Monday, September 27, 2010
LexisNexis quiz with prizes
LexisNexis, a database the library subscribes to, is starting the school year by sponsoring a weekly quiz. It will run through November 15th. By winning points, you will be able to redeem gift cards from a variety of national chains. What, exactly, can you search for in LN? News, legal cases,and information about countries, people, and companies. To access, go through the library portal To take the quiz, go here. Good luck!
Wednesday, June 9, 2010
Do you read Nature?
The University of California contemplates calling for a boycott of the Nature Publishing Group in response to a 400-percent price hike. More...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010
Friday, May 14, 2010
Friends of Caltech Libraries June 3rd event on campus - free for students
The Friends of Caltech Libraries present The Man in White and the Other Woman: Revisiting Mark Twain, featuring Laura Twombley, President of Pitzer College, Mark Twain scholar and author. 7 p.m. - Thursday, June 3, 2010. Hameetman Auditorium, Cahill Building 1216 East California Blvd.
Isabel Lyon was Mark Twain’s personal assistant in the final stages of his life. Despite years of complex interdependence, Twain was ultimately to denounce Lyon publicly, using outrageous invective against her even in his private correspondence. Whatever lay behind such outbursts and caused the iconic writer to break with his carefully crafted and cool public persona are subjects that Laura Trombley explores in her groundbreaking new book, Mark Twain’s Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years. A foremost expert on the great American writer, Trombley was featured in Ken Burns’ documentary on Mark Twain. Among her other works are Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship and Mark Twain in the Company of Women.
Moderator Cindy Weinstein is Professor of English and Executive Officer of Humanities at Caltech. Professor Weinstein’s broad understanding of 19th century American literature and culture and her scholarly focus on the reconfigured family in sentimental novels make her the perfect moderator for an evening filled with intellectual stimulation.
Isabel Lyon was Mark Twain’s personal assistant in the final stages of his life. Despite years of complex interdependence, Twain was ultimately to denounce Lyon publicly, using outrageous invective against her even in his private correspondence. Whatever lay behind such outbursts and caused the iconic writer to break with his carefully crafted and cool public persona are subjects that Laura Trombley explores in her groundbreaking new book, Mark Twain’s Other Woman: The Hidden Story of His Final Years. A foremost expert on the great American writer, Trombley was featured in Ken Burns’ documentary on Mark Twain. Among her other works are Constructing Mark Twain: New Directions in Scholarship and Mark Twain in the Company of Women.
Moderator Cindy Weinstein is Professor of English and Executive Officer of Humanities at Caltech. Professor Weinstein’s broad understanding of 19th century American literature and culture and her scholarly focus on the reconfigured family in sentimental novels make her the perfect moderator for an evening filled with intellectual stimulation.
ebrary books
The library is collecting more and more e-books. This ebrary page, assembled by Arun Sannuti, Caltech PMA librarian, explains the nuts and bolts of how to make the most of this particular collection.
Monday, April 26, 2010
Help with keywords and phrases for your searches
Check out Visuwords, an online graphical dictionary. It's useful for both keywords and definitions.
KwMap.net is another source for keywords. Google Wonder Wheel does something similar.
KwMap.net is another source for keywords. Google Wonder Wheel does something similar.
Harvard’s libraries deal with disruptive change
An article by Jonathan Shaw in the May-June issue of Harvard Magazine discusses libraries and the Internet, and where they might be headed. A snippet:
The journals themselves have grown in number and quantity of articles, but “the amount of data being produced and analyzed in large, curated databases,” Kohane [director of the medical library] says, “exceeds by several orders of magnitude what appears in printed publications.” The fact that students and doctors don’t think to use this digital material is an international problem. “Even at Harvard,” where “we spend millions of dollars” annually for access to the databases, “many of the medical staff, graduate students, and residents don’t know how to use…,” he pauses. “Well, it’s worse than that. They don’t know that they exist.”
The journals themselves have grown in number and quantity of articles, but “the amount of data being produced and analyzed in large, curated databases,” Kohane [director of the medical library] says, “exceeds by several orders of magnitude what appears in printed publications.” The fact that students and doctors don’t think to use this digital material is an international problem. “Even at Harvard,” where “we spend millions of dollars” annually for access to the databases, “many of the medical staff, graduate students, and residents don’t know how to use…,” he pauses. “Well, it’s worse than that. They don’t know that they exist.”
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