A new research guide for the humanities Cold War Speech project is available on the library’s website. Use this guide to identify and review: useful eReference sources, recommended library catalog searches (for both print and eBooks), historical newspapers, historical newsreels and Noodlebib citation tutorials.
Please feel free to contact Ms. Sanborn (lsanborn at sps dot edu) for a research consultation and/or to discuss any of the items in this guide.
Arab Filmmakers of the Middle East: A Dictionary by Roy Armes, Indiana U. Press, 2010.
Find it in Ohrstrom at: REF 791.43 Ar5R
A helpful introduction on filmmaking in the Middle East is then followed by an alphabetical list of filmmakers in and from the Middle East. Each name is followed by a brief biography and filmography.
Examples:
Al-Rais, Maria Mohammad
Badr, Liana
Khill, Ibrahim
Tabari, Ula
Zureikat, Sima
Helpful for: Film Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, Humanities, History, Global Studies, Gender Studies
This brief video describes how to extract and search Life from within Google Books. The same technique can be applied to any magazine within this Google collection.
Helpful for: Humanities, History, Science, Art, Popular Culture
The ice in the School Pond this year has averaged about thirty-six inches thick. Under the S. P. S. rink, which is kept clear of snow, it must have been close to the record thickness of forty-six inches.
