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Western Carolina University■ PC Tips ........................................2■ Project Muse ...............................2■ U. Librarian Search .....................2■ Faculty Publications ...................3  InJanuary/February 2000 edition       This              IssueThe Hunter Scholar for  2000 is Dr. Scott Philyaw of the HistoryDepartment.  His research project is titled “From Old Smokeyto Sedro Wooley: Western North Carolina Migration to thePacific Northwest.”   Dr. Philyaw, describing his project, writes:DR. SCOTT PHILYAWby Bill Kirwan, University LibrarianHunter ’ sC l  a r I o nSELECTED AS HUNTER SCHOLAR “Between 1900 and 1940, for example, almost 2,000 peopleleft Jackson and Macon Counties, North Carolina for the SkagitRiver Valley of Washington State. My preliminary researchsuggests that unlike other Appalachian emigrants, these peoplewere not seeking a new life or opportunity in industry, butrather were seeking to recreate a life they were familiar with intimber and agriculture. After leaving the SouthernAppalachians, these migrants continued to keep in touch withfamily and friends in their former communities - therebyproviding the basis for continued migration in the post-WorldWar II era.”   He intends to study several aspects of this particular migration from the Southern Appalachians, includingcauses, evidence of extended family or community movement, and contrasts with emigration from theSouthern Appalachians to Piedmont mill towns or large midwestern cities.   The Hunter Scholar Selection Committee, in choosing this project among the several strong proposalssubmitted, noted that the project “blends well with the University’s mission, with interests that have alreadybeen established on the WCU faculty,” makes use of library resources, and “will contribute significantly to thebody of history of Western North Carolina.”    The Hunter Scholar Award was established in 1987 to promote and reward scholarship at WCU.  It is acooperative effort supported by The College of Research and Graduate Studies, The Vice Chancellor forAcademic Affairs and Hunter Library.  The award includes $400 in support funds from Hunter Library, a full-time graduate assistant, a one-course reduction in teaching load each semester and assignment of a facultystudy in Hunter Library.FOR 2000■ Submission Guidelines ............... 3■ MathSciNet ................................. 4■ Friends of Hunter Library ........... 4■ New Position & Employee ......... 5■ Publications & Presentations ......5■ Submission Guidelines (cont) ....5■ Library Hours..........mailing page♦page 2GrowsCut, copy, and paste.     Within a program, the best keyboardshortcuts to know are CTRL-Z, CTRL-C, andCTRL-V—cut, copy, and paste. Use thecombinations in word processing programs orto move icons and files around in Windows.Move windows around.     To do some rearranging around yourDesktop, just drag or resize windows until youcan see everything you need to see at once.Move an entire window by dragging the titlebar with the mouse—push down on the leftmouse button while the pointer is above thecolored bar at the top of the window and thenmove the mouse. Release the button to stopdragging the window. Make a window smalleror larger by dragging the corners of a windowrather than the title bar.Switch between open windows.     Another useful keyboard shortcut in all ofWindows is ALT-TAB, which cycles openprograms to the foreground. ALT-TAB makesit easy to work with more than one program ata time without having to deal with tinywindows sized small enough to share limitedscreen space. Try it—keep each programmaximized and use ALT-TAB to quicklyswitch among them.Windows PC User Tipsby Robin Hitch, Systems Technician     The following is a continuation fromprevious issues of the compiled list of whatmay help you in basic Windows computerliteracy.  If you already know how toaccomplish these tasks, you are more thanon your way to being computer savvy!by Nancy Newsome,Serials LibrarianClarion Jan/Feb 2000The Johns Hopkins University Press, incollaboration with the Milton S. EisenhowerLibrary, launched Project MUSE in 1995 to offer thefull text of JHUP scholarly journals via the World Wide Web.In 1999, MUSE published online 46 JHUP titles in thehumanities, social sciences and mathematics.   In 2000, Project MUSE enters its second phase ofdevelopment with the addition of over 60 quality journal titlesfrom other publishers, bringing the database’s total offerings towell over 100 titles.  Project MUSE now covers the fields ofliterature and criticism, history, the visual and performing arts,cultural studies, education, political science, gender studies,and many others.  Journals from the following publishers arebeing added:Carnegie Mellon     University PressDuke University PressIndiana University PressMIT PressOxford University PressFor a title listing of the full database,go to http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/title/. ♦Pennsylvania State     University PressUniversity of Hawaii     PressUniversity of Texas     PressUniversity of     Wisconsin PressYour Input is RequestedThe process of interviewing candidates for the UniversityLibrarian position is half completed.  Both Dr. Paul Frisch andDr. Al Jones have come to Cullowhee to share their visions formaintaining quality library services in a technological era.  TheSearch Committee for the University  Librarian extends aninvitation to:1) Send comments on the presentations of Frisch and Jones toNancy Kolenbrander at Hunter Library.2) Attend the presentations of David Carlson on February 21stand Bil Stahl on February 25th.  Presentations will be at 11:00A.M. in the auditorium of the mountain Heritage Center.Coffee and cookies will be served following the talk to provideadditional opportunity to meet the candidates.  Please assist usin this process. ♦page3Faculty Publications Show Great Diversityby  Nan Watkins,Reference LibrarianClarion Jan/Feb 2000The present library exhibit in the cases by thestairwell features publications by thirty-sixfaculty and staff on a wide variety of subjectsranging from the social behavior of insects to building aframeless boat in a few hours. The publications, all ofwhich appeared in 1999, are part of the ongoing series ofannual exhibits highlighting the creative work of WCU’sfaculty and staff.   Take a break from your routine and come see yourcolleagues’ recent articles and books. There is JimLewis’s book, Neptune’s Militia: The Frigate SouthCarolina during the American Revolution, and theSecond Edition of Karl Nicholas’s and Jim Nicholl’sModels for Effective Writing. Katie Ray has a book,Wondrous Words, for use in the elementary classroom,while Mark Couture writes an article on “Empty Words:Vanity in the Writings of Jorge Luis Borges.”  PeterGalbreath writes on brook trout, Jim Costa is concernedwith social caterpillars, and Sabine Rundle writes forPlant Science. Joan Byrd publishes an article on the lifework of glass artist Harvey Littleton, Larry Hill showsstoryboard development techniques in Russia whileJinlin Zhao writes in Chinese on hospitality managementNow that almost every journal has its own Website, scholars can move more quickly insubmitting manuscripts for publication.   Ex-pect a journal Web site to include the journal’s missionstatement and instructions to authors in the form ofsubmission guidelines and style sheets, some of themquite elaborate.  In many cases, the editors will alsoinclude calls for papers.   I have found a few journalswhose sites are so bare-boned that they offer only anemail address for submission information; more often,however, journal Web sites give far more informationthan one usually finds inside the journal itself.by  Becky Kornegay,Reference Librarianin an article that includes many color photos ofWCU’s campus.   Along with these publications you will findvarious newsletters which are edited by DanPittillo, Lester Laminack, Katie Ray and AnitaOser. There is also a CD, “The Music of Moun-tain Heritage Day,” produced by the staff of theMountain Heritage Center as well as a videomade by the Department of Industrial Engineer-ing Technology.   These are just a few of the items you will findin this year’s Faculty and Staff Publicationsexhibit that continues through the month ofFebruary.For Faculty Seeking Publication:Submission Guidelines on Web   How to find the Web site for a journal?  If thejournal is well-established, use the Internetdirectory Yahoo (www.yahoo.com).  For newer,lesser-known journals, I recommend the searchengine AltaVista (www.altavista.com), whichcovers a larger portion of the Web than doesYahoo.  In either case, type the journal’s title intothe search box, enclosing the title in quotationmarks (“american journal of botany” or “journalof abnormal psychology”). The quotation marksdirect the search engine to look for the entireContinued on page 5Display case in public area♦New Database by Lorna Dorr, Reference Librarianpage4by Linda Gillman, CAE  Friends of Hunter LibraryClarion Jan/Feb 2000Hunter Library has made another newdatabase available.  MathSciNet is asearchable Web database providing accessto over 59 years of Mathematical Reviews andCurrent Mathematical Publications.  The database isproduced by the American Mathematical Society.   MathSciNet covers Mathematical Reviews from1940 to the present and includes the full text of allreviews.  Items listed in the annual indexes of Math-ematical Reviews but not given an individual revieware also included.  Current Mathematical Publica- ♦The Friends of Hunter Library Board ofAdvisors will meet during the last week ofFebruary at which time they will schedule aspring book sale and discuss plans for this year’sSunday Afternoon at the Library annual event.  Thesetwo very exciting happenings will really kick off theFriends’ year 2000 activities in a big way.   For those of you who may be new to Friends ofHunter Library, Sunday Afternoon at the Library is anannual event to which all Friends members and thepublic are invited.   A short reception is held, fol-lowed by the guest author’s presentation.  Some ofyou may remember that last year’s guest author wasRobert Morgan.  Morgan’s most recent work, GapCreek: A Novel is currently featured as an Oprah’sBook Club choice!  Morgan who has been called, thepoet laureate of Appalachia, writes with a gritty,News About the Spring Book Sale& Sunday Afternoon at the Libraryelemental candor, which gives voice to a time and aplace rarely imagined.  In his two previous novels,The Truest Pleasure and The Hinterlands, Morganproved his ability to create memorable heroines andprovided readers with a  peek into the past.  And tothink many of us can say, “we knew him when.”Surely, you will want to reserve some time to attendthis year’s event — who knows, we may bring youyet another “blockbuster!”   As for the book sale, while the FHL does not hold abook sale every year, when it does it is a real treat.This year, FHL is fortunate to have an especially finecollection thanks to a generous donation by a veryspecial Board member and extra good Friend.   The dates for these two exciting events will beannounced very soon.  So, get ready to enjoy anopportunity to meet an interesting author and takeadvantage of the spring book sale! ♦tions is a subject index of bibliographic data forrecent and forthcoming publications.  Most items arelater reviewed in Mathematical Reviews.   Mathematical Reviews provides “timely reviews orsummaries of articles and books that contain newcontributions to mathematical research.”  The ap-proximately 1600 current serials and journals re-viewed in whole or in part are listed in the Abbrevia-tions of Names of Serials which may be viewed inPDF format or as a browsable listing.  CurrentMathematical Publications data is updated daily andMathematical Reviews i  updated monthly.page51234567890123456789123456789012345678912345678901234567891234567890123456789123456789012345678912345678901234567891234567890123456789123456789012345678912345678901234567891234567890123456789123456789012345678912345678901234567891234567890123456789123456789012345678912345678901234567891234567890123456789123456789012345678912345678901234567891234567890123456789123456789012345678912345678901234567891234567890123456789123456789012345678912345678901234567891234567890123456789123456789012345678912345678901234567891234567890123456789123456789012345678912345678901234567891234567890123456789123456789012345678912345678901234567891234567890123456789SharonMcLaurinNew PositionClarion Jan/Feb 2000   Welcome to Sharon McLaurin, previously of theCurriculum Materials Center, as the new ProcessingAssistant IV in the Serials Unit.  Sharon’s primaryresponsibilities include ordering and renewing thelibrary’s periodical subscriptions and standing orders,as well as handling any associated receipt or claimingproblems, and maintenance of the newspaper collec-tion.  Sharon lives in Sylva with her two daughters,Melanie and Melissa, and grandson, Reaves.  Sheenjoys reading, camping, and watching foreign films.123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678123456789012345678New EmployeeLeraChitwood   Hunter Library welcomes Lera Chitwood who istemporarily filling a Reference Librarian position.Lera has had considerable experience as a librarianin academic libraries and as a business researcher incompetitive intelligence at two corporations,Motorola and TI Group.  She has also taught amarketing course here at WCU and a business courseat SCC.  Lera is the local innkeeper/owner of OldeTowne Inn in Dillsboro.  Her son, Jon, is a collegestudent currently studying at the University ofSheffield in the UK.Award:   Nan Watkins was one of the recipients of theGabriel Award for the Highest Achievement inExcellence and Public Service in the Art ofCommunications given by the National CatholicAssociation for Communicators. The award wasfor “The Spirit Confined,” a program of prisonliterature and music that was broadcast nation-wide on NPR’s “Sound & Spirit.”Publication:   “Soleils Jumeaux: Yvan et Claire Goll enAmérique,” by Nan Watkins, a French translationof her “Twin Suns: Yvan and Claire Goll inAmerica” that appeared in Yvan Goll (1891-1950)Poète Européen des Cinq Continents, Saint-Diédes Vosges, France, 1999, the catalogue of themajor retrospective exhibit of Yvan Goll’s lifeand work held in Paris, Summer 1999.phrase, rather than for the words individually, and should bring a link to the journal’sprimary Web site to the top of the list.   Once you arrive at the Web site, the link to authors’instructions should be obvious.   No one method of Web searching is failsafe, of course.  If the method outlined abovedoesn’t find the journal Web site you seek, call the Reference Desk, 227-7465, for searchsuggestions.Continued from page 3SubmissionGuidelines♦Editors:Lorna Dorr&Nancy NewsomeTechnical Editor:Clarissa FisherTechnical Assistant:Jane KnellerHunter’s ClarionHunter LibraryWestern Carolina UniversityCullowhee, NC  28723Sun.,  Jan. 30 to  Thu., Mar.  2 Extended HoursSpring BreakFri.,    Mar.   3 8:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.Sat.,   Mar.   4  &  Sun., Mar.   5 ClosedMon., Mar.  6  to  Fri.,  Mar.  10 8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.Sat.,   Mar. 11 ClosedSun.,  Mar. 12 4:00 p.m.-MidnightMon., Mar. 13 to  Wed., Apr. 19 Extended HoursEaster HolidayThu.,  Apr. 20 8:00 a.m.-10:00 p.m.Fri.,    Apr. 21 ClosedSat.,   Apr. 22 10:00 a.m.-6:00 p.m.Sun.,  Apr. 23 4:00 p.m.-MidnightMon., Apr. 24 to  Thu., May  4 Extended HoursHUNTER LIBRARY HOURSSpring 2000U N T E RI B R A R Yhttp://www.wcu.edu/library/whatsnew/index.htmExtendedHoursMonday throughThursday8:00 a.m. -2 a.m.Friday8:00 a.m. -9:00 p.m.Saturday10:00 a.m. -9:00 p.m.Sunday Noon - 2 a.m.

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