Lura Sanborn March 2nd, 2012
ebrary recently released an app for iOS devices. After downloading the app, one can then download & read offline, up to 10 ebrary ebooks for up to 2 weeks.
Ohrstrom Library’s ebrary collection currently contains 72,000 ebooks, predominantly academic titles published within the last 10 years.
To download the app, first sign in to your ebrary account. To create an account, click the same sign in-link while on the SPS network, & create an account with a user name and password of your choosing.
To download the app and ebooks one also needs an Adobe account. https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/membership (Users that have already created an ebrary account probably created an Adobe account at that same time).
Once an ebrary and an Adobe account are in place, one can download the ebrary app onto an iOS device(s).
Questions about the app or the library’s ebook collections? Please feel to contact Lura Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) with questions or to arrange for a personal ebook tour.
Tags: app, eBooks, ebrary, reference, Research
- Databases , Fine Arts , General Works , Geography , History , Humanities , Language , Library News , Literature , Mathematics , Natural Sciences , Religion , Research , Social Sciences , Technology
Lura Sanborn February 28th, 2012
Crosswording over the break?
Credo Reference (one of the library’s 2 major digital reference collections) contains a handy crossword solver tool:
Simply type in any known letters of the stubborn as-yet-unknown word and Credo will generate any number of possible solutions.
Helpful for solving or, building your own (Sunday) puzzle.
If you are off the SPS network log on to vpn.sps.edu in order to access any/all of the library’s digital resources.
Tags: Credo Reference, Crossword, reference, Reference gadget
Lura Sanborn February 23rd, 2012
Love CQ Researcher for its direct, pithy yet thorough, presentation of current U.S. issues?
Ohrstrom Library recently began subscribing to CQ Global Researcher.
Like its long-respected counterpoint (80 years!), CQ Global provides in-depth, balanced reporting. The Global product presents reports on a wide variety of international issues.
Recent reports include:
- Future of the Gulf States
- Rising Food Prices
- Gendercide Crisis
- Weapons in Space
- Communism Today
- Organ Trafficking
This database can be search singularly or simultaneously with CQ Researcher.
Please feel free to contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) with any questions about or to arrange for a personal tour of this product.
Tags: CQ Global, CQ Researcher, Global Studies, History, Humanities, International, reference, Research, Topics in Global Events
Lura Sanborn February 7th, 2012
A new research guide for the Humanities IV L.A. Riots project is available on the library’s website. Use this guide to identify and review: reference materials, library catalog (printed books & eBooks), newspaper collections, NBC newsreels, and Noodlebib citation tutorials.
Please feel free to contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) for a research consultation and/or to discuss any of the items in this guide.
Tags: African American History, American History, Humanities, Humanities IV, L.A. Riots, reference, Research, Research Guide, Social History
Lura Sanborn 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
