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New Databases!Summer brings you new databases for general health, science, encyclopedia, and biography reference resources. As several grant-funded databases provided for Ohio residents reach their grant expiration dates, Libraries Connect Ohio (LCO) has licensed new & similar products for OhioLINK, OPLIN, INFOhio, and the State Library of Ohio: - Science Online, the July 2008 KSL Research Spotlight, features broad science coverage with extensive essays, diagrams, images, biographies, and news. - Consumer Health Complete features health & medical information via encyclopedias, fact sheets, evidence-based reports, images, videos, and more. - World Book Web is a suite of resources (dictionary, atlas, children's sources, and Hispanic versions) for general study, articles, educator tools, student activities & learning, images, audio & video, and related web sites. - Biography Reference Bank brings you half a million people from antiquity to today, with thousands of images. Search and display obituaries (and sources), photos, books by & about the person, and extensive biographical essays. Catch up on everyone from Galileo (1560) to Bill Gates (1950), and/or Charlemagne to Charles Darwin! Posted by Karen Oye on July 15, 2008 03:17 PM
 Facts On File Science Online, the July Research SpotlightDiagrams, images, & more gets you started with scientific disciplines in a redesigned database that is the KSL July Research Spotlight. Use Facts on File Science Online to "Explore Subjects," 10 disciplines from Biology to Weather & Climate. Rollover each discipline term to see a photo & brief caption-an explanation helps you choose an area, helpful if you'd like to see what's in the Forensic Science section! Tip: choose a discipline to get subdivisions of Overviews, like the 7 topic areas in Weather & Climate. Tabbed results make it easy to view your search results in Facts on File Science Online for Topics, People, Images, News Items, Videos, Table & Data (in Weather, take your pick this month between UV Index & Windchill Factor Conversion!) and more. Try out the homepage Special Features, too: Editor's Selection of the Month (heat and body temperature) and Focus On... Find the KSL July 2008 Research Spotlight, Facts on File Science Online, on the Research Tools database list. Posted by Karen Oye on July 1, 2008 04:33 PM
Online Practice Tests, Try GMAT, LCAT & more...Looking for print copies of standardized tests so you can practice & raise your score? Use the Learning Express database—take over 160 interactive practice tests for free. Practice, improve your score, learn & boost your confidence for the real test! - Tests are free Choose from 30 subject categories of tests like TOEFL, Graduate School Entrance, Civil Service, Nursing,and other occupation tests, Business Writing Skills, Resume & Interviewing Skill tests, and much more. Try one today, on the Learning Express Library, from the Research Database list. Learning Express is an OhioLINK database and is authorized for Case faculty, students, and staff. Posted by Karen Oye on June 14, 2008 05:05 PM
GreenFILE Environmental Issues Database, June Research SpotlightRenewable energy, green buildings, sustainable agriculture, & more are in This is an open web database from EBSCO publishing and requires no authentication.
Posted by Karen Oye on June 5, 2008 09:35 PM
Summer CaseLearns Classes Start June 16Take advantage of a slower summer schedule, with a free CaseLearns class! Learn a new skill or continue to build your skills with with basic, intermediate, and advanced classes. Browse or search the summer schedule, or print your own PDF copy—and look for the new classes, too! CaseLearns tempts you with a variety of classes, so you can: Read the eligibility requirements and the attendance policy, then logon to CaseLearns with your Case network ID & password, for convenient online registration. Find a class for you—sign up today! Posted by Karen Oye on June 3, 2008 11:50 PM
Read the CIty Newspaper, Before You Travel!Find out what's happening & where to dine, before you travel this summer! Read about food, culture, sports, summer fairs and more, on the PressDisplay database. With 550+ newspapers from 76 countries, and in 38 languages, your summer travel can be much easier if you read about the city before you go—by reading the local newspaper you'll be sure not to miss a city's highlights. Use "Select A Title" in the upper right corner—select the country to display a city list. Papers are full-sized and can be displayed double-sided so you can turn the pages. Read the comics, do the crossword puzzles, check the local weather, and if the newspaper has a sound icon, the paper can be read to you. Plan ahead for US cities like Baltimore & Boston, Chicago or Los Angeles. Read North American & South American papers, African, European, or just read the Wall Street Journal Europe...but read newspapers on PressDisplay database, today!
Posted by Karen Oye on June 1, 2008 08:38 PM
Enjoy Some Summer Reading with CPL@Case-KSLTry some popular magazines, books, and audio books from the Cleveland Public Library browsing collection—right here in KSL! CPL partners with KSL to bring a convenient site collection of popular reading materials to everyone who enrolled at Case. With spring semester over, there's more time for biographies of Jimmy Stewart, Condoleeza Rice, Peter Jennings, Ingrid Bergman, or the new autobiography by Eric Clapton. Try some fiction with Alan Alda's Things I learned While Talking to Myself, or walk in a Renoir-like world with Vreeland's Luncheon of the Boating Party. Try current affairs or politics with Bill Bradley's The New American Story, or Ung's The Fall of the House of Bush. From heart healthy books to exercise, from Alan Greenspan to Suze Orman, check out these books, audio books & more at KSL! Use your Greater Access or CPL card to borrow these books at the CPL self-checkout machine (around the corner from the CPL@Case-KSL collection) on the main floor. Or, if you are enrolled or employed at Case, KSL staff can enter you in CPL's system and issue you a CPL card to use. KSL staff can also logon to the CPL system and check out materials to you. Read more about CPL@Case-KSL borrowing privileges for this site collection, as well as the CPL@Case-KSL website for alerts on the new books that arrive at KSL. Posted by Karen Oye on May 17, 2008 10:44 PM
Find & Create BookLists with a New Tool--KSL May Research SpotlightPatronBooksInPrint, complimentary tool from BooksInPrint database, lets you search genres, favorite fiction characters, award-winners, create lists & more. Create a profile for alerts & favorites, & read about a favorite year with top 10 lists. - Get full-page value-added information on a title: Path to Power, Robert Caro's first volume about LBJ, includes cover art, synopsis, & reviews of the National Book Critics Circle Award winner of 1982... Go Back In Time—What's Your Favorite Year? (1895-2006) Available to you through BooksInPrint, from the database list. Posted by Karen Oye on May 1, 2008 11:02 PM
Need A Manual? Online Ebooks Linked from Software CenterNext time you get a new OS or application from the Software Center, you may see an icon for the manual, too! Thousands of ebooks are searchable in Safari Books Online, and now many are linked to the applications you're authorized to download. Ebooks linked next to Case Software Center products is a great idea sent to us by a faculty member. We liked it so much, it became a KSL/Case IT collaboration to bring the information you need to where you need it most! Example: Click to download Adobe Indesign for Macintosh & you'll see the Safari Books Online logo and a link to go to manuals for the application—you don't even have to search for them! An activated VPN authentication is required for wireless or remote access. You should be able to click through to the texts, but if the page asks for a login, click the "academic license" link on the right side of the page. Then just click through to see titles that match the downloaded product from the Software Center. Posted by Karen Oye on April 24, 2008 09:31 PM
Free Lunch Workshop: Today's International News with PressDisplay!Lunch 'n Learn the database of world news: 70 countries, 37 languages, 500 newspapers--photos and news from around the world, plus a continuous news ticker, on the PressDisplay database. Seating is limited, please RSVP to ksl-admin@case.edu or 368-2992 PressDisplay database is an exceptionally rich resource that complements the new International News Commons on KSL's Lower Level, where you'll find SCOLA TV & several dozen daily international papers. Find PressDisplay on the Research Database list, where it is licensed for Case individuals; an activated VPN logon is required for use. Posted by Karen Oye on April 22, 2008 10:55 PM
Follow That Image--Film & Television Database24,000 black & white and color images from the Motion Picture & Television Archives take you from 1910 to today. Follow images of a young Frank Sinatra with Bob Hope (early tv,1948) to a candid dinner shot of Old Blue Eyes with President Kennedy (1961). See the amazing aerial view of Astaire & Rogers on the soundstage of "Top Hat," with the crew surrounding the stars. Images are copyrighted by the MPTV, and the Film Image Collection is owned by EBSCO publishing. Images are for internal and personal use only, no publication allowed—hence, no images are embedded in this blog, but from the fabulous Salome to a 1920s Swanson signing her contract, you'll enjoy this database and its image function! Tips: Sign in on the database to create a personal folder, and "add" items to it so you can save the ones you'd like to see later. Ignore the "find it" icon, since there is no accompanying text. Find Film & Television Literature Index with Full Text on the Database list from the KSL homepage and/or from the Case Catalog. Use the database by logging on to your VPN to activate it, or use your Library PIN to authenticate as an OhioLINK user. Posted by Karen Oye on April 19, 2008 10:16 PM
KSL@ShowCASEDid you see the dance? Did you work the microphone for the $100 Premium Services Freedman Center prize? If you missed this year's Research ShowCASE, put it on your calendar for next year and see where research can take you! Kelvin Smith Library's Ann Vanderschrier & Brian Gray featured many products & services, showing papers from the International News Commons: Hopeful people at the KSL booth advance to the microphones to hear about podcasting & the Freedman Center Premium Services raffle & prize:
Pocket Virtual Worlds creator Jared Bendis demonstrating the 3-D approach to filming the dance, where the Mather Building becomes the dance: Posted by Karen Oye on April 17, 2008 04:47 PM
Batter Up! America's Library & Baseball ImagesAmerica's library brings you America's favorite pastime, with a recent pilot project between the Library of Congress and Flickr, the popular photo-sharing site that this year launched The Commons on Flickr. At a library conference in California this month, George Oates from Flickr talked about the pilot project & how the Library of Congress wanted to increase access to their public collections and to provide a way for the general public to contribute to knowledge. She reminded attendees that Flickr's community actions "can gather context and bring it back to the catalog" saying that "librarians have a long history of asking patrons" and that Flickr tags can add context to the knowledge that is already present in catalogs. Only a single "tag" (Library of Congress) was added to each photo, and Oates and LOC staff were interested in how the community would react—and contribute. She showed time-stamped screenshots: Oates said that Flickr's next image projects are a current one with the Powerhouse Museum in Syndey, Australia and "we're also talking with the New York Public Library, and with Brewster Kale (The Internet Archive)." Posted by Karen Oye on April 15, 2008 05:50 PM
KSL@Research ShowCASESee KSL in action at Research ShowCASE '08! Featured both in "Innovations in Education and Outreach" and the "Humanities" sections, KSL librarians & staff present posters and highlight information technology, content, and services. Mark your calendar for Thursday, April 17 (8 am - 4 pm) & find KSL near the entrance: 2008 Event Program & floor maps make it easy to see what's new this year—take a look at a few of last year's KSL Research ShowCASE '07 photos with reference, GIS, and Freedman Center staff:
Research ShowCASE (April 16-17) highlights creativity, collaboration, and innovation of Case Western Reserve University, and is made possible by a grant from the Ohio State Board of Regents & generous sponsors. Posted by Karen Oye on April 13, 2008 09:16 PM
Libraries Collaborate on Digital Archive Commemorating 40th Anniversary of MLK's DeathDigitized versions of original reel-to-reel interviews of people involved in the Civil Rights Movement are now available in the Who Speaks for the Negro? Archive. Transcripts, correspondence, & other materials related to Pulitzer prize-winning author Robert Penn Warren's interviews for his 1965 book reveal the famous as well as the daily wage earners across the U.S. Search & use the Who Speaks for the Negro? Archive by Keyword, Interviewee, or Name/Subject: In the site's Remembrances by Rosanna Warren (now a professor at Boston University) one reads of her family life with guests like Stokely Carmichael and Malcom X and of her father's travels, "a deep inner exploration for a white Southerner...as well as an outer exploration in which so many people struggled and still struggle to bring justice into reality." Posted by Karen Oye on April 8, 2008 11:41 PM
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