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Inspired this Halloween season by the current trend of two-sentence horror stories, the Caltech Library invites you to share your spookiest two sentences on our Instagram post's comments! (Or here on our page!) Here's a few to get you in the Halloween spirit from the TwoSentenceHorror subreddit: "While tidying my laboratory, I came across an unfamiliar notebook and opened the first page. 'WARNING: The subject still thinks he is the scientist.'" u/katsudonlink... "According to the computer readouts, the astronauts' oxygen ran out five days ago. So why are they still screaming?" u/Lots42 "The people of the town said a monster lived in the woods and I frankly found it ridiculous. For I was the only one who lived in the woods and I had seen no monster." u/luciferthecat

Interested in learning how to create an interactive digital book to freely share on the internet? Sign up for our Friday workshop, Creating an Open Access Digital Book using Bookdown, here: https://libcal.caltech.edu/event/7195725

We may all not be coming back to campus next week, but Caltech Library services are available remotely to all new and returning students and faculty. We look forward to working with you! https://libguides.caltech.edu/welcome/

The Caltech Library is pleased to participate again in this year's international Open Access Week from October 19-25. OA Week's theme for 2020 is Open with Purpose: Taking Action to Build Structural Equity and Inclusion." The Library will celebrate OA Week with a focus on the open access books researchers can create in collaboration with our publishing program (https://www.library.caltech.edu/services/publishing). To publish a book or journal through the Caltech Library, an individual or research group needs a compelling idea and the text, data, and media files associated with the project. Members of the Caltech community can register for an online workshop to learn more about Creating an Open Access Digital Book using Bookdown on Friday, October 23: https://libcal.caltech.edu/event/7195725

We’re starting a new newsletter, and the first one goes out this week! Sign up through the link below if you want in: bit.ly/caltech-library-newsletter

"You and Your Thesis" will be held next Wednesday via Zoom. The class will give an overview of techniques useful in the production and publication of electronic theses, including tips on formatting and submitting. Pre-registration is required: https://libcal.caltech.edu/event/7161626

We may all not be coming back to campus next week, but Caltech Library services are available remotely to all new and returning students and faculty. We look forward to working with you! https://libguides.caltech.edu/welcome/

As part of Caltech's Equity, Diversity, Belonging, and Inclusion (EDBI) initiatives, the Library has put together a collection of resources relating to anti-racism and the Black Lives Matter movement. The collection features recent academic and popular books, ebooks, and articles; reading lists on anti-racism, BIPOC self-care, decolonization, and libraries and social justice; links to relevant databases; and selected texts and images from the Archives. The Caltech librarians are also available to help locate resources at [email protected]. Link: https://libguides.caltech.edu/edbi/antiracist

While many of us have been working remotely this summer, some essential Library support staff have been on campus, helping to keep the Library running, serve our patrons, and occasionally take care of small but crucial tasks like watering the plants. John, our Library Support Associate, shared a photo of this hanging plant in Sherman Fairchild. It had to be moved to the third floor after growing so long, but has now almost reached the basement. Can't stop, won't stop!

J. Morgan Kousser’s The Shaping of Southern Politics is now available at CaltechAUTHORS! The Shaping of Southern Politics: Suffrage Restriction and the Establishment of the One-party South, 1880-1910 was the first study of its kind that took partisanship into account when studying disfranchisement. Read more about why this 1974 book is so influential and about Kousser's role in federal and state voting rights cases here:... https://www.library.caltech.edu/caltechauthors-makes-j-morg

Are you writing a research paper or ready to start your thesis? Looking for an easy way to collect, organize, share, and cite sources? 'Introduction to Zotero' may be just the quick-start session you need. Zotero is an open-source, community-developed citation manager that is similar to EndNote. Demonstrations will include importing citations into Zotero from academic sources, making bibliographies, using Microsoft Word with Zotero, sharing citations, and other topics as au...dience interest dictates (and as time allows). Wednesday, August 12, 2020 2:00pm - 3:00pm Register: https://libcal.caltech.edu/event/6911523

Join us for our thesis workshop next week on August 6th. The class will give an overview of techniques useful in the production and publication of electronic theses, including tips on formatting and submitting. Pre-registration is required:... https://libcal.caltech.edu/event/6900574 See more

Hannah Dvorak Carbone, from the Office of Technology Transfer and Corporate Partnerships, will present a review of the patenting process, including changes introduced by the America Invents Act of 2013. This will be followed by a Caltech Librarian presenting a brief overview of patent searching, locating English language patent equivalents, legal status issues, and current awareness techniques. Register for the 7/21 workshop here: https://libcal.caltech.edu/event/6832167

We're resuming services with curbside pickup at Sherman Fairchild Library. Read more about the status of our current services here: https://libguides.caltech.edu/off-campus-access

While the campus community sheltered in place, the Caltech Library continued to offer many of its services online, such as research assistance and access to electronic collections. Franses Rodriguez, recently hired as the new Head of Access and Collection Services, is overseeing procedures to make the library safe for patrons and staff alike as we resume in-person services again. Read more about Franses and how we're keeping safe here:... https://www.library.caltech.edu/safely-providing-library-se