InfoHacks

We've got some seriously exciting stuff going on at the library in October! If you're interested in the issues that most effect faculty - attend our first ever Open Access Day. And here's a sneak peak into next week, register for our Savvy Researcher workshops covering "Your Research Rights: Ownership Awareness to Maximize the Impact" and "Practical Copyright: Considerations for Teaching and Research." Sign up early, seating is limited.http://www.library.uiuc.edu/calendar/public/

Interested in Open Access?

Join the University Library, SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition), the Public Library of Science (PLoS),and Students for FreeCulture for the first international Open Access Day on October 14th from 6:00-7:15 in Grainger Commons in the Grainger Engineering Library.

Learn more about Open Access, including recent mandates and emerging policies, within the international higher education community and the general public! Hear from researchers, students, librarians, and others on the positive impact of Open Access.

Read more at: http://openaccessday.org/

InfoHacks

Is your academic pile of information overwhelming? Are you looking for new ways to get organized? Learn from the best! Librarians will give you the low-down on how they organize their own research materials using several different strategies including the GTD method (Getting Things Done), citation management, current awareness tools, social bookmarking and quick tips.

Tuesday, October 7th 10-11am

How To Be A Better RA/TA

Geared towards Research and Teaching Assistants, this library workshop will introduce several time-saving tips. Topics include the basics of working for others (e.g., proxy authorizations and departmental charge accounts), current awareness services, PapersInvited, how to locate dissertations, and how to use RefWorks, a personal citation database. Can't attend? Check out our online support.

Thursday, October 9th 3-4pm

Drowning in Data? RefWorks can Help

Learn how to use RefWorks, a citation management software program subscribed to by the University of Illinois Library and CITES that is free to faculty, staff, and students of the University of Illinois. This workshop will cover the basics: how to access RefWorks, search catalogs, import references from library databases, retrieve and manage citations, create bibliographies according to various citation styles (e.g., MLA or APA), and use Write N Cite to add parenthetical references to your work. For more information about RefWorks see: http://www.library.uiuc.edu/refworks/

Friday, October 10th 1-2pm

We have new exhibits up for the month of November as well as new workshops on scholarly communication issues.

NEW LIBRARY EXHIBITS

Beta Phi Mu: Celebrating Academic Achievement in Library and Information Science

In 1948 a group of students and faculty at the University of Illinois Library School came together to form a library science honor society. Today Beta Phi Mu is a thriving international organization with chapters at many universities and over 28,000 initiates. This exhibit traces the history of Beta Phi Mu from its founding to the present day, on the occasion of its Diamond (60th) Anniversary.

Date: Oct 1, 2008 - Oct 31, 2008
Location: Main Library Hallway, 1408 West Gregory
Sponsor: University Archives
Contact: Sue Searing searing@illinois.edu

Comeback Guests 2008: Celebrating Their Student Days at Illinois

This exhibit highlights the student days of the Illini Comeback Guests, alumni honorees, chosen by the Alumni Association for their career accomplishments. Guests return to campus during Homecoming when they speak to students and are honored through a number of events. The exhibit "tells the story" of each guest's UI student experience through archival materials and the guest's interview questionnaire on his/her student life.

Date: Oct 1, 2008 - Oct 31, 2008
Location: Main Library Hallway, 1408 West Gregory
Sponsor: University Library
Contact: Ellen Swain eswain@illinois.edu

Between Heaven and Hell: W.S. Merwin Translates Dante

Pulitzer Prize winning poet, translator, and environmental activist W. S. Merwin is the focus of this exhibition in the University of Illinois Library's Rare Book & Manuscript Library. Mounted in conjunction with the Program in Medieval Studies conference, "Translating the Middle Ages" (click on the title link above), the exhibition explores Merwin's translations of works by the medieval Italian poet Dante Alighieri, particularly the "Purgatorio." Merwin's literary archive--one of the University's preeminent collections--supplies a wealth of books, manuscripts, and ephemera for an intimate look at the creative process of literary translation.

Date: Oct 6, 2008 - Nov 4, 2008
Location: Room 346 Main Library, 1408 West Gregory
Sponsor: The Rare Book and Manuscript Library
Contact: Valerie Hotchkiss vhotchki@illinois.edu

Open Access Day Webcast & Discussion

Learn more about Open Access, including recent mandates and emerging policies, within the international higher education community and the general public! Hear from researchers, students, librarians, and others on the positive impact of Open Access.

Read more about Open Access Day at: http://openaccessday.org

Date: Oct 14, 2008
Time: 6:00-7:15p.m.
Location: Grainger Commons, Grainer Engineering Library
Sponsor: Scholarly Communications Committee and SPARC (The Scholarly Publishing
Contact: Sarah Shreeves sshreeve@illinois.edu

Library Open House!

The three libraries located on the first floor of the Main Library Building are being featured in this Library Open House. Displays and interactive demonstrations include:

# From McKinley to BIF: The History of B-School at Illinois

# Health Information Portal and Health Easy Search

# The Collections of Irene Tinker (1936-2004) and the National Clearing House on Marital Rape Subject File (1952-1996)

Tours of the Business and Economics Library, the Education and Social Science Library, and the Applied Health Sciences Library will be offered.

Date: Oct 18, 2008
Time: 1:00-3:00 p.m.
Location: Marshall Gallery, First Floor Main Library, 1408 West Gregory
Sponsor: University Library
Contact: Vicki Sparks vsparks@illinois.edu

THE SAVVY RESEARCHER

Your Research Rights: Ownership Awareness to Maximize the Impact

You're ready to submit your paper for publication. Don't just give over copyright ownership to the publishers. Come to this session and learn how to modify publishers' copyright agreements to suit your future needs. Learn how to make your article free for the whole world to read by putting a copy of it in the university archive, IDEALS. Learn about open access journals - should you publish in one? Please register by clicking on your date preference.

Wednesday, October 15th 2-3pm

Tuesday, October 21st 9-10am

Thursday, October 23rd 2-3pm

Practical Copyright: Considerations for Teaching and Research

You're writing a thesis or preparing to teach your course, but you have a lot of concerns about being ethical and abiding by copyright law. Come to this session and learn the basics of copyright law and some guidelines for how you can stay within the law using the four principles of Fair Use. Please register by clicking on your date preference.

Wednesday, October 15th 3-4:30pm

Tuesday, October 21st 10-11:30am

Thursday, October 23rd 3-4:30pm

WHEW! October sure is a busy month for the University Library! We hope to see you here for some of our events...

Would you like to learn how to search for obscure statistics? Is your research leading you down a road where you need to clarify a point using statistics? Did you know that librarians can help you find statistics?! The University Library can help you find what you need!

Data Services Office Hours in the Library

Location: Government Documents Library (Main Library, 2nd Floor, Room 200D)
Time: Wednesdays 1:30-4:30pm
Fall semester 2008

Enhance and expand your research and teaching with data

Need help finding or downloading statistical and spatial data? Stop by the Data Services Office Hours in the University Library. Dawn Owens-Nicholson (Data Archivist, ATLAS) and librarians with a wide range of expertise will be available to help you locate relevant data sets in opinion polls, election studies, social surveys, census, education, and health data and prepare them for analysis in SPSS, SAS, STATA and ArcGIS.

Services offered include: acquiring data sets needed for teaching and research; locating, downloading and preparing data for secondary analysis; identifying and creating course materials and teaching tools (including customized data sets drawn from various data repositories) and consulting about software problems.

If you don't know where to start - why not try a drop-in workshop?

4 out of 5 Professors Agree: Citing Polls in Your Papers Will Earn You a Better Grade

Would you like to enhance your research papers with data from public opinion polls? Learn to use the fabulous Roper iPOLL database which contains nearly half a million public opinion survey questions dating from 1935 to 2008. We will focus on examples using election year topics. No knowledge of statistics or statistical programming is required. Jointly sponsored by the University Library and ATLAS. Please register by clicking on your date preference.

Tuesday, October 28th 10-11am

Rock the Data, Rock the Vote: Finding and Using National Election Survey Data

The American National Election Studies (ANES) are a series of national surveys of the American electorate taken in every election year since 1948. This workshop will show you how to create your own tables from the 1948-2004 ANES cumulative file using an online web-based tool. No knowledge of statistics or statistical programming is required. Jointly sponsored by the University Library and ATLAS. Please register by clicking on your date preference.

Thursday, October 30th 3-4pm

Health, Economic, Social & Political Data for Secondary Analysis

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the world's largest archive of digital social science data. Learn to search ICPSR's catalog of holdings, download data, and read it into a statistics program (SPSS) to make tables. Our examples will focus on topics suggested by the audience. Some prior experience with SPSS may be helpful, but is not necessary. Jointly sponsored by the University Library ATLAS. Please register by clicking on your date preference.

Monday, October 27th 3-4:30pm

Location: Foreign Languages Building, Room G8A

The University Library is holding its annual booksale this week - come check out what's for sale and support your library!

Date: Thursday October 30 and Friday 31, doors open at 9 a.m.
Location: Marshall Gallery, East Foyer of Main Library, 1408 West Gregory Drive
Description: Come join us for the University Library's Annual Book Sale. Materials will include books in a multitude of subject areas, audiovisual materials, prints, and much more. All proceeds will support the Library's collections.

THE SAVVY RESEARCHER

Health, Economic, Social & Political Data for Secondary Analysis

The Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research (ICPSR) is the world's largest archive of digital social science data. Learn to search ICPSR's catalog of holdings, download data, and read it into a statistics program (SPSS) to make tables. Our examples will focus on topics suggested by the audience. Some prior experience with SPSS may be helpful, but is not necessary. Jointly sponsored by the University Library ATLAS.

Monday, October 27th 3-4:30pm

Location: Foreign Languages Building, Room G8A

4 out of 5 Professors Agree: Citing Polls in Your Papers Will Earn You a Better Grade

Would you like to enhance your research papers with data from public opinion polls? Learn to use the fabulous Roper iPOLL database which contains nearly half a million public opinion survey questions dating from 1935 to 2008. We will focus on examples using election year topics. No knowledge of statistics or statistical programming is required. Jointly sponsored by the University Library and ATLAS.

Tuesday, October 28th 10-11am

Rock the Data, Rock the Vote: Finding and Using National Election Survey Data

The American National Election Studies (ANES) are a series of national surveys of the American electorate taken in every election year since 1948. This workshop will show you how to create your own tables from the 1948-2004 ANES cumulative file using an online web-based tool. No knowledge of statistics or statistical programming is required. Jointly sponsored by the University Library and ATLAS.

Thursday, October 30th 3-4pm

Are you excited about all the apps that are being designed to help you organize your life using tools like the iPhone? Well, the library community is also trying to encourage you to organize your academic life. Do you already use RefWorks to organize your citations? Well, here's a tool in RefWorks that you may not know about.

PSST! Don't use RefWorks but want to know more? Check out our training page and get started today! http://www.library.illinois.edu/refworks/

RefGrab-It allows you to pull bibliographic information from a webpage and add that to your RefWorks account. Why might you want to do this? Well, let's say you're doing research on the economy and want to bookmark an article you read in the Christian Science Monitor? (Which by the way, is now only available online.) Install the small utility program and use the RefGrab-It function just like you would if you were saving a favorite item in your bookmarks toolbar. Now you've saved all the metadata that is associated with that page.

What's metadata? Essentially it is information about information. Webpage developers add metadata to websites similar to how librarians add cataloging data about library books in the online catalog. It helps you find information.

You can even pull in citation information from PubMed, Google Scholar, Wikipedia, Amazon.

RefGrab-It developers have asked the Illinois community to participate in their beta test of the new version. If you're interested in participating, please contact Jeff Sramek (jeff.sramek@refworks-cos.com) as soon as possible and they will provide you with installation and use instructions.