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Historical Research Resources: real-time and real perspectives

e-resources, good information, libguides August 1, 2011 Frances Yates, Library Resources, Matt Dilworth, Research mdilwort

Suppose someone living in the year 2025, or even 2225, wants reliable information about what happened in 2011? Where would be the best place to get information (assuming by then all our brains aren’t pre-wired at birth to the Internet or whatever comes Next)? There are unique considerations when doing historical research, for whatever type of questions you seek to answer. One facet of historical research is the need for primary sources – that is, things written and said by the people actually involved with those events. Having access to primary documentation is of vital important to historical study. Newspapers are also of great value, providing contemporary perspectives that can be critical to understanding the perceptions about events and people … Continued

Independence Day

July 4, 2011 Library Resources, Matt Dilworth mdilwort

Happy Fourth of July! Whether you celebrate with family or cookouts or fireworks, our country’s birthday is a good opportunity to reflect on freedom. And the freedom that our Founding Fathers most espoused was the freedom of ideas. “I must study politics and war, that our sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. Our sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history and naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain,” John Adams wrote to his wife. We are a generation with the freedom to study these things, and anything else we want, because of what they did 235 years … Continued

127 and counting…more IU East libguides to connect you with the info. you need!

e-resources, libguides June 20, 2011 Frances Yates, Library Resources, Research fyates 0 Comments

“Libguides” are information resource guides that bring together course or subject content in an organized, easy-to-access format. The library faculty and staff at the IU East Campus Library are ready and eager to create libguides for any topic that will assist faculty and students access reliable and relevant information. If you have questions or want to request a libguide for a course or subject, please contact Library Director Frances Yates fyates@iue.edu Our current list of guides (http://iue.libguides.com/index.php) represents a variety of courses offered at IU East. We also design guides to make it easy for locating specific resources. For example: a handy guide to databases by subject http://iue.libguides.com/db-subjects how to access and use library e-books http://iue.libguides.com/ebooks international films available for … Continued

Credo Reference Concept Map Poetry Contest! Money! YOU win AND the Library wins!

Contests, e-resources, reference databases June 6, 2011 Caitlin Tracey-Miller, Contests, Library Resources, Uncategorized mdilwort

You might be thinking, what’s “Credo reference,” what’s a “concept map,” and most important, “how do I win?” Credo Reference is a service the library subscribes to so IU East students and faculty have access to full-text articles, images, video and audio clips. It even helps you find books in the IU library catalog (IUCat) and suggests search terms for your topics. You can access Credo Reference from anywhere using your iu user id and password via the proxy server: https://proxy.library.iue.edu/login?url=http://www.credoreference.com More reliable than Google or Wikipedia, Credo Reference is easy to navigate and you can save or email your search content. It also has useful tools, including pronunciations and a crossword puzzle solver! A unique feature of Credo Reference … Continued

New Databases

e-resources, reference databases May 30, 2011 Library Resources, Matt Dilworth mdilwort

The library has 3 new databases! You now can search these influential British newspapers: Picture Post Historical Archive, the Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive, and the Illustrated London News Historical Archive. The Illustrated London News covers its full run, from its founding in 1842 to when it ceased publication in 2003. The ILN was the first weekly newspaper to feature pictures in every edition (drawings at first, but gradually replaced with photographs around the turn of the century). The magazine had a strong conservative bent, as most newspapers of the time took strong partisan positions. At its height, the ILN sold hundreds of thousands of copies of each weekly issue. The Picture Post is the shortest archive, covering the newspaper’s … Continued