Colgate University Libraries News and Events

The Center for Research Libraries has announced a list of research collections which will be purchased for this year’s Purchase Proposal Program.  Included in this years list are important sources in Arabic stuides,  a Japanese manga collection, several key German, Indian, Chinese, and US newspapers and a collection of Imperial Russia’s Illustrated Press.  For the full description of these new acquisitions see http://www.crl.edu/sites/default/files/attachments/pages/pp10purchases.pdf ">
Since Colgate is a member of CRL, all students, faculty, and staff have access to these new materials which are valued at $172,674. For more information about how to access CRL materials see http://exlibris.colgate.edu/help/guides/Center-for-res-lib.html

This full text multidisciplinary ebook collection contains over 250 volumes from the Cambridge History of .....  series published since 1960. Recent additions include: the Cambridge History of Science, the Cambridge History of Turkey, and the Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy, the Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought, and the Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature.  This collection can be browsed as a whole or you can find individual volumes in the online catalog of the university libraries.
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You may have noticed that changes have been made to two entries on the library's SubjectsPlus page for African Studies.  Online access has been added to two of our core African Studies indexes.

•  International African Bibliography is available both in print and online.
• Africa Bibliography can now be found online on Project Muse as part of the journal "Africa : the journal of the International African Institute."  Connect and use the "search this journal" box to search within both the journal and the bibliography.

Back in January CRL purchased a large batch of material with member funds.  The items rejected from the fall wish list were then available for individual library sponsorship under the “shared purchase program”.  A group of the larger research libraries banded together and raised enough funds to make certain titles affordable for the group.  The list of titles which will be purchased is below.
 

• Bibliothek der Frauenfrage in Deutschland collection Supplements 1 & 2.459 fiche
  The two supplements will augment the works in the original set acquired by CRL previously, containing literature on the German women’s movement and gender studies.
• Flugschriften des 17. Jahrhunderts in der Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg [17th Century Pamphlets in the Augsburg State and City Library].683 fiche.
  • (Note: Three institutions expressed interest in access to the PDF download service for an additional cost for their institutions.  Negotiations are underway. CRL will forward additional information when available.)
• Hebrew, Judeo-Arabic, and Marathi Jewish Printing in India. 1,376 fiche.
  The Valmadonna Collection of Hebrew and Jewish books from India is a unique and unparalleled resource for the study of Eastern printing and lithography, Hebrew poetry and liturgical history, Eastern Judeo-Arabic literature, and the folklore traditions and vernacular writings of the Jews of South Asia. 

Flummoxed with completing your senior thesis? This may be the book for you! This is one of 24 very helpful titles from the University of Chicago Guides to writing, editing, and publishing.

 
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How to write a BA thesis : a practical guide from your first ideas to your finished paper / Charles Lipson. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2005

Series: Chicago guides to writing, editing, and publishing

Subjects:
Dissertations, Academic -- Authorship
Academic writing

Contents : Getting started -- Framing your topic -- Conducting your research -- Writing your best -- Working your best -- Scheduling and completing your thesis -- Dealing with special requirements -- Citing your sources and getting more advice

For additional books on the same topic search the subject “Academic writing" in the online catalog.

Three years ago New York Regional Interconnect (NYRI) announced plans to build a 190 mile long high voltage power line which would run from Marcy in Herkimer country through the heart of Central New York and down to the Rock Tavern substation. The NYRI application was initially filed in May 2006 but not ruled complete until August 2008. NY State has one year to review the proposal. Many in the Colgate community and in the township of Hamilton will be affected by the power lines should NYRI's proposal be approved by the New York State Public Service Commission (PSC).
 
For back ground information see:
NYRI's web site http://www.nyri.us/
Communities Against Regional Interconnect (CARI) http://www.caricoalition.org/
Stop NYRI webiste http://www.nyri.info/info.htm
Here you will find includes video of the Public Service Commission public hearings which were held at Colgate on October 20th, 2008. Pre-hearing testimony filed by all parties is also available of the PSC website http://www.dps.state.ny.us/fileroom.html
 
This week there will be important evidentiary hearings on the NYRI proposal. The hearings, which begin this Monday at 10:30 can be view on the NYS Public Service Commission web site at
http://www3.dps.state.ny.us/
or the New York Admin site http://www.newyorkadmin.com/cgi-bin/nypsc.cgi

The Center for Research Libraries is pleased to report the following items, with a list price value of $172,370, will be purchased for this year’s Purchase Proposal Program.  A full pdf version of this list can be found at: http://www.crl.edu/PDF/pp09purchases.pdf . The new additions include significant content on:

• Alternative American Religious movements.
• Japanese History 1905-1940
• Shanghai Political and economic reports 1842-1943 
• Biafra-Nigeria 1967-1969
• grassroots US feminist organizations
• late 15th century German incunabula
• Bibles and commentaries 1455-1500
• Receipt books from the Folger Shakespeare Library 1575-1800
• Gay Literature 1640-1940
• Soviet Cinema Film periodicals 1918-1942
• Vogue (London) /British Vogue

Colgate Faculty and students can now borrow material from the Center for Research Libraries (3 month loan). The holdings of the CRL can be found within the ConnectNY catalog and this is how you can limit your search to find that material.
Go to the ConnectNY catalog
Choose "keyword search"Type in your keyword
choose location: crl