Research Community Invited to Coffee and Donuts Forum – April 2nd

The campus research community is invited to the monthly Coffee and Donuts forum from 9-11 a.m. April 2nd.

The schedule is as follows:

• 9 – 11 a.m. Microforms area – 1st Floor
  Open forum to mingle. Support staff will be available to answer questions on data management planning, research computing and proposal development.
  
• 10 – 11 a.m. Room 201C – 2nd Floor
  “Responding to Grant Funder Policies on Research Dissemination.” The White House directive on Increasing Access to the Results of Federally Funded Scientific Research is changing federal department funding policies. Learn how these changes impact your grant proposals and the resources Boise State has to help you comply with individual federal and foundation guidelines. Participants may take their coffee and donuts to the presentation. Michelle Armstrong, Scholarly Communications and Data Management Librarian and Amber Sherman, ScholarWorks Librarian

Coffee and Donuts is presented by the Research Computing Department, Albertsons Library and the Division of Research and Economic Development. The forum includes information on available resources and support services and is meant to allow faculty and students to visit with one another and administrative staff and establish a sense of community.

Additional Coffee and Donuts forums will be presented from 9-11 a.m. on May 7. Each forum will highlight a specific topic, research area, or expertise. Agenda with details will be posted prior to each event.

Michelle Armstrong,
Scholarly Communications and Data Management Librarian

Library hours during Spring Break

The Albertsons Library will be open limited hours during the Spring Break holiday:

• Sunday, March 22: CLOSED
• Monday, March 23 through Friday, March 27: 8:00 am to 6 pm
• Saturday, March 28: CLOSED

Regular semester hours resume Sunday, March 29 when we will open at 10:00 am. Library hours are posted at http://library.boisestate.edu/about/hours.php

If the sun doesn't shine that week you can always stream movies, download an eBook from our catalog, or get caught up on your research via the library's growing list of databases. Enjoy the break!

March is Women’s History Month: Rosie the Riveter

U.S. National Archives image via flickr
https://www.flickr.com/photos/usnationalarchives/3678696585/

Rosie the Riveter was both an icon of World War II and the American Home Front, and a product of propaganda during the war. J. Howard Miller created Rosie for a series of posters for the Westinghouse Company’s War Production Co-ordinating Committee with the image eventually becoming part of the “We Can Do It” print shown here. Rosie represented American Patriotism as many women responded to the call for war workers due to their sense of duty. She represented business because she was a symbol for production. And Rosie symbolized a skilled job, which was the means of attaining a better standard of living in America for many women and their families during the war.

For a short period of time, war jobs offered women the opportunity of improving their lives materially and building their self esteem through participation in nontraditional female jobs that contributed to the war effort. When the war ended, propaganda came into play again as business and government conspired to force women from the workforce as their jobs were given to returning soldiers.

 My grandmother, aunts and mother worked war jobs in shipyards in Stockton, California. My relatives’ work experiences mirrored those in the film:

The Life and Times of Rosie the Riveter [videorecording]
Curriculum Resource Ctr -- 2nd Floor Ask for it at the CRC Desk.

Their experiences also influenced Chapter 4 on Rosie the Riveter in my thesis: Influences of the Myths of the American West on Business Culture in the United States : An Interdisciplinary Exploration http://boisestate.worldcat.org/oclc/42064361

And some day I would like to visit the Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historic Park in California http://www.nps.gov/rori/index.htm
 
Additional resources on the topic:

Rosie the Riveter : Women working on the home front in World War II (has some nice photographs) http://boisestate.worldcat.org/oclc/30894677

Rosie the Riveter revisited : Women, the war, and social change http://boisestate.worldcat.org/oclc/14967521

Creating Rosie the Riveter : Class, gender, and propaganda during World War II
http://boisestate.worldcat.org/oclc/10724692

Audrey Williams,
Access Services

Find KP2, enter to win $10 Starbucks Gift card

Though KP2 has found a home away from home in the library for the past semester, he is really excited that his old friend, Terrie M. Williams, the author of The Odyssey of KP2: An Orphan Seal and a Marine’s Biologists Fight to Save a Species, will be visiting campus on March 3, 2015. Details about her visit can be found on the Campus Read page.

KP2 continues to explore the reading material in the library. Though he’s a big fan of ocean voyage novels, like Master and Commander, he has eclectic tastes and can be found in any subject area in the library.

For the next 8 weeks, students who find KP2 will be entered into a drawing for a $10 Starbucks gift card. The drawings will be on 3/13, 3/27, 4/10, 4/24 - Winners will be notified via email, and need not be present to win.

If you find KP2, bring him to the Circulation Desk. You will receive a ticket to fill out and place in our drop box. Find him as many times as you can -- entries will remain in the box till the end of the scheduled drawings.

Good luck!

Access Services Crew