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30 April 2002 |
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List of Recent Acquisitions UpdatedThe list of Recent Acquisitions (which includes CDs, DVDs, Videos, Software, and Juvenile Literature, and Reference Books, as well as books on the New Books shelf) has been updated. Books new to the list this week include subjects in the areas of:
Webliography UpdatedNew items included in the Webliography this week are in the areas of British History, Church History, Human Rights, Literature, and Periodical (Journal) Location Aids have been added to the list. Literature again focuses on John Milton. The Milton site as well as the sites for British History (Edmund Burke's essay on the French Revolution), Church History (Augustine's On Christian Doctrine), and Human Rights (the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights) are all part of Columbia University's Multimedia Study Environment. These texts are among the most innovative uses of the web to enhance an original text to date.Answer to Last Week's Trivia Question:In citing The Yale Book of American Verse, Bartleby.com says Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote "Eighty years have passed, and more, Since under the brave old tree . . ." in "Under the Washington Elm." Finding this quote in Bartleby is a simple matter of entering the text in the search box at the home page. If you prefer, you could look this up in Bartleby's online edition of American Verse. Why would one want to? Well perhaps you were not sure of the quote, but knew the poet and so it would be faster to browse the author listings in a poetry source than doing a free text search on "Holmes." You would couldn't get more specific on the free text search because entries could be under Holmes, Oliver W.; Holmes Oliver Wendell; Oliver Wendell Holmes; and a host of related permutations.Trivia Question:According to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, what are the four freedoms and how did the find their way into the document.Hint: It's in one of the profiled web-sites. The answer and how to get there will be in next week's edition. Database Focus: Online EncyclopediasYou may have noticed that the latest edition of Britannica dates from 1997. That is because for the last few years the Library has subscribed to the Encyclopędia Britannica Online. There are several advantages to the online version. First searching the online version is much simpler than the printed edition. For starters, one does not have to slog through the Propedia, Micropedia and Macropedia. Not only is searching easier, but the online edition is updated much more frequently than the printed edition. Finally, the online version links to high caliber websites and features excellent bibliographies. Even if you aren't accepting encyclopedias as sources, features like these can help students understand their research topics and find the sources they will finally cite. The Encyclopędia Britannica Online is available to from any computer in the academic quad (sorry, not in the dorms or apartments).Students who need the sort information an encyclopedia can provide, but cannot get to computer within the quad, have access to the Groiler Multimedia Encyclopedia. Based on the Academic American, this work is admittedly less advanced and does not provide links to other web sites. It does, however, include bibliographies in many of its articles and will give 100 and 200 level students a starting place for understanding their topics. The Multimedia Encyclopedia is available via NCLIVE. Access outside the quad is through the NCLIVE@Home password.
Updated August 14, 2008 |
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