Liberal Arts BlogFort 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.
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.
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.
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.
America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts are now on a different search platform. Already available for a number of months, the new default search software for these two databases is now EBSCO. America: History & Life covers U.S. and Canadian history and culture from prehistory to the present. Historical Abstracts covers the history of the world from 1450 to the present (excluding the U.S. and Canada).
There is a brand new Web page on Early Modern European History. Find it directly at:
http://lib.colostate.edu/research/history/earlymodeuro.html
or via the History Research Guide, http://lib.colostate.edu/research/history/ which also features subject pages on:
United States of America (History).
American Studies.
Colorado History.
Elizabethan/Stuart.
Medieval History (Europe & England).
Medieval Middle East History.
Middle Eastern History and U.S. Foreign Relations.
Roman Republic.
Women's Suffrage.
World History.
There is a brand new Web page to help students doing research on the Bronte Sisters: Anne, Charlotte, and Emily. It can be found at: http://lib.colostate.edu/research/english/Brontes.html
It is linked from the English Language & Literature page (one of the Research Guides):
http://lib.colostate.edu/research/english/
There are other authors with Web pages about them too:
Chaucer
Dickinson & Wright
William Faulkner
Milton
Flannery O'Connor
Poe
Shakespeare
Virginia Woolf
William Carlos Williams & Wallace Stevens
All these pages let you know where the books are, where to identify journal articles (and what to search), and links to relevant Web pages, annotated. A lot of the Bronte Sisters oeuvre is available online.
Also found on the English Language & Literature page are some literary criticism and book review finding tools:
Finding Literary Criticism in Books
Locating Literary Criticism in Journal Articles
Book Review Indexing Sources
See also:
Searching MLA Bibliography by Subject, by author
Beat Writers
Ecofeminism for E631)
Goddesses (for E336)
Take a look! There are a few more pages that are not mentioned here.
LexisNexis Academic has a new look. More than that, it has new ways to search
Default General "Easy Search" looks in Major U.S. and World Publications. Checkmark one or more (or click "select all") other categories to search within: Major World Publications (non-English); News Wire Services; TV and Radio Broadcast Transcripts; Blogs; Web Publications; Company; SEC Filings; and Legal. Default time frame on this screen is previous 2 years. Search News and the default is the past 3 months. Search Legal and default is all years.
America: History & Life and Historical Abstracts currently on the ABC-CLIO platform have been sold to EBSCO. Therefore, the software used to search these two databases will change to EBSCO at some point, but not immediately. A message will be added to this blog when CSU starts using the different search software. One nice benefit of the change will be the ability to search not only these two databases at the same time, but the ability to search simultaneously additional history-related databases as well--for example, Social Sciences Abstracts and Humanities International Index.
Now added to the blog is a link to "About Your Blogger" so new visitors can quickly locate information about the Liberal Arts blogger. Your blogger is Naomi Lederer, the primary College Liaison Librarian to the College of Liberal Arts at Colorado State University. She is the library liaison to six departments in the College: English, History, Speech, Art, Ethnic Studies, and Journalism & Technical Communication. Other librarians who serve as library liaisons to departments in the College of Liberal Arts are Cathy Cranston (Anthropology, Sociology, Political Science, and Music, Theater, & Dance), Merinda McLure (Foreign Languages), Amy Hoseth (Philosophy), and Louise Feldmann (Economics). You are always welcome to directly contact the librarian (in person, via e-mail, or telephone) who is the liaison to the department, with your research question(s) in that subject area.