New ISI databases added

New ISI databases added
 
Derwent Innovations Index
Derwent Innovations Index is comprised of 14.3 million inventions from 40 worldwide patent-issuing authorities. It offers an unrivalled breadth of coverage by combining value-added patent records from Derwent World Patents Index® with patent citation information from Patents Citation Index.
 
ISI Proceedings
ISI Proceedings provides Web access to bibliographic information and author abstracts from papers delivered at prestigious international conferences, symposia, seminars, colloquia, workshops, and conventions, in a wide range of disciplines ranging from anthropology to zoology. The Science & Technology edition and the Social Sciences & Humanities edition cover over 4.1 million papers from over 60,000 conferences since 1990.
 
Dateline: December 27, 2007

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974 – 1996

Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports 1974 – 1996
 
FBIS Daily Reports offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events from thousands of monitored broadcasts and publications. Translated into English from more than 50 languages - from Arabic to Swahili - these comprehensive media reports from around the globe include news, interviews, speeches and editorial commentary.
North Africa, Middle East, and South Asia are included in the first release.
 
Dateline: December 27, 2007

Delivery of LASR materials during intersession

Installation of new HVAC equipment to provide a more stable environment for preservation of materials stored in LASR will begin Monday, December 17, and continue through most of the intersession.  LASR must be shut down while the work is being done except for brief periods in the late morning and mid-afternoon to allow for the retrieval of items.
Materials requested

  • before 10:45 AM will be available for pick-up at the Case-Geyer Circulation Desk by noon
  • between 10:45 AM and 2:45 PM will be available by 3:00 PM,  Monday through Friday.

[December 14, 2007]

Special Collections exhibit on Level 2, Early Drama at Colgate

colgate student in dunce cap

Now till mid-January
Exhibited are early photographs of the casts (in costume) of various plays presented by Colgate students at the old Sheldon Opera House (now the movie theatre) between 1903 and 1917.