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    Visiting Poet and Translator Ewa Chrusciel

    May 10, 2017 /

    Visiting poet and translator Ewa Chrusciel gave a delightful presentation in Ohrstrom Library's Fine Arts Room to Ms. Jone's Creative Writing class this morning, discussing the subtleties of language and the challenges of translating poetry. #ohrstromlibrary #ewachrusciel #poet #translator #visitingauthor #creativewriting #fineartsroom #translation #iamsps #humanities

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  • Databases,  Humanities,  Language,  Research

    Spanish Language eBooks

    April 28, 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.

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  • Databases,  General Works,  History,  Humanities,  Language,  Literature,  Mathematics,  Natural Sciences,  Religion,  Research,  Social Sciences

    How fast does JSTOR grow?

    April 21, 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: Archives of 226 journals Comprising 856,000 articles If shelved, the print version would consume 1,348 linear feet of shelving   What does this mean for JSTOR‘s collection contents, when taken all together? Archives of 2,300 journals 10.7 million articles in print, this would be 68.9 million pages of text     Information from: JSTOR. “988,000 articles added to JSTOR Archive Collections.” Message to Lura Sanborn. 1 Feb. 2016. E-mail.

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