WorldCat's New CiteMe Facebook App

The LSU Libraries Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/lsulibraries) now comes with a built-in citation generator.  Thanks to WorldCat, the world’s largest library catalog, researchers can now create customized citations with the click of a mouse, and right inside Facebook.   The CiteMe App offers citation help in five different styles:  APA, MLA, Chicago, Turabian, and Harvard.   For more information, check out the WorldCat blog post about the Facebook app:  http://www.worldcat.org/blogs/archives/2008/06/citeme-on-facebook.htm.

By logging into WorldCat via the LSU Libraries Indexes & Databases page, researchers can also create entire bibliographies quickly and easily.  Questions about these tools?  Simply contact one of LSU Libraries’ reference librarians by Reference Chat or Email!  http://www.lib.lsu.edu/ref/readyref.html

Happy Citing!

Trick or treat! LSU Libraries gives you something good to READ!

Need some sweet reads to get you through those dark and stormy nights?  LSU Libraries recommends the following books for particularly spine-tingling experiences.  Each book is available (until it’s checked out!) from Middleton Library, and the call number for each book is listed in parentheses beside the book.  Click the hyperlinked title to view the LSU Libraries catalog record for each book.

The graveyard book by Neil Gaiman (813 G141G)

Something wicked this way comes by Ray Bradbury (PS3503 .R164 S6)

The damnation game by Clive Barker (PR6052 .A6475 D36 1995)

Needful things by Stephen King (PS3561 .I483 N4 1991)

It by Stephen King (PS3561 .I483 I8 1986)

Interview with the vampire by Anne Rice (PS3568 .I265 I5)

The mummy, or, Ramses the damned by Anne Rice (PS3568 .I265 M86 1989)

Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates (PS3565 .A8 Z43 1995)

The portable Edgar Allan Poe by Edgar Allan Poe (PS2602 .K46 2006)

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (PR5397 .F7 1983)

Dracula by Bram Stoker (PR6037 .T617 D7 2001)

Ghost stories of Louisiana by Dan Asfar (GR110 .L5 A84 2007)

The sugar witch by Nathan Sanders (PS3619 .A5273 S86 2008)

The heretic’s daughter:  a novel by Kathleen Kent (PS3611 .E674 H47 2008)

Bonechiller by Graham McNamee (813 M1682B)

The terror: a novel by Dan Simmons (PS3569 .I47292 T47 2007)

The year of past things:  a New Orleans ghost story by M. A. Harper (PS3558 .A6247937 Y43 2004)

Hannibal by Thomas Harris (PS3558 .A6558 H36 1999)

The sound of building coffins by Louis Maistros (PS3613 .A3545 S68 2009)

Relic by Douglas J. Preston (813 P9376R)

Strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and other stories by Robert Louis Stevenson (PR5485 .A1 1963)

Tales by H. P. Lovecraft (PS3523 .O833 A6 2005)

Special thanks to Alice Daugherty for compiling this list of terrifying tomes. Watch for more recommendations from LSU Libraries in the future!

You can now stay up to date with LSU Libraries events and resources in ways  that Troy H. Middleton never dreamed possible!    Besides staying connected to the Libraries through the LSU Libraries blog, you can also keep up with the most current library information through the Facebook and Twitter.  LSU Libraries has gained over 200 fans on Facebook during the past year, and is quickly gaining followers on Twitter, the real-time short messaging service.   Building hours, event information, and general library help are offered on both Facebook and Twitter; check out LSU Libraries on Facebook and Twitter today!

LSU Libraries Facebook page

LSU Libraries Twitter account

Contact Rebecca Miller, the LSU Libraries Digital Technologies Librarian, with questions about or suggestions for these accounts.

The LSU Libraries Business Librarian will have office hours in Patrick Taylor Hall this semester beginning August 25. Stop in to see Jo Ann Henson in the Smart Lab Conference room (2301 Patrick F. Taylor Hall) from 9-10:30 am on Tuesdays and Wednesdays. If you prefer to see Jo Ann in Middleton Library, just send her an email for an appointment. More information about Library Business Resources and Services is available on the Subject Guide, http://www.lib.lsu.edu/bus/index.html

The Scholarly Communication Road Show is coming to LSU!

When: Wednesday, June 17, 2009, from 1:00 – 5:00
Where: LSU Faculty Club
How Much: Workshop is FREE; Lunch is $15 for ACRL-LA Chapter Members, $35 for non-members (includes membership fee)

The ACRL (Association of College and Research Libraries) Scholarly Communication Road Show is a structured interactive overview of the scholarly communication system supports individual or institutional strategic planning and action. The workshop focuses on new methods of scholarly publishing and communication, open access and openness as a principle, copyright and intellectual property and economics, providing a foundational understanding for attendees.

Please see the flyer for more information and registration details:
http://www.lib.lsu.edu/ref/ROADSHOW_LSU.pdf

We now offer a new feature in our online catalog that will allow you to retrieve permanent links to catalog records.

So, what does this mean to you?  Here are a couple things you can do.

Share a Record by Linking to It

• Simply, use the catalog search to find the item you want.
• Click on the link “Permanent link to this record” on the left hand side in the box with the “Keep” button.
• Highlight the website address from your browser’s address bar.
• Copy by right-clicking and selecting “Copy” or hit ctrl-c on your keyboard.
• Then paste the website address anywhere you would like (email, your personal website, a class syllabus, a homework assignment, letter to a friend, etc.)
• To paste either right-click and select “Paste” or hit ctrl-v on your keyboard.

Using Social Tools to Share a Record
(i.e. Delicious Bookmarks, Facebook, Twitter, etc.)

Help Pages for using popular social tools to share websites:

• Facebook (Link Sharing Instructions)
• Delicious (Bookmark Button Instructions)
• Twitter via bit.ly (bit.ly Instructions)

Check out resources on the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on Middleton Library’s Government Documents webpage.  For more government resources checkout the subject guides or visit Government Documents in Middleton Library room 53.  Their hours are:

• Monday-Thursday: 7:15 am – 10:00 pm
• Friday: 7:15 am – 8:00 pm
• Saturday: 10:00 am – 5:00 pm
• Sunday: Noon – 10:00 pm

March 2009 signifies the 23rd annual Women’s History Month. According to the National Women’s History Month Project website (http://www.nwhp.org/whm/history.php), women’s history has been celebrated since the 1970s, when the first “Women’s History Week” was celebrated in Sonoma County, CA. In 1987, the National Women’s History Month Project petitioned Congress to expand the celebration to the entire month of March; the resolution was approved in both the Senate and the House, and March is now nationally celebrated as Women’s History Month.
LSU Libraries has many unique resources for the study of women and women’s history:

18 Indexes & Databases offering resources on women and women’s history, including:

• North American Women’s Letters & Diaries
• North American Women’s Drama
• Women and Social Movements, 1600-2000

Other online resources at the LSU Libraries include:

• The Women’s and Gender Studies Subject Guide
• Louisiana Leaders: Notable Women in History

Be sure to visit Room 53 in Middleton Library, where a Women’s History Month display brightens the basement of the library. Additionally, Women’s History Month activities are taking place all over campus. Check out the Women’s History Month calendar of activities sponsored by the LSU Women’s Center.

The LSU Libraries has recently started subscriptions for the following databases:

Oxford Scholarship Online
Oxford Scholarship Online is a vast and rapidly expanding cross-searchable library, which now offers quick and easy access to the full text of 2,257 Oxford books.

Ulrich’s Periodical Directory
Ulrichsweb.com is the authoritative source of bibliographic and publisher information on more than 300,000 periodicals of all types — academic and scholarly journals, Open Access publications, peer-reviewed titles, popular magazines, newspapers, newsletters, and more from around the world. And, it’s easy to use!

The Food Institute
Contains access to…

• The weekly Food Institute Report
• The industry’s most comprehensive website
• Seminars and webinars on the hottest topics and the latest trends
• A wide variety of highly respected reports and studies
• The most respected Daily Update emails in the industry to over 110,000 key decision makers
• A staff of industry analysts to answer member inquiries and fulfill information requests

Modernist Journal Online
The MJP is a multi-faceted project, which is intended to become a major resource for the study of the rise of modernism in the English-speaking world, with periodical literature at the center of this study. Read More…

E-Resources Management Handbook
The ERMH is an open access publication on e-resource management (ISBN: 0-9552448-0-3; 13-digit version: 978-0-9552448-0-3). It forms a valuable and comprehensive guide for the entire information industry, and will continue to grow as new chapters are commissioned to address hot topics as they arise.

Biographical Memoirs
Published since 1877, Biographical Memoirs are brief biographies of deceased National Academy of Sciences members, written by those who knew them or their work. Read More…

Become a Facebook fan of LSU Libraries and get information about library hours, events, quick links to research resources, contact information for reference librarians, and more.

http://www.new.facebook.com/home.php#/pages/Baton-Rouge-LA/LSU-Libraries/22954284331?ref=mf