November 10, 2010

—LIBRARIES STUDENT RESEARCH PRIZE: SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED NOV. 15!
—NEW JSTOR COLLECTIONS ADDED
—NEW LIBRARY SERVICES WEBSITE LAUNCHED: FEEDBACK ENCOURAGED
—SHARE PUBLIC EVENTS VIA GOOGLE CALENDAR
—MANAGING YOUR LEHIGH COMPUTING ACCOUNT
—BEYOND THE HYPE: MAC OR WINDOWS
—FRIENDS PROGRAM: SPIRITS OF NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA
—THANKSGIVING BREAK LIBRARY HOURS

Subscription, archive, and contact information is at the bottom of this digest.

LIBRARIES STUDENT RESEARCH PRIZE: SUBMISSIONS ACCEPTED NOV. 15!
On November 15, LTS will begin accepting submission for the Libraries Student Research Prize at www.lehigh.edu/libprize. The Prize, which includes a monetary award of up to $1,000 and a reception to honor student work(s), recognizes exceptional library research in an undergraduate student paper or project. **Make sure to read the eligibility requirements before you submit your work!** Submissions will be accepted through Monday January 17, 2011.



NEW JSTOR COLLECTIONS ADDED
After a hiatus of several years, the Libraries have added two new JSTOR backfile collections, encompassing 260 titles. The Arts & Sciences VI Collection “extends JSTOR's coverage in disciplines across the social sciences, with clusters focused in economics, education, linguistics, political science, and area studies.” Notable titles that will now be available in electronic format back to the first volume include: Foreign Affairs, The Journal of Educational Research, The Middle East Journal, and The World Bank Economic Review. The Arts & Sciences VIII Collection “broadens JSTOR's coverage of core humanities disciplines including history, language & literature, art & art history, and education.” Highlights include a group of rare 19th and early 20th century American Art periodicals digitized as part of a special project undertaken with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Frick Collection, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

To view complete title lists for these collections, see: http://about.jstor.org/content-collections/journals/arts-sciences-vi and http://about.jstor.org/content-collections/journals/arts-sciences-viii. JSTOR links for these titles are in the process of being added to the ASA catalog.



NEW LIBRARY SERVICES WEBSITE LAUNCHED: FEEDBACK ENCOURAGED
A new Library Services website (library.lehigh.edu) debuted on Founders Day, October 22nd. The use of the open source content management system (Drupal) in creating the site means more Web 2.0 features for users and enables library staff to contribute content directly and rapidly. Special new elements include a prominent, persistent search box of four major resources, "Library Catalog", "Articles/Databases", "E-Journals" and "Subject Guides.” There are immediate access “Quick Links” to major resources, plus more extensive changes such as content specifically directed to students or to faculty. Now it’s your turn. We want your opinion. Please take a few moments to try out the new website. Comments and suggestions should be emailed to inlulib@lehigh.edu.



SHARE PUBLIC EVENTS VIA GOOGLE CALENDAR
Do you have public events that you'd like to promote to the university? Beyond the university? One way to get the word out is to create a public calendar on Google. You can see Lehigh public events calendars at: https://sites.google.com/a/lehigh.edu/lehigh-google-apps/Home/lehigh-public-calendars.

LTS recommends that public calendars be created on a departmental, or "in" computing account, so that the calendar is associated with the department rather than an individual (who may leave or change jobs). The steps to creating a public calendar are below, or check out a video tutorial at: http://bit.ly/ShareGCal.

1. Contact Kelly Decker at ksd2@lehigh.edu to request a departmental account that supports Google Calendar. Note: If you have a departmental account, it may not support Google Calendar by default. Kelly can add the Google Apps service.

2. Log into the account by going to www.lehigh.edu/google and using the departmental account username and password.

3. Go to Google Calendar. Select the calendar you want to use. Use the default calendar or create a unique calendar to hold the event information.

4. Enter the events into the calendar.
--To create the events from scratch, enter the events as you would for a personal calendar.
--Events saved as .ics file (iCalendar format), go to Settings under My Calendars, and select Import Calendar.
--Select the calendar that will contain the events. Open the Browse window, navigate to the file, and select it. Click Import.

5. Check the calendar to make sure the events are displaying as they should. Set the sharing privileges to either make it Public or Share with everyone at Lehigh (found under Share this Calendar).

6. Send an email to helpdesk@lehigh.edu with the CalendarID or XML link (available on the Calendar Details view) and the name of the public calendar. Contact the help desk for assistance finding these links. The Help Desk will add your calendar to the list of public calendars and will provide the link to share your calendar from your website if you choose.



MANAGING YOUR LEHIGH COMPUTING ACCOUNT
While people associate their Lehigh accounts most closely with email access, they are much more than that. All Lehigh accounts have web space and personal LAN space (“H” drive) associated with them including departmental (“in”) accounts. Many other Lehigh services and resources are accessed using the Lehigh username and password for “authentication”. For a more detailed listing of the services associated with Lehigh accounts, see the information under the heading “Types of Computing Services” on the LTS Account Services web page at: http://www.lehigh.edu/account/.

If Lehigh accounts are not maintained by changing the password every six months when prompted, they will be disabled. Email reminders to change passwords are sent daily to account owners for two weeks prior to password expiration so reading Lehigh email is quite important. Lehigh departmental accounts (“in” accounts) are particularly prone to being disabled. The best way to avoid this is to have at least two people reading the email for this account. This can be done by setting up the account as a secondary account in an email client such as Mozilla Thunderbird or by using Lehigh webmail to log into the account. (Your Lehigh Computing Consultant can help with setting up a secondary account in your email client). Most of the time people notice a problem with the account when the primary function they use it for isn’t working (i.e. their departmental web page is inaccessible or the email isn’t working).

People using another account (such as a Gmail account) as their primary account, can forward Lehigh email to that account. The link for setting up email forwarding is on the LTS Account Services web page referenced in the above link.



BEYOND THE HYPE: MAC OR WINDOWS
Use of Apple’s mobile devices and laptop and desktop computers has increased both in the world and on Lehigh’s campus. Forty percent (40%) of Lehigh’s freshman class this year are Macintosh users according to information gathered by the Wired program and posted on the Wired web page. Apple’s third quarter results tell the story of their popularity at: http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2010/07/20results.html. Lehigh users, who are considering making the switch from a PC computer to a Mac computer, should consider some pros and cons.

Pros: Macs are less targeted by viruses and other malware. Windows now can be run on the Mac either from a separate partition or using software like VMWare Fusion or Parallels to create a virtual machine running Windows. iMacs are an all-in-one solution that take up less overall workspace real estate and offer more than enough computing power for most users. Macs are superb for graphic design including website design and also for video editing.

Cons: Apple offers no accidental damage protection on its laptops (MacBook, MacBook Pro, and MacBook Air). Macs are generally more expensive than Windows based PCs (both desktops and laptops). Macs only come with a standard one year hardware warranty and 90 day technical support; the AppleCare Protection Plan must be added at an additional cost to get a three year warranty. (Most PCs ordered through our Lehigh plans come with a standard 3 year warranty included in the base price.) When switching to Mac, there is a learning curve consistent with any new hardware/software environment.

For more information about using Macs vs. using Windows based PCs at Lehigh, please contact your Computing Consultant. Also, for more information about using Macs at Lehigh, see the following web page at: http://www.lehigh.edu/mac/home.html.



FRIENDS PROGRAM: SPIRITS OF NINETEENTH CENTURY AMERICA
Join us for the final Friends of the Libraries talk this Fall!

--Mark Lause, Associate Professor of History, University of Cincinnati
--Friday, November 19th – Noon
--Scheler Humanities Forum (Linderman 200)

Spiritualism represented an original, massive, and influential current in the antebellum United States and later. Lause will examine spiritualism's importance, providing insight into the centrality of faith in U.S. history.
Co-sponsored by the American Studies Program.



THANKSGIVING BREAK LIBRARY HOURS
http://www.lehigh.edu/lts/hours/libhours.html
Thanksgiving Break – November 24 – 28
Wednesday 11/24 – 8:00 am – 10:00 pm
Thursday 11/25 – CLOSED
Friday 11/26 – 8:00 am – 5:00 pm
Saturday 11/27 – Noon – 5:00 pm
Sunday 11/28 – Noon – 2:00 am