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rsinus
College
Volume
16,
Issue
5
March
31,
2003
MYRIN
LIBRARY
NEWS
library@ursinus.edu
FIRST
FRIDAY
-
CHESS
AT
URSINUS
DICTIONARY
OF
ART
The Myrin Library and the Chess Club
will be co-hosting a reception on Friday,
April 4th at
3:
00
PM
, to unveil our two
n
ew
outdoor chess tables that have
been
installed on the front porch
of
the Library.
Much appreciation goes to
Jeff
Williams
of Physical Plant for his patience and hard
work in the installation
of
the tables.
Weather permittin
g,
the event will take
place outside on the front porch with re-
freshments at 3:00 PM.
All are cordially invited to attend
our
April First Friday event, enjoy the re-
freshments, learn some things about the
history
of
chess playing
at
Ursinus, and
maybe even play a game
of
chess!
Manal
Shehabi
contemplates
her
next
move
in
a
game
of
chess
wi
th
Myrin
Librarian
Judith
Fryer.
ONLINE
Th
e Grove Dictionary
of
Art Online pro-
vides Web access
to
the entire Dictionary
of
Art
(1996, 34 vols.) with constant addi-
tions
of
new material and updates to the
text, plus over 40,000 links
to
important
art images
in
galleries and museums
around the world and
all
the sophisticated
search advantages possible with
an
online
reference source.
Access this title through the Library's
online catalog
at
http://myrin.ursinus.edu.
Type "Dictionary
of
Art"
in
the Catalog
QuickSearch box and click "title."
,__NOTABLE ACQUISITIONS-
THE
FREEMAN
GRANT,__
The
Freeman Grant is a five-year grant
that Ursinus College received to
strengthen its East Asian Studies
Program
A portion
of
the Grant has been allotted
for acquiring materials to develop Myrin
Library's collection in East Asian Studies.
Professors Hugh Clark, Steven Hood,
Miho I wakuma, and Matthew Mizenko
have been hard at work reviewing books,
journals, films, and online resources to
select for inclusion into the Library's col-
lection.
Dr. Mizenko is thrilled about the prospects
of
acquiring materials to research film
in
East Asia. "Thanks to the support
of
the
Freeman Grant, the East Asian Studies
Program has been able to offer EAS 299,
East Asian Film, in conjunction with a col-
loquium on East Asian
Film
that will bring
four speakers to campus this semester.
Freeman funds have
been
used to acquire
every available academic
book
on
the
films
of
China, Hong
Kong
, Taiwan,
South Korea, and Japan, thereby making
our collection in Myrin the equal
of
any
collection in the coun
on
those terms.
We
have also been building a collection
of
East Asian films on videotape and
DVD
that is impressive in both breadth and
depth. These resources will make it possi-
ble to offer the East Asian Film course in
the future."
An
important indexing tool to support re-
search has also been added to the collec-
tion. Dr. Mizenko noted: "Freeman funds
have permitted us to subscribe to the
online Bibliography
of
Asian Studies,
which has been instrumental in helping me
prepare the film course, while also provid-
ing
an
invaluable resource for
my
teaching
and research in general."
The
Freeman Grant will continue to sup-
port
development
of
the Library's collec-
tion in the coming years.
Dr
. Mizenko
said, "during the summer, I will be seeking
to strengthen our collections on Japanese
language, literature and culture, while also
looking into the acquisition
of
texts and
reference works in Japanese that will be
helpful for the students in our rapidly
growing Japanese language
program"
A sampling
of
some
of
the titles already
acquired under the Freeman Grant:
Bordwell, David. Planet Hong Kong : Popular
Cinema and the Art
of
Entertainment. (Harvard,
2000).
791.430951 B644
Kim-Gibson, Dai Sil. Silence Broken : Korean
Comfort Women. (Mid-Prairie Books, 1999)
940.5405 K56
South Asian Folklore : An Encyclopedia.
(Routledge,2002)
REF 398.0954 So87
Unschuld, Paul U. Medicine in China : A History
of
Ideas. (Univ
of
California Press, 1985)
610.
951
Un7
Wang, Hui-Ling.
Yin
Shi Nan
Nu=
Eat Drink,
Man Woman. (MGM, 2002)
DVD 162
Zhang, Xudong. Chinese Modernism in the Era
of
Reforms : Cultural Fever, Avant-Garde Fic-
tion, and the
new
Chinese Cinema. (Duke,
1997)
895.109
Z61
Zhenwei, Liu. Duo Luo Tian
Shi=
Fallen Angels.
{Ocean Shores Video Limited)
DVD
161
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NEW
ACQUISITIONS
IN
THE
LIBRARY
When new acquisitions arrive at the Li-
brary, they are checked in, cataloged,
processed, and then placed on the shelf,
ready for use.
New
acquisitions will have an additional
stopping point along the way. A ''New
Acquisitions" shelf has been designated
in the front
of
the Library. When using
the online catalog
to
search for materials,
the "Location" designation will direct
users to the "New Book
Shelf'
when the
A sample
of
some
of
the new titles found
on
the New Book Shelf:
America without the death penalty : states leading the
way I John F. Galliher. (Northeastern Univ Press.
2002)
364.66 Am35
Arctic experiences : aboard the doomed Polaris expe-
dition
and
six months adrift on an ice-floe : to which is
added a general arctic chronology I George E. Tyson.
(Cooper Square Press, 2002)
919.8 Ar27
The Saddam Hussein reader I edited by Turi Munthe.
(Thunder's Mouth Press. 2002)
956.7044 Sa15
title
is
a new addition to the Library's Fat land :
how
Americans became the fattest people
collection. New materials will remain on in the world I Greg Critser. (Houghton Mifflin, c2003)
362.196398 C868
these shelves for their first few months in
the Library.
Library users are encouraged
to
peruse
the new titles and select any for checkout,
as they would any other item in the Li-
brary's collection. Book jackets will re-
main on the books to divulge their con-
tents
to
readers. The new titles will be in
order according
to
the Dewey Decimal
System so that titles
oflike
subject matter
will be shelved together.
Many thanks go to Maureen Damiano,
Judith Fryer, David Mill for their help
with implementing this program.
The innovation premium :
how
next generation com-
panies are achieving peak performance and profitabil-
ity I Ronald S. Jonash, Tom Sommerlatte
658.514 J697
Women
and
men as friends : relationships across the
life span in the 21st century I Michael Monsour.
(Erlbaum, 2002)
302.34 M759
Leap
of
faith : memoirs
of
an unexpected life I Queen
Noor. (Miramax Books, 2003)
956.9504 N93
Goodbye father : the celibate male priesthood
and
the
future
of
the Catholic Church I Richard A. Schoenherr.
(Oxford Univ Press. 2002)
262.142 Sch63
Bush at War I Bob Woodward. (Simon & Schuster.
2002)
973.
931
W871
DON'T
FORGET!
As the end
of
the semester draws near,
don't forget the many ways you can com-
municate with a librarian
to
ask for assis-
tance with your research:
•
In
person at the Information Desk
• Via the phone at extension 2283
•
By
email at library@ursinus.edu
• OR, with the new service,
I.M.
a Librarian
(accessible from the Library's website at
http://myrin.ursinus.edu)
Myrin
Ubrary
News
is
a
publication
of
the
staff
of
the
Myrin
Library
Ursinus
College
PO
Box
1000
Collegeville,
PA
19426-1000
Director:
Charles
A.
Jamison
Editor
:
Doreen
Kopycinski
Great
appreciation
goes
to
the
kind
contributions
of:
Judith
Fryer
-
Charles
Jamison
Donna
Landis
-
David
Mill
-
Matthew
Mizenko
MYRIN'S
FEDERAL
GOVERNMENT
DOCUMENTS
PROGRAM PASSES
INSPECTION
Did you know that the Myrin Library
is
a
of
its 40th year in the Federal Depository
federal government document depository? Library Program.
The law
of
the United States, as found in
title 44, chapter
19
of
the U.S. Code, re-
quires that federal agencies make all their
publications available to the Government
Printing Office (GPO) for distribution to
depository libraries. There are approxi-
mately 1,400 depository libraries around
the country,
half
of
which are academic
libraries.
Over spring break, an inspector from the
GPO visited the Library to ensure that the
Library's government document program
is
being managed according to the in-
structions prescribed by the GPO. Over-
all, the Library received high compli-
ments for the management
of
its program.
Myrin has been a depository since 1963
and, in October, will
be
marking the start
Although there are thousands
of
materials
printed
by
the GPO, Myrin has special-
ized their collection to include publica-
tions
by
such agencies as:
• Smithsonian Institution
• Census Bureau
• Department
of
Education
• Department
of
the Interior
• Department
of
Health and Human Ser-
vices
• Department
of
Commerce
• Department
of
Labor
• Central Intelligence Agency
• U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service
Many government documents can
be
found through the Library's online cata-
log at http://myrin.ursinus.edu. A simple
keyword search
combining a par-
ticular subject with the term "gpo" will
retrieve government documents on that
topic. For example, typing:
poverty and gpo
in the Catalog QuickSearch fieldbox on
the Library's homepage and then clicking
"keyword" will retrieve results describing
resources from a variety
of
governmental
agencies such as the Deptartment
of
Housing and Urban Development, the
Census Bureau, and the House
of
Repre-
sentatives Committee on Hunger.
M yrin' s Reference Librarians can assist
you with finding other government docu-
ments-please
ask at the Information
Desk for assistance.
