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SU Library unveiled the contest-winning name Pages for the new Bird Library café at its grand opening celebration on February 21st. The selection panel for the naming contest included University Librarian and Dean of Libraries Suzanne Thorin, Library Communications Director Pamela McLaughlin, undergraduate student Dana Varin, History Professor Chris Kyle, and Director of SU Food Services Dave George.

The panel selected Pages from among over 800 entries submitted by SU undergraduate and graduate students during a two-week period following the café’s opening in mid-January. The new name was submitted by Benjamin Huang, a biochemistry major in the College of Arts & Sciences, and Marsha Tait, a graduate student in the Maxwell MPA program. Both were awarded a MacBook laptop.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 10:17 AM | Permalink

Leading examples of the power of a free press are on display this February at all three Newhouse School of Public Communications buildings. A Library contribution to Newhouse’s “Year of the First Amendment” celebration, the poster exhibit highlights groundbreaking coverage by journalists, such as original reporting on the 1955 murder of Emmett Till, analysis of the illicit drug trade on the SU campus during the Vietnam era, and more recent exploration of the Bush administration’s controversial domestic eavesdropping program. This historical media exhibition is co-curated by Syracuse University Library and the Newhouse School of Public Communications, with poster production services courtesy of the Library’s Digital Imaging Services Center (DISC)

For more information, contact Michael Pasqualoni, Subject Librarian for Communications, mjpasqua@syr.edu, or Professor Charlotte Grimes, Knight Chair in Political Reporting, cgrimes@syr.edu

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 8:59 AM | Permalink

Trial access has been established for Latino History Package Through Alexander Street Press.
Trial is through May 11th, 2008 and it's available via IP authentication.

Latino History Package offers access to Caribbean Literature, Latino Literature, Latin American Women Writers and much more.

To access the Latino History Databases, point your browser to any listed below:

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Trial access has been established for Women's History Package Through Alexander Street Press.
Trial is through April 11th, 2008 and it's available via IP authentication.

Women's History Package offers access to Women and Social Movements, North American Women's Drama, North American Women's Letters and Diaries, British and Irish Women's Letters and Diaries and much more.

To access the Women's History Databases, point your browser to any listed below:

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Trial access has been established for Black History Package Through Alexander Street Press.
Trial is through March 11th, 2008 and it's available via IP authentication.

Black History Package offers access to African American Music, African American Music Reference, Black Drama, Black Short Fiction and Folklore and Black Women Writers and much more.

To access the Black History Databases, point your browser to any listed below:

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Trial access has been established for CIOS (Communication Institute for Online Scholarship)
Trial is through March 26th, 2008 and it's available via IP authentication.

CIOS (Communication Institute for Online Scholarship) offers access to the ComAbstracts database, ComVista (information about scholars and study in communication fields), open access journals in communications, tables of contents, and much more

To access the Entire CIOS (Communication Institute for Online Scholarship) point your browser to CIOS Database

To access the Individual CIOS (Communication Institute for Online Scholarship) Databases, point your browser to any listed below:

For more information or comments, please contact Natasha Cooper.

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Trial access has been established for Cochrane Library Online
Trial is through March 11th, 2008 and it's available via IP authentication.

To access the database, point your browser to: Cochrane Library Online

Cochrane Library Online provides access to evidence-based resources related to healthcare. Titles in this collection include: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews; Database of Abstracts of Reviews of Effects (DARE); Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials; Cochrane Methodology Register; Health Technology Assessment Database; and NHS Economic Evaluation Database.

For more information or comments, please contact Natasha Cooper.

Posted by Ozemede Kadiri at 10:53 AM | Permalink

When librarians are considering the purchase of new online resources, they often arrange for a trial period to preview the content, web interface, and other features of the resource. To check out resources on trial, visit the trials web page often.

Posted by Pamela McLaughlin at 3:39 PM | Permalink

Syracuse University Library’s Special Collections Research Center (SCRC) has mounted an exhibition entitled The Small Press and the Black Arts Movement on the sixth-floor of E. S. Bird Library. The controversial Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and 1970s was a politically engaged artistic movement that explored the African American experience.

Drawing on its SCRC's holdings, the exhibit features works by participants in the movement that were published by small independent presses such as Broadside Press and Third World Press. Amiri Baraka (b. 1934) and painter Jacob Lawrence (1917–2000) are very well represented. Their works accompany those of other artists: dramatists, illustrators, novelists, and poets. Among the more well-known names are Gwendolyn Brooks, Chester B. Himes, Ishmael Reed, Sonia Sanchez, Melvin Van Peebles, Alice Walker, and John A. Williams. Also on display are a number of Black Arts Movement periodicals such as Black Theatre, Hoo-Doo, Kitabu Cha Jua (formerly the Journal of Black Poetry), Soulbook, and Y’Bird.

Free and open to the public, the exhibit is available weekdays (excepting holidays) from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. through May 1, 2008. Pay parking is available in the Marion visitor lot.

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Trial access has been established for Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials
Trial is through April 7th, 2008 and it's available via IP authentication.

To access the database, point your browser to: Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials

Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials is a bibliography of controlled trials identified by contributors to the Cochrane Collaboration and others, as part of an international effort to hand search the world's journals and create an unbiased source of data for systematic reviews. Cochrane Controlled Trials Register includes reports published in conference proceedings and in many other sources not currently listed in MEDLINE or other bibliographic databases.

For more information or comments, please contact Natasha Cooper.

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Trial access has been established for Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews
Trial is through April 7th, 2008 and it's available via IP authentication.

To access the database, point your browser to: Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews contains full text articles, as well as protocols focusing on the effects of healthcare. The reviews are highly structured and systematic, with evidence included or excluded on the basis of explicit quality criteria, to minimize bias. Data is evidence-based medicine and is often combined statistically (with meta-analysis) to increase the power of the findings of numerous studies, each too small to produce reliable results individually. Now included in the 4800-plus records are 22 reviews which formerly made up the Cochrane Database of Methodology Reviews. This database is updated quarterly.

For more information or comments, please contact Natasha Cooper.

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Trial access has been established for PSYCHIATRYONLINE.COM - DSM PREMIUM
Trial is through March 7th, 2008 and it's available via IP authentication.

To access the database, point your browser to: PSYCHIATRYONLINE.COM - DSM PREMIUM

PSYCHIATRYONLINE.COM - DSM PREMIUM is an online collection of key resources for mental health professionals and students centered around DSM-IV-TR. But it's much more than DSM-the collection expands the diagnostic criteria of DSM-IV-TR and adds differential diagnostic advice, case vignettes to bring abstract concepts to life, multidisciplinary treatment guidelines, and the latest research-all within a single search and navigation interface that integrates journals and books.

For more information or comments, please contact Natasha Cooper.

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Syracuse University Library and the Barclay Law Library are pleased to announce new additions to the LexisNexis Congressional database. This joint purchase provides additional full-text congressional material to researchers at Syracuse University.

The new modules include searchable collections of Congressional Hearings (1824- ), Congressional Committee Prints (1830- ), and Congressional Research Service (CRS) Reports (1916- ) in pdf format. A database of high resolution color images of the U.S. Serial Set Maps (1789-1969) collection is also part of the new purchase. These new modules add to the basic content of LexisNexis Congressional, e.g., abstracts and indexing for congressional publications, full-text of selected recent publications, and the U.S. Serial Set digital collection module purchased previously.

A comprehensive online resource, LexisNexis Congressional uses a single search interface for its collections of congressional publications and legislative information. It is ideal for student and faculty research in the areas of public policy, U.S. history, and law.

Syracuse University Library users may connect to these new LexisNexis Congressional digital collections by going to the library’s databases/Find Articles page: http://library.syr.edu/research/database/ and selecting Congressional or LexisNexis Congressional.

College of Law users may access LexisNexis Congressional through the Barclay Law Library's Federal Resources web page: http://www.law.syr.edu/lawlibrary/electronic/federal.aspx

For more information or assistance with LexisNexis Congressional, please contact Elaine Coppola, Syracuse University Library, emcoppla@syr.edu or 443-9523 or Robert Weiner, Barclay Law Library, rjweiner@law.syr.edu, or 443-5424.

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Trial access has been established for Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) via OVIDsp
Trial is through February 29th, 2008 and it's available via IP authentication.

To access the database, point your browser to: Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI)

Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HAPI) Health and Psychosocial Instruments (HaPI) is a database that provides access to information on approximately 15,000 measurement instruments (i.e. questionnaires, interview schedules, checklists, coding schemes, rating scales, etc.) in the fields of health and psychosocial sciences. The database covers 1985 to date and is updated quarterly. NOTE: The full-text of the instruments are not included in the database; however, HaPI can be used to:

For more information or comments, please contact Natasha Cooper.

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