Need a Little Christmas?

Right this Very Minute?

As you study for finals, why not add some holiday cheer in the background?  Check out these items (and many more) from the third floor Media Center: 

(and while you're up there, check out the display of Belmont-related Christmas items from the Music Library Special Collections!)

Movies:

White Christmas (DVD 384)
A Bing Crosby Christmas (DVD 389)
Christmas with Chanticleer (DVD 1024)
Holiday Affair (DVD 2812)
Dr. Seuss's How the Grinch Stole Christmas (DVD 2636)

Music:

Christmas Night (CD 2)
Improvisations for Christmas (CD 686)
Mel Torme, Christmas Songs (CD 1264)
Vienna Boys Choir, Christmas in Vienna (CD 1245)
Buxtehude, Christmas Concert (CD 1151)
Christmas is Coming (CD 1733)
Christmas with the Cambridge Singers (CD 1473)
Christmas Chant (CD 1291)
Traditional Christmas Collection (CD 2189)
Little Christmas Gift (CD 3210)
In Dulci Jubilo: Christmas with James Galway and the Regensburger Domspatzen (CD 2769)
Manhattan Transfer, Christmas Album (CD 2886)
Take 6, He is Christmas (CD 2875)
Christmas is Coming Home (CD 3669)
Christmas with the Robert Shaw Chorale (CD5940-5941)
Music for Christmas and Beyond (CD 5764)
This is Christmas (CD 6217)
Merry Christmas with Love (CD 8622)
Passion of Scrooge (CD 7768)

Civility on Display

Bunch Library is featuring a display of student work until the end of the semester. Each student in Dr. Merrie King's First Year Seminar classes created a Civility Collage which is "a collection of words, images and materials that capture your understanding of Ways of Knowing, E Pluribus Unum, and Composing a Life."

Come check out the display to see how these students see civility!

Lila's Owl-o-ween

Celebrate Owl-o-ween with Lila D. Bunch! Trick or Treat in the Library from 10-1 on Wednesday, October 31st. Grab a map at the front door, and make your way around the library gathering candy. We've got the good stuff!

Election-themed convo coming up

Bunch Library is hosting an election-themed convocation this week!

When: Wednesday, October 24 from 10-10:50 am
Where: Leu Art Gallery in Bunch Library
Who: Our three speakers are Michelle Murray-Yang (Communication Studies), Kevin Trowbridge (Public Relations) and Courtney Fuson (Library)

Truthiness: Deciphering fact vs. fiction during election season

We all have that friend or relative who posts and sends emails reporting the latest political scandals: “Barack and Michelle Obama both surrendered their law licenses for questionable reasons” or “Former Massachusetts governor Mitt Romney transported a dog atop his car.” Where does this information come from and how does it spread? While some of these theories may not warrant an investigation, many of them do. How do you know if politicians, reporters, and journalist are speaking the truth? This convocation program will provide some background on the role of media during elections, discuss elections where new information has drastically affected results, and give some tips and tools for navigating fact and fiction during this election season.

This convocation program is for Academic Lecture credit.

Librarians on Location!

Can't make it to the library but have a research question? No problem! The research librarians will come to you! Look for your friendly librarians next week at the following locations: 

Writing Center in Wheeler, Monday, Oct. 22, 10am-12pm

Wilson Courtyard, Monday, Oct. 22, 10am-12pm

DIC (Drug Information Center) in McWhorter Hall, Friday, Oct. 26, 10am-12pm

Quick! Print!

Need to print in a hurry? Come on over and check out Lila's new Quick Print Station! Just plug in your flash drive or pull up your document, and send it straight to the printer without even logging in. The new Quick Print Station is located directly outside the copy/print room on the first floor.

Lila’s got some questions!

Lila is curious about how ebooks are impacting student’s research.  You can help her find out!  

STUDENTS!  We’d like to know more about how you use ebooks (for research and for fun) and what kinds of ebooks you’d like to see the library have.  If you’d like to help us out, please take this brief survey http://www.sitemason.com/form/b0moSs.  It’ll only take 5 or 10 minutes to complete.  The survey will be open through Friday, November 2.

As a thank you for completing the survey, you’ll have a chance to be entered into a drawing to win one of several prizes, including a grand prize of a $35 gift card to the Belmont Bookstore. To enter the drawing, you’ll be asked to provide your email address at the end of the survey.  Your email address will not be connected to your responses; the choice to provide your email is voluntary.

FACULTY!  We are soliciting faculty opinions on how ebooks will impact the scholarly landscape in the near future.  If you would like to participate in the study, please take this brief survey http://www.sitemason.com/form/jJLAkw.  It will only take 5 or 10 minutes to complete. The survey will be open through Friday, November 2.

Your participation in this survey is entirely voluntary.  Your responses will be anonymous.  You will not be penalized in any way for refusing to take the survey.  You are also free to stop taking this survey at any point.

If you have any questions about the survey, please contact Courtney Fuson, courtney.fuson@belmont.edu. 

Do You Like Scary Movies?

 

Boris Karloff as Frankenstein

It's that time of year again!  The air is crisp, the apples are plentiful, the leaves are changing, and Halloween is near...  If you're in the mood for a fright, be sure to check out some of the spook-tacular movies and music available in the Music Library/Media Center at Bunch Library!

Movies:

Rocky Horror Picture Show (DVD 738)

The Wolf Man: The Legacy Collection (DVD 1222-1223)

Frankenstein: The Legacy Collection (DVD 1290-1291)

Dracula: The Legacy Collection (DVD 1286-1287)

Nosferatu (DVD 828)

A Nightmare on Elm Street (DVD 52-59)

Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho (DVD 174)

Carrie (DVD 171)

Haxan/Witch (DVD 201)

Scream (DVD 207-210)

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (DVD 830)

Fallen (DVD 1696)

Wes Craven's New Nightmare (DVD 58)

Freddy's Dead: The Final Nightmare (DVD 57)

Jekyll & Hyde (DVD 1749)

The Island of Dr. Moreau (DVD 1671)

The Mummy (DVD 1310-1311)

What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (DVD 2867-2868)

Sound Recordings:

Little Shop of Horrors (CD 1211)

Night on Bald Mountain (CD 169)

Toccata and Fugue in d minor (CD 5456, CD 5707)\

The Banshee (CD 2056, CD 2070)

Mighty Wurlitzer: Music for Movie-Palace Organs (CD 3092)

Chiller (CD 1062)

Phantom of the Opera (CD 130-131)

Scores:

Little Shop of Horrors (M1527.5 .M45 L5 1987)

Rite of Spring (M1523 .S919 S2 1975)

Danse Macabre, op. 40 (M1002 .S15 op. 40; M223. S15 op. 40 1938)

Toccata and Fugue in d minor (M22 .B12 D68 1999)

Happy Haunting!

Meet Guybrarian Chuck Hodgin!

Get to know Bunch Library’s newest addition, Chuck Hodgin. Chuck is serving as Assistant Professor of Systems and Collection Management, a new position, and has recently moved to Nashville with his wife of 6 years and their 2 children, ages 2 and 6 months.


Where are you from?

I am from the twin state area. I was born in Meridian Mississippi, but I call Mobile, Alabama home. I went to the University of Mobile and received a BA in Humanities, and then went on to graduate school at the University of Mississippi where I worked towards an MA in Philosophy. I have my MLIS from Drexel University. For the last three years I held the position of Reference Librarian at the University of Mobile.

What excites you about being a new member of the Belmont community?

Belmont is growing tremendously and that means there are a lot of opportunities for growth and expansion in the library. It’s just very exciting to be part of this kind of environment where there is opportunity to be creative, help the library grow and expand, and usher in new technologies that will help lead Belmont’s library into the future. I have a lot to offer, and I look forward to being a part of the library team.

What are your interests and hobbies?

First and foremost, I love spending time with my wife and two children. Being a dad is really important to me. I am a big fan of anime and manga and I am also a sports fan. In particular, I love soccer and I support Liverpool Football Club.

What are a few fun facts that students might want to know about you?

I have been to multiple WWE wrestling shows. I have never had a Facebook page. I dyed my hair blue in college. To this day, the opening sequence from the movie The Lion King still gives me the chills.

What new ideas do you have for library collections and technology?

In the short term, I will be working to make library systems more efficient by streamlining processes and workflow, which will help the library staff but students will see the benefits as well. These behind the scenes projects will make the technologies more user friendly, and provide opportunities for students to utilize and interact with new technologies. In the long term, I hope to head up a digitization project and create a university repository for digitized theses, archival materials, old documents, etc.

Welcome to Belmont, Chuck!

Convo Event: Author Talk in the Library
Oct. 2, 5pm
Leu Art Gallery

Recent Belmont alum, Erica Williams (M.A. English, Creative Writing, 2010) will read from her self-published first novel, Love Lifted Me, and talk about the writing and publishing process. Come and hear about a recent graduate’s success in her field! After the author talk, Erica will be available to sign books and answer questions. Books will be available to purchase for $8.

More information about the novel: https://www.createspace.com/3899355

Personal/Professional Growth Convo

Co-sponsored by Bunch Library and the English Department.

Avoid those pesky late fees! 

 Did you know that you can renew your books online? Just look for the My Account link on the library's home page:

Just ASK!

Now that you have all of your syllabi and information on assignments, don't forget that the library is here to help! We can help with exploring topics, forming a research plan, formatting citations, and everything in between!
The many ways you can get help are listed here.
If you still aren't sure about asking a librarian, maybe this will inspire you!

BILS, BILS, BILS

No, not this kind of bills. I'm talking about Building Information Literacy Skills (BILS) which is part of the Computer Profiency requirement every student must meet before graduating.

Lila has a new guide covering a range of skills you need to know from narrowing a topic to avoiding plagiarism and everything in between. Spend a little time with this and you'll pass that BILS test on the first try. Check it out!

Bunch Virtual Library

Access from here to anywhere with our new mobile site!

http://library.belmont.edu/iui/mobile.html 

Happy searching! And don't forget to Ask Lila! if you have questions.

From Here…To The Top! : Belmont Music Alumni

Did you know that the list of Belmont music alums includes some very famous faces? If not, come check out the display on the first floor! The display was curated and researched by Graduate Music Student Beth Pirtle with assistance from Music Librarian Lina Terjesen and Reference and Instruction Librarian Judy Williams. It features photos and information about such noted alumni as Trisha Yearwood, Ashley Gorley, Steven Curtis Chapman, Brad Paisley, and Vince Gill. There is also a second “satellite” display on the 3rd floor that features historic programs from the Ward-Belmont Conservatory, taped interviews with Minnie Pearl, and alumni albums from the collection in the Listening/Viewing Center.

Library Catalog Gets a Facelift!

Lila has been busy this summer. First the new website, now a new and improved catalog! New search features and book images will give you a more Amazon-like experience. Links to Google book descriptions and preview available for many titles. Happy searching! 

Redbox has nothing on Lila

The popular DVD and CD collection that was formerly housed on the first floor has recently been moved up to the Listening/Viewing Center on the third floor! Popular materials have also been pulled from the closed stacks of the LVC and added to this collection. Now displayed in browsing-friendly shelves, these materials are easier than ever to find. Materials include award winning films from Moneyball to Rocky and artists from Zac Brown Band to Nicki Minaj.

Come on over and check out this new and improved collection. There’s enough to keep you entertained all summer long!

Nothin' to hide?

It's Choose Privacy Week at the American Library Association, so why not hop on over here and learn about the privacy revolution? You'll find blog posts, discussions, and videos all about how to "protect your freedom to read, search, and learn in a digital age." Let's face it - we could all use a little education about this topic, even Lila!

Puppies and Popsicles at Bunch

 

Mark your calendar for the best day of your life! This wonderful event is not one you want to miss.

What:

Take a break from studying for finals with a puppy and a popsicle! Bunch Library will have registered therapy dogs to help you de-stress, and popsicles to help you recharge.

When:

Wed., April 25 from 1-3 pm (dead day)

Where:

The grassy area in front of Bunch Library

National Library Week - Coolest convo ever

National Library Week is April 8-14, and Lila is celebrating with the coolest convo ever!

When: Friday April 13, from 10-10:50 am
Where: Leu 117
What: "Social Movement and Libraries: From Tahrir Square to Occupy Wall Street"
Convo Category: Academic Lecture

2011 was a year of social movements, bringing change and upheaval all over the world, from the Middle East and North Africa to the United States. The Arab Spring, and particularly the Egyptian Revolution, are considered by some to have been successful as a result of protesters' use of technology and social networking tools. There are many ways to support a social movement, and the efficient and effective sharing of information is one of them. Libraries, librarians, and other information professionals have been essential participants in both promoting and preserving these movements. The Occupy Wall Street protestors developed The People's Library to support the movement. Librarians in Egypt continually work to save the artifacts of the revolution, from photographs to flyers to oral histories. This presentation celebrating National Library Week will discuss the different ways that the creating, sharing, and preserving information has played an important role in the recent social movements.  Speaker Amanda Click worked at The American University in Cairo (AUC) as a Librarian and experienced the Arab Spring firsthand. Currently she is a PhD student and ELIME-21 Fellow in the School of Information and Library Science at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 

Not your grandmother's librarian

Get to know Bunch Library's new Music Librarian, Lina Terjesen!

1. Where are you from?
I’m originally from Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Most recently, I was the Music Cataloging Librarian at Gettysburg College, which is my alma mater. Before that, I worked as an intern for the Seamen’s Church Institute, and before that, I was an intern in the Acquisitions and Processing Department of the Performing Arts Division of the Library of Congress.

2. What excites you about being a new member of the Belmont community?
What excites me is the level of talent of the students at Belmont… they are some of the most talented students I’ve ever met. I look forward to serving them and helping them throughout their academic careers. I’m also excited about developing relationships with the faculty and staff and helping them out in their classrooms with their own research and their students’ research as much as I can.

3. What are your interests and hobbies?
I love knitting, crocheting, cross-stitching, and Norwegian Hardanger embroidery. I also really like to bake.

4. What are a few fun facts that students might want to know about you?
I’m totally obsessed with Mumford and Sons. One of my favorite foods is spam. I very well might have Viking blood. I’m not your grandmother’s librarian.

5. What new ideas do you have in store for the Music Library?
• An updated New Books Display
• Popular Media finding a new home, with new display shelves and new artwork, in the Listening Viewing Center
• Making the Music Library more inviting
• Incorporating new marketing strategies, including a Facebook page
• Ultimately making the Music Library a space where people want to come study and work, and making sure that students across the campus are aware of some of the great resources we have up here

Bunch Library is very excited to have Lina as our latest addition, and she's already shaking things up. Come by the Music Library on the third floor and say hello!

Before the interview...

Before you interview, whether it’s for a summer gig or a future career, do your research! Impress your future employers with your industry and company knowledge. It might just land you the job!

Business Source Premier contains incredible company profiles that even give name and contact information for company executives. Profiles also include company financials and SWOT analysis. BSP has full-text of magazines like Forbes, BusinessWeek, and Entrepreneur so read up!

Industry data can be found in BizMiner or IBISWorld. Get the bigger picture and learn where experts see this industry headed.

Learning Express Library (from the Tennessee Electronic Library) provides scored licensing, certification, and aptitude practice tests, online career preparation, and vital information for a wide variety of occupations from nursing to law enforcement.

The Accra Cost of Living Index provides data to help you estimate the cost of housing, utilities, grocery items, transportation, health care, and miscellaneous goods and services. Use this to your advantage when negotiating salary.

Good luck! Lila knows you will knock their socks off.

The results are in!

Back in the Fall, Bunch Library administered a survey to students and faculty asking their opinions on everything from ebooks to furnishings to Bruin Grounds Cafe. We were very pleased with the response and thankful for all the great ideas you gave us.

This report details the critical areas brought to our attention and the action to be taken regarding those areas. Check it out and learn what changes are to come!

P.S. Even though this kind of formal survey happens only every three years, we would love to hear from you before then so don't be shy!

Bruin Madness in Bunch

Lila is celebrating March Madness by digging up all kinds of basketball-related images and stories from the Special Collections in Bunch Library. Come on over and take a look at the display, "Bruin Madness: Belmont Basketball from Past to Present," in the first floor reference area. Here is a sneak peek:

It seems Belmont basketball has always been pretty fierce!

Research on the road

Lila hopes your break is filled with more relaxation than research, but if you happen to be working Bunch Library is here for you no matter where you are.

• Bunch Library website has a mobile version - just click the link in the upper left corner of the hompage.
• Ebooks can be viewed online and are also downloadable to your computer or mobile device. This tutorial explains the downloading process step by step.
• Some databases also have a mobile version or an app. This guide lists them and provides links and access information about each one.
• Research guides are condensed to a mobile friendly version.
• If you need research help, you can ask a librarian even if you're miles away by telephone, email, or instant message.

Spring break on the brain?

Whether you are roadtripping or staying put, give your brain a break (that doesn't involve reality tv) and read something just for fun! Lila has lots of new popular fiction and there's sure to be something that strikes your fancy. I'm still deciding between this one or that one.


(Image credit: "The Perfect Morning" from LaurenKelseyPhotography via Flickr Creative Commons)

Data, data everywhere

Lila just got some amazing new tools that can help you find national and local industry data!

BizMiner produces the most granular industry statistical reports in the market. They offer industry financial analysis benchmarks for over 5,000 lines of business and industry market trends on thousands more. Their market analysis reports are available at the national and local levels down to the zip code.

IBISWorld offers comprehensive industry research reports with the very latest content on every U.S. industry. Each report consists of 30 to 40 pages of key statistics and analysis on market characteristics, operating conditions, current and forecast performance, major industry participants and more.

Yes we scan!

Lila just got 3 new scanners! The new scanners are spread out around the reference area on computers 14, 16 and 23. Come on over and test them out!

Color printing - now in Bunch Library

The day has come! This new addition to our printer family is located in the 1st floor print/copy room and color prints are 50 cents per page.

Philosophy research made easy

Being a philosopher is hard enough already! Check out our latest database addition, Philosopher's Index, and rejoice about all of the wisdom that is now at your fingertips.

Philosopher's Index is a current and comprehensive bibliographic database covering scholarly research in all major fields of philosophy. The database covers the fifteen fields of philosophy: aesthetics, axiology, philosophy of education, epistemology, ethics, philosophy of history, philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, philosophical anthropology, metaphilosophy, political philosophy, philosophy of science, social philosophy, and the philosophy of religion.

Do owls tweet?

This one does! Lila has joined the twittersphere. Follow LilaDBunch for the latest library news, events and even some just for fun! http://twitter.com/#!/LilaDBunch