NMSU Library Undertakes JSTOR Print Deselection Project
The NMSU Library is embarking on a deselection project of print journal volumes that are duplicated in the JSTOR online journal archive. This project is one of many the Library will be undertaking to remove content either duplicated in electronic format or no longer relevant to its collections. 
Space is limited in both Branson and Zuhl libraries. Neither building has room for growth. In 2010, a structural engineer’s report pointed out that the upper floors in both buildings were overloaded. For the past two years, the Library has moved collections to alleviate load stress on the upper floor. The Library still needs to remove about 19,000 linear feet.
In addition, the majority of Library users desire electronic access to journal titles. By withdrawing print journals available electronically, the Library will be able to free up much-needed space for effective study environments and/or more widely-used collections.
JSTOR is an online archive of fully-searchable, printable, and downloadable digitized back issues of scholarly journals in disciplines including arts and sciences, botany and ecology, general sciences and business. Originally a collaboration between the University of Michigan and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, JSTOR contains full runs of over one thousand individual journals. The NMSU Library subscribes to four JSTOR collections: Arts and Sciences I, II, III and Biological Sciences.
The Library has become a member of two important digital preservation organizations, Portico and the Western Regional Storage Trust (WEST). With JSTOR, Portico and WEST in place, the Library is in position to move forward with critical decisions related to access, storage and space. Under normal circumstances, print duplicates of journal titles which NMSU owns electronically through JSTOR will be withdrawn from the collection.
The Library is seeking NMSU faculty and student feedback on the project and journal list by December 17. Visit http://nmsu.libguides.com/jstor to learn more about the project and to provide feedback. Or contact your subject specialist (see http://lib.nmsu.edu/depts/collserv/sel-liai.shtml) with questions or feedback about specific titles or subjects in the JSTOR print deselection project.
For more information, contact Collection Development Coordinator Susan Beck at (575) 646-6171 or susabeck@nmsu.edu with overall questions or feedback about the JSTOR project.
NMSU Library Launches Ask Us! Page
The New Mexico State University Library announces its new Ask Us! web page, a convenient one-stop-shop for research and reference services. 
Find quick answers to your research questions by searching the interactive Frequently Asked Questions database or chat instantly with a librarian by using the Instant Chat service available during reference service hours.
You can also ask your question by phone, email, text or in person at the Information Desk in Zuhl Library. All contact points are found at one helpful location, http://lib.nmsu.edu/askus/, or click on the Ask Us! icon at the bottom left corner of the Library website at http://lib.nmsu.edu.
Alisa Gonzalez, Reference Coordinator, said, “Our new Ask Us! page will provide 24 hour information and research help for students, staff, faculty and community members. We are excited to provide this service and feel that it will be especially helpful for all of our online and distance education students, who often access our services when the library is closed.”
For more information, contact Gonzalez at (575) 646-6926 or email acgonzal@lib.nmsu.edu.
NMSU Library Announces Digital Collections
The New Mexico State University Library announces that several of its collections have been digitized. The Library joins hundreds of libraries, archives and museums that have launched projects to place collections on the Web.
Visit the Library’s Digital Collections website at http://lib.nmsu.edu/digitalcollections.shtml. The site currently provides access to six collections of documents and/or photographs, and a number of other important collections are in various stages of processing.
- “NMSU Extension and Experiment Stations Publications” is a collection of documents dating from 1890 to the present about agriculture, health, economics, family life and natural resources. Completion of this project will offer free online access to the searchable, full text and images of the 3,200 Cooperative Extension Service and Agricultural Experiment Station publications in the Library’s collection.
- “New Mexico Statehood Centennial” is a link to 580 historical photographs that the Library contributed to the University of New Mexico’s Centennial website.
- “NMSU Library Newsletter” contains Library newsletters from 1996 to the present. Searchable by keyword, the collection provides much information about the history of the Library’s programs and services.
- “Photographic Collections” is a collection of more than 500,000 historical photos from the Rio Grande Historical Collections that pertain to our state’s cultural heritage.
- “The Round-Up” consists of NMSU’s student newspaper The Round-Up and its predecessor The New Mexico Collegian, published since 1893. This newspaper collection, one of the most requested resources in the Archives, is an important source on the history of NMSU and regional history.
- “Zuhl Geological Collection” contains more than 2,000 images of petrified wood, fossils and minerals from the collection of Herbert and Joan Zuhl. More than 1,000 pieces from the collection can be viewed in person on campus. The majority of the pieces are at the Zuhl Museum, but don’t miss the displays in Zuhl Library as well.
We live in an increasingly digital world, and digital projects present information in new and important ways. Previously, the Library’s digitization projects were outsourced, but the Library’s new digitization lab now provides the capacity to scan materials in-house.
For more information, contact Associate Dean Norice Lee at (575) 646-1508.
NMSU Library Announces End of Semester Hours
The New Mexico State University Library announces end of semester hours for both Zuhl and Branson libraries.
• Monday, December 17, through Friday, December 21, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Saturday, December 22, through Tuesday, January 1, closed (Winter Holiday).
• Wednesday, January 2, through Friday, January 4, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Saturday, January 5, through Sunday, January 6, closed.
• Monday, January 7, through Friday, January 11, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
• Saturday, January 12, through Sunday, January 13, closed.
• Monday, January 14, through Wednesday, January 16, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Regular Library hours resume on January 17, 2013, when classes begin (closed for Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, January 21).
The Archives & Special Collections Department in Branson Library will be open by appointment only from 9 a.m. to noon and from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., December 19 through December 21, and January 2 through January 16. The Caroline E. Stras Research Room will resume regular hours, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., Monday through Friday, on January 17. Visit http://lib.nmsu.edu/depts/archives/archsvs.shtml for Archives & Special Collections hours.
The Government Documents & Maps Unit in Branson Library will be open by appointment only. Regular Documents hours will resume January 14. Visit http://lib.nmsu.edu/depts/reference/govdocs.shtml for Documents hours.
The full schedule of general Library hours is available at http://lib.nmsu.edu/aboutlib/libhours.shtml#schedule and on a voice recording at (575) 646-4749.
Library Announces Presentation on Engineering Standards
The NMSU Library will host a session on how to request engineering standards from the Library. The presentation is scheduled from 4 p.m. to 5 p.m., Thursday, December 6, in Zuhl Library Room 123.
The Library now purchases the standards you want, then gives them to you for two weeks before adding them to the reference collection. This service is available to all students, faculty and staff.
If you are a professor interested in incorporating standards into your curriculum or capstone projects, this session will be useful to you. If you might benefit from having the standard terminology and methodology at your disposal in conducting your research, this session will be useful to you.
The most recent library purchase is ANSI/TIA 942, “Telecommunications infrastructure standard for data centers.”
For more information contact Engineering Librarian Paula Johnson at paulacj@lib.nmsu.edu.
Try Campus Pick-Up Service for a Late Night Ride
Date: November 27, 2012
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Jeanette Smith, NMSU Library, (575) 646-7492, jcsmith@lib.nmsu.edu
Are you studying late at night and need a ride on the NMSU campus? Try “Pete’s Pick-Up Service” (formerly known as the ASNMSU Escort service) sponsored by ASNMSU. They will pick you up in their golf cart to get you safely to your on-campus destination.
The service offers hours that accommodate late night studying at the Library. Call Pete’s Pick-Up Service at 646-1111.
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Susan Beck Named Head of Library Access Services
Susan E. Beck is the new head of the NMSU Library’s Access Services Department, which includes the Circulation, Information Delivery Services and Reserves/Copy Services units.
Susan Beck
Beck has been with the Library since 1997, and she has served as Collection Development Coordinator, Reference & Information Services Department Head and Instruction Coordinator. She previously worked at libraries at Del Mar College in Corpus Christi, North Seattle Community College, City University of Seattle and the University of Missouri-Kansas City.
A graduate of The Evergreen State College, Beck received a master’s degree in linguistics from Ohio University and a master’s degree in library and information sciences from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
She is professionally active in the Association of College and Research Libraries and is a member of the editorial board of the journal Public Services Quarterly. Beck co-authored a book, Practical Research Methods for Librarians and Information Professionals, with Kate Manuel (NY: Neal-Schuman, 2007).
Her interests outside the Library include hiking and quilting.
For more information, contact Beck at susabeck@nmsu.edu
NMSU Library Announces Thanksgiving Holiday and Finals Hours
The New Mexico State University Library announces Thanksgiving holiday and finals week hours for Fall Semester 2012.
Thanksgiving holiday hours for both Zuhl and Branson libraries are:
Friday, November 16, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday, November 17, through Sunday, November 18, noon to 5 p.m.
Monday, November 19, through Wednesday, November 21, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Thursday, November 22, through Friday, November 23, closed.
Saturday, November 24, through Sunday, December 2, regular hours.
Extended finals week hours (Zuhl Library only) are:
Monday, December 3, through Thursday, December 6, 7:30 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Friday, December 7, 7:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Saturday, December 8, 9 a.m. to 10 p.m.
Sunday, December 9, 9 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Monday, December 10, through Wednesday, December 12, 7:30 a.m. to 2 a.m.
Thursday, December 13, regular hours
Friday, December 14, 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Saturday, December 15, through Sunday, December 16, closed.
Branson Library will maintain regular hours during finals week. Free coffee will be served during the evening hours at both Branson and Zuhl libraries from December 6 through December 13. The NMSU Alumni Association will provide free treats in both libraries from December 10 through December 12.
The Library’s Archives & Special Collections Department will be open by appointment only Monday, November 19, through Wednesday, November 21. Call the Archives staff for an appointment at (575) 646-3839. Archives & Special Collections will be closed to all users on Thursday, November 22, and Friday, November 23. The Archives reading room will resume regular hours, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., on Monday, November 26.
The full schedule of Library hours is available at http://lib.nmsu.edu/aboutlib/libhours.shtml#schedule and on a voice recording at (575) 646-4749.
Thank You, New Mexico!
Thank you to the voters of New Mexico for passing General Obligation Bond B. Our state’s libraries needed you, and you came through for us.
The $9 million in funding for publicly funded academic, public, school and tribal libraries in New Mexico will enable libraries to update their book and journal collections and subscribe to information databases.
The NMSU Library will receive approximately $386,090 and the Doña Ana Community College Library will receive $83,349. The NMSU-Alamogordo Library will receive approximately $26,442, the NMSU-Carlsbad Library will receive $13,539 and the NMSU-Grants Library will receive $10,461.
This successful initiative will make it possible for our libraries to continue to make a difference in New Mexico communities.
For more information, contact the NMSU Library Administration at (575) 646-1508.
Jeanette Smith Named Distinguished Achievement Professor
New Mexico State University Library Grants/University Relations Officer Jeanette C. Smith is one of 53 faculty members recognized in 2012 by NMSU’s Distinguished Achievement Professorship Award program. The award recognizes tenured faculty at the rank of Professor who have served at least seven years at that rank and have achieved an exceptionally outstanding record and who demonstrate a record of continued extraordinary contribution.
Smith has raised more than $1,175,000 for the Library in grants and gifts. Her work with the naming ceremony for Zuhl Library in 2000 garnered a John Cotton Dana Library Public Relations Award for the Library from the American Library Association in 2001. Her book The Laughing Librarian: A History of American Library Humor, published by the McFarland Publishing Company in 2012, has sold internationally.
Smith received a Bachelor of Science degree in English in 1968, a Master of Arts degree in English in 1970 and a Master of Arts degree in in Library Science in 1973, all from the University of Minnesota. She worked in libraries in Minnesota before moving to Las Cruces in 1983. She has been a member of the NMSU Library faculty for 29 years.
For more information, contact Library Dean Elizabeth A. Titus at (575) 646-1508.