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An oral history with Celeste Teodor
No full textAn oral interview with Celeste Teodor, an incarceree at the Children's Village orphanage. The interview was conducted for the Children's Village at the Manzanar Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Transcript is found in item: csufccop_cvm_0138.The Children's Village at Manzanar Oral History Project features oral histories with narrators who talk about their lives, pre and post World War II, but most specifically, about their experience at the Children's Village orphanage at Manzanar
6th Annual Women Building California conference
No full textTwo tradeswomen from San Francisco pose for a photograph during the 6th Annual Women Building California conference
The International Operating Engineer: A Magazine of Technical Progress, Vol. 150, No. 1
No full textVol. 150, No. 1 issue of "The International Operating Engineer". Includes articles entitled "Local 94 Ratifies New Pact", "Local 3 Dismantles Carquinez Bridge", "GEB Open Session Sets New Direction", and others
An oral history with Celeste Teodor
No full textAn oral interview with Celeste Teodor, an incarceree at the Children's Village orphanage. The interview was conducted for the Children's Village at the Manzanar Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Audio is found in item: csufccop_cvm_0137.The Children's Village at Manzanar Oral History Project features oral histories with narrators who talk about their lives, pre and post World War II, but most specifically, about their experience at the Children's Village orphanage at Manzanar
Oral history with Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi
No full textAn oral interview with Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi, incarceree at the Santa Anita detention facility. The interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Audio is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0967.The Japanese American Oral History Project features oral histories with narrators who talk about their lives, pre and post World War II, but most specifically, about their experience being incarcerated in camps during World War II
Archivist - Groundbreaking Shovels
No full textArchivist Thomas Philo with groundbreaking shovels at Library South construction site during reception at library forum
An oral history with Ira Iwata
No full textAn oral interview with Ira Iwata, an incarceree at the Children's Village orphanage. The interview was conducted for the Children's Village at the Manzanar Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. The audio file is found in item: csufccop_cvm_0119.The Children's Village at Manzanar Oral History Project features oral histories with narrators who talk about their lives, pre and post World War II, but most specifically, about their experience at the Children's Village orphanage at Manzanar
War-time experiences
No full textNarrative essay describing Hatsuye Nakamura's experience as an individual of Japanese ancestry living in California during the events of World War II. Nakamura describes the evacuation orders and their impact on the community, her experience at Tule Lake and Granada incarceration camps, relocation to Chicago, and eventual return to Marysville, California. See also the narrative essay of Frank F. Nakamura, sac_jaac_2492.The Japanese American Archival Collection documents the people, places, and daily life of Japanese Americans, primarily those who lived in the once thriving community of pre-war Florin in the Sacramento region, as well as the conditions in American incarceration camps during World War II. The approximately 7,000 original items include personal and official letters, photographs, diaries, arts and crafts, newsletters, textiles, camps artifacts, yearbooks and other publications
Oral history with Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi
No full textAn oral interview with Setsuko Matsunaga Nishi, incarceree at the Santa Anita detention facility. The interview was conducted for the Japanese American Oral History Project by California State University, Fullerton. Audio is found in item: csufccop_jaoh_0965.The Japanese American Oral History Project features oral histories with narrators who talk about their lives, pre and post World War II, but most specifically, about their experience being incarcerated in camps during World War II
California State University Virtual Library: A Vision of the CSU Council of Library Directors
No full textProposal outlining the creation of a shared virtual library to provide universal access to California State University students and facultyThis collection consists of reports by or about the California State University.Reports were generated by various Chancellor’s Office divisions, committees and other entities including the state government. The reports consist of analytical, programmatic, feasibility or budgetary reports dealing with planning, administration, teaching, the functions of the university system and other subjects.California State University Virtual Library: A Vision of the CSU
Council of Library Directors
The CSU Council of Library Directors is proposing the creation of a
shared virtual library in order to provide universal access to CSU
students and faculty.
The CSU Libraries have a long history of effective deployment of
technology. Now the technological systems exist to fulfill our collective
vision of powerfully linking our resources and services for the benefit
of our aggregate academic communities.
California State University stands upon the principle that students from
all socio-economic levels and all geographic locations should have
access to education. However, the campus resources deployed to
students have been dependent upon location and therefore upon
campus enrollment-driven budgets and other campus issues. A CSU
student can receive very different levels of resources depending upon
the relative wealth of the campus where he or she is enrolled.
America's libraries have always been engaged in continually advancing
access for all who seek knowledge. Similarly, the CSU Libraries, pivotal
in their role in providing the knowledge resources for teaching,
learning and research, are committed to providing broad access to our
academic community.
The CSU Libraries have long been very forward-thinking in their
approach to library service and very progressive in continually adding
new services and resources as they become available in the
marketplace. From the early years of technology and the subsequent
expansion of the web, the CSU libraries have aggressively developed
their electronic resources and services in order to provide extensive
remote access 24/7. At the same time, the CSU libraries have
continued to support the disciplines that are dependent upon print
collections, special and archival collections and sound and image
collections. The significant challenge has been in responding to
hundreds of disciplines and fields of research with collections in all
formats in order to support the quality of education promised by the
CSU to the people of California and to support the vibrant research of
our faculty as they create new knowledge.
As we have continued to seek fiscal resources to match the demands
of students and faculty, the collective result of the CSU Libraries'
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efforts and our focus on expanding our knowledge resources are
impressive. The collections of the CSU Libraries should be a point of
pride-representing as they do the commitment we have toward
California as a knowledge-based society that continually invests in its
people and spurs dynamic growth with new research.
Importantly, for fifteen years, the CSU Council of Library Directors
(COLD) has been engaged in strategic planning. Then, over a decade
ago, the California State University launched the Integrated
Technology Strategy (ITS) which, in addition to the development of
the technological infrastructure vital for university life today, also
embraced and supported the directions and initiatives of the CSU
Libraries. These powerful efforts have resulted in an unprecedented
level of collaborative projects including the establishment of an
electronic core collection of journals and databases; cooperative
buying to leverage our dollars; new systems for resource sharing
across libraries; providing 24/7 reference assistance; establishing
collective standards for new library buildings; and leading the nation's
libraries in information literacy.
Linking and expanding on these separate, but interrelated initiatives
and taking advantage of current and emerging technologies, we are
poised to move forward with the CSU Virtual Library under the
leadership of COLD.
What does a virtual library mean in the context of the CSU?
Imagine the future CSU students and faculty when our virtual library is
implemented. Students and faculty will have access to the virtual
library from their home, their office, their library or anywhere in the
world. The CSU Virtual Library will present the students and faculty
with a single portal from which they can access the combined
resources of the CSU Libraries regardless of their home campus.
Every CSU library today has a strong electronic presence with many
resources and services online-some of which are held uniquely by a
campus. The CSU Virtual Library will unite these disparate resources
allowing future students and faculty the ability to search the combined
electronic journals, electronic databases, electronic books, streaming
media, repositories, digital archives, and catalogs of the holdings of
libraries. These can then be interwoven and leveraged with jointly
managed services and support. Additionally, new resources will
become available that include learning objects and information
research instruction modules that can be integrated into online
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instruction and embedded into learning management systems. From
this single portal, library users will be able to request electronic
document delivery, have books sent from one campus library to their
home campus library because still only 5% of information is digital,
and have a virtual reference consultation with a librarian when
assistance is needed. Additionally, social networking tools will be used
extensively to build an online library community that embraces the
virtual reality of shared digital resources in research, pedagogy and
multi-media creation.
The importance and significance of this virtual library is that it
supports all students and faculty wherever they are in the CSU
system. Everyone will be able to benefit from and use the combined
resources of our collective CSU Libraries. Libraries who have
collections that are broad and deep substantially improve research and
education. Faculty are attracted to and retained by campuses that
provide extensive scholarly resources so that they can excel in
teaching and research. Students become engaged in learning when
their understanding is deepened and enriched by exposure to a wider
world of knowledge. An engaged student is more likely to persist in
their education.
Considering the current scale of learning and research activities in our
libraries, we expect the use of the CSU Virtual Library to be dramatic.
Currently, there are eight million service interactions per year by
library personnel with and on behalf of our students and faculty.
Nearly a quarter of a million students attend information research
instruction and presentations annually. The physical use of the library
facilities remain high with the average gate count across all CSU
libraries at over a half million persons per week.
Invisible to future students and faculty will be the effort that will go
into the creation of a virtual library. Strategic choices among
technologies and resources; collaborative work; out of the box
thinking; the research for and deployment of new systems as well as
innovative uses of proven technologies; new agreements; connections
to other major CSU initiatives such as the Digital Marketplace;
authentication of all users; changing partnerships; extensive support
and a different way of working among the partner libraries are among
the challenges that will face us as we move along this path but it is
imperative that we begin. Budget requirements for resources,
technology and staffing will need to be defined. Fiscal support for the
CSU Virtual Library will be drawn from local campuses as well as the
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system. The CSU Virtual Library is a significant consortia! effort in
which everyone can benefit because everyone contributes.
The CSU Council of Library Directors proposes this "Next Wave" of
strategic planning to optimize the resources and maximize the
collective power of the CSU Libraries. The CSU Virtual Library is our
boldest vision to date in support of our students and faculty as they
engage in teaching, learning and research.
Virtual Library Scenario: One Student's Experience
For the research paper in her capstone history course, Debbie signs
onto her campus library portal to access knowledge resources. When
she signs on, she enters the seamless environment of her campus
resources as well as the electronic resources powered by the CSU
Virtual Library. This portal authenticates and authorizes her for full
access to all licensed resources, including electronic journals and
databases, repositories, digital archives, catalogs of the holdings of
libraries, learning objects and information research instruction
modules. She seeks advice from one of the CSU library faculty
members who is a subject specialist in history, asking her question
using instant messaging, and gets advice on the best sources for her
research, including the CSU History Research Learning Commons. The
online catalog of CSU Libraries holdings includes user-generated "tags"
and other recommended books associated with individual titles. She
retrieves full text journal articles available electronically by clicking on
the links in the America History and Life database. Debbie then
requests other articles not available online by clicking on the document
delivery link that automatically fills in the bibliographic information and
her own contact information for delivery to her campus library oremail
address. All the books and articles she selects are automatically
entered into a database of citations that can be formatted in any
required style for her bibliography. She is especially pleased to find
the primary sources she is required to use in the CSU digital archives,
as well as some images to include in her paper. Debbie shares her
research experience with other history students in the CSU social
networking space.
Virtual Library Scenario: One Faculty Member's Experience
Richard is a long-time faculty member in Engineering and an expert on
construction that can tolerate powerful earthquakes. Richard is about
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to make a presentation before a huge audience of engineers in South
America on his award-winning work when he realizes that he needs
some additional information on his topic as well as a full citation for an
article that he wants to cite. From his hotel, he uses his computer to
log onto his campus library portal which authenticates him and gives
him full access to the library's licensed resources. Quickly, he uses
federated searching across the major engineering journals and locates
the information that he desires. Then, he searches a top engineering
database for the full citation of the work he wishes to highlight. While
Richard is in the search process, he realizes that a photo of earthquake
damage of parking structures would be very useful. He sends an
instant message to the engineering librarian at his campus library and
asks about photographs. She directs him to the digital archives of the
CSU libraries. He searches the digital archives and discovers some
excellent photographs which he imports into his presentation. When
Richard returns, he places his presentation into CSU ScholarWorks, the
institutional repository, and grants access to a few select colleagues
with whom he has been working. Richard also has an idea to create a
learning object from one of the engineering problems he has been
working on. He develops the learning object and loads it into CSU
ScholarWorks so he can use it in a variety of his courses especially
making it available in the learning management system. Richard is a
very satisfied and skilled user of the CSU Virtual Library.
Virtual Library Scenario: One Freshman's Experience
During Barbara's teen years, the only libraries she used were her small
school library and her little neighborhood public library. When she was
online and not engaged with MySpace or Facebook, Barbara used
Wikipedia or sometimes just googled the information she wanted. Now
Barbara is starting college. Barbara signed up for University 100 at her
parent's insistence so she could be more ready for her college career.
That was when Barbara realized that the type of searching she did
before would not be suitable for a young scholar as it was too
superficial and did not use scholarly sources. When she had her first
research assignment in English, Barbara did not know where to turn
but she went to the library and seeing students lining up at the
Reference Desk joined the queue. There a librarian showed Barbara
how to log onto the portal, how to search the basic resources and how
to have a virtual chat with a librarian 24/7 whenever she needed help.
Importantly, during University 100, there was a library research week
in which Barbara learned how to form a search strategy, how to
identify a scholarly source, how to cite works that she was using and
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how to respect intellectual property. She also learned how to use the
learning objects embedded in the course management systems so she
could improve her own searching skills by taking these online
information research tutorials. Barbara now felt much more
comfortable doing research and knew that she would just keep
learning and learning until she became a very skilled searcher. Barbara
increasingly became one of the CSU Virtual Library's most frequent
users and is now considering a career in library and information
science.
COLD
November 16, 2007
CSU Virtual Library
Online Reference
• Virtual Chat
•IM
Citation Software
Catalogs of
Collections
e-Resources
•Databases
Federated Searching t=====l •Journals
•e-Books
Help Tools & User Input
' CSU ScholarWorks (JR)
•e-Theses
•Learning Objects
•Academic Papers
•Other Documents
Pathway to Digital
Marketplace
•Media
Digital Archives
Approved by the CSU Council of Library Directors November, 2007.