A Monthly Update
8/7/09
A List of All Books Added to the Collection in Spring of 2009
By popular request, here’s a current list of all books received and catalogued in Trexler Library in Spring 2009–a quick way to check and see if a title you ordered has arrived. Thanks to all faculty and staff that help to build our library collection.
New Scholarly Databases Now Available to Muhlenberg Faculty, Staff, and Students
Thanks to Penny Lochner, Head of Collection Resource Management at Trexler Library, for securing these databases for use by the college. The databases can be accessed on campus without restriction, and off campus by logging in with name and college ID as prompted.
New Database: Early English Books Online (EEBO)
Description: Early English Books Online (EEBO) contains digital facsimile page images of virtually every work printed in England, Ireland, Scotland, Wales and British North America and works in English printed elsewhere from 1473-1700 – from the first book printed in English by William Caxton, through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare and the tumult of the English Civil War.
New Database: PRISMA (Publicaciones y Revistas Sociales y Humanísticas)
Description: PRISMA provides and index and full-text scholarly journals in the social sciences and humanities for the interdisciplinary academic study of Hispanic and Latin America, and the Caribbean Basin. Articles in PRISMA examine all aspects of Hispanic Studies, from research on indigenous cultures past and present to current economic indicators, politics and society, and Hispanic theatre. Coverage of subject areas is comprehensive and includes Anthropology, Business and Economics, History, Literature, Political Science and Sociology. For a complete list of titles currently included, please go to the Title List.
New Database: Theatre in Video
Description: Theatre in Video contains recordings of more than 250 definitive performances of the world’s leading plays, together with more than 100 film documentaries related to theatre. Access is online using streaming video. The selections represent classic plays by hundreds of leading playwrights, actors and directors. You can bookmark specific scenes, monologues and staging.
Included are landmark performances such as The Iceman Cometh, Awake and Sing, Dom Juan, Bérénice, Long Day’s Journey Into Night, Playboy of the Western World, Krapp’s Last Tape, and the complete works of Shakespeare as produced by the BBC and other theatrical companies. Notable actors include Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, Colleen Dewhurst, Richard Dreyfuss, Walter Matthau, Meryl Streep, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren and more.
New Database: Music Online
Description: Music Online is a rich, comprehensive multimedia resource for the study of classical, jazz, world, and American music. Easily cross-search audio recordings, video content, full-text reference materials, musical scores, liner notes, biographies, and images through a single interface. Simultaneously listen to classical selections and view the music score. Additional search fields specific to the content, are available if you limit your searching and browsing to a particular resource. For example, if you go to the American Song collection, you can view a list of Historical Events and find songs that relate to those events. Trexler Library’s subscription includes access to the following:
Music Collections
- American Song
- Classical Music Library
- Contemporary World Music
- Jazz Music Library
- Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries (coming Fall 2009)
Reference Sources
New Database Name: Social & Cultural History Online
Description: Excellent place to find primary source material dating from 1550s to present day. Helps you locate thousands of freely available private writings and personal narratives of people from diverse ethnic and social groups. In addition to linking you to freely available full text, as well as audio and video files, the database includes full text for the following:
- North American Women’s Letters and Diaries
- British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries
- North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories
- The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
- Black Thought and Culture
- Manuscript Women’s Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society
New Database Name: PsycArticles
Description: The database contains more than 140,000 articles from over 60 journals published by the American Psychological Association (APA) and from allied organizations including the Canadian Psychological Association and the Hogrefe Publishing Group. PsycArticles includes all journal articles, book reviews, letters to the editor, and errata from each journal. Coverage spans 1894 to present; nearly all APA journals go back to Volume 1, Issue 1. PsycARTICLES is indexed with controlled vocabulary from APA’s Thesaurus of Psychological Index Terms®.
Infomaniac Tip of the Week
Do you have trouble keeping track of all your favorite websites?
Do you use your browser’s bookmarks feature, but feel frustrated by having them only available from one computer?
Are you aggravated that you can never find the bookmark you’re looking for?
Social bookmarking may be your solution.What is social bookmarking?
Social bookmarking is a way to save, organize, search, and manage bookmarks of websites. The following are some notable features of social bookmarking tools.
- ONLINE ACCESS
Social bookmarking tools save your links online in a personal account, rather than on your personal computer. That means you can log in any time from anywhere to access or add bookmarks.- TAGS, NOT FOLDERS
Rather than using folders to organize your bookmarks, social bookmarking applications use tags. Tags are words of your choosing that you add to each bookmark to describe it. You can use any tags you want and as many tags as you need. For example, if you find a great recipe online for apple pie, you can tag it pies, desserts, recipes, and apples. When you want to find it again later, you don’t have to remember which single folder you put it in. Instead, you can access it by any of the terms you used.- SHARING
Because your bookmarks are online with social bookmarking tools, you can easily share your saved links with others. You can see what others are bookmarking, too, on topics of interest to you. Of course, some applications offer a private option if you want to keep things to yourself.How do I get started?
To get started with social bookmarking, pick a tool. Delicious is the one of the most popular services available. Diigo and Digg are similar services. Each site has a help section with useful information to get started.
Learn more
- Social Bookmarking in Plain English (CommonCraft)
This brief video tutorial explains what social bookmarking is and how to get started with Delicious.- 7 Things You Should Know About Social Bookmarking (EDUCAUSE)
A short explanation of what social bookmarking is, who’s doing it and how it works, as well as discussion of why it’s significant, its downsides, and implications for teaching and learning.
Calendar of Events
8/25: Teaching with Technology Workshop. Co-sponsored by the Faculty Center for Teaching and Trexler Library. (Seegers Union, 8:30 AM-12:15 PM.)
8/27: JumpStart Library Scavenger Hunt. Co-sponsored with Multicultural Life. (Trexler Library Information Commons, 2:00 PM-4:00 PM.)
9/24: Radclyffe, author of award-winning lesbian-themed novels, reads from her latest work “Secrets in the Stone.” Open to the public. Co-sponsored by the LGBT Campus Coordinator and Trexler Library. (Trexler Library Periodicals Reading Area, 7:00PM-8:30 PM.)
9/30: Faculty and Staff Favorite Books Discussion Series, 1st meeting: Dean Karen Green leads this first discussion in our series, with one of her favorite recent reads: “No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency” by Alexander McCall Smith. Open to the public. Get a copy of the book now, and join us for a lively discussion on 9/30. (Trexler Library Periodicals Readings Area, 4:30PM-5:30 PM.)
