By Lisa Laughy - Systems Librarian May 10th, 2017
Visiting poet and translator Ewa Chrusciel gave a delightful presentation in Ohrstrom Library’s Fine Arts Room to Ms. Jones’ Creative Writing class this morning, discussing the subtleties of language and the challenges of translating poetry.
By Lura Sanborn - Research & Instruction Librarian May 26th, 2016
In January 2016, the library bumped up its Kanopy educational video offerings from a few hundred to 26,000.
There have been 486 plays in those 5 months, totaling 8,021 minutes of viewing time.
What films have been most-watched in that time?
Analytics Summary: Kanopy Admin Panel. Kanopy. 25 May 2016. Web.
By Lura Sanborn - Research & Instruction Librarian April 28th, 2016
795 academic eBooks, originally published and available in Spanish, are available on the library’s JSTOR platform.
Titles are largely Humanities focused and include content from publishers El Colegio de México, Ediciones UC, and Marcial Pons Ediciones de Historia.
Additional information, including a title list, is available on the JSTOR Spanish-Language eBook Collection page. Or, be in touch. 🙂
“JSTOR – Advanced Search Results: Language, Spanish.” JSTOR. Web. April 26, 2016.
By Lura Sanborn - Research & Instruction Librarian April 21st, 2016
JSTOR is one of the library’s most popular digital collections. Thousands of searches are conducted in JSTOR over a typical year, sometimes thousands of searches are run in a single month.
From a recent email, JSTOR, in 2015, added:
What does this mean for JSTOR‘s collection contents, when taken all together?
Information from:
JSTOR. “988,000 articles added to JSTOR Archive Collections.” Message to Lura Sanborn. 1 Feb. 2016. E-mail.
By Lura Sanborn - Research & Instruction Librarian February 25th, 2016
“Homepage.” Kanopy. Web. 19 Feb. 2016.
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