Learn about Authors' Rights, a six-minute presentation by the University Libraries for scholars in the University community.
Read about the Libraries' efforts to help keep faculty informed about ways to retain your rights in the recent Daily article. and also note this article in the Chronicle:
The Chronicle of Higher Education
February 12, 2008
Harvard Faculty Adopts Open-Access Requirement
I will hold office hours in 128 Folwell on Tuesday December 4 and December 11 from 1:30-2:30. Please feel free to contact me outside of office hours at bisch004@umn.edu.
You can now browse the U of Minnesota, Twin Cities electronic journal holdings by subject category.
E-journals for German and Dutch language and literature can be seen here. (Scroll down a few inches for the first title.)
The next time you are in Wilson Library, drop by the James Ford Bell Library and the T. R. Anderson Gallery on the 4th floor to view a public exhibit of rare, original documents related to early travel, including the James Ford Bell Library’s original 1507 Waldseemüller gores globe, the first map to include the word “America.”
This exhibit runs through December 31, 2007.
Over the next six months, the University Libaries will move 150,000 volumes (generally older and lesser-used books) from Wilson Library to the nearby Minnesota Library Access Center in order to make room in the stacks for collection growth over the next five years.
To learn more about the move, check out the move http://www.lib.umn.edu/books/dewey07/dewFAQ.phtml.
To search the database of titles proposed for transfer, go here: http://www.lib.umn.edu/books/dewey07/dewReview.phtml .
Any questions or suggestions? Please contact Laura Dale Bischof bisch004@umn.edu or Gordon Anderson ganderso@umn.edu
This new database contains article citations from over 300 film-related periodicals as well as records of silent film holdings around the world, a film specific subject thesausus for precision searching, and more.
Affliated users and users in the U Libraries can access this database at http://www.lib.umn.edu/cgi-bin/fiaf.cgi.
Visitors to the University of Minnesota Libraries, Twin Cities can access the Visual History Archives, a collection of over 50,000 video testimonies in 32 languages and from 56 countries. The Archive was produced by the USC Shoah Foundation Institute for Visual History and Education.
For more information about the content of and access to the Visual History Archives, please see the UMN News article and the Visual History Archives site at http://www.lib.umn.edu/vha/.
The next time you come to the West Bank, check out the Academic Blend Café in the basement of Wilson Library!
The Academic Blend Café offers fresh coffee, espresso drinks, and pastries. Open hours are M-Th, 7am - 8pm and Friday 7am - 4pm.
The Wilson Periodicals Room is full, and selected older titles are being moved to the Minnesota Library Access Center. This will create space for the new issues that arrive every day.
You will find a list of journals that are candidates for transfer on the Wilson Periodicals Transfer to MLAC, Spring 2007 page. In you are concerned, please review the lists and let us know which titles you would like to keep in Wilson.
Thank you! Deadline is early April.
There's a new way to find films in the University Libraries: the "Finding Videos "search tool! You search by keywords, title words, or director.
From the Libraries web site, you can find the "Finding Videos" tool under the "I Need to Find" section.
The Johns Hopkins Online Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism is a key reference source for students and scholars of literary theory.
You can search the full-text of the guide or access it through a list of the 240 entries, an index of topics, such as "pathetic fallacy" or "deconstruction," or use the index of names.
This resources is listed on the Reference Sources for Literature page and in the A-Z list of Indexes and Databases.
Off-campus access only for affiliated users of the University of Minnesota Libraries, Twin Cities.
Attention medievalists! You can now search the full-text of the Acta Sanctorum online at http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/acta.
The Acta Sanctorum Database is an electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta sanctorum quotquot toto orbe coluntur (Antwerp; Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1863- (68 vols.) and found in Wilson Library Annex Folio 270 Ac8). The Database contains the entire Acta Sanctorum, including all prefatory material, original texts, critical apparatus and indices. Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina reference numbers are also included.
Researchers at the U of M have a new online tool: Online Finding Aids . These online descriptions of archival records, papers, or manuscrips help researchers discover specific materials held deep in our archives and special collections. With this system it is possible to browse and search over 3,300 descriptive archival records.
Some examples of what you can find there:
New Titles in JSTOR and Project MUSE
New on JSTOR:
Die Unterrichtspraxis / Teaching German (Arts & Sciences Complement)
Release Content: Vols. 1 – 35, 1968-2002
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: American Association of Teachers of German
ISSN: 0042-062x
New on Project MUSE:
Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies
Diaspora is dedicated to the multidisciplinary study of the history, culture, social structure, politics and economics of both the traditional diasporas Armenian, Greek, and Jewish “ and those transnational dispersions which in the past three decades have chosen to identify themselves as diasporas. These encompass groups ranging from the African-American to the Ukrainian-Canadian, from the Caribbean-British to the new East and South Asian diasporas.
Edited by Professor Khachig Tololyan.
University Libraries Halloween Book Sale - Two days only
Monday, October 30 & Tuesday, October 31
10:00am - 3:00pm
Wilson Library Basement
Where a fistful of change can buy you a tower of books. Thousands of used books for sale, all subjects. Warm up in the cozy basement of Wilson Library and buy yourself everything from ponderous tomes to featherweight romances: nothing costs more than a dollar. This will be the only Wilson Library book sale this semester, so mark your calendar.