What UE Libraries Can Do For You: America: History and Life

Need information about Abraham Lincoln growing up in southern Indiana or the coal mines of Kentucky or orphan trains in the 19th century?


The online database America: History and Life is described as the "definitive bibliographic reference covering the history, culture, area studies, and current affairs literature of the United States and Canada, from prehistory to the present."


Content of America: History and Life includes:

• Citations and links to books and media reviews
• Indexing for 1,700 Journals from as far back as 1910
• Links to full text articles in Project Muse and JSTOR

Off campus users will need to login at Off Campus Access prior to searching America: History and Life.


Contact Kathy Bartelt (kb4) or Shane White (sw69) with questions about America: History and Life.

Reception @ 2 pm Today!

The Libraries are hosting a reception from 2:00-3:30 pm today in the Boardroom to honor faculty scholars.  I hope you will be able to attend.

Faculty Scholars on Display

Randy Abbott

Mohammad Azarian

Gale Blalock

Paul Bone

Arthur Brown

Bill Brown

Dan Byrne

Jennie Ebeling

Dale Edwards

Brian Ernsting

Stephanie Fraser

Erzsébet Gaál

Dan Gahan

Phil Gerhart

Noah Gordon

Rob Griffith

Tim Groulx

Amy Hall

Walayet Khan

Kyle Kiesel

Clark Kimberling

Jerrilee LaMar

Ralph Larmann

Kathy Lever

Linda Lister

Patti Lodato

Deborah Marshall

Christine McKeag

Margaret McMullan

Chris Mohn

Rob Montgomery

Robert Morse

Dianne Oliver

Roger Pieroni

Phil Plisky

Greg Rawski

Elizabeth Robertson

Peter Rosen

Cindy Schaefer

Jim Schaefer

Pete Sherman

Doug Stamps

Maggie Stevenson
Joseph Tipton

Elizabeth Truitt

Jon Truitt

Frank Underwood

Garnet Ungar

David Unger

Tamara Wandel

Jim Ware

Tyrone Washington

Chuck Watson

Angie Wooton

Mike Zimmer

Honoring Faculty Scholarship

The Libraries are hosting a display of faculty scholarship produced during the 2009-10 academic year.  Come see the varied and fasincating research your colleagues/professors have conducted. 

The Libraries will be hosting a reception to honor faculty on Tuesday, September 28th @ 2:00 pm in the Boardroom.

 

What University Libraries Can Do For You: Academic Search Premier

Need information about the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, the current state of health care reform, or the latest antics of former Illinois governor, Rod Blagojevich?

Information (lots of it) can be found on these topics and many more using the electronic database Academic Search Premier. This library resource is described by the producer as "the world's largest scholarly, multidiscipline full text database designed specifically for academic institutions." The database provides full text coverage for thousands of journals with subject areas focusing on the social sciences, humanities, general science, multi-cultural studies, education, and much more.

Content of Academic Search Premier includes:

• More than 8,500 abstracted and indexed journals
• More than 4,600 full-text journals
• Nearly 7,400 peer-reviewed, abstracted and indexed journals
• More than 3,900 peer-reviewed, full-text journals

Explore Academic Search Premier (http://search.ebscohost.com/login.asp?custid=s6491485&profile=web&defaultdb=aph).

Contact Kathy Bartelt (kb4) or Shane White (sw69) with questions about Academic Search Premier.

News in Brief

Need local news but find yourself in the wrong location? EveryBlock offers news based on location. Enter a zip code and you're directed to news items happening in that location. Only a handful of major cities are in the queue at this time, but the collection has grown since I first explored the site last week.

Lookout helps protect your personal information when you lose your phone. It's a free download and they even offer assurance that you're not downloading a virus. You know it's trustworthy when they make a promise right there on the front page of their website.

Critical Past offers 57,000 historic videos and 7 million free photos. You have to purchase access to download, but the consumer format starts at just $2.97. The database is searchable, and definitely worth a look.

For the political minded amongst you, I offer The Living Room Candidate with hundreds of political television ads from the 1950s to the present.

And finally, Matthew Brady's Civil War photos are available on Flikr.