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Fort Collins Reads--Community Event

Mon, 02 Nov 2009 10:18:06 -0700

Fort Collins Reads is having its main events for 2009 this upcoming weekend, November 7 & 8. T.C. Boyle, author of The Tortilla Curtain (and other books), will be in Fort Collins. See the Web page: Fort Collins Reads 2009: The Tortilla Curtain, created for the book, which has recommended resources and links to information about the book, as well as a link to the local organization's Web site. See Web pages for earlier years' books too.

Films/Movies: New Web Page

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 15:15:55 -0700

The brand new Films/Movies Web page has information on finding feature film movies (also Shakespeare plays) in the CSU Libraries. There is also information on finding film scripts in the Libraries' print and online collections, identifying books on films ("motion pictures"), a list of reference and other books, indexes to find reviews and criticism, journals, and a number of really useful Web sites that have information and reviews of films, actors, directors, and more. The new page is linked to from both the English Language & Literature site and the Speeches Web page. Enjoy a good movie today!

New Russia and Soviet Union History Web Page

Mon, 28 Sep 2009 16:17:16 -0700

A brand new history Web page is now available: Russia and Soviet Union History 18th C-present. Find titles of useful books, terms to find additional books in the library catalog (and other library catalogs), recommended indexes and databases, journals, Web sites that cover the topic, and links to an online book collection as well as selected articles. Materials emphasize nation and empire aspects of Russia and Soviet Union history. Don't forget to evaluate whatever you find, be it a book, article, or Web page.

Ethnic Studies: New Web Page

Thu, 17 Sep 2009 15:14:07 -0700

There is a new Web page, created for one of CSU's newest departments! Ethnic Studies lists useful dictionaries and encyclopedias; abstracts and indexes (databases); ethnic studies journals owned by the library; research guides; and Web pages/sites with bibliographies, links to ethnic studies pages, programs, and names of newspapers. Find a journal or two to browse (several available online to CSU affiliates) and find out what is being published in this research area!

Recent New & Updated Web Pages

Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:12:04 -0700

A new Web page, Rhetorics of Resistance and Change, is up. The page has definitions, a plug for the upcoming international poster exhibit (at CSU), books, recommended databases for identifying articles, and links to Web pages sorted by: Alternative Education; Prison Industrial Complex; NISP/Glade; Oakland Ebonics Debate; and Electronic Languages (IM, Texting, Twitter). It is linked off of the English Language & Literature site. Freshly updated with links to various groups in the Democratic Republic of Congo is the Art in Sub-Saharan Africa page. Find links that have photos with descriptions of the Azande, Kuba, Mangbetu, Pende, Songye, Suku, and Yaka. Art in Sub-Saharan Africa is linked off of the Art Resources site.

New Web page: Censorship

Tue, 18 Aug 2009 14:28:15 -0700

The newest addition to subject Web pages is on Censorship. The page has lists of reference and circulating books, subject terms to identify additional books, recommended indexes for articles, searching tips for LexisNexis Legal, and links to relevant Web sites. Take a look!

Topical Art Web Pages

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 08:56:59 -0700

There are currently five topical Web pages for Art. The pages provide titles of reference books (some books are electronic), terms to search in the library catalog, recommended indexes/databases to search for articles, and relevant Web pages found on sites around the world. If you or someone you know is doing research on one of these topics, these pages are the place to get started. The pages are: Art in 19th Century Europe; Art in Latin America; Art in Sub-Saharan Africa; Medieval Christian Saints in Art; and Pre-Columbian Art.

New History Web Pages

Wed, 25 Mar 2009 12:50:44 -0700

Two new Web pages were created for History this spring: Sport and American Society and Gender and Sexuality in the North American Borderlands, 1492-1850. Find recommended reference resources, suggestions of terms to search in library databases (including the library catalog), and find links to relevant material found on the free Web. Don't forget to check out some of the ongoing History Web pages! United States of America (History) and Environmental History are two. See the History page for a list of all of the topical pages.

New Web Page: Antarctica

Mon, 12 Jan 2009 10:24:26 -0700

There is a new Web page for History at the Libraries: Antarctica. Find recommended reference books, terms to search in the library catalog, journals, and Web pages. Web pages are arranged by: Bibliographies, Timelines, General, Antarctica Treaties & More, Maps, and Photographs. Even if you aren't doing research on Antarctica, you'll probably enjoy looking at the stunningly beautiful photographs!

How to Evalute a Web Page now in Spanish

Tue, 02 Dec 2008 08:54:18 -0700

How to Evaluate a Web Page has been translated into Spanish (Como Evaluar paginas Web?). It joins the Spanish versions of How to Evaluate a Book (Como evaluar libros) and How to Evaluate Journal Articles (Como evaluar articulos de periodicos). Espanol (Spanish) not your language? The pages are also available in francais (French)! Comment evaluer une page Web; Comment evaluer un livre; and Comment evaluer des articles de journaux.

Don't forget that these are in English! How to Evaluate a Web Page; How to Evalutate Journal Aricles; and How to Evaluate Books. In English, there are detailed versions of the how to evaluate Web pages and journal articles.

Version 2.0 of Search Interface

Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:45:06 -0700

The search platform for a number of the Library databases (over 55), EBSCO, has changed. It is now in version 2.0. Major databases that are used frequently in the Liberal Arts include Academic Search Premier, MLA Bibliography, Communication & Mass Media Complete, Historical Abstracts, Art Abstracts, and Humanities International Index. The default search boxes at the top of the initial search screen are the same, but advanced search options are now visible up front. RSS feeds are easily subscribed to in the new interface (now available after a search). For details on advanced searching (examples from MLA) see Searching MLA Bibliography by Subject and Using MLA Bibliography to Find Sources on an Author.

Database Name Change: Art Online

Fri, 13 Jun 2008 10:06:39 -0700

Dictionary of Art is now Art Online. It still includes Grove Art Online, The Oxford Companion to Western Art, Encyclopedia of Aesthetics, and The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms for definitions and information about artists, art, etc. Searching is different, however. Search All Content, Biographies, Subject Entries, or Images. Or browse A-Z. There are currently 5450 images, all from Grove Art Online, so the number of images available is greatly reduced from the previous version of this database. Nevertheless, it looks as if the Bridgeman Art Library is available directly online, so those images may still be found at http://www.bridgeman.co.uk/. A growing number of museums have images online as well. For links to some of the larger museums, see Goddesses.

New Database: The Gilded Age

Tue, 27 May 2008 10:33:31 -0700

The Gilded Age ran from roughly 1865-1902, the latter part of the Victorian era. A new-to-CSU database The Gilded Age covers topics that include "[i]mmigration and migration, racism and civil rights, labor and industry, women and universal suffrage, American Indians, and the environment." The collection contains "40,000 pages of full text, photographs, songs for listening online, and other primary materials, along with video interviews and twenty-five critical documentary essays. Each documentary essay poses an interpretive question and then illuminates it with dozens of annotated primary documents, introductions, and essays." Items in this database range from primary sources that were created in 1865 to contemporary (as in 2007) scholarship. The time period is the era just before World War I, so the resources in this new collection will be worth studying for possible hints of things to come. (See Web page on World War I http://lib.colostate.edu/research/history/wwi.html for resources on or about the War itself.) The Gilded Age database can be found under "G" on the "Research Databases" CSU Library Web page. Remote access is limited to CSU affiliates.

Two New Databases of Special Interest to Liberal Arts

Thu, 07 Feb 2008 14:54:21 -0700

The Iter Bibliography is useful for scholars of the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700). It contains "more than 1,000,000 records for articles, essays, books, dissertation abstracts, encyclopedia entries and reviews. This material has been collected from 8,707 publications, including 1,707 journals." Right now the "check for full text" is your FindIt@CSU button.

The World Shakespeare Bibliography Online "provides annotated entries for all important books, articles, book reviews, dissertations, theatrical productions, reviews of productions, audiovisual materials, electronic media, and other scholarly and popular materials related to Shakespeare and published or produced between 1962 and 2008." There are currently "more than 114,231 records in this version." Use advanced search to look for words in title, etc.

New Database: Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800

Wed, 30 Jan 2008 08:59:16 -0700

Brought to you by the generosity of the Irene Bostrom Endowment in the College of Liberal Arts, Evans contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period. It contains more than 36,000 printed works and 2.3 million pages. These are primary source advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties and more.

The online collection may be searched by subject and browsed by genre, subjects, author, history of printing, place of publication and language. Topics covered include agriculture, astronomy, child rearing, commerce, constitution, education, foreign affairs, medicine, military operations, operas, religious thought, revolutionary war, slavery, suffrage, work, and much more.