Welcome back to the Loyola campus for the 2008-09 school year. I hope all students and faculty had a safe, relaxing, and productive summer. While the libraries staff did find time for some vacation and conference attendance, we have also been busy preparing for the new academic year.

You will notice a number of changes in the campus including new green spaces, new sidewalks, and a new shuttle bus stop, among other improvements. The former Jesuit residence is gone and that area is surrounded by a fence while the final landscaping for the Information Commons is being undertaken this fall. When the work is done, the entrance to the IC will be more beautiful and dramatic, and a beautiful green space between it and Cudahy Science will provide a great setting for relaxation and contemplation.

Because of the landscaping work, the entrance to the IC will be closed all fall semester and the Cudahy entrance will have to be utilized for access to both facilities. Beginning in January 2009, the Cudahy entrance will be closed permanently and you will enter both the Information Commons and Cudahy Memorial Library via the IC entrance. This will provide better security and underscore our philosophy that we are really one library facility. During all the landscaping work, we thank you for your patience and understanding.

There are a number of new services, resources, and facility enhancements in the libraries and you can read about them in our “What’s New” flyer. Pick one up in any library. Please call on me or any of my staff for more information.

We are excited about the new academic year and I offer all of you my best wishes for the fall semester.

Bob Seal, Dean of Libraries

CRL’s FOCUS on Global Resources newsletter for Summer 2008 is now available online.  This issue highlights CRL’s collection of nearly 800,000 dissertations.  Features include:
  
Doctoral theses produced by Nobel laureates
Doctoral theses by other notables
Links to more than 900 doctoral dissertations in digital format
Observations on the importance and uniqueness of the collection
Changing models of access to graduate documents.

To view this and past issues of FOCUS, visit:  http://www.crl.edu/focus/toc.asp  or you can download FOCUS in PDF format, at: http://www.crl.edu/PDF/pdfFocus/Summer08.pdf.

The Loyola University Libraries maintain a membership in CRL.  If you have any questions about CRL resources or services, please contact your subject librarian.

We have three new Elsevier titles added to the Databases by Title list that include:

• The Encyclopedia of Psychotherapy 
• Encyclopedia of Biological Chemistry                                                                            
• Encyclopedia of Social Measurement

And three new titles from Gale in the Social Sciences:       

• Encyclopedia of Race and Racism                                                                                
• Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice                                                                   
• Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender

SAGE is currently in the process of updating and loading back-file issues to the journals hosted on SAGE Journals Online. Please note that some of the back-file journal issues may be temporarily unavailable during this enhancement process. Please accept our apologies for any inconvenience.

If you use Academic Search Premier, Business Source Premier, or one of the many other library databases that uses the EBSCO search interface, you’re in for a big surprise! EBSCO recently changed the look and feel of their search interface.

Take a look at the new EBSCO.

Having difficulties accessing ARTstor?  We recently learned that the new Beta version of ARTstor is not compatible with Internet Explorer 6. However, the new version of ARTstor does work with Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer 7.  Please keep this information in mind when using this resource.

After nearly a year of negotiation with the National Parks Service, the Women & Leadership Archives obtained nearly forty photographs of Piper Hall when owned by the Johnson family in the 1920s. These rarely seen images show for the first time what the interior of the house looked like before any major changes were made to the home in the 1940s.

The photos make up one part of a new display, located on the third floor of Cudahy Library (near the elevators), documenting the history of the house from its construction in 1909 to its stunning renovation in 2005. Check it out!

The University Libraries are pleased to highlight the work of the International Children’s Digital Library Foundation, whose mission “is to support the world’s children in becoming effective members of the global community - who exhibit tolerance and respect for diverse cultures, languages and ideas — by making the best in children’s literature available online free of charge.”

The International Children’s Digital Library recently implemented new ClearText technology that enhances the readability and translation of the books available in the online library (http://www.childrenslibrary.org/), providing better access to “a collection of books that represents outstanding historical and contemporary books from throughout the world.  Ultimately, the Foundation aspires to have every culture and language represented so that every child can know and appreciate the riches of children’s literature from the world community.”

The 2009 edition of The Grants Register:  The Complete Guide to Postgraduate Funding Worldwide is now available the in the Cudahy Library reference collection (call number:  Ref LB 2338 .G7 2009).  The Register provides information on 4207 awards funded by 1193 awarding bodies.

Table of Contents

Preface
How to Use The Grants Register
The Grants Register
Subject and Eligibility Guide to Awards
Index of Awards
Index of Discounted Awards
Index of Awarding Organizations

Due to state budget reductions, statewide subscriptions supported by the Secretary of State’s Office for the following electronic resources must be cancelled, effective immediately:

Periodical Abstracts & Wilson Select Plus

We apologize for the inconvenience, and thank you for your patience in the coming weeks as we try to resolve this issue.