Swain Library News

In August 2007, the University of California recently released a survey of UC faculty on their attitudes and practices regarding scholarly communication. The survey results suggested that while faculty express a need for change in current scholarly communications systems, they have been slow in changing their personal strategies and have chosen traditional publishing behaviors. The survey results also reveal faculty attitudes and behaviors towards tenure and review processes, copyright, university policies related to scholarly communication, and more. More information and download the entire report.

Source: The Charleston Report — September/October 2007, page 3.

“Librarians at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor threw themselves a party on Friday to celebrate a milestone in their ambitious effort to scan every single book in the collection. They scanned the one millionth book, leaving just 6.5 million to go.”

Source: The Chronicle of Higher Education: Wired Campus (February 4, 2008)

See the University of Michigan Library News for more details.

Germ Stories, by Arthur Kornberg

Over the years, Nobel laureate Arthur Kornberg regaled his children and grandchildren with rhyming tales of the tiny beasties in the germ parade. Arthur’s poems and stories are now available for all in this beautifully rendered children’s picture book. Germ Stories will bring the microscopic world to life for the very youngest readers and grown ups alike with its richly imaginative narrations and its vividly rendered art and color photos.