The semester is almost over! During the interim before Fall semester, we will be taking off live chat. You can always call us at 256-824-6529 or submit a question at http://libanswers.uah.edu.
Also, please note the library’s reduced hours from July 27-August 18th:
|
Enjoy the rest of your summer, and we’ll see you in the Fall!
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.
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!
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!
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.