News/Spotlight

750+ photographs of the political career and personal life of Henry M. Jackson. He began a Congressional career in 1941 that spanned 43 years and nine presidents.

Jackson was a strong player in foreign and defense policies, as well as domestic energy and environmental policies, serving as a member on the Joint Committee on Atomic Energy, the Armed Services Committee, the Governmental Affairs Committee, and chairman of the Committee on Interior and Insular Affairs.

Links to the schedule and details for Odegaard's walk-in workshops series.

A portal to resources related to Climate Change designed to complement the UW Libraries' Common Book programming for Field Notes from a Catastrophe.

This 4-page newsletter is a great introduction to the UW Libraries!

The UW Image Bank and the UW Libraries are pleased to announce the following new digital image resources:

UW Image Bank: Extensive collection of high-quality images of art, architecture, and cultural and historical materials, including images from diverse world cultures, time periods, sites, and cultural institutions. Covers most major monuments of world art and architectural history.

AP Images: Millions of news photographs dating back to 1826, and more than one million audio sound bytes dating from the 1920s, among other digital resources.

CAMIO: Images from prominent American museum collections, including photographs, paintings, sculpture, decorative and utilitarian objects, prints, drawings and watercolors, jewelry, and costumes.

Corbis: Historical, fine art, science, and nature images, including material from the Bettmann Archive, United Press International, and the Hulton Deutsch Collection.

Libraries staff offer their summer reading recommendations.

Going on vacation? Graduating? Looking for work? Get summer tips from UW Libraries on how to renew your books online, stay connected, and more.

Starting June 11, all self-service copying and printing in the libraries will be paid for only by Husky Card (for UW students, faculty and staff) or by Dawg Prints Cards (for campus visitors). Any value remaining on Copy Quick Cards may be cashed out at the Odegaard Undergraduate Library Copy Center.

Many Libraries-managed servers will be down from 0645PDT-0815PDT Saturday, 9 June 2007 due to a power shutdown while new electrical circuits are installed. Major services affected include:

• Proxy server/remote access
• UW Libraries' web site (http://www.lib.washington.edu/)
• UW Libraries Catalog
• Electronic Reserves
• Interlibrary Loan Services
• Digital Collections (http://content.lib.washington.edu)
• DSpace

Please ask us if you have any questions.

The UW Libraries is participating in a pilot project with the OCLC (Online Library Computer Center) to test a new kind of library catalog. The goal is to provide users with a single search and request service that covers the UW Libraries, Summit libraries (includes most academic libraries in Washington and Oregon), OCLC WorldCat (includes materials owned by thousands of libraries around the world), and a selection of article citations, all through one catalog.

Features initially include a single search box, relevancy ranking of search results, result sets that bring multiple versions of a work together, faceted browsing, citation formatting options, and cover art.

This beta catalog is under development. Give it a try and let the Libraries know what you think. Your comments and suggestions will help OCLC to make improvements. Look for the beta catalog search box on the UW Libraries' home pages and at http://uwashington.worldcat.org. Links to the UW Libraries Catalog and to Summit are available directly below the new Beta search box.

The Napoleonic Period Collection features 83 satirical drawings created by French and English artists to comment on the politics and events during Napoleon's reign (between 1793 and 1815). The illustration database is accompanied by an essay about the Napoleonic era, a timeline, a comparison of the French and English styles, an article on the publishing scene and a bibliography. The drawings have been scanned as JPEG 2000 images, enabling fine details to be displayed in a higher quality and allowing you to zoom in and pan across each to see the details.