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TSU Library is introducing innovative services to new and
returning students that will make it easy for them to do
research at on and off-campus sites and reducing the waiting
time to check-out books. These services include |
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Encore- |
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Encore will take discovery by our students to a new level by
bringing print and digital content with Encore Discovery and
providing deep article integration by interfacing well with
EBSCO databases. It is an enhanced interface for the library’s
online catalog that provides a tag cloud which refines searches.
It also allows users to add their own tags to titles for easy
inquiry. |
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AirPack- |
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AirPack is designed for wireless or mobile devices that allows
the library users to search the electronic resources from
personal hand-held devices, including mobile phones and PDAs.
It is a software that is an add- on to the current system. This
module is designed for wireless or mobile devices that allows
the library users to search the electronic resources from
personal hand-held devices, including mobile phones and PDAs. |
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Express Lane (Self-Check)- |
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Express lane will empower users by allowing them to check-out
and renew library materials themselves. Thus, waiting will be
reduced to a minimum and Circulation staff will have more time
to assist students and perform their tasks. |
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Library Staff News |
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HBCU Photographic Preservation Symposium- |
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Dr. Yildiz B. Binkley, Dean of Libraries and Media Centers, and
Mrs. Sharon Hull Smith, Head of Special Collections attended
the HBCU Photographic Preservation Symposium in Atlanta,
Georgia, July 20-21, 2011. |
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SACS
Institute on Quality Enhancement and Accreditation- |
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Mrs. Sherry Ge attended the SACS Institute on Quality
Enhancement and Accreditation in Fort Worth, Texas, July 17-20,
2011. |
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The
TSU Libraries and Media Centers welcome Dr. Portia H.
Shields to Tennessee State University.
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Dr.
Portia H. Shields, President, Tennessee State
University
Dr. Shields holds a Ph.D. in Early Childhood/Elementary
Education from the University of Maryland , College
Park, Maryland; Master of Arts degree in Remedial
Reading from George Washington University, Washington,
D.C.; and a Bachelors degree in Elementary Education
from District of Columbia Teachers College, Washington,
D.C. Dr. Shields was awarded Post-Doctoral Fellowship
to study in West Africa by the African American
Institute in New York City. She also attended the
International Faculty Development Seminar ( The Dynamics
of the New South Africa) in Johannesburg and Cape Town
in 1997, sponsored by the Council on International
Educational Exchange.
Dr. Shields has served in various capacities in the
field of education. At Howard University, she served as
dean of School of Education, director of Medical
Education and Biomedical Communications. She also served
as the first female president of Albany State in Georgia
from 1996 until 2005. In 2007 she became the chief
executive officer and chief academic officer at
Concordia College until 2009. |
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DO YOU KNOW? |
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Anna Julia Haywood Cooper
August 10, 1858-February 27, 1964 |
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Anna Julia Haywood Cooper was an author, educator,
speaker. Some have called her the most prominent
African American scholar in the history of the United
States. She received her Ph.D. from the University of
Paris-Sorbonne in 1925 and became the 4th
African American woman to earn a doctoral degree. |
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She was born a slave in Raleigh, North Carolina, to
Hannah Stanley Haywood, a slave and George Washington
Haywood, a prominent Wake County landowner. She attended
St Augustine’s Normal School and Collegiate Institute at
the age of 10. She became a teacher and principal at M
street High School. Her book “ A Voice from the South:
By a Woman from the South was published in 1892. She
delivered notable speeches at the Worlds Congress of
representative Women in 1893, and Pan-African Conference
in 1900. Her famous quotation is cited on all US
passports “ The cause of freedom is not the cause of a
race or a sect, a party or a class-it is the cause of
humankind, the very birthright of humanity.” In 2009,
the US Postal Service released a commemorative stamp in
her honor. |
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