Blough-Weis Library Newsletter
Vol. 14 No. 4
April 2000
Rebecca A. Wilson, Editor
You ordered a book. Has it arrived?
If you wish to be notified that a book you ordered has arrived in the Library, please be sure that your name appears on the book order request. In-house Sirsi System administrators Pat Fishbein and Sheila Fisher are working to implement a system function that will permit the automatic notification, by email, that books have been received in the Library. For this to occur, it is necessary to know who ordered the book or video. It is anticipated that this feature will be functional by Fall.
iLink (our online catalog) can be checked at any time to determine whether a book or video is on order (a system-generated call number will appear, e.g., XX34021), or whether the item has been received and cataloged (the call number of the book will appear, e.g., 658.23 R324).
Until the email notification system is in place, please do not hesitate to contact the Reference Desk (x4160) to determine the status of a book you’ve ordered.
This essential (and heavily used) reference work is now available in CD-ROM format, on computers LIB #1 and #2 in the Library. It’s a Windows-based software program designed to assist with analysis and selection of stocks. The CD-ROM version mirrors the print version, but provides some additional options, such as creating and printing graphs, and generating reports on tagged companies. It also includes more companies than the printed version.
The Survey consists of three main sections:
In the Selection & Opinion section, you can read the latest weekly commentary, investment ideas and market summaries.
The Ratings & Reports section permits the viewing and printing of pages exactly as they appear in the print version of the Survey.
The Summary & Index section is similar to a spreadsheet, and includes sorting, screening (querying), graphing and reporting on individual stocks and groups of stocks. This section also allows you to create and update portfolios, and to compare portfolios against other portfolios, indexes and stocks.
April 20 Thursday 8:00am-4:30pm
April 21-23 Fri - Sun Closed
April 24 Monday 8:00am-12:00am
The campus community now has online access to ART BIBLIOGRAPHIES MODERN (ABM), a database produced by ABC-CLIO.
Access was made possible through the collaborative efforts of the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI), and the Commonwealth Libraries, who combined resources in order to secure a subscription to the database. They have made it available to public, school, academic and special libraries in Pennsylvania.
ARTbibliographies Modern includes lengthy abstracts of journal articles, books, essays, exhibition catalogs, dissertations and exhibition reviews. The scope of ARTbibliographies Modern extends from artists and movements beginning with Impressionism in the late 19th Century, up to the most recent works and trends in the late 20th Century. Photography is covered from its invention in 1839 to the present. A particular emphasis is placed upon adding new and lesser-known artists and on the coverage of foreign-language literature.
The coverage includes articles, from 1972, on all aspects of modern and contemporary art, performance art and installation works, video art, computer and electronic art, body art, graffiti, artists’ books, theater arts, crafts, jewelry, illustration, as well as the traditional fine arts of painting, printmaking, sculpture, and drawing.
This database can be used as a resource for:
Art History Design
Art Criticism History
Art Theory Graphic Art
Photography Fine Arts
Biographical Details
ABC-CLIO also produces two other databases to which the Library subscribes, America: History & Life, and Historical Abstracts. Users of ABM will immediately recognize the similar search protocols used by the history databases.
This database complements Art Index Retrospective, online at http://hwwilsonweb.com and ArtAbstracts in OCLC’s FirstSearch.
Due to problems several departments have been having with unauthorized use of account codes on the photocopiers in the Library, discussions are underway with the librarians and the Library Committee to propose resolutions to the problem. One option is to replace account codes with a departmental vend-a-card, which each department could purchase and encode with a specific amount of funds. Another, for those who wish to continue using the account codes, is to choose a 6+ digit code (harder to "guess") than the 3 digits currently being used. If codes are being distributed to student assistants, it is a good idea to change the codes on a regular basis.
A move to vend-a-cards for all departments would not occur before Fall. If you would like to change your account code now (and it is highly recommended that you do so), please contact Susan Musser at x4317 to implement the change.
The following titles have been cataloged and are available for circulation.
FOCUS ON TECHNOLOGY:
Chambers, J.M. Programming With Data: A Guide To The S Language. 1998.
Hobart, M.E. & Schiffman, Z.S. Information Ages : Literacy, Numeracy, And The Computer Revolution. 1998.
Kent, T. W. & McNergney, R.F. Will Technology Really Change Education?:From Blackboard To Web. 1999.
Moody, F. The Visionary Position: The Inside Story Of The Digital Dreamers Who Are Making Virtual Reality A Reality. 1999.
Rohm, W.G. The Microsoft File: The Secret Case Against Bill Gates. 1998.
Segaller, S. N.E.R.D.S 2.0.1: A Brief History Of The Internet. 1998.
Stix, G. & Lacob, M. Who Gives A Gigabyte?: A Survival Guide For The Technologically Perplexed. 1999.
FOCUS ON DIVERSITY:
Bucher, R.D. Diversity Consciousness: Opening Our Minds To People, Cultures, And Opportunities. 2000.
Coontz, S. et al. American Families : A Multicultural Reader. 1999.
Diller, J.V. Cultural Diversity: A Primer For The Human Services. 1999.
Kikoski, J.F. Reflexive Communication In The Culturally Diverse Workplace. 2nd ed. 1999.
Lowe, E.Y. Promise And Dilemma: Perspectives On Racial Diversity And Higher Education. 1999.
McAdoo, H.P. Family Ethnicity: Strength In Diversity. 2nd ed. 1999.
Okin, S.M. et al. Is Multiculturalism Bad For Women? 1999.
Trueba, E.T. Latinos Unidos: From Cultural Diversity To The Politics Of Solidarity. 1999.
Thanks to Kathy Dalius for assistance in compiling this section.
The following new videos are available in the Media Center. Check iLink for more details.
| Advertising Missionaries | The Age of Charles II |
| The Age of Innocence | Alice |
| Alien | Alien Nation |
| Babakiueria | Balinese Trance Seance; and, Jero on Jero, "A Balinese Trance Seance" Observed |
| Benny & Joon | The Big Picture |
| The Bigamist | Blue Velvet |
| Brassed Off | Breathless |
| Bringing Up Baby | Chaplin |
| Citizen Kane | City Lights |
| Crazy People | Crossing Delancey |
| Dancing At Lughnasa | Eight Men Out |
| The Elephant Man | Enemies, a Love Story |
| Fire & Fever | Franz Boas, 1852-1942 |
| Fried Green Tomatoes | Gabbeh |
| Glengarry Glen Ross | The Godfather |
| The Godfather, Part II | The Godfather, Part III |
| The Grifters | Groundhog Day |
| Guantanamera | Gulliver's Travels |
| Hajari Bhand Of Rajasthan: Jester w/out Court | Impromptu |
| In the Name of the Father | Jose Marti: un Hombre Sincero |
| The Last Emperor | Leading With Persuasion |
| Metropolitan | My Own Private Idaho |
| N!Ai: the Story of a !Kung Woman | Pretty Woman |
| Rebel Without a Cause | The Return of Dr. Fritz: Healing by the Spirits in Brazil |
| Riding the Wave: Strategies for Change | School Ties |
| The Secret of Roan Inish | Sense and Sensibility |
| Sling Blade | Taste of Cherry |
| Teamwork in Crisis: the Miracle of Flight 232 | 'Tis Pity She's a Whore: the First Women on the London Stage |
| To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar | The Trip to Bountiful |
| Unstrung Heroes | Warren Buffett |
| Warrior Marks | Washington Square |
| The Way We Were | Welcome to the Dollhouse |
| The Whales of August | What's Eating Gilbert Grape |
| When Harry Met Sally | Who Moved My Cheese? |
| William Blake | Working Girl |
--Pat Fishbein
The following sites enable users to search several "indexes" or search engines at once. Response times are exceptionally good between 5:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m.
This is a fun site where you can literally ask questions. Enter your query and Jeeves generates a list of related questions to help you locate a satisfactory answer to your question among the Web pages found. Several search engines are searched simultaneously.
One of the more precise search engines – this one really delivers! In "Power Search" mode you can select subject area, types of sites you want to search (government, non-profit, Q&A, commercial, education, etc), format (e.g., news), language, country, and date. Results are further sorted into folders which categorize entries into relevant and manageable data sets. A good site for researchers with time constraints.
This site describes itself as "The Mother of all Search Engines". Combs several search engines simultaneously and retrieves a manageable number of relevant entries on topics or phrases. Identifies the search engine where the entry was found, e.g., InfoSeek, Lycos, WebCrawler, Excite, GoTo.com, AskMe, etc.
This Web site describes itself as "one of the Internet’s most interesting and valuable resources". Not a search engine per se, Big Eye provides "pages of carefully selected links to arts, science, history, news, weather, finance, insight, and commentary". The opening page offers a menu of broad subject categories into which relevant Web sites have been organized.
All the Web is built on the premise that size does matter. The data you need is "out there" to be retrieved if only the search engine knows about it. It claims to be the biggest index with over 200 million pages, and even at this size, results appear quickly. The advanced search enables more specificity in search terms.
Check out the opening page of this index. It’s packed with options for further searching, and includes a comprehensive list of search engines.
As the list of online databases continues to grow, it becomes difficult to identify those that are most appropriate for a particular content area. The following selective list, grouped by subject category, may help. Most databases are for journal articles, but sources for books, videos and newspapers are also included. These are all accessible from the Library’s Web Pages (using any S.U. networked computer), unless otherwise specified.
[CD-ROMs, such as PsycLIT, which are only accessible from within the Library, are not included here.]
(FT) = Includes Full-Text
(FS) = In FirstSearch
All Purpose, General Databases With Broad Coverage Of Many Topics:
For Books/Videos/ Other Media:
For Business/Management/Economics:
For Humanities/Education/History:
For Natural Sciences:
For Social Sciences: