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• New Reference Book: The Eighties in America

  29Oct

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  By Lura Sanborn - Reference Librarian
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  The Eighties in America edited by Milton Berman, Salem Press, 2008.

  Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 973.927 B45E

  Almost 700 essays span this 3-volume set.  Essays focus on important people, ideas, and innovations of the 1980s.  Volume three also contains several lists pertinent to the 1980s including: Major films, Academy Awards, Broadway plays, TV Shows, Legislation, and Best-Selling Books.  Following this selection of  lists is a year-by-year breakdown of key events that occurred during this decade.

  Read about: Fax machines, The Empire Strikes Back, Cyberpunk literature, Nintendo and the 1980’s Environmental Movement.

  Helpful for research and fun for browsing!

  Access the online version of this Reference set  (and the 1960’s decade version as well) by clicking  HERE.

  Helpful for: Humanities IV, Humanities IV Research Paper, Popular Culture, Topic Finding

  Tags: 1980s, American History, fax machines, Humanities IV, Humanities IV Research Paper, New Reference Book, popular culture, reference, Research

• Think Before You Print

  26Oct

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  By Lisa Laughy - Library Web Services
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  There are many ways that greener thinking has changed our awareness and helped to improve the eco-footprint of the St. Paul’s School community. There has been an effort to reduce the amount of paper used, with some School publications being distributed online in PDF file formats instead of being printed. This helps us all see that even small changes can make a difference, especially when multiplied by many people being mindful about the environmental impact of their actions.

  One small change in thinking that could help in the larger picture is to stop and think before printing. It’s not just thinking about whether you really need to print something or not (which is the best way to save paper), but also about taking a few extra seconds to be sure which printer you are sending your print job to.  There are many times when a printer is found at the end of the day with a stack of unclaimed pages in the tray, sometimes with multiple copies of the same print job.  If you send your print job to the wrong printer you may think it hasn’t printed at all and try again, but if you are printing a  fifteen page journal article from JSTOR and are unknowingly sending it multiple times the wasted paper piles up fast.

  So next time you need to print while at Ohrstrom, pause, and look at the destination in the print dialogue box.  Or if you have sent something off to print but it isn’t showing up in the printer you expected, open up the print dialogue box again and see which printer is selected. Then check the printer to see if your pages are there before printing again.

  Think, then print.  The Library staff will thank you, the SPS community will thank you, and the trees will thank you.

  Image courtesy of yewenyi under this Creative Commons license.

  Tags: eco-footprint, green, paper, print, think, trees

• New Reference Book: The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry before 1600

  22Oct

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  The Facts on File Companion to British Poetry before 1600 by Michelle M. Sauer, Facts on File, 2008.

  Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 821 F11B

  This volume, the first of a projected four volume set, presents essays about poems and poets from Middle English and Early Renaissance British Isles. Examples include: Beowulf, Anglo-Saxon Riddles, The Faerie Queene, Alfred the Great and Arthurian Literature.

  Helpful for: Humanities III, Humanities IV, Renaissance Studies, Poets

  Tags: Beowulf, Humanities, Humanities III, Humanities V, Literature, New Reference Book, poetry, poets, reference, Renaissance, Research

• New Research Guides

  20Oct

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  Three new research guides are now available through the Ohrstrom blog – just in time to help with current research projects.

  Ms. Sanborn has put together research guides for Middle Eastern Voices, the Humanities V Renaissance Artists research project, and the Latin I class.  The research guides contain helpful lists of Reference books, catalog search topics for  finding circulating books, citation examples, and database search tips.

  You can access the research guides through the links in the Ohrstrom Blog sidebar to the left of this post (see image above) or through the main menu of the Ohrstrom Library website (ie., Research > Research Guides > Latin I).  Each research guide has a link to a PDF version of the guide for printing or downloading to your computer.

  Tags: Humanities, Humanities V, Latin I, Middle Eastern Voices, Renaissance art, Renaissance Artists, research guides

• New Reference Book: What People Wore When

  15Oct

  Categories: Fine Arts, History, Humanities, Research Click Here To Comment: 0 Comments

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  What People Wore When: A Complete Illustrated History of Costume edited by Melissa Leventon, St. Martin’s Press, 2008.

  Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 391 L57W

  Presented geographically (Egypt, Italy, India, et al.), area fashions are then presented chronologically, often spanning several centuries.  Color drawings are included throughout.

  Images are accompanied by brief text descriptions including: Knights, 11th Century [England]; Campaign Wig [France, 1650-1780], Samurai Woman, [Japan, 19th Century].

  The final 30 pages of the volume is divided into two sections.  The first focuses on Western clothing details (sleeves, doublets, hose, et al) from 1300-1800.  The second section focuses on Western accessories (footwear, belts, hairstyles, et al.).

  Helpful for: Humanities IV, Humanities V, Fashion Enthusiasts, Art

  Tags: Art, Clothing, costume, Fashion, History, Humanities IV, Humanities V, New Reference Book, reference, Research

• New Reference Book: GLBT Literature: A Genre Guide

  08Oct

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  Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgendered Literature: A Genre Guide by Ellen Bosman and John P. Bradford, Greenwood Publishing, 2008.

  Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 016.8 B65G

  This single volume provides an overview of twentieth century GLBT literature, defined as “written by GLBT authors, or with GLBT protagonists or themes” (Bosman 3).  Three types of literature are included: Fiction (including but not limited to classics, science fiction, horror, mystery /  crime, graphic novels), Drama, and Biography/Autobiography. Entries include a summary of the book, influence, subject heading and read-a-likes. The back of the volume includes a bibliography as well as an Author/Title Index and a Subject Index.

  Below are some selections given entry in this volume, along with corresponding Ohrstrom Library call numbers.

  Come visit Ohrstrom to borrow any of these books and many others.

  Aaron Copland : The Life and Work of an Uncommon Man 780.92 C79PO
  Absolutely, positively not FICTION L32
  And the band played on : politics, people, and the AIDS epidemic 616.9 SH6
  Angels in America : a gay fantasia on national themes 812 K96
  Bastard out of Carolina FICTION AL5
  The beautiful room is empty FICTION W58
  Black like us : a century of lesbian, gay, and bisexual African American fiction COLL. FICTION C17
  A boy’s own story FICTION W58
  Dangerous angels : the Weetzie Bat books FICTION B62
  Daddy’s roommate JR. COLL. W66
  Dress your family in corduroy and denim 814 SE2D
  Fried green tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Café FICTION F59
  Geography Club FICTION H25
  Kiss of the spider woman FICTION P96
  Middlesex FICTION EU4
  Naked lunch FICTION B94
  The perks of being a wallflower FICTION C39
  The picture of Dorian Gray FICTION W64
  Putting on the Ritz FICTION K25
  Rent 782.8 L32
  A separate peace; a novel FICTION K76

  Helpful for: Social, Gender and Cultural studies, American History, GSA, Literature

  Tags: Fiction, gender studies, GSA, Literature, New Reference Book, non-fiction, reading, reference, Research

• The New MLA Handbook is here!

  05Oct

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  This spring, the new, updated version of the MLA Handbook was released.  Two important formatting changes of note:  the MLA has moved from underlining titles to italicizing titles and also, most citations now include media type somewhere in the citation.  Two examples are below (the red font color has been added for our example purposes only).

  Stern, Robert A.M. “The Architecture of St. Paul’s School and Design of the

  Ohrstrom Library.” Alumni Horae Fall 1992: 149. Print.

  Weeks, Jennifer. “Buying Green: Does It Really Help the Environment?” CQ

  Researcher 29 Feb. 2008: n. pag. CQ Researcher Online. Web. 2 Oct. 2009. <http://library.cqpress.com/cqresearcher>.

  There are two copies of the new MLA Handbook available at the Library’s front desk.  Simply stop by and ask to borrow a copy for in-library use.  If you have already purchased your own copy then take advantage of a new feature in the 7th addition -  using the code located inside the back cover of the book to registered at the MLA website.  This will give you full access to the book online anytime you need it.

  The library has also updated its MLA guides to reflect the changes made in the 7th edition MLA Handbook. See a full list of MLA Citation Guides HERE.

  Noodlebib also went through an upgrade this summer and now too, reflects the changes made in the new MLA Handbook.  See the Noodlebib Citation Guide HERE.

  And as always, you can ask anyone on the Library staff to help you with your citation questions.

  Tags: MLA, MLA Style

• New Reference Book: Encyclopedia of Women in Religious Art

  01Oct

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  Encyclopedia of Women in Religious Art by Diane Apostolos-Cappadona, Continuum Publishing Co., 1996.

  Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 704.9424

  A quick, specialized dictionary focused on images, roles and symbols related to women in religious art. Over 2,000 brief entries focus on the world’s major religions.

  Examples include: Bestiary, Golden Legend, Saint Mary Magdalene, and Willow.

  An appendix lists variant names of “historical and legendary” women (Contents, iii).

  Helpful for: Humanities, Religious Studies, Women’s Studies, Humanities V Art Paper

  Tags: Art, Humanities, Humanities V, New Reference Book, reference, Religion, Religious Art, Religious Studies, Research, Women, Women's Studies