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Fall 2010
Electronic Research Strategies
LIS 1002 (Class # 2610)
Starts October 20th at the beautiful Downtown Campus

Discover authoritative resources and useful research tools while learning to use them effectively for all facets of academic and personal research. This course also assists with writing an thesis statement, outline and how to cite your sources in MLA or APA!

Instructor: Heather Disler
Campus: Downtown in room DC226
E-mail: disler.heather@spcollege.edu
Date: 10/20/2010 — 12/15/2010
Time: Wednesdays 1:10 PM-3:50 PM
No textbook required

"I enjoyed the class! Library Online has been amazingly helpful. The scope of information I've been able to
access is really going to help in my research. Also, I saved a lot of time and energy citing my sources!”
LIS student, Thomas.

Enroll today — you’ll be glad you did!

What is APA citation style?

If you are writing a research paper for your class, chances are your instructor is requiring you to write it in APA format. The American Psychological Association (APA) publishes their own manual in order for you to avoid plagiarism, bias in language, or how to create a references list. Please look through the links below for some APA resources that will really help make your paper formatted correctly.

• Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association - Library Holdings
• What's new in the sixth edition - Flash Tutorial
• APA Resources - American Psychological Association
• Citation Guide - St. Petersburg College Libraries

ARTstor is adding French museum collections.

From the ARTstor website:

Through a collaboration with the Réunion des Musées Nationaux (RMN) and Art Resource, ARTstor will share approximately 12,000 images of works in the permanent collections of French national and regional museums in the Digital Library. The collection in ARTstor will present high-resolution images of important works of art from antiquity to the 20th century. The majority of images will focus on works by key artists from major European schools, as well as decorative arts and furnishings from castles and royal residences throughout France. French museums with significant holdings in the arts of Asia, Africa, and Oceania will also be included. The images will be selected from the archives of the Agence photographique de la RMN, which include the collections of 28 museums, including the Musée du Louvre, the Musée d'Orsay, and the Musée National d'Art Moderne — Centre Georges Pompidou.

Through this partnership, RMN, Art Resource, and ARTstor will make this important scholarly resource more broadly available for non-commercial, scholarly, and educational purposes. According to Dr. Thomas W. Gaehtgens, Director of the Getty Research Institute, "It will surely make an enormous difference to all scholars of French art that the RMN's collection is available on ARTstor. Nostalgia for long hours spent researching in the rue de l'Abbaye in Paris will certainly be overcome as we enjoy the privilege of gaining access to this treasure from all over the world." Mark Ledbury, Associate Director of the Research and Academic Program at the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, notes that “This new agreement makes available to users of ARTstor a vast and important range of material in French museums. For scholars and teachers of European art, this will be an exceptional resource, especially as it will at last allow access to high quality images of works in precious storehouses, both in Paris and the provinces. Gone will be the days of relying on low resolution images of major works in these key collections."

The Réunion des Musées Nationaux is a French public industrial and commercial establishment (EPIC), under the trusteeship of the French Ministry of Culture and Communication. RMN works with 32 museums and 2 exhibition venues to acquire works of art, organize exhibitions, publish catalogs and monographs, distribute editorial and commercial products, and promote the museums' collections. The Agence photographique de la Réunion des Musées Nationaux produces the inventory of the French museums' permanent collections and conducts annual photographic campaigns on behalf of museums and other institutions. It is the leading photo agency in France and one of the top 10 in the world in the field of visual arts and museums.

Art Resource is the exclusive representative for RMN in North America. Art Resource is the world's largest stock photo archive of fine art, serving as the principal source of fine art images for commercial and scholarly publications in the United States.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Réunion des Musées Nationaux collection page.

Related collections:

• Art, Archaeology, and Architecture (Erich Lessing Culture and Fine Arts Archives)
• Italian and other European Art (Scala Archives)
• Classical Sculptures (Berlin State Museums)

Betty White as a Librarian

Betty White on 'The Middle': Never underestimate the importance of penmanship
by Emily Exton

'The Middle': Betty White threatens to ban Brick from the third grade
By Korbi Ghosh

Book Cover Art Design Rules!

Sometimes the joy of reading is motivated by its cover design. Sometimes a book has to be judged by its cover! Check out these awesome sites!

Cover Browser: Created in 2006, Cover Browser displays galleries of comic book (and book, pulp, games, DVD or magazine) covers for comic book fans like myself to explore & enjoy (there's also links to buy comics). At the moment, there are 455,613 searchable covers from 2,923 different series available.

50 Books/50 Covers 2008 selections: AIGA

Czech Book Covers of the 1920's and 1930's: Smithsonian

Book Cover Creator: Create your own book cover

FMG on Demand is Adding Archival Films and Newsreels!

This month, Films Media Group has added over 250 historic newsreels from United News to the FMG Digital Library. Focusing on World War II, these films offer an intriguing glimpse into American life during turbulent times. Useful as a primary source for historical and cultural research, each newsreel is segmented by subject for convenient searching and viewing, and can be integrated into custom playlists just like video content currently in your collection.

Titles are available immediately: in the "View By Subject" bar, click on the link "Archival Films & Newsreels" to browse over 1,200 newsreel segments, or use Advanced Search for keyword searches by selecting "Archival Films & Newsreels" in the "Subject" drop-down menu.

(Source: Films on Demand)

How can I search the Invisible Web?

You think a Google, Bing, or Yahoo search online will bring you everything at your fingertips? Think again. There is valuable information out there that is buried in the “Invisible Web.” Luckily a list of search engines below will tap results from these hidden treasures.

Complete Planet: "A comprehensive listing of dynamic searchable databases. Find databases with highly relevant documents that cannot be crawled or indexed by surface web search engines."

Scirus: "The most comprehensive scientific research tool on the web. With over 370 million scientific items indexed at last count, it allows researchers to search for not only journal content but also scientists' homepages, courseware, pre-print server material, patents and institutional repository and website information."

SurfWax: "On waves, surf wax helps surfers grip their surfboard; for Web surfing, SurfWax helps you get the best grip on information -- providing the "best use" of relevant search results. SurfWax's patent-pending design is the first to make searching a "visual process," seamlessly integrating meaning-based search with key knowledge-finding elements for effective association and recall."

IncyWincy

Free Ebooks Online!

It is exciting to read books through an electronic reader, such as the Kindle or the Sony reader, or online.

Check out:

ManyBooks: http://www.manybooks.net/

where you can download open source book titles in several formats.

Also there are a ton of other Ebook resources online:

Authorama
Project Gutenberg
Tech Books
FullBooks
Bibliomania

As a student you have access to several eBook databases through the library databases with your Student number and PIN. Ask a Librarian for more information.

Watch the SPC Spring 2010 Graduation Video

From SPC's Blue and White:

More than 850 graduates crossed the stage at Tropicana Field on Saturday morning during the historic 112th SPC Commencement ceremony. The count was up from last May, when there were 765. Before that, the spring 2008 record was 653.

This graduation was host to many firsts:

• » The highest number of graduating students

» The first Alumni Achievement Award was given
» The first ceremony over which President Tom Furlong presided
» The ceremony was broadcast live for the first time on C-SPAN

» The commencement address was the first delivered by Nicole Stott, an SPC alumnus who is an astronaut.

Check out SPC's Spring 2010 Graduation video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLjEWlzDlQU&feature=channel

C-SPAN to broadcast astronaut’s SPC speech

"C-SPAN, the cable television company that provides live start-to-finish television coverage of government proceedings and other content, will be at Tropicana Field on Saturday, May 8, to provide coverage of astronaut Nicole Stott’s speech to SPC graduates.

C-SPAN usually covers congressional hearings and other government-related events, but it also provides coverage of selected college commencement speeches every spring. A C-SPAN spokesman said the company had reviewed more than 500 upcoming commencement speakers and had selected about a dozen to cover live. Stott’s SPC speech was one of those selected.

The coverage is expected to include the entire speech and will be carried live, starting at 10 a.m. It is the first time C-SPAN has ever covered an event at SPC.

C-SPAN describes itself as a private, non-profit company, created in 1979 by the cable television industry as a public service. It says its mission is to provide public access to the political process.

The company receives no government funding; operations are funded by fees paid by cable and satellite affiliates who carry C-SPAN programming.
Stott is a Clearwater native who graduated from Clearwater High School and attended SPC. Her first NASA space mission was last year, when she spent about four months on the International Space Station."

(Source: SPC's Blue and White)

Check out some of our new books!

The semester is over and now you have a week until Summer session begins, so check out some of our new library books! Enjoy!

May 2nd through the 8th is Choose Privacy Week

"May 2nd through the 8th is Choose Privacy Week, a new ALA initiative from the Office for Intellectual Freedom that invites library users into a national conversation about privacy rights in a digital age. "

Watch this video regarding privacy in a digital age.

Choose Privacy Week Video from 20K Films on Vimeo.