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Introducing ECCO!

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We are excited to announce the addition of a new database to our collection, Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)!  This database contains “every significant English-language and foreign language title printed in the United Kingdom during the 18th century.”  It contains a wide-range of materials, such books, directories, bibles, sheet music, sermons, and pamphlets from this time period.  This is an excellent tool for humanities research in this significant period of world history, which includes the American Revolution, the French Revolution, and the Industrial Revolution.

To access any of our databases off-campus, you simply need your Charger ID and your campus-wide password.

New Faculty Orientation at Salmon Library!

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Please join us on *either* August 29th or August 30th for a faculty orientation to the library!  The sessions will be held in the Faculty Resource Center (Room 233) of Salmon Library from 11:30am-1:00pm, and lunch will be provided to all attendees.  Topics addressed include:  how to submit interlibrary loan requests, how to put materials on Reserve, and how to schedule a library instruction session for your class.

For more information, please look at the Faculty Handbook or contact us at erefq@uah.edu.  We look forward to meeting you!

New Books for 2013!

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Come by Salmon Library to see what new books we’ve gotten in this year!  On the new books library page, you can see our newest additions available in print format, as well as what has been made available thanks to generous donations from the Humanities Endowment Fund and the Mrs. Edna Trout Franz Fund.  We’re excited to add these items to our collection, and hope you enjoy browsing through our newest additions!

Salmon Library Archives and Space History Preservation

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With billions of dollars of past space research at risk of being lost forever, Dr. Charles Lundquist is running a race against technology and time.  Director of the Interactive Projects Office at the UAH Research Institute, the 85-year-old Dr. Lundquist spent 40 years in high-level positions with the U.S. Army, the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, NASA, and finally the University of Alabama in Huntsville. Working as a volunteer since retiring in 1999, he spends his time sleuthing for past research from the Army, NASA and private papers, as well as collecting oral histories from NASA retirees and others. All are added to an archive on the ground floor of UAH’s M. Louis Salmon Library, where Anne Coleman is a reference librarian and head of Archives and Special Collections. The archives preserve continued access for future historians, scholars and students.

The race to save past NASA research is a marathon to catch up with today’s information technologies. Some NASA records on everything from rocket designs to space flight data are being lost after being declared surplus. Some drain away because the media on which they are stored gets reused – as when NASA found it had recorded over its original tapes of the first lunar landing. But a lot of information still exists. It’s just that technology has bounded ahead and older storage media are no longer accessible.

“If any university has the obligation, UAH has the obligation to preserve the records of lunar exploration and of all of that era. At UAH, we have an obligation to create this kind of archive and save this information because the university was really formed as a result of Dr. Wernher von Braun and space research coming to Huntsville…As one of the old-timers, I feel obligated to preserve as much as possible of this important period in history when man for the first time left the Earth to explore space.”

The Salmon Library Archives are open to the public from Monday-Friday, 9:00am-4:00pm, or by appointment.

Bloomberg Terminal at Salmon Library

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Thanks to a joint effort between the College of Business Administration and Salmon Library, a Bloomberg Terminal has been installed in the Information Arcade on the first floor of the library!

The Bloomberg Terminals on campus will allow faculty and students to access real-time data and analyses that will be used in courses and research in accounting, finance, and economics.  This dedicated computer terminal is a 24-hour, global financial services system that features company financials, market data spanning more than 20 years, charts, statistics and current news reports.  It seamlessly integrates real-time and historical information on about 5 million bonds, equities, commodities, currencies and funds and comprises data on almost every publicly traded company and biographies of more than 1 million people.

The Bloomberg Terminal is available to only UAH Faculty, Staff, and Students.  Contact the Reference Desk at the library or the College of Business Administration if you have any further questions.

 

Borrow a laptop from Salmon Library today!

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Exciting news from Salmon Library; today we are going to start lending laptops!  Bring your Charger Card to the User Services desk at the library and check one out today! **The first 10 students to check out a laptop receive a special prize!**

These brand-new Dell Latitude E6530 laptops feature a roomy display, HD graphics and a dedicated numeric keypad.  They are available for in-house use only, for 3 hours at a time and can be renewed if no one else is waiting for them.

Please keep in mind to use your own flash drive or save to your Google Drive account, as files will not be saved on the laptop once it is returned.  Wireless access is available using your LDAP (or ANGEL) credentials.

Software available on the laptops include:

  • Adobe Design Premium CS6 (Acrobat Pro, Dreamweaver, Fireworks, Flash, Illustrator, InDesign, Photoshop)
  • Browsers IE10, Firefox 20.01, Chrome v27
  • Maple v15
  • Matlab R2008
  • Microsoft Office Suite 2010 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Publisher, Access)
  • SPSS v21
  • Skype
  • Windows Media Player
  • VLC media player
  • 7-Zip
Things to keep in mind:   Only UAHuntsville students may check out laptops.  You are responsible for any damage done to the laptop while it is checked out to you. If the laptop is damaged, lost or stolen while checked out to you, you will be charged replacement cost plus a $50.00 processing fee.  Replacement for the laptop is $1800 and the power cord is an additional $100.
If you do borrow a laptop from us, please fill out this survey to let us know how you liked the service!

UA System Scholars Institute 2013

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The UA System Scholars Institute is hosted each year on a rotating basis by one of the three University of Alabama campuses and is open to faculty, staff, and administration attendance from all three campuses.  The Scholars Institute supports collaboration among faculty and administration system-wide, and encourages a shared community of knowledge for implementing best practices into the use of technology in the teaching, learning, and research processes.

This year’s was hosted at the UAHuntsville campus.  Please check out the photos below!

Introducing Text Notifications

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Would you prefer to be reminded about pending book returns and overdue notices through text instead of email?  Next time you check out a book at the User Services desk- be sure to let them know that!  When you give them your cell phone number, you will be reminded when a book is due soon, and also when a book becomes overdue.  Stop by today and get signed up!

 

Salmon Library has a new director!

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The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) has named a new director of its Louis Salmon Library!  David P. Moore will begin his duties immediately. He has served as the interim library director since 2010, and has already implemented new initiatives including additions to electronic resources, and in making the library more welcoming and accessible to students.

Moore joined UAH in August 1997, after serving at both the Gorgas Library at The University of Alabama (UA) Tuscaloosa, and at Sirsi Corporation. He earned his undergraduate degree in History and a master’s degree in Library and Information Science from UA.

“I am sincerely honored to accept this position, particularly at a time of great transformation in the library profession. I believe our library has a great future ahead, and am excited to have the opportunity to continue to provide value to our university and community as we move forward,” said David Moore.

A key part of Moore’s future responsibilities will be to provide vision and leadership in developing strategies for maintaining, developing, and providing access to archives, including those related to the history of the U.S. Space Program in Huntsville, and enhancing the library’s role in supporting our academic enterprise and the enrichment of the scholarship, research and creative activities of our students, staff and faculty.