Author: galvin

Brown-Daniel Library
Tennessee State University

August 2015

Volume 1, Issue 1

Bibliophile
“A lover of books; a book-fancier”

Key Notes From Dean Kenerson

Inside this issue:

New Resources	2
TSU Book Club	2
Research Guides	2
What’s the Buzz?	3
Mobile Access	4
Staff on the Move	5
Avon Williams	6

Welcome to the first online issue of the TSU Library Newsletter (Bibliophile), which publicizes recent activities and initiatives such as our exhibit on the 125th Anniversary of the Second Morrill Act (1890), which led to the founding of TSU in 1912. The Library and College of Agricultural, Human, and Natural Sciences (CAHNS) joined 18 other 1890 universities in the national celebration on July 13-17 in Washington, D.C. Six 1890 presidents testified before the House Agriculture Committee, and exhibits/events were also held at the Library of Congress and Hyatt Regency Washington/Capitol

The University and Library hosted Dr. Damion Thomas, Smithsonian Institute National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) sports curator on June 2. TSU’s proposed sports exhibit in the museum (opening 2016) highlights our Olympic legacy in track and field; NAIA basketball championships (1957, 1958 and 1959); and football tradition.
The Avon Williams Campus Library has hosted exhibits and receptions for talented/prominent local authors/artists and authors in recent months, attended by members of the community at-large and the TSU Family. The Library has also collaborated with Information Technology(IT) Dept. in planning and creating a new Library website design, which is slatedd to go live later this year. This re-design intends to make or website more user-friendly from mobile devices/platform and locations to better serve the University community and beyond.

Special points of interest:
Streaming Videos
Media Centers

LEARNING COMMONS
OPPORTUNITIES FOR GROUP CREATIVITY

Learning Commons is located on the second floor of the library. It is has a glass enclosed space behind the Reference Desk and bank of student computers. The Learning Commons features Apple iMacs and Lenovo computers for graphics and media design .It provides workstations that facilitate collaboration on class projects. Other features included a HP Designjet 5010 Printer and a scanner. The Learning Commons is available during the hours the library is open for service.

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Bibliophile
“A lover of books; a book-fancier”

Volume 1, Issue 1

New E-Resources and Services

Create a List of Library
Periodicals and Read Them
From Your Tablet!

The library has added Business Source Complete, which replaces ABI-INFORM Complete and includes the Harvard Business Review (HBR). It offers faculty the ability to download 500 of its most popular articles and contains videos from the Harvard Management Library. It also includes SWOT Analyses, working papers, country reports, grey literature, market research, trade journals, and industry profiles .
A new TBR consortium agreement with EBSCO greatly enhances our access to current

ebooks collections in the areas Business, History, Clinical, Religion, and Engineering.. We were allowed to add 130,732 ebooks to our collection. We have renewed online versions of the Encyclopedia of Social Work and DSM-V.
The library has also renewed its license for Contentdm, which will allow it to resume digitizing projects such as the Avon Williams Papers and other important collections and and documents that have been donated and stored at the library for a number of years. The initiative has required the

upgrading of computers and scanners, as well as additional training of library staff. We hope to catch up with Atlanta University and Tuskegee University, which have rich collections that have been digitized and accessed internationally.
We also added Policy Map and Social Explorer, two GIS databases that provide demographic, mapping and data for market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications, and impact analysis.
BrowZine allows the selection of a personal library of favorite journals that can be accessed from IPads, Androids, etc.,

Always read something that makes you look good if you die in the middle of it.
P.J. O’Rourke

TSU Book Club

The TSU Book Club is open to everyone in the university’s community and has an eclectic selection of books to appeal to readers across the university community.
Books range from classics like Robinson Crusoe and To Kill a Mocking Bird to current NY Times bestsellers like The Wright Brothers, And the Mountains Echoed, A Spool of Blue Thread and Life in Motion. The club meets monthly basis during lunch. Books do not have to be purchased. The Interlibrary Loan Dept will be happy to place an order for anyone who’s interested in reading the book .
The current book selection is usually posted on the library’s website and announced via University Communications. For more information, please contact, Lynetta Alexander at lalexder@tnstate.edu or Barbara Van Hooser at bvanhooser@tnstate.edu.

Research Guides Link to One Stop Shopping
For Brown-Daniel Resources

The Library Liaisons for each department have been asked to develop Research Guides for their academic departments. These guides pull together all of the resources that the library has on a specific topics, regardless of format, into one webpage. Additional information on the subject are available via front tabs attached to the main page. The guides cover general areas for majors, as well as specific topics.
In addition to History, Geography and Political Science, there are guides on African American History,

The Anti-slavery Movement and Medieval History. Other topics include Agriculture, Engineering, Chemistry, Business Administration, Music, Visual Arts, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, E-Books, and Criminal Justice http://tnstate.campusguides.com/

Bibliophile
“A lover of books; a book-fancier”

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What the Buzz?

The Brown-Daniel Library recently completed an inventory of its entire Main Library Collection. Inventory is underway at the Avon Williams Campus Library.
The Book Browsing Collection on the library’s first floor has new bestsellers and books of popular interest. Currently featured are: Life in Motion, Michael Jordan, Spoon of Blue T

Blue Thread, In Defense of Liberal Education, A God in Ruins and Beale Street Dynasty, The Girl on The Train, and All the Light We Cannot See.
Brown-Daniel Library has a Browsing Collection for popular and professional periodicals on the second floor . This area also has space for leisure reading of newspapers.
The New Books and Media webpage lists all of the new titles that have been added to the library and is updated on a monthly basis:
http://sultan.tnstate.edu/ftlist
Have you searched the Brown-Daniel Library’s online catalog and not found a title you needed? Please use the Suggest a Purchase link on our website:
http://www.tnstate.edu/library/bookrequest/

Document Delivery Services,
Mobile Access and Digital Scholarship

Due to a decrease in funding, the library has had to reduce the number of databases that it can provide,.
The library is providing enhanced access to articles that support popular databases, such as ScienceDirect. Faculty and graduate students can order articles directly from Elsevier via the “Order Document” link.
Article delivery is also available

via the “Get It Now “link when the WebBridge button is clicked in any EBSCO database This button is usually attached to the article. Since the articles cost $25-$55, it is strongly encourage that Interlibrary Loan be used if the article is not needed immediately.
The Library also offers mobile access to many databases. A list is available on our website. Anyone having problems with accessing the databases from their mobile phone should contact the Systems and Metadata Librarian, Sherry Ge at 963-5236.
Digital Scholarship@ TSU offers faculty an opportunity to deposit their research in a database that is access edall over the world. It aksi provides a means publishing an online journal.

Xuemei (Sherry) Ge

Library Staff On the Move

Barbara Van Hooser and Sherry Ge represented TSU at the 2015 RODP/ROCC Summer Academy at Pellissippi State.
Dr. Murle Kenerson and Dr. Janet Walsh were presenters at the 2014 HBCU Library Alliance Annual Conference
Glenda Alvin, was a panelist on the “Digital Collections in Tennessee Libraries” program at the Tennessee Library Association meeting in April 2015.
Anthony Prince, serves as editor of Tennessee Libraries.
Julia Huskey, formerly of Mercer University in Macon, GA, has been hired to replace Barbara Taylor as Head of Cataloging. Shirley Wallace, Library Assistant II also retired in June 2014.
Mattie Leatrice Emanuel retired as Library Assistant II on February 28, 2015.
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Mrs. Mattie Leatrice Emanuel

August 2015

Brown –Daniel Library
Tennessee State University
3500 John A. Merritt Blvd
Nashville, TN 37209

Phone: 615-963-5201
E-mail: referencedesk@tnstate.edu

Newsletter Editor: Glenda Alvin

www.tnstate.edu/library

The Mundane and Exalted at Avon Williams Library
The Avon Williams Library is in the process of inventorying its book collection for the first time in recent memory. When completed, our catalog should accurately reflect the contents of our collection. This should significantly reduce the frustration of looking for books that are not on the shelves; likewise it will reveal books that were not recorded in our system that will now be accessible to our users. We hope to enhance our users’ pleasure and minimize their frustration in using our facilities. This is an activity that every library must do from time to time. It will ultimately make us a “Lean Not-Mean Research Machine.”
I would be remiss in not mentioning that we are continuing to present some really first-class art exhibits in our library. Our most recent exhibit is by Larry Brown and has brought many visitors to the library. It has also attracted the attention of many students who came to study, but obviously were thrilled to find art that caught their attention. Joyce Radcliff has a number of artists scheduled well into the next year.
—Mitchell Chamberlain

Spotlight on Streaming Videos
For Classroom Use

Tennessee State University is an AA/EEO employer.

The Library has VAST an academic video collection which provides 23,203 videos on subjects such as criminal justice, psychology, science, environmental studies, history, religion, literature, health, education, art, and more. We also have videos in subject areas such as Nursing Education in Video, Counseling and Therapy in Video, American History in Video. Through TBR/RODP funding we can provide Theatre in Video and Classical Music.

The Media Centers have an office on each campus. They can assist with the following::
Media viewing [Main & AWC]
Assistance with preparing for media-oriented classroom presentation and video projects [Main & AWC
Podcast production assistance [Main & AWC -- AWC by appointment]
CD & DVD duplication of class-related materials [Main & AWC]
Digital recorder for video and audio projects [Main & AWC]
Computer Lab support [Main & AWC]
Lamination [AWC]
If you have questions, please contact Dr. Karen Gupton, Media Centers Coordinator.