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Preservation Week April 26-May 3
Libraries, museums, archives and other organizations work every day to preserve cultural history. Over 4.8 billion artifacts are held in public trust by more than 30,000 archives, historical societies, libraries, museums, scientific research collections and archaeological repositories in the United States. Key environmental factors that place collections at risk: Light: Ultraviolet rays from natural and…
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Featured Database: Films on Demand
The library provides access to Films on Demand, a streaming educational video collection containing over 20,203 full-length videos and 233,239 video clips. These videos cover all subjects from the hard sciences to the humanities and are from producers such as Films for the Humanities, the History Channel, National Geographic and the BBC. Collections within Films on…
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National Poetry Month
Students, faculty and staff, please join Memorial Library in celebrating National Poetry Month, April 2015. Come check out our displays, including an Exquisite Corpse* poem and Book Spine Poetry**. Also, we have an interactive display—magnetic poetry—for you to try your hand at and have a little fun! All of this is located in our lobby—we…
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Database Trial: “Statista”
Currently, we have access to Statista, http://www.statista.com an online statistics database that provides access to data from market and opinion research institutions, as well as from business organizations and government . Data and statistics can be exported in the following formats: JPEG, PDF, and XLS. 1 million statistics from over 18,000 sources (including both national and…
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Database Trial: “Communication Source”
The library has a trial of the database Communication Source. Communication Source This comprehensive resource offers worldwide full-text content pertaining to communication, linguistics, rhetoric and discourse, speech-language pathology, media studies and related fields and includes many unique sources previously not available. Content Includes: Active full text for more than 600 journals Indexing and abstracting…
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Featured Database: Women and Social Movements in the United States, 1600-2000
Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600 to 2000 brings together primary documents, books, images, essays, book reviews, Web site reviews, teaching tools, and more. The database chronicles the multiplicity of women’s activism in American public life from Colonial times to the present. The database contains tens of thousands pages of books, pamphlets,…
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Featured Database: American History in Video
February is Black History Month, or National African American History Month! You can view videos on this topic in “American History in Video” on your laptop! “This video collection provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The…