New eCollection: U.S. History in Context

Last week, the library purchased a new eCollection: U.S. History in Context.   Consider using this source to locate sources by and from U.S. History, including: background articles from reference books; magazine, newspaper and academic journal articles; primary sources, images … Continued

19th Century US Newspapers

The library recently added a collection of 19th Century US Newspapers to its digital holdings. This eCollection includes 500 U.S. newspapers, from the time period 1800-1900. This product can be consecutively searched with other library-purchased products from this company (Gale), including the Times … Continued

Newsbank Updates

The library’s fleet of global newspapers from vendor, Newsbank, just got an upgrade, including: More limiters (over on the left) Adapt/tweak search after pressing the search button and eyeing the results The ‘cite’ now button is more prominent   Newsbank … Continued

World Newsreels (4 countries) – Trial

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Motivation Third form Hum. Student: “This NBC newsreel about Sputnik is from the U.S. Doesn’t the library have one from Russia that I could watch?” Me: “uhhhhhhhhh”   And while not Russian, library vendor Alexander Street Press, did recently release … Continued

Updates! – Introduction to Islam – Research Guide

What new things will you find?  Access World News – a library purchased collection of international news sources Access to the NewYorkTimes.com SPS site license Access to a trial to library-vendor, Ebsco’s, new offering: Arab World Research Source Questions?  Comments? … Continued