New in the Lesley University Library

Ludcke Library -- AIB Library

Spring 2008

Greetings from the Lesley Library! We have renewed spaces, new staff, and new resources to support you and your students in teaching and learning. We have worked all year to strengthen the collections in both libraries, and to build access to new high-quality electronic resources for students and faculty.

1. More space for students in Ludcke Library

   We have rearranged the 1st floor reference area to make more space for students to study. Collections have been moved to the periphery. Bound journals pre-1998 are in the basement. Periodicals from 1998 to the present, reference books, Lesley dissertations, recent faculty publications, our “new and noteworthy” collection and casual reading are on the 1st floor.

   We have also reconfigured the space in the Kresge Center on the second floor and it now features new display areas, a quieter study area and expanded collections. We hope you enjoy the changes.

2. New Staff

Debbie Verhoff is the new AIB Librarian. She is an accomplished visual artist and has taught adjunct at AIB in both the Pre-College and BFA programs. She earned her MLS from Simmons College and holds an MFA from Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts and a BS in Studio Arts. Debbie comes to Lesley from Fitchburg State College where she was a reference librarian and a leading member of the information literacy team. She has designed and built a new library facility and has excellent experience in instructional and library technology, and media production.

Dianne Brown is our new Library Assistant for Reserves and Serials. She’s a 2007 graduate of Lesley College with a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education and English. As a student she was an outstanding peer tutor at the Center for Academic Achievement. Dianne manages the Course Reserves Collection, including our new eReserves service. Please contact her for Reserves information.

Abigail Christian, our new Reference and Instruction Librarian, comes to us with five years experience at Phillip Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, doing reference and teaching library research and information literacy in classes. She is also recently married and will soon change her name to Abigail Mancini.

Elizabeth Bailey is a reference and instruction librarian, working part time. Elizabeth is a recent grad from the library science program at the University of South Carolina, where she worked as a reference assistant in the Thomas Cooper Library. She is also recently married and will soon change her name to Elizabeth Allen.

Karen Storz is also a new reference and instruction librarian, working part time. Karen is also a freelance editor, developing content for textbooks. She is a German scholar, having completed coursework toward a PhD in German Literature at the University of Minnesota.

3. Ebooks

Our ebook databases offer high-quality academic books in education, psychology, and the humanities – to search and use in research papers. They’re all listed on our database page. Log-in through myLesley.

Something About the Author and Children’s Literature Review are now available electronically for all students, on-campus and off-campus. They include the entire contents of the print versions back to 2004. They will be updated throughout the year. For now, we have stopped the print order although we will keep earlier print editions. Listed under Children’s Literature on the database page.

Ebrary has over 2,500 ebooks in education, and is especially user-friendly. By activating your own sign-in, you may highlight passages, write notes, and keep links to books you hope to use again. Although no one wants to read an ebook all the way through, you can search the contents, browse, and read snatches to include in research. 2,000 titles are listed in the FLO catalog. The entire collection is listed under Books on the database page.

PsycBooks, from the American Psychological Association (APA), offers chapters in .pdf files from over 1,000 books published by APA and other distinguished publishers. It also offers 100 out-of-print books and more than 400 classic books of landmark historical impact in psychology. Listed under Books and Psychology on the database page.

ACLS Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of over 1500 full-text history titles offered in collaboration with twelve learned societies, 90 contributing publishers, and the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office.

Virtual Reference Set – This online reference collection includes 37 academic encyclopedias in education, child development, cultural and multicultural topics, history, health, environmental science, and social sciences. Listed under Encyclopedias on the database page.

4. Journal Databases and other Online Resources – login through myLesley.

• New York Times 1995-current
• Boston Globe
• Massachusetts Newspapers
• Lesley Dissertations
• Grolier Encyclopedia
• Educator’s Reference Complete offers 450 education journals, most of which are indexed in ERIC.
• EndNote Web – manage citations and references for your research.
• Teaching Books.Net is a multimedia site with original movies of authors and illustrators, audio excerpts of professional book readings, book lists and multimedia resources on children's and young adult literature.
• African American Experience "is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field. The two primary goals: to provide rock-solid information from authorities in the field, and to allow African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. Drawing on over 400 volumes, and designed under the guidance of leading librarians, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day."
• Columbia Earthscape "is a comprehensive aggregation of resources in the Earth and Environmental Sciences. The four sections of the compass give you - the teacher, student, scientist, or decision-maker - instant access to the tools you need to understand our planet."
• Primary Sources in Counseling "is a searchable collection containing real transcripts of therapy and counseling sessions and first-person narratives illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment, as well as reference works to contextualize the primary material. New material is added on a biweekly basis and, when complete, the database will contain more than 2,000 session transcripts, 40,000 pages of client narratives, and 25,000 pages of secondary reference material. The database currently includes approximately 27,400 pages of material, including more than 8,000 pages of session transcripts, more than 10,000 pages of client narratives, and more than 8,000 pages of secondary reference material."
• *New* Sage Premier Collection - Through a consortial agreement, the Lesley University Library is now able to provide our patrons with electronic access to 452 SAGE journals. Many of these titles were available in print in the Ludcke Library Periodicals Collection. You may have used such titles as Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, Behavior Modification, The Counseling Psychologist, Educational Administration Quarterly, Feminism and Psychology or others from this publisher. Now these and many other titles will be available electronically through myLesley. To see the complete collection of Sage Premier titles, visit http://online.sagepub.com/.

5. Online Videos

We continue to build an online video collection, with access through myLesley for all Lesley students and faculty, on-campus and off-campus. Outstanding videos may be streamed for individual viewing and class discussion from PBS Frontline and Nova series, Annenberg Media, and Films Media Group.

6. Print Books

This year we have purchased 2,200 new print books, with titles to support all programs in the university. Titles are on the shelves ready for you and your students, and may be searched in the FLO catalog.

7. Juvenile Literature and Teaching Resources

We have added bilingual books, Braille books, and board books for early childhood to the children’s literature collection. Books and teaching resources have updated collections in science, health, countries, and early childhood pedagogy. Searchable in FLO Catalog.

Thank you to all our contributors!