In honor of National Library Week 2015, we will be giving away prizes to the correct responses to trivia questions on our library’s facebook page! Just reply to our upcoming questions and the first right answer wins it!
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 look forward to seeing you!
*Exquisite Corpse: collaborative poetry game that traces its roots to the Parisian Surrealist Movement (poets.org). Someone writes a line of poetry, passes it on to someone else (who writes a line), then folds the paper to hide the first line and passes it on until everyone has added a line (hiding the previous line as each person contributes). Participants must read only the last line before writing their own; thus producing a surprising—maybe silly—but creative poem.
**Book Spine Poetry: simply stated, grab some books and make a poem out of the spines (titles).
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 international data)
- Over 60,000 topics in 20 multidisciplinary categories, ranging from agriculture to media &marketing and consumer & demographic data
- 1,100 Statista Dossiers and Industry Reports
- 10,000 studies & reports from third parties
This trial is available until April 23. Statista is accessible only on campus.
Database Trial: “Communication Source”
The library has a trial of the database 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 for over 1,100 core titles
- Subject-specific, browsable thesaurus featuring over 4,600 preferred and over 8,700 non-preferred terms
- Coverage dating back to 1915
New Equipment in Memorial Library!
Memorial Library has purchased a number of new pieces of equipment, which are available for loan at The Help Center. New Items include:
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, and related materials—for example, The History of Woman Suffrage (six volumes, 1881-1922); the proceedings of the national conventions of women’s anti-slavery societies in the 1830s; the proceedings of woman’s rights conventions, 1848-1869; the proceedings of the annual conventions of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, 1874-1898; and publications of the League of Women Voters, 1920-2000.
You can find this database in the database by title box on the library tab in myRedDragon. Also check out the History Research Guide and the Women’s Studies Research Guide for additional resources on this topic!
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 collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries.”
You can access American History in Video on the LibraryTab in myRedDragon, choose databases by title.
Library Hours Spring Semester 2015
Library Hours Intersession:
The Library will be open the following hours during Intersession:
Happy Holidays!
De-Stress Yourself!
Don’t stress over finals! Check out our display in the lobby for ways to relax!
