A Bi-Weekly Update
4/13/12
Alternate Access to the New York Times
As reported in the last Scuttlebutt, the New York Times is reducing free access to 10 articles a month, from the previous 20 per month.
At this time, the New York Times does not offer institutional subscriptions to its website, nytimes.com. Trexler Library staff are hoping the NYT will alter its course on this point.
Nonetheless, you can still retrieve all NYT content with Trexler Library’s present subscription coverage. The library has a print subscription to the newspaper. In addition, multiple online retrieval points are available through the library catalog entry for the New York Times online.
BBC Television Shakespeare
The BBC television productions of Shakespeare are now available to view online via library subscription.
To access, search in the library catalog for BBC Television Shakespeare. Once in the database, scroll down to just below the part that says Muhlenberg College Video Search and click on the link “BBC Shakespeare Plays,” which will open a cascade of all the plays, act by act. Click “View” to watch a play in its entirety.
Free NITLE Webinar on Digital Humanities
“Undergraduates Collaborating in Digital Humanities Research,” part of NITLE’s Digital Scholarship Seminar Series, will take place on April 27 (3 – 4 p.m. Eastern). A panel of undergraduates will share their digital humanities research, goals, challenges, and lessons learned, followed by moderated discussion on undergraduate research in the digital humanities. Register online by Wednesday, April 25. Space is limited. For more information, contact Dr. Rebecca Frost Davis, NITLE’s program officer for the humanities, at rdavis@nitle.org.
Infomaniac Tip
Privacy Week May 1-7, 2012
Privacy Week runs from May 1-7 this year and is sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA). Privacy week is a campaign to increase awareness of best practices for protecting one’s privacy , especially online.
The campaign promotes several best practices to maintain privacy of one’s personal information, such as:
- Avoid sharing compromising information about yourself, such as in social media. Your privacy is only as protected as your least reliable friend (with whom you share information) allows it to be.
- Monitor privacy settings in applications such as Facebook.
- Make passwords long and strong: a combination of capitals and lowercase, symbols and numbers.
- Learn about apps before you download them (some require access to your personal information).
- When in doubt, throw it out: press they delete key if something looks suspicious or too good to be true.
- Log out when you are done.
Calendar
4/19, 26 – Meditation Group. Open to all Muhlenberg faculty, staff, and students. (Fulford Room, 5:00-6:00 p.m.).
4/26 – Common hour events: Muhlenberg Theatre Association performances, two of several MTA-sponsored performances across campus in March and April. Plays are written and performed by Muhlenberg College students. (Periodicals Reading Room, level A, 12:30-1:15 p.m.).
5/4 – Trexler Library Annual Book Sale (in front of library, 9:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.).
