Library News

Trial access has been established for Iter Databases
Trial is available through December 31, 2007.

Please note: Access is via IP Authentication, hence can be accessed On-Campus only.

Iter: is a research and support web site for scholars studying the Renaissance and Reformation time periods. It is a gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance (400-1700) and offers a suite of databases that includes:
• Iter Bibliography
• Milton Bibliography
• Iter Italicum
• Early Theatre
• Renaissance Quarterly Preprints of RQ Reviews
• Renaissance and Reformation /Renaissance et Réforme
• Baptisteria Sacra
• The Medici Archive Project
• International Directory of Scholars
• Aestimatio
• The Electronic Capito Project

To access the database, point your browser to: ITER DATABASE TRIAL/

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Trial access has been established for Springer eBooks collection.
Trial is available through November 16th, 2007

Please note: Access is via IP Authentication, hence can be accessed On-Campus only.

Springer eBooks trial provides free access to Springer's entire eBook Collection. Trial provides access to over 18,000 eBook titles, arranged in thirteen subject collections, instantaneous and convenient access to book content. Trial access includes content from 2005 - 2007, including all monographs, reference works and book series (back to 1997).

To access the database, point your browser to: Springer eBooks Collection Trial

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Numeric Data Services (NDS), a unit of the Social Sciences Services Department in E. S. Bird Library, announces the addition of several new resources for those interested in finding statistical information to use in a report or data for statistical analysis.

Located on the Numeric Data Services web page, the NDS Data and Statistics Search Engine, a Google Custom Search Engine, searches almost 1,300 web sites worldwide that contain data and statistical information in many subject areas.

In addition, NDS has made several new data sets available for online analysis. Of particular note are three datasets specific to Syracuse: the 2000 U.S. Census of Population and Housing, which includes Syracuse neighborhood identifiers; Public Use Microdata from the 1880 to 2000 U.S. Censuses; and the Public Use Microdata from the 2005 American Community Survey. These applications allow users to create tables and perform statistical analysis on the data over the web without need for additional statistical software. Other data sets listed on the NDS page provide data at the state and national levels.

Numeric Data Services, located on the third floor of E. S. Bird Library, provides support for students, faculty, and staff interested in finding and using statistical information and data. NDS can assist with data management and analysis; use of statistical software, especially SAS, Stata, and SPSS; and advise on research methods, study design, and questionnaire construction for those collecting their own data.

For further information, please contact Paul H. Bern, Numeric Data Services Librarian at 443-1352 or email phbern@syr.edu.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 4:44 PM | Permalink

Syracuse University Library has developed a research guide to help students explore themes in Mountains Beyond Mountains: The Quest of Dr. Paul Farmer, A Man Who Would Cure the World, by Tracy Kidder, the book chosen by the Syracuse University Shared Reading Program and Central New York Reads for 2007-2008. The guide includes book reviews, background information on Tracy Kidder and Paul Farmer, and resources on topics such as Haiti; poverty; public health; the role of the U.S. in the world; voodoo; and more. The guide refers students to articles, audio files, films and videos, photographs, and web sites. Tips on finding materials are provided. The guide is located at:
http://library.syr.edu/instruction/class/sharreadMountains/index.html

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 12:00 PM | Permalink

Academic OneFile is a premier source for peer-reviewed, full-text articles from the world's leading journals and reference sources. With extensive coverage of the physical sciences, technology, medicine, social sciences, the arts, theology, literature and other subjects, Academic OneFile is both authoritative and comprehensive.

Full-Text: More than 6,300 full-text titles (more than 11,000 titles in all).

Newswires: 121 wire services.

Newspapers: Over 400 newspaper services covering worldwide current events with full indexing of The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, and Christian Science Monitor.

Images: Includes some full color images.

Audio: Patrons can now listen to any National Public Radio program, as well as read transcripts, for shows produced by NPR from 1990 to present. Podcasts from government agencies such as the Census and the State Department are also available in Academic OneFile.

8 Languages: Every article in Academic OneFile can now be translated into eight different languages.

Coverage: Integrated backfile coverage from 1980 to the present. Updated daily.

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The University Library’s Special Collections Research Center has mounted an exhibition called "The Never-Ending Wrong: The Execution of Sacco and Vanzetti" on the sixth-floor of E. S. Bird Library. The exhibit is available weekdays (excepting holidays) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through December 31, 2007.

An exhibit opening celebration and reception will occur at 5 p.m. on Thursday, September 27, 2007, also on the sixth floor, directly following a 4 p.m. Library Associates lecture by Sean Quimby, director of the Special Collections Research Center. His lecture, entitled “Phobia: Collecting in the History of Fear,” will take place in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons on the first floor. The exhibit, the reception, and the lecture are all free and open to the public.

The exhibit commemorates the 80th anniversary of the execution for murder of two Italian anarchist laborers, Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. On display are period ephemera issued by the Sacco-Vanzetti Defense Committee and a plethora of books associated with the trial by Paul Avrich, Felix Frankfurter, and Eugene Lyons, among others. The exhibit features artistic expressions (cartoons, illustrations, novels, plays, poems, songs and music) inspired by the trial, including the work of Maxwell Anderson, John Dos Passos, Fred Ellis, Howard Fast, Woody Guthrie, William Gropper, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Rockwell Kent, Katherine Anne Porter, Pete Seeger, and Upton Sinclair.

To see an online version of the exhibit, go to scrc.syr.edu.

Posted by Mary Beth Hinton at 9:06 AM | Permalink

What are Americans really afraid of? In this lecture, entitled "American Phobia: Collecting in the History of Fear," Sean Quimby, director of the Library's Special Collections Research Center, will consider the role of fear in American life. The lecture will take place at 4 p.m. on Thursday, September 27, in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons, first floor, E. S. Bird Library.

In the post 9/11 world, we have grown accustomed to periodic “terror” alerts, but how did fear figure into the printed discourses of generations past? Quimby will detail the Special Collections Research Center’s ongoing project to build research collections that may help answer these questions. Burgeoning recent scholarship has equipped us with the tools required to examine this elusive topic, and available historical resources—religious tracts, popular psychology texts, eugenics manifestos, as well as self-help, child-rearing, and comportment manuals—can help us begin to trace the lineage of fear in America.

Sean Quimby holds graduate degrees from the Hagley Fellows Program in the History of Industrialization at the University of Delaware and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In the fall of 2006, he came to Syracuse from Stanford University, where he served as a manuscripts librarian.

This talk, sponsored by the Syracuse University Library Associates, is free and open to the public. Pay parking is available in the Marion lot on Waverly Avenue.

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