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New Reference Book: Lend Me Your Ears: Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations

January 17th, 2012

Lend Me Your Ears: Oxford Dictionary of Political Quotations edited by Anthony Jay, Oxford University Press, 4th edition, 2010.

Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 808.88 Ox2P

A compendium of politically-related quotes.

Examples:

  • Joan Baez – “The only thing that’s been a worse flop than the organization of non-violence has been the organization of violence.”
  • Saul Bellow – “Sitting tight is power.”
  • Michael Heseltine – “The market has no morality.”
  • Jean-Pierre Raffarin – “We have a country which loves ideology, and we need pragmatism.”
  • Grover A. Whalen – “There’s a lot of law at the end of a nightstick.”

Helpful for: Political Studies, Humanities, History, Global Studies

Magazine Archive within Google Books

January 4th, 2012

Google Books contains a collection of magazines embedded within its larger Google Books tool.  Titles range from American Woodworker, Current Organic Chemistry to Texas Monthly with many title in between.  Date range varies widely by title.

This brief video describes how to extract and search Life from within Google Books.  The same technique can be applied to any magazine within this Google collection.

 

Helpful for: Humanities, History, Science, Art, Popular Culture

 

 

The Library in Your Lap

December 12th, 2011

This phrase, coined by current senior, RG ’12, is such a great way of expressing the always available digital content purchased/subscribed to by Ohrstrom library.

When you are off the SPS grounds, such as during the upcoming Winter Break, simply visit vpn.sps.edu and log in with your SPS credentials.  All of the library’s digital holdings will now become available, including:

Analog hungry?  Stop by the library before the break to pick up a physical book(s).  We will be happy to provide an extended due date.

Image courtesy of rogdorf under this Creative Common license.

eBooks in Project Muse Beta Site

December 8th, 2011

We already love Project Muse for recent journal content, but very soon we will also have the opportunity to fall in love with Project Muse all over again – this time with eBooks!  Earlier this year Project Muse announced it would be adding an eBook component to its database. Expected to launch in early 2012, the eBook content is projected to exceed 12,000 unique eBook titles, all searchable simultaneously within the existing journal content.

Project Muse  has a beta site, currently containing 300 scholarly eBooks, available now at: http://beta.muse.jhu.edu/

Look for an announcement in 2012 regarding access to Project Muse eBook collections via Ohrstrom Library.

If you have questions about accessing Ohrstrom Library’s eBook or digital journal collections, please contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu).

eReference @ Ohrstrom

November 10th, 2011

Teacher says no Wikipedia allowed?  Concerned about author credibility?  Try searching Ohrstrom Library’s digital reference collections, available from the library’s eReference page.

These eReference collections will quickly provide essential background information, written by known experts and backed by an academic publishing house.

The Credo Reference product provides access to 500+ digital reference titles, all searchable simultaneously.

The Gale Reference product is being built title-by-title, and includes such classics as The Encyclopedia of Religion.

Please feel free to contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) to discuss or review the library’s eReference products.

 

 

 

 

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