The University Museum celebrates its 40 years with an Exhibit of UNH Treasures: Campus Curiosities. Exhibit is hope from 30 March to 27 July, 2007 at the University Museum on the first floor of the Dimond Library.

Please join us for open conversation and an opportunity for reflection

Power to the People: A University Dialogue on Energy
UNH Town Hall Meeting

Thursday, 29 March 2007
12:40pm-2pm
Courtyard Reading Room, Room 510
Dimond Library

The University Dialogue Town Hall Meeting will feature the faculty Discovery Authors exploring implications for the University community regarding the consequences of our energy use. Facilitated by Tom Kelly, Director of the UNH Office of Sustainability Programs.

From the Campus Journal:

The University of New Hampshire Library and its New Hampshire Library of Traditional Jazz are presenting a free six-part viewing, reading and discussion series called “Looking at: Jazz, America’s Art Form.”… “Looking at: Jazz” explores the cultural and social history of jazz as it developed as an art form in the United States. The first program, focusing on New Orleans and the Origins of Jazz, will be held Sunday, March 25, 2007, at 2 p.m. at Dover’s McConnell Center at 61 Locust Street. The showing will be on the lower level of the center with entrances through Door Three, which faces the Dover Public Library, and Door Seven, which is on the District Court side. Parking is available behind the Dover Public Library and along St. Thomas Street.

Sunshine Week, which falls this year on March 11-17, is an annual effort by news organizations, libraries and public interest groups to focus public attention on the importance of open government.

Next week, dozens of programs across the country will explore the costs of secrecy, the virtues of openness, and the path forward. A calendar of events has more information.

Next week may also see House action on three open government bills that have been advanced by the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee under the leadership of Rep. Henry Waxman.

The pending bills include one on Freedom of Information Act amendments, one on amendments to the Presidential Records Act, and one on disclosure of donations to Presidential libraries. Markup of the bills will take place on March 8, and House floor action is expected next week.

March 1, 2007

To: University Faculty, Staff and Students

From: Claudia J. Morner, Ph.D, Dean of University Library

Subject: Serials Review

This is the third year of the three year periodical review that was begun in 2004. The purpose of this project is to manage our collection budget which is inflating higher than our income, and we also want to more closely align our collection to the needs of our users.

We continue to believe that shifting high cost-per-use journals from subscription to document delivery is the most responsible way to manage our resources. Using Interlibrary Loan continues to be a more cost effective way to provide our users the information that they need, when they need it. The implementation of RapidILL, with expedited interlibrary loan for journal articles, is the latest in a continuum of ways to meet our users needs’. I would encourage you to try ILL for article delivery and see for yourself.

This year the pattern will follow the one set in the previous two years: we will be listing on the library’s website the journals considered for cancellation by both title and department. This list will remain on the Library’s website for the month of March. We are looking for feedback from students, faculty and other members of the UNH community on the titles that are proposed for cancellation. After April 1, we will conduct a serious review of comments submitted about the proposed list; I will make a final determination on which titles will be cancelled for next year. These cancellations will go into effect Jan. 1, 2008.

For more information, please look at the accompanying sidebar to the left where we are posting a copy of Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ), contact information for Library Liaisons, and a place for you to post questions and comments. As always, please feel free to contact your department’s Library Liaison or contact me directly if you would like to speak to me about this project.

We appreciate the time that you will have invested in providing feedback. These three annual projects and innovations in interlibrary loan have been necessary in order to make the library’s collection better able to serve the research, teaching, and academic needs of our users.

Thank you in advance for you time and consideration as we make these important decisions.

2007 List by Title

2007 List by Department