Halloween at White Library...

It's been a fun scary Halloween at White Library, and we want to share it with you! Enjoy some of our costumes...or are they really costumes? You be the judge!

Circleview Coffee Shop Offering Free Cookies with Drink Purchase on Halloween!

Join us in the William Allen White Library for Halloween on Friday, October 31st! The library will be offering free candy throughout the day and when you stop by the Circleview Coffee Shop you can get a FREE cookie with your drink purchase! Choose from a great variety of tasty cookies including: chocolate chip, oatmeal, sugar and more! And of course, don't forget all the great beverages we offer every day! So stop by and enjoy some great treats!

All about OpenURL

We're pleased to announce a new feature that has been implemented partially here at WAW Library! OpenURL is a technology that will make searching for results in databases simpler and easier.

Essentially, we subscribe to a number of databases (you find these on the A to Z list of databases on our E-Resources page) and journals (you find these on the 'journals' link on the main library page). When we subscribe to a database, our users may search it, but may not be able to access the articles they find. This could be because we only purchase access to a subset of articles from the database, or because the database only provides abstracts of articles, not the fulltext. Previously you would have to repeat the same search in multiple databases to find an article and then go to the Journals search tool to find where we have access to the journal with the article you want.

OpenURL is a standard that more and more database vendors are coming into compliance with. When a database is OpenURL compliant, and the library has activated their OpenURL function, you will see
appear with every search result. Click it, and you send the information about that one article to numerous online resources, which will then send back a result if they have that article in full text.

So with OpenURL, if a database doesn't have article access, you don't need to repeat your search in every database. A simple click will tell you if we have it in one of many online resources!

This is a new technology, and we will be progressing with it steadily over the next few months. Each database we implement, both as a starting point and as a supplier of data, needs to be individually triggered and tested. Please let us know if one of them fails to work properly. A supplier of data is improperly working if the link it provides is broken. A starting point database (called an origin) is broken if the resulting popup with links does not have at least links to catalogs for KU, KSU, and Washburn.

Keep your eyes open as you search our databases and please take advantage of this new feature!

Open Access Day

October 14 is Open Access Day. Why does this matter to you? Here is a brief description of Open Access by Peter Suber:

"Open-access (OA) literature is digital, online, free of charge, and free of most copyright and licensing restrictions. What makes it possible is the internet and the consent of the author or copyright-holder.

In most fields, scholarly journals do not pay authors, who can therefore consent to OA without losing revenue. In this respect scholars and scientists are very differently situated from most musicians and movie-makers, and controversies about OA to music and movies do not carry over to research literature.

OA is entirely compatible with peer review, and all the major OA initiatives for scientific and scholarly literature insist on its importance. Just as authors of journal articles donate their labor, so do most journal editors and referees participating in peer review.

OA literature is not free to produce, even if it is less expensive to produce than conventionally published literature. The question is not whether scholarly literature can be made costless, but whether there are better ways to pay the bills than by charging readers and creating access barriers. Business models for paying the bills depend on how OA is delivered.

There are two primary vehicles for delivering OA to research articles: OA journals and OA archives or repositories.

• OA archives or repositories do not perform peer review, but simply make their contents freely available to the world. They may contain unrefereed preprints, refereed postprints, or both. Archives may belong to institutions, such as universities and laboratories, or disciplines, such as physics and economics. Authors may archive their preprints without anyone else's permission, and a majority of journals already permit authors to archive their postprints. When archives comply with the metadata harvesting protocol of the Open Archives Initiative, then they are interoperable and users can find their contents without knowing which archives exist, where they are located, or what they contain. There is now open-source software for building and maintaining OAI-compliant archives and worldwide momentum for using it.
• OA journals perform peer review and then make the approved contents freely available to the world. Their expenses consist of peer review, manuscript preparation, and server space. OA journals pay their bills very much the way broadcast television and radio stations do: those with an interest in disseminating the content pay the production costs upfront so that access can be free of charge for everyone with the right equipment. Sometimes this means that journals have a subsidy from the hosting university or professional society. Sometimes it means that journals charge a processing fee on accepted articles, to be paid by the author or the author's sponsor (employer, funding agency). OA journals that charge processing fees usually waive them in cases of economic hardship. OA journals with institutional subsidies tend to charge no processing fees. OA journals can get by on lower subsidies or fees if they have income from other publications, advertising, priced add-ons, or auxiliary services. Some institutions and consortia arrange fee discounts. Some OA publishers waive the fee for all researchers affiliated with institutions that have purchased an annual membership. There's a lot of room for creativity in finding ways to pay the costs of a peer-reviewed OA journal, and we're far from having exhausted our cleverness and imagination."

For more information, check out the Open Access display at the library or click here to see annotated links to useful resources for Open Access projects.

Warm up In the William Allen White Library!

As the temperature continues to drop and the chilly, winter months get closer and closer; stop by the Circleview Coffee Shop to warm up! Choose from a selection of hot teas, coffee, and of course creamy hot chocolate! Then grab a book and kick back and relax! Also, as we near the Fall Holidays look for a variety of deals and discounts coming soon!

William Allen White Book Awards

The library is going to be very busy on Saturday. Why? Because it's time for the William Allen White Children's Book Awards.

From the WAW Award website:

Opportunities to meet a favorite author don’t happen every day. But for a group of Kansas third- through eighth-graders, that opportunity will happen Saturday, Oct. 4 in Emporia.

Authors of this year’s two William Allen White Children’s Book Award winners will be spending the day in Emporia, attending the celebration and ceremony that accompanies the long-running recognition program for literature aimed at young readers.

The winners of this year’s awards, Ann M. Martin, author of “A Dog’s Life,” and L. D. Harkrader, who wrote “Airball: My Life in Briefs,” will participate in autograph sessions, meet with students, and receive their awards during a ceremony Saturday afternoon in Emporia’s William Lindsay White Auditorium.

Activities for the 56th annual celebration begin Friday, Oct. 3, with read-ins and sleepovers for third through eighth-grade students at the Emporia Recreation Center, 313 W. Fourth. Students will have an opportunity to meet and talk with the visiting authors during the read-ins. Space for this event is limited to 100 students and adults.

Saturday’s activities move to the second floor of Emporia State University’s Memorial Union. There, participants can purchase copies of the winning books and have them autographed by the authors from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m. Other souvenirs of the event will also be available for purchase.

At the same time, author Beverley Buller will also be autographing her new book, “From Emporia: The Story of William Allen White.”

Additional children’s activities will take place from 8:30 to 11:00 a.m., also on the second floor of the Union.

The authors and celebration participants will join a parade from ESU to the William Lindsay White Auditorium at 12:15 p.m., preceding the awards ceremony at the auditorium at 1 p.m. There, Martin and Harkrader will be presented with their White Award medals, and will answer questions from the audience.

Tickets for the awards ceremony are $5 per person, and will be available at the door at White Arena or they may be purchased in advance, registration forms are available on the William Allen White Children’s Book Awards website www.emporia.edu/libsv/wawbookaward/ . For more information, call 620-341-5208.

The White Awards Program is directed by ESU and is supported by the Trusler Foundation. The program was founded by Ruth Carver Gagliardo, a children’s literature specialist, to honor the memory of one of the state’s most distinguished citizens by encouraging Kansas schoolchildren to read and enjoy good books.

New Items at Coffee Shop

Circleview Coffee Shop
is proud to announce that we have added a few new items to our selection!
So stop buy and enjoy a refreshing beverage today!

Pepsi....................................................$1.25
Diet Pepsi......................................................

New! Dr. Pepper..................................................

New! Diet Dr. Pepper............................................

Mt. Dew.........................................................
Code Red Mt. Dew........................................
Aquafina Water..............................................
Lipton Green Tea with Citrus........................
Diet Lipton Green Tea with Citrus.................
Orange Juice........................................$1.69
Apple Juice....................................................

New! Starbuck's Frappachino's Caramel.......$1.99

Starbuck's Frappachino'sand Vanilla............
Starbuck's Frappachino'sand Mocha............
Hot Tea (Black and Chi)......................$0.75

Also, don't forget to pick up your very own punch card! Get a stamp with every purchase and your 10th drink is free!