National Parks, America's Best Idea--Research Spotlight October 2009
Keep America's Best Idea alive, by learning more about our national park system. KSL's Research Spotlight continues the exploration from Ken Burns' latest PBS series.
Replay segments, explore new ones. Meet the people from the series & the park system's history. Use the map in View the Parks and learn how many national parks & national historic sites are in Ohio—including which site is situated on the longest undefended border in the world.
Watch it all again, or view episode clips & features, plus deleted scenes and untold stories about the National Park System, in the October 2009 KSL Research Spotlight!
Read an online novel, play, or other works in this month's KSL Research Spotlight—Jane Austen on the Web.
• Enjoy the annotated novel Mansfield Park, a synopsis & analysis of the play Lover's Vows, or discover what Pride and Prejudice was originally named, on one of the Spotlight sites.
• Find a blog, a family memoir, etexts & excerpts, Austen's letters, character comparisons, biography, and more...
Academic research on honeybee disappearance comes from national & local institutions like USDA, and in Wooster, Ohio at the OSU Extension Honey Bee Laboratory. Find out how CDC affects you, agriculture, business & the environment in the July 2009 KSL Research Spotlight.
Read about healthy ecosystems & bees and why the disappearance is a crisis, with studies and briefs by Pennsylvania State U, USDA, OSU and others. Read FactSheets, and articles from sources like Bloomberg, the International Herald Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Science News, the Congressional Research Services, and more.
You'll also find links to selected books & databases at Case for searching subjects like Bee Culture, or Honeybee, as in Bees in America: how the honey bee shaped a nation (2005), on the Case Catalog (with a Google Book Preview.) You can learn more, create a garden, help save the honeybees and more, on this month's KSL Research Spotlight.
Database remote access for Case individuals requires network authentication via VPN.
Graphic novels as Pulitzer Prize winners, Newbery Medal awards and more await you, in the May 2009 KSL Research Spotlight!
•Find out how long they've been around & how they've gained respect and popularity.
•Read more about the artists & authors, find a list of graphic novels to explore.
•Use Case databases to learn more about graphic novels.
More than an art form, more than a novel, they comprise a genre that has grown out of the comics culture of the 60s, and include the popular Japanese manga. Try out several,in the May 2009 KSL Research Spotlight.
From DDT bans, burning rivers, Three Mile Island & EnergyStar programs, KSL's Research Spotlight for April 2009 helps you track our green progress!
• In the EPA Timeline, you can see events like the 1972 US/Canadian agreement to clean up the Great Lakes (with 95% of America's fresh water supply for 25 million people) or how EnergyStar helped Americans save $16 billion on their energy bills in 2007.
• Watch videos, see photos, listen to podcasts from the Research Spotlight sites gathered for you, and plan now for the 40th anniversary of Earth Day in 2010.
• Then discover more about the green economy and our sustainable future by doing research on the environment databases listed in the April 2009 KSL Research Spotlight!
Access to the Case databases requires a Case network ID logon or (remote access) an activated VPN connection.
Quest for Citizenship in the Americas--KSL Feb. Research Spotlight
Celebrate African American History Month 2009 with film, music, photo essays, autobiographies, and Case databases in the KSL February Research Spotlight.
Find images, film, music, texts & more, in this month's KSL Research Spotlight...and with the suggested links to Research Databases you can continue the journey of the 2009 African American History Month!
You've heard about the speeches & know about the man—now see & hear him, on the MLK Research Spotlight for January 2009. KSL brings together a wide variety of materials to celebrate Martin Luther King, Jr.'s life, and introduce you to centers of studies, such as:
- Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, lecture, plus updated Nobel prize winners
- Transcripts & audio lectures from Stanford's Martin Luther King, Jr. Research Center
- Biographies, photos, sermons & speeches
- King's "Drum Major" sermon given at Ebenezer Baptist Church (Feb. 1968)...used as his eulogy 2 months later
- Hear his "I Have a Dream" speech...see the crowds gathered on Washington Mall
Explore the sites, files, journals, books, & more, on KSL's Research Spotlight, featuring the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.
Selected journal articles & audio files are licensed information resources & require an activated Case VPN client.
Call & Post Access--KSL Research Spotlight December 08
Historical files of the leading African American newspaper the Call and Post are available through one of KSL's partner libraries, Cleveland Public Library (CPL). The Call and Post brings you history from another perspective and is available from 1934-1991 in CPL news databases via a CPL library card. The December 08 KSL Research Spotlight brings you the news about the paper & how to get a CPL card, as well!
• Use the historical files of the CPL Call and Post database to look up headlines, obituaries, marriages, editorials & more, with flexible search & date options.
• Then continue reading & researching Call and Post newspaper articles (1992 to the present) through KSL's Ethnic Newswatch database subscription. Besides the Call and Post (Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati versions) you can search 279 publications of ethnic, minority, and native press.
KSL & CPL first collaborated in 2006 for the CPL@Case-KSL partnership, bringing from CPL to Case a collection of popular literature, audio books, magazines and foreign language magazines. For Case faculty, students & staff, KSL is authorized to create CPL library accounts, which also includes access to databases like the historic files of the Call and Post newspaper.
More details are available at KSL about obtaining these partner library privileges for the historical Call and Post & more.
Ethnic Newswatch access is via Case network credentials and an activated VPN connection.
National American Indian Heritage Month--KSL Research Spotlight
From the Film & Video Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, to National Register Publications and historic sites, celebrate November this year by learning more about distinctive American Indian culture and values.
Explore this month's Research Spotlight and
- see great beauty in art exhibits like Identity by Design (Smithsonian)
- read history in The Trail of Tears, the Forced Relocation of the Cherokee Nation (National Register of Publications)
- find out where native Indian populations remain today in Cuyahoga County, in Census 2000 Fast Access to Popular Data (Census, Population)
- and much, much more...
Find great cultural riches, and think in a new way about American Indian heritage in the November '08 KSL Research Spotlight!
E-Books--Read Online, the KSL October Research Spotlight
Read an author biography, use a thesaurus, look at a pamphlet from 1600—all this and more in the various E-Book collections purchased for you by the Case Libraries and our OhioLINK membership. Find out more about the collections on the October 08 KSL Research Spotlight.
E-Books can help you learn while you save time:
- Get a quick synopsis before going to see the fall Playhouse production of A Raisin in the Sun (Literary Reference Center)
- Look up and learn tips 'n tricks for your new iPod (Safari Tech Books)
- Find a 1473 booklet from EEBO (Early English Book Online)
- Use 100+ dictionaries, reference tools including bilingual works, subject specific works (Oxford Reference Online)
- Explore American History from the 1600s through the early 19th century (Early American Books)
- Discover English & foreign language works printed in the UK 1701-1800, plus major works from the Americas (Eighteenth Century Online)
KSL maintains an E-Books page with these collections and other reference works, and more. Check out the October 08 KSL Research Spotlight, and enjoy the convenience of E-Books in your subject area!
E-Books are licensed for Case-only in most instances & require an activated VPN connection. The OhioLINK EBC (Electronic Book Center) is accessed with VPN or your Library PIN & Case information.
Powerful industry research & analysis from Gartner Research is available for a limited time to Case researchers. Gartner, a leader in world technology and advisory research, is the September KSL Research Spotlight.
Gartner's industry analysts bring research-based insight to the Case learning environment for an usually rich array of information, including insight for business technology solutions, industry-watch news & trend analysis, hype-cycles (cross-industry perspectives on when a trend is coined, applied, accepted, becomes the norm—or not), magic quadrants & marketscopes, current research methodology, and unpredented access to industry statistical data.
Study the Topics and Industries, read the current Features and Alerts on issues like cloud computing, social networking, IT budget optimization, hear podcasts and more. Gartner is a gold standard in the industry, and is a Case resource for a limited time. Explore it now from the KSL September Research Spotlight, and watch for upcoming news on featured webinar training and events!
Gartner is available until February 2009, and is a collaborative effort between Case IT's license for enterprise solutions, and KSL for all-campus access for the remainder of the license. Access is strictly controlled for current Case individuals only, and thus requires a network connection or activated VPN (wireless or remote) plus a network ID/password confirmation page.
Gartner is also easily accessible from the Business subject folder, on the Research Database list.
Facts On File Science Online, the July Research Spotlight
Diagrams, 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 & Create BookLists with a New Tool--KSL May Research Spotlight
PatronBooksInPrint, 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...
- Browse fiction, non-fiction, sci-fi, mystery and click through to the Case Catalog (and then to OhioLINK, too) to find copies.
- Browse nearly 100 subject categories like Consumer Behavior, Negotiating, Workplace Culture & find details in a category (in Travel, read about countries & continents, Cruises, Essays & Travelogues, Maps & Atlases, Parks, Restaurants & more.)
Go Back In Time—What's Your Favorite Year? (1895-2006)
Use PatronBooksInPrint database to profile a year—lists of the 10 fiction & non-fiction books, plus commentary in The Year At a Glance... where you'll find Jonathan Livingston Seagull, a new Dow Jones high, ragtime revival, and Vietnam troops coming home (1973). Try your favorite year in PatronBooksInPrint, the May KSL Research Spotlight!
Available to you through BooksInPrint, from the database list.
(VPN activation & Case ID/password authentication required.)
Libraries Collaborate on Digital Archive Commemorating 40th Anniversary of MLK's Death
Digitized 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.
Vanderbilt University announced the archive on April 4, 2008, the 40th anniversary of the death of Martin Luther King, Jr., and thanked the library community for its cooperation & collaboration in bringing these materials to researchers. Both the University of Kentucky and Yale University digitized original recordings, and Vanderbilt University Library hosts the materials and enjoys support from their Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities.
Search & use the Who Speaks for the Negro? Archive by Keyword, Interviewee, or Name/Subject:
- Browse a Subject List for interviews about Freedom Rides, Fisk University, Liberalism, School Integration, Sit-ins, & more.
- Find interviews about presidents (Thomas Jefferson, LBJ, JFK, & Abraham Lincoln)
- Listen to interviews with Martin Luther King, Jr.
- Search topics like African American Leadership, education, employment—find Cleveland Ohio in 12 of the interview files.
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."
The Oxford African American Studies Center--April 08 Research Spotlight
Enjoy new online access to important works about the African-American experience (1500s- present), through The Oxford African American Studies Center (AASC), the April 2008 KSL Research Spotlight.
This new database offers a rich experience of history, biographies, encyclopedia to multi-volume sets like Africana, with:
- text
- images
- maps & vital statistics
- multimedia
- charts & tables
- timelines
- primary sources, and more.
Example: Timelines has sections for Women's History, Business & Labor, Sports, Military History, Literature, General, and more—select & search by years, decades, or centuries! Features (under Learning Center) has an array of research topics from Hip Hop to Kwanzaa, or Jazz Greats to Jim Crow Justice.
The KSL Research Spotlight is always easy to find from the KSL homepage:
Use the left sidebar for Research Tools; mouseover it to find online resources like the Research Spotlight (plus the database list, ejournal list, ebooks & more.)
Research Databases require a network computer connection (on campus) or
VPN that is logged on with your Case network ID & password if you are on wireless or off-campus.
