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Spring 2006 Vol. 8, no. 2

Read all about it! Online newspapers Someone tells you about a brilliant column in the New York Times, the Washington Post, or in another major newspaper. But you don’t have the printed newspaper, and you can only read a sentence or two on the newspaper’s site because they want you to pay for it. Don’t let that stop you! Search the title in Tripod – choose the one that says “online awn” after the title – and you can read the full text of the article. Access world news (online) lets you search for articles in more than 700 newspapers from around the world. Pick a specific newspaper, or the country, region, or continent, and your search will bring in results from them. (Access world news can also be found on the Databases page of Tripod.)

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Search reference books in a minute! It doesn’t get any easier! Put in a term and you can search reference books, encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, and more – all at one time. Or choose an area, like art, music, history, law, business, science, or types of reference sources, like dictionaries or encyclopedias. Xreferplus is a great online tool that also provides crossreferences linking to related topics. You can find this in Tripod.

What’s so good about the library? College Librarian Peggy Seiden discusses a recent survey on library services. Page 2

McCabe – 40 years ago – and The Phoenix When the library was built, what did the students think? Pages 4-5

Campus radio station features music from Underhill Library Tune in from 6:00-8:00 p.m. on Mondays. Page 3

Events and workshops this semester Tea ceremony, Irish poetry, book sale, finding resources, and more. Pages 7-8

Library survey evaluates services by Peggy Seiden, College Librarian Last semester, the library administered a national web-based survey on library services to all faculty, students, and staff. The survey, appropriately named LibQUAL, was developed by the Association of Research Libraries in response to a growing nationwide interest in assessment. Previously, standard measures of libraries focused almost exclusively on collection size. Although libraries routinely collect other data, like circulation statistics, number of reference questions answered, classes taught, or size of staff, none of the standard data collection instruments provide for any assessment of the services. LibQUAL is an attempt to develop a national standard instrument for library services that allows for comparison across libraries. LibQUAL also provides internal comparative data so that libraries gain insight into users’ and non-users’ service expectations and how successful the library is in meeting those expectations. The survey measures three dimensions of library service: 1) affect of service, 2) library as place and 3) information control – access to resources. It consists of 22 questions, and respondents are asked to rate on a nine point scale their accepted minimum level of service, their desired level of service, and their perceived level of service. How did we do? 69 faculty, 27 staff, and 117 students responded to the survey. The faculty response rate was 42% while the student response rate was unfortunately quite low, less than 10%. Findings with regard to students, especially, should be interpreted carefully and followed up with additional research, due to their low response rate. Nevertheless, the results provide the library with some useful information. On the nine point scale, the mean for the perceived level of service was 7.71, while the desired mean was 8.12. We scored significantly higher than the minimum mean, 6.86, and in no area were services considered to be less than the minimally accepted level. Overall, the library received highest marks for affect of service. Among faculty, the library exceeded desired levels of service in instilling confidence in users, giving users individual attention, being consistently courteous, dealing with users in a caring fashion, and in willingness to help users. Students rated the library lower on such aspects as giving users individual attention, but their desired level of service in this area was also very low. It seems that respondents don’t expect a level of individual service in the library. Yet they acknowledged that staff were ready and able to answer questions and that they showed a willingness to help users. The comments supported the data. For example, one faculty member wrote, “Unbelievable helpfulness. Willingness to nurture faculty and students individually and collectively is so appreciated.” Another faculty member wrote, “Keep up the good work. The library and its staff are part of what make Swarthmore a great place to be a professor.” The library fared less well in the areas of information control and library as place. In the area of information control, users typically rated the library at one point below their desired level 2

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of service. Expectations for service were also higher in this area, so while the perceived level of service was about the same as those received for affect of service, the desired level of service was higher, 8.35, as compared with 7.9. In particular, users wanted greater availability and accessibility to electronic resources, as well as better ways of locating information on their own. The comments shed some light on specific concerns. For example, students noted the lack of availability of electronic books, difficulties in searching Tripod and the library’s web site, and faculty commented on not being able to access electronic resources off-campus. Though the number of student respondents was small, they were consistently negative about the library as place. 42% of these students use the library daily, and 92% use resources on library premises at least weekly. Faculty were less negative about the library facility, but only 12% use the library daily, while 65% use it at least weekly. Nevertheless, the faculty do not use the library in the same way as students and had lower expectations for the space. The student-perceived mean for questions pertaining to the physical library was 6.8, whereas the desired mean was 8.02. For faculty the perceived mean was basically the same, but the desired mean was 7.3. Yet even the faculty agreed that the library fell short as a place that inspires study and learning. Most of the negative comments about the library addressed the library as place. These concerns included the need for more space for group study, the poor lighting, the desire for more comfortable places for individual study, and the difficulty patrons have in finding their way in the library. Even the aesthetic issues impact the usability of the space by making it less than inviting or inspirational. Perhaps the following comments from one undergraduate best sum up students’ concerns, “… it is common understanding that a study environment that is safe, clean and comforting is most desirable. Many students prefer studying at Cornell Library or in the Science Center/Kohlberg lounges primarily because the main library… fails (miserably) in fulfilling those needs.” Yet there are students who love the red carpet. As one noted, “Its continued on page 5

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Editors: Pam Harris Terry Heinrichs Annette Newman Intern: Ann (Cary) Wheeler Thank you to all who helped with this issue, especially: Donna Fournier, Meg Spencer E-mail: libnews@swarthmore.edu Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA 19081

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Get about new articles just published New articles are published every day. How can you keep up? One easy way is to use the alerting service offered by many databases and publishers. You’ll get an e-mail when a new article on your research topic is published or you can request the table of contents in journals you like to read. ProQuest, Project Muse, ScienceDirect, and Web of Knowledge (Science and Social Sciences Citation Index) are some of the databases that provide this service. Some of the publishers include American Chemical Society, American Mathematical Society, Cambridge University press, Nature, Science, and Highwire. See complete lists and instructions at: http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/trico/alerts.shtml. Many of the resources discussed in this article can be accessed on the Databases page of Tripod: http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/databases/

Need statistics? Stats, numbers, graphs – just what you need for your research. Check out: American factFinder from the U.S. Census Bureau WDI online from the World Bank has data about 225 countries. Fedstats gives statistics from over 100 U.S. government agencies. ICPSR Data Archive provides raw data for the social sciences. STAT-USA/Internet offers business, trade, and economic information from the Federal government. Polling the nations has survey results from the U.S. and over 80 other countries. You can find all these in Tripod by doing a Title search. (More are listed under “Stats and Data” in the Reference Tools section on the Tripod Databases page.)

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IM the librarians They’re usually available weekdays from 10 a.m. to 10 p.m. and for shorter hours on weekends. Ask them a question from wherever you are! You’ll find them at swatlibrary on AIM or Yahoo IM. (Or you can phone (x8493), e-mail, or stop by the reference desk!) - Terry Heinrichs

WSRN broadcasts “What’s new at Underhill” radio show For decades, WSRN has been a creative outlet for Swarthmore College students. Entirely operated by students, it is a showcase for personal music tastes, a forum for discussion of campus issues, and an all-around medium for entertainment, provided by those of your peers bold enough to take on the airwaves. This semester, however, WSRN has added a new show to its offerings focusing on the collection at the Underhill Library for Music and Dance. Every Monday evening, I play recordings from the Library’s collection on the two-hour show entitled “What’s New at Underhill.” Since Underhill’s primary patrons are regular students of the Music and Dance Departments, it is largely unknown and unexplored by the rest of the student body. The idea for the show was originally suggested by Donna Fournier, Swarthmore’s new Performing Arts Librarian, as a way to gain better exposure for the extensive

music collection. In addition to scores, videos, and books on music and dance, Underhill is home to over 10,000 recordings on CD and LP vinyl, including a variety of jazz styles, an interesting array of folk and world selections, and almost any classical piece imaginable. Such a treasure should hardly go to waste, and WSRN’s broadcast, as it appeals to every sector of the student population, is the perfect medium for publicity. Tune in Mondays from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. to hear an eclectic sample of Underhill’s vast collection. The station broadcasts at 91.5 FM within a reasonable radius of the college. If you’re outside broadcast range, listen live at the station’s website, wsrn.swarthmore.edu. If you hear something you like, stop by the Lang Music Building and check it out! - Katy Feniello ‘08

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WHEN MCCABE LIBRARY WAS BUILT IN 1967, it was the largest space addition in campus history, adding 90,000 square feet and 40% more instructional space to the college. Students immediately benefited from the improvements over the old library building; these included air-conditioning, carpeting, plenty of lounge space, and study carrels lining the walls of the building. The articles published in the Phoenix within the first few years of opening tell the story of the new library’s role in campus life at this very volatile point in the college’s history. OCT. 8, 1965 The Phoenix announces that the working plans for McCabe are approved. With an estimated cost of $3 million, the library promised to be more luxurious and comfortable, with an increased emphasis on teaching rather than the “self-service system” in place at the old library. MAY 6, 1966 Phoenix writer Dave Cohen honors the legacy of Somerville, the popular student union which was demolished to make room for McCabe. Cohen wonders about the future social center of the college: “Countless generations from now, when students gather in the plush Newton E. Tarble Recreation Center, will the juke box still produce six tunes for a quarter, will the hungry still be able to get a quarter pound of lightly browned meat for thirty cents?” SEPT. 22, 1967 Phoenix writer Betsy DeLaHunt writes that “the new library has finally and undeniably arrived.” She describes the building as a “huge stone monolith,” where “massive stone ‘60s styles! piers define the lofty octagonal lobby.” Benefits of the new library include books arranged in “gratifyingly simple alphabetical order” (according to Library of Congress classification), “inviting lounge areas,” and windows placed to provide surprising views of “unbroken miles of Pennsylvania countryside.” The tension of the times was apparent at the dedication ceremonies for McCabe. Invited speaker George F. Kennan, former U.S. Ambassador to the Soviet Union, reportedly attacked “student radicals and hippies for being ‘irresponsible’ and ‘cold-hearted,’ and warned that ‘we face a more dangerous internal crisis today than any time since the Civil War.’” (Dec. 12, 1967) Phoenix writer Paul Witkowsky described Kennan’s 5

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speech as “a thinly disguised excuse for the former Ambassador to deliver himself of a comprehensive if unstructured diatribe against youthful (and specifically student) nonconformity.” Witkowsky writes, “[Kennan] says I should spend my years in college more or less holed up in my ivory tower (read “library”)… I believe that killing is wrong. You don’t learn that by sitting in a library; and you can’t stop killing by sitting there either. Maybe I can’t stop the murder in Vietnam no matter what I do while I am in school; but at least I can make my position known as strongly as I can.” A resolution from the Student-Faculty Library Committee was published in the same issue, outlining unacceptable uses of the new building by members of the student body; these included using newspapers without refolding them afterwards, hording books on carrels for personal use, walking into the building barefooted, and laying on the carpets in front of windows, thereby ruining the view. In the next issue, the resolution was attacked in student Don Mitchell’s letter to the editor as “appalling in their triviality” compared to real problems like the library’s limited hours and insufficient place to store checked-out books. Judging from the Phoenix, students have always questioned the aesthetics of McCabe’s interior decorating. About the tapestry now hanging in the main stairwell, Joe Horowitz writes, “the tapestry is conspicuous for its sheer ugliness – it’s not very big, but, boy, is it ugly.” (Dec. 15, 1967)

A student listens to the jukebox in the Somerville student union in 1966, when six songs cost a quarter.

Demolished in 1966, Somerville stood where McCabe is now.

(The research for this article was conducted in McCabe Library, using the bound copies of the Phoenix, the student newspaper. We have 1942 to the current issue. Full-text as of Sept. 22, 1995 is available online at http://phoenix.swarthmore.edu/. ) - Ann (Cary) Wheeler

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threadbare appearance makes the library feel very homey and comfortable, not cold and modern like the science center.” What to do with all this data? The data points to some areas that we need to address: the facility, ease of access to electronic resources, updating equipment, and individual attention to students. We want to look at the data from our peer institutions and determine how well or poorly we are doing in comparison. Are these areas of common concern in liberal arts colleges? Do our students have higher expectations than other students? In some respects – such as student participation - the survey is disappointing. While the survey design allows for us to have some confidence in the ratings respondents gave, it also makes the survey cumbersome and tedious to complete. We will likely follow up with group interviews that try to elicit more specific information with regard to the availability and accessibility of our resources. And as we move towards a building renovation and expansion, we will look carefully at how students want the library to function. It is not certain whether we will use this instrument again, but we will continue to try and assess the services we provide and determine how we can better meet the needs of our community. I wish to end this article with heartfelt thanks and appreciation to those who took the time and effort to complete the survey and provide the library with much needed feedback. @library.edu

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staff notes Social sciences librarian Megan Adams accepted the position of research and instruction librarian and group manager at Wellesley College, starting in February. She looks forward to her new responsibilities as head of reference, the branch libraries, special collections, and the book arts lab. Candy Jacobs is the new late night access and lending services supervisor at McCabe, replacing Robbie Hart, who is now working full-time for the Linguistics department. Candy continues her other position as weekend supervisor. Formerly the technical services specialist in interlibrary loan, Melinda Kleppinger is now the government documents specialist. She manages the government documents collection (U.S., U.N. and PA), the depository library, and checkin and cataloging of continuations. Kerry McElrone has re-joined the interlibrary loan department as technical services specialist, after working at QVC creating content for their website. An actress and artistic consultant with the City Theater Company of Wilmington, DE, Kerry played the role of Janet in the “Rocky Horror Picture Show” last fall. Digital information services librarian Kelly Mueller is working on the college’s website and content management system implementation as a one-year temporary assignment. She will work with various administrative departments to bring their content to the web. Ann (Cary) Wheeler, former special projects intern, is the new reference and instruction intern. Ann was recently married to Andrew Wheeler; they met while earning their master’s degrees in Library and Information Science at Drexel University. Ann’s new responsibilities include reference work, library instruction, collection development in linguistics, psychology, and sociology/anthropology, and special projects. Jennifer Zingler is the new weekend tri-college library van driver, while continuing to work as a delivery person at Fed Ex. Jennifer handles library materials being returned to and requested by Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore libraries.

Improved tri-co library blog Tri-co Libraries News and Notes is the newest version of the library blog, which started over two years ago to communicate events, announcements, new resources, and more. The new version of the blog offers improved design, profiles of library staff, ability for patrons to post comments, additional categories, news of scholarly and cultural significance, and bloggers from across the tri-colleges. Check it out! Tri-co Libraries News and Notes is available at: http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/ Stay connected! You can receive email each time something new is posted, or you can add the RSS feed to your news aggregator: http://trilogy.brynmawr.edu/mt/trinews/index.xml. - Ann Wheeler 6

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Library helping SUNO library damaged by Katrina The Swarthmore College library has joined with seven other institutions in adopting a library in New Orleans that was severely damaged by Hurricane Katrina. Eleven feet of water flooded the Leonard Washington Memorial Library at the Southern University New Orleans campus, destroying all the collections on the first floor. Mold and other environmental problems threaten the upper floors. Headed by Science Librarian Meg Spencer, Swarthmore’s committee is exploring the best ways to help. One project was started in the fall - a campus-wide book drive to replace the juvenile literature collection; over 200 books were donated. Part of the historically black Southern University System, SUNO faces an uncertain future. The school had announced plans to reopen in Spring ’06 using hundreds of FEMA-supplied trailers. But state budget cuts have now contributed to the recent decision to eliminate programs in 19 academic disciplines, including English, mathematics, and physics. The university now plans to focus on community development and worker training skills. Other libraries helping SUNO are Missouri University, University of Rochester, University of Pittsburgh, Lehigh, Tufts, and Earlham College. Through its “Adopt a Library” program, the American Library Association paired these schools with SUNO and arranged for over 150 libraries to assist other hurricane-damaged libraries in the Gulf Coast area. - Terry Heinrichs

Spring interns announced The Mellon Librarian Recruitment Program makes librarianship visible to undergraduate students at Swarthmore, Wellesley, Mount Holyoke, Occidental, and Oberlin Colleges, and the Atlanta University Center. The program provides indepth exposure to the library field for selected students from diverse backgrounds. Most programs designed to recruit librarians and to help diversify the profession focus on graduate library school and the post-graduate years. This project is the first significant effort to address librarian recruiting and diversity issues at the undergraduate level. Last summer’s interns worked in a variety of institutions: Katherine Sydenham ‘07 spent her summer with rare books in St. Marks Theological Seminary Library, New York City; Casey Lee ‘05 identified Paper Gods in Columbia University’s Starr East Asian Library, New York City; and Meika Hashimoto split her time between the Hawaii State Library and a small private press. This year, seven students were awarded spring internships: Laura Cass, Robin Dawson, Katherine Humani, Elana Rakoff, Jennifer Roth, Powen Shiah, and Jennifer Thompson. For more information on library recruiting and summer grants, please contact Meg Spencer, science librarian, or Pamela Harris, instruction and outreach librarian. To find out more about the Mellon Grant and its association with librarian recruitment, please check out Oberlin College’s Mellon Grant website. - Pam Harris

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Calendar of Ev ents - Spring 2006 Events The African-American Student Experience Photographs and documents relating to African-American student life at Swarthmore from the 1940s through the present. Sponsored by SASS, the BCC, and the College Library Exhibit: January 27 - February 27

Ichigo, Ichie: One time, One meeting Lecture/Tea demonstration with Mariko LaFleur, University of Pennsylvania. Thursday, March 16, 4:30 p.m. Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall

Crafting Nature: The Art of Japanese Tea Ceremony Student interpretations of the tea ceremony, from Professor Tomoko Sakomura’s Crafting Nature: The Art of Japanese Tea Ceremony class. Includes tea bowls made by students in Syd Carpenter’s The Pottery Wheel class, a traditional tea display, and new books from the library collection. Exhibit: March 1 - April 21

Chanoyu Tea demonstration with Morgan Beard, Urasenke La Salle. Thursday, March 23, 4:30 p.m. McCabe Library lobby

Rikyu, a film by Hiroshi Teshigahara Wednesday, March 1, 8:00 p.m. Science Center #199

Eamon Grennan featured at Irish poetry reading Eamon Grennan, the Dexter M. Ferry Jr. Professor of English at Vassar College, will read his poems for this year’s Michael J. Durkan Irish Poetry Reading on Friday, March 17. Grennan is the author of seven collections of poetry and the recipient of numerous awards, including several Pushcart Prizes, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. In 2003, his Still Life with Waterfall received the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize. His newest volume of poems, The Quick of It, was published by Graywolf Press in 2005. Praised for bringing a sense of the divine to the commonplace, his work is powerful, evocative and rewarding. No matter, go on, while the little rabbit engine of the skull Keeps drumming the end thing and, arse-up in creek water Half iced-over, the ducks are making kittenish sounds, And airborne geese (mandarin eyes cast down) figure on the wing Their landing chances. - From [No matter, go on. . . ]

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Lester Conner memorial funds Irish poetry reading This year’s Irish Poetry Reading is sponsored by the friends of Lester Conner, the English department, and the College Library. Lester Conner, who died last February, was a scholar of AngloIrish literature, founding member of the Associates of Swarthmore College Library, and a beloved friend, benefactor and advocate of the library. Conner taught at institutions of higher learning in the United States and Ireland. His Yeats Dictionary: Persons and Places in the Poetry of William Butler Yeats, was published in 1998. Last year, several friends published Stern: in Memory of Ted Hughes, a broadside poem by Seamus Heaney, in honor of Lester Conner. They have generously donated the proceeds from the sale of the broadsides to Swarthmore College Library to be used towards the purchase of quality Irish poetry.

Michael J. Durkan Irish Poetry Reading Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day at the bi-annual poetry reading with Eamon Grennan, Pushcart Prize winner. Friday, March 17 Location and time to be announced Reception to follow McCabe Library Spring Book Sale - Family Weekend Proceeds from this student-organized book sale will fund library events and exhibits. Friday, April 7: Open only to Swarthmore College faculty, staff, students and parents with proper identification. Saturday and Sunday, April 8 and 9: Open to the public. Works on Paper Student prints and books developed over the semester in Works on Paper, taught by Mary Phelan. Exhibit: April 26 through May

The art of Japanese Tea Ceremony A careful twist of the bowl, the delicate spray of flowers, the precise angle at which a tea scoop is poised on its holder, the time-honored aesthetics of tea - come explore and enjoy the nuanced rituals and meticulous elegance of Chanoyu, the Japanese Tea Ceremony. In addition to the tea ceremony exhibit (March 1-April 21, McCabe lobby), there are three other events. First is a film screening on March 1 of Rikyu, the story of the tea master, who brought the art of tea ceremony to perfection four centuries ago. Next, on March 16, is a unique opportunity to experience a tea ceremony and lecture presented by Jaku (tranquility), one of the four principles of tea Mariko LaFleur, graduate of the Kyoto Urasenke Professional Japanese Cultural Institute. Finally, on March 23, the library lobby will come alive with a tea demonstration, with tea and sweets for all, by Morgan Beard of Urasenke La Salle. Sponsored by the Art Department, the Japanese Section of the Modern Languages Department, the Freeman Foundation, Urasenke La Salle, and the Swarthmore College Library. @library.edu

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Libr ar yw or kshops - Spring 2006 Librar ary wor orkshops Online Music Resources Tuesday, February 7, 11:30-12:30 Discover the wealth of free online music you have access to here at Swarthmore, including the Naxos Music Library and Smithsonian Global Sound. Bring your lunch and a friend! Donna Fournier, performing arts librarian Online News Sources: From NYT to Al Jazeera Thursday, February 23, 11:30-12:30 Learn to search thousands of news sources online, or browse todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s stories from the top world papers. Bring your lunch! Ann Wheeler, library & instruction intern Quakers, Swarthmore and the Underground Railroad Friday, April 7, 3:00-4:00 A special presentation for Swarthmore Family Day. Find out the hidden stories of Swarthmore Presidents Edward Parrish and Edward Magill, Dean Elizabeth Powell Bond, and their connections with the Underground Railroad. Chris Densmore, curator of the Friends Historical Library

Finding Primary Sources Wednesday, April 19, 11:30-12:30 Primary sources can be notoriously difficult to find, and yet form the basis for new directions in academic research. Learn to locate fascinating primary sources online and in Swarthmoreâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s special collections. Bring your lunch! Wendy Chmielewski, curator of the Peace Collection, and Anne Garrison, humanities librarian Ancient and Modern: Binding Structures in the Rare Book Room Tuesday, May 2, 3:00-4:00, Level 2 lounge Learn the history of bookbinding through hands-on exploration of beautiful private press books from the Rare Book Room. See how modern book artists have interpreted traditional binding structures in new ways. Pam Harris, outreach & instruction librarian and Ann Wheeler, library & instruction intern Unless otherwise noted, all workshops will be held in the McCabe computer classroom. RSVP awheele2.

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