library gains new database
By Heidi White
Staff Reporter
UNL students, faculty and staff
now can access a new periodical
database from any library on cam
pus.
Database users will be able to
browse through summaries of re
cent articles or, in some cases,
read the entire article with the click
of a button.
And if they have a uni.info e
mail account, they can access the
database from anywhere.
Dean Waddel, director of branch
services, said the new database
was added to the Iris system. It is
divided into two subheadings un
der the titles “journals” and “full
text materials.”
The Expanded Academic ASAP
files cover 1,600 periodicals and
the Business and Company ASAP
files cover 800 periodicals.
“It will really help to alleviate
the pressure on the print journals
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and will provide additional access
to materials which are in high de
mand,” Waddel said. “It will also
make it easier for individuals to
obtain text with less work.”
Waddel is a member of the Elec
tronic Resources Program Group
led by Joan Giesecke, associate
dean of libraries. The group is re
sponsible for investigating elec
tronic resources for the libraries
and implementing the systems once
they are chosen.
Kent Hendrickson, dean of li
braries, also is involved with the
database project.
The program was investigated
two years ago, but library officials
thought it wasn’t developed
enough. Waddel said he believed
the program had made great
progress since then.
Waddel said although it is called
a full-text database, it is actually a
combination of abstracts and full
texts, some containing illustrations.
Abstracts tell in depth what the
article is about. Related articles
also are listed.
“I feel that this database will be
more directed to undergraduates
because it’s not geared toward spe
cific research purposes,” Waddel
said. “But that’s not to say that it
won’t benefit graduate students,
also.”
Users wishing to get an illustra
tion from the database will be able
to print it only from the Love Li
brary circulation* desk for 10 cents
per page, he said.
Waddel said the database is con
stantly being updated by Informa
tion Access Company of Califor
nia, the provider of the database,
but it is still unknown how long it
takes an article to get on after
publication.
The cost of the project will be
covered by the library serials bud
get. This budget covers the costs of
all periodicals, books and services
to which the libraries subscribe.
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Volunteers recycle cups
after home football games
By Tasha E. Kelter
Staff Reporter
Remember how thirsty you were
at the last home game? How you
bought a nice cup of ice-cold Coca
Cola?
Remember how you forgot all
about it when I-Back Ahman Green
plowed through the Washington State
defense, leaving your poor, warming
pop alone under your bench?
Did you ever wonder what hap
pened to that cup? Rest assured — it
probably met a fortunate and benefi
cial end by the grace of the UNL
recycling department.
This year, the department has or
ganized an effort to recycle plastic
cups left in Memorial Stadium after
football games.
Several Lincoln Boy Scout troops
and volunteers collect the cups on
Saturdays after the games and put
them in bags near the field, said Dale
Ekart, recycling department coordi
nator.
On Sunday, the grounds clean-up
crew organizes the bags for shipping
to a recycling center.
On Monday, the recycling de
partment picks up the bags and takes
them to a local recycling center, where
they arc melted down to make other
plastic articles.
The amount of time between when
a fan buys a drink and a customer
buys the recycled product can be as
long as six months.
Ekart said the project was a col
lective endeavor, with volunteers
from many different groups around
Lincoln, including University of Ne
braska-Lincoln staff members and
students.
“It’s not just one organization,” he
said, “It’s a real cooperative effort.” ?
Anyone interested in helping with
the project should contact Dale Ekart
at 472-6099 or via e-mail at
<dekart@unlinfo.unl.edu>.
“We’re always looking for inter
ested people and groups,” he said.
The recycling department also is
coordinating a project to collect and
recycle telephone books.
“People will get their new tele
phone books around Thanksgiving,”
Ekart said. The collection date for the
old books will be sometime in mid
December.
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