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NIMITZ LIBRARY NEWSLETTER
Fall 2007
CRITICAL LANGUAGES / REGIONAL STUDIES CONSTRUCTION

   This project will create more faculty office spaces on the ground floor perimeter of Nimitz, a few additional classrooms in the same area, and mid-sized seminar rooms on the second floor of the Library through expansion of several group studies.  The seminar rooms are available for midshipman use as group studies when they are not being used for classes.

   The Instructional Development Support Center, part of the Faculty Enhancement Center, has moved from the ground floor to the main floor of the Library overlooking College Creek.  A dozen members of the Library staff, along with the three staff in the MSC Graphics Lab, were temporarily relocated in other Library spaces between June and November in order to accommodate the construction for the IDSC and adjacent areas.

   Also included in the first phase of this project, on the second floor, has been construction of new space to house the Academic Center and the reconstruction of the Registrar’s spaces.

   During Phase 2, from December 2007 to August 2008, the ground floor of Nimitz will be thoroughly reconstructed.  Faculty and others with offices in that area will soon be moving into Mobile Modular Units for approximately 7 or 8 months.

   Throughout this project, protection for and access to the Library’s ground-floor collections are major concerns, and parts of them may be shelved elsewhere temporarily.

NEW ONLINE DATABASES

   During the past year we have added a relatively large number of databases in support of the Critical Languages/Regional Studies initiative.  They include the following:

Armed Conflict Database  
Arts & Humanities Citation Index  (part of the Web of Science)
Encyclopedia of Islam
Index Islamicus
LangNet  (from the Joint Language University, a language-learning support system)
Kodansha Encyclopedia of Japan
Praeger Security International
PressDisplay (more than 500 newspapers from 70 countries in 37 languages)
Social Sciences Citation Index (part of the Web of Science)

COFFEE BAR

Coffee Bar 4

   The Library’s coffee bar finally arrived last January and has proven very popular with midshipmen and faculty alike.  Located in the Severn Bridge corner of the main floor, it is operated by the “Coffee Mess” and sponsored by the Naval Academy Business Services Division here at USNA.  Proceeds benefit the Midshipman Welfare Fund. 
Hours of operation are:  0730-2200 Monday-Thursday; 0730-1700 Friday; 1900-2200 Sunday.
 
“READING LIST FOR LIFE”

   These are books recommended to midshipmen by the faculty, usually with annotations.  Take a look at what your colleagues are recommending, at http://www.usna.edu/LibExhibits/Readinglist/Readinglist.htm .  If you haven’t yet contributed, or even if you have but would like to add some titles to your list, please contact Patti Patterson, Associate Director (patters@usna.edu), or Larry Clemens, Head of Collection Development (clemens@usna.edu) .
 

PERSONNEL

  • Patti Patterson succeeded John Cummings as Associate Library Director upon John’s retirement on June 1 of this year.  As a result, we have been recruiting for a Head of Reference & Instruction to fill the slot vacated by Patti.

  • Andy Wheeler, formerly our Electronic Access Librarian, became the new Engineering Librarian in August.

  • Our new International Studies & Foreign Languages Librarian, Donna Goda, just arrived on board in October.  She comes to us after eight years of experience at the University of Central Florida, and with a Ph.D. in International Relations from Florida International University.   She is serving as the reference-bibliographer for the Language Studies Department and playing a key role in providing support for the Regional Studies/Critical Languages initiative.

  • Katherine J. Lang joined the Library in March 2007 in a position that is shared by the Cataloging and the Reference Departments.  Previously, Kathy was responsible for all aspects of the library at the Counterintelligence Field Activity (CIFA).  Before CIFA, Kathy served 20 years as an Air Force officer.
Last updated: 7 December 2007
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