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
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.
Martha Andrews Named to State Advisory Board
The NMSU Library’s University Archivist, Martha Shipman Andrews, has been appointed to the New Mexico Historical Records Advisory Board (NMHRAB) by Governor Susana Martinez.
Martha Andrews
NMHRAB is New Mexico’s advisory board to the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC), a branch of the National Archives and Records Administration.
NMHRAB reviews grant proposals for projects that identify, preserve, increase accessibility to and promote the use of New Mexico’s historical records and documents. These documents chronicle important historical developments, represent the heritage of our state and provide valuable insight into New Mexico’s cultures.
Andrews has been with the NMSU Library since 2004. She came to NMSU from The Madeira School in McLean, Virginia. A graduate of Wellesley College, Andrews received a master’s degree in library and information science with a concentration in archival studies from the University of Pittsburgh.
Andrews edited Out of the Shadows: The Women of Southern New Mexico (Rio Grande Books/NMSU Library, 2012) and The Whole Damned World: New Mexico Aggies at War, 1941-1945: World War II Correspondence of Dean Daniel B. Jett (Rio Grande Books/NMSU Library, 2009).
For more information, contact Andrews at (575) 646-5028.
Norice Lee Named NMSU Library Associate Dean
Norice Lee
Norice Lee has been appointed Associate Dean of the Library after serving for a year as Interim Associate Dean. Previously, she served as the department head of the Access Services Department.
Lee began her library career at the NMSU Library, working in Interlibrary Loan, Cataloging and Serials. Lee then worked at Doña Ana Community College, where she began as a library specialist, then became assistant librarian and then library director.
She earned her master’s degree in library and information science from the University of Texas at Austin in 1996. She has also worked as the regional branch library manager for the western region of the El Paso Public Library.
Lee brings leadership, energy, vision and a spirit of teamwork to her professional accomplishments. She has served as the chair of the New Mexico Consortium of Academic Libraries and is currently the Treasurer of the New Mexico Library Association. She has organized many library projects, including the community college/public library in Sunland Park, and was the first chair of the Border Health Information and Education Network executive board.
One of her projects as Associate Dean is the initiation of a series of staff development programs known as NMSU Library U. For more information, contact Lee at (575) 646-1508.
GO Bond B Helps New Mexico Libraries
NMSU students for libraries
Publicly funded libraries throughout New Mexico, including the NMSU University Library and NMSU-affiliated libraries, will benefit from passage of General Obligation Bond B on the November 6 ballot.
GO Bond B proposes a total of $9 million in funding for publicly funded libraries in New Mexico. $3 million in funding is requested for each of three groups of publicly funded libraries—academic libraries, school libraries and public libraries— for the purchase of library materials. $700,000 million is requested for tribal libraries for the purchase of library materials and construction.
If Bond B is approved, 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.
GO Bond B will cost taxpayers 56 cents per $100,000 of their assessed property value. GO Bonds provide up to 25% of New Mexico academic library materials. The bond will enable publicly funded libraries to support students and faculty by updating book and journal collections and subscribing to information databases.
“The NMSU Library relies on bond funds in order to maintain its collection. We encourage New Mexicans to get out and vote on November 6,” said NMSU Library Dean Elizabeth A. Titus.
Bond B has been endorsed by the New Mexico Municipal League, the New Mexico Library Association, the New Mexico Consortium of Academic Libraries and the New Mexico Task Force for School Libraries.
The statewide Bonds for Libraries Special Interest Group of the New Mexico Library Association is conducting an informational campaign to assist library supporters in providing voter information about GO Bond B. For more information, visit the group’s the Web site at http://www.bondsforlibraries.org/.