senting each of the six UCA col-leges. The Director of the Li-brary serves as the permanent chair of this committee.

Revenue from this fee has been collected since the Fall 2010 semester. Since that time

expenditures have included both infor-mation resources and library improve-ments. Among the new information re-sources that this fee supports are Ameri-ca: History & Life, Oxford English Dic-

tionary, SportsDiscus, and Communication & Mass Media, and Web of Science. Library improvements include furniture, electrical outlets, ceiling fans, and color scanners. Two areas that are currently under devel-opment with this fee money are extended library hours and sub-sidized printing. For additional information about this fee and its use, please contact Art Lich-tenstein, Director of the Library, at ArtL@uca.edu or 501-540-5202. He will be happy to speak with you.

hance funds for library acquisi-tions that support teaching and research (e.g., books, journals, databases), purchase additional electronic research collections and upgrade existing subscrip-tions, extend library hours of operation past mid-night, subsidize the cost of printing and photocopying for stu-dents, and provide ad-ditional amenities. A Library committee made up of student and faculty representa-tion will oversee the use of revenue from these funds; committee recom-mendations will be subject to appropriate administrative ap-provals. This fee is anticipated to generate more than $800,000 annually. This change equates to a semester increase of $45 for a student taking 15 hours."

For the purpose of oversee-ing expenditure of these funds, a committee was established consisting of four students se-lected by SGA leadership, one student selected by the Under-graduate Dean, one student se-lected by the Graduate Dean and one faculty member repre-

By Art Lichtenstein, Director of the Library

November 2011

Library Connection

Hours

Monday –Thursday

7am-12pm

Friday

7am-5pm

Saturday

8:30am-4pm

Sunday

2pm-12am

On May 7th, 2010, the UCA Board of Trustees passed the following resolution establish-ing a student fee for the sup-port of Torreyson Library re-sources and services:

"Library Fee: New fee of $3 per hour for Undergraduate and Graduate. Justification: This new fee was initiated by the students and brought up through the Student Govern-ment Association. The intent is to generate a carryover fund to support library resources and services not being met by the existing annual budget and fre-quently requested by the UCA students and faculty. It will en-

Your Library...A Work in Progress

Digitizing History

Torreyson Library recently purchased a new digi-tal microforms reader to make the microforms collec-tion more user-friendly. Microforms, such as micro-fiche and microfilm, can contain dozens or hundreds of documents printed in miniature on a small card or roll of film. This format was widely used to efficiently preserve and store information in the years before the Internet. The library maintains a collection of historical newspapers and journals on microfilm and a number of gov-ernment documents and other re-sources on microfiche.

While the older microforms read-ers enable customers to view and print articles, the new microforms reader can convert microform docu-ments into pdf files that customers can save to a flash drive or email to themselves. Users can increase or reduce the size of the text on screen and paper to improve readability, and they can adjust the scanning resolution to clarify dark or grainy photographs. Also, pdf files of articles can be formatted to allow full-text keyword searching. The new microforms reader can print articles on standard 8.5” by 11” paper or on the larger 11” by

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By Chrissy Karafit, Serials/Microforms Librarian

17” paper. Customers can print an entire newspaper page on this larger paper size.

The library’s microform collection includes news-papers, such as the Arkansas Gazette from 1819 to present and the Log Cabin Democrat from 1908 to present. The collection also includes journals and periodical collections, such as the American Periodi-

cals Series, which contains American journals and magazines published be-tween 1740 and 1900. These periodi-cals provide a wealth of historical infor-mation, offering first-hand accounts of events from the colonial and civil war eras. In addition, a number of govern-ment documents are available on micro-fiche, including congressional records and resources published by other feder-

al agencies.

The microforms collection is located in the Serials and Microforms Department on the second floor of the Torreyson Library. For more information or to schedule a training session on how to use the new microforms reader, please contact Serials Librarian Chrissy Karafit at chrissyk@uca.edu.

Thanksgiving Break:

Wednesday, November 23rd:

8am—5pm

Thursday, November 24th –

Saturday, November 26th:

Closed

Sunday, November 27th:

Reopen with regular hours

Christmas Break:

Saturday, December 17th—

Sunday, December 18th:

Closed

Monday, December 19th—

Tuesday, December 20th:

8am—5pm

Wednesday, December 21st—

Tuesday, January 3rd:

Closed

Finals Week:

Friday, December 9th:

7am— 9pm

Saturday, December 10th:

8:30am—1am

Sunday, December 11th—

Thursday, December 15th:

7am-1am

Friday, December 16th:

7am—5pm

Special Library Hours During the Holidays

The Philosophy of Dr. Suess

All those who remember Dr. Seuss from their

childhood days will be fascinated to know that

the books are far more than wonderful language

and cute stories. Philosophers have been us-

ing Dr. Seuss books to explore concepts such

as the nature of the good life in

Oh the Places You’ll Go, the

method and value of thinking crit-

ically in Oh the Thinks You Can

Think, and morality and ethics in

How the Grinch Stole Christmas,

among many others.

If you love Dr. Seuss books

for the language or the wonderful

stories, you will enjoy hearing Dr.

Jacob M. Held, UCA Associate

Professor of Philosophy, discuss

how philosophy is being taught

through these books. Dr. Held’s

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By Susan Burks, Public Services Librarian

specialty areas include Legal and Political Phi-

losophy and Applied Ethics. His work can be

found in journals such as Vera Lex, Idealistic

Studies, Radical Philosophy Review and Public

Affairs Quarterly. He also edits the journal, Dr.

Seuss and Philosophy: Oh, the

Thinks You can Think!

Dr. Held will be giving a presen-

tation entitled “PhiloSeussical In-

vestigations-Teaching Philosophy

through the Work of Dr. Seuss.”

We are sure to hear fascinating

thoughts on a favorite from child-

hood. Dr. Held will be speaking on

Tuesday, November 15 at 3:00

p.m. in Torreyson Library 215. It is

sure to be a good time with light

refreshments provided.

What’s New–

Databases and Electronic Resources

Digital Sanborn Maps 1867-1970—Arkansas: Sanborn fire insurance maps are the most fre-

quently consulted maps in both public and academic libraries. They are large-scale plans containing

data that can be used to estimate the potential risk for urban structures. This includes information

such as the outline of each building, the size, shape and construction materials, heights, and func-

tion of structures, location of windows and doors. The maps also give street names, street and side-

walk widths, property boundaries, building use, and house and block numbers.

Naxos Video Library: An extensive streaming video library of classical music performances, opera,

ballet, live concerts and documentaries. Researchers can view over 1,335 full-length videos, and

search videos by category, role, composer, artist, production personnel, work, venue or festival.

What’s New– Services

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LF Paid for with student library fees.

Café style booths. LF

10 new MacBooks LF

for checkout in addition to the 20

PC laptops the library already owns.

Comfortable sofas and chairs. LF

5 new calculators for checkout. LF

1 TI-84

2 TI-83

2 TI-89

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What’s New-Books -1493 : uncovering the new world Columbus

created / Charles C. Mann. -After the orange glow / Mark Spitzer. -The age of movies : selected writings of Paul-

ine Kael / edited by Sanford Schwartz. -Arkansas autumn : spectacular fall photos of

"the natural state" / Tim Ernst. -The arrogant years : one girl's search for her

lost youth from Cairo to Brooklyn / Lucette Lagnado.

-Belong to me : a novel / Maria de los Santos. -The best of me / Nicholas Sparks. -Birds of paradise : a novel / Diana Abu-Jaber. -Blind faith / CJ Lyons. -Caim. [English: Cain] / José Saramago ; trans-

lated from the Portugese by Margaret Jull Costa.

-The Christmas wedding / James Patterson and Richard DiLallo.

-The digital condition : class and culture in the information network / Robert Wilkie.

-Down these strange streets / edited by George R.R. Martin and Gardner Dozois.

-Drinking girls and their dresses : poems / Heather Sellers.

-Free for all : Joe Papp, the public, and the greatest theater story ever told / Kenneth Tu-ran and Joseph Papp ; with the assistance of Gail Merrifield Papp.

--The future of the page / edited by Peter Stoi-cheff and Andrew Taylor.

-Gadget nation : a journey through the eccentric world of invention / Steve Greenberg.

-Good morning midnight / Jean Rhys. -Heat rises / Richard Castle. -Howard Cosell : the man, the myth, and the

transformation of American sports / Mark Ri-bowsky.

-Instruments of darkness / Imogen Robertson. -Jacqueline Kennedy : historic conversations on

life with John F. Kennedy interviews with Ar-thur M. Schlesinger Jr. 1964 / Jacqueline Kennedy ; foreword by Caroline Kennedy ; introduction and annotations by Michael Bes-chloss.

-Jagger : rebel rock star rambler rogue / Marc Spitz. -Jamrach's menagerie : a novel / Carol Birch. -Kate : the making of a princess / Claudia Jo-

seph. -Lethal / Sandra Brown. -Life itself : a memoir / Roger Ebert. -Lives other than my own / Emmanuel Carrère ;

translated by Linda Coverdale. -The manga guide to calculus / Hiroyuki Kojima,

[illustrator] Shin Togami, Becom Co., Ltd. -Michelle : a biography / Liza Mundy. -My friend Michael : growing up with the king of

pop / by Frank Cascio. -The night circus : a novel / Erin Morgenstern. -Obama and the Middle East / Fawaz Gerges. -The official rules of Major League Baseball. -Pigeon English / Stephen Kelman. -Rin Tin Tin : the life and the legend / Susan Or-

lean. -Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2012. -The Rosetta key / William Dietrich. -Sarah's key / Tatiana de Rosnay. -The sense of an ending / Julian Barnes. -The sisters brothers / Patrick deWitt. -Sixkill / Robert B. Parker. -Snowdrops : a novel / A.D. Miller. -Statistics deMystified: hard stuff made easy -To die in Mexico : dispatches from inside the

drug war / John Gibler. -Tutu : authorized / Allister Sparks & Mpho Tu-

tu ; foreword by Bono ; introduction by His Holiness the Fourteenth Dalai Lama.

-A voice in the box : my life in radio / Bob Ed-wards.

-The wicked wit of Winston Churchill / compiled edited and introduced by Dominique En-right.

-Zombies! zombies! zombies! / edited with an introduction by Otto Penzler.

...and many more

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What’s New-DVDs -5 Day Fit Chi -300 -Affliction -Akeelah and the Bee -Alice in Wonderland (2010) -All About My Mother -And the Band Played On -Angels & Demons -The Assassination of Jesse James by the

Coward Robert Ford -August Rush -Blade Trinity -Blue Valentine: A Love Story -Book Of Eli -Bridesmaids -Burn Notice: Seasons 1-4 -Castle in the Sky -Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian -Chronicles Of Narnia: The Voyage of the

Dawn Treader -Class -Coraline -The Da Vinci Code -Dark Knight -Death at a Funeral -Dexter: The First Season -Donnie Brasco -Eat Pray Love -Eclipse -The Fighter -A Fish Called Wanda -Frost / Nixon -The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest -The Girl Who Played with Fire -The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo -Grapes of Wrath -Great Expectations -Harry Potter and the Chamber Of Secrets -Harry Potter and the Goblet Of Fire -Harry Potter and the Prisoner Of Azkaban -Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone -Horrible Bosses -Inglourious Basterds -The Kennedys

Design graphics by Amanda Schueneman, Archives Assistant

-Lars and the Real Girl -The Last Emperor -The Lincoln Lawyer -Love is a Many Splendored Thing -Maria Full of Grace -Masterpiece Classic: Downton Abbey -My Sister's Keeper -New Moon -Northanger Abbey -The Old Curiosity Shop -The Other Boleyn Girl -Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin

Hood Hills -The Polar Express -Priest -Rabbit Hole -Revolutionary Road -The Savages -Scott Pilgrim vs. the World -The Secret Garden -Shadow of the Vampire -Sixteen Candles -Sixth Sense -Splinter -Taken -Terminator 2 -Thor -The Time Traveler's Wife -Tremors -Trudie Styler's Weight Loss Yoga -True Blood: Seasons 1-3 -True Grit -Twilight -Unknown -Walking Dead: The Complete First Season -Watchmen

Did You Know…

All students, faculty and staff are welcome to

check out DVDs from the UCA Library. There

is a check out period of two days with a limit of

two DVDS at a time.