• Ohrstrom Library on Facebook: Your New BFF!

    02Nov

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    By Lisa Laughy - Library Web Services
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    Ohrstrom Library has a page on Facebook and you are invited to become a fan!

    The Ohrstrom Library Facebook Page has been set up for a few months now and the number of fans is growing every day.  If you spend time on Facebook, becoming a fan of the Ohrstrom Library page is a great way to stay in touch with library-related news and information.  Links are added to new Ohrstrom Blog posts as soon as they become available.  New links added to Ohrstrom Library’s Delicious account are posted as well.  When you become a fan of Ohrstrom Library you will receive updated notices of these postings on your account’s Home page News / Live Feed.  You will then be able to keep track of all of the great new reference books, reliable online resources, and the latest news from Ohrstrom Library.  It is an effortless way to stay connected while networking on Facebook.

    To become a fan of Ohrstrom Library, log into your Facebook account and type “Ohrstrom Library” into the search box.  Look for the familiar Ohrstrom logo under the “Pages” heading.  Or – click the link located further down in the Ohrstrom Blog sidebar where it says “Ohrstrom Library on Facebook”.  Once you are a fan, invite your friends to join too!

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  • Google for LIFE

    17Feb

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    A few months ago Google began offering access to an unprecedented collection of photographs available as part of the Google Image search.  Google has partnered with LIFE Magazine to offer the LIFE Photo Archive, a fully searchable database of images from the extensive collection amassed over the years by LIFE Magazine.

    According to the Official Google Blog:

    “This collection of newly-digitized images includes photos and etchings produced and owned by LIFE dating all the way back to the 1750s.

    Only a very small percentage of these images have ever been published. The rest have been sitting in dusty archives in the form of negatives, slides, glass plates, etchings, and prints. We’re digitizing them so that everyone can easily experience these fascinating moments in time. Today about 20 percent of the collection is online; during the next few months, we will be adding the entire LIFE archive — about 10 million photos.”

    This incredible visual resource is available for “personal non-commercial use only” providing students a valuable research tool.  Fourth Form students working on their research papers may find inspiration by browsing the image collection for their assigned date range.  Additionally, students researching a particular photographer could search for works by that artist, and students researching specific events could find images related to that event.

    Whatever your research needs are, be sure to take time to browse through the LIFE Photo Archive.

    Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard & Elgar Mitchell practicing moon landing procedures inside LM simulator.

    Apollo 14 astronauts Alan Shepard & Elgar Mitchell practicing moon landing procedures inside LM simulator, 1970.

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  • New Embedded Search Box is EBSCO-licious!

    17Nov

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    The Ohrstrom Library Database web page now has a new search box for the EBSCOHost suite of databases.  The new embedded search box allows users to start searching EBSCO’s sixteen databases right from the library website without the need to navigate through the EBSCO launch and database selection screens.  The new embedded search box provides seamless access to EBSCOHost’s thousands of resources including:

    • magazines
    • journals
    • newspapers
    • selected reference material

    Once your search is executed you can access advanced search options including selecting specific databases to focus your search results.  EBSCOHost database searches are faster and more direct thanks to the new embedded search box.  Try a search now and see how efficient it is: then consider adding EBSCOHost to your arsenal of research tools for your next homework assignment.

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  • Ohrstrom Library 2.0: Join Our New Facebook Group!

    14Nov

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    Ohrstrom Library now has a group on Facebook called, surprisingly enough, The Ohrstrom Library Group!  If you are a St. Paul’s Student, Faculty or Staff member and have a Facebook account you are cordially invited to join the group by clicking HERE and then following the links to join.  The Ohrstrom Library Group is a place to discuss ideas and thoughts about your library experience, ask questions about library use, and share information among other group members.  If you already use Facebook as your social networking source, why not contribute your views and ideas to the Ohrstrom Library Group to help make Ohrstrom an even better resource for the St. Paul’s community?  Join today and get the discussion under way!

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  • Scanning the Globe: Finding International Newspapers via ProQuest

    29Oct

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    By Lura Sanborn - Reference Librarian
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    ProQuest offers access to English-language versions of several major international newspapers.  Follow the steps below to find the information you need:

    Step 1: From the Ohrstrom Website – Select ProQuest Periodicals

    Step 2: Click on “Databases Selected” to limit searching

    Step 3: Select: International Newspapers

    *Tip:  Click the “View Titles” option to browse by title.

    Step 4: Select your paper and browse by date or search by keyword.

    Helpful for:  Humanities III, Humanities in general, Newspaper readers

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  • Periodical Pick: Newspaper Feeds

    21Oct

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    The sidebar of Ohrstrom Blog now features feeds from all of the daily newspapers that we subscribe to with the exception of The Wall Street Journal.  If you are interested in a quick headline fix take a moment to check out today’s feeds, or add these feeds to your own feed reader using the links at the end of the post.

    The Wall Street Journal doesn’t offer your average RSS feed, but instead has this overly clever flashy widget / gadget.  I can’t seem to format it to fit the width of the blog sidebar, so I have put it on this post page where it can spin and whirl in all its glory. You can change news categories by clicking on “Edit” in the upper right hand corner of the widget, which makes it whiz around like a slot machine.  You can then use the up and down arrows on the bottom to scroll through the headlines. I have included a permalink to this post in the sidebar with the rest of the RSS newspaper feeds.

    Add these feeds to your reader and stay in touch with world beyond Millville:

    Boston Globe Feeds

    Concord Monitor Feed (local news feed – others available at www.concordmonitor.com by clicking the orange RSS feed buttons in the news category headings)

    New York Times Feeds

    Union Leader Feed

    Wall Street Journal Newsreel Widget Add it to Facebook, Google, as a Vista desktop widget, and many other applications.

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  • Ohrstrom’s Groovy Tag Cloud

    01Oct

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    Above is a very groovy tag cloud featuring the most frequently used tags on Ohrstrom Blog. Your everyday tag cloud looks like THIS (in the right sidebar), but this Wordpress plugin created by Roy Tanck organizes Ohrstrom Blog’s tags into a 3D whirling cloud of tag related fun (requires Flash Player 9 or better and JavaScript enabled).  It is a dynamic list so it will update as new tags are added. Take some time to explore the tag cloud by clicking on the floating words: the larger the type face the more posts that use the tag.

    One of the ways we tag posts here is to use the name of academic classes as tags when a particular bit of information might be helpful to students in the class.  For example, if you click on the Humanities III tag – either in the tag cloud or in the list located at the bottom of a post – it will take you to two posts about new reference books that are good resources for subjects studied in that class.  Any time we add a new blog post with some information pertinent to the Humanities III curriculum, that post will be added to the tag list.

    There is a mini version of the 3D tag cloud in the sidebar, and a permalink back to this post for fun and easy tag browsing.

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  • ProQuest RSS: Tap Into Search Feeds

    26Sep

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    Our third RSS feed related post this week is about using your feed reader to keep track of search results from the ProQuest database.  It is very simple to set up a RSS feed for your searches and then receive automatic updates whenever new items are added to the search results.  Here’s how it is done:

    Once you have narrowed down your search in ProQuest, scroll to the bottom of the search list and locate the little RSS icon (see the image below).

    Click on the “Create RSS Feed” link and a window will pop up with your customized feed address.  Click on the feed address located in the yellow box in the new window (shown below).

    This will open up a browser window that takes you to the feed address.   You can now either select your feed reader from the drop-down list at the top of the page (I am using Bloglines – see picture below), or copy and paste the feed address from your browser’s navigation bar into your feed reader and follow the steps to subscribe.

    Now that you have subscribed to your search feed in ProQuest, you can keep track of updates to your custom search without having to go back to the ProQuest website.  It will save you time and ensure that you have the most current periodical resources for your research topic.

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  • OED RSS: Word of the Day Feed

    24Sep

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    Oxford English Dictionary Online is a subscription service available to students, faculty and staff through the Ohstrom Library website.  You can use this service to check meanings of words, find the first recorded use of a word, or for inspiration in solving word puzzles, among other things.  One of the services they now offer is the Word of the Day RSS feed.  Now that you have read the earlier post introducing feed readers, you are ready to add OED to your daily feed.

    The Word of the Day feed address is: http://www.oed.com/rss.xml Cut and paste the address into your feed reader, or click on the link to add it through your browser.

    You can read more about the feed service HERE including ways to add Word of the Day to your Google and Yahoo homepages.

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  • RSS: Feed For Thought

    22Sep

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    It is likely that many of you are already aware of the organizational bonus a feed reader provides, but for those of you who have never heard of RSS, XML or ATOM, you may be missing out on a convenience that could change the way you browse online.

    RSS stand for Really Simple Syndication, and is a way for websites like Ohrstrom Blog to syndicate online content.  Subscribing to Ohrstrom Blog’s feed through a browser-based feed reader like Bloglines or Google Reader lets you know when there is new content available, eliminating the need of having to visit the site.  Subscribing to feeds from all of your favorite sites in a feed reader provides a kind of one-stop-shopping convenience for getting information online.

    The image above is a screenshot of the Bloglines interface.  Once you set up a free Bloglines (or one of the many other feed reader) account you can start tracking your favorite blogs and news sites.  A RSS subscription can be added by clicking a feed link on a blog or website. Most sites use some form of this RSS icon to identify their feed, but there are a number of different ways to subscribe, including entering a web address directly into the feed reader.  There are several subscription options available for Ohrstrom Blog included in the “Have a Chicklet” list in the sidebar on the left.

    In Bloglines, your subscriptions are listed on the left side of the screen, and the title and synopsis of the new blog content is listed on the right.  The RSS feed from Ohrstrom Blog contains images and the full text of the blog post.  You can use your feed reader to scan the latest posts from Ohrstrom Blog, read the complete text, or click through to the actual entry in its fully formatted state on the Ohrstrom Blog.  Other feed readers function in the same basic way, it is just a matter of personal preference which reader you use.

    Find yourself a feed reader and then subscribe to the Ohrstrom Blog feed by clicking the “Subscribe” link in the header, or by using one of the  chicklets in the sidebar list.  Then you will have an easy time keeping an eye out for the upcoming posts on RSS and feed readers during the next few weeks.

    For an extensive list of feed readers available click HERE.

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