| SAVE THESE DATES |
 1-hour RefWorks workshops: September
16, 17, 24 & 26. Create an account and practice downloading citations to build your
bibliography...More...
 2008 Nieman Lecture by Dorothy Day editor,
Robert Ellsberg, October 2, 4 p.m. "Dorothy Day: A Radical, a Journalist, a Saint
for Our Time." More...
2008 Ciszek Lecture: October 2, 7:30 p.m. Rev. Michael Maher, S.J., "A Jesuit
Education: Some Reflections from the Writings of St. Ignatius." More...
 Annual Tolkien Lecture: October 23 at 4 p.m. Middlebury College
professor Matthew Dickerson, "Beyond Romanticism: J.R.R. Tolkien's Practical Agrarian
Romance." More...
Libraries' Fall Colloquium: October 28, 2 p.m., Dr. Anees Sheikh, Professor of
Psychology, " Healing Images: Connecting with Inner Wisdom." More...
|
| EXHIBITS |
 Raynor 3rd
floor hallway, through January 30. Alfred Hamy's Jesuit Portrait Gallery features
reproductions of 20 plates from the new digital
collection. Ignatius of Loyola, Luigi Gonzaga, Francis Xavier, and Petrus Canisius are among
the featured Jesuits. More...
|
| COLLECTION NEWS |
New electronic subscriptions and digital texts are
reviewed regularly at the request of faculty and subject librarians. The latest list of
additions and enhancements since January 2008 includes subjects as varied as philosophy,
Congress, dentistry, and classics. Two additions include significant historical newspapers of
17th and 18th century England and America's Historical Newspapers,
which allows users to search hundreds of 18th and 19th century newspapers from across the
country, published between 1690 and 1922. More...
MARQCAT Enhancements: A catalog software upgrade has resulted in some new features
and visible changes, including relevancy ranking in keyword searches, browse displays and More...
|
| NEW FOUNDATION DIRECTORY |
Raynor Memorial Libraries' Funding Information Center has published its 2008
Foundations in Wisconsin: A Directory. This new edition, available in print and
electronic formats, provides details on an all-time high 1,275 foundations, responsible for
almost $479 million in grants. All members of the Marquette community are given free access to the
online database. More...
|
| DITTMAN AWARD WINNERS |
The winners of the 2008 Maria Dittman Library Research Paper Competition were featured in a
new READ poster. Look for it on display and at events in Raynor Library. More...
|
|
| STAFF NEWS |
 Ann Hanlon has been appointed
Digital Projects Librarian. Ann will manage the institutional repository and develop standards and
practices for digitization projects and programs. She has her MA (History) from the University of
Maryland and her MSLIS from the University of Illinois. More...
 Archivist Mark Thiel has been recognized
by the Society of American Achivists' Religious Archives Section for his Guide to
Catholic-Related Records About Native Americans. More...
More staff news: ILL student assistant Danielle Zsenak on Jeopardy!; Stir
the Pot cookbook published to benefit Casa Maria, and a new class of library interns. More...
|
| SPECIAL COLLECTIONS & ARCHIVES |
 Spotlight on: Processus Contra Templarios.
Raynor Memorial Libraries have acquired the Processus Contra Templarios, a milestone
portfolio publication containing facsimile manuscripts of the previously unavailable hearing of
the 1308 trial against the Templar Knights. More...
 Two new digital collections:
Service at Marquette: 150 images representing 15 student service projects from
the late 1960s to the present. More...
Ralph Metcalfe: the Olympic Years 1932-36, documenting the alumnus' (1936)
successful track and field career in which he equaled or bettered 13 world records. More...
|
| ATTENTION FACULTY |
Sept. 26: Faculty are invited to register for the 5th Annual Research Institute for
Faculty, co-sponsored by the Libraries and Research and Sponsored Programs (ORSP). The half-day
institute promotes faculty research career development, this year with five nationally recognized
speakers on scholarly communication. For more information, contact ORSP @ 8-7225.
New Write-N-Cite for RefWorks: RefWorks recently launched Write-n-Cite III for Windows,
an optional, downloadable plug-in for document formatting. More...
Run: A resource guide has been posted for the first-year reading book,
Run, including more about the author, plus books and articles about themes in the novel
to promote classroom discussion. More...
 Class Reserves: Three introductory videos have been produced to
help students log in and view online materials using Ares. More...
|
| NUMBER CRUNCHING |
Last year’s (July07-June08) statistics are
in--look at these amazing numbers:
MARQCAT searches: 2,571,689
Library Web site pages viewed: 3,425,579 Full text retrievals from e-resources:
1,766,879, including the most used databases Chronicle of Higher Education, Foundations in
Wisconsin, JSTOR, Medline, ProQuest, Turnitin, and MU Digital Collections.
More...
Top 5 Borrowed Books (last year) from the Browsing Collection: A Thousand Splendid Suns; The 6th Target; Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, a Year of
Food Life; Then We Came to
the End; On Chesil
Beach.
|
| CREDITS |
Managing Editor
Susan Hopwood
Co-Editors William Gagliani & Leslie Quade
Outreach Intern Stephanie Lewin
Webmaster Keven Riggle
|
|
