A $6800 grant from Humanities Iowa and the National Endowment for the Humanities will help fund the spring 2007 Geisler Library Writers Reading season. Our proposal was deemed "exemplary." The grant is being partially matched by the Friends of Central Arts, Pella Community High School, and the Patricia Naour Distinguished Visiting Writer Program. Authors appearing include Joshua Dolezal, Carol Bly, Robert Dana, Jane Hirshfield, and three graduating Central College poets: Garvice Brannon, Eric Davis and Nate Forsythe. For complete details see http://www.central.edu/library/writers.htm
Robin Martin, Geisler Library Director, was named the Iowa Library Association's Member of the Year 2006 for "extraordinary service and extraordinary leadership to the Iowa library community and the Iowa Library Association." Martin is past president of ILA, and has twice planned and hosted ILA's Leadership Institute.
Three librarians joined the Geisler Library faculty beginning July 2006:
Rachel Fleming is Collection Development Librarian. Rachel received the BA in History from Grinnell College (2002) and completed the MA in Library Science at the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2006. Her experience includes two years as Library Research Assistant at the University of Missouri’s “Reflector,” a technology rich library environment supporting collaborative teaching, learning and experimentation for the College of Education, and cataloging and acquisitions internship at Lincoln University Library in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Arthur Mask is Technical Services Librarian, replacing Lois Smith who retired after 28 years of outstanding service. Arthur received the MLS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2003) and a BA in Religion from the University of Iowa (1998). His experience includes Special Collections and Acquisitions Assistant at the Wisconsin Primate Research Center, and Technical Services Librarian at Alvernia College, Reading Pennsylvania. Most recently, Arthur was Technical Services Librarian at Des Moines University Library where he was responsible for cataloging, library system management, reference, and instruction. His article “Life Isn’t Fair” appeared fall 2006 in the American Libraries.
Elizabeth McMahon is Reference and Instruction Librarian. Beth holds the MLIS from Kent State University (2004), an MA in Women's Studies from The Ohio State University (1997), and a BA in Women's and Peace Studies from Antioch College (1993). From 1998-2002, Beth was Lecturer I (adjunct) in the Department of Women's Studies at Ohio State where she taught a popular writing-intensive course. Most recently, she was Visiting Reference & Instruction Librarian at Earlham College where she taught library instruction in humanities, social sciences and fine arts courses. She took a leading role in re-envisioning the Earlham library web site to improve access to electronic resources for learning, teaching, and library collections.
New Databases Available!
JSTOR a fulltext archive of over 500 scholarly journals in the arts, humanities and sciences, with complete digitized back runs of core scholarly journals starting with the very first issues.
LRC, Gale's Literature Resource Center, provides single-search
access to an extensive collection of classic literary reference works
such as Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography series and
critical information on authors and their works along with current
journal articles in literary studies. LRC also includes access to the
MLA International Bibliography with links to several hundred fulltext
articles.
Want to know if Geisler Library has access to full text articles in a particular journal or magazine? Search the title in the Geisler Journal List. You can link to the title and its articles for the years indicated in the listed databases, or find out which years are available in paper editions on the library shelves.
Access to the library's subscription databases and journals is available through the campus proxy server. Any Central student, faculty, or staff member can access library databases from home as well as on campus. If you are off-campus, you will be prompted for your network username and password in order to search such resources as EBSCOhost or the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The Media Center has acquired a TX840P color printer which will print very high quality color for your charts, pictures, digital photos, and transparencies. Prices vary depending on the type of paper used and the size of the print. Please check with the Media Center (x5218) for further details.
The Pella Public Library shares an online catalog with the Geisler Library (lib.central.edu). Patrons from either library can search the holdings of the Public Library or the Geisler Library or both libraries together.
Items owned by Geisler Library have "CC" (for Central College) preceding the location, while items owned by the Public Library have "PL".
Materials may be borrowed from either library. However, patrons need to retain separate library cards.
Check out the schedule for the Library's 2005-2006 Writers Reading series.
Revised: December 19, 2006. rem