Using a source in an unusual way can be the spark or inspiration for your next great research paper. The Libraries now have access to the Vogue Archive with every story, every dress, every advertisement from 1892 to today.

Vogue magazine? I am not a Design student, so how can I use that in a paper? There are many ways to use an extensive archive like Vogue. A few ideas:

• Interpret the style of a given decade or time period


• Analyze the advertisements from a specific time period like 1920


• Discuss the effect of events like the Great Depression or World War II on mainstream media


• Examine gender stereotypes


• Analyze the style of specific journalists


• Compare and contrast designers


• Critique a marketing campaign for a given product


• Discuss the changes of race in stories or ads


• Assess the effectiveness of public health campaigns

Give it a try today!

Posted by Marlo Welshons at 11:31 AM | Permalink

Think through creating a data management plan with a focus on data preservation issues and tools for sharing your data, like subject-based repositories. In January 2011, the National Science Foundation (NSF) began requiring a data management plan for all new grant proposals. This workshop is geared toward graduate students, faculty and researchers.

See the Managing your Data Web page for more resources. Satisfies RCR continuing education awareness/discussion requirements.

Thu, 08/09/2012 - 9:00am - 10:30am
Location: 314 Walter Library

Fri, 08/10/2012 - 9:00am - 10:30am
Location: 314 Walter Library

Register at https://www.lib.umn.edu/services/workshops/registration

Posted by katep at 11:35 AM | Permalink

Calling faculty, scholars, instructors and students....

We have now have access to the Paley Center for Media, iCollection! The iCollection provides access to over 18,000 digitized, streaming television and radio programs and commercials curated from the Paley Center's archive of over 140,000 titles spanning several decades to present.

Explore the Paley iCollection here: https://www.lib.umn.edu/indexes/moreinfo?id=18316

"The collection has been curated to capture the most artistically and culturally significant examples in each program genre, including news, public affairs, documentaries, performing arts, children's programming, sports, comedy and variety shows, and commercial advertising."

• Includes material from over 70 countries
  
• Spanning almost 100 years
  
• Documents much of modern life, capturing many of the world's leaders, artists, performers, writers, and philosophers, as well as the otherwise fleeting moments that have shaped society and history.
  
• The collection is articularly compelling source material for the study of twentieth century history and culture
  
• Captures the national dialogue on such subjects as World War II, McCarthyism, immigration, the Cold War, civil rights, the space race, Vietnam, the women's movement, and the environment.
  

Examples include rare cultural gems, such as:

• An in‐depth interview with Dr. Martin Luther King on David Susskind's Open Mind
  
• Jackie Gleason's first Honeymooners sketch for the DuMont series Cavalcade of Stars
  
• Radio coverage of Don Larsen's Perfect game in the 1956 World Series
  
• Humphrey Bogart's television debut in The Petrified Forest
  
• Tapes of American Musical Theatre, a series that provided insight into the creative processes of Broadway greats Stephen Sondheim, Richard Rodgers, and others
  
• Rare radio coverage of the 1935 Lindbergh "Trial of the Century"
  
• The only performance by the Rat Pack caught on film
  
• The landmark 1954 television drama Twelve Angry Men and much more
  

Please contact Scott Spicer (spic0016@umn.edu) with any questions or your subject librarian.

Posted by katep at 11:48 AM | Permalink