Lura Sanborn April 3rd, 2012
World of a Slave: Encyclopedia of the Material Life of Slaves in the United States edited by Martha B. Katz-Hyman and Kym S. Rice, Greenwood, 2011.
Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 305.896 K159W
A two-volume set studying U.S. “slave archaeology” (intro. xi) including household & work tools, clothing, furniture, and housing.
Entry Examples:
- Accordions
- Dogs
- Fishing Poles
- Hair and Hairstyles
- Sewing items and Needlework
Helpful for: African-American Studies, Humanities, Human Geography, U.S. History, Gender Studies, Material Culture
Tags: African American Studies, gender studies, Human Geography, Humanities, Material Culture, New Reference Book, reference, Research, U.S. History
Lura Sanborn March 27th, 2012
Gender and Women’s Leadership edited by Karen O’Conner, Sage, 2010.
Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 305.4 OC5G
This 2 volume set looks at the “…role leaders play in all facets of human activity…” (xiii). Most of the 101 entries have been written by women.
Article Examples:
- The Development of Children’s Perceptions of Leadership
- Women as Leaders in the Military
- Women’s Leadership in the Fight Against Human Trafficking
- Women’s Leadership in Asia
- Women’s Leadership in Psychology
Helpful for: Feminist Scholarship, Women’s Studies, Humanities, History, Leadership Studies, Women’s History, Global Studies
Tags: Feminist Scholarship, Global Studies, Humanities, Leadership Studies, New Reference Book, reference, Research, Women's History, Women's Studies
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 21st, 2012
The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art edited by Joan Marter, Oxford, 2011.
Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 709.73 G91A
A 5-volume set, with a North American focus, presenting articles on and related to American Art including people, movements, museums, mediums and methodology.
Entry Examples:
- American Artists’ Congress
- Carnegie, Andrew
- Eccentric abstraction
- Industrial Design
- Wyeth, N.C.
Helpful for: Fine Arts, Design, Humanities, American History
Tags: American History, Design, Fine Arts, Humanities, New Reference Book, reference, Research
Lisa Laughy February 16th, 2012
A new online exhibit, “The T. Mitchell Hastings Album of 1890”, is now in place in the display cases on the upper level of Ohrstrom Library. The online version of the exhibit is accessible through the Ohrstrom Library Digital Archives website by clicking HERE. A free downloadable eBook of the entire album is also available online, formatted for reading on the iPad, iPod Touch, and iPhone using the iBooks application – click HERE to access this and other OLDA eBooks.
This multi-formatted exhibit is based on a personal photo album that was donated to the St. Paul’s School archives some years ago. The album is inscribed with the title “Views Taken at St. Paul’s School, Concord, N. H. 1890 by Theodore Mitchell Hastings”and contains 120 round photographs mounted onto 15 album pages. The photographer, T. Mitchell Hastings, Form of 1894, was a Fourth Former in the winter of 1890 when most of these photographs were taken.
This album provides a unique view of student life at St. Paul’s School in 1890. The scenes captured by T. Mitchell Hastings are of his friends, family, and teachers, of buildings on the grounds, and of points of interest here in Concord and at his home in Philadelphia. Collectively they provide a depth of visual information about life at St. Paul’s than isn’t typically found in the pages of the written histories of the School. The result is a delightful collection of images that provides a very personal perspective of student life during the early years of St. Paul’s School.
Take a few minutes to view the online exhibit, and be sure to stop by the display case in the upper level lobby the next time you are in Ohrstrom Library.
