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Visiting Poet and Translator Ewa Chrusciel
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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Your favorite Kanopy titles
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.
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Spanish Language eBooks
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.
- Databases, General Works, History, Humanities, Language, Literature, Mathematics, Natural Sciences, Religion, Research, Social Sciences
How fast does JSTOR grow?
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.
- Databases, Fine Arts, General Works, History, Humanities, Language, Library News, Library Tech, Religion, Research, Social Sciences
More! Streaming film: 26,000
The library upscaled it’s Kanopy license to now provide access to 26,000 streaming documentary, educational and classic films.