Colgate University Libraries News and Events

The Libraries will be replacing our Encore online catalog server hardware on Tuesday, May 22, 2012.  The Encore catalog interface will be unavailable all day.  Keyword searches will be redirected to the classic library catalog advanced keyword search function.  No other services will be affected.

The Encore interface should be available as usual on Wednesday, May 23.

For concerns or questions, please call or email Mike Poulin, Head of  Digital Initiatives and Resources, 228-7025.

CEL Summer Workshops:  Video Narrative, June 6-8; Wikipedia Editing, June 12-13; Web Mapping Workshop, June 18-19.  Register online.
 
 
The Collaboration for Enhanced Learning (CEL) website provides information on coordinated support available to faculty who wish to rethink courses and curricular approaches using current and emerging technologies to enhance student learning and engagement with information.   Information on past projects and resource documents regarding the process utilized - setting objectives, determining an assessment rubric, and identifying roles and workflow - is available there as well. 
 
Members:                     Charlotte Droll, Chair, Reference and Instruction, Libraries – co-convener
                                    Rich Grant, Assoc. Director of Technology Planning, ITS
                                    Jesse Henderson, Visual Resources Curator, Art & Art History Dept.
                                    Debbie Krahmer, Learning Commons Librarian, Libraries
                                    Sarah Kunze, Instructional Technology Analyst, ITS
                                    Ray Nardelli, Interim Director, Academic Technologies, ITS – co-convener
                                    Peter Rogers, Information Literacy and Social Sciences Librarian, Libraries
                                    Peter Tagtmeyer, Science Librarian, Libraries (will join in Fall 2012)
                                    Dan Wheeler, Senior Instructional Technology Analyst, ITS
 
CEL Project Criteria and Components
1. Curricular and/or research-related
2. Librarian and ITS member collaborate on project
3. Engagement with technology and engagement with information
4. Commitment from the faculty member (to sustain, promote, share in the work)
5. Scalability/sustainability/mappable to other disciplines
6. Necessary resources are available (equipment, time, knowledge)
 
Project Components:
1. Learning goals
2. Assignment text
3. Milestones throughout the project
4. Training required for both faculty and student
5. Curricular assessment criteria (rubric)
6. Project assessment criteria (questionnaire/focus group/etc.)
7. Promo strategy - write article, create video
8. Archive strategy - portfolio for projects completed
9. Lessons learned and Recommendations
 
Joanne A. Schneider
University Librarian and Professor
Colgate University Libraries
13 Oak Drive
Hamilton, NY 13346
315-228-7362 voice
315-228-7934 fax
jschneider@colgate.edu

British Periodicals (Collection I) provides access to the searchable full text of more than 160 British periodicals from the late seventeenth to the early twentieth century. It includes millions of high-resolution facsimile page images. Subject areas covered include literature, philosophy, history, science, the fine arts and the social sciences
Cambridge Companions Online are accessible introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, topics and periods. All are collections of specially commissioned essays, shaped and introduced to appeal to student readers. Together the chapters add up to a systematic critical account of, for example Plato, Luther, Jane Austen, Tom Stoppard or Stravinsky, the French Novel or Jewish American Literature, and each title is supported by reference features such as a chronology and guide to further reading.  Addressing topics and figures as diverse as Gothic Fiction and Arabic Philosophy, WB Yeats and Martin Luther, the online collection contains over 4000 downloadable essays, taken from 480 Cambridge Companions to Literature and Classics (262 volumes), Philosophy, Religion and Culture (161 volumes) and Music (57 volumes).
New ABC-Clio ebooks

• Brazil Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic
• Native America: A State-by-State Historical Encyclopedia
• Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spiritual Commemorations

New Gale Virtual Reference Center ebook

• Congress Investigates: A Critical and Documentary History

The new book lists are available for the month of April by call number and by subject.   New videos added during April have also been processed.

Well, the end of the semester is upon us, and we hope that it's going well for you. The last day of classes may have been Friday, but we haven't gone anywhere. So bring us your questions from "How do I cite 2 different articles by the same author in MLA?" (The answer is on p. 225 of the MLA Writers' Handbook) to "I'm preparing for summer research and I need... ". Reference librarians will be at the Reference Desk during our regular hours through exam week, including this weekend. So "come on down", or text us or call us, or IM us. We're still here!

The University Libraries' hours webpage has been updated.  Summer hours at Case-Geyer will generally be from 7 AM to 4 PM Monday through Friday because of a construction project on level 5 of the Library.  Exceptions for university holidays and some special events have been listed.
(note: library hours on May 19th updated- 5/6/12)

Refworks will be unavailable from 12 AM (Midnight) On Sunday, May 6th, until 5 AM Sunday Morning.   The timing is unfortunate but it out of our control.  Please plan your work accordingly.
- update - 5/4/12 - the outage has been reduced to only 2 hours from midnight to 2 AM.

The digital humanities is an emerging field dedicated to building connections and community among those who are – or would like to be – applying digital technologies to research and pedagogy in the humanities.  Both journals described below are open access journals freely available to all.  However, the Libraries have cataloged them and make them accessible via Journal Finder on the main web page. 
 
Journal of Digital Humanites (JDH) (ISSN 2165-6673), sponsored by Digital Humanities Now, started in March 2012.  This comprehensive, peer-reviewed, open access journal features the best scholarship, projects, and tools produced by the digital humanities community in the previous quarter. The journal will be comprised of individual works that were selected as Editors’ Choice in Digital Humanities Now. These works range from written texts, to visual arguments, to audio-visual presentations. In order to promote the peer review of non-traditional scholarship, each issue will include solicited reviews of digital tools.
 
Digital Humanities Quarterly (DHQ) (ISSN 1938-4122) is an open-access, peer-reviewed, digital journal started in 2007 covering all aspects of digital media in the humanities. Published by the Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO), DHQ is also a community experiment in journal publication, with a commitment to:

• experimenting with publication formats and the rhetoric of digital authoring
• co-publishing articles with Literary and Linguistic Computing (a well-established print digital humanities journal) in ways that straddle the print/digital divide
• using open standards to deliver journal content
• developing translation services and multilingual reviewing in keeping with the strongly international character of ADHO

Times Digital Archive coverage has been extended by 20 years and now covers 1785-2006.  A bonus is an updated interface which adds search options under the advanced search.
Gale Virtual Reference Library

• Cultural Sociology of the Middle East , Asia, & Africa: An Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia of American Environmental History
• Encyclopedia of Global Religion
• Literature Suppressed on Religious Grounds
• Literature Suppressed on Sexual Grounds

M.E Sharpe

• Civil War Era and Reconstruction: an encyclopedia of social, political, cultural, and economic history
• Settlement of America 1607-1890
• World Terrorism