CARDINAL CUSHING LIBRARY NEWS EMMANUEL COLLE GE February 1995 Volume II FROM TIiE DIRECTOR EXOTING DEVELOPMENTS IN TIiE LIBRARY The Cardinal Cushing Library has entered a very exciting era- automation of the card catalog, updating and enhancing the print collections and offering expanded access to remote resources. We continue to seek new ways to engage the College community in the current and future developments of the library. This edition of the newsletter is published to inform you about services, recent acquisitions, special projects, and available programs. My office is open for informal discussion on Tuesdays from 10-11 AM or by appointment. We look forward to the challenges of the future and encourage you to share your comments and suggestions with us. Albie Johnson Director Many changes are taking place in the Cardinal Cushing Library. Most notable is our acceptance for membership in Fenway Libraries Online (FLO) and the automation of the card catalog. As a member of FLO, students, faculty, alumnae and staff will be able to access the resources (over 500,000 bibliographic records) of our library as well as Emerson College, Lesley College, Massachusetts College of Art, Massachusetts College of Phannacy and Allied Health Sciences, Museum of Fine Arts, New England Conservatory of Music, Wentworth Institute of Technology and Wheelock College. Automation of the card catalog will be done in three phases. Phase I is well underway and includes creating a computer database of all of the library'S books and other materials. The process for creating the database is called retrospective conversion. It involves taking the written records of the library collection-the card catalog entries- and creating machine-readable entries for them. Phase II of the project will include building an online public access catalog (OPAC). The existing card catalog will be replaced with the machine-readable records and our database will be merged with FLO. This phase will involve installing computer terminals, electrical outlets and cable access to the central computer, and telecommunication equipment. Phase II will also include barcoding, which is the linkage between the computer system and the book or journal, and relabeling the entire collection. Phase III of the project involves performing local testing of the system modules, and includes refining the system functions at the local site. This phase is scheduled to last several months. The target date to have the system totally operational and accessible to the College community is the winter of 1996. LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY UPDATE Summer 1994 Initiated remote access to online library catalogs throughout the country Fall 1994 Phase I of library automation project started Upgraded computer equipment for CD-ROM network Installed new acquisitions database on public terminal Added new CD-ROM indexes to the network (Religious & Theological Abstracts and Ethnic Newswatch)
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CARDINAL CUSHING LIBRARY NEWS
EMMANUEL COLLEG E February 1995
Volume II
FROM TIiE DIRECTOR EXOTING DEVELOPMENTS IN TIiE LIBRARY
The Cardinal Cushing Library has entered a very exciting eraautomation of the card catalog, updating and enhancing the print collections and offering expanded access to remote resources. We continue to seek new ways to engage the College community in the current and future developments of the library. This edition of the newsletter is published to inform you about services, recent acquisitions, special projects, and available programs. My office is open for informal discussion on Tuesdays from 10-11 AM or by appointment. We look forward to the challenges of the future and encourage you to share your comments and suggestions with us.
Albie Johnson Director
Many changes are taking place in the Cardinal Cushing Library. Most notable is our acceptance for membership in Fenway Libraries Online (FLO) and the automation of the card catalog.
As a member of FLO, students, faculty, alumnae and staff will be able to access the resources (over 500,000 bibliographic records) of our library as well as Emerson College, Lesley College, Massachusetts College of Art, Massachusetts College of Phannacy and Allied Health Sciences, Museum of Fine Arts, New England Conservatory of Music, Wentworth Institute of Technology and Wheelock College.
Automation of the card catalog will be done in three phases. Phase I is well underway and includes creating a computer database of all of the library'S books and other materials. The process for creating the database is called retrospective conversion. It involves taking the written records of the library collection-the card catalog entriesand creating machine-readable entries for them.
Phase II of the project will include building an online public access catalog (OPAC). The existing card catalog will be replaced with the machine-readable records and our database will be merged with FLO. This phase will involve installing computer terminals, electrical outlets and cable access to the central computer, and telecommunication equipment. Phase II will also include barcoding, which is the linkage between the computer system and the book or journal, and relabeling the entire collection.
Phase III of the project involves performing local testing of the system modules, and includes refining the system functions at the local site. This phase is scheduled to last several months.
The target date to have the system totally operational and accessible to the College community is the winter of 1996.
LIBRARY TECHNOLOGY UPDATE
Summer 1994 Initiated remote access to online library catalogs throughout the country
Fall 1994 Phase I of library automation project started
Upgraded computer equipment for CD-ROM network
Installed new acquisitions database on public terminal
Added new CD-ROM indexes to the network (Religious & Theological Abstracts and Ethnic Newswatch)
SUNDAY NIGHT
FILM SERIES
The library's Sunday night film series, held in the library lecture hall, resumed on January 22 and will continue throughou t the semester. It Could Happen to You, True Lies, Wolf and Forrest Gump are among the films being shown this spring. Watch your mailbox for times and dates. We need your suggestions! If you'd like to see a certain movie, please leave a note in the library's mailbox or at the circulation desk.
BOOK COLLECTION EXPANDING:
OVER 2000 NEW TITLES ADDED IN 1993-94
The following are a few sample titles in various subject areas: We welcome recommendations for new titles at any time.
Diop, Cheikh Anta Frascina, Francis Grafton, Anthony Fagenson, Ellen Goldman, Robert Landow, George P. Grossberg, Lawrence Scheuerman, William Maxcy, Spencer Brower, Michael Bell, J. Bowyer Hobsbawm, E.J. Jones, Jacqueline Ahmed, Leila Chavez, Denise Epstein, Lee Keller, Evelyn Fox Barrow, John D. Thome, Sally Brave Bird, Mary Kikuchi, June Peebles, P.J. Keithly, David M. Turkle, Sherry Hellwig, Monika K. Werner, Karl
Civilization or Barbarism: an Authentic Anthropology Modernity & Modernism: French Painting in the 19th Cen. Rome Reborn: Vatican Library & Renaissance Culture Women in Management: Trends, Issues .. . Reading Ads Socially Digital Word: Text-Based Computing in the Humanities Cultural Studies Private Interest, Public Spending Postmodern School Leadership: Meeting the Crisis ... Cool Energy: Renewable Solutions to Environment Irish Troubles: A Generation of Violence, 1967-1992 Nations & Nationalism Since 1780: Programme, Myth ... Dispossessed: America's Underclasses from the Civil War ... Women & Gender in Islam: Historical Roots ... Shattering the Myth: Plays by Hispanic Women The Supreme Court and Legal Change Secrets of Life, ... : Essays on Language, Gender, & Science Pi in the Sky: Counting, Thinking, and Being Negotiating Health Care: The Social Context of Chronic ... Ohitika Woman Developing a Philosophy of Nursing Quantum Mechanics Collapse of East German Communism ...
1-----------1 Levy, Steven
Psychoanalytic Politics: Jacques Lacan & Freud's ... Catholic Scholar's Journey Through the 20th Century Yogi and the Mystic: Studies in Indian ... Mysticism Artificial Life: Report ... Where Computers Meet Biology Playing in the Dark: Whiteness & Literary Imagination Asian-American Literature: An Annotated Bibliography BlackweU Dictionary of Judaica
Currently on display in the reading room is an exhibit put together by the Vietnamese Club of Emmanuel College. Included are beautiful artifacts and handmade clothing traditional to Vietnamese culture. This exhibit will remain on view until March 1. After March I, there will be a display of books and journal articles written by members of the Emmanuel College Community.
Morrison, Toni Cheung, King-Kok Cohn-Sherbok, Dan
NEW BUSINESS REFERENCE SOURCES
Ref PS153.A84C47 1993 Ref BM50.C6151992
The library now has the major components of Moody's business publications, including the Moody's Industrial Manual, OTC Manual, Handbook of Common Stocks, Handbook of NASDAQ Stocks, Bond Record and Annual Dividend Record. These sources provide historical and financial information on companies in the United States.
Now AVAILABLE ON MICROFILM
Time, Newsweek, Business Week and U.S. News & World Report are now available on microfilm. Any article from 1990 to the present may be printed out on the reader/ printer in the lower level of the library.
INTERNET BOOKS & VIDEOS
New to the Internet? Need help with logging on? Here are some recommended titles available in the library: laQuey, Tracy The Internet Companion Plus
TK5105.875.l57L391994
Kehoe, Brendan Zen & the Art of the Internet
TK5105.875.157K44 1994
Gaffin, Adam Everybody's Guide to the Internet
TK5105.875.157G34 1994
Videos: Video Guide to the Internet Visual Edge Productions
Paper Tiger TV Staking a Claim in Cyberspace
Netroots: Cultivating the Digital Park Paper Tiger TV
Computer Chronicles: Computer Technology
VIDEO COLLECTION EXPANDING
The library has a number of new videos in its video collection. Some of the new titles are listed below:
American Cinema (PBS series) America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference Bridges to Learning: New Applications of
Telecommunications and Computing Common Miracles: The New American Revolution in
Learning Race and Ethnicity Race in the Classroom: The Multiplicity of Experience Scandalous Mayor Games Michael Curley) Therapeutic Touch: Healing Through Human
