Welcome!
to the annual issue of FYI, a publication intended to keep you better informed
about what the Library is doing to further the University?s missions of teaching,
research, and service.
FYI  is an annual
publication of the
University of Oregon Library
Editor: Paul Frantz
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Library OffersBlackboard CourseInfo
I think it?s a real tribute to the design of
Blackboard that I was up and running after a
four hour workshop. I?ve been impressed from the
get-go.
Elizabeth Hoffman - Arts & Administration
Last fall, the UO Library introduced a pilot
project making the Blackboard CourseInfo
system available to faculty.  It?s been an
unqualified success, with nearly 100 faculty and
more than 4000 students using it in their courses
during 1999-2000.  The Library will continue
to offer Blackboard as a standard library service
during the 2000-2001 academic year.
What is Blackboard?  It?s a ?course
management system? designed to make it easy
for a professor to add a web-based component
to a course without becoming a computer
programmer.  An instructor can add an online
supplement to a regular course or use the
online component as an entire ?virtual
classroom,? completely online.
Blackboard offers a range of features:
? Easy creation of web-based content (e.g.
syllabus or lecture notes), without having
to learn HTML
? Asynchronous communication through a
threaded ?discussion forum?
? Synchronous communication (real-time
chat and whiteboard)
? Assessment tools and grade book
? Collaborative work groups
? User tracking and course statistics
? Online file exchange (between instructor
and student)
The main page for the Blackboard system is
http://blackboard.uoregon.edu. The Library?s
FITT Center (http://libweb.uoregon.edu/fittc)
provides assistance for faculty developing
Blackboard course sites, and the Library
Information Technology Centers provide
support for students using Blackboard at UO.
JQ Johnson - Academic Education Coordinator
As the result of a recent project of the UO
Library and Graduate School, graduate students
now have the option of submitting their
dissertations as electronic documents. Under
this new procedure, the Graduate School will
accept one of the two required copies of the
dissertation in Adobe PDF (Portable Document
Format).  To insure that dissertations will
continue to be accessible by scholars even as
technology changes, the second copy will
continue to be submitted on paper.
The electronic copy will go to Bell & Howell
Information and Learning (formerly
University Microfilms, or UMI). Bell &
Howell will eventually make this electronic
copy available to purchasers and will use it to
print microform copies of the dissertation for
Electronic Dissertations
sale and long-term archival storage.
The UO Library will continue to obtain and
archive a microform copy of all UO
dissertations. In addition, for those
dissertations submitted electronically, the
Library will use the PDF file as the Library?s
circulating copy. A link to it will appear on
the Library?s web site and in the catalog, and
interested scholars will be able to view the
PDF file from their computers anywhere in
the world.
For more information about this pilot project,
or for a list of UO dissertations already
submitted in electronic form, see http://
libweb.uoregon.edu/UOTheses/
JQ Johnson - Academic Education Coordinator
George Shipman Retires
Deborah Carver Named Interim University Librarian
After twenty years of dedicated service to the University of Oregon,
George Shipman retired on June 30 as University Librarian. Deborah
Carver, Associate University Librarian for
Public Services and Collections, has been
named interim university librarian.
A committee to undertake a national search
for a new university librarian will be named
this fall, with the expectation of filling the
endowed post by the start of the next fiscal
year in July 2001.
During his tenure, Shipman?s leadership,
innovation, and vision have led the UO
Library System into the ranks of the top
research libraries in the nation.
Shipman oversaw the implementation of Janus, the library?s automated
online information system. He initiated  a successful library development
program, which raised over $30 million for a variety of library services
and programs, including the renovation and expansion of the main
library building. He played a leadership role in the establishment of
Library Staff
Joanne Halgren, Head of Interlibrary
Loan, has been named the first recipient
of the Virginia Boucher OCLC
Distinguished ILL Librarian Award. The
selection committee noted that ?her 25-
year ILL career best exemplifies the spirit
of mutual cooperation and dedication to
imaginative user services that form the
very foundation of any successful ILL
operation.?
James Fox has been named Director of
Special Collections and University
Archives. James was previously Curator
of Science and Technology Collections
and Assistant Head of Special
Collections at the University of
Michigan. James can be reached by email
at jdfox@oregon.uoregon.edu or by phone
at 346-1904.
The University Library Grants and
Awards Committee invites nominations
for Library Faculty Fellowships.  Any
member of the UO Community may
nominate a Library Faculty member for a
fellowship. These newly created
fellowships, in the amounts of $3,000 per
award, seek to recognize outstanding
contributions to the UO Library System
or to the library profession in general and
are intended to reward both past
achievements and support recipients?
continued professional development.
Guidelines, further information, and
nomination forms are available at:  http:/
/libweb.uoregon.edu/faculty/grants.html
Nominations are due October 16.
Orbis, a consortium of 18 public and private academic libraries in Oregon
and Washington. A librarian who valued traditional print resources as
highly as cutting-edge digital resources,
Shipman also recently established the Knight
Library Press, a fine printing press that
produces limited-edition books, broadsides,
and commemorative pieces.
?George Shipman is a stellar member of a
select class of senior research library directors
who have made consistently strong
contributions over time on a wide range of
issues,? commented Duane Webster,
executive director of the Association of
Research Libraries (ARL).
Deborah Carver came to the UO Library in 1990 as Assistant Librarian
for Public Services. She is an elected member of the American Library
Association Council and was honored as the Oregon Library
Association?s Librarian of the Year in 1999.
FITT  Center Completes Successful First Year
Faculty and GTFs from 74 different departments have made more than 720 visits to the Faculty
Instructional Technology Training (FITT) Center since it opened in Summer 1999.  FITT
Center staff offer personal consulting, free of charge, on the design of course websites, classroom
presentations, and use of multimedia tools.  The Center offers multimedia workstations, software,
and various digital cameras, scanners, recorders, and printers. The FITT Center is located in
Media Services, Room 18, on the ground floor of the Knight Library.  For more information,
see:   http://libweb.uoregon.edu/fittc/
Accessing E-Books from the UO Library
The UO community can now participate in one of the most closely watched developments in the publishing industry ? e-books. As part of a
Northwest library coalition, UO librarians helped to select an initial collection of 1,223 electronic books, representing the Library?s first steps
toward developing a permanent shared collection of e-books.  The coalition intends to increase the number to approximately 2500 titles by
January 2001. The UO Library?s participation in the project was made possible by the Richard and Mary Corrigan Solari Library Endowment
Fund.
Available from netLibrary, a leading e-book vendor, the collection presently features titles related to the Pacific Northwest, titles that
have been selected by Choice magazine as Outstanding Academic Books, reference handbooks and dictionaries, and computer
science manuals.  Users can preview a title for 15 minutes; if they wish to check it out, they will currently need to establish an
account (no charge).  The service is available at: http://www.netlibrary.com.
Access to electronic books complements the Library?s growing involvement with providing increased access to electronic
journals, as shown by such recent purchases as the ECO: Electronic Collections Online, JSTOR, and American Chemical
Society Journals online. For convenient entry to the Library?s electronic journals, arranged by subject area, see:
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/network/uoejrls.html
Fall 2000
What?s
Inside:
New Databases p. 2
MAP Library Moves p. 3
Blackboard CourseInfo p. 4
Location,
Location,
Location.
Choosing the best location for a new
business is an intricate problem asked
both by UO business students and by local
business people. Let?s say we want to find
the best location for a new, upscale ?disco
bowling? establishment.  Here?s how the
resources of the newly constituted
Document Center in the Knight Library
can help.
First, to find out what sort of person might
want to ?rock ?n? bowl?, we consult a
proprietary market research database
located in the Document Center. Next,
using data from the U.S. Census Bureau,
we find the neighborhoods where these
people are concentrated.  Census data can
also tell us how many bowling alleys
already exist in Lane County, and how
large they are.  Using the Map and Aerial
Photography Collection, we can plot
their locations.
We then examine maps or digitized
zoning and tax lot data, to identify
affordable parcels that permit bowling
alleys.  Matching this with maps of major
arterials and transportation routes, we
can begin to create a short list of possible
sites.  But before making our final
decision, we scrutinize older air photos
and fire insurance maps from the MAP
Collection to be sure a previous land use
was not a toxic waste dump.
We are also likely to employ GIS, or
?geographic information systems.?
These take a number of ?layers? of
information for an area?e.g. population,
transportation, and land use data?and
portray them graphically on a map. With
the assistance of the full resources of the
Document Center,  a useful picture of our
new disco bowling location emerges!
Tom Stave, Head - Document Center
The Map and Aerial Photography (MAP) Library?s staff and collections have now joined the
Knight Library?s Document Center.  Ranked sixteenth among academic map and air photo libraries
in the United States, the MAP Library was housed until this summer in Condon Hall, where it
had outgrown the space available for its expanding collections.
Renamed the Map and Aerial Photography Collection, this resource will team up with several
other related collections.  The Document Center (formerly Government & Business Information
Service) will also include the Government Publications Collection, the Business Information
Service, and the Microforms Collection.  The merger will produce a ?super-map collection?, as
the other units are already rich in cartographic resources such as land use plans, historic land
survey maps in microform, and environmental reports and studies.
In addition, the ability of the library to offer access to digitized cartographic data from government
agencies will be enhanced.  With more than 250,000 maps and over half a million air photos, the
Map & Aerial Photography Collection is one of the richest in the Northwest. Among its treasures
are 65 years of aerial photography of
Oregon, with especially strong coverage
of the Willamette Valley and Western
Oregon. Its maps include historic and
current series of USGS topographic
maps for the entire United States, large
sets of US Forest Service maps for the
Pacific Northwest, national surveys of
many foreign countries, and thematic
and historic maps covering the entire
earth and the cosmos.
Tom Stave - Document Center
For more information on the expanded Document Center
see: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/govdocs/
Schedule The Library?s Electronic Classrooms
New Databases!
The UO Library continues to add new databases
at a rate daunting even for librarians to keep
up with. Below is a list of some of the major
databases acquired in recent months.
If the Web address is not listed below, then
access these databases (and many others!)
through Janus?s alphabetic list of major indexing
services at:
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/network/indexes-
A.html
Interdisciplinary Databases:
? JSTOR  is  an electronic archive for a
collection of over 130 core
scholarly journals, starting
with the first issues, many of
which date from the 1800s.
http://www.jstor.org/
? ECO:  Electronic
Collections Online adds
approximately 450 titles to the
library?s collection of full-text
electronic journals.
? Current Research: A Digital
Library of Dissertations is a
database of dissertations
completed at the University of
Oregon. The full-text of
dissertations published after
1996 may be downloaded.
? Poole?s Plus  is the primary
index for magazines and
periodicals published from
1802 to 1906 and is one of the
few electronic databases concentrating on
publications from the 19th century.
? Ulrich?s International Periodicals Directory
is the standard database for information on
consumer and trade magazines, academic and
scholarly publications, monographic series,
newsletters, and other types of serials published
throughout the world on all subjects. http://
www.bowker.com/ulrichs/
? RLIN Online Catalog  is a comprehensive
union catalog for everything from books and
journals to archives and manuscripts and whose
bibliographic records are contributed by such
major research libraries as Harvard and Stanford.
http://libweb.uoregon.edu/network/rlin.html
? ArchivesUSA  is a directory of over 5,000
repositories and nearly 120,000 collections of
primary source material across the United
States.
? Wilson Biographies Plus Illustrated contains
more than 46,000 biographies and obituaries
and more than 20,000 photographs of the
subjects.
? Alternative Press Index is a subject index to
over 250 alternative, radical, and left
periodicals, newspapers and magazines.
Humanities Databases:
? The Oxford English
Dictionary, the language?s
most exhaustive dictionary,
is now available on the Web.
http://dictionary.oed.com/
? Philosopher?s Index
converts the leading
philosophy bibliography to a
Web format, enabling
searching of philosophy
periodicals and monographs.
? Women Writers Online
is a full-text database with
over 200 English texts by
women written before
1830.  http://
www.wwp.brown.edu/
texts/wwoentry.html
? ITER: Gateway to the
Middle Ages and
Renaissance is a Web-
based bibliography of approximately 230,000
articles and reviews drawn from over 400
medieval and renaissance journal titles.
? Grove Dictionary of Art  contains 45,000
articles on every aspect of the visual arts -
painting, sculpture, graphic arts, architecture,
decorative arts and photography - from
prehistory to the present day.   http://
www.groveart.com/tdaonline/index.asp
? CETEDOC Library of Christian Latin Texts
is a full-text database of such multi-volume
works as Corpus Christianorum and Patrologia
Latina. [This database is available only on public
workstations in the Knight Library.]
? Middle English Compendium provides access
UO faculty and staff can now schedule the UO Library?s electronic classrooms directly, using the
Library?s Web calendar software. See: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/instruct/calindex.html The
software includes classroom scheduling policies and procedures. Library staff will review the online
request and then notify the instructor by email when approved.  In addition, the Library?s electronic
classrooms have been enhanced. The Electronic Classroom (Knight 144) and Lois Reed Seminar
Room (Knight 235) both received new projectors and faster, multimedia computers running
Windows 2000 and Office 2000.  The Information Technology Center (ITC) Classroom (Knight
267B) now offers multimedia iMacDVs with new graphics and digital video editing software.
For additional information:
? http://libweb.uoregon.edu/instruct/classrooms.html
? http://libweb.uoregon.edu/kitc/     ? http://libweb.uoregon.edu/sitc/
MAP Library Moves to Knight
EndNote & Procite: Managing Your Bibliography
The most significant addition to
the Library array of online
indexes is the EBSCO
Databases, a new suite of general
and multi-disciplinary periodical
indexes. It includes Academic
Search Elite,  which provides
abstracting and indexing for
nearly 2,900 scholarly journals
and the full-text for more than
1,250 of these. Academic Search
Elite replaces Expanded
Academic Index.
Other databases in the EBSCO
suite include Business Source
Elite , Health Source Plus,
Magazines Fulltext , and
Newspaper Source.
to the Middle English Dictionary, a
HyperBibliography of Middle English, and
a Corpus of Middle English Prose and Verse.
http://www.hti.umich.edu/mec/
? Art Index Retrospective complements Art
Abstracts, indexing approximately 420 art
journals from 1972 - 1984.
Science Databases:
? SciFinder Scholar is a desktop research
tool for information on chemical and
chemistry-related topics and includes the
CAS Registry and CAplus databases.
? ACS (American Chemical Society)
Journals  is the online, full-text version of
34 journals published by the American
Chemical Society. http://pubs.acs.org/
about.html
? Sport Discus provides indexing and
abstracting for approximately 300 exercise
and movement science, sport, and physical
education periodicals published in English
or French.
Social Science Databases:
? CIAO: Columbia International Affairs
Online includes full-text working papers
from university research institutes, NGOs,
and think-tanks
? TableBase provides tabular information
on marketing,  production, trade, sales,
product and brand rankings, health care
statistics, and demographics.
? Exceptional Child Education Resources
is a bibliographic database on the education
and development of individuals who have
disabilities or who are gifted.
? Disclosure  provides access to a full range
of company information ? including SEC
filings ? for both US and international
companies.
? Sport Business Research Network
provides the full-text of sporting goods
market research.
? PPPM Exit Projects  provides indexing
to projects written by graduate students in
the Department of Public Policy, Planning
and Management at the University of
Oregon.  http://libweb.uoregon.edu/
govdocs/pppm.html
EndNote and Procite allow researchers to create their own database of references to journal articles,
books, manuscripts, Web sites, etc. Once a record is in the database, the researcher can then
create bibliographies, search the database to find records on a specific subject or by an author,
and format references in a specific bibliographic style. New this year is a service enabling faculty
and students to take citations found in the UO Library Catalog and ?pass them through? directly
to the EndNote or Procite database.  Records from many other databases offered by the Library can
be downloaded as citations in a format which can be easily read by these programs.
The UO Library offers workshops each quarter on using EndNote and Procite as part of the
Information Technology Curriculum.  For additional information on using EndNote and Procite,
see: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/network/bibsoftware/.
Sara Brownmiller - Systems Librarian