A Message from the Dean
Welcome to the 2008-2009 academic year! The campus has come alive in the past two weeks and it is wonderful to see happy faces and busy feet as we go about our day. Lupton Library is bustling with faculty and students browsing newspapers and new books, checking out videos and laptops, printing off syllabi and assignments, seeking directions, and saying hello. Believe it or not, last year was the busiest since the Lupton Library opened in 1976. The Library welcomed 343,053 patrons for research and study purposes, an increase of just under 60,000 patrons from the year before.
Web of Science Now Available to the UTC Campus!
Web of Science consists of 3 databases containing information gathered from thousands of scholarly journals in the following areas of research. (Click on the database name to see disciplines covered):
- Science Citation Index Expanded : (1900 – present). A multidisciplinary index to journal literature in sciences. Indexes 6,650 major journals.
Social Sciences Citation Index : (1956 – present). A multidisciplinary index to journals in social sciences. It fully indexes 1950 journals across 50 social science disciplines and indexes selected items from 3,300 journals.
Arts & Humanities Citation Index : (1975 – present). A multidisciplinary index covering the journal literature in arts and humanities. It fully covers 1,160 leading humanities journals and indexes selected items from 6,800 social science journals.
Barry Moser Collection in the Special Collections
Barry Moser’s Huck Finn and Self Portrait.
A large collection of over 150 illustrated books and items by university alumnus Barry Moser has been added to the Special Collections in Lupton Library, with more titles to be added. Mr. Moser, who attended the University of Chattanooga in the early 1960s, is an internationally renowned illustrator, printer, painter, printmaker, designer, author, essayist, and teacher whose work is represented in numerous collections, museums, and libraries in the United States and abroad. The collection is being compiled by Dr. Verbie Prevost, head of the English Department and Connor Professor of American Literature at UTC. The books include children’s books and classics such as Dracula, Tom Sawyer, Frankenstein, and the Holy Bible. By typing “Barry Moser Collection” into the Lupton Library’s online catalog, readers may access a listing of the titles in the collection. Individuals wanting to look at these books can do so by request in the Special Collections. Lupton Library is tentatively planning a display or exhibit of some of these titles in the Spring of 2009.
4 More New Databases
Music Index
The same great Music Index has a fresh face. Well, a fresh search interface.
Communication and Mass Media Complete
This is a brand new database we were able to obtain for this year.
L’Annee Philologique (aka APh Online)
This respected index to the classics and classical studies is now available online.
Tennessee Newspapers
Tennessee Newspapers searches all four of our state’s major newspapers at once.
New Books for Your Enjoyment
The Blair Years: The Alastair Campbell Diaries
by Alastair Campbell
JN1129.L32 C275 2007
Duma Key
by Stephen King
PS3561.I483 D86 2008
The Great Warming
by Brian M. Fagan
QC981.8.G56 F34 2008
Never Type a Works Cited Page Again!
Learn how to create your Works Cited page automatically using the EndNote Web™ software tool. The Library has recently purchased an EndNote Web license for all UTC students, faculty, and staff.
Come to a free workshop to learn more about using EndNote Web to save time when you write papers or do research. Workshops are scheduled on September 11th or November 4th from noon to 1 p.m. in Library Room 208.
Continue reading for directions on getting started with EndNote Web.
New Digitizing Microform Readers
Remember the old days when you used to come to the library and go cross-eyed while scrolling through reels of microfilm? Lupton Library is proud to announce the acquisition of 2 new computerized microform readers. These readers are located on the 2nd floor next the photocopier.
The digitizing microform readers and the flatbed scanners (formerly located in reference) have the following capabilities:
- Users can read and scan microfilm, microfiche, ultrafiche, microcard (opaque), and paper-based resources all at one location. Images are clearer, brighter, and more detailed than on the older readers
- Users can print documents through MocsPrint
- Users can email documents to themselves
- Users can save documents to a USB drive
Note that these workstations are only intended for scanning and digitizing and therefore do not have access to the internet, library databases, UTC Online, etc.
New DVDs
Lupton Library continually purchases DVDs for your educational and entertainment viewing. Below is a list of a few of our new DVDs. Please click on the call number link for a availability and for a summary of the film:
Life After People - QH78.L54
No Country for Old Men - PS3563.C337.N6
Atonement - PN1995.9.M45
Charlie Wilson’s War - PN1995.9.B55.C4375
Elizabeth: The Golden Age - PN1995.9.H5.E45933
In the Valley of Elah - PN1995.9.S87.I5
The Kite Runner - PS3608.O832.K582
There Will Be Blood - PN1995.9.M45.T4474
Michael Clayton - PN1995.9.S87.M5343
Paprika - PN1995.9.A53.P3775
Presidents & Political Campaigns from the Special Collections
From the beginning of the fall semester until the end of the year the Special Collections will be displaying some of its presidential and political campaign memorabilia on the first and second floors of Lupton Library. Included are presidential portraits such as President Truman, Roosevelt, and Kennedy (some signed by the President), as well as signed letters from presidents and ex-presidents, including Teddy Roosevelt, Rutherford B. Hayes, Bill Clinton, and Ronald Reagan. Also on display are campaign buttons, stickers, and memorabilia from 20th century state and national campaigns, including Senator Estes Kefauver’s presidential campaigns and Tennessee country music legend, Roy Acuff’s 1948 run for Governor of Tennessee.
For a look at the Presidents and Political Campaigns website of the Special Collections, go to http://www.lib.utc.edu/Political-Display.html.
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