NEWS

Indigenous Nations Library Program

hosts open house and drop-in research assistance lab on 12/1 and 12/2

Feed your body and feed
your brain...
goodies and guidance
morning snacks and pizza at noon
Door Prizes!

Bring a good research question and you'll be eligible to win.

INLP's Native American Days
Open House & Drop in Research Assistance Lab

December 1, 2009 - 9 am to 1 pm
Open House in Room 209, Zimmerman Library
West Wing, above the Willard Room
and
Drop in Lab in Room 254, Zimmerman Library
Main Lobby, Second Floor

December 2, 2009 - 9 am to 4 pm
Open House in Room 209, Zimmerman Library
West Wing, above the Willard Room
and
Drop in Lab in Room 254, Zimmerman Library
Main Lobby, Second Floor

For more info contact
Mary Alice Tsosie
Liaison and Outreach Librarian
mtsosie@unm.edu, 505-277-8922
or
Paulita Aguilar
Librarian
paulita@unm.edu

Of Guns and Dreams: Reflections on Migration between the US and Mexico

Of Guns and Dreams: Reflections on Migration between the US and Mexico, an exhibition in Zimmerman Library's Herzstein Latin American Reading Room, highlights some of these collections. We hope these images and stories will inspire discussion in class, with friends, and at home.

The photographs and posters on display come from the Sam L. Slick Collection of Latin American and Iberian Posters, the Douglas Kent Hall U.S.-Mexican Border Photograph Collection and the Collection of Photographs of Mexico and Mexican People by Contemporary Photographers - all housed in the Center for Southwest Research at Zimmerman Library. The map of Mexico exhibited in the Herzstein Latin American Reading Room comes from our Map and Geographic Information Centerlocated in the Centennial Science and Engineering Library. The news stories posted in the Herzstein Latin American Reading Room are from various resources including licensed databases offered through the University Libraries web page at http://elibrary.unm.edu.

Check out the Lobo Reading Experience LibGuide at http://libguides.unm.edu/reading for more information about Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream, including chapter summaries, book reviews, interviews, and lists of books and DVDs on themes relevant to this remarkable book. Many of these books are on display in the Herzstein Latin American Reading Room and elsewhere in the University Libraries system; the DVDs are available for checkout at the Fine Arts and Design Library.

DataONE (Observation Network for Earth) Project at UNM Receives $20 Million Award

The DataONE office based within both the Office of the Vice President of Research and University Libraries at the University of New Mexico has been awarded $20 million by the National Science Foundation (NSF) to support its scientific research activities for the next five years.

Researchers at the University of New Mexico have partnered with dozens of other universities and agencies to create DataONE http://dataone.org a global data access and preservation network for earth and environmental scientists that will support breakthroughs in environmental research. The project is under the direction of Dr. William Michener, professor and director of e-science initiatives at University Libraries.

DataONE is designed to provide universal access to data about life on Earth and the environment that sustains it. The underlying technologies will provide open, persistent, robust, and secure access to well-described and easily discovered Earth observational data.

Expected users include scientists, educators, librarians, resource managers, and the public. By providing easy and open access to a broad range of science data, as well as tools for managing, analyzing, and visualizing data, DataONE will be transformative in the speed with which researchers will be able to assemble and analyze data sets and in the types of problems they will be able to address.

UNM President David J. Schmidly said, "I want to congratulate Professor Michener and his team on their success in receiving this prestigious NSF award. DataONE places UNM in a national and international leadership position in these rapidly-growing disciplines, and is an excellent demonstration of the talents and expertise of UNM's faculty."

DataONE is one of two $20 million awards made this year as part of the National Science Foundation's (NSF) DataNet program. The collaboration of universities and government agencies coalesced to address the mounting need for organizing and serving up vast amounts of highly diverse and inter-related but often-incompatible scientific data. Resulting studies will range from research that illuminates fundamental environmental processes to identifying environmental problems and potential solutions.

"I want to thank Professor Michener for his leadership and hard work that went into making DataONE possible. I look forward to working with Bill and the entire DataONE team as we begin to embark on this exciting new project," said Julia Fulghum, Vice President for Research.

The DataONE team will study how a vast digital data network can provide secure and permanent access into the future, and also encourage scientists to share their information. The team will help determine data citation standards, as well as create the tools for organizing, managing, and publishing data.

The resulting computing and processing cyberinfrastructure will be made permanently available for use by the broader national and international science communities. DataONE is led by the University of New Mexico, and includes additional partner organizations across the United States as well as from Europe, Africa, South America, Asia, and Australia.

This grant is important nationally, and locally especially for our research community. University Libraries Dean Martha Bedard said, "The University Libraries are key partners in UNM research initiatives, and are excited and committed to supporting the emerging area of data curation, which this grant seeks to support in sophisticated ways."

DataONE will build a set of geographically distributed Coordinating Nodes that play an important role in facilitating all of the activities of the global network, as well as a network of Member Nodes that host relevant data and tools. The initial three Coordinating Nodes will be at the University of New Mexico, UC Santa Barbara (housed at the Davidson Library), and at the University of Tennessee/Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Member Nodes will be located in association with universities, libraries, research networks, and agencies worldwide.

DataONE includes experts from library, computer, and environmental sciences explicitly to bridge these worlds and to develop an infrastructure to serve science for many decades to come.

New Mexico's supercomputer, operated by the New Mexico Computing Applications Center, played a vital role in the application process for the grant awarded to UNM. The NMCAC and its supercomputer, which is considered to be the fastest publicly available supercomputer in the world, committed to provide critical support for the project.

"The supercomputer helped the state get the grants and helped UNM to win the awards," said J. Leonard 'Lenny' Martinez, Chief Operating Officer of NMCAC. "We're thrilled with the outcome and look forward to participating in these very important projects."

About Professor Michener

William Michener is Professor and Director of e-Science Initiatives for University Libraries at the University of New Mexico. He has a PhD in Biological Oceanography from the University of South Carolina and has published extensively in the marine, ecological, and information sciences. During the past decade he has directed several large interdisciplinary research programs and cyberinfrastructure projects including the NSF Biocomplexity Program, the Development Program for the NSF-funded Long-Term Ecological Research Network, and numerous cyberinfrastructure projects that focus on developing information technologies for the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

He currently directs the New Mexico DoE and NSF EPSCoR Programs and the DataONE project - an NSF initiative designed to preserve and promote the use of biological, ecological, and environmental data. He is especially passionate about changing the scientific and academic cultures so that data are recognized and treated as important products of the scientific enterprise - essentially equivalent to publications in their potential value to science and society.

He has authored four books related to ecological informatics and more than 70 journal articles and book chapters. He is a Certified Senior Ecologist and serves as Editor of Ecological Archives and Associate Editor of the International Journal of Ecological Informatics. He has directed several large interdisciplinary research programs and cyberinfrastructure projects including the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Biocomplexity Program, the Development Program for the NSF-funded Long-Term Ecological Research Network, and numerous cyberinfrastructure research and development projects. His current efforts focus on developing information technologies for the biological, ecological, and environmental sciences.

How can I print for free? Where are all the printers?

Free printing? Yes it's true - use your Lobo Card and give it a try. UP to $10 free copying or printing per semester. Questions? Find the answer here.

All four of our libraries have new Xerox copiers that also serve as printers. In Zimmerman there are 2 located on the main floor and one in the basement. Parish Memorial Library has 2 located on the main level. The Fine Arts and Design Library has two located in the center of the library. Centennial Science and Engineering Library has two located on the main level. New print and copy release screens have also been installed that work a little differently than the old system. Just ask for help if you can't figure it out.

Soon, all the copiers will also have color printing available (50 cents per page). You may also have noticed that none of the Xerox machines accept cash any longer. Copy cards can be purchased for as little as $1 if needed using the dispensers located nearby the Xerox machines.

Holiday Hours:

All libraries close at 8pm on Wednesday 11/25
All libraries closed Thursday 11/26
Zimmerman open Noon to 5, Friday 11/27
CSWR open Noon to 4pm, Friday 11/27
Parish, Centennial and Fine Arts closed Friday 11/27
All libraries have normal hours for Saturday and Sunday

Senator Dennis Chavez, Jacob C. Morgan and the Sabotage of John Collier's Indian New Deal

State HistorianBruce Gjeltema will speak on "Senator Dennis Chavez, Jacob C. Morgan and the Sabotage of John Collier's Indian New Deal" on Friday, November 13 at 12 p.m. in Room B48 of Zimmerman Library. The brown bag lecture will delve into the relationship between New Mexico Senator Dennis Chavez and Navajo leader Jacob C. Morgan and their efforts to undermine the Bureau of Indian Affairs Commissioner John Collier's Indian New Deal program among the Navajos.

Gjeltema examines the extensive correspondence between the leaders, and demonstrates that between 1936 and 1940 the two conspired to halt Navajo endorsement of the Indian Reorganization Act, blocked passage of the New Mexico Boundary Bill championed by Collier, put pressure on congressional leaders to have Collier removed from office and challenged his livestock reduction program.

Gjeltema is a research fellow for the Office of the State Historian funded through the Commission of Public Records. The lecture is sponsored by the Center for Southwest Research and Special Collections, the Commission of Public Records and the Office of the State Historian. Questions should be directed to Dennis Trujillo at (505) 476-7998.

LibQual+ Survey of Library Services Underway

The University Libraries is currently participating in a national survey to assess library quality. A random group of UNM faculty and students have been chosen to participate and have been contacted by email. If you received an email asking you to participate we encourage you to complete the survey. The assessment will be done by using the Association of Research Libraries sponsored LibQUAL+ instrument to measure library service quality and identify best practices. Approximately 180 other universities are also participating in this year's survey and those results, together with ours, will further assist us in improving the quality of the University Libraries' services. For more information see the LibQual+ website.

Automobile book display at Parish Library

Books relating to the production, marketing and business of automobiles are on display at Parish Memorial Library through November 23. These books are available for check out to staff, students and faculty.

Stop and see the books, license plates and an extensive collection of HOT WHEELS - including some really cool low riders! There is a car logo quiz - try it! It's harder than you think!

Books on display:

• Advertising and the motor-car


• American automobile advertising, 1930-1980: an illustrated history, Heon Stevenson


• The American car dealership, Robert Genat


• The American gas station, Michael Karl Witzel


• Auto opium: a social history of American automobile design, David Gartman


• Battle for the beetle the untold story of the post-war battle for Adolf Hitler's giant Volkswagen factory and the Porsche-designed car that became an icon for generations around the globe, Karl Ludvigsen


• Buyways: billboards, automobiles, and the American landscape, Catherine Gudis


• The car market: a study of the statistics and dynamics of supply-demand equilibrium, M J H Mogridge


• A century on wheels, the story of Studebaker; a history, 1852-1952


• China shifts gears: automakers, oil, pollution, and development, Kelly Sims Gallagher


• Colonel Albert Pope and his American dream machines : the life and times of a bicycle tycoon turned automotive pioneer, by Stephen B. Goddard


• Dein KdF-Wagen, [translated from German by Inge Froebe]


• Economic tsunami: China's car industry will sweep away western car makers, Kevin Baker


• The Edsel affair: .... what went wrong?, C. Gayle Warnock


• Entre el corporativismo productivista y la participacion de los trabajadores: globalizacion y relaciones industriales en la industria automotriz mexicana, Ludger Pries


• The Ford agency: a pictorial history, Henry L. Dominguez


• Ford at fifty, 1903-1953


• The Ford Pinto case: a study in applied ethics, business, and technology, edited by Douglas Birsch and John H. Fielder


• 40 years, 20 million ideas : the Toyota suggestion system, Yuzo Yasuda [translated by Fredrich Czupryna]


• Getting the bugs out: the rise, fall, and comeback of Volkswagen in America, David Kiley


• Golden wheels: the story of the automobiles made in Cleveland and northeastern Ohio, 1892-1932, Richard Wager


• High noon in the automotive industry, Helmut Becker


• Korean dynasty: Hyundai and Chung Ju Yung, Donald Kirk


• The machine that changed the world, James P. Womack, et al.Daniel T. Jones, Daniel Roos


• Magic motors 1930, Brooks T. Brierley


• Merging traffic: the consolidation of the international automobile industry, John A.C. Conybeare


• Saab : the innovator, Mark Chatterton


• My forty years with Ford, Charles E. Sorensen


• 100 Jahre Daimler-Benz : das Unternehmen, von Max Kruk und Gerold Lingnau


• One hundred years of FIAT: 1899-1999 : products, faces, images


• Rouge : pictured in its prime: covering the years 1917-1940, Ford R. Bryan


• Selling the all-American wonder: the World War II consumer advertising of Willys-Overland Motors, Inc., Frederic L. Coldwell


• Six men who built the modern auto industry, Richard A. Johnson


• Taurus: the making of the car that saved Ford, Eric Taub


• Trabajadores en el cambio industrial: estudio de una empresa del sector automotriz , Rainer Dombois


• The world car: the future of the automobile industry, Stuart Sinclair

Addressing the Public Safety Crisis in Indian Country

Miss the lecture? Listen to the recording Addressing the Public Safety in Indian Country

"Addressing the Public Safety Crisis in Indian Country" is the topic of a brown bag and lecture to be given by Kevin K. Washburn, Dean and Professor of Law, University of New Mexico Law School on November 11th, 2009.. The noon brown bag will be held in the Herzstein Latin American Conference Room on the second floor of Zimmerman Library. The lecture will be held at 3:30 pm in the Willard Reading in the West Wing of Zimmerman Library. The event is sponsored by the University Libraries' Indigenous Nations Library Program.

Each decade, the media re-discovers the deplorable state of public safety in Indian country and declares it to be a crisis. The crisis is real and severe and it has gradually been getting worse. Crisis levels of crime, particularly against women and children, have come the reflect the baseline in Indian country. Professor Washburn will describe the structural problems with the criminal justice system in Indian country and will argue that the crisis may continue as long as tribes must continue to rely on the federal and state governments to provide criminal justice in Indian country. As in the areas of healthcare and education, the problem will likely only be successfully addressed when other governments recognize tribal self-determination and tribal governments are made primarily responsible for addressing the crime problem.

Trial Databases Available

University Libraries currently has trial access to: Literature Resource Center, Global Reference on the Environment, Energy and Natural Resources, and Grzimek's Animal Life Online. To use one of these during the test period visit the Trial Databases Page.

These electronic resources, offered by private library vendors, are currently being evaluated by the UNM University Libraries. Some of these resources may be limited to computers with a UNM network connection (computers in the main campus library locations and ITS Pods or computers using a UNM dialup connection).

If the resource is licensed and/or purchased at the end of the trial period, it will then be accessible from the list of All Databases accessible from the UNM University Libraries homepage or by following the "Find Articles" link in the main navigation bar.

Celebrating the Life and Landscapes of Tony Hillerman

UNM Foundation to Present Special Tribute to Tony Hillerman

Open Access Week October 19-23

Open Access http://www.openaccessweek.org/ is a growing global movement to make research freely available through the internet. In the traditional scholarly publication model researchers provide research results to journals for free, and subscriptions to these journals are sold back to the universities. Many times these subscriptions cost thousands of dollars and libraries are unable to purchase subscriptions to all journals in every field. Because some journals are not available in the library, scholars and students may not have access to important research findings. The Open Access movement is encouraging researchers to deposit their work in Open Access repositories, such as DSpace at UNM https://repository.unm.edu/dspace/, or to submit their work to Open Access journals (see the Directory of Open Access Journals http://www.doaj.org/).

Please see the following videos for more information:

http://www.vimeo.com/7048906

http://vimeo.com/6973160

For more information about Open Access at UNM please contact Amy Jackson, Digital Initiatives Librarian, at amyjacks@unm.edu or 277-1207.

50,000 items in the New Mexico Digital Collections

Explore the digital collections of libraries, archives and museums across New Mexico. 50,000 items and growing. New Mexico Digital Collections is hosted by University of new Mexico Libraries with funding from the UNM Center for Regional Studies.

If you missed Annie Proulx in June...

"Coming Out of the Mountains," a lecture about life and writing by Annie Proulx. Presented on June 20 at 6 p.m. in the West Wing of Zimmerman Library, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM. One of two Summer Sunset Lectures hosted by University Libraries, 2009. Low-res mp4 file is available on DSpace for online viewing. To watch a full resolution version of this lecture, visit the Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections located in Zimmerman Library.

e-Research Lecture Podcast

University Libraries hosted a talk "Exploiting and providing research data: finding strategies to help researchers" on Friday, September 18, 2009. The presentation by Professor Malcolm Atkinson Director of the e-Science Institute and National e-Science Centre and Professor of e-Science, School of Informatics, University of Edinburgh and Professor David De Roure, Professor of Computer Science in the School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton, UK was exciting for UNM faculty and students. Listen here: e-research-lecture-Sept-18-09 This file is approximately 16 mb.

CSWR Receives Grant for LaDonna Harris Collection

The Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections was awarded $50,175 from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to process the LaDonna Harris Papers, including the records of Americans for Indian Opportunity (AIO). LaDonna Harris, an Albuquerque resident for many years, has been an ardent advocate and activist for Native American equality and social justice for more than 4 decades. She is the founder (1970) and president of Americans for Indian Opportunity, an organization dedicated to facilitating initiatives and opportunities to enrich the cultural, political, and economic lives of Indigenous peoples around the world.

Harris is a member of the Comanche Tribe and was born and raised in Oklahoma. She moved to Washington, D.C. from Oklahoma in 1965 after her husband was elected to the U. S. Senate. In the sixties and seventies she became a nationally known activist on behalf of Native Americans. She was appointed by Lyndon Johnson to serve on the National Council on Indian Opportunity in 1967 and over the years she served on many national and international commissions. During the Carter presidency she was appointed to UNESCO and as special advisor to the Office of Economic Opportunity. In the 1980s and 1990s she also founded the National Indian Housing Council and National Indian Business Association.

The eighteen month project will be directed by Mike Kelly, director of the Center for Southwest Research & Special Collections. Beth Silbergleit is the project archivist and she will be assisted by two graduate fellows, Max Fitzpatrick and Ashley Shelly. Fitzpatrick is an M.A. candidate in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. student in Sociology. Shelly comes to UNM from the University of Massachusetts as a Ph.D. student in the Department of Anthropology.

The AIO continues to serve native people around the world and the CSWR is committed to preserving their record of achievement for future generations.

LA-ENERGAIA: Energy Policy, Regulation, and Dialogue in Latin America

University Libraries and the Latin American and Iberian Institute have received a four-year grant of $187.041 from the U.S. Department of Education for the LA-ENERGAIA project. The project involves collecting, translating, analyzing, and disseminating information about energy policy, regulation, and dialogue in Latin America.

This will include government policies, international treaties, and other issues regarding energy policy with respect to natural resources, as well as alternative and renewable sources of energy. The focus will encompass regional and international energy policies and their economic and social impact. While Spanish and Portuguese materials will be collected, particular attention will be given to the single largest transnational indigenous group in the hemisphere - the Quechua speaking population of Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Ecuador, Peru and Argentina. The project will use sophisticated, technological solutions to build an easy to use knowledge base that will be available to educational, research, and policy-oriented interests in the United States, Latin America, and the world at large.

The three project objectives are to

1) create a collection of existing materials,

2) produce new, value-added services and products, and

3) engage in project outreach and dissemination.

Project products and services will include:

1) a daily, interactive, current awareness service on energy issues ENERGAIA-L;

2) an original, analytical newsletter NotiEn, produced monthly;

3) a collection in the UNM institutional repository DSpaceUNM that will hold the Latin American energy policy collections, which will include multimedia materials in various languages with English language metadata;

4) an English language energy policy portal LAKH-EN;

5) an educational database RETANet for educators to create and share educational materials regarding energy issues;

6) LA-ENERGAIA Community Portal with national virtual communities-of-practice (VcoP) for collaboration; and

7) a Latin American energy policy conference with experts on issues regarding energy policy formulation, education, renewable and alternative sources of energy, and impacts on indigenous peoples.