Info Navigator
| Volume 1, Issue 1 | A Publication of Johnston Memorial Library | Spring 1998 |
| Inside This Issue | |||
| Message From the Dean | Virtual Library is Here at VSU | New Debit card | We
would like to Know Are there any services you’d like to see in your library? The next time you visit the library, simply fill out the Suggestions form, and place your idea or recommendation in the suggestion box located at the Circulation Desk. All Forms will soon be on the VSU Library Home Page. |
| Special Collections News | Book Reviews | Taking in the Sites | |
Message From the Dean
This semester has been an exceptionally busy time for the University community including our library staff. Like all other departments, we spent a great deal of time preparing for the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) site visit. The re-accreditation process has been a learning experience. It has helped us to identify strengths and areas for development. Moreover, it has helped us to see the need for even greater communication and collaboration among University constituents. To keep you aware of what’s happening in the library, we are publishing a newsletter. This is the inaugural issue of Info Navigator, the official source of information from Johnston Memorial Library. Our newsletter will be published quarterly in hardcopy and will be accessible from the library’s homepage.
The newsletter will cover a wide range of items including book and database reviews, exciting web sites, news and other information that may be useful to our readers. During this semester more information relating to the purchase of library materials and the development of electronic forms will be published on our homepage.
The Library has some rich materials in its collection. There’s also a wealth of electronic resources. In today’s high tech world the library is rapidly becoming a virtual library where you can search and retrieve information regardless of the location of information resources. We will certainly maintain a balance between the purchase of hardcopy materials and access to online databases. Visit your library regularly in person or through our homepage. We welcome your comments and suggestions.
Back to top of this pageVIVA: Your Electronic Access to Information
The Virtual Library of Virginia (VIVA) is the consortium of the libraries of the 39 state assisted colleges and universities (at 52 campuses) within the Commonwealth of Virginia. This includes 6 doctoral universities, 9 comprehensive institutions, and 24 community and two-year branch colleges. In addition, 28 private institutions participate where possible.
VIVA’s mission is to provide, in an equitable, cooperative and cost-effective manner, enhanced access to library and information resources for the Commonwealth of Virginia’s academic libraries serving the higher education community.
Some of the electronic resources available to students and faculty include:
- African American Poetry
- American Poetry
- Books in Print
- Britannica Online
- Cambridge Scientific Abstracts
- Congressional Compass
- Digital Image Center of UVA
- Dow Jones News
- FirstSearch
- GaleNet
- IDEAL Full Text Journals
- MathSciNet Resources
- Oxford English Dictionary
- PCI Periodicals Contents Index
- Periodical Contents Index
- Project Muse
- SearchBank
- STAT-USA
NEW DEBIT CARD SYSTEM
IT’S HERE!
The long awaited debit card system for copying has finally arrived. The Library now has a debit card system that presently accepts cash and will accept credit cards in the near future. The system is located on the 1st floor in the copy area. The cashier box is very user friendly and directs patrons in getting a new card and adding value to the card. For your convenience we have also posted the instructions near the cashier box. Please remember a few facts about the machine: it does not give change or accept coins. The card must always be inserted with the stripe side down. Cash in denominations of $1, $5, $10, or $20 can be inserted into the machine in the exact position displayed on the cashier box. With your first transaction you will be issued a debit card from the cashier box at a price of $0.50. The debit card can be used repeatedly by inserting and adding more cash. Since the debit card is a cash card, be careful not to lose it. Make sure you sign your debit card. The debit card can be used on the copy machines and the microform reader printers located on the 2nd floor. The present copiers are on loan to the library. When our permanent copiers arrive, one machine will accept both debit card and coins.If you experience any problems, go to the Circulation desk for assistance.
Back to top of this pageNews from the Serials Department
JML subscribes to over 1200 periodicals, newspapers and journals. The following periodicals are recent acquisitions to the Serials department.
- Administration in Social Work
- The American Review of Public Administration
- Automotive Manufacturing & Production
- Automotive Production
- Banking Strategies
- Black Renaissance Noire
- Communication Research Reports
- Corporate Controller
- Educational Perspectives
- The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education
- Homecoming
- Getting Results
- International Review of Administrative Sciences
- Journal of Gerontological Social Work
- Journal of Literacy Research
- Journal of World Business
- Library Hotline
- Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews
- Office Pro
- Oil Heating
- Professional Ethics
- Rural Cooperatives
- Sales and Marketing Quarterly
- Social Work Abstracts
- Social Work Research
- Southern Business and Economic Journal
- Southern Perspectives
- Systems Research and Behavioral Sciences
- U.S. Black Engineer and Information Technology
- U.S. Banker
Special Collections News
A deed of gift was recently signed with the Honorable Jean Cunningham to make the Virginia State University Archives the repository of her official and personal papers. The Honorable Jean Cunningham is a distinguished alumna of Virginia State University. A native of Hampton, Virginia, she received her B.A. in English. In 1968 she began employment as a technical writer for IBM. This same year she would wed the late John Cunningham, also a graduate of Virginia State University. This union would bring forth three children.
After a number of years of study in 1974, she received her law degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C. From that time until the present Jean Cunningham has worked as an attorney for Reynolds’s Metal Company. In 1986 she was elected to the Virginia General Assembly as a member of the House of Delegates. Most widely known for her involvement with the gun control bills, other issues, including health care and domestic violence received her attention.
A dedicated member of her community Delegate Cunningham is a member of various community and civic organizations. These include The Coalition of 100 black women, Virginia Police foundations, Virginia State Alumni Association, and Delta Sigma Theta Sorority, Incorporated. Various groups and organizations have recognized her for her dedication and concern for the community.
This year Virginia will lose after twelve years of service the Honorable Jean Cunningham. To her Alma Mater she leaves her papers (24 cubic feet). The first transfer of her papers includes legislative office files. In these files one can find correspondence, bills, campaign materials, and other legislative acts that took place while she was on the Hill. This material will be added to over seventy manuscript groups currently housed in the Virginia State University Archives.
Special Collections (Archives) is a repository for rare books, historical proceedings, memoirs, artifacts, special collections, and other memorabilia pertaining to Virginia State University history, Virginia History, and African-American history.
Back to top of this pageRALC (The Richmond Academic Library Consortium) Johnston Memorial Library participates in several cooperative-lending groups. The local academic library group is the Richmond Area Library Cooperative (RALC). This group of academic, private, and public libraries promotes the free sharing of library resources among its members. Library resources include books, videos, films and other audiovisual materials.
How Do You Use RALC? USE YOUR LIBRARY FIRST! JML determines who is eligible for reciprocal borrowing privileges and issues a borrower’s pass. The lending library determines whether borrowing privileges will be extended or denied. Lending policies vary from library to library. To request specific information, contact the lending library for availability first, and identify yourself as a consortium borrower.
RALC Institutions:
| Virginia State University | Richard Bland College | Randolph Macon College | Union Theological Seminary |
| University of Richmond | Virginia Commonwealth University | Virginia Union University | The Library of Virginia |
Books in
Review: Honey, Hush!: An Anthology of African American Women’s Humor
Honey, Hush! Is an exclamation used among black women, especially from the South, as a friendly encouragement, a mild suggestion of playful disbelief, or a suggestion that one is telling truths that are prohibited.
This anthology will make readers say "Honey, Hush!" many times. Often hard-hitting, sometimes risqué, always dramatic and eloquent, the vibrant humor of African American women is celebrated in this bold, unique and comprehensive collection. Arising from the depth of black women’s souls and the breadth of their lives, it reflects what the American experience has meant to them.
Here is the wit and laughter of a wonderful assemblage of contributors – from slave narrators to
Contemporary political commentators, from antebellum poets to Audre Lorde, for the earliest novelists to Alice Walker, from Moms Mabley to Whoopi Goldberg, from the blues singers to rappers. Their humor is represented here in every form, including autobiographies, novel excerpts, essays, poems, speeches, comic routines, proverbial sayings, cartoons, mimeographed sheets, and folk tales.
| New & Recommended |
| Miss Ophelia by Mary Burnett Smith Paradise by Toni Morrison The Slave Trade by Hugh Thomas Corpses, Coffins and Crypts by Penny Colman The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick |
IML Media Center has moved
The Instructional Materials Lab (IML) Media Center is now located on the main floor of Johnston Memorial Library. Here you will find a collection of non-print materials such as videos, filmstrips, slides cassettes, audiotapes, and laser disks which faculty and students can use for presentations. In addition, videocassette players, audiocassette players, filmstrip and 35mm slide viewers are available for in-house use.
IML Services Special Needs
The IML is also the location for the wheelchair accessible multi-media workstation, which allows the physically disabled easy access to the JML’s electronic resources. The on-line catalog can be accessed in a large screen print format or by voice activation and a wide range of materials are available on tape for use by blind and dyslexic students.
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Government Documents News
JML’s federal document collection can now be accessed through a database called DECKLIST. Documents can be searched by call number, title and subject. This database is located next to the reference desk. Most government documents can be checked out for three weeks.
New Government Documents
- Career Guide to Industries
- Food Consumption, Prices, and Expenditures
- Two Views on Imprisonment Policies
- Improvement of Hazardous Highway Sites in Virginia
- Virginia Population Estimates, 1997
Taking in the Sites
Virginia Tax Forms Online: http://www.state.va.us/tax/taxforms.htm
You can download Virginia Tax forms and instructions from 1995-1997
Internet Grateful Med: http://igm.nlm.nih.gov
Internet Grateful Med is a product of the U.S. National Library of Medicine. The program offers assisted searching in MEDLINE and other MEDLARS databases created by the National Library of Medicine.
LawCrawler: http://www.lawcrawler.com/index.htm
Provides an assortment of legal information including, international law, the Supreme Court, State government, Law Reviews and Cases.
Weather.com: http://www.weather.com
The official web page for the Weather Channel. Includes national and international forecasts, maps, travel conditions, as well as health and allergies forecasts.
Librarians’ Site du Jour: http://sashimi.wwa.com/~jayjawk/sitejour.htm
Not just for librarians anymore. Site du jour collects sites on a different topic each day. There is also a "Blue Light Special."
Back to top of this pageJML Staff update
Myra S. Williams has joined the staff as Supervisor of Circulation on February 10. She holds a B.S. degree from Old Dominion University and comes to us from the James Cabell Branch Library at Virginia Commonwealth University, where she was Head of Customer Relations for the Circulation Department. Prior to that, she held library positions at Old Dominion University.
Sheila A. Carrington has joined the staff as Supervisor of the Library Media Center. She holds a B.A. degree in Sociology from Virginia State University and a M.A. degree in Film and Video from American University. She comes to us from the Virginia Department of Transportation, where she was the Audio-Visual Librarian.
Lucious Edward, Jr., Archivist and Gloria G. Harvell, Acquisitions, attended a workshop on Library Binding for Preservation at The Library of Virginia in Richmond. The Southeastern Library Network, SOLINET, sponsored the workshop.
Dean Elsie S. Weatherington, Susan Lobaugh, Reference, and Gloria G. Harvell, Acquisitions, participated in the Digital Library Environment: Managing Collection Development Seminar at the University of Richmond.
Library Telephone Directory |
| Dean of Library Services 524-5040 |
| Acquisitions Department 524-5740 |
| Catalog Department 524-5745 |
| Circulation Department 524-5043 |
| Government Documents 524-6945 |
| Instructional Materials Laboratory 524-5536 |
| Reference Department 524-5582 |
| Serials Department 524-5042 |
| Special Collections 524-5749 |
| Interlibrary Loan 524-6944 |