Prayers for the People at MONA Tonight

Last year, Kate Benzel (English), Chuck Peek (English emeritus), and songwriter Mike Adams produced a program entitled The Sandburg Project: Prayers for the People, featuring the poetry of Carl Sandburg. The group traveled throughout the state to present the program, and it attracted the attention of local scholars and community members, as well as NPR and NET. Tonight, a special screening will take place at 6:30 p.m. at the Museum of Nebraska Art (MONA). The program will also air again on NET on Tuesday, April 28, at 8 a.m. and Wednesday, April 29, at 6 p.m.

Dean and Director Candidates on Campus Beginning Next Week

Candidates for the Dean of Business and Technology, Dean of Natural and Social Sciences, and Director of International Education will be on campus in the coming weeks. Review each candidate's curriculum vitae online and watch for announcements of open forums for each one.

Library - In Brief Online 

• Access to PILOTS Database Added
  New to the Library’s Indexes pages is the PILOTS database -- a free online index to literature on traumatic stress and its consequences.   Produced by the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, this database includes citations to literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental-health consequences of traumatic events. Although this free access is funded by the Department of Veterans Affairs, the database is not limited to literature about combat-related stress and will have benefits to researchers in other areas of counseling and psychology. For example, this database contains abstracts to 23 peer-reviewed articles on post-traumatic stress following a tornado disaster. The PILOTS database is freely available to all users on- or off-campus.
  
  
• Oxford Scholarship Online: E-books in Biology and Social Work
  The Library has recently acquired over 100 e-book titles in Biology and Social Work from the Oxford Scholarship Online (OSO) collection.  This collection is already linked on the Library’s Virtual Resources webpage, and individual e-book titles will be added to the Library catalog in the near future.  Here is a sampling of just a few of these new e-book titles:
  

  Biology:

  • Avian Flight
  • Environmental Change and Globalization - Double Exposures
  • Yellowstone's Destabilized Ecosystem - Elk Effects, Science, and Policy Conflict

  Social Work:

  • Empowering People with Severe Mental Illness - A Practical Guide
  • School Violence in Context - Culture, Neighborhood, Family, School, and Gender
  • Take Me Home - Protecting America's Vulnerable Children and Families

  
  Users may keyword search the full-text of these e-book collections or browse a list of titles by specific categories within Biology and Social Work.  Direct links to specific e-book titles are also available using the “Citation Export” tool within OSO.
  
  
• Library Databases Deliver More Bytes for the Buck
  With advances in technology and broadening access to the Internet, an increasing number of books, journals and newspapers have made the “digital leap” to online formats.  Some publications are freely available, but many more are available by subscription only.  
  
  Through a variety of online databases, the Library provides 24-7 access to more than 7,000 e-books and to articles from 30,000 journal titles. Although individual journal subscription rates continue to escalate beyond the rate of inflation, the Library’s database subscriptions provide access to far more information resources per dollar than ever before.
  
  Academic libraries negotiate with many vendors to provide database access based on FTE – the equivalent number of students enrolled full-time at an institution.  However, each vendor’s pricing based on FTE may be structured differently.  Some will lower their costs for community colleges or non-doctoral institutions, while others extend lower rates per FTE to the very largest institutions.  These varying models limit libraries’ ability to license and purchase electronic resources collectively.  Further, even within one university system, the missions, research needs and financial resources of individual campuses will differ.
  
  In spite of these limitations, the Library stretches its dollars by the following means:
  
  

  • The Library subscribes to a number of large database “aggregators,” such as EBSCO’s Academic Search Premier and Gale’s Academic OneFile.  Both of these aggregators provide access to nearly 5,000 full-text titles from a wide range of publishers and subject disciplines, and at a fraction of the cost of print subscriptions.
  • Many of the Library’s databases are also purchased through the Nebraska Library Commission (NLC).  Although these databases must still be purchased and licensed by individual libraries, the NLC is often able to negotiate better pricing rates on behalf of all Nebraska public and academic libraries.
  • The Library regularly analyzes its online subscriptions to ensure that access to online content is maximized, that title overlap is minimized, and that each database is receiving sufficient usage to justify its renewal.

  
  In the event a particular journal article or book is not available online or in print at UNK, please remember to request these items through ILLiad, our InterLibrary Loan service, free to students and employees.  The costs of processing a few article requests from one journal via ILLiad is often less expensive than a one-year subscription to that same title. 

Recognition

Calendar of Events within the Academic and Student Affairs Division

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