Updated 3/20/08
|
| Whether you have been committed to saving the environment since the first Earth Day in 1970, or you've just picked up Al Gore's disturbing wake-up call on DVD, there are a host of e-resources suited to your interest level and academic background. Here are our favorites... more. |
| |
|
David Gerhan, Professor and Head of Public Services and of Reference, Schaffer Library, has just published an article in the journal College and Undergraduate Libraries 2007, vol. 14, no. 2, entitled "Wanted: One Principal Search Engine for Digital Images"
The paper examines current approaches for retrieving digital images (specifically pictures on the Internet) in support of humanities, historical, or cultural research. Because there has been such a proliferation of online images, effective, systematic retrieval of them will remain haphazard in the absence of some form of centralized and consolidated searching. Emerging search engines come either from the commercial sector or from major academic institutions complying with the Open Access Initiative. Seven recently developed search engines are comparatively examined as contenders for "principle search engine for digital images".
.
Gerhan is also a specialist peer reviewer of Fulbright applications in library and information science, as well as a referee for the journal Information Technology and Development.
|
| |
|
| Elizabeth Hoppe will join the Library staff as Shared Resources Librarian. Recently at Penrose Library, Whitman College in Washington, she served as Reference & Information Literacy Librarian and Access Services Coordinator.
|
| |
|
| Kristin Pitt, Acquisitions/Periodical Librarian, is substituting for Lorie Wies while she is on sabbatical until the end of December. Ms. Pitt is a recent graduate of the College of Computing and Information Science from the University at Albany, with a Master of Science in Information Systems degree .
|
| |
|
| Krista Eason is the new Periodicals Assistant at Schaffer Library.
|
|
