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I'll be attending the Centre for Research Library's member libraries conference on May 20, 2008 - so if you have any questions regarding this service, or feedback for the CRL, please send it to me and I'll get those answers for you.
If you're interested, please consider subscribing to the CRL's FOCUS newsletter, highlighting resources on a different theme each quarter: Go to http://www.crl.edu/focus/issue-index.asp to subscribe.
Spring 2008, German Resources
Winter 2007-08, Human Rights Documentation
Fall 2007, Colonial India
Summer 2007, Religion in the Modern World
Spring 2007, England in Africa
Winter 2006/07, Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Fall 2006, News Preservation
Summer 2006, Women's Studies
Spring 2006, Immigration Studies
Winter 2005/2006, Evaluating Digital Archives and Repositories
Fall 2005, Southeast Asia Studies
Summer 2005, CRL Collections and Access
Spring 2005, South Asia Studies
Winter 2004/05, Latin American Studies
Fall 2004, Preserving America's Print Resources Update
Summer 2004, Africa Studies
Spring 2004, Middle East Studies
Access to Early Encounters has been restored - apparently an "accounting error" on the publisher's end knocked us out for a time, but it's all resolved now.
Hooray!
Details of the upcoming History Research Workshop Series is available here: http://gateway.uvic.ca/lib/instruction/workshops.html
Open to everyone, each half hour workshop will cover one aspect of History Research, here at McPherson Library. Topics include Journals, Ebooks, Images, Maps, several specific new resources, newspapers, popular magazines, and more.
These are in keeping with our new (still experimental) new format for all basic instruction - the single topic, half-hour workshop. Lots of other workshops will be added shortly, so stay tuned!
It is absolutely essential that you book your summer and fall instruction sessions as soon as possible. We are losing our library classroom until January, as part of our ongoing renovations, and will be booking computer classroom space elsewhere on campus until that time. Competition for space will be exceedingly fierce for the duration.
I still want to provide instruction of many kinds - it's just going to be a bit harder to organize until we get our classroom back. I will be approaching instruction in a new way beginning in the fall - all of the librarians will be creating integrated learning modules (tied to your subject matter, assignments, or curriculum, and designed with and for specific instructors/courses) that we hope will better reflect the students actual research experience, instead of boring old lecture-style instruction.
In addition, we will be creating point-of-need help resources to embed in research guides, databases, and the Gateway, to further help students. If you would benefit from such a thing, please let me know. As well, I am happy to create online or print research guides or other material for your students, and am thrilled if you provide my contact information for your students (on your syllabus, perhaps, or your course web page).
To book a class, request a reserach guide, or talk about this further, please contact me at 721-8252, or by Email bebbingt@uvic.ca .
We've recieved the following notice from Alexander Street Press- please send me any comments you have on this product - should we pursue the "upgrade" or is the basic collection adequate? Let me know what you think, please.
Thanks!
>Dear Customer,
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>I am writing to inform you of some recent changes we have made to our
>Women and Social Movements in the US, 1600-2000 database.
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>As of March 1st, 2007 we have changed the name of the database to
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>Basic Edition. Your access will not be affected by this change.
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>We have also introduced a new version of the database, titled
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>Scholar's Edition. This new version integrates the contents of Primary
>Sources of the Women's Movement with Women and Social Movements in the
>US, plus other materials to be added in the coming months, including
>Notable American Women from Harvard University Press.
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>When you access Women and Social Movements in the US at
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>will notice a link to the new Scholar's Edition. We are providing free
>access to the Scholar's Edition through the end of March in conjunction
>with Women's History Month. Please use this opportunity to explore the
>new edition, and let us know if you'd like more information on upgrade
>discounts or further trials for your institution.
RE: "National Socialism, Holocaust, Resistance and Exile 1933-1945"
When you click the button "Voreinstellungen" (next to log out) you can change the language into English. There is no different URL for that.
They have extended our trial period until 15.04.2007.
Wikipedia banned
NY Times has an article on how the History Department at
Middlebury College has banned the use of wikipedia as a citable source.
Here's the link, login may be required.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/21/education/21wikipedia.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
There are newer, named-author wikipedia type things out there - but where do we stand on this issue? We librarians typically encourage using more scholarly sources, and if you must use Wikipedia or something like it, back up that information with at least two other scholarly sources (so that you needn't use wikipedia at all, or just as a starting point).
We have lots of amazing subject specific encyclopedias, print and online, that we'd rather students use. What do YOU think?
Tomorrow – Thursday, March 1
4pm – Room 130
We’re going to check out all of the new features of Historical Abstracts and America: History and Life (now combined), including advanced features, linkages to ejournal collections and the catalogue, and more.
Lots of this will be old hat for many of you, but if you’d like a tour of the shiny newness, join us! You can register on the library's Workshops page, or just drop in. Bring your questions (about anything), as there will be time for some discussion.
Canada's Heritage (AKA the Globe and Mail Online 1844-2001) has changed hands, and now has a new URL - this has been updated on all of our sites, but if you have it bookmarked or you link to it from WebCT or your course page, you'll need to change the URL to the new one.
From the Gateway, see Journals --> Articles on a topic --> Newspapers --> Canada's Heritage.
Still working on adding the London Times Online to this list - I'll keep you posted!
Book Index with Reviews
Book Index with Reviews (BIR) helps you find information on the books you want and need to read. BIR is a cooperative effort between NoveList, EBSCO Publishing and Baker & Taylor. Book Index with Reviews (BIR) is a comprehensive database that provides information on over 3.8 million book titles in a wide range of formats, including large print, books on tape, etc. Fiction and non-fiction titles for juvenile and adult audiences are included in the database, in all genres. The product contains over 800,000 full-text searchable reviews from the sources that you trust: Library Journal, School Library Journal, Publishers Weekly, CHOICE, and others
Trial available until June 30, 2007
Rarebooks.info
Please note: Trial is password controlled
LOGIN: vict01
PASSWORD: aust01
Rarebooks.info (www.rarebooks.info) offers a unique and unparalleled tool for researchers, including librarians, faculty, and students, by offering an amazing collection of key bibliographies on rare books. This library of reference works covers over 80 works and 600,000 pages where you can find and compare descriptions from various catalogues of rare books, locate copies of a given imprint, or search the catalogues of famous 19th century collectors. It’s a fabulous resource for research on history of the book or for in-depth research into world literature. Standard reference works, many of them long out of print, as well as other significant and hard-to-find works are included.
Trial available until March 01, 2007
Welcome to Uvic Libraries History Blog! Check in regularly (or set up an RSS feed to your favourite blog reader) to learn about new and recommended resources, find answers to your often asked questions, and otherwise hear from your History Librarian.
Please feel free to comment, as I want to make this blog as useful as possible.
Tina B.
History Librarian