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Ron Renchler
Director, Library Communications
ronr@uoregon.edu
The UO Libraries continually acquire new resources and launch new services that benefit the entire campus community. Here are a few recently added services and electronic resources available to faculty, students, and staff:
David Fowler recently joined the UO Libraries faculty as electronic resources librarian. He will manage the licensing, acquisition, activation, set-up, and renewal of a wide range of electronic resources, including databases, electronic journals and books, and reference sources. If you have questions or comments about the library's electronic resources, contact Fowler at 346-1839, dcfowler@uoregon.edu.
A new instant messaging (IM) reference service is now being offered by the University of Oregon Libraries. UO students, faculty, and staff can now use IM to get their questions answered by reference staff at Knight Library and the Science Library.
IM is a means of using either software or a web page to exchange typed conversations in real time with another person. You'll find complete information on procedures and screen names for contacting a reference desk staff member via IM at http://libweb.uoregon.edu/general/im.html
IM service is typically offered at the Knight Library reference desk whenever a staff member is present. For staffing hours, see http://libweb.uoregon.edu/reference/refhours.html
In-person, email, and telephone reference services will continue to be offered at all campus libraries: Knight, Science, AAA, Law, and Math. For more information on IM and other reference services, contact Paul Frantz (pfrantz@uoregon.edu, 346-1880).
The Oxford Digital Reference Shelf, published electronically by Oxford University Press, adds 17 new electronic titles formerly available only in print to the 150 electronic titles already available as part of the library's Oxford Reference Premium Collection. The new titles include Oxford dictionaries and encyclopedias on several historical periods and literary genres, as well as on economic history, evolution, global change, dance, linguistics, food and drink in America, Latinos and Latinas in the United States, and theater and performance.
All titles in these collections are searchable individually or as a group. To access all currently available Oxford titles, go to http://libweb.uoregon.edu/ and select Oxford Reference Premium Collection from the alphabetical drop-down menu in the Databases and Index area.
Yes, there is. (Yes, there is. Yes there is.) The UO Libraries has added Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO) to its holdings. ECCO is a major electronic research tool for scholars in many different disciplines. It offers online delivery of digitized facsimile versions of almost every English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.
With digital renderings of more than 150,000 printed works across all fields of eighteenth-century endeavor--from literature and the arts to the natural and physical sciences--ECCO represents one of the most ambitious digitization projects ever undertaken. Included are works from women writers of the eighteenth century, collections on the French Revolution, and numerous editions of Shakespeare's works. Multiple editions of individual works are offered to enable scholars to make close textual comparisons.
The full text of all material included in ECCO is searchable, giving scholars the ability to find every appearance of an individual word or phrase in virtually all materials printed in English in the eighteenth century. Items included in ECCO can also be searched by keyword, title, and author.
To view material included in ECCO, select Eighteenth Century Collections Online from the alphabetical drop-down menu in the Databases and Index area on the library's homepage (http://libweb.uoregon.edu/).
ECCO complements the library's earlier acquisition of Early English Books Online (EEBO), which contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473 to 1700. EEBO can be accessed by selecting it from the alphabetical database menu on the library's homepage.
ECCO was acquired through a generous gift from Margaret and Thomas Hart, with additional collaborative funding from the UO College of Arts and Sciences, UO Office of Research and Graduate Studies, and UO Libraries.
Several new and improved services are on tap at the library this fall:
Look for more details on these developments in the Fall 2006 issue of Computing News.