Need some primary documents for your research on the Sixties? Or are you just feeling a little groovy? If so, we have just added a new database that might be just what you need: The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 - 1974. This database documents the key events, trends, and movements in 1960s America, vividly conveying the zeitgeist of the decade and its effects into the middle of the next. The database contains letters, diaries, memoirs, and oral histories, as well as accounts from official, radical, and alternative organizations, posters, broadsides, pamphlets, advertisements, and Universal newsreel footage of the times. The collection is further enhanced by scholarly research guides, featuring richly annotated primary-source content that is analyzed and contextualized through interpretive essays by leading historians.
This database, as well as others, can be found on our database page:
http://library2.fairfield.edu/dblist.php#S
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Todd Gilman, writing in The Chronicle of Higher Education, has an interesting article on the difference between computer literacy and research literacy, and what that means in terms of pedagogy. He suggests that there is often a disconnect for students between these two skill sets, and he suggests how we might address this: both in the classroom, and in library instruction sessions. One way? Integrate the library instruction session into the classroom with an assignment:
Reinforce the lesson with an assignment. Devise a for-credit assignment that echoes what you and the librarian have shown the students. It should emphasize key distinctions that they often forget, such as the need to search the online catalog for books but library databases for articles. You might also incorporate a component that challenges students to evaluate the quality of information they find, such as comparing the top results returned by a keyword search in Google with those returned in Academic Search Premier with the peer-reviewed box checked. Which results are more authoritative, and how can students tell?Check out the article
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The New York Times published an article on the ARChive of Contemporary Music.
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Congratulations to Sanja Davidovic for winning the 2009 Library Research Prize for the research for her paper "Female Romanian Migratory Labor in Spain: The Characteristics of
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Congratulations to Sanja Davidovic for winning the 2009 Library Research Prize for the research for her paper "Female Romanian Migratory Labor in Spain: The Characteristics of
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More than a dozen countries, in partnership with the United Nations, have put some of their oldest texts online in the World Digital Library. This resource, as it continues to grow, will be an invaluable resource to historians, international studies scholars, lovers of rare documents, and anyone looking for interesting, hard to find primary sources. You can check out the library here, and a story about it
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"Create your own Blog" workshop at the Library on Monday, May 4 at 1:00 p.m. in Room 114 on the lower level of the Library. Please join us for an action-packed hour where librarians Curtis Ferree and Jackie Kremer will walk you through the creation of a blog using University software. This blog can be useful for your classes next semester, for sharing scholarly communication and so much more.
To sweeten the deal - homemade goodies will be served! Bring your own lunch if you would like.
Please register by e-mailing Jackie Kremer at jkremer@fairfield.edu by April 27. It is important that you register beforehand so we can set up an account for you prior to the workshop. Attendance is limited. If you are unable to make that date/time, feel free to contact Jackie Kremer to set up an individual appointment.
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"Create your own Blog" workshop at the Library on Monday, May 4 at 1:00 p.m. in Room 114 on the lower level of the Library. Please join us for an action-packed hour where librarians Curtis Ferree and Jackie Kremer will walk you through the creation of a blog using University software. This blog can be useful for your classes next semester, for sharing scholarly communication and so much more.
To sweeten the deal - homemade goodies will be served! Bring your own lunch if you would like.
Please register by e-mailing Jackie Kremer at jkremer@fairfield.edu by April 27. It is important that you register beforehand so we can set up an account for you prior to the workshop. Attendance is limited. If you are unable to make that date/time, feel free to contact Jackie Kremer to set up an individual appointment.
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The winner of the Library Research Prize will be announced next Monday at 3 p.m. in the Library Conference room and there will be 1 winner and 1 honorable mention.
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The Connecticut Library Association (CLA) recently awarded the DiMenna-Nyselius Library a 2009 Publicity Award for their Facebook page. Jackie Kremer, senior reference and outreach librarian, and Brittany Martin, a sophomore and library work study, created the page, which won in the non-print category of CLA
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The Connecticut Library Association (CLA) recently awarded the DiMenna-Nyselius Library a 2009 Publicity Award for their Facebook page. Jackie Kremer, senior reference and outreach librarian, and Brittany Martin, a sophomore and library work study, created the page, which won in the non-print category of CLA
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In honor of our senior student workers,
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