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- Audiobooks from Recorded Books Incorporated via NC Live
Duke Libraries will be offering a great selection of downloadable audiobooks later this month, according to NC Live:
“On Monday, September 19th, NC LIVE will disable the MyiLibrary Audio Books platform from use. Beginning September 19th, you will no longer be able to access or download audio books via the MyiLibrary service.” Instead, a new audio book provider and platform – Recorded Books One Click service – will be available later this fall. The new Recorded Books platform will be an improvement with regard to download and searching capabilities.
- Information set free!
JSTOR announced today it is making journal content published prior to 1923 in the United States and prior to 1870 elsewhere freely available to anyone, anywhere in the world. This Early Journal Content includes discourse and scholarship in the arts and humanities, economics and politics, and in mathematics and other sciences. It includes nearly 500,000 articles from more than 200 journals. To learn more and to watch a video tutorial on how to access Early Journal Content, click here.
NEW databases:
- DRAM – Database of Recorded American Music
From the DRAM website : “DRAM is a not-for-profit resource providing educational communities with on-demand streaming access to CD-quality audio (192kbps Mp4), complete original liner notes and essays from independent record labels and sound archives. Continuing in the tradition of DRAM’s sister company New World Records, one of DRAM’s primary focuses is the preservation and dissemination of important recordings that have been neglected by the commercial marketplace, recordings that may otherwise become lost or forgotten.
Currently DRAM’s collection contains more than 3,000 albums worth of recordings from a distinctive set of 26 independent labels, and we are continually working to add more content. The basis for the current collection is the diverse catalogue of American music recordings by New World Records. From folk to opera, Native American to jazz, 19th century classical to early rock, musical theater, contemporary, electronic and beyond, New World has served composers, artists, students and the general public since its inception in 1975 with a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation.” (Quote source and more information from DRAM.)
Contact librarian: Laura Williams
Subject Categories: Arts & Humanities – Music
- Naxos Video Library
From the Naxos Video Library: “more than 250 full-length videos of concerts, operas, ballets, and documentaries from prestigious performing arts labels such as Arthaus Musik, Dacapo, Dynamic, EuroArts, H‰nssler Classic, Medici Arts, Naxos, Opus Arte and TDK. Featuring performances from legendary artists including Placido Domingo, Luciano Pavarotti, Martha Argerich, Gerald Finley, and celebrated conductors such as Arturo Toscanini, Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Valery Gergiev and many more, videos are available to stream at 700 Kbps (standard quality) and 2 Mbps(high quality) and the service is compatible with both PC and Mac computers.”
Functions and features:
Conductor Simon Rattle
- Ability to stream videos at 700 Kbps (standard quality) and 2 Mbps (high quality) resolutions
- Create custom clips, which can be edited and added to individual playlists
- Access to pre-defined video chapters, as well as individual arias and scene breaks of operas
- Subtitles in up to 5 languages
- The ability to follow along with scrolling libretto text
- View video as Full Screen, 2/3 Screen or 1/4 Screen
- Advanced search functionality, including the ability to search by category, role, composer, artist, production, personnel, work venue or festival (Quote source and more information)
Contact librarian: Laura Williams
Subject Categories: Arts and Humanities, Music, Film/Video; Area Studies and Cultures – Film/Video
- Political Science Complete (PSC)
From EBSCO: “PSC contains full text for more than 530 journals, and indexing and abstracts for over 2,900 titles, (including top-ranked scholarly journals), many of which are unique to the product. PSC has a worldwide focus, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse.” Topical coverage includes : Comparative politics,Humanitarian issues, International relations, Law and legislation, Non-governmental organizations, Political theory” ( Quote source, title list and more.) 
What do librarians think? This database received a “Highly Recommended” rating in a 2010 issue of Choice, the American Library Association’s review magazine.
Contact librarian: Catherine Shreve
Subject Categories: Social Sciences – Political Science
- IPA Source (Transcriptions and Literal Translations of Songs and Arias)
From the IPA site: “Online since 2003, IPA Source is the web’s largest library of International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) transcriptions and literal translations of opera arias and art song texts. Now with over 5598 texts including 955 aria texts! Using the dropdown menus, search for titles by composer, poet, title, opera aria, or Latin text.” Tip: This resource requires the Aodbe Acrobat reader. (Quote source)
Subject Categories: Arts and Humanities – Music
Electronic resources such as e-journals and databases are generally accessible only to Duke community members such as faculty, staff and students.
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In January, we posted some handy information about how to get through, around or over expensive textbook purchases. It was so good, we decided to re-post it for fall semester.
Welcome new students & welcome back! 
Now that you have your licensed e-content – a.k.a your e-Book – on your computer, you can also transfer it to a portable e-reader device, such as the Nook or a Sony e-reader. (Here is a list of e-readers that are compatible with Adobe Digital Editions.)
The transfer takes place with the Adobe Digital Editions.
- Connect your portable device to your computer.
- When Adobe automatically recognizes your device for the first time, it will ask you to authorize it using your Adobe ID. Use the same username and password you created when you authorized your computer.
- Drag and drop the title into your reader.
Two apps are available to make EBSCO eBooks compatible with iPhones,and iPads : Bluefire Reader and Txtr. Txtr is also available for Android phones.
Wondering how to access all that lovely, lovely e-Book content in EBSCO eBooks? Here are a few easy (but not obvious) steps to get what you need:
1. Create an Account on EBSCO eBooks and Sign In:
- Click on
in the upper right corner. - Click on
in the upper right corner. - You can choose any username and password. We recommend choosing your NetID and NetID password so you will remember it.
2. Download your e-Book
- After searching NetLibrary, click on the title of an e-book that you’d like to download.
- Click on this button
to download your e-book.
3. Install Adobe Digital Editions
- If you haven’t already, you’ll need to download Adobe Digital Editions to check the book out.
- You can click on this link
from within the download window - Or you can download Adobe Digital Editions directly from Adobe’s website.
This post is brought to you by Alerts! – a special section of Library Hacks. Weekly, you can look forward to new database announcements, updates, and (rare) outage notices. Stay tuned!
Outage:
ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on July 30, 2011. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, July 30, 2011, at 22:00 EDT to Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 10:00 EDT.
- NetLibrary + EBSCO
Image courtesy of EBSCOhost
NetLibrary has transitioned to EBSCOhost! The look and functionality is different. To get the full functionality, create a myEBSCO folder and acquire the license you need to download books to your computer or other compatible device. The interface for searching and looking at the books and tables of content in NetLibrary have also been revamped.
EBSCO support offers a variety of user guides and tutorials to help you navigate the new interface and make the most of the increased functionality. Supported reader devices include the Nook (as well as the color and gossamer models) and the Sony reader (several models) and any e-reader that is compatible with Adobe Digital Editions . One of the most attractive features of the new version of NetLibrary is that library patrons may select the length of time they can borrow the e-book. If you just want to read a chapter or two, check it out for a day or if you want to read it from the front over image to the back cover image then you can opt to have it for longer. Let us know how it is working out for you!
- Project MUSE, expanded coverage and full runs from now available
The 10 titles, their new coverage periods, and the collections to which they belong are:
- Asian Bioethics Review, Dec. 2008 inaugural issue tot he current issue (complete run.) Found in Project MUSE’s Premium Collection.
- Diaspora: A Journal of Transnational Studies, Vol. 1, 1991-current issue (complete run.) Found in Project MUSE’s Premium Collection, and Social Sciences collection.
image from Project MUSE
- Eighteenth-Century Fiction Vol. 1, 1988-current issue (complete run.) Found in Project MUSE’s Premium, Humanities and Social Sciences Collections.
- Genocide Studies and Prevention, Vol. 1, 2006-current issue (complete run.) Found in Project MUSE’s Premium Collection.
image from project MUSE
- Late Imperial China, Vol. 1, 1965-current issue (complete run.) Found in Project MUSE’s Premium, Standard and Basic Research Collections.
- Minnesota Review, No. 1, 1973-current issue (complete run.) Found in Project MUSE’s Premium Collection.
- Nka: Journal of Contemporary African Art, Iss. 1, 1994-current issue (complete run.) Found in Project MUSE’s Premium Collection.
- Northeast African Studies, Vol. 1, 1994-current issue (complete run.) Found in Project MUSE’s Premium, Standard, and Social Sciences Collections.
image from Project MUSE
- Southwestern Historical Quarterly, Vol. 111, 2007-current issue. Found in Project MUSE’s Premium and Standard Collections.
- Tenso, Vol. 1, 1985/86-current issue (complete run.) Found in Project MUSE’s Premium Collection.
Stay tuned for more back issue availability from Project MUSE!
Electronic resources such as e-journals and databases are generally accessible only to Duke community members such as faculty, staff and students.
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Outages:
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ReferenceUSA will be performing required system maintenance from Friday 7/15 10:00 PM – Saturday 7/16 5:00 PM. During this time period the website will be unavailable.
Also,
ProQuest® will be performing infrastructure maintenance on July 30, 2011. A twelve (12) hour maintenance window will be required for this maintenance. The window will take place from Saturday, July 30, 2011, at 22:00 EDT to Sunday, July 31, 2011 at 10:00 EDT.
Electronic resources such as e-journals and databases are generally accessible only to Duke community members such as faculty, staff and students.
This post is brought to you by Alerts! – a special section of Library Hacks. Weekly, you can look forward to new database announcements, updates, and (rare) outage notices. Stay tuned!
Now available at Duke:
Evangelism in Africa: Correspondence of the Board of Foreign Missions 1835-1910
Contact person: Andrew Keck
From the Library of the Presbyterian Historical Society, Philadelphia. This database, comprised mainly of first-person accounts, “supports research in religious studies, African studies, women’s studies, international affairs and anthropology. Letters that served as reports from the field describe the indigenous peoples and cultures, tribal factionalism, cultural differences and mores, and the many problems and achievements of the work.” (Quote source and more information.)
Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection
Contact person: Danette Pachtner
Available in streaming audio! This database of over 300 plays “…will be used for research and instruction well beyond literature, as the works are chosen not only for their literary significance, but also for their ability to challenge presumptions and examine complicated moral and ethical questions. Critical essays written by known figures in medicine, academia, politics, and other fields will draw connections from the plays to issues and hot topics in the humanities, social sciences, theatre, hard sciences, law, medicine, and virtually every other field of study.” Important titles in the collection include “Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare’s classic tale of duplicity, betrayal and murder, performed by Stacy Keach, Jobeth Williams, and Kelsey Grammer and The Cherry Orchard , Anton Chekhov’s timeless story of an aristocratic Russian family’s fading fortunes and struggle to maintain their status in a changing world, starring Marsha Mason, Charles Durning and Jennifer Tilly.” (Quote source and more information.)
Conditions and Politics in Occupied Western Europe 1940-1945
Contact person: Heidi Madden, Ph.D.
“The collection offers more than 22,000 records in nearly 1,000 files selected by Dr Michael Stenton, University of Cambridge. There are also newly commissioned thematic essays by leading scholars in the field with links directly to relevant documents, a World War II Chronology, a picture gallery of SOE plans and equipment and clips from the SOE film, Now it can be told (1946).”
image courtesy of Gale
In addition to those primary source documents, this collection also offers “fully text-searchable images of the British Foreign Office information files gathered from across German-occupied territories following the collapse of the peacetime diplomacy.” Here is a link to the introductory essay for this Database. (Quote source and more information.)
Le Grand Robert de la Langue Francaise -
Contact person: Heidi Madden, Ph.D.
The electronic version of the Grand Robert de la Langue Française includes all 6 volumes of the most current edition.
Contact person: Danette Pachtner
Image source: Alexander St. Press
“For the first time, students, instructors, and researchers can bookmark specific scenes, monologues, and staging examples and then include those online links in their papers and course reserves. Class assignments and published papers will take on a whole new dimension… Both Broadway and off-Broadway productions are represented in each decade… The writers and actors will also span a wide range of periods and nationalities. .. Some of the authors represented include Sean O’Casey, Jean Cocteau, Ntozake Shange, Tennessee Williams, Wendy Wasserstein.. The performers include Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Faye Dunaway, William Hurt, Robert Redford, Sissy Spacek, John Gielgud, Derek Jacobi, Helen Mirren, Anthony Hopkins… Ben Kingsley, Juliet Stevenson, Zoe Wanamaker, and Prunella Scales, to name just a few.” (Quote source and more information.)
Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900
Contact person: Sara Seten Berghausen
“Wellesley then, is an index to the authorship of articles, and a bibliography of articles written by each contributor, and using each pseudonym. Citations of evidence are provided to support attributions of authorship, along with brief biographical and vocational details. 45 important monthly and quarterly titles are included, covering the period from the beginning of the Westminster Review in 1824 to the end of the century. ”
Among the titles indexed are: British and Foreign Review, British Quarterly Review, Dark Blue, Dublin Review, Dublin University Magazine, Foreign Quarterly Review, Foreign Review, Modern Review, Monthly Chronicle, Nineteenth Century, North British Review and Oxford and Cambridge Magazine. (Quote source and complete list of titles indexed.)
World Scholar: Latin America & the Caribbean
Contact person: Holly Ackerman
Subject Categories: Area Studies and Cultures – Latin American/Caribbbean
Primary and secondary materials – plus video! “Covering Latin America culture and society from the 15th century to the present day…The first release of Gale World Scholar delves into one of the most studied areas in the world, Latin America and the Caribbean. Curated by an advisory board of experts in Latin American studies, the collection is designed to enrich research and student assignments. .. populated by interactive tools and rich multimedia including BBC News and the New York Times video collection.” (Quote source and more information.)
E-Journals available at Duke through Project MUSE & now online:
Ploughshares, a journal of new writing, is guest-edited serially by prominent writers who explore different and personal visions, aesthetics, and literary circles. This journal is available, from 1990 to the most current issue, across a variety of databases accessible to Duke community members.
American Catholic Studies is a double-blind refereed journal that publishes high quality studies and book reviews for academics, opinion leaders, and informed general readers in the fields of U.S. Roman Catholic history, sociology, theology, architecture, art, cinema, music, popular movements, and related areas. Available from Spring 2011 issue.
Change Over Time is a new, semiannual journal focused on publishing original, peer-reviewed research papers and review articles on the history, theory, and praxis of conservation and the built environment.
Labour/Le Travail is the official, semi-annual publication of the Canadian Committee on Labour History. Since it began publishing in 1976, it has carried many important articles in the field of working-class history, industrial sociology, labour economics, and labour relations. Although primarily interested in a historical perspective on Canadian workers, the journal is interdisciplinary in scope.
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal (EASTS) aims to bring together East Asian and Western scholars from the fields of science, technology, and society (STS). Examining issues such as human embryonic stem-cell research, family and reproductive technologies, and the globalization of Chinese medicine, the journal publishes research on how society and culture in East Asia interact with science, technology, and medicine.
Electronic resources such as e-journals and databases are generally accessible only to Duke community members such as faculty, staff and students.
A few weeks ago Hacks posted an update about WordPress plug-in called Zotpress that allowed Zotero information to be easily posted on a WordPress site. Not to be outdone, Mendeley also has a WordPress plug in found here.
Mendeley
From WordPress: “Mendeley Plugin for WordPress is a plugin for displaying information from the Mendeley “shared bibliography system”(www.mendeley.com) in WordPress blogs. Using the public API from Mendeley, meta-information on documents in personal, public or shared collections is loaded and formatted as bibliographic entries.”
If you are a Mendeley user (hence more science-y than humanities-y) you’ll appreciate this plug in. Post a link to your WordPress blog and let us know how this plug-in is working for you!
Though vandalism is vehemently discouraged, there are two marks left that are worth sharing.
The first one:
It reads:
“Studying here makes me feel like the protagonist in Checkov’s The Bet. I love it. Surrounded by all this knowledge – isolated between books – I become so much more motivated.”
The second one:
It reads: “I love the smell of old books, and the words left behind by students past.”
Things a librarian might appreciate:
- The Chekov reference.
- The correct underlining of Chekov’s short story title.
- The smell of old books
- Nice use of the comma.
What we can all appreciate – loving the library! If you’d like to express your love of the library, books, the smell of books, short stories, Russian literature, alumni or other delights, feel free to respond to this post instead of inking your devotion in a drawer
