LIBRARY NEWS is an electronic newsletter published by The University of Texas at Austin General Libraries to share news about library collections and services.
Library News, September 2003
Fred Heath named as the new vice provost and director of the
General Libraries | Harold Billings retiring as director of the General
Libraries after 50 years at UT | Changes in off-campus access to library
databases and electronic resources | Library instruction sessions, tours, and
faculty refreshers | Electronic reserves | New and discontinued library databases
| Changes in library hours | Online multi-media tutorials | E-mail alerts |
Chat reference & librarians in the Texas Union, coming
this fall
Library News, September 2002
Statistical Overview of the Library Collections | Library Help with Faculty
Recruiting | Classes in Using the Library | Serials Cancellations Report |
Faculty and Staff Book Exhibit | Most-Requested Inter-Library-Loan Journals
| UT Club Book Purchases | Library Loan Period for Undergraduates Increased
| Geology Library Renovations | Former Guatemalan Vice-President to Open Exhibit
of his Papers | Recent Significant Acquisitions: Microfilm, Print & Electronic
Library News, April 2002
Recent Significant Acquisitions | E-books | Library Questions | Laptop Check-outs
| Recent Digitization Project | Serials Cancellations | Top Campus E-Journals
Library News, September 2001
New Databases | E-Reserves | Dissertations Online | Top Ten Research Databases | Annual Faculty Staff Book Exhibit | Serials Cancellations | Statistical Overview of the Library Collections | Class of the day: Learn about the library | Wireless laptop connections available in PCL
Library News, December 2000
Focus of issue: e-journals. More e-journals | Library acquisitions
budget | Duplicate journal cancellations | Academic Library Collection Enhancement
Program | UT a charter member of global digital reference services | Paul Cret
Library | Web characterization study | Amount of information in the world |
How do I know when an issue of an e-journal has been published? | Print Vs digital
| Mail renewal discontinued | Conclusions from a recent digital library conference
| Recently added web resources
Library News, August 2000
Focus of issue: evolving forms of communication, Part II. Library
classes | E-journals update | E-journals usage | 17,000 additional e-journals
| E-journals, future plans | Extended loan periods for graduate students | E-books
update & future plans | Laptop computers available for checkout in PCL |
The deep web | Faculty/Staff Book Exhibit | Faculty technology seminars | Digital
libraries, Microfilm, & Texas Archival Repositories Online
Library News, March 2000
Focus of issue: evolving forms of scholarly communications, part
I. Preprints on the web | Online preprint network with full linking between
articles? | E-journal linking | Alerting services | Américo Paredes Papers
| Some well-known preprint initiatives | ITKnowledge ebooks | Overlay journals
| New databases
Library News, October 1999
Focus of issue: Building the Digital Library, Part 2 | Digital
Dissertations | E-journal Survey Results | The Web: How big is it? How much
scholarly information is publicly available? | Hundred Million Web pages with
Scholarly Content | Proxy Service Access to all Library Web Resources | New
Full-text Web Resources | A Sampling of Recent & Ongoing Digital Library Projects
| New Web-Based Indexes | New Faculty
Library News, September 1999
Focus of issue: Building the Digital Library, Part I | UT System
Digital Library | New Web books, including net.Library | New Web journals, including
750 journals in ScienceDirect | New Web indexes, including the ISI Citation
indexes | New Web full text, including IEEE | Recently added resources | New
things are made familiar, familiar things are made new | New faculty
Library News, May 1999
E-Journal Survey | New Databases & Journals | Databases in Test
| Negotiations continuing with ISI and LEXIS-NEXIS | Nature | Jorge Luis Borges
Archive | Robert Runyon Photograph Collection now available on the web | Book
Market Outlook | Academic Journals Market Outlook | Academic Databases Market
Outlook | Digital Library Collection Development Framework
Library News, March 1999 - Online Books
English language books published between 1475 - 1700 now online
| Testing web versions of current academic books from mainstream publishers
| Costs of web journals versus printed journals | Costs of web books versus
printed books
Library News, February 1999
Science Online | Ethnic Newswatch | 1998 Library Statistics |
The Handbook of Texas Online | New print & microform purchases from the Academic
Library Collection Enhancement Program | SPARC - the Scholarly Publishing &
Academic Resources Coalition | Digital Library Federation | New scholarly databases
Library News, October 1998
New Electronic Journals on the Library Web Site (UT Library Online)
| The General Libraries E-Journal Strategy | New Scholarly Databases | The General
Libraries Collecting Approach to Electronic Databases | Berkeley, Stanford,
and Texas Sharing Library Resources | Maintaining a Collection Balance and Special
Regents Funding | Electronic Information Classes | New Library Bibliographers
| Recall, Renew, and Due-List functions added to UTCAT and UTNetCAT | Alphabetical
List and Descriptions of the Library's New Scholarly Databases
Library News, April 1998
General Libraries collection overview: books | UT Libraries 1997
national ranking | Special regental purchases | General Libraries collection
overview: journals | Featured journal: Brain Research | General Libraries collection
overview: online databases | Featured index database: Dissertation Abstracts
| Featured full-text database: LION (Online Literature)
Library News, February 1998
UT System Regents provide $1 million to enhance
library collections | Special purchase of $200,000 worth of scholarly books
in all fields | Complete collection of NAACP Papers | 300 new databases being
tested on UT Library Online | Sign up to receive weekly notices about published
research in your area. | Have a question? | Classes on using library resources
and electronic information | UT Austin has 4th largest academic library circulation
in North America
