This semester the Library is offering drop-in classes for students or anyone else interested. These are classes students may choose on their own - or you can choose to assign so that you're not using class time for an instruction session.
Sessions are described on the Library Instruction webpage:
http://guides.auraria.edu/content.php?pid=39966&sid=700329
Websites of Interest: English Short Title Catalog and Ford Foundation Papers
English Short Title Catalog (ESTC).
ESTC lists descriptions of almost half a million items published between 1473 and 1800, most in English, from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries.
Note that clicking on the title of an item retrieved in a search generates a ‘Google’ search option for the title. This sometimes results in locating the full-text of the item in such repositories as Google Books. Though the commercial version of this collection, Early English Books Online (EEBO), is beyond the Library's means for the time being, you may use EEBO in-house at Penrose Library (University of Denver) or Norlin Library (University of Colorado Boulder.)
Ford Foundation Archives.
This free research archive includes the full-text of Ford Foundation annual reports, books, studies and pamphlets published between 1949 and 1999. Browse by title, subject, or year. The Ford Foundation was founded "to advance social justice."
ESTC lists descriptions of almost half a million items published between 1473 and 1800, most in English, from the collections of the British Library and over 2,000 other libraries.
Note that clicking on the title of an item retrieved in a search generates a ‘Google’ search option for the title. This sometimes results in locating the full-text of the item in such repositories as Google Books. Though the commercial version of this collection, Early English Books Online (EEBO), is beyond the Library's means for the time being, you may use EEBO in-house at Penrose Library (University of Denver) or Norlin Library (University of Colorado Boulder.)
Ford Foundation Archives.
This free research archive includes the full-text of Ford Foundation annual reports, books, studies and pamphlets published between 1949 and 1999. Browse by title, subject, or year. The Ford Foundation was founded "to advance social justice."
Journal Offerings Expanded: Wiley/Blackwell Titles
Just sharing the positive news that even with shrinking budgets, consortial buying combined with publishers offering lower pricing can still result in growing collections.
Based on faculty input, the Library greatly expanded its Wiley Interscience journal holdings and now offers full-text access to an impressive array of journal titles from the merged publishers Wiley & Blackwell.
Here's the journal list by subject area:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/home
Based on faculty input, the Library greatly expanded its Wiley Interscience journal holdings and now offers full-text access to an impressive array of journal titles from the merged publishers Wiley & Blackwell.
Here's the journal list by subject area:
http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/cgi-bin/home
LMP: Literary Market Place Now Online
The library now subscribes to LMP: The LiteraryMarketplace.com, the combined online version of both the Literary Market Place (LMP) and International Literary Market Place (ILMP), allowing you and your students to search online to locate literary agents, publishers, distributors and sales representatives,wholesalers, importers and exporters, translators, literary associations, and more. Searches may be limited by such criteria as subject, region, and publication type.
Publishing Opportunities: Your Opinion?
UPDATE: This database is not being renewed. May, 2010.
The Library had one year of funding for the database Publishing Opportunities. The subscription began last July and so will be ending this summer. Although dollars are scarce, thanks for letting me know if you felt this database was particularly useful to you. I can at least snoop around for campus funding.
At the very least, this is a heads up that you have a few more months to use this database. For those unfamiliar with it, here's the description:
"This database provides regularly updated listings of publishing and presentation opportunities for professors, post-doctoral students and other students. Information from three distinct sources is combined and presented: Journal Call for Papers records index includes open opportunities for regularly published journals; Conference Call for Papers; and Special Issue Call for Papers."
The Library had one year of funding for the database Publishing Opportunities. The subscription began last July and so will be ending this summer. Although dollars are scarce, thanks for letting me know if you felt this database was particularly useful to you. I can at least snoop around for campus funding.
At the very least, this is a heads up that you have a few more months to use this database. For those unfamiliar with it, here's the description:
"This database provides regularly updated listings of publishing and presentation opportunities for professors, post-doctoral students and other students. Information from three distinct sources is combined and presented: Journal Call for Papers records index includes open opportunities for regularly published journals; Conference Call for Papers; and Special Issue Call for Papers."
Friends of the Auraria Library
A message from the Library's Head of Community Relations:
"The Friends of Auraria Library group is made up of faculty, students, alumni, and community members who recognize that a great library is the heart of a great campus.
Gifts to the Library support projects or purchases that are not funded through the annual
budget. The Friends help the Library offer the highest possible level of resources and service available including state-of-the-art materials, advanced technology, expansion of traditional and specialized collections, improved facilities, and the opportunity to advance the learning of students and researchers.
Friends of Auraria Library members receive a membership card, invitations to special events, and quarterly newsletters. All non-campus affiliated friends also receive general collection borrowing privileges that allow check-out of up to 75 books for 28 days with one renewal. "
For more information, please contact Catherine Ostrander, Head of Community Relations, at
303-556-6381 or via e-mail at Catherine.Ostrander(at)ucdenver.edu.
"The Friends of Auraria Library group is made up of faculty, students, alumni, and community members who recognize that a great library is the heart of a great campus.
Gifts to the Library support projects or purchases that are not funded through the annual
budget. The Friends help the Library offer the highest possible level of resources and service available including state-of-the-art materials, advanced technology, expansion of traditional and specialized collections, improved facilities, and the opportunity to advance the learning of students and researchers.
Friends of Auraria Library members receive a membership card, invitations to special events, and quarterly newsletters. All non-campus affiliated friends also receive general collection borrowing privileges that allow check-out of up to 75 books for 28 days with one renewal. "
For more information, please contact Catherine Ostrander, Head of Community Relations, at
303-556-6381 or via e-mail at Catherine.Ostrander(at)ucdenver.edu.
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