CNES Librarian (Classical and Near Eastern Studies)

New HathiTrust Interface Design
The HathiTrust Digital Library has released a new design and new features for its website. The new design incorporates feedback submitted by HathiTrust users and input from HathiTrust's User Experience and Communications working groups.

Some of the highlights include:

Look and feel - HathiTrust has been given a fresh, user-friendly design that unifies all parts of the website.
Accessibility - HathiTrust continues its tradition of style with function, paying particular attention to accessibility in major and minor functional components of the interface.
An engaging homepage - A consolidated search area and prominent links to user collections, hand-picked books, and the mobile interface, invite users to explore the HathiTrust collection. Links to social media, the HathiTrust Research Center, and HathiTrust projects provide updates on activities and invite engagement.
Login benefits - Users can now log in from anywhere on the site, and the login area of the homepage highlights the benefits of logging in to users from partner institutions.
Improvements to the reading interface - Our new online reading interface increases the amount of space available for reading books, while still keeping reading controls and bibliographic information readily accessible.
Persistent tabbed search box - Options for searching the bibliographic catalog and full-text of works have been combined into a single tabbed search, with help information to guide users in deciding which search to use. A persistent search header allows searches to be performed from any page on the website.

CNES & Law Professor Bernard Levinson is an organizer of an international conference to discuss different approaches to the formation of the Pentateuch, which will be held at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem on May 12-13, 2013.

Convergence and Divergence in Pentateuchal Theory: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Israel, North America and Europe

Presentations will be offered by a group of twenty-five international scholars, drawn from the fields of Biblical Studies, Second Temple/Dead Sea Scrolls, and Jewish Studies, with extensive time for discussion and debate.

Organizers: Bernard M. Levinson, University of Minnesota; Konrad Schmid, University of Zurich; Baruch J. Schwartz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; and Jan Christian Gertz, Heidelberg University.

Location: Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University

Here's a guide to HathiTrust designed just for Classical Studies. HathiTrust is a collaborative digital archive accessibly via MNCAT, the U of M Libraries catalog, or directly. Learn more at https://www.lib.umn.edu/howto/ebooks#H
You may see HathiTrust tabs within MNCAT search results

Download the HathiTrust Guide

This research retreat will offer inspiring examples of digital humanities scholarship, provide an opportunity to discuss tools and issues at the heart of the research, and allow you to network with potential research partners. This symposium is aimed at scholars (faculty and graduate students) from humanities and computer science fields, academic technologists, programmers, research consultants, librarians, and other academic support staff from Minnesota. Since this mode of research requires collaboration and partnership, we are aiming for a diverse set of attendees that will spark new research.
For more information visit https://sites.google.com/a/umn.edu/mn-dh-symposium/

Now when you search L'annee Philologique, you'll see the University of Minnesota's M wordmark and FindIt on a maroon button in each record. Clicking this button will automatically search for electronic versions of the listed item in the University Libraries' holdings. Give it a try!

In the above image the arrow on the upper right points to the FindIt button.
The lower arrow indicates the abbreviation for the journal name, the full title of which will be displayed if you mouse over the abbreviation.

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Below shows an example of what FindIt offers as options - and saves you the steps of decoding the source title and searching in MNCAT or guessing at other possible locations such as JSTOR or Project MUSE. It searches all of our holdings in the order of accessibility.

Trial of L'Annee Philologique through end of March

Trial access via EBSCO:
http://wiki.lib.umn.edu/CDM/ElectronicResourcesTrials.html

Current access:
http://www.lib.umn.edu/get/2971