"Gunter Library News" is the monthly e-newsletter highlighting current events and happenings at the Gunter Library at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, University of Southern Mississippi .
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Resource Sharing Worldwide
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What do Australia, Bermuda, Brazil, Croatia, Ecuador, India, Kenya, Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, and Ukraine have in common? All of these places have marine research libraries that have contacted Gunter Library to provide digital copies of scientific articles. From 2011-12 through 2018-19, Gunter Library filled 2,031 requests from other libraries throughout the USA and the world. Most of these requests come through a resource sharing utility supported by the International Association of Marine Science Libraries and Information Centers (IAMSLIC). Gunter Library joined the resource-sharing network in the early 2000s by entering its journal holdings into the Union List of Serials. Its collection of 1,388 titles in the union list makes it the 7th largest of the 67 participating libraries and the largest North American library represented in the Union List. As a part of IAMSLIC Resource Sharing, Gunter Library participates as both a requestor and provider and uses the resource to fill requests for Gulf Coast Research Laboratory (GCRL) based faculty, students, and associated researchers. Over the same period, Gunter Library filled 4,024 requests from GCRL based faculty, students, and staff. Resource sharing is the primary way Gunter Library can help library users get the materials they need in a timely and efficient manner in an environment where spiraling subscription costs result in a declining number of subscriptions. Gunter Library Coordinator Maryanne Anthony manages this busy and successful service.
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Resource of the Month:
"Meet Seymour Info"
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Seymour Info is the new search engine for USM Library resources. This tool finds print books and e-books, other electronic resources, digital collections, and more, all in one place. Seymour Info searches for materials located in Cook Library, Gulf Coast Library, Gunter Library, McCain Library & Archives, and Aquila. Click on
http://lib.usm.edu/
to link to it. Learn more about Seymour Info on August 27 at 11 am when Gunter Library holds a library instruction session in Caylor 103 Computer Lab. All new students, returning students, faculty, and staff interested in learning about Seymour Info and other library resources and services are welcome to attend this instruction session.
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Closing the Book on the
2019 Summer Field Program
July 29th marked the end of the 72nd Summer Field Program (SFP) session at GCRL. For 10 weeks, students from across the state and the nation lived and took classes at GCRL. Gunter Library opened 23 additional hours per week to accommodate them
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Six students from the program worked as library assistants during the evenings and on Sundays
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The SFP had 91 students from 34 different colleges and universities with the most students, 34 from the
The University of Southern Mississippi.
Founded in 1947 as a field studies program for students in Mississippi and beyond, GCRL has hosted summer students for 72 years. In 1947, at classes held at Magnolia State Park in Ocean Springs, scientists and students labored under primitive conditions. “No air conditioning, no fans, no refrigeration of any sort except the cafeteria. Much of the class work in botany and parasitology was done on large wooden tales under the oak trees.” (Walker, 1974). This photo shows students in 1947.
[Walker, J. 1974. An Address Made at the Dedication of the Richard L. Caylor Building at the Gulf Coast Research Laboratory, Ocean Springs, Mississippi, March 17, 1973.
Gulf Research Reports
4 (3): 323-327. Retrieved from
https://aquila.usm.edu/gcr/vol4/iss3/1
]
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On Friday, July 5, Gunter Library sponsored a “Paint the Can Contest” for the summer students.
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Monday, August 26, 9-11 am, Caylor Auditorium - New Student Orientation
Monday, August 26, 11 am-12 pm, Caylor 103 - Library Instruction
Tuesday, August 27, 6-7 pm, MEC Conference Center, Science Cafe
Wednesday, August 28 - First Day of Classes
Friday, August 30, 8am- Gunter Library & COA Student Lounge Cedar Point
Last Friday Breakfast
Monday, September 2 - Gunter Library closed for Labor Day holiday
Friday, September 6, 10 am - Caylor 104 - Students meet with
Dr. Coats, Graduate School Dean
Thursday, September 5, 3–4 pm - Gunter Library, Meet the COA seminar speaker reception
Thursday, September 5, 4-5 pm - Caylor Auditorium, COA Fall 2019 Seminar Series)
Dr. Kelly Robinson, University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Thursday, September 12, 3–4 pm - Gunter Library Meet the COA seminar speaker reception
Thursday, September 12, 4-5 pm - Caylor Auditorium Fall 2019 Seminar Series
Dr. Katy Lyons, Georgia Aquarium
Friday, September 13, 10 am-2 pm - Caylor 103, Career Services Workshop for
Grad Students
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Upcoming Science Café
Tuesday, August 27th, 6:00 p.m.
MEC Conference Center
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Five Feet High and Rising:
Historical and Ecological Perspectives on the Bonnet Carre' Spillway
This talk will focus on the history of the spillway and will highlight some of the ecological impacts on our coastal and marine resources due to Mississippi River-borne flood waters.
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Adam D. Boyette, PhD Candidate
Division of Marine Science,
USM School of Ocean Science and Engineering
Sponsored by: Mississippi Alabama Sea Grant Consortium
Cookies & Coffee compliments of Coffee Fusion
Come early, tour the grounds, and walk the new Osprey Point Interpretative Trail
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"Like" the GCRL Science Cafe Facebook page for more information about upcoming Science Cafe events.
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Gulf Coast Research Laboratory
703 East Beach Drive
Ocean Springs, MS 39564
Joyce Shaw, Head Librarian - 228-872-4213
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