German, Scandinavian, and Dutch http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/ Library news and resources for students and faculty at the UM, Twin Cities campus en Copyright 2013 Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:40:03 -0600 http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/?v=4.31-en http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Undergraduate Research Symposium Undergraduates, showcase your research at the 2010 Undergraduate Research Symposium on April 21, 2010!

The deadline for abstracts is April 2.

You can archive your Undergraduate Symposium poster in the University Digital Conservancy. The UDC will give you a permanent digital record of your research results with a high internet search engine ranking.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/222941.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/222941.html Fri, 05 Mar 2010 14:40:03 -0600 Duden-Suche Duden-Suche is a new online reference tool from Duden. You can search a number of Duden titles in the areas of law and language, including:

  • Duden - Abkürzungen

  • Duden - Die deutsche Rechtschreibung

  • Duden - Das Synonymwörterbuch

  • Duden Recht


This resource is restricted to U of M affiliated users and walk-in users in the University Libraries on the Twin Cities campus.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/187471.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/187471.html Internet Resources Wed, 05 Aug 2009 12:00:12 -0600 Tracing a Common Past: European History Between the Meuse and Rhine Rivers Tracing a Common Past is an exhibit presented by Deutsche Forschungsgemeinshaft DFG (German Research Foundation, the University of Minnesota Libraries, and the Center for German & European Studies at the University of Minnesota.

This exhibit presents some of the results of a collaborative research project funded by the German Research Foundation, DFG. For its Minnesota run it is augmented by objects from the large collection of artifacts from the University of Minnesota Libraries. Visitors of the exhibit wil travel through several centuries and to a series of cities. Topics include the development of early modern cities, Jewish communities and Jewish-Christian relations, the education of girls, money lending in the Middle Ages, papermaking and the new media, and markets in the early industrial age.

This exhibit runs through Thursday, April 30, 2009 and is located in Wilson Library and 1st and 4th floors and Elmer L. Andersen Library.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/171924.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/171924.html Events Mon, 23 Mar 2009 13:14:36 -0600 Who Owns Your Scholarship? On February 16th, Kenneth Crews, Director of the Copyright Advisory Office, Columbia University, is coming to the University of Minnesota to discuss the U's new copyright policy, fair use, and your scholarship. To learn more and to register for this short workshop, visit http://staff.lib.umn.edu/communications/email/2009/crews/.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/166321.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/166321.html Events Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:50:31 -0600 Oxford Language Dictionaries Online The Oxford Language Dictionaries Online site offers essential language resources never before available online: fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages. Initially offering millions of words, phrases, and translations, in French, German, Spanish and Italian, the site will expand to include many other languages such as Russian, Chinese, Japanese and Polish.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/166317.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/166317.html Reference Resources Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:47:13 -0600 Literature Criticism Online Digital Archive Literature Criticism Online Digital Archive provides online access to compilations of literary criticism across regions, time periods, and genres. Includes text from the following print resources:
Contemporary Literary Criticism, 20th Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth Century Literary Criticism, Literature Criticism 1400-1800, Classical and Mediaeval Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, Children's Literature Review

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/166316.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/166316.html Digital Texts Thu, 12 Feb 2009 11:19:43 -0600 Authors' Rights: do you know yours? 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

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/110362.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/110362.html News Thu, 14 Feb 2008 11:21:02 -0600 Final Librarian Office Hours for Fall Semester 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.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/100982.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/100982.html News Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:56:08 -0600 German and Dutch E-Journals 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.)

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/100980.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/100980.html E-Journals Tue, 04 Dec 2007 10:47:30 -0600 Exhibit: The Map that Named America: 1507—2007 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.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/096877.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/096877.html Wilson Library Collections and Facilities Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:41:59 -0600 Books Moving to MLAC 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

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/096876.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/096876.html Wilson Library Collections and Facilities Tue, 06 Nov 2007 10:32:45 -0600 FIAF International Film Archive Database 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.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/081418.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/081418.html Film Thu, 07 Jun 2007 13:09:26 -0600 Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archives 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/.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/078613.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/078613.html Digital Texts Mon, 30 Apr 2007 10:12:00 -0600 Dunn Brothers Coffee in Wilson Library 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.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/070441.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/070441.html Wilson Library Collections and Facilities Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:47:16 -0600 Selected Periodicals Move from Wilson to MLAC 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.

]]> http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/070433.html http://blog.lib.umn.edu/bisch004/germanicnews/070433.html Wilson Library Collections and Facilities Wed, 28 Feb 2007 14:05:03 -0600