New Way to Get to the Library's Mobile Website

Be sure and download a QR Code app for your phone. Don't confuse it with the Microsoft Tag reader -- that one reads color codes like the ones on USA Today. The QR Code is for black/white tags.

Civil War, 150 years ago today

I just read that if you extrapolate from the 660,000 soldiers killed during the American Civil War, to today's population, it would have felt like 6 million killed. In 5 years. On our soil.

This great heartache in America is worth studying for many centuries to come. Join us in exploring one element of it on Thursday, April 14, at 4 pm in the Andover Campus Student Union Grizzly Den, 5000 Building. Dr. Brian Craig Miller shares his scholarship with us.

National Library Week Celebration here at Butler Libraries

Ok, I like Paula Poundstone. She's a regular on the Saturday morning episodes of "Wait, wait, don't tell me!" on public radio. She's the one who said, " If you haven't been to your library lately, you're overdue!"

So today I'd like to share the link to the top 150 books selected by the State Library of Kansas to represent the best about and by Kansas in the last 150 years. We have a lot of these in the Butler Libraries, and we can get all of them via inter-library loan across the state.

The list is in alphabetical order by title, and is available at: www.kslib.info and there's one of them that I read: I Married Adventure: The Lives and Adventures of Martin and Osa Johnson, by Osa Johnson.

And congratulations to the State Library on their new logo, and on the anniversary of Jo Budler's appointment as State Librarian.

--Micaela

Scholar Event coming April 14th

April 14, 2011, is the anniversary of the surrender at Fort Sumter; just two and a half months after Kansas became a state 150 years ago. As Americans move to celebrate the Sesquicentennial of the Civil War, most Americans will not think of events in Kansas. Yet Kansas’ birthday coincides with the Civil War.

You are invited at 4 pm April 14, to the Grizzly Den, Andover Student Union, 5000 building to hear Dr. Brian Craig Miller present Kansas and the Civil War in American History and Memory. Miller’s presentation includes a critical re-examination on how the Civil War affected the state of Kansas and why the Kansas struggles has been largely ignored in American history.

Brian Craig Miller is a professor of history at Emporia State University. He has researched, published, and lectured extensively about the public memory of the Civil War, including his books, The American Memory: Americans and Their History to 1877 and John Bell Hood and the Fight for Civil War Memory.

This event is brought you by the Butler Libraries, PTK, the History Department, and the Kansas Humanities Council. For more information, contact Micaela Ayers, Library Director, 322-3235, mayers@butlercc.edu.

EBSCO buys our NetLibrary Ebooks service

And sent the following information about access to them:

We have exciting news: you now have access to a preview of the integration of eBooks on EBSCOhost, providing eBooks and EBSCO databases from a single source – EBSCOhost, the most-used interface in libraries worldwide.

As a subscriber of EBSCOhost and the newly-named eBooks on EBSCOhost (formerly NetLibrary), you can link to the preview of eBooks on EBSCOhost in either of the following ways:

To view your own collection in the preview, use this URL: http://ebookpreview.ebscohost.com/webauth/login.aspx?profile=ehost&defaultdb=nlbctst

To access a generic eBooks collection, go to the New Features area on EBSCOhost.
These key features of eBooks on EBSCOhost will enable you to:

View the Table of Contents directly from the Result List and Detail Record
Browse by subject, genre, etc.
Enjoy the rich Result List with evaluative data
Use the “search-within functionality” to search for specific terms within a book (a search will yield a list of hyperlinked pages)
Examine documents more closely using the enhanced viewer
Choose your checkout time when downloading eBooks, from a drop-down list with options such as one day, two days, etc. (if enabled by the library administrator)
Libraries that have downloads enabled can view downloaded, checked-out books in the folder, including the amount of time left on active check-outs
Libraries that have holds enabled can place holds on books that are in use by other patrons and will receive an email notification when it becomes available.
Create and print your notes while viewing and reading eBooks, and save them for reference in your my EBSCOhost folder.

Note: All pages being printed or emailed will include the EBSCOhost watermark, copyright information, and citation information, and can be printed by chapter or section.

We hope that you enjoy this opportunity to become familiar with eBooks on EBSCOhost. You will be notified once the final integration has been completed and in the meantime, we encourage you to provide your feedback on eBooks on EBSCOhost by taking our survey.

Japan Relief

On each picture move the mouse across the picture right to left to reveal the after

http://www.abc.net.au/news/events/japan-quake-2011/beforeafter.htm


Donations

Donations are needed to purchase food supplies and pay for overseas shipping to the victims of last week's disaster in the Pacific. Your tax-deductible donation can be made online by clicking HERE and including the term "Pacific" in the comments section on the confirmation page. You may also donate by sending a check payable to Numana with Pacific in the memo. Checks should be mailed to:


Numana
PO Box 572
El Dorado, KS 67042


Packaging Event

Numana will be hosting a packaging event on March 19, at the Butler Community College Gymnasium, 500 building, from 9 AM to 5 PM. People of all ages and all communities are invited to attend and participate in a practical way to help those affected by the disaster.

Sculptures, Art, Installations, Design... from books

http://www.buzzfeed.com/burnred/books-are-not-just-for-reading-281t