National Mental Illness Awareness Week

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October 6th-12th is National Mental Illness Awareness Week. Mental Illness Awareness Week was established in 1990 by Congress in order to recognize the efforts of the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) who educate and inform others about mental illness.  You can find out more about NAMI by clicking here.

Each year, 1 in 5 Americans experience mental illness. This means that 19.1% of American adults experienced mental illness in 2018. National Mental Illness Awareness Week encourages community awareness in order to break the stigma and advocate for recovery and treatment (Source).

Tarleton State University Student Counseling Services provides services for students which include individual counseling, couple counseling, and group counseling. You can also find a list of community and campus resources here.

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Here is a list of Counseling events at Tarleton State University which includes Mental Health First Aid training held on Fridays in October from 12pm until 2pm and Green Dot training from October 8th to the 10th for National Mental Illness Awareness Week and various days throughout the semester.

Tarleton University libraries provides a subject guide for Psychology and Counseling Research for those who wish to find resources.

We also have a variety of books and electronic resources on stress management, relaxation, anxiety, depression, and domestic violence.

#MentalIllnessAwarenessWeek #MentalHealthDay #WhyCare

The Top Five Horror Books at the Dick Smith Library

It\’s finally October! So get ready for Halloween by reading the top five checked out horror books in the Dick Smith Library!

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1. Misery by Stephen King

Writer Paul Sheldon wants to stop writing about his historic romance character Misery Chastain and start writing literary fiction. Annie Wilkes, Sheldon\’s number one fan, rescues him from a car crash and has her own ideas for Misery.

You can find Misery in the General Stacks upstairs with the call number: PS3561 .I483 M5 1987

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2. Hideaway by Dean Koontz 
After a car accident leaves him clinically dead for eighty minutes, Hatch Harrison wakes up with a new found lease on life and a horrifying telepathic connection with a serial killer.
You can find Hideaway in the stacks with the call number: PS3561 .O55 H5 1992

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3. House by Frank Peretti and Ted Dekker

House follows two couples who find themselves trapped in a deadly game. The killer has set the rules and the only way out is to go into the house.

You can find House in the stacks with the call number: PS3566 .E691217 H68 2006C

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4. Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

A monster assembled by a scientist from dead body parts learns to think for himself and decides to take revenge against the man who created him.

You can find Frankenstein with the call number:
 PR5397 .F7 1988

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5. The Fall of the House of Usher and Four Other Tales, stories by Edgar Allen Poe and illustrated by Rick Schreiter

This book contains some of Poe\’s greatest and scariest works including The Black Cat, Ms. Found in a Bottle, Three Sundays in a Week, and The Oval Portrait.

You can find this book of tales in the Education section with the call number: PZ3 .P752 FAL9

Meet Our Staff: Katie Pierce Farrier

Katie Pierce Farrier

Scholarly Communications Librarian
254-968-9456
[email protected]
Dick Smith Library – Main Floor – 112A

My name is Katie Pierce Farrier and I am the Scholarly Communication Librarian and the library liaison to the School of Nursing.  Scholarly Communication focuses on the process of researching, creating, evaluating, and sharing scholarly content. I can help you find resources,navigate publishing and copyright issues, and maximize your impact in your field.

I graduated from University of North Texas in May 2019. Before I came here, I worked at the medical library for  the UNT Health Science Center. Over the summer I also worked at TAMU Law Library.
In my free time, I love to paint and draw. I also have three dogs who I love to spoil and take on camping trips.

Hispanic Heritage Month

National Hispanic Heritage Month runs from September 15 to October 15 every year. The website says, \”The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of Hispanic Americans who have positively influenced and enriched our nation and society.\” Spanish is the official language for 20 countries around the world and for Puerto Rico, which is part of the United States.

A screenshot from the National Hispanic American Heritage Month website at hispanicheritage.gov

Library Resources

Timeline
Take a look at the timeline of notable Hispanics created by one of our librarians in 2017.

Learning Spanish
Mango Languages (which has an app) has a Spanish language course.

Spanish Databases
We have a number of databases in Spanish. Some of them include:
FuenteAcademic
ReferenciaLatina
Brittanica Encylopedia Moderna
Clase Periodica
InformeAcademia
MedicaLatina

Travel
Get detailed profiles of Spanish-speaking countries with our Global Road Warrior database.

Books in Spanish
We have over 77,000 items in Spanish in the library catalog.

Hispanic American History
We have over 500 items that discuss Hispanic Americans in the United States. Check out the library catalog to find these.
We also have biographies of notable Hispanic entertainers, including Celia Cruz, Rita Moreno, and more.

Read the BANNED book before you watch the series!

For Banned Books Week, check out these three books that have been turned into a hit series. 



1. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

Catch-22 is about Yossarian, a pilot during WWII, who is being sent on missions that only a crazy person would agree to. The catch? If you know you’re crazy, you can’t really be crazy, so he’s off on another impossible mission.  Find it on the shelves in print, audio or as an e-book, call # PS3558 .E476 C3385.


     











   2. The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood 
     Offred navigates the dangerous life of being a “handmaiden”, forced to live a life of servitude while humanity struggles to deal with crippling levels of infertility. Tired of being oppressed, Offred dares to resist even if it means her life and the lives of those she trusts.  Find it on OverDrive, or on the shelves at call # PR9199.3 .A8 H3. 












      3. His Dark Materials  by Phillip Pullman 
     This exhilarating three part series features Lyra and Will, two children trying to out run child-stealing Gobblers and soul-eating Specters. Together they stumble upon an unthinkable weapon, terrifying secrets, and facedown a seemingly impossible task. Find it on OverDrive, or as an ebook, call #PZ7 .P968 G444.

7 Things You Didn\’t Know about Scholarly Communication!
Scholarly Communication Librarian Katie Pierce Farrier 

ACRL describes scholarly communication as “the system through which research and other scholarly writings are created, evaluated for quality, disseminated to the scholarly community, and preserved for future use (Association of College & Research Libraries, “Principles and Strategies for the Reform of Scholarly Communication 1,” 2003).  
 
Scholarly Communication is broad topic with many overlapping goals. Copyright impacts author rights, which impact open access, which impact bibliometrics, and so on. Depending on the needs of the faculty and the goals of the university, scholarly communication can help faculty and researchers:

1. Be more successful and impactful in their fields.
Scholarly Communication can help researchers at any stage, from finding open resources to begin initial research, to understanding your rights as an author and finding journals to publish in, to long term storage and dissemination of your work.

2. Avoid predatory publishers.
I can offer publishing guidance if you’re being asked to peer edit for a journal on topics you don’t specialize in, or you’re looking at publishing in a journal that you are unsure about their peer review, editing, or publishing standards.

3. Protect author rights.
I can help authors understand the full extent of their rights, help find addendums to protect author rights, and help find publishers that allow authors to keep more rights. I can also offer guidance on different types of licensing options for their works.

4. Track a researcher’s impact and bibliometrics.
There are several tools, databases, and ways to measure the impact of your work, such as how many times an article has been cited and/or downloaded. I can also help find a specific journal’s impact factor and other citation metrics.

5. Manage the research data life cycle.  
I can help find open data sources for researchers, help find repositories to house your data and share with other researchers, help manage the research data life cycle, offer advice on navigating funder mandates for storage, access, and retention of data.

6. Find and promote Open Access (OA) and Open Educational Resources (OER).
I function as an advocate for OA resources. I can advise researchers on the benefits of publishing in OA journals, the different types of OA journals, and I can help faculty find OERs for their classes.

7. Understand copyright.
I can offer people guidance on copyright, public domain, fair use and its applications for the classroom.   

Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints

Are you writing a paper or preparing a presentation on a controversial topic? Are you looking for credible sources that present multiple points-of-view? If so, then you should check out the library\’s Gale in Context: Opposing Viewpoints database. You can find it on the library\’s online list of databases.

When you open that database you will see its basic search screen.

Scroll down the page to find a list of issues that you can browse.

When you find an issue in this database, you\’ll see an overview of the topic and links to a wide variety of sources: academic journal articles, magazine articles, statistics, websites, and more.  
The Viewpoints section provides a list of opinion pieces in which people layout their arguments on various sides of the issue. This is a quick and convenient way to find a variety of opinions on current topics. 
If you need assistance using this, or any other library resource, contact us online or call 254-968-9249.

Get some library tips via YouTube

Did you know that Tarleton Libraries has a YouTube channel?

Screenshot of the library\’s YouTube channel.

It has a wide variety of videos.
Below are some of the topics you can learn about:

Understanding copyright and fair use
Renewing items online
Checking out items
Using the Discovery search tool

Our tutorial videos also have edited closed captions. Let us know in the comments below if there are any topics you think would be a good subject for a YouTube video.

A screenshot of our Transition Week 2015 video.

More Stephenville Newspapers Available at Portal to Texas History

On July 18, Dr. Ana Krahmer, Director of the Digital Newspaper Program at the University of North Texas Libraries, spoke at the Dick Smith Library on the Texas Digital Newspaper Program, the largest statewide open digital newspaper access and preservation repository in the United States. It includes over 7 million newspaper pages, spanning west to east, from El Paso to Newton, and north to south, from Higgins to Brownsville, starting in 1813 and moving up to the present day.

Dr. Krahmer was here because of the recent addition of more issues of Stephenville newspapers to the Portal to Texas History, thanks to a cooperative effort by the Tarleton Libraries and the Dublin Public Library.  The latter applied for a Tocker Foundation grant to digitize the newspaper issues from 1923 through 1965.


Earlier Stephenville newspapers, from 1882 through 1922, were digitized thanks to a Ladd & Katherine Hancher Library Foundation grant obtained by the Stephenville Public Library, again in cooperation with Tarleton Libraries.

So if your research requires old (or current) Stephenville newspapers, here\’s a current description of what to find where:

Stephenville Newspaper Availability (Empire, Tribune, and Empire-Tribune)

Everything through 1965is available online for free at the Portal to Texas History:  https://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?sort=date_a&fq=untl_collection%3ASTET. 
Note however that there are a number of gaps, because original newspapers (that were microfilmed and then later digitized) were lost or destroyed before microfilming.

Currently all of our microfilmfor issues from 1966 through 1980 is at UNT (the University of North Texas) for digitization and addition to the Portal.  We do not have backup copies of these reels.  Please contact our Periodicals department at 254-968-9867 or [email protected] if you need a reel from this date range so we can coordinate retrieval from UNT.  Note that it may take some time to retrieve the reel(s).


The microfilm for 1981 through 2017 is available in the Periodicals department, on the main floor of the library.  We will be sending reels from 1981 through 1999 to UNT periodically for digitization, and the previous paragraph will apply, but earlier reels will be returned as they are digitized.


We have bound volumes of issues for 1993 through 2011 at our offsite location. These would need to be requested in advance from the Periodicals department to allow time for retrieval.

Full text of selected (not all) issues from 1930-1978 is available via open access through Newspaper Archive:   https://newspaperarchive.com/us/texas/stephenville/stephenville-empire-tribune/. Use the \”Browse by Date\” to choose from digitized issues. 

Full text for 2000 – present is available through Access World News, a subscription database. If you are a Tarleton student, faculty member, or staff member, you can access it with your NTNET user name and password at any time.  If you are not affiliated with Tarleton, you would have to come in after 3 p.m. on weekdays or any time on weekends and request a guest pass to use this database in the library.  It is also possible a library near you has this database, but you\’d need to check with them to see if they have access to this newspaper.  Simply having a subscription to this database does not mean they have the same newspapers we do.

Selected articles are also available from the Stephenville Empire-Tribune website:  http://www.yourstephenvilletx.com/.

Issues from the current year and previous year are available in print, and are stored in-house in the Periodicals department until they have been microfilmed. 

You might also want to check the Tarleton student newspaper, the J-TAC, which began in 1919.  In earlier years it covered a lot of local news.  It is available on the Portal to Texas History: https://texashistory.unt.edu/explore/collections/JTAC/browse/?sort=date_a

The nearby town of Dublin has newspapers from 1882 through 2014 (but with some gaps) available on the Portal: https://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?sort=date_a&explore=true&fq=str_location_county%3AErath+County%2C+TX&fq=untl_institution%3ADUBPU


Finally, here is a link to all Erath County newspapers available on the Portal:  https://texashistory.unt.edu/search/?fq=dc_type%3Atext_newspaper&explore=true&fq=str_location_county%3AErath+County%2C+TX&sort=date_a

One Giant Leap for Mankind

July 16th, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the launch of Apollo 11, the first spaceflight that landed humans on the moon. It landed on the moon 4 days later.

  The Apollo 11 Saturn V space vehicle lifts off
with astronauts Neil A. Armstrong, Michael Collins and , Edwin \”Buzz\” E. Aldrin Jr.,
at 9:32 a.m. EDT July 16, 1969, from Kennedy Space Center. NASA [Public Domain].
You can learn more about this amazing feat of science and engineering by checking out one of these books at the library:
Moon Landing, Project Apollo by James C. Sparks
Astronaut Buzz Aldrin on the moon.
You can see Neil Armstrong in the reflection of his visor.
 NASA [Public Domain].
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