See & hear again the President's charge, TV coverage from blastoff to moonwalk & splashdown, plus commentary on the 40th anniversary of the moon landing—see & hear the accounts from NASA, The National Archives, the JFK library, and learn more from our collections:
• From footprints in moon dust to the ticker tape parade in New York City, enjoy We Choose the Moon from the JFK Presidential Museum and Library (On homepage select Celebrating the 40th Anniversary of the First Moon Landing.)
• Browse Apollo 11 on NASA Images, or search & view images & videos of other specific missions or astronauts, launch sites, etc. Choose "Apollo" on the far right of the page.
• In Research Databases, Choose the News folder: Associated Press images; select the Apollo 11 Showcase on the left Historical New York Times and Wall Street Journal search moon landing or your own terms for July 1969 PressDisplay US & world papers note the anniversary (move the green date slider to July 20th), as in UK's Manchester Evening News: Day the Earth Held its Breath, The Washington Post: One Step Was Plenty, and hundreds more!
"See" & Read Inaugural Words from Washington to Obama
Choose a president on the President's Timeline tool & "see" the most used words from his Inaugural Address. You can see all the U.S. Presidents' speeches on the New York Times interactive site called Inaugural Words.
From Washington's 135 words in 1793 (shortest) to Harrison's 8,445 words on March 4,1841 (longest), you select a president's image and see:
• photo & date on the left, a brief summary & focus of the speech, a link to the full address
• graphic cloud on the right, of the most-used words (examples below)
• mouse-over a word to see how many times it was used
• click on a word to see when and how was used in all the sentences, and
• in the same window of words used-in-context, scroll & see how other presidents used the word,
• top of the same window, a small bar chart shows which presidents also used the word & how many times.
Find memorable phrases like "with malice toward none...." (Lincoln, near the end of the Civil War), "the only thing we have to fear..." (FDR, in the grip of the Depression), "Ask not what your country can do for you..." (JFK, 1961), and more. Enjoy Inaugural Words, where you can quickly analyze word usage—and see presidential inaugural addresses in a new way!
The nation's premier collection of documents about policy, strategy, management & featured topics related to homeland security, the Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) has a wide variety of sources selected and evaluated by subject specialists & librarians from think tanks, professional organizations, academics and federal, state, tribal, & local agencies.
Find a a wide variety of special items:
• General Collection of over 60,000 documents
• Newsletters & Digests focus on topics like open source infrastructure, global events, & counterintelligence reports
• In Policy & Strategy find President Obama's Executive Order 13492 about Guantanamo
• Read Featured Topics on Energy, Immigration, Climate Change, and more
Historical Photos of China Online, Plus Data on Today's China
Just as China presents the Olympics this week, a new collection offers a window into China of the past, via the 5,000 image Sidney D. Gamble Photograph Collection from Duke University Libraries. A sociologist, China scholar, traveler and photographer, Gamble used his photos from 4 China trips to illustrate his monographs. The digitized collection is the first public access to this collection of China, Korea, Japan, Russia and San Francisco from 1917-1932.
Search Tiananmen Square to see a 1917 student demonstration, and use the tags on the left to refine your search to Bejing, demonstration, or to find other categories, and more. The collection offers search tools, an interactive map that chronicles the photo travels, a Research Guide, Timeline, and multiple-language cloud tags:
Include an image of a stunning gate or city from this new online collection in your teaching, research, and private study, following the stated copyright guidelines on the collection main page. More about the discovery of the nitrate negatives, handwritten and typed notes from Gamble, and other reference items, at the project website.
Here at Case, you can research news, statistics, and more about today's China with China Data Online, a database that provides monthly & annual macroeconomic statistics & reports on China's development. Data is authorized by the National Bureau of Statistics of China, and is distributed by the China Data Center at the University of Michigan.
Remote access authentication to China Data Online requires an active VPN client or your library PIN.
America'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.
From the Library of Congress' Prints & Photographs Division 14 million item photo collection, 3,000 images with no known copyright restrictions were chosen from their 2 most popular collections and digitized & added to Flickr. Images from this pilot project range from 1910 Baines News Service items to the 1940s, and include a rich baseball collection with Cleveland images. (On the Library of Congress' Flickr account, search baseball in the upper right search box.)
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:
- in the 1st hour, the primary tag display was still "Library of Congress"...
- within 24 hours, 11,000 tags had been added...
- within 48 hours, 20,000 tags had been added
"Tags & comments increase the scale of feedback a library can get," said Oates, and LOC staff increased access & service due to an early tag when LOC staffers were able to reply to a comment with "we also have a film on that." Read more about "My Friend Flickr: A Match Made in Photo Heaven," on the Library of Congress' blog.
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)."
When you can't fit a CaseLearns class into your schedule, learn more about RefWorks with free training webinars. RefWorks is the web-based, software-free citation manager that easily takes care of all your research results—importing, managing, and creating bibliographies for you!
Offered by RefWorks directly to its licensed customers, the complimentary Webex webinars allow you to learn more, by watching online. Register online for these upcoming 2008 webinars:
RefWorks Advanced Features:
After you're familiar with the basics, learn how to edit multiple references, set preferences for view/print/sort, manage your list, use RefGrab-it, work offline & more. Prior RefWorks skills & experience required, to get the most out of this session.
- Wednesday, April 2, 1:00 pm
- Thursday, April 10, 10:00 am
- Tuesday, April 15, 10:00 am
- Thursday, April 24, 10:00 am
One of the Britannica Online database offerings this month, the Britannica Guide to Black History offers you articles, images, and multimedia clips that trace two millenia of history.
Browse or search:
- Timeline from the 2nd-3rd centuries to today
- Primary resources (from 1660 Virgina slave laws texts to Barack Obama's 2004 Democratic convention keynote address
- Hear the music of John Coltrane, or author & actress readings
- Watch video of performances as well as famous court case discussions.
Britannica Online is one of the many databases available through our OhioLINK membership. Find the Britannica Guide to Black History at the end of the Britannica main page, after the biography of the day, news of the day (BBC, New York Times), and a variety of other topics to broaden your interests & knowledge.
From Alliance to Westlake, maps of greater Cleveland, the Erie Railroad or Cleveland's Union Terminal, or the barn that became the Clague Playhouse in Westlake, Ohio's Heritage Northeast is a new resource that brings you maps, text, images, sound recordings and digital collections. A variety of university and public libraries partner to offer their collections from a searchable database. Try out the newest collections, from Oberlin College and the Akron-Summit County Public Library, for Ohio history and documents from the development of the Ohio and Erie Canal, as well as the Soap Box Derby!
GPO Creates First Online Guide to Members of Congress
The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has just released a new one-stop, searchable site to all members of Congress. Search and find a picture or a biography of any Representative, Senator, delegate, or resident commissioner, now from one central site instead of separate ones.
We read about and hear their names in the media, but do we know where their hometowns are, or how many terms they have served? Now you can see who is from which town or district, and find out who has served 18 terms in Ohio! Search by name, district, hometown, number of terms, party affiliation, and more, and to their bios & photos. Also link out to GPO Access, for news reports, information on bills, records, laws, the Congressional Directory, the Code of Federal Regulations, or the Federal Register.
GPO is the centralized resource to organize and preserve published U.S. Government information in all forms, and is responsible for production and distribution of services for all three branches of the federal government. It also provides free access to government information through GPO Access, and through partnerships with over 1,250 libraries in the Federal Depository Library Program.
The Kelvin Smith Library is a FDLP member, and also serves as official mirror site for the United States 2000 Census ASCII text data files. KSL's Government Documents Department online and on the 2nd floor at KSL has a variety of information sources to help with your research at Case!
If you've taken the copyright awareness class through CaseLearns, you know that you can double-check a copyrighted work to see if it has passed out of legal protection in to the public domain. You also know that copyright terms are complex due to changing laws, and that while pre-1923 works have passed into the public domain, there are other periods of time where shorter terms & renewals have made it a challenge to identify a work's protection status.
Peter Hirtle (Cornell University) writes one of the most-used copyright term charts, listing unpublished works as well as international ones, and it is used in the CaseLearns copyright class, along with a shorter chart by Laura Gasaway (UNC-Chapel Hill), also well-used in the U.S. Two weeks ago, Hirtle updated his expanded chart to include information on sound recordings and architectural works. Now twice the original size, with wonderful footnotes that are themselves illuminating, you can view it online and click through to the footnotes, or print a PDF version to keep for your reference.
Copyright@Case, copyright awareness web pages, has links and general information for your use. Find both charts in the middle of the page, in the link for "Public Domain Charts." You'll also find a sidebar of links for more web resources, common copyright myths, and a contact link for asking questions.
Enter the Video Contest from ISI Web of Knowledge Database
One of the most powerful databases available to Case researchers is the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI) Web of Knowledge. Among other things, with ISI you can search a topic, person, institution, or a cited reference from an article to see where else it leads you, or to verify an author's work & references. Every 1.5 seconds, a researcher accesses the ISI database to search arts and humanities, sciences, social sciences, and to use the new search & analyze tools.
ISI wants to know how you've used their content, and how it's made a difference in your work. The first 20 videos submitted to the ISI gallery will receive an iPod Shuffle. Enter a video anytime soon, and others will see it—if yours is the most downloaded video by the end of the year you'll win an iPod Touch! Create your video and enter it, soon!
Explore the Web of Knowledge database from our Research Database list (from the KSL homepage or the quick link from the Case Catalog). Find it via the "I" for ISI and click on the "Web of Knowledge" section...and expand your research world.
ISI is licensed for Case faculty, students, and staff. It requires a networked computer, or remote authentication (via an active VPN connection) or OhioLINK remote authentication (via your library account PIN.)
Create a Video for OhioLINK's 15th Anniversary & Win a Camera
OhioLINK and its resources are basic to what we do at Case, and OhioLINK would like SEE what it means to you! Create a quick story (5 minutes or less) or a creative OhioLINK commercial telling why OhioLINK has helped you, and you could win a new digital video camera or a 160 BG iPod classic.
Research conveniently anytime, anywhere: OhioLINK provides you with a vast array of databases (170+) from ACM to Business & Industry, Contemporary Women's Issues, Digital Videos, English Prose Drama, HarpWeek, LexisNexis, Newspapers, PsychInfo, Safari TechBooks, Web of Science, and other collections of maps, sounds, images. The Electronic Journal Center's many thousands of titles, and the OhioLINK Central Catalog's nearly 50 million items that you can order online are everyday practices here at Case.
Tell OhioLINK about items discovered for teaching, research, for your dissertation or your class project—OhioLINK wants to hear & see your views on it! Submit by 11:59 p.m. EST on January 18, 2008 and you might be the winner. Judges will narrow the results to three and the OhioLINK community can vote on the winner. Learn more at the contest web site.
Case is one of the six founding members of the award-winning OhioLINK consortium. Our Research Database List (found from a quick link on the Case Catalog, or from the KSL homepage) can be 'sorted by access type' to view the OhioLINK resources available to currently enrolled and employed Case individuals. Take a moment to also sort the list of databases for 'Case only' for an equally impressive list of resources the Case Libraries purchase for your use.
Archives Branch Launches University President's Site
As we welcome a new president, our University Archives Department launches a new site chronicling past university presidents, with images, biographies, and more. Test your memory on the Presidents of Case, WRU, and CWRU. With over a combined 250 years of service, their terms dealt with endowments and expansions, crises and commencements, and a growing region with which it grew and influenced.
Browse the site by the chronological list of names and terms, or select names from the list on the left sidebar of the site. Choose a president, and find photos or portraits, University Awards, full career highlights, statistics related to the term of office, milestones during the term, and a growing sense of how NE Ohio grew during those times.
From when there were but 5 faculty to nearly 200 during T. Keith Glennan's almost 20-year term from 1947-1966, to the thousands of today, the site is rich with remembrance and insight, and tells some of the stories of the university's growth and change. Enjoy The Presidents of Case, WRU, and CWRU, 1830-2007!
University Archives — Collections, records, services that preserve the institutional record and memory...
Ohio Library Director Appointed Editor of College & Research Libraries Journal
Congratulations to Joseph Branin, Director of Libraries at The Ohio State University, on his appointment to a three-year term as editor for College & Research Libraries (C&RL), a peer-reviewed journal in library science. Branin will serve as "editor designate" during fiscal year 2007-08, prior to his term which begins July 1, 2008.
It's Friday the 13th, and interesting things have happened on other ones. Find out what happened on any date, with library and online resources! Other April 13ths over the centuries:
1970: "Houston, we've had a problem here," Mission Commander James A. Lovell reports the Apollo 13 oxygen tank explosion.
1964: First African-American Best Actor Oscar—Sydney Poitier, for his role building a chapel in Lilies of the Field.
1997: Tiger Woods@21 wins first major (Masters) by record 12 strokes in Augusta, GA.
1360: Hail kills 1,000 English soldiers in Chartres, France on “Black Monday,” the storm's devastation a factor in the Hundred Years’ War between England & France.
1939: Oscar winning Wuthering Heights premieres, starring Laurence Olivier, Merle Oberon, and David Niven.
1943: James Boarman, Fred Hunter, Harold Brest, Floyd G. Hamilton unsuccessfully attempted to escape Alcatraz.
1861: Fort Sumter surrenders, beginning the Civil War (the only casualty was a Confederate horse.) Before the Union forces were allowed to leave for the north, soldiers fired a 100-gun salute, killing one soldier outright, mortally wounding another in an accidental cartridge explosion.
Happy Birthdays to: President Thomas Jefferson, drafter of the Declaration of Independence (1743); F.W. Woolworth, pioneer of the discount variety store a century before the emergence of retail giants like Wal-Mart & Target (1852); Butch Cassidy, last of the great western train-robbers, Beaver, Utah Territory (1866); Southern writer Eudora Welty, Jackson, Mississippi (1909)
RIP: His Imperial Highness Prince Asaka Yasuhiko of Japan (1981);Annie Jump Cannon (1941), instrumental in creating the Harvard Classificaiton Scheme for cataloging stars.
Use newspapers like the New York Times Historical, on the Research Database list, a QuickLink from the Case Catalog page. Search 4/13/1907 & "Front Page" option to find the same range of local & national items we might read over the ages:
WOMEN'S POKER GAME RAIDED; Police Drop In on a Party Playing Just Like Men.
CATS ANNOY YALE MEN; Students Shoot at Them, Are Arrested -- Mayor Sympathetic.
MAMMOTH FOUND IN GLACIER; May Figure at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition.
RUSHING ALASKA RAILWAY; Guggenhelm's Road to be Completed as Rapidly as Possible.
H.H. ROGERS'S TALK STIRS WASHINGTON; Roosevelt's Friends Find Evidence of the "Rich Men's Conspiracy."
Ask a KSL Reference Libarian, for help with all our other newspapers & historical resources, whether it's for fun or research!
