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Regular meetings with our architectural team have been

a feature of this academic

year. We have held discussions with faculty and

students, explored different design concepts, and looked

at a variety of ways to integrate tutoring services

into our building. We aren't

finished yet, but we are getting closer to the end of

our design phase.

We have posted current

versions of our floor plans on the bulletin board between

J i t t e r s a nd t h e A r t Gallery. The new floor plans

feature a new main entrance, a new 2nd entrance to the

north, new locations for the

Art Gallery, an expanded space for Jitters, compact

shelving for some (but not all!) of our books, a

substantial increase in private

study rooms for students,

a reconfigured IRC, and a new 2nd floor home for

both the Holland Academic Success Center and the

TLTC (very tentatively dubbed "The Learning

Factory"). We invite the

campus community to examine these plans and

provide suggestions and feedback. We plan to

periodically post updated

drawings as we make

changes.

If you have any questions about the floor plans do let

us know. On their own, the plans can be a little

difficult to interpret, but

we are happy to provide explanations.

Dave Graber

Library Director

Library Remodel

Plans

1

Library Book Sale 1

New Books at Conn 2

New IRC Die Cuts 2

Films on Demand 3

EBSCO Ebook Trial 3

Open Education

Resources (OER)

4

New TRC Staff 5

Creative Commons

Copyright

5

Art Gallery

Exhibitions

5

DVDs of 2012 6

Website Update 6

2013 ALA Children’s

Book Awards

7

Ongoing Enrollments 7

Archival Minute 8

Inside this issue:

Bookends Volume 5, Issue 3

Library Remodeling Plans

Available for Review!

April 2013

Page 2 Bookends

New Books at Conn

Reference

Witchcraft in America

Standard & Poor’s

Industry Surveys

(2012)

The College Board

College Handbook

Iowa Atlas & Gazetter

Generalities

The Signal and the

Noise: Why Most

Predictions Fail — But

Some Don’t

True Stories of

Censorship Battles in

America’s Libraries

Social Sciences

The Origins of AIDS

The Principal’s Guide

to the First 100 Days of

the School Year

The Book of Movement

Exploration

The Human Right to

Health

How to Handle Difficult

Parents

Mortality

Getting Smart: How Digital

Learning is Changing the

World

Working with Problem

Faculty: A Six-Step Guide

for Department Chairs

Best Practices in Faculty

Evaluation

Natural Sciences

Tree Thinking: An Intro-

duction to Phylogenetic

Biology

Spillover: Animal Infec-

tions and the Next Human

Pandemic

Applied Science

Nobel Prizes that Changed

Medicine

Consider the Fork: A Histo-

ry of How We Cook and Eat

The Arts

The Cultural Context of

Medieval Music

Reinventing Bach

A History of Opera

Literature

The Cambridge Compan-

ion to Creative Writing

21st-Century Gothic:

Great Gothic Novels Since

2000

The Best American Poetry,

2012

The Best American Short

Stories, 2012

History

There Was a Country: A

Personal History of Biafra

Rome: An Empire’s Story

The Black Count: Glory,

Revolution, Betrayal, and

the Real Count of Monte

Cristo

The Oxford Handbook of

Iranian History

Embers of War: The Fall

of An Empire and the

Making of America’s Vi-

etnam

Want a full list of New Books

available at Conn Library?

Browse the New Book shelf in

the library or visit

bit.ly/wscnewbooks.

New Die Cuts in the Instructional Resource Center (IRC) Check-out these new die cuts available for use in the IRC! For a complete list of available die cuts, visit http://bit.ly/ircdiecuts.

Vintage 1”

Alphabet & Number set Tower 4”

Alphabet & Math Signs

Traveler 5”

Number set

Book Camera

Book Apple Captions Water Splash No Sign Pumpkin #8

Bone

Volume 5, Issue 3 Page 3

WSC is happy to announce a new resource for

BUSINESS faculty and students - Films On

Demand, a leading source of high-quality video and

multimedia for academic, vocational and life-skills

content.

Programs from major

publishers such as

PBS, BBC, Frontline,

CNBC and many

more can now be

streamed directly to

your computer screen

from the Films On

Demand website or

via links in Sakai or

Powerpoint.

Visit bit.ly/wscrfilmsondemand

to explore this new resource!

Business & Economics Films on Demand

WSC is currently in a trail

period for a new eBook

collection from EBSCO.

This growing collection over

more than 112,000 eBooks,

contains a large selection of

multidisciplinary titles

representing a broad range of

academic subject matter that

ensures you will have access to

information relevant to your

research needs!

Visit bit.ly/wscEBSCOebooks

to explore this new collection.

Then let us know what you

think by emailing us at

asklibrary@wsc.edu!

EBSCO eBooks Trial

Page 4 Bookends

Open Education Resources (OER)

With the OER Summit just

concluding in February on the

Wayne State campus, you may

be wondering what exactly OER

is and what resources the library

has on this topic.

Open Education Resources

(OER) are “teaching, learning,

and research materials in any

medium that reside in the public

domain or have been released

under an open license that per-

mits their free use and re-

purposing by others.”2

What do Open Education

Resources mean for faculty?

They give you the “freedom to

revise, reuse, remix and

redistribute” resources.1

Presenter Recommended

Articles/Reports:

A Game Changer:

The Open Learning Initiative

(Simon, 2012)

Interactive Learning Online at

Public Universities: Evidence

from Randomized Trials

(Bowen, Chingos, Lack

& Nygren, 2012)

The Open Learning Initiative:

Measuring the effectiveness of

the OLI statistics course in ac-

celerating student learning

(Lovett, Meyer, & Thille, 2008)

Other Journal Articles: A search in Academic Search

Premier (bit.ly/wscASP) can

provide you with many more

articles on this topic. One

recommended search to try is:

(OER or "open education

resources" or "open

educational resources")

AND “higher education”

Here are a couple of

articles from that search:

Making a Difference—

Inclusive Learning and

Teaching in Higher Education

Through Open Educational

Resources (Hockings, Brett, &

Terentjevs, 2012).

The Quiet Revolution

in Open Learning

(Carey, 2011)

Presenter

Recommended Books (Request via Interlibrary Loan):

Disrupting Class: How

Disruptive Innovation Will

Change the Way the World

Learns

by Clayton M. Christensen

Opening Up Education: The

Collective Advancement of

Education through Open

Technology, Open Content,

and Open Knowledge

by Toru Iuyoshi

and M.S. Vijay Kumar

Disrupting College: How

Disruptive Innovation

Can Deliver Quality and

Affordability to Postsecondary

Education

by Clayton M. Christensen

Changing the Production

Function in Higher Education

by Candance Thille

The ‘Cost Disease’ in Higher

Education: Is Technology

the Answer?

by William G. Bowen

Other Books:

“Open Education and the

Open Science Economy”

in Globalization and the

Study of Education

by Thomas S. Popkewitz

& Fazal Rizvi WSC Stacks 370.7 N213 2009

The World is Open:

How Web Technology is

Revolutionizing Education

by Curtis J. Bonk WSC Stacks 371.3344678 B642

Open and Distance Learning

by S. Ramalingam (WSC ebook)

Flexible Higher Education:

International Pioneers Reflect

by Elizabeth Burge (WSC ebook)

1CC BY Welcome to the OER Summit (PPT) - Kaleidscope Project

2CC BY OER, Open Policy, System Efficiencies, and Future Directions (PPT) - Cable Green

Jennifer Johnson has joined the NATS staff as an IT support specialist. Jennifer, a 2009 graduate of Wayne State College, will work with Eddie Elfers in the Technology Resource Center to

support online and interactive video education, as well as WSC’s many other technology initiatives. Her office is located in Conn Library room 14B, in the TRC Multimedia Lab. Feel free to drop by and say hello, even if you don’t need help with anything.

TRC Welcomes New Staff

copyright; they’re built on top of

copyright law.

There are four possible

conditions for a creative

commons license. However,

all CC licenses require

attribution to the original

author of the work. These four

possible conditions can be

combined into six different CC

licenses that may be obtained at

creativecommons.org.

There are over 500 million CC

licensed works online today.

This includes Wikipedia which

merged all their content into

using CC attribution, share-alike

license about 2 years ago and

photo websites like Flickr where

you can search over 175 million

CC licensed photos

(www.flickr.com/creativecommons).

Creative Commons (CC) is a

simple, standardized way to

grant copyright permissions to

your creative work. CC offers free

tools that that allow artists,

musicians, journalists, educators

and others share content on

more flexible terms than default

all rights reserved copyright.

It’s important to note that CC

Licenses are not a substitute for

Creative Commons Copyright

Volume 1, Issue 1 Page 5

CC BY OER, Open Policy, System Efficiencies,

and Future Directions (PPT) - Cable Green

Senior Exhibition

March 20-April 11

2012-2013 Juried Student Exhibit

ion

April 22-August 31

Art Gallery Exhibitions

Page 6 Newsletter Title

Website Update You may have noticed a change to

the library homepage. Instead of a

long page with separate search box-

es, we have combined all those boxes

into one tabbed section, making it

easier for users to locate resources.

Tabs:

Catalog—Search the WSC catalog

for books, ebooks, and more.

Databases —Search Academic

Search Premier for scholarly articles

or click on the link to find other

databases.

Journals—Use Journal Finder to

locate academic journals, e-journals

and magazines by title.

Reference—Use Credo Reference for

dictionary, encyclopedia, and hand-

book entries.

Movies—Search the library catalog

for movies by title.

DVDs of 2012 Want to know the newest DVDs in

the library? Here’s a sampling of

some of our DVDs with a 2012

copyright date:

FEATURE FILMS

Courageous

Mildred Pierce

Sidewalls

50/50

Joyful Noise

The Desendants

Don’t Be Afraid of

the Dark

Haywire

The Artist

Frida

Ghost Protocol

The Muppets

ACADEMIC FILMS

Social Sciences

The Flaw

Tribal Cops

Rumrunners, Moonshin-

ers, and Bootleggers

Inside Alcoholics Anony-

mous

The Weight of the Nation

Day of the Killer Torna-

does

How Can I Support You?

Strategies for Effective

Writing Conferences

Arts

Being Elmo: A

Puppeteer’s Journey

Art 21

The Musical Brain

All Access USC

Volleyball Practice

Literature

Ayn Rand Nation: The

Hidden Struggle for

America’s Soul

The Day Carl Sandburg

Died

History

Clinton: American

Experience

Rampage Across Europe

The Chinese Bubble

The Dust Bowl

Want a full list of DVDs

available at Conn Library?

Enter DVDs as the

SUBJECT in the catalog.

New Tabbed

Search Boxes

Links to Frequent-

ly Used Resources

Access to Library

Email and PRA

Volume 5, Issue 3 Page 7

The winners of the ALA Children’s

Book Awards were recently

announced during the 2013 ALA

Mid winter Meeting in Seattle, WA.

Conn Library is excited to be able to

order and add the following awarding

wining books to its children’s

collection:

Caldecott Medal Awarded to the artist of the most

distinguished American Picture Book

for Children published in the United

States during the

preceding year.

This is Not

My Hat

by Jon Klassen

Newbery Medal Awarded to the author of

the most distinguished

contribution to American

literature for children.

The One and Only Ivan

by Katherine Applegate

Printz Award

Awarded to a book that

exemplifies literary

excellence in young adult

literature.

In Darkness

by Nick Lake

Siebert Medal Awarded to of the most

distinguished information-

al book published in the

United States in English

during the preceding year.

Bomb: The Race to Build-

and to Steal the World’s Most Danger-

ous Weapon

by Steve Sheinkin

Coretta Scott King Awards

Awarded to authors and

illustrators of African descent whose

distinguished books promote an un-

derstanding and appreciation of the

"American Dream."

Author Award:

Hand in Hand: Ten Black Men Who

Changed America

by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Illustrator Award:

I, Too, Am America

by Langston Hughes;

illustrated by Bryan Collier

Pura Belpré Medal Awarded to a Latino/Latina writ-

er and illustrator whose work best

portrays, affirms,

and celebrates the Latino

cultural experience in an

outstanding work of literature

for children and youth.

Author Award:

Aristotle and Dante Discover

the Secrets of the Universe

by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

Illustrator Award:

Martín de Porres:

The Rose in the Desert

by Gary D. Schmidt;

illustrated by David Diaz

2013 ALA Children’s Book Awards Announced

Online library courses accept enrollments

throughout the semester. If you know a

student who needs another spring class,

suggest an 1-hr library course.

Course Descriptions:

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boxes had never been inventoried,

organized or cataloged. The

exceptions were the papers of Val

Peterson and J.G.W. Lewis which

had been partially processed ...

Archives Established

President Stearns left in 2003

before a college archival plan could

be put into place. It was up to her

successor, President Richard

Collings, to establish a college

archives officially. An Archives

Committee was formed and I was

given the task of organizing the

materials and establishing an

archives in the Library.

In the summer of 2006,

approximately 20 boxes of materials

were sent to the Library from

the President’s office. Most of

the files in these boxes had been

selected and

sorted by Lucille

Peterson, retired

secretary to the

president and

one of the mem-

bers of the

Archival Task

Force who had

long felt the need

An Introduction to

the Archives

In previous Archival Minutes I’ve

written about people and events in

Wayne State history. Much of the

material for these histories can be

found in the WSC Archives. For this

Archival Minute I thought I’d take

the opportunity to give you an

introduction to the Archives itself.

Historical Background

When I came to Wayne State in

August 1988, there was what was

called an “archives” housed in book

cases with locked glass doors just

outside my office on the first floor

of the Library. This collection

consisted of copies of The Spizze-

rinktum (or Spizz), the yearbook,

old college catalogs, copies of The

Judas Goat, the student literary

publication, and a number of old

(presumably rare?) books.

In addition, there were stacks of

boxes of documents and other items

stored in a locked room in the

basement of the Library. For the

most part, the contents of these

to preserve Wayne … In addition,

Human Resources sent over old

(pre-1970 or so) personnel files

(after removal of “sensitive”

material) … The first files to be

processed were those files Lucille

Peterson had placed in boxes

labeled “historical files” as well as

files labeled “historical” found in

other boxes. These materials were

divided into two collections: The

Nebraska Normal College

Collection and the Wayne State

College History Collection ...

Finds on eBay

I’ve been able to find many NNC

and WSC items on eBay. Among the

items are postcards, posters, plates,

cups, souvenir booklets, spoons, and

athletic

programs …

-MARCUS

SCHLICHTER,

ARCHIVIST

To read the full

account and view

archival images visit

bit.ly/wscarchivalminute.

Archival Minute

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