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New Year's Resolution - planning the next 50 year's reading?

January 26, 2009 - 12:07pm — cindy

This list has a distinctly British flavo(u)r, and if you set these as the agenda for the next 50 years, you'll miss what's published in that time, but it's interesting to see what you might want to catch up on.
 
The home page for the feature "1000 essential novels" is
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/series/1000novels
 

Now is the time to try the Assignment Calculator!

January 19, 2009 - 4:21pm — Peter

The Assignment Calculator is a tool that helps one to schedule the numerous steps (13 steps here, of course ;^) needed to start and complete a research project.  In addition there are links to numerous resources that explain and provide informational support for each of the steps.

The Assignment Calculator is a means to avoid procrastination and research overload.  Use the calculator as soon as you know when a research paper is due, and there will be ample time for completing the entire research process with less stress and more opportunity to produce better research.

Like fresh vegetables, however, if you leave the Assignment Calculator unused in the near term, its utility wanes and becomes less and less helpful.

So take a look, try it out.   The only thing you have to loose is research time.
 

Center for Research Libraries adds new content!

January 19, 2009 - 11:42am — emily

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

New Books and Videos list added during December created

January 9, 2009 - 4:31pm — mike

The new book lists are available for the month of December.  New videos added during December have also been processed.

P-Con Class Creates Podcast Series in iTunes

January 7, 2009 - 11:32am — clarence

Check out Tim O'Keeffe's story, Students create podcasts for collaborative P-Con project, about a collaboration between a Colgate faculty member, a librarian and ITS staff working with a PEAC 111 class to create the Marginalized Conflict Podcast Series available in iTunes.