1. T H E D O R I S & H A R R Y V I S E L I B R A R Y N E W S L E T T E R
FALL 2012 • Vol. 5, Iss. 2
iRead Program Continues
iRead book author Dante Chinni vsited in September
Now in its fifth year,
Vise Library continues its
iRead campus reading pro-
gram with the book selection
Our Patchwork Nation by Dante
Chinni and James Gimpel. The
iRead program is designed to
affirm the importance of read-
ing and to create a common
reading experience for the
Cumberland University com-
munity.We hope to encourage
interaction among students
and faculty and to promote
critical thinking by facilitating
reading and discussion of im-
portant topics. All incoming
freshmen received a free copy
of the book, which is an as-
signed text in the Foundations
of Scholarship and Learning
(FSL) course. Copies are also
available for borrowing from
theVise Library.
Our Patchwork Nation
is described as “a refreshing,
sometimes startling, look at
howAmerica’s diversities often
defy conventional wisdom.”
See iRead,Page 4.
By Library Director Eloise Hitchcock
The Vise Library is
excited to announce the new
iCoach program.This program
will expand the library liaison
program we currently have in
place to create a team of in-
formation coaches (iCoaches)
who can provide personalized
assistance to students as they
progress throughout their aca-
demic studies.
Current liaison duties
involve working primarily with
faculty in each School in pro-
viding library instruction and
collection development activi-
ties. Under the iCoach plan,
these duties would expand to
include contact with each of
the students within their re-
spective School. Each iCoach
will become a personal librar-
ian to each incoming freshman.
See iCoach,Page 4.
Library Unveils iCoach Program
Personalized assistance initiative will expand liaison program
By Reference and Instruction Librarian Amber Woodard
LibGuides Come toVise Library
New research guides make academic research easier for faculty and students
By Reference and Instruction Librarian Jenny Stout
The librarians at Vise
Library are proud to introduce
Cumberland students and fac-
ulty to a new online resource:
LibGuides. LibGuides is a
website that allows librarians
to create research guides and
share websites and informa-
tion with students, staff, and
faculty. Last summer, librar-
ians at Vise were busy creating
guides for all the major areas of
study at Cumberland, as well
as guides on citation styles,
making room reservations, and
ordering books through Inter-
library Loan.
The LibGuides are
designed to provide many
helpful links and information
See LibGuides,Page 3.
Library Hours
With some exceptions; please
see library website.
Monday-Thursday
7:30 a.m.-10 p.m.
Friday
7:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Sunday
2 p.m.-10 p.m.
Faculty and students
can now reserve rooms via
an online form.This lets the
library streamline requests
and gather contact informa-
tion in the case of scheduling
conflicts. You will receive
a confirmation email after
making a request.
The reservation
form and a list of reservable
rooms can be found here:
Reserve
Rooms Online!
http://cumberland.libguides.
com/roomreservation

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Introducing Library iPads
Faculty and students can now use two iBar-based iPads
By Reference and Instruction Librarian Amber Woodard
The Vise Library now
has two iPads for use located at
the iBar. These iPads are load-
ed with apps to help with re-
search, note-taking,finding the
latest news and CU resources,
and general browsing.
These can also be used
in the event that the library
computers are full. At this
time, printing is not an avail-
able option from the iPads.The
iPads also have a survey load-
ed on them for suggestions of
apps to purchase.
There are some poli-
cies that must be followed in
order to use the Library iPads:
y y They may be used only by
current Cumberland Uni-
versity staff and students
that are in good standing
with the library (no over-
due books or fees) and who
have signed a liability agree-
ment.
y y The iPads cannot leave the
Vise Library premises.
y y The iPads are only available
for use in 2-hour intervals
each day.
y y If the iPad is damaged while
in use, the user is respon-
sible for costs.
y y No apps may be added or
deleted.
We hope that these
will be a great addition to our
library!
Reprinted from a post on
Vise Library’s blog, http://cum-
berlandlibrary.blogspot.com (June
25,2012).
News,Trivia Questions, and New Books – Oh My!
Learn about library happenings through social media
By Library Assistant Ashli Thomas
The Vise Library (bet-
ter known as Phineas Phoenix
on social networking sites)
uses social media in a number
of ways to reach out to the
Cumberland University com-
munity. Here are the ways that
Phineas helps you stay con-
nected:
yy Library news and
events —TheVise Library
will always post important
information about closings
(for holidays or weather
events), issues with online
databases, or any other im-
portant issues that need to
be addressed immediately.
yy New additions to our
collection — When new
items are added to our col-
lection, you will see a post
about it with the hashtag
#NewAtCU.
yy Links to articles, vid-
eos, etc. — The Vise Li-
brary is always looking for
links to helpful information
to pass along to students
and faculty. This informa-
tion can be anything rang-
ing from how-to videos on
citation help or digitized
editions to issues of past The
Phoenix yearbooks.
yy Community informa-
tion — Luckily there are
quite a few businesses in
town that give discounts
to CU students. Whenever
there is a special CU day
somewhere, you will know
about it!
yy Trivia and prizes —
Each month, Phineas will
ask a trivia question that
is related to the library or
books in some way. Who-
ever answers the question
correctly first wins a prize.
This has been a big hit!
yy Book reviews and more
— The Vise Library uses
a blog to give reviews of
books and apps and to give
out information that re-
quires more than 140 char-
acters!
yy Questions & comments
— If you have a question
or comment regarding one
of our posts, we will always
respond!
Phineas is always add-
ing new friends and followers.
Make sure you stay up-to-date
on important information by
following us on Twitter (@
CULibrary), Facebook (face-
book.com/CULibrary), and
our blog (http://cumberland-
library.blogspot.com).
New
Databases
Check out some of the new
databases atVise Library:
Ebrary: ProQuest’s Ebrary
Academic Complete collec-
tion features a growing E-
Book collection spanning all
academic subject areas.
Learning Express Li-
brary: A comprehensive,
interactive online learning
platform of practice tests
and tutorial series designed
to help patrons succeed on
academic or licensing tests.
Opposing Viewpoints
in Context: An engaging
online experience for those
seeking contextual informa-
tion and opinions on today’s
hottest social issues.
To access these databases,
visitVise Library’s website:
www.cumberland.edu/library
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3. Vise Library Adds RefWorks
Research suite offers citation, bibliography tools for students
By Reference and Instruction Librarian Amber Woodard
Vise Library recently
added access to the RefWorks
database. RefWorks, according
to its website,is“an entire suite
of tools and services designed
to facilitate discovery and re-
search from start to finish.”
Exactly what does
this mean? For students, this
provides a way to organize re-
search for classes and projects.
With RefWorks, students can
create a free account, then cre-
ate folders for each class, as-
signment, or even for topics
they are personally interested
in researching. They can save
citations directly from data-
bases, such as ProQuest, or
create reference listings from
items like books, websites, and
audiovisual materials.They can
also use RefWorks to create
a bibliography in APA, MLA,
or Turabian format. Faculty
members can use it for their
research projects in the same
manner, creating folders for
research and writing projects.
RefWorks is Internet-
based, so users do not have to
download any software onto
their computers to use it.
However, RefWorks
features a tool calledWrite-N-
Cite that users can download
onto their Windows or Mac
computers.Write-N-Cite runs
on Microsoft Word 2007 and
2010 for Windows and Micro-
soft 2008 and 2011 for Mac.
Write-N-Cite automatically
formats citations while users
are writing, and it also offers
footnote formatting in MLA or
Turabian style.
Another tool that Re-
fWorks offers is Ref-Grab-
It, which works with users’
browsers to capture biblio-
graphic information from web
pages. Ref-Grab-It is an online
tool that does not require a
software download.
For more information
about what RefWorks offers or
to schedule a training session,
contact Amber Woodard at
awoodard@cumberland.edu
or (615) 547-1302.
LibGuides (CON FROM PG. 1)
sources in one place.
For example, the
Nursing LibGuide provides
links and descriptions of the
nursing journal article databas-
es (such as CINAHL) at Vise.
It also provides links to other
websites and web resources for
nursing students.
The Citation LibGuide
has color-coded examples of
how to cite books, articles,
websites, and more in MLA,
APA, and Chicago style cita-
tion.
The Interlibrary Loan
LibGuide provides an online
form for requesting books
from other libraries.
We hope that our Lib-
Guides will make academic re-
search easier for students and
faculty. Students will be able
to find LibGuides that are tai-
lored to their major, as well as
the contact information for the
librarian who is the designated
liaison for that major.
If you are already fa-
miliar withVise Library’s web-
page (www.cumberland.edu/
library), you will find that
much of the information on
our website has been trans-
ferred to our LibGuides.
Librarians are contin-
ually updating and revising the
LibGuides, so if you have any
suggestions or ideas, please let
us know!
We encourage all stu-
dents, staff, and faculty to ex-
plore the LibGuides and tell us
what you think. You can start
at www.cumberland.libguides.
com!
Reference and In-
struction Librarian Jenny Stout
has since left Cumberland
University to pursue a new
position as an Undergraduate
Research Librarian at Virginia
Commonwealth University.
We wish her well in
her new position!
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Special Note
Libraries
People worldwide are embracing social media, and so are
libraries!You might be surprised by the figures.
&Social Media
Source: College and Research Libraries News 73.8 (Sept. 2012): 508.
Source:American Library Association.“The State of America’s Libraries Report 2012.”
http://www.ala.org/news/mediapresscenter/americaslibraries/soal2012/social-net-
working (retrieved November 7, 2012).
460,000
2,000,000,000+
552,000,000
Users who sign up forTwitter accounts daily
Daily active users on Facebook as of June 2012
Individual videos viewed every day onYouTube
A LOOK AT THE RAW NUMBERS
WHAT SOCIAL MEDIA ARE LIBRARIES USING?
Facebook Twitter Blogging
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YouTube Flickr Wikis
88.8%
45.8% 44.2%
38.2%
35.4%
20.1%
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4. “In a climate of culture
wars and tremendous econom-
ic uncertainty, the media have
often reduced America to a
simplistic schism between red
states and blue states.
“In response to that
oversimplification, journalist
Dante Chinni teamed up with
political geographer James
Gimpel to launch the Patch-
work Nation Project.”
The Project uses “on-
the-ground reporting and
statistical analysis to get past
generalizations and probe
American communities in
depth.”
In examining the data,
the authors “recognized that
the country breaks into twelve
distinct types of communities:
Boom Towns, Evangelical Epi-
centers, Military Bastions, Ser-
vice Worker Centers, Campus
and Careers, Immigration Na-
tion, Minority Central,Tractor
Community, Mormon Out-
posts, Emptying Nests, Indus-
trial Metropolises, and Monied
Burbs.”
Our Patchwork Nation
demonstrates “the subtle dis-
tinctions in how Americans
vote, invest, shop, and other-
wise behave.”
Vise Library spon-
sored a speaking event by
book co-author Dante Chinni
on September 28, 2012, in
the Heydel Fine Arts Center.
A book signing and break-out
session inVise Library with the
author followed the presenta-
tion.
Dante Chinni is the di-
rector of the Patchwork Nation
Project which “studies politics,
socio-economics, and culture
in a time of change.”
iCoach (CON FROM PG. 1)
Theywillmakecontactthrough
a letter at the beginning of the
term with the iCoaches’ con-
tact information. There will
also be a free
prize for those
who come for a
personal meet-
ing with their
iCoach to go
over basic re-
sources useful in their field of
study.
Throughout the year,
the iCoaches will send follow-
up emails to the students re-
minding them that they always
have an information profes-
sional who is here to help them.
iCoaches will be available both
by appointment and when
needed and will have a con-
sultation room in the Learning
C o m m o n s .
Library staff
members an-
ticipate the
start of the
program co-
inciding with
the planned opening of the CU
Learning Commons in the fall
of 2013.
For updates about the
iCoach program, be sure to
subscribe to the library’s blog
at http://cumberlandlibrary.
blogspot.com.
Dr. Russ Cheatham Donates
Music Encyclopedia
Cheatham has article in world music encyclopedia
By Library Technical Assistant Rick Brown
Cumberland Universi-
ty Professor Dr. Russ Cheath-
am donated an encyclopedia
volume to Doris & Harry Vise
Library on October 25.
In a brief ceremony
with Library Director Eloise
Hitchcock, Cheatham formally
donated the book, the eighth
volume of the Continuum En-
cyclopedia of Popular Music of the
World.
The volume focuses
on the musical genres of North
America and includes an article
on white gospel music written
by Dr. Cheatham.
The professor’s de-
tailed six-page article exam-
ines the origins, development,
and characteristics of white
gospel music from its heyday
to its decline.
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[Students] always
have an information
professional who is
here to help them.
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