Laura Dale Bischof

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• Posted ACRL/IRIG Visual Literacy Standards to Learning in the Libraries
  This site presents the results of an open meeting at ALA Annual, documenting various definitions and conceptions of visual literacy. ...
• Posted Spatial Literacy to Learning in the Libraries
  Is "spatiality" a neologism in the making?I have been hearing about things "spatial" lately and wondering. At ALA in Boston, a friend described how he has just become a liaison to a program called "Spatial Studies" and at a recent...
• Posted Undergraduate Research Symposium to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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...
• Posted Connection between foreign language learning and info lit to Learning in the Libraries
  I taught language at the Universities of North Carolina and California for the better part of a decade, and when I became a librarian and started hearing about information literacy, it struck me that there were many parallels between second...
• Posted Reaching remote students: Athens State University's electronically embedded librarian program to Learning in the Libraries
  Short article about incorporating info lit (not specifically stated as an aim in the article) through course software for undergraduates. C&RL News, December 2009, pp. 630-633. URL: http://crln.acrl.org/content/70/11.This might be interesting for us in context of the Libraries  beginning to...
• Posted Duden-Suche to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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...
• Posted Tracing a Common Past: European History Between the Meuse and Rhine Rivers to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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...
• Posted New Books in Linguistics to Linguistics and ESL
  Recently Acquired Books on Selected Topics in Linguistics: Grammar, Comparative and general Language Acquistion Discourse Analysis Translating and Interpreting Etymology Semantics Phonology Syntax Morphology Lexicology and Lexicography Indo-European Philology...
• Posted Who Owns Your Scholarship? to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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...
• Posted Oxford Language Dictionaries Online to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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...
• Posted Literature Criticism Online Digital Archive to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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,...
• Posted Author's Rights: do you know yours? to Linguistics and ESL
  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...
• Posted Authors' Rights: do you know yours? to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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...
• Posted E-Journals for Linguistics and ESL to Linguistics and ESL
  You can now browse the U of Minnesota, Twin Cities electronic journal holdings by subject category. The 145 E-journals for Linguistics can be seen here and the 41 for ESL here. (Scroll down a few inches for the first title.)...
• Posted Books Moving to MLAC to Linguistics and ESL
  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...
• Posted Final Librarian Office Hours for Fall Semester to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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....
• Posted German and Dutch E-Journals to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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.)...
• Posted Exhibit: The Map that Named America: 1507—2007 to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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...
• Posted Books Moving to MLAC to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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...
• Posted FIAF International Film Archive Database to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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...
• Posted Shoah Foundation Institute's Visual History Archives to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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...
• Posted Dunn Brothers Coffee in Wilson Library to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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...
• Posted Selected Periodicals Move from Wilson to MLAC to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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...
• Posted Easy Search Tool for Videos and DVDs to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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...
• Posted The Johns Hopkins Online Guide to Literary Theory and Criticism to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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,...
• Posted Acta Sanctorum Is Here! to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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,...
• Posted Online Finding Aids to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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...
• Posted New Titles in JSTOR and Project MUSE to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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...
• Posted Library Book Sale!! to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  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,...
• Posted Film and Television Literature Index to German, Scandinavian, and Dutch
  Finally, a comprehensive online index for Film Studies: the Film and Television Literature Index. An index to articles from over 300 publications covering the film medium, and selected coverage of 300 more. Date of indexing starts in 1865 (The Nation),...