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- In appreciation of her ongoing community service, TCC Librarian Dr. Karin Duran received certificates of recognition from Felipe Fuentes, California Assembly 39th District, and Richard Alarcon , Los Angeles City Council.
- Music & Media Librarian Lindsay Hansen will be presenting on “Super Project Gone Wrong: Weisses Gold and the Struggle for Intellectual Property in the GDR” at the Sixth Bi-annual International Conference on Music Since 1900.
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June 22nd, 2009, 3:45 pm
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China: Trade, Politics & Culture 1793-1980 is a collection of English-language sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980. Provides a wide variety of original source material detailing China’s interaction with the West from Macartney’s first Embassy to China in 1793, through to the Nixon/Heath visits to China in 1972-74.
ProQuest Digital Microfilm provides access to full-page scanned images of newspapers, digitized from microfilm. Title included: Barron’s. Coverage: 2008-
Art Index Retrospective (Wilson) indexes articles from journals published around the world, including yearbooks and select museum bulletins. Cumulative index of Art Index volumes 1-32, 1929-
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June 19th, 2009, 3:50 pm
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The following Library staff members were honored at Forty-Third Annual Staff Service Awards and Excellence Recognition Event, on June 3, 2009.
Danielle Ste. Just, Access Services
Merit Award for her leadership in implementing change and enhancing customer service in Reserves, Periodicals and Microform.
Martha Moreno, Technical Services
40 Years of Service
Oviatt Library Innovative Millenium Team: Team Award for their work-flow study in Technical Services.
L-R: Delphia Williams, Gina Hsiung, Donna LaFollette, Helen Heinrich, Meredith Lyon, Eric Willis, Marivic Ghorbani, Paula Miller. (not pictured: Diane Moore)
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June 4th, 2009, 3:37 pm
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Business Source Elite provides full-text coverage of nearly 1,100 scholarly business, management and economics journals covering topics such as accounting, banking, finance, international business, marketing, sales, etc. Includes 10,000 company profiles from Datamonitor. Includes Harvard Business Review.
Regional Business News has comprehensive full-text of regional business publications, including titles from Crain Communications. Updated daily.
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May 28th, 2009, 9:40 am
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Doris Helfer, a Reference Librarian and Chair of Technical Services, was honored with the California State University, Northridge Distinguished Teaching, Counseling or Librarianship Award for 2009.
From the award description: “The principal criteria for receiving this award are (1) a record of superlative teaching, counseling or librarianship, and/or (2) the development and successful utilization of a major curriculum improvement project that advances teaching effectiveness at any educational level.”
Doris earned her B.A. in Political Science at CSUN and completed her Master of Library Science degree at Western Michigan University. She her began work as a Librarian at the Oviatt Library in 1996.
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May 18th, 2009, 4:36 pm
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Get Library updates, news and more at https://twitter.com/OviattLibrary.
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April 28th, 2009, 9:01 am
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Starting Saturday, May 9, at 8am, the Oviatt Library will be open continuously (24 / 7) during this year’s Spring Semester Finals Week, thanks to student-recommended funding from the CSU, Northridge Campus Quality Fee.
Most Library Service Desks and the Collaboratory will be open 24 / 7 during this period as well. Please go to http://library.csun.edu/About_the_Library/ovhoursspring09.pdf for exceptions to our 24 / 7 schedule and a more detailed listing of Library and Library Service Desk hours during Finals Week.
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April 28th, 2009, 8:59 am
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Karin Durán, Eric Garcia and Mara Houdyshell’s article “From the inside out and the outside in: The Academic Library Interview Process in a Tight Economy” has been published in C&RL News. To read the article, go to:
http://www.ala.org/ala/mgrps/divs/acrl/publications/crlnews/2009/apr/insideout.cfm
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April 27th, 2009, 4:02 pm
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Thanks to the Campus Quality Fee, the Oviatt Library has a new student study / lounge space in the Northern area of the Reference Room, on the 1st floor. Because the funds came from the students, we want YOUR help in naming this new space!
Please send us your ideas for this space by Friday May 8th, 2009. The winning entry will receive a $50 gift certificate to the Matador Bookstore.*
Send your ideas to: susanna.eng@csun.edu
Please be sure to use your CSUN email address, or include your name and CSUN portal username with your ideas.
*Only entries from current students will be accepted
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April 27th, 2009, 3:07 pm
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Contemporary Women’s Issues (Gale) is a multidisciplinary database providing full-text access to global information on women in over 150 countries, bringing together relevant content from mainstream periodicals, “gray” literature, and the alternative press. Coverage from 1992 to present.
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April 22nd, 2009, 10:20 am
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