Faculty Collaborative Research Colloquium – “Redlining Maps From the Homeowners Loan Corporation” @ Bird

On Voting Day, November 2^nd, Come to Bird Library to hear a discussion on Redlining maps of urban communities, and also feel free to invite your students to this interesting session:

Syracuse University Library will present a Faculty Collaborative Research Colloquium entitled: “1930′s Redlining Maps from the Home Owners Loan Corporation” in the Peter Graham Scholarly Commons in Bird Library on November 2, 2010 from 3:00 – 5:00 p.m.

Speakers include Emanuel Carter, Associate Professor in the Department of Landscape Architecture at SUNY-ESF, Kishi Animashaun-Ducre, Assistant Professor in the African American Studies Department at Syracuse University, Mark Monmonier, Distinguished Professor of Geography at Syracuse University, John Olson, Government Documents, Maps, and GIS Librarian at Syracuse University Library, and Arthur Paris, Associate Professor in the Sociology Department at SU.

For more information about the Colloquium, contact John Olson at 443-4818 or jaolson@syr.edu.

Jane Austen fiction manuscripts available online

Scans of the manuscripts were recently made available by a project of the Oxford, Kings College, & the  British Library:

Jane Austen’s fiction manuscripts are the first significant body of holograph evidence surviving for any British novelist. They represent every stage of her writing career and a variety of physical states: working drafts, fair copies, and handwritten publications for private circulation. The manuscripts were held in a single collection until 1845, when at her sister Cassandra’s death they were dispersed among family members, with a second major dispersal, to public institutions and private collections, in the 1920s.¹ Digitization enables their virtual reunification and will provides scholars with the first opportunity to make simultaneous ocular comparison of their different physical and conceptual states; it will facilitate intimate and systematic study of Austen’s working practices across her career, a remarkably neglected area of scholarship within the huge, world-wide Austen critical industry.

via Eightface

MIT Vannevar Bush Symposium

Videos of the MIT/Brown Vannevar Bush Symposium are now available online.

New MLA International Bibliography Interface at SU

You may have noticed a recent change in the interface to the MLA International Bibliography. Our previous vendor, FirstSearch, has discontinued their offering of the database, and we now purchase access through CSA. Links in the catalog and on our other webpages have been updated, but please let me know if you are unable to get to MLA from a link on the library’s website.

I’ve found the CSA Illumina platform easier to use and a bit faster than the old FirstSearch interface, and I hope you will find the same. The tools for filtering search results are expanded as well. I expect further improvements early next year when CSA and ProQuest merge their products—I’ll let you know when that happens.

One other immediate difference deals with accessing the information in the MLA Directory of Periodicals. The easiest way to get to a journal’s directory record through CSA is to go to Advanced Search, type the journal title into the search box, and select either Source, SO= or Journal Name, JN=, and click search.

Not surprisingly, the results will include citations for articles published in that journal. Clicking on the title of an article reveals full bibliographic information and a [Journal Information] link next to the source. Journal titles in this system, for some reason, are not clickable. Click [Journal Information] to access the MLA Directory record for that periodical.

Let me know if you have any questions about the new interface. You can view it for yourself here.

IDEO presents their future of the book

The Future of the Book. from IDEO on Vimeo.

Archive of Writer David Foster Wallace Now Open for Research

Not that anyone needs ANOTHER reason to visit Austin, but the HRC opens the DFW archive for researchers today, with a webcast of the festivities.

Welcome New English Graduate Students

Here is all the info from the handout I circulated this morning, in case you lost it.

English & Literature Resources

http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/englishlit
A listing of reference sources, databases, & more

New Books of Interest to English Department Faculty & Students
http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/newbooks_eng

Browse new acquisitions by topic, subscribe to feeds

Literary Periodicals in Print at Bird Library

http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/litmags

New issues on 2nd floor; locate older issues in library stacks

Special Collections Research Center (6^th Floor, 9-5 M-F)
http://library.syr.edu/find/scrc/

View manuscripts and rare printed materials

Sign Up for Interlibrary Loan account

https://illiad.syr.edu/

Use ILLiad to request articles and books from other libraries

Sign Up for a Refworks account

http://researchguides.library.syr.edu/refworks

Use RefWorks to manage your citations & create bibliographies

Princeton Library Resource of Women in Printing, 15th – 20thC

A great online exhibit of Women in the book arts from Princeton University Library:

Unseen Hands: Women Printers, Binders and Book Designers.

Some wonderful stuff!

“Reclaiming unused phone booths for book swap!

Plenty of these phonebooths in Syracuse; perhaps a good idea in conjunction with one of the online book-swapping services?

via unconsumption – Via halfletterpress: The Highland Park Book….

Edwardian Era: New Tumblr Blog featuring early 20th Century Fashion and Public Life

Opening day of the New York Public Library at 42nd Street and 5th Avenue, 1911.

Looks promising!

Edwardian Era, via CP