Calling all students, faculty and staff: What do you call the projection of search terms that you see when you enter the Central Library on the 4th floor? The Word Cloud? The Word Fountain? That Thingy? We need your help in naming this beautiful design feature. Beginning Monday, January 30, 2012, and continuing through Friday, February 3, the Communications Committee will have a board and post-it notes available next to the ________ [projection] for you to submit suggested names. Put the post-its on the board but please do not write on the board. All suggestions will remain anonymous. At the end of the week, the library will tabulate the results and report back on the winner.

World Scholar: Latin America-this database now includes an additional segment on trial of statistical and journal literature relating to Latin America and is available until January 31, 2012.

http://worldscholar.galegroup.com/region/latin-america?u=nash87800

Latino Literature is available on trial until February 2, 2012 (from campus only) and includes Latino folk tales, poetry, fiction, and drama-some of which have never been published before and some in audio format.

http://lali.alexanderstreet.com

During National Engineers Week (Feb. 19 – Feb 25), the Library sponsors the Zome Design & Build Competition. This year, the challenge relates to the possibility of extremophiles on Mars. Sign up your team at the Science & Engineering Library. See complete rules for entering the competition at http://www.library.vanderbilt.edu/science/zome/ . Send questions to Jon Erickson, .

Thanks to everyone who helped us select the new graphic for the Food For Thought Cafe. After being closed during winter break, the cafe resumed regular hours on Monday and is now open Monday – Thursday 9:00 am to 10:00 pm, Friday 9:00 am to 3:00 pm, and Sunday 3:00 pm to 10:00 pm.

For some of us, it’s hard to believe that the first pictures of the red planet were received 40 years ago. It’s only one of over 40 news stories in the Vanderbilt Television News Archive interactive on display on Central Library’s 4th floor, changed out over the holiday break to reflect the new year. Stories are grouped by date– 5, 10, 20, 30 and 40 years–from 2012. Selecting the stories is a challenge, identifying those handful of news events that most of us feel struck a chord with audiences across the world. The interactive is designed to increase awareness of this nationally-renown resource among our educational community and visitors.

The Vanderbilt University Library is pleased to announce the adoption of the fifth installment of JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences Collection. This represents an important advance in support of research and teaching across humanities and social sciences disciplines.

This collection adds an additional 3 million pages of content to the library’s electronic collections, including complete backfiles of over 120 journals.

See a list of publications included in Arts & Sciences Collection V

The library has purchased the ebrary Academic Complete collection of over 70,000 electronic books in all subjects. Records for these books can be found in both library catalogs, Acorn and DiscoverLibrary. One click on the URL will lead to the e-book. Links to Academic Complete and other e-book collections are also at http://diglib.library.vanderbilt.edu/ebooks.pl

Read VU student and Hustler reporter Angelica Lasala’s Inside Vandy article, A guide to campus libraries, about many of the libraries’ study spaces.