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March/April 1999 edition Western Carolina University Friends of Hunter Library Feature Award-Winning Author at Annual Event n Robert Morgan Johns Hopkins University Press Journals Available Online by Nancy Newsome, Serials Librarian n Statistical Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 n FHL Donation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 n Great Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 n Shared Medical URL’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 n Spec. Collections Additions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 n PC Tip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 n Presentations & Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 n Poetry Month Exhibits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 n Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . mailing page In This Issue Robert Morgan, award-winning author of fiction and po-etry, will be featured speaker at this year’s annual Meeting of Friends of Hunter Library. The Truest Pleasure, Morgan’s Hunter Library has purchased access to Here’s a list of available titles: American Imago American Jewish History American Journal of Mathematics American Journal of Philology American Quarterly Arethusa Bulletin of the History of Medicine Callaloo Configurations Diacritics Eighteenth-Century Life Eighteenth-Century Studies ELH (English Literary History) Emily Dickinson Journal The Henry James Review Human Rights Quarterly Imagine Journal of Asian American Studies Journal of Democracy Journal of Early Christian Studies Journal of the History of Ideas Journal of Modern Greek Studies Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Late Imperial China The Lion and the Unicorn Literature and Medicine Milton Quarterly Modern Fiction Studies Modern Judaism MLN Modernism/Modernity New Literary History PAJ (formerly Performing Arts Journal) Philosophy and Literature Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology Postmodern Culture The Review of Higher Education Reviews in American History SAIS Review Technology and Culture Theatre Journal Theatre Topics Theory & Event Wide Angle World Politics The Yale Journal of Criticism Project Muse, a periodical database containing the full text of the Johns Hopkins University Press scholarly jour-nals. The database contains 40+ journals in the humani-ties, the social sciences, and mathematics, beginning with 1995 issues. Users are able to perform keyword and bool-ean searching; search full text across all journals in the database, selected journal titles, or a single title; search tables of contents of articles and book reviews by author and title as well as by Library of Congress subject head-ings; and use hypertext links to move between the tables of contents and articles, or among article bibliographies, citations, endnotes, and illustrations. From any campus computer, you can access Project Muse or any of the titles individually via InfoHunter, the library’s Web page, either under “Online Resources,” or through the “Library Catalog.” Off campus, it can be accessed using the new proxy service announced in the last issue of Hunter’s Clarion. In InfoHunter you’ll just need to click on “Online Resources,” then “Databases Available to Off-Campus Users,” and follow the instructions. best seller, was a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. He is a North Carolina native, a Cornell Professor of En-glish and a notable speaker. Members of Friends of Hunter Library, faculty, staff and stu-dents are cordially invited to at-tend this event to be held Sun-day, April 25, 1999 from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. at the Mountain Heri-tage Center. Memberships will be available and light refresh-ments will be served following Robert Morgan’s presentation. by Linda Gillman n Hunter Library Statistical informa-tion on the state of North Carolina is available from mul-tiple state and federal agencies on the Internet. Over the next few issues we will be listing re-sources, some with Web sites, in various subject areas on North Carolina Counties & Cities Statistical Information Old North State: State, County, and Local Information-May 15,1998 page 2 n Funding for Major Library Purchase provided by North Carolina Counties and Cities Statistical In-formation, compiled by Alex Hess, Acting Librar-ian from the Institute of Government. For addi-tional information on any of these sites or to suggest a recommenda-tion for best sites, please call Nancy Kolenbrander at 7252. Government: Directory of North Carolina County Officials, North Carolina Association of County Officials, P.O. Box 1488, Raleigh,NC, 27602- 1488 (919-715-2893; Fax 919-733-1065) (annual) Directory of North Carolina Municipal Officials and Buyer’s Guide, North Carolina League of Municipalities, P.O. Box 3069, Ra-leigh, NC, 27602 (919-715-4000; Fax 919-733-9519) (or to order via the Internet: http://ncinfo.iog.unc.edu/NCLM/Pubs/pubs.html (an-nual) Directory of State and County Officials of North Carolina, N.C. Dept. of the Secretary of State, Legislative Office Bldg., 300 N. Salisbury St., Raleigh, NC, 27603-5909 (919-733-4098; Fax 919- 733-4092) or online at: http://www.secstate.state.nc.us/secstate/toc.htm (annual) The Municipal Yearbook, International City/County Management Association (ICMA), 777 North Capitol Street, NE, Suite 500, Wash-ington, DC, 20002-4201. (annual) Health: North Carolina Health Statistics Pocket Guide, State Center for Health Statistics, N.C. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 222 N. Dawson St., P.O. Box 29538, Raleigh, N.C., 27626-0538 (919- 733-4728; Fax 919-733-8485) North Carolina Vital Statistics, Volumes 1 & 2, State Center for Health Statistics (and Div. of Epidemiology), N.C. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 222 N. Dawson St., P.O. Box 29538, Raleigh, N.C., 27626-0538 (919-733-4728; Fax 919733-8485) State Center for Health Statistics Reports and Publications (Still in the Process of Posting), State Center for Health Statis-tics, N.C. Dept. of Health and Human Services http://hermes.sches.ehnr.state.nc.us/SCHS/pubs2.html n Hunter Library’s newly ac-quired collection of 2,670 rolls of Revolutionary War microfilm will be housed in lovely new cabinets provided by funding from Friends of Hunter Library. Friends, which exists for the purpose of raising funds to provide the library with special items not funded by the state, is particularly pleased to provide fund-ing to protect and house this very major acqui-sition and research resource. Friends also pro-vided funding for 15 rolls of the Southern Pres-byterian Review, another new and valuable re-search resource that will also be housed in the new microfilm cabinets. As you can readily see, the work of Friends is important to the ever-increasing value and availability of the special collections of Hunter Library. The FHL board of advisors thanks those of you who have made these purchases pos-sible through your generous donations and con-tinued support of the Friends of Hunter Library. It was you who made these wonderful gifts to the library possible. If you are not already a member of Friends, it is very easy to become a Friend--just send us your check for $15.00 per person and you will join our very special family of library support-ers! And, yes, we hope you will also make a donation over and above your dues so that the Friends can continue to expand our funding of the library’s special needs. by Linda Gillman Concordances of Great Books by Jon Horstman, Government Documents The Concordances of Great Books is an online searchable index of eighty-six authors and 200 full texts. William A. Williams, Jr. began the project to make texts related to the Mormon religion more accessible for scholarly study. From there he branched out to include American, Eu-ropean, and classical literature texts that are no longer under copyright. Williams’ collection includes works by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Tacitus, Herman Melville, George Eliot, and the Bronte sisters. The Concordances of Great Books is located at http://www.concordance.com/ n page3 Biologists, Bio-technologists, and Health Professionals: n by Clarissa Fisher, Administrative Librarian The Federal Government maintains three terrific centers to assist researchers in accessing information, seeking fund-ing, and for finding the latest in shared clinical and ge-netic information. The National Library of Medicine, The National Center for Biotechnology Information and the Na-tional Institutes of Health each have different but related goals affecting our health and well-being. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) located in Bethesda, Maryland, on the campus of the National Insti-tutes of Health is the world’s largest medical library. NLM is a leading provider of data-bases in the health and sci-entific fields, and most if not all of its databases may be accessed via the Internet for free. The primary database is MEDLINE which allows access to journal article refer-ences on specific topics. It has over nine million citations dating back into the early 1960’s. Through the World Wide Web site at http:// www.nlm.nih.gov some 350,000 searches are being performed daily. The MEDLINE database is also available from the library homepage under “Online Resources.” Some of the other databases available at this site in-clude HSTAT, a full-text database of clinical practice guide-lines, technology assessments, consensus conference re-ports, and treatment protocols; TOXNET, a database for toxicological information; and CANCERLIT, a bibliographic database of cancer articles. CANCERNET contains the Phy-sician Data Query (PDQ) with comprehensive, accurate, can-cer information for practitioners and for patients. Also included in this database are the current cancer trials that are being conducted in the U.S.A. along with the admis-sion criteria. AIDSLINE, AIDSDRUGS, and AIDS TRIALS provide information in the HIV/AIDS area. HealthSTAR is a bibliographic database of literature in healthcare delivery and administration. HSRProj is a database of research-in-progress funded by federal, state, and private organiza-tions, and foundation grants. It also provides access to early research results. Other specialty databases include BIOETHICSLINE for eth-ics in the sciences, DIRLINE a database of directory infor-mation for healthcare facilities and providers, and POPLINE. Three Great URL’s for Your Information Needs. INTERNET GRATEFUL MED provides access to most of the databases mentioned above. It has a user-friendly search engine that requires registration but is free. PUBMED is another search engine that provides access to MEDLINE. Both of these search engines take advan-tage of all the many helpful characteristics of the data-bases that make information retrieval more specific and complete. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is “made to order” for those interested in mo-lecular biology, biochemistry or genetics. This system stores knowledge about each of the fields including ana-lyzing the structure and function of biologically impor-tant molecules. Databases available include GENBANK, the DNA sequencing database, the ONLINE MENDELIAN INHERITANCE IN MAN (OMIM), the MOLECULAR MODEL-ING DATABASE (MMDB) of 3D protein structures, the unique HUMAN GENE SEQUENCE COLLECTION (UNIGENE), and the GENE MAP OF THE HUMAN GENOME. These data-bases may be accessed from the NCBI home page at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov using the ENTREZ search and retrieval system. BLAST is a program provided for sequencing similarity searching. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has as its goal to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diag-nose and treat disease and disability. It funds research through 24 separate Institutes, Centers and Divisions including the National Cancer Institute, Na-tional Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Mental Health, and National Institute on Aging, to name a few. Each in-stitute, center or division has its own separate homepage loaded with various kinds of information. Go to the NIH home page at http://www.nih.gov/ to investigate this useful information. page4 n Recent Additions to Special Collections by George Frizzell, Special Collections Tina and Lance Holland donated the records of the Bemis Hardwood Lumber Company and Graham County Railroad Company. The majority of the records date from the 1920s into the 1970s, and include correspon-dence, annual reports, deeds, financial statements, sales, general railroad information, and publications about the timber industry. This important and extensive collec-tion reinforces Special Collections’ commitment to docu-menting industrial and business developments in west-ern North Carolina. n n n The Bemis Hardwood Lumber Company was incorpo-rated in 1926 and began operations in 1927. It played a vital role in Graham County’s economic development. A 1990 newspaper article referred to the Bemis com-pany as “the oldest continuously operating sawmill in Western North Carolina” and noted that “the company brought the first electricity, railroad, doctor and hotel to Graham County.” The Graham County Railroad Company operated a 12.13-mile system that ran from Robbinsville to its link at Topton, North Carolina with the Southern Railway. The line was envisioned and charted as early as 1905, but it was not completed until the Bemis company ac-quired the line and made it operational in 1925. In its final years, the Graham County Railroad was one of the last logging operations to use rail lines and to use steam engines rather than diesel. In 1987 the rail line was dismantled and the ties and rails sold. For additional reading on the Bemis Hardwood Lum-ber Company and the GCRR, see, (a) “Lament for the Graham County Line,” The State, February 1, 1971, pp. 9-10 & 31; (b) “Rails to the Wilderness,” The State, October 1, 1969, pp. 8-10; (c) Graham County Centen-nial, 1872-1972, “Bemis Hardwood Lumber Company” on pp. 99-101 and “The Graham County Railroad Com-pany” on pp. 96-97; (d) Cary Franklin Poole, A History of Railroad in Western North Carolina,” pages 164-171; (e) “Old Graham Railroad Dismantled,” Asheville Citi-zen- Times, October 3, 1987; (f) “Lumber Company Gets New Life,” Asheville Citizen-Times, July 13, 1990. Dr. Frederick Harrison donated the research materials and drafts used in the production of his award win-ning 15-volume encyclopedia set Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates, published by John Wiley & Sons. MAI is the definitive work of its field. The completed vol-umes may be found in Hunter Library’s Reference de-partment (REF QL 363 .M53). In addition to the docu-mentation on the encyclopedia, the donation includes over 1,000 reprints and publications in biology. These publications date from 1900 to the present and are pre-sented in a dozen languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Japanese, Russian, etc.) Mr. William Paulk donated a variety of literary works. Included in the selections are limited edition copies of his award-winning books of poetry, such as the “num-ber 1” copy of Green Jade Bowl and signed & num-bered copies of Earth-Chant and Six Poems and a Frag-ment. Other items include hard-to-find literary jour-nals, issues of WCU’s Catastrophe from the 1950s (the predecessor of the current Nomad), and an illustrated Short Stories by Walt Whitman. Good news for devotees of Sue Ellen Bridgers. Several of Bridgers’ books are again available through Replica Books, a division of Baker & Taylor. Replica Books main-tains a computer database with the text of the novels. Books are printed “on demand” and individually bound. Titles again available and currently in Special Collec-tions are Home Before Dark (1976), Permanent Connec-tions (1987), and Keeping Christina (1993). Special Collections houses the Sue Ellen Bridgers collection, which contains drafts and revisions of her manuscripts and various printings of her novels. The office also has acquired literary analyses of Bridgers’ works, which in-clude two doctoral dissertations. n page5 n PC Tip! by Robin Hitch, Computer Support Technician Jill Ellern, Systems Librarian, and Nancy Newsome, Serials Librarian, gave a presentation on The Im-pact of NCLive on Serials Collection Development at the 8th North Carolina Serials Conference in Chapel Hill, NC, on March 4, 1999. Hunter Library Exhibits April is National Poetry Month spearheaded by the Academy of American Poets. Hunter Library joins this national celebration by presenting an exhibit featur-ing the lives and work of distinguished American poets including Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Langston Hughes and Robert Frost. Highlighting the exhibit in the cases by the stairwell will be cards in Walt Whitman’s handwriting housed in Special Collections and a book of poems by WCU’s founding President, Robert Lee Madi-son. There will also be a poster and a basket of indi-vidual poems free for the taking with an invitation to leave some of your own favorite poems for others to take. In additional exhibits around the library, you will find “Rick Harrison’s Water Log” in Special Collections, “Deserts” in the Map Room exhibit case, and “Garden-ing” in the Curriculum Materials Center. Next time you are in the library, stop by and see these exhibits. During the summer, we will feature the annual Sum-mer Reading Exhibit with lists of Suggested Reading and a cart full of books ready for you to take home and enjoy. by Nan Watkins, Reference Librarian Most of the time, when I want to replace or move text, I use the Cut and Paste option. However, I have found a more specialized way to move text around in Word 97. This unique feature called Spike allows the user to select and store multiple text entries onto the clipboard and paste them as a group to a new location. To add text to the Spike, select the text you want to move and press Ctrl + F3. Do the same for each item you want to add to the Spike, making sure to add the items in the order you want them to ap-pear when pasted. This will cut the text from your document! Never-theless, do not fear. Position the insertion point where you want the contents placed. Press Ctrl + Shift + F3. This will place the contents where the insertion point is and empty the Spike. Alternately, there is a more complicated way of pasting the contents of the Spike. Again, position the insertion point where you want the contents placed. Then, click Insert on the menu bar and select AutoText. Then select AutoText from the submenu. From the list, scroll down to select Spike, and then choose, Insert. If you plan to paste more than once, key the word Spike and press F3 at the desired insertion points. You may paste the same group as many times as you like, although you must empty the Spike to add a new set of text to it. This shortcut feature comes in handy when you have a long list of items and need to move only certain items off the list. Or, if you have numerous sentences and/or paragraphs that need to be rearranged in a particular order. So, the next time you have multiple text lines to be rearranged, try Spike, you might be surprised how convenient this feature truly is. Editors: Nancy Newsome & Lorna Dorr Technical Assistant: Jane Kneller Hunter’s Clarion Hunter Library Western Carolina University Cullowhee, NC 28723 Extended Hours Monday, April 5 to Friday, May 7 Exam Week Saturday, May 8 10:00 a.m. - Midnight Sunday, May 9 open Noon - ROUND THE CLOCK (until) Friday, May 14 - close 6:30 p.m. Commencement Sat./Sun., May 15/16 Closed Intersession Monday, May 17 to 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sunday, May 30 Closed Weekends Monday, May 31 to Standard Summer Friday, August 6 Hours Commencement Sat./Sun., August 7/8 Closed Monday, August 9 to 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sunday, August 15 Closed Weekends Monday, August 16 to Wednesday, August 18 8:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. HUNTER LIBRARY HOURS Spring 1999 Extended Hours Monday through Thursday 8:00a.m.-2:00a.m. Friday 8:00a.m.-9:00p.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m. Sunday Noon - 2:00 a.m. Standard Summer Hours Monday through Thursday 8:00a.m.- Midnight Friday 8:00a.m. - 6:00p.m. Saturday 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Sunday 2:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
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Full Text | March/April 1999 edition Western Carolina University Friends of Hunter Library Feature Award-Winning Author at Annual Event n Robert Morgan Johns Hopkins University Press Journals Available Online by Nancy Newsome, Serials Librarian n Statistical Corner . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 n FHL Donation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 n Great Books . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2 n Shared Medical URL’s . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3 n Spec. Collections Additions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4 n PC Tip . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 n Presentations & Publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 n Poetry Month Exhibits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 n Hours . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . mailing page In This Issue Robert Morgan, award-winning author of fiction and po-etry, will be featured speaker at this year’s annual Meeting of Friends of Hunter Library. The Truest Pleasure, Morgan’s Hunter Library has purchased access to Here’s a list of available titles: American Imago American Jewish History American Journal of Mathematics American Journal of Philology American Quarterly Arethusa Bulletin of the History of Medicine Callaloo Configurations Diacritics Eighteenth-Century Life Eighteenth-Century Studies ELH (English Literary History) Emily Dickinson Journal The Henry James Review Human Rights Quarterly Imagine Journal of Asian American Studies Journal of Democracy Journal of Early Christian Studies Journal of the History of Ideas Journal of Modern Greek Studies Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal Late Imperial China The Lion and the Unicorn Literature and Medicine Milton Quarterly Modern Fiction Studies Modern Judaism MLN Modernism/Modernity New Literary History PAJ (formerly Performing Arts Journal) Philosophy and Literature Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology Postmodern Culture The Review of Higher Education Reviews in American History SAIS Review Technology and Culture Theatre Journal Theatre Topics Theory & Event Wide Angle World Politics The Yale Journal of Criticism Project Muse, a periodical database containing the full text of the Johns Hopkins University Press scholarly jour-nals. The database contains 40+ journals in the humani-ties, the social sciences, and mathematics, beginning with 1995 issues. Users are able to perform keyword and bool-ean searching; search full text across all journals in the database, selected journal titles, or a single title; search tables of contents of articles and book reviews by author and title as well as by Library of Congress subject head-ings; and use hypertext links to move between the tables of contents and articles, or among article bibliographies, citations, endnotes, and illustrations. From any campus computer, you can access Project Muse or any of the titles individually via InfoHunter, the library’s Web page, either under “Online Resources,” or through the “Library Catalog.” Off campus, it can be accessed using the new proxy service announced in the last issue of Hunter’s Clarion. In InfoHunter you’ll just need to click on “Online Resources,” then “Databases Available to Off-Campus Users,” and follow the instructions. best seller, was a finalist for the Southern Book Critics Circle Award. He is a North Carolina native, a Cornell Professor of En-glish and a notable speaker. Members of Friends of Hunter Library, faculty, staff and stu-dents are cordially invited to at-tend this event to be held Sun-day, April 25, 1999 from 2:00 - 4:00 p.m. at the Mountain Heri-tage Center. Memberships will be available and light refresh-ments will be served following Robert Morgan’s presentation. by Linda Gillman n Hunter Library Statistical informa-tion on the state of North Carolina is available from mul-tiple state and federal agencies on the Internet. Over the next few issues we will be listing re-sources, some with Web sites, in various subject areas on North Carolina Counties & Cities Statistical Information Old North State: State, County, and Local Information-May 15,1998 page 2 n Funding for Major Library Purchase provided by North Carolina Counties and Cities Statistical In-formation, compiled by Alex Hess, Acting Librar-ian from the Institute of Government. For addi-tional information on any of these sites or to suggest a recommenda-tion for best sites, please call Nancy Kolenbrander at 7252. Government: Directory of North Carolina County Officials, North Carolina Association of County Officials, P.O. Box 1488, Raleigh,NC, 27602- 1488 (919-715-2893; Fax 919-733-1065) (annual) Directory of North Carolina Municipal Officials and Buyer’s Guide, North Carolina League of Municipalities, P.O. Box 3069, Ra-leigh, NC, 27602 (919-715-4000; Fax 919-733-9519) (or to order via the Internet: http://ncinfo.iog.unc.edu/NCLM/Pubs/pubs.html (an-nual) Directory of State and County Officials of North Carolina, N.C. Dept. of the Secretary of State, Legislative Office Bldg., 300 N. Salisbury St., Raleigh, NC, 27603-5909 (919-733-4098; Fax 919- 733-4092) or online at: http://www.secstate.state.nc.us/secstate/toc.htm (annual) The Municipal Yearbook, International City/County Management Association (ICMA), 777 North Capitol Street, NE, Suite 500, Wash-ington, DC, 20002-4201. (annual) Health: North Carolina Health Statistics Pocket Guide, State Center for Health Statistics, N.C. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 222 N. Dawson St., P.O. Box 29538, Raleigh, N.C., 27626-0538 (919- 733-4728; Fax 919-733-8485) North Carolina Vital Statistics, Volumes 1 & 2, State Center for Health Statistics (and Div. of Epidemiology), N.C. Dept. of Health and Human Services, 222 N. Dawson St., P.O. Box 29538, Raleigh, N.C., 27626-0538 (919-733-4728; Fax 919733-8485) State Center for Health Statistics Reports and Publications (Still in the Process of Posting), State Center for Health Statis-tics, N.C. Dept. of Health and Human Services http://hermes.sches.ehnr.state.nc.us/SCHS/pubs2.html n Hunter Library’s newly ac-quired collection of 2,670 rolls of Revolutionary War microfilm will be housed in lovely new cabinets provided by funding from Friends of Hunter Library. Friends, which exists for the purpose of raising funds to provide the library with special items not funded by the state, is particularly pleased to provide fund-ing to protect and house this very major acqui-sition and research resource. Friends also pro-vided funding for 15 rolls of the Southern Pres-byterian Review, another new and valuable re-search resource that will also be housed in the new microfilm cabinets. As you can readily see, the work of Friends is important to the ever-increasing value and availability of the special collections of Hunter Library. The FHL board of advisors thanks those of you who have made these purchases pos-sible through your generous donations and con-tinued support of the Friends of Hunter Library. It was you who made these wonderful gifts to the library possible. If you are not already a member of Friends, it is very easy to become a Friend--just send us your check for $15.00 per person and you will join our very special family of library support-ers! And, yes, we hope you will also make a donation over and above your dues so that the Friends can continue to expand our funding of the library’s special needs. by Linda Gillman Concordances of Great Books by Jon Horstman, Government Documents The Concordances of Great Books is an online searchable index of eighty-six authors and 200 full texts. William A. Williams, Jr. began the project to make texts related to the Mormon religion more accessible for scholarly study. From there he branched out to include American, Eu-ropean, and classical literature texts that are no longer under copyright. Williams’ collection includes works by Jane Austen, Charles Dickens, Shakespeare, Victor Hugo, Mark Twain, Arthur Conan Doyle, Tacitus, Herman Melville, George Eliot, and the Bronte sisters. The Concordances of Great Books is located at http://www.concordance.com/ n page3 Biologists, Bio-technologists, and Health Professionals: n by Clarissa Fisher, Administrative Librarian The Federal Government maintains three terrific centers to assist researchers in accessing information, seeking fund-ing, and for finding the latest in shared clinical and ge-netic information. The National Library of Medicine, The National Center for Biotechnology Information and the Na-tional Institutes of Health each have different but related goals affecting our health and well-being. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) located in Bethesda, Maryland, on the campus of the National Insti-tutes of Health is the world’s largest medical library. NLM is a leading provider of data-bases in the health and sci-entific fields, and most if not all of its databases may be accessed via the Internet for free. The primary database is MEDLINE which allows access to journal article refer-ences on specific topics. It has over nine million citations dating back into the early 1960’s. Through the World Wide Web site at http:// www.nlm.nih.gov some 350,000 searches are being performed daily. The MEDLINE database is also available from the library homepage under “Online Resources.” Some of the other databases available at this site in-clude HSTAT, a full-text database of clinical practice guide-lines, technology assessments, consensus conference re-ports, and treatment protocols; TOXNET, a database for toxicological information; and CANCERLIT, a bibliographic database of cancer articles. CANCERNET contains the Phy-sician Data Query (PDQ) with comprehensive, accurate, can-cer information for practitioners and for patients. Also included in this database are the current cancer trials that are being conducted in the U.S.A. along with the admis-sion criteria. AIDSLINE, AIDSDRUGS, and AIDS TRIALS provide information in the HIV/AIDS area. HealthSTAR is a bibliographic database of literature in healthcare delivery and administration. HSRProj is a database of research-in-progress funded by federal, state, and private organiza-tions, and foundation grants. It also provides access to early research results. Other specialty databases include BIOETHICSLINE for eth-ics in the sciences, DIRLINE a database of directory infor-mation for healthcare facilities and providers, and POPLINE. Three Great URL’s for Your Information Needs. INTERNET GRATEFUL MED provides access to most of the databases mentioned above. It has a user-friendly search engine that requires registration but is free. PUBMED is another search engine that provides access to MEDLINE. Both of these search engines take advan-tage of all the many helpful characteristics of the data-bases that make information retrieval more specific and complete. The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) is “made to order” for those interested in mo-lecular biology, biochemistry or genetics. This system stores knowledge about each of the fields including ana-lyzing the structure and function of biologically impor-tant molecules. Databases available include GENBANK, the DNA sequencing database, the ONLINE MENDELIAN INHERITANCE IN MAN (OMIM), the MOLECULAR MODEL-ING DATABASE (MMDB) of 3D protein structures, the unique HUMAN GENE SEQUENCE COLLECTION (UNIGENE), and the GENE MAP OF THE HUMAN GENOME. These data-bases may be accessed from the NCBI home page at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov using the ENTREZ search and retrieval system. BLAST is a program provided for sequencing similarity searching. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) has as its goal to acquire new knowledge to help prevent, detect, diag-nose and treat disease and disability. It funds research through 24 separate Institutes, Centers and Divisions including the National Cancer Institute, Na-tional Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institute of Mental Health, and National Institute on Aging, to name a few. Each in-stitute, center or division has its own separate homepage loaded with various kinds of information. Go to the NIH home page at http://www.nih.gov/ to investigate this useful information. page4 n Recent Additions to Special Collections by George Frizzell, Special Collections Tina and Lance Holland donated the records of the Bemis Hardwood Lumber Company and Graham County Railroad Company. The majority of the records date from the 1920s into the 1970s, and include correspon-dence, annual reports, deeds, financial statements, sales, general railroad information, and publications about the timber industry. This important and extensive collec-tion reinforces Special Collections’ commitment to docu-menting industrial and business developments in west-ern North Carolina. n n n The Bemis Hardwood Lumber Company was incorpo-rated in 1926 and began operations in 1927. It played a vital role in Graham County’s economic development. A 1990 newspaper article referred to the Bemis com-pany as “the oldest continuously operating sawmill in Western North Carolina” and noted that “the company brought the first electricity, railroad, doctor and hotel to Graham County.” The Graham County Railroad Company operated a 12.13-mile system that ran from Robbinsville to its link at Topton, North Carolina with the Southern Railway. The line was envisioned and charted as early as 1905, but it was not completed until the Bemis company ac-quired the line and made it operational in 1925. In its final years, the Graham County Railroad was one of the last logging operations to use rail lines and to use steam engines rather than diesel. In 1987 the rail line was dismantled and the ties and rails sold. For additional reading on the Bemis Hardwood Lum-ber Company and the GCRR, see, (a) “Lament for the Graham County Line,” The State, February 1, 1971, pp. 9-10 & 31; (b) “Rails to the Wilderness,” The State, October 1, 1969, pp. 8-10; (c) Graham County Centen-nial, 1872-1972, “Bemis Hardwood Lumber Company” on pp. 99-101 and “The Graham County Railroad Com-pany” on pp. 96-97; (d) Cary Franklin Poole, A History of Railroad in Western North Carolina,” pages 164-171; (e) “Old Graham Railroad Dismantled,” Asheville Citi-zen- Times, October 3, 1987; (f) “Lumber Company Gets New Life,” Asheville Citizen-Times, July 13, 1990. Dr. Frederick Harrison donated the research materials and drafts used in the production of his award win-ning 15-volume encyclopedia set Microscopic Anatomy of Invertebrates, published by John Wiley & Sons. MAI is the definitive work of its field. The completed vol-umes may be found in Hunter Library’s Reference de-partment (REF QL 363 .M53). In addition to the docu-mentation on the encyclopedia, the donation includes over 1,000 reprints and publications in biology. These publications date from 1900 to the present and are pre-sented in a dozen languages (English, French, German, Dutch, Japanese, Russian, etc.) Mr. William Paulk donated a variety of literary works. Included in the selections are limited edition copies of his award-winning books of poetry, such as the “num-ber 1” copy of Green Jade Bowl and signed & num-bered copies of Earth-Chant and Six Poems and a Frag-ment. Other items include hard-to-find literary jour-nals, issues of WCU’s Catastrophe from the 1950s (the predecessor of the current Nomad), and an illustrated Short Stories by Walt Whitman. Good news for devotees of Sue Ellen Bridgers. Several of Bridgers’ books are again available through Replica Books, a division of Baker & Taylor. Replica Books main-tains a computer database with the text of the novels. Books are printed “on demand” and individually bound. Titles again available and currently in Special Collec-tions are Home Before Dark (1976), Permanent Connec-tions (1987), and Keeping Christina (1993). Special Collections houses the Sue Ellen Bridgers collection, which contains drafts and revisions of her manuscripts and various printings of her novels. The office also has acquired literary analyses of Bridgers’ works, which in-clude two doctoral dissertations. n page5 n PC Tip! by Robin Hitch, Computer Support Technician Jill Ellern, Systems Librarian, and Nancy Newsome, Serials Librarian, gave a presentation on The Im-pact of NCLive on Serials Collection Development at the 8th North Carolina Serials Conference in Chapel Hill, NC, on March 4, 1999. Hunter Library Exhibits April is National Poetry Month spearheaded by the Academy of American Poets. Hunter Library joins this national celebration by presenting an exhibit featur-ing the lives and work of distinguished American poets including Emily Dickinson, Sylvia Plath, Langston Hughes and Robert Frost. Highlighting the exhibit in the cases by the stairwell will be cards in Walt Whitman’s handwriting housed in Special Collections and a book of poems by WCU’s founding President, Robert Lee Madi-son. There will also be a poster and a basket of indi-vidual poems free for the taking with an invitation to leave some of your own favorite poems for others to take. In additional exhibits around the library, you will find “Rick Harrison’s Water Log” in Special Collections, “Deserts” in the Map Room exhibit case, and “Garden-ing” in the Curriculum Materials Center. Next time you are in the library, stop by and see these exhibits. During the summer, we will feature the annual Sum-mer Reading Exhibit with lists of Suggested Reading and a cart full of books ready for you to take home and enjoy. by Nan Watkins, Reference Librarian Most of the time, when I want to replace or move text, I use the Cut and Paste option. However, I have found a more specialized way to move text around in Word 97. This unique feature called Spike allows the user to select and store multiple text entries onto the clipboard and paste them as a group to a new location. To add text to the Spike, select the text you want to move and press Ctrl + F3. Do the same for each item you want to add to the Spike, making sure to add the items in the order you want them to ap-pear when pasted. This will cut the text from your document! Never-theless, do not fear. Position the insertion point where you want the contents placed. Press Ctrl + Shift + F3. This will place the contents where the insertion point is and empty the Spike. Alternately, there is a more complicated way of pasting the contents of the Spike. Again, position the insertion point where you want the contents placed. Then, click Insert on the menu bar and select AutoText. Then select AutoText from the submenu. From the list, scroll down to select Spike, and then choose, Insert. If you plan to paste more than once, key the word Spike and press F3 at the desired insertion points. You may paste the same group as many times as you like, although you must empty the Spike to add a new set of text to it. This shortcut feature comes in handy when you have a long list of items and need to move only certain items off the list. Or, if you have numerous sentences and/or paragraphs that need to be rearranged in a particular order. So, the next time you have multiple text lines to be rearranged, try Spike, you might be surprised how convenient this feature truly is. 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