, make library account inquiries, and get research questions answered.
Books that are on hold for patrons can be picked up and checked out at the express check out machine located adjacent to the Information and Check Out desk. Borrowers will need to request media (DVDs, VHS, CDs) and Interlibrary Loan materials from library staff.
Please stop by and let us know if you have any questions or comments about this new service, or use the online Suggestion Box to give us your feedback.
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