Education

A posting to the College Libraries Listserv this week introduced www.academia.edu, a site for members of colleges and universities to post information about themselves, their studies and research interests.

Luther College now has access to the content of journals included in JSTOR’s Arts & Sciences VI Collection.

“With a minimum of one hundred twenty (120) titles, the Arts & Sciences VI Collection will extend JSTOR’s coverage in disciplines across the social sciences, with clusters focused in economics, education, linguistics, political science, and area studies.”

Here is a list of the new titles currently available (http://www.jstor.org/action/showJournals?browseType=collectionInfoPage&s...), more will be added during 2009-2010.

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Now you can search Encore from Facebook!

The Preus Library QuickSearch Facebook application has been updated to be compatible with the new style of Facebook profile. PreusLQS can be added at this address: http://apps.facebook.com/preuslqs

To add to your wall, click the “Add to Profile” button on the page linked above.

Also available is a link to resource guides by subject featured on the Library Research page.

For a full list of NITLE events, see http://lis.luther.edu/nitle

Two new Workshops To Go

• Crossing Borders: Multimedia Storytelling for Study Abroad. A special instance of ‘Multimedia Narrative: Communicating with Stories.’ Program Dates: November 16 – 18, 2008. Location: Hobart and William Smith Colleges. 8 program units.

• Teaching Science in the Digital Age. Program Date: January 16, 2009. Location: Stonehill College.

For those who are wondering what books and DVDs we have added to the Preus Library collection over the summer the New Books list has been updated to include the 375 items purchased from May through August. The list is sorted by title and isn’t searchable but a search of Encore or Magnus will tell you if a particular item is in the collection.

Several people have asked about how to find articles from journals using the new Library Research website. Let me count the ways:

1) Using Encore, our new research and discovery tool. The Research page uses Encore as its default search. Along with searching Magnus (the library’s online catalog) if you enter a search term in the Encore search box (and you are on campus) that term is also sent to the Academic Search Complete, JSTOR and Project Muse databases.

The Academic Search Complete database is now returning results in both Encore (http://encore.luther.edu/iii/encore/app) and Research Pro.