Auraria Library News For Humanities and Anthropology Faculty ~ October 2010
Newsletter for Anthropology, Communications, History,Journalism, Media Production, Philosophy, Religion, and Theatre.
Interlibrary Loan: Please check your contact information
Is Your Contact Information Up-to-Date?
All faculty, please check to confirm you have the correct e-mail on your interlibrary loan profile since e-mail is the way you're notified of resources being delivered digitally or in hard-copy format. Remember you may have switched Internet service providers in the last few years.
UCD faculty in particular are encouraged to check to be sure your 'ucdenver.edu' address is listed as opposed to the old 'cudenver.edu' address - which now goes nowhere. Unfortunately, the profiles cannot be updated automatically.
To update your information please log in to your ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan) account and update the account with your new/current email address and any other contact information that may have changed. If you have any questions about this process, please contact Kathy Honda. Thanks.
All faculty, please check to confirm you have the correct e-mail on your interlibrary loan profile since e-mail is the way you're notified of resources being delivered digitally or in hard-copy format. Remember you may have switched Internet service providers in the last few years.
UCD faculty in particular are encouraged to check to be sure your 'ucdenver.edu' address is listed as opposed to the old 'cudenver.edu' address - which now goes nowhere. Unfortunately, the profiles cannot be updated automatically.
To update your information please log in to your ILLiad (Interlibrary Loan) account and update the account with your new/current email address and any other contact information that may have changed. If you have any questions about this process, please contact Kathy Honda. Thanks.
Event: Open Access Scholarship Forum
Unlock Your Scholarship: A Forum on Open Access.
Full information and registration here for this free event is here.
Full information and registration here for this free event is here.
- When: October 29, 2010 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Registration begins at 11:00.
- Where: Reading Room, 3rd Floor, Health Sciences Library, Anschutz Medical Campus
- A light lunch will be served.
Speakers:
- Town Peterson, PhD, Biodiversity Institute & Department of Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, University of Kansas. The University of Kansas Open Access Initiative: Lessons, Minefields, Traps, Opportunities, and Achievements
- J. J. Cohen, MD PhD, Department of Immunology, University of Colorado Denver. Open Learning: Out of Class, After Class, and in Someone Else’s Class
- Jeffrey Beall, MA, MSLS, Auraria Library. The Down Side of Open Access Publishing
Latinos/Hispanics in Colorado: Films & Photos
The Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library (CC&W) has recently produced three short videos, linked below, on aspects of Colorado Latino/Hispanic history, including Denver's Displaced Aurarian community.
In addition, a 500-image photography collection offers unique insights into the varied historical experiences of Latinos/Hispanics throughout Colorado. This growing collection can be viewed at http://adr.coalliance.org/couda/fez/collection/couda:11.
Videos from CC&W include:
Salvaje y Libre (Wild and Free). This video illustrates one researcher’s experience of exploring information resources about the history and genealogy of Latinos in Colorado. Filmed on the Auraria Campus, the video features local actors and illustrates the value of a collection of 500 online images that document local Hispanic history for past, present, and future generations.
Westside Friends. This is a retelling, using music and still photographs, of the history of Denver's Auraria neighborhood, which was relocated through urban renewal in the 1970s for construction of the tri-institutional Auraria Higher Education Center. The video features a musical performance by award winning Chicano theatre musicians at El Centro Su Teatro in Denver, Colorado.
In Search of Displaced Aurarians. Displaced Aurarians refers to the former residents of Denver's Auraria neighborhood and their descendants. Because of a promise made when the community was evicted/relocated, Displaced Aurarians and their descendants are eligible for scholarships to attend the three institutions that now are located on the Auraria Campus. The video shows some scholarship recipients and provides contact information for the financial aid benefit.
These videos were produced by Daniel Salazar, internationally recognized Chicano videographer and CEO and founder of RAZALAS Studio, and Dana EchoHawk, King Fellow and Hispanics in Colorado project manager, with funding to the Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the University of Colorado Office of the President Diversity and Inclusion Initiative.
In addition, a 500-image photography collection offers unique insights into the varied historical experiences of Latinos/Hispanics throughout Colorado. This growing collection can be viewed at http://adr.coalliance.org/couda/fez/collection/couda:11.
Videos from CC&W include:
Salvaje y Libre (Wild and Free). This video illustrates one researcher’s experience of exploring information resources about the history and genealogy of Latinos in Colorado. Filmed on the Auraria Campus, the video features local actors and illustrates the value of a collection of 500 online images that document local Hispanic history for past, present, and future generations.
Westside Friends. This is a retelling, using music and still photographs, of the history of Denver's Auraria neighborhood, which was relocated through urban renewal in the 1970s for construction of the tri-institutional Auraria Higher Education Center. The video features a musical performance by award winning Chicano theatre musicians at El Centro Su Teatro in Denver, Colorado.
In Search of Displaced Aurarians. Displaced Aurarians refers to the former residents of Denver's Auraria neighborhood and their descendants. Because of a promise made when the community was evicted/relocated, Displaced Aurarians and their descendants are eligible for scholarships to attend the three institutions that now are located on the Auraria Campus. The video shows some scholarship recipients and provides contact information for the financial aid benefit.
These videos were produced by Daniel Salazar, internationally recognized Chicano videographer and CEO and founder of RAZALAS Studio, and Dana EchoHawk, King Fellow and Hispanics in Colorado project manager, with funding to the Center for Colorado & the West at Auraria Library from the Institute of Museum and Library Services and the University of Colorado Office of the President Diversity and Inclusion Initiative.
Finding Images
Images: How to find them
This guide presents the largest online image repositories containing images on multiple topics, art, architecture, and western United States history both free and from the Auraria library. Links to information on fair use of images are also included.
This guide presents the largest online image repositories containing images on multiple topics, art, architecture, and western United States history both free and from the Auraria library. Links to information on fair use of images are also included.
Political Science Database Added and JSTOR Updated
Worldwide Political Science Abstracts
The Library now subscribes to Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. This collection provides access to the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
(See announcements from earlier in the semester of other recently acquired databases here and other new online resources and database enhancements here).
JSTOR Enhancement
The JTOR platform has been updated. See information on the updates here. Auraria Library owns most JSTOR collections.
The Library now subscribes to Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. This collection provides access to the international serials literature in political science and its complementary fields, including international relations, law, and public administration/policy.
(See announcements from earlier in the semester of other recently acquired databases here and other new online resources and database enhancements here).
JSTOR Enhancement
The JTOR platform has been updated. See information on the updates here. Auraria Library owns most JSTOR collections.
Web Sites of Interest
DIRT: Digital Research Tools Wiki. Site and software to help:
Analyze data • Analyze texts • Author an interactive work•Blog•Brainstorm/generate ideas • Build and share collections • Collaborate • Collect data • Communicate with colleagues • Compare resources • Conduct linguistic research • Convert/manipulate files • Create a mashup • Edit images • Find research materials • Focus • Make a dynamic map • Make a screencast • Manage bibliographic information • Manage tasks • Mine data • Network with other researchers • Organize my research materials • Perform qualitative data analysis • Search visually • Share bookmarks • Share information • Stay current with research • Take notes/annotate resources • Transcribe handwritten or spoken texts • Use mobile devices • Visualize data • Write a paper • Write collaboratively.
The Internet Scout Report. Published every Friday, the Report uncovers valuable Web resources, selected and annotated by librarians and subject experts. Visit on the web or sign up for a weekly dose of new sites. Thanks to John Brett of Anthropology for forwarding this venerable (around since 1994 which is, of course, ancient in Web years) and useful service.
Scholarometer. A social tool to facilitate citation analysis and help evaluate the impact of an author's publications. From Indiana University, Bloomington. Other free journal ranking/impact sites are listed here.
Europeana. Links to about 6 million digital items, some famous, some hidden treasures, culled from Europe's museums and galleries, archives, and libraries. Includes images (paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects), texts (books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers), sounds (music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts) and videos (films, newsreels and TV broadcasts).
TDC: The Daily Climate. Each day this site aggregates climage change writings from the English language press.
FAMSI Research Materials: Explore Mesoamerica. This database covers Mesoamerica, a cradle of early civilization and a geographical area covering parts of Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. It was occupied by ancient cultures with shared religious beliefs, art, architecture and technology from about 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1519.--the time of European contact. The FAMSI bibliographic and image collections include the Bibliografia Mesoamericana; the Bibliography of Prehistoric and Early Historic Maya Human Osteology; the Catalogue of Zapotec Effigy Vessels; the Mayavase Database; the Schele drawing and photo collections, the Tikal Digital Access Project and more.
Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design. High-quality scans of renderings and sketches produced by the Motley Group (Margaret Harris, her sister Sophia Harris, and Elizabeth Montgomery) from 1932 through 1976. More costume sites are here.
Stagework. "The site is a rich mine of information on all aspects of theater, from the play text to dramaturgy, from theatrical architecture to final performance. One of its special features is an informative video tour of the National Theatre, which looks at the theater's architecture and at the role of the technicians and administrators in running actual productions." A neat feature is an "interactive" interview with Sir Ian McKellen, in which the actor discusses his thoughts on Shakespeare's Richard III, a play he has performed many times. What makes this feature interesting is that the user gets to pick the questions and has the opportunity to read the words of Shakespeare's text before McKellen discusses his interpretations as an actor.
Analyze data • Analyze texts • Author an interactive work•Blog•Brainstorm/generate ideas • Build and share collections • Collaborate • Collect data • Communicate with colleagues • Compare resources • Conduct linguistic research • Convert/manipulate files • Create a mashup • Edit images • Find research materials • Focus • Make a dynamic map • Make a screencast • Manage bibliographic information • Manage tasks • Mine data • Network with other researchers • Organize my research materials • Perform qualitative data analysis • Search visually • Share bookmarks • Share information • Stay current with research • Take notes/annotate resources • Transcribe handwritten or spoken texts • Use mobile devices • Visualize data • Write a paper • Write collaboratively.
The Internet Scout Report. Published every Friday, the Report uncovers valuable Web resources, selected and annotated by librarians and subject experts. Visit on the web or sign up for a weekly dose of new sites. Thanks to John Brett of Anthropology for forwarding this venerable (around since 1994 which is, of course, ancient in Web years) and useful service.
Scholarometer. A social tool to facilitate citation analysis and help evaluate the impact of an author's publications. From Indiana University, Bloomington. Other free journal ranking/impact sites are listed here.
Europeana. Links to about 6 million digital items, some famous, some hidden treasures, culled from Europe's museums and galleries, archives, and libraries. Includes images (paintings, drawings, maps, photos and pictures of museum objects), texts (books, newspapers, letters, diaries and archival papers), sounds (music and spoken word from cylinders, tapes, discs and radio broadcasts) and videos (films, newsreels and TV broadcasts).
TDC: The Daily Climate. Each day this site aggregates climage change writings from the English language press.
FAMSI Research Materials: Explore Mesoamerica. This database covers Mesoamerica, a cradle of early civilization and a geographical area covering parts of Mexico, Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras. It was occupied by ancient cultures with shared religious beliefs, art, architecture and technology from about 1500 B.C. to A.D. 1519.--the time of European contact. The FAMSI bibliographic and image collections include the Bibliografia Mesoamericana; the Bibliography of Prehistoric and Early Historic Maya Human Osteology; the Catalogue of Zapotec Effigy Vessels; the Mayavase Database; the Schele drawing and photo collections, the Tikal Digital Access Project and more.
Motley Collection of Theatre and Costume Design. High-quality scans of renderings and sketches produced by the Motley Group (Margaret Harris, her sister Sophia Harris, and Elizabeth Montgomery) from 1932 through 1976. More costume sites are here.
Stagework. "The site is a rich mine of information on all aspects of theater, from the play text to dramaturgy, from theatrical architecture to final performance. One of its special features is an informative video tour of the National Theatre, which looks at the theater's architecture and at the role of the technicians and administrators in running actual productions." A neat feature is an "interactive" interview with Sir Ian McKellen, in which the actor discusses his thoughts on Shakespeare's Richard III, a play he has performed many times. What makes this feature interesting is that the user gets to pick the questions and has the opportunity to read the words of Shakespeare's text before McKellen discusses his interpretations as an actor.
Films Now in the Library Collection
18th and 19th Century Educational Philosophers. LB14.7.E55 2008. 17 Minutes. This program examines 18th- and 19th-century educational philosophies and profiles the key figures that influenced educational thinking during this era. It defines the philosophy of education; details influences on 18th- and 19-century education; and describes the philosophies of such thinkers as Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Pestalozzi, Spencer, Bronson Alcott, Froebel, and Harris. Addressing the late 19th- and early-20th-century, the DVD also discusses pragmatism and John Dewey.
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. PN1995.9.C55 A8 1997. Austin Powers in Goldmember. PN1995.9.C55 A973 2002. Austin Power: The Spy who Shagged Me. PN1997 .A8653 1999. James Bond spoof films starring Mike Myers.
Blacking Up: Hip hop's Remix of Race and Identity. ML3918.R37 B53 2010. 57 Minutes. Hip-Hop was created by urban youth of color more than 30 years ago amid racial oppression and economic marginalization. It has moved beyond that specific community and been embraced by young people worldwide, elevating it to a global youth culture. This documentary looks at the popularity of hip-hop among America's white youth. It asks whether white identification is rooted in admiration and a desire to transcend race or is it merely a new chapter in the continuum of stereotyping, mimicry and cultural appropriation? The film interweaves portraits of white hip-hop artists and fans with commentary by cultural critics such as Amiri Baraka, Nelson George, Greg Tate, comedian Paul Mooney and hip-hop figures Chuck D., Russell Simmons, M1 of Dead Prez, and DJ Kool Herc.
Collapse. HB3722 .C65 2010. 80 Minutes. Based on a book by Michael Ruppert, a former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter. Ruppert predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men.Fight Club. PS3566.A4554 F54 1996. 139 Minutes. When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
From Mambo to Hip Hop. ML3475 .F76 2009. 56 Minutes. An "hour-long documentary that tells a story about the creative life of the South Bronx, beginning with the Puerto Rican migration and the adoption of Cuban rhythms to create the New York salsa sound; continuing with the fires that destroyed the neighborhood but not the creative spirit of its people; chronicling the rise of hip hop from the ashes; and ending with reflections on the power of the neighborhood's music to ensure the survival of several generations of its residents, and, in the process, take the world's pop culture by storm"--Container.
Mythos I: The Shaping of our Mythic Tradition. BL304 .M98 2007. 2 Discs - 280 Minutes total. A series of lectures on various aspect of myth presented by Joseph Campbell. Disc 1: Psyche and symbol: the psychological sources of myths and dreams. The spirit land : how a living myth imbues the world with meaning. On being human: the emergence of myth in early hunter-gatherer societies -- Disc two. From goddesses to God : ancient personifications of divinity. The mystical life: mythic strains that helped shape the Western spirit.
New World (b)Order. PN1995.9.E96 N3 2000. 40 Minutes. "McCarther Award winning performance artist and NPR commentator, Guillermo Gomez Peña, writer Coco Fusco and media artist Daniel Salazar with a little help from El Santo team up to expose the excesses of the Reali-TV in this Chicano science fiction for the new millennium"--Container insert.
Temple Grandin. PN1992.77 .T46 2010. 109 Minutes. An engaging portrait of an autistic young woman who became, through timely mentoring and sheer force of will, one of America's most remarkable success stories.
Through the Years of Hip Hop: Volume 1, Graffiti. GT3913.A2 T48 2001. 90 Minutes. Part one of a four part documentary series called "The Architects." In this series the pioneers of hip hop music tell the story of how it all began. Part 1 explores the first element of Hip hop -- Graffiti, taking us back to the streets of Philly and NYC during the 1970's. Through narratives and testimonies, the artists tell their story of late night battles in the train yards, taking over cities and run-in's with the law and rival crews. Also features a collection of hip hops greatest classic videos.
Films are at the AskUs Desk.
When you'd like to book a film for class or home viewing, please use the booking request form at least 24-hours in advance to confirm availability of the film: http://library.auraria.edu/sites/default/files/reserves_forms/VideoReq070709.pdf
Booking questions? Please contact Farhad at Farhad.Vakilitabar(at)ucdenver.edu or 303-556-5275.
Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery. PN1995.9.C55 A8 1997. Austin Powers in Goldmember. PN1995.9.C55 A973 2002. Austin Power: The Spy who Shagged Me. PN1997 .A8653 1999. James Bond spoof films starring Mike Myers.
Blacking Up: Hip hop's Remix of Race and Identity. ML3918.R37 B53 2010. 57 Minutes. Hip-Hop was created by urban youth of color more than 30 years ago amid racial oppression and economic marginalization. It has moved beyond that specific community and been embraced by young people worldwide, elevating it to a global youth culture. This documentary looks at the popularity of hip-hop among America's white youth. It asks whether white identification is rooted in admiration and a desire to transcend race or is it merely a new chapter in the continuum of stereotyping, mimicry and cultural appropriation? The film interweaves portraits of white hip-hop artists and fans with commentary by cultural critics such as Amiri Baraka, Nelson George, Greg Tate, comedian Paul Mooney and hip-hop figures Chuck D., Russell Simmons, M1 of Dead Prez, and DJ Kool Herc.
Collapse. HB3722 .C65 2010. 80 Minutes. Based on a book by Michael Ruppert, a former Los Angeles police officer turned independent reporter. Ruppert predicted the current financial crisis in his self-published newsletter, From the Wilderness, at a time when most Wall Street and Washington analysts were still in denial. Director Chris Smith has shown an affinity for outsiders in films like American Movie and The Yes Men.Fight Club. PS3566.A4554 F54 1996. 139 Minutes. When a ticking-time-bomb insomniac and a soap salesman channel their aggresion into therapeutic "fight clubs", an eccentric woman gets in the way and ignites an out-of-control spiral toward oblivion.
From Mambo to Hip Hop. ML3475 .F76 2009. 56 Minutes. An "hour-long documentary that tells a story about the creative life of the South Bronx, beginning with the Puerto Rican migration and the adoption of Cuban rhythms to create the New York salsa sound; continuing with the fires that destroyed the neighborhood but not the creative spirit of its people; chronicling the rise of hip hop from the ashes; and ending with reflections on the power of the neighborhood's music to ensure the survival of several generations of its residents, and, in the process, take the world's pop culture by storm"--Container.
Mythos I: The Shaping of our Mythic Tradition. BL304 .M98 2007. 2 Discs - 280 Minutes total. A series of lectures on various aspect of myth presented by Joseph Campbell. Disc 1: Psyche and symbol: the psychological sources of myths and dreams. The spirit land : how a living myth imbues the world with meaning. On being human: the emergence of myth in early hunter-gatherer societies -- Disc two. From goddesses to God : ancient personifications of divinity. The mystical life: mythic strains that helped shape the Western spirit.
New World (b)Order. PN1995.9.E96 N3 2000. 40 Minutes. "McCarther Award winning performance artist and NPR commentator, Guillermo Gomez Peña, writer Coco Fusco and media artist Daniel Salazar with a little help from El Santo team up to expose the excesses of the Reali-TV in this Chicano science fiction for the new millennium"--Container insert.
Temple Grandin. PN1992.77 .T46 2010. 109 Minutes. An engaging portrait of an autistic young woman who became, through timely mentoring and sheer force of will, one of America's most remarkable success stories.
Through the Years of Hip Hop: Volume 1, Graffiti. GT3913.A2 T48 2001. 90 Minutes. Part one of a four part documentary series called "The Architects." In this series the pioneers of hip hop music tell the story of how it all began. Part 1 explores the first element of Hip hop -- Graffiti, taking us back to the streets of Philly and NYC during the 1970's. Through narratives and testimonies, the artists tell their story of late night battles in the train yards, taking over cities and run-in's with the law and rival crews. Also features a collection of hip hops greatest classic videos.
Films are at the AskUs Desk.
When you'd like to book a film for class or home viewing, please use the booking request form at least 24-hours in advance to confirm availability of the film: http://library.auraria.edu/sites/default/files/reserves_forms/VideoReq070709.pdf
Booking questions? Please contact Farhad at Farhad.Vakilitabar(at)ucdenver.edu or 303-556-5275.
Tech News: QR Codes, Mobile Interfaces & RUOK?
The Prevalence of Smart Phones Brings Information Access Changes
QR Codes. Lately, Auraria Library users have seen signs with what look like bar codes on them, each code above a word or phrase describing what information the code represents.
These QR codes are designed to work with smart phones with cameras and bar code software. When a picture is taken of the QR code the phone translates the code and brings the user to a website for the information they're seeking. In the library, QR codes lead to such sites as the book renewal page. An Auraria Library-specific informational web page will be available soon. Meanwhile, for more information about QR (Quick Response) codes, also known as 2-D codes, hard links, or physical world links, here are some explainations:
Wassup? Ruok? In case the texting bug has not bitten you, here's a link to tiny lingo. (Articles report that variations in texting abbreviations are common; different sites show wide variations. We obviously need an Oxford Texting Abbreviations Dictionary.) With due respect to civility, grammar, and punctuation, these abbreviations can be handy when needing to type on an uncomfortable keyboard onto a tiny screen.
QR Codes. Lately, Auraria Library users have seen signs with what look like bar codes on them, each code above a word or phrase describing what information the code represents.
These QR codes are designed to work with smart phones with cameras and bar code software. When a picture is taken of the QR code the phone translates the code and brings the user to a website for the information they're seeking. In the library, QR codes lead to such sites as the book renewal page. An Auraria Library-specific informational web page will be available soon. Meanwhile, for more information about QR (Quick Response) codes, also known as 2-D codes, hard links, or physical world links, here are some explainations:
- QR codes explained.
- Examples of QR code use
- YouTube Video on QR Codes. This 'home-made' video makes QR codes understandable in 54 seconds.
Wassup? Ruok? In case the texting bug has not bitten you, here's a link to tiny lingo. (Articles report that variations in texting abbreviations are common; different sites show wide variations. We obviously need an Oxford Texting Abbreviations Dictionary.) With due respect to civility, grammar, and punctuation, these abbreviations can be handy when needing to type on an uncomfortable keyboard onto a tiny screen.
Auraria Library News For Humanities and Anthropology Faculty - August 2010
New Reserves Service: Drop off window for your convenience
Faculty, instead of bringing your Reserve requests and materials to the Ask Us desk, drop them at the faculty service window located next to the first floor Coffee Cart (to get there make a left when you enter the building and keep walking).
The service window will be open Monday-Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm, and staff will be happy to assist you with setting up Reserve materials. This window was opened so that you won't find yourself in line behind those seeking other services at the Ask Us Desk.
Here's a link to the Reserves form.
Faculty, instead of bringing your Reserve requests and materials to the Ask Us desk, drop them at the faculty service window located next to the first floor Coffee Cart (to get there make a left when you enter the building and keep walking).
The service window will be open Monday-Friday, 8:00am – 5:00pm, and staff will be happy to assist you with setting up Reserve materials. This window was opened so that you won't find yourself in line behind those seeking other services at the Ask Us Desk.
Here's a link to the Reserves form.
Updated: 'Articles and Databases' Site
The Databases A-Z page on the Library website, which lists databases alphabetically and by subject, is being upgraded to better represent subject disciplines and make locating appropriate collections simpler. Look for this change at the beginning of the semester.
The Auraria Library website continues to evolve as we integrate new research options and ideas from users and take advantage of the talents of programmers, designers, and others.
If you have questions or comments on the navigation or any aspect of the evolving Auraria Library Home page or what's offered on the site, just let me know. If I don't have the answer, I'll get you to the person who does. My contact information: Ellen.Metter(at)ucdenver.edu
The Auraria Library website continues to evolve as we integrate new research options and ideas from users and take advantage of the talents of programmers, designers, and others.
If you have questions or comments on the navigation or any aspect of the evolving Auraria Library Home page or what's offered on the site, just let me know. If I don't have the answer, I'll get you to the person who does. My contact information: Ellen.Metter(at)ucdenver.edu
New & Enhanced: Online History & Film Collections
New!
- 19th Century U.S. Newspapers. This collection garnered a great deal of positive input while on trial. I'm glad to say the purchase was approved. 19th Century Newspapers is a searchable full-text facsimile-image database of 19th-century newspapers from across the nation chronicling American culture, daily life and events.
- Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969. A full-text searchable collection of historical documents from the UK National Archives covering such events as the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Confidential Print series originated out of a need for the British Government to preserve important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Some of these were one-page letters or telegrams; others were dispatches describing important personalities or economic analysis; and others were large volumes or texts of treaties. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet and to heads of British missions abroad.
- Opera in Video. A collection of streaming videos of the most important opera performances, captured on video through staged productions, interviews, and documentaries.
- Worldwide Political Science Abstracts. (coming this fall)
- Look for a substantial increase in full-text access in America, History and Life, Historical Abstracts and the Film and Television Literature Index. The Library is investing in these expansions to supply more efficient access to writings discovered through these popular indexes.
Added content to Theatre in Video streaming videos
- Twenty-four new films have been added from the Broadway Theatre Archive to the Library's Theatre in Video database. Performances include works by Edward Albee, Jean Anouilh, Eugene O’Neill, Lanford Wilson, Arthur Miller, William Saroyan, Neil Simon, Anton Chekhov, Thornton Wilder, and Wendy Wasserstein, among others. Featured actors include Geraldine Fitzgerald, Linda Hunt, Meryl Streep, Alfre Woodard, John Lithgow, Jeff Daniels, Faye Dunaway, Kevin Kline, Frank Langella, Blythe Danner, Olympia Dukakis, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, Sir John Gielgud, and Sir Ralph Richardson.
Titles include Death of a Salesman, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Time of Your Life, Uncommon Women and Others, The Seagull, An Enemy of the People, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, Fifth of July, The Good Doctor, The Pirates of Penzance, and more. See them all here on the What's New page.
Free U.S. history primary resource collections
- Founders Early Access. The Rotunda Founders Early Access project makes available for the first time thousands of unpublished documents from our nation’s founders in a free online resource. Collected over many years by the Founders documentary editions, these letters and other papers penned by important figures such as James Madison, John Adams, George Washington and Thomas Jefferson offer a wider view of the early Republic.
- Family Letters Digital Archive. This Archive is a companion to the letterpress volumes of the Papers of Thomas Jefferson: Retirement Series*, published by Princeton University Press. The documents archived on this site provide full text-searchable transcriptions of a rich body of correspondence between Jefferson’s immediate and extended family. The letters, and related documents, provide personal insights into aspects of Jefferson’s life that are unlikely to appear in his own writings. Falling in the years between 1809 and 1873, with a concentration on the years between 1809 and 1835, many of the letters are authored by women and contain vivid accounts of domestic and social life in nineteenth-century Virginia. Few of these documents have ever been published, and the Project seeks to make them accessible to the public through this electronic edition.
*Auraria Library will be acquiring this series in print or online, depending on pricing, this fall.
Online Resources News: What else is new or revitalized
These Formerly Print Titles are now Digital
- Whitakers Almanack. This annual almanac of facts and figures for the UK and worldwide, now in its 142nd edition, is now available online as part of the Gale Virtual Reference Library. Whitakers has also been added to the Country facts & statistics section of the Library's Statistics Guide.
- Shakespeare Surveys. Now search this annual yearbook of Shakespeare studies and production, published since 1948, online. Each volume is devoted to a theme, play, or group of plays and contains a section of reviews on that year's critical studies and of the year's major British performances. The Surveys are also illustrated with a variety of Shakespearean images and production photographs.The platform will look familiar since this new collection is on the same platform as Cambridge Collections Online.
- Short Story Index. Short Story Index locates nearly 100,000 works of short fiction in anthologies and periodicals by author, title, or subject. Selected stories are available in full-text after 1994.
- Backfiles: Dictionary of Literary Biography. The Library has been able to increase its holding of the DLB and now offers the full collection online.
- Lexis Nexis Academic has moved to a new interface. Lexis-Nexis-supplied information is here.
- ICPSR Renewed. The Library will continue to subscribe to ICPSR, offering manipulable raw Social Science data. Note that if you want to be able to download data, you need sign up for the free registration on the Library's ICPSR site from an on-campus computer. ICPSR stands for Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research.
Need ICPSR training? There will be training in the fall. Send Ellen.Metter(at)ucdenver.edu a note indicating your interest and I'll be sure to let you know of the fall training.
- JSTOR Arts & Sciences VIII. The Library will be adding this new collection to the existing JSTOR suite. This purchase will add an additional 140 journal titles to JSTOR by 2011.
Other New Databases
- Naxos Music Library. Naxos Music Library (NML) is an online music library offering streaming access to classical, jazz and world music labels including BIS, Chandos, CPO, Haenssler, Hungaroton, Marco Polo, Vanguard Classics, VOX, Naxos, ARC, Celestial Harmonies and others. There is also film music, nostalgia, classic and contemporary rock content as well as spoken word (radio shows), amazing nature sounds (see the classical genre list) such as elephant seals, penguins and larks, and resources such as graded music exam playlists.
- Counseling & Therapy in Video. An online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling.
- Wiley Online Library. Full-text journals in multiple disciplines.
- International Index to Music Periodicals. A music journal resource with hundreds of thousands of indexed articles, detailed abstracts and full text content from both scholarly and popular sources.
New 'LibGuides' - Help Guides for Students and Faculty
Just a few new offerings in the LibGuide collection this fall include:
- Promoting Your Research. Of interest to students and faculty who have published scholarly research or who plan to, this guide lists and describes ideas and resources for effectively sharing your research with others.
- eBooks. Find ebooks at libraries, free via the web, or for sale and read them on a wide range of devices. Barnes & Noble will be doing a demo of the Nook ebook reader in a few weeks at the Library. Let me know if you'd like to be notified of the date/time of the demo: Ellen.Metter(at)ucdenver.edu.
Films Added to the Library Collection
To find films in the Auraria Library see: Videos: How to locate them
Anna Wildings Buddha wild: The Monk in a Hut. 60 Minutes. BQ6140 .A66 2006. Buddha Wild provides an opportunity for a group of Thai and Sri Lankan monks, living around their temple in a country far from home, to talk about their commitment and way of life in a typically simple and modest Buddhist way. The film explores the tenets of Buddhism and the day-to-day lives of the monks. Director Anna Wilding gives the commentary with a well-judged mixture of seriousness and humor. Wilding gained access to areas of Buddhist temples that had never before been captured on film.
Art & Copy. 90 Minutes. HF5813.U6 A78 2010. A powerful film about advertising and inspiration. It reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time, people who've profoundly impacted our culture. Their work grabbed the attention of millions and truly moved them. The social and cultural impact of their ads are brought to light in this dynamic exploration of art, commerce, and human emotion.
Broken English: The Effects of Brain Damage On Language. 47 Minutes. P106 .B662 2009. "In this program, Dr. Jonathan Miller investigates both the predictable and the unexpected effects of damage to Broca's and Wernicke's areas on patients' abilities to communicate verbally and through sign language. In his efforts to expose the physiological roots of language expression, Dr. Miller traces the evolution of brain research, from the scientific blind alley of phrenology to the promising field of neurolinguistics."--Container.
Building Enlightened Society. BQ4398 .T58 2004. Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, talks about his vision of Shambhala as an enlightened society organized in accordance with Buddhist principles. He touches on his own position as a leader.
Contrato. HD1530.O6 C66 2003. 51 Minutes. Follows Teodoro Bello Martinez, a poverty-stricken father of four living in Central Mexico, and several of his countrymen as they make an annual migration to southern Ontario to pick tomatoes for conditions and wages no local will accept.
Dolley Madison: America's First Lady. E342.1 .D65 2010. 90 Minutes. As the wife of the fourth president, James Madison, Dolley Madison played an important part in the political and social experiment that was the early American Republic. She used her unelected position to legitimize the nation's new capital, to create a political and social style for the new country and to give Americans a sense of their own national identity.
Gaia & Genesis : five short films. GE42 .G35 2009. 91 Minutes. Contents Gaia -- Genesis -- Stewards & slayers -- The rapture -- All things are connected. Subject: Environmental ethics/Environmentalism -- Religious aspects.
George Sand: the story of her life. 54 Minutes. PQ2412 .G3673 2006. "This program familiarizes viewers with her literary output, political beliefs and the widely varied circles she inhabited ..."--Container.
Great Debaters. 124 Minutes. PN1995.9.M45 G7438 2008. Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Insular Empire. 59 Minutes. DU643 .I57 2009. A documentary film about America at its westernmost limits - the Mariana Islands of the western Pacific Ocean. 6000 miles from the U.S. mainland, the Marianas - which include the U.S. Territory of Guam and the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (or CNMI) - have played a crucial role in American history, and national security, over the past century. Yet most Americans know nothing about them, or about the indigenous communities who call them home.
Karmapa in America. 3 discs. 279 minutes total. BQ7682.4 .O74 2009 disc 1, disc 2, and disc 3. [1]. Awakening the heart -- [2]. Healing the world -- [3]. The journey begins.
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women. 45 Minutes. HF5822 .K54 2010. "In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing us softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals a range of new print and television advertisements to lay bare a stunning pattern of damaging gender stereotypes--images and messages that too often reinforce unrealistic, and unhealthy, perceptions of beauty, perfection, and sexuality. By bringing Kilbourne's groundbreaking analysis up to date, Killing us softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence"--Container.
The Lion’s Roar. 50 Minutes. BQ982.A527 L56 2006. "Documents the life, teachings and death of His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyü order of Tibetan Buddhism. ... The film also conveys the cultural context of Tibet and the basic beliefs of Vajrayana Buddhism."--Container.
Living in Oblivion. 92 Minutes. PN1997 .L592 2003. Writer/Director: Tom DiCillo. Cast: Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney, Danielle Von Zerneck, James LeGros. Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney, Danielle Von Zerneck, James LeGros. The cinematographer is breaking up with the assistant director. The director's mother has wandered onto the set and the dwarf hired for the dream sequence has an attitude.
Manufacturing Dissent. 97 Minutes. PN1998.3.M665 M36 2007. In the realm of documentary filmmaking there is no greater icon than Michael Moore, but are his films really the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? At what point is manipulation of 'fact' a work of fiction? See for yourself when the lens is turned on the most controversial director of our time."--Container.
The Mean World Syndrome: Media Violence & the Cultivation of Fear. 75 Minutes. P96.V5 M436 2010. For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these debates have descended into simplistic battles between those who claim that media messages directly cause violence and those who argue that activists exaggerate the impact of media exposure altogether. The Mean World Syndrome, based on the groundbreaking work of media scholar George Gerbner, urges us to think about media effects in more nuanced ways. Ranging from Hollywood movies and prime-time dramas to reality programming and the local news, the film examines how media violence feeds a fear-charged cultural environment that cultivates a heightened state of insecurity, exaggerated perceptions of risk and danger, and an appetite for hard-line and repressive political solutions to social problems.
Moon. 97 Minutes. PN1997.2 .M66 2009. Cast: Sam Rockwell, Dominique McElligott, Kaya Scodelario, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Malcolm Stewart, Kevin Spacey (voice). Astronaut Sam Bell is completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy on the dark side of the moon: Helium-3. His declining health is causing headaches and hallucinations that lead to a near-fatal accident, rendering him unconscious. After recuperating, an unexpected discovery leads him to doubt his sanity, his identity, and the integrity of the company. Believing he is alone on his mission, his sole purpose is getting back home on his own.
New Age of Digital Video Compression. 71 Minutes. TK6680.5 .N49 2005. Author and satellite industry consultant, Mark Long provides an overview and brief history of digital compression. Discusses terminology and methodology of digital compression, with emphasis on MPEG, the emerging compression standard.
Recalling a Buddha. 220 Minutes. BQ7950.O767 E54 2009. Extras: Interview with a Buddha (29:00), The Ceremony of the Vajra Crown (21:00), The Line of Karmapas (18:00), Preserving the Dharma Texts (8:35), Rumtek (28:42), Connecting to Karmapa (17:00).
Samadhi. 95 Minutes. BL1238.58.S26 S26 2004. Mahayogi Pilot Baba from the Himalayas and Mahamandaleshwar Yogini Mata Keiko Aikawa from Japan demonstrate a state of suspended animation akin to virtual death of the senses and stoppage of the bodily functions called Samadhi. Filmed in Dewas, Nainital and Allahabad in India and in Berkeley, California, this film is an intimate look at this ancient Hindu practice.
Secret Circles, Hidden Prayers. 55 Minutes. BP605.N46 S43 2009. Follows a cross-section of Americans who consider themselves Neo-Pagans. In a country where there is a Judeo-Christian paradigm firmly in place, the cost of deviation can be social alienation, and a need for secrecy. At odds with the mainstream, four modern Pagan families reinterpret spirituality outside the conventional American context and reveal why they've been hesitant to 'come out of the broom closet'. In the movie, a solitary practicing Wiccan, or 'witch' talks about her childhood growing up as a Christian and what led her to Wicca. A Pagan family addresses issues and fears they have raising children under their faith. And a Nevada war widow fights to get her husband's religious emblem recognized by the Veteran's Administration.
Sex & Ethics. 89 Minutes. HQ31 .S49 2009 film 1. Natural law (21 minutes) -- film 2. Situation ethics (23 minutes) -- film 3. Utilitarianism (24 minutes) -- film 4. Kant & sex.
Thus I Have Heard. 65 Minutes. BQ4302 .T58 2003. Selections from the 2001 three videocassette set Thus I have heard, a collection of archival footage documenting the teaching of Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche.
When you'd like to book a film for class or home viewing, please use the booking request form at least 24-hours in advance to confirm availability of the film: http://library.auraria.edu/services/reserves/documents/VideoReq070709.pdf
Booking forms are not required when you just want to walk into the Library and take out a film but a booking form can assure you a film will be available and is not already booked.
Farhad Vakilitabar is now handling any questions related to booking videos and reports of damaged videos. Farhad's contact information is:
Farhad.Vakilitabar@ucdenver.edu or 303-556-5275.
Contact Ellen.Metter@ucdenver.edu when you'd like to have a film added to the Library collection.
Anna Wildings Buddha wild: The Monk in a Hut. 60 Minutes. BQ6140 .A66 2006. Buddha Wild provides an opportunity for a group of Thai and Sri Lankan monks, living around their temple in a country far from home, to talk about their commitment and way of life in a typically simple and modest Buddhist way. The film explores the tenets of Buddhism and the day-to-day lives of the monks. Director Anna Wilding gives the commentary with a well-judged mixture of seriousness and humor. Wilding gained access to areas of Buddhist temples that had never before been captured on film.
Art & Copy. 90 Minutes. HF5813.U6 A78 2010. A powerful film about advertising and inspiration. It reveals the work and wisdom of some of the most influential advertising creatives of our time, people who've profoundly impacted our culture. Their work grabbed the attention of millions and truly moved them. The social and cultural impact of their ads are brought to light in this dynamic exploration of art, commerce, and human emotion.
Broken English: The Effects of Brain Damage On Language. 47 Minutes. P106 .B662 2009. "In this program, Dr. Jonathan Miller investigates both the predictable and the unexpected effects of damage to Broca's and Wernicke's areas on patients' abilities to communicate verbally and through sign language. In his efforts to expose the physiological roots of language expression, Dr. Miller traces the evolution of brain research, from the scientific blind alley of phrenology to the promising field of neurolinguistics."--Container.
Building Enlightened Society. BQ4398 .T58 2004. Tibetan Buddhist teacher Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche, talks about his vision of Shambhala as an enlightened society organized in accordance with Buddhist principles. He touches on his own position as a leader.
Contrato. HD1530.O6 C66 2003. 51 Minutes. Follows Teodoro Bello Martinez, a poverty-stricken father of four living in Central Mexico, and several of his countrymen as they make an annual migration to southern Ontario to pick tomatoes for conditions and wages no local will accept.
Dolley Madison: America's First Lady. E342.1 .D65 2010. 90 Minutes. As the wife of the fourth president, James Madison, Dolley Madison played an important part in the political and social experiment that was the early American Republic. She used her unelected position to legitimize the nation's new capital, to create a political and social style for the new country and to give Americans a sense of their own national identity.
Gaia & Genesis : five short films. GE42 .G35 2009. 91 Minutes. Contents Gaia -- Genesis -- Stewards & slayers -- The rapture -- All things are connected. Subject: Environmental ethics/Environmentalism -- Religious aspects.
George Sand: the story of her life. 54 Minutes. PQ2412 .G3673 2006. "This program familiarizes viewers with her literary output, political beliefs and the widely varied circles she inhabited ..."--Container.
Great Debaters. 124 Minutes. PN1995.9.M45 G7438 2008. Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Insular Empire. 59 Minutes. DU643 .I57 2009. A documentary film about America at its westernmost limits - the Mariana Islands of the western Pacific Ocean. 6000 miles from the U.S. mainland, the Marianas - which include the U.S. Territory of Guam and the U.S. Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands (or CNMI) - have played a crucial role in American history, and national security, over the past century. Yet most Americans know nothing about them, or about the indigenous communities who call them home.
Karmapa in America. 3 discs. 279 minutes total. BQ7682.4 .O74 2009 disc 1, disc 2, and disc 3. [1]. Awakening the heart -- [2]. Healing the world -- [3]. The journey begins.
Killing Us Softly 4: Advertising's Image of Women. 45 Minutes. HF5822 .K54 2010. "In this new, highly anticipated update of her pioneering Killing us softly series, the first in more than a decade, Jean Kilbourne takes a fresh look at how advertising traffics in distorted and destructive ideals of femininity. The film marshals a range of new print and television advertisements to lay bare a stunning pattern of damaging gender stereotypes--images and messages that too often reinforce unrealistic, and unhealthy, perceptions of beauty, perfection, and sexuality. By bringing Kilbourne's groundbreaking analysis up to date, Killing us softly 4 stands to challenge a new generation of students to take advertising seriously, and to think critically about popular culture and its relationship to sexism, eating disorders, and gender violence"--Container.
The Lion’s Roar. 50 Minutes. BQ982.A527 L56 2006. "Documents the life, teachings and death of His Holiness the 16th Gyalwa Karmapa, head of the Kagyü order of Tibetan Buddhism. ... The film also conveys the cultural context of Tibet and the basic beliefs of Vajrayana Buddhism."--Container.
Living in Oblivion. 92 Minutes. PN1997 .L592 2003. Writer/Director: Tom DiCillo. Cast: Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney, Danielle Von Zerneck, James LeGros. Steve Buscemi, Catherine Keener, Dermot Mulroney, Danielle Von Zerneck, James LeGros. The cinematographer is breaking up with the assistant director. The director's mother has wandered onto the set and the dwarf hired for the dream sequence has an attitude.
Manufacturing Dissent. 97 Minutes. PN1998.3.M665 M36 2007. In the realm of documentary filmmaking there is no greater icon than Michael Moore, but are his films really the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth? At what point is manipulation of 'fact' a work of fiction? See for yourself when the lens is turned on the most controversial director of our time."--Container.
The Mean World Syndrome: Media Violence & the Cultivation of Fear. 75 Minutes. P96.V5 M436 2010. For years, debates have raged among scholars, politicians, and concerned parents about the effects of media violence on viewers. Too often these debates have descended into simplistic battles between those who claim that media messages directly cause violence and those who argue that activists exaggerate the impact of media exposure altogether. The Mean World Syndrome, based on the groundbreaking work of media scholar George Gerbner, urges us to think about media effects in more nuanced ways. Ranging from Hollywood movies and prime-time dramas to reality programming and the local news, the film examines how media violence feeds a fear-charged cultural environment that cultivates a heightened state of insecurity, exaggerated perceptions of risk and danger, and an appetite for hard-line and repressive political solutions to social problems.
Moon. 97 Minutes. PN1997.2 .M66 2009. Cast: Sam Rockwell, Dominique McElligott, Kaya Scodelario, Benedict Wong, Matt Berry, Malcolm Stewart, Kevin Spacey (voice). Astronaut Sam Bell is completing a three-year contract with Lunar Industries to mine Earth's primary source of energy on the dark side of the moon: Helium-3. His declining health is causing headaches and hallucinations that lead to a near-fatal accident, rendering him unconscious. After recuperating, an unexpected discovery leads him to doubt his sanity, his identity, and the integrity of the company. Believing he is alone on his mission, his sole purpose is getting back home on his own.
New Age of Digital Video Compression. 71 Minutes. TK6680.5 .N49 2005. Author and satellite industry consultant, Mark Long provides an overview and brief history of digital compression. Discusses terminology and methodology of digital compression, with emphasis on MPEG, the emerging compression standard.
Recalling a Buddha. 220 Minutes. BQ7950.O767 E54 2009. Extras: Interview with a Buddha (29:00), The Ceremony of the Vajra Crown (21:00), The Line of Karmapas (18:00), Preserving the Dharma Texts (8:35), Rumtek (28:42), Connecting to Karmapa (17:00).
Samadhi. 95 Minutes. BL1238.58.S26 S26 2004. Mahayogi Pilot Baba from the Himalayas and Mahamandaleshwar Yogini Mata Keiko Aikawa from Japan demonstrate a state of suspended animation akin to virtual death of the senses and stoppage of the bodily functions called Samadhi. Filmed in Dewas, Nainital and Allahabad in India and in Berkeley, California, this film is an intimate look at this ancient Hindu practice.
Secret Circles, Hidden Prayers. 55 Minutes. BP605.N46 S43 2009. Follows a cross-section of Americans who consider themselves Neo-Pagans. In a country where there is a Judeo-Christian paradigm firmly in place, the cost of deviation can be social alienation, and a need for secrecy. At odds with the mainstream, four modern Pagan families reinterpret spirituality outside the conventional American context and reveal why they've been hesitant to 'come out of the broom closet'. In the movie, a solitary practicing Wiccan, or 'witch' talks about her childhood growing up as a Christian and what led her to Wicca. A Pagan family addresses issues and fears they have raising children under their faith. And a Nevada war widow fights to get her husband's religious emblem recognized by the Veteran's Administration.
Sex & Ethics. 89 Minutes. HQ31 .S49 2009 film 1. Natural law (21 minutes) -- film 2. Situation ethics (23 minutes) -- film 3. Utilitarianism (24 minutes) -- film 4. Kant & sex.
Thus I Have Heard. 65 Minutes. BQ4302 .T58 2003. Selections from the 2001 three videocassette set Thus I have heard, a collection of archival footage documenting the teaching of Chögyam Trungpa, Rinpoche.
Two Truths. BQ4255 .O44 2008. Taught by Lama Yeshe Gyamtso. DVD: 5 discs, 7 hours and 26 minutes total. Explanation of the two truths from The Treasury of Knowledge by Jamgön Kongtrül Lodro Thaye.
Which Way to the War? The anatomy of religious violence in Indonesia. DS646.49.P67 W45 2009. 100 Minutes. Subject: Christianity and other religions -- Islam; Islam -- Relations -- Christianity; Ethnic conflict -- Indonesia -- Poso (Kabupaten); Poso (Indonesia : Kabupaten) -- History; Poso (Indonesia : Kabupaten) -- Ethnic relations.
Which Way to the War? The anatomy of religious violence in Indonesia. DS646.49.P67 W45 2009. 100 Minutes. Subject: Christianity and other religions -- Islam; Islam -- Relations -- Christianity; Ethnic conflict -- Indonesia -- Poso (Kabupaten); Poso (Indonesia : Kabupaten) -- History; Poso (Indonesia : Kabupaten) -- Ethnic relations.
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Films can be picked up at the AskUs Desk, just to your right as you enter the Library. Students may view films in the Library.
Films can be picked up at the AskUs Desk, just to your right as you enter the Library. Students may view films in the Library.
When you'd like to book a film for class or home viewing, please use the booking request form at least 24-hours in advance to confirm availability of the film: http://library.auraria.edu/services/reserves/documents/VideoReq070709.pdf
Booking forms are not required when you just want to walk into the Library and take out a film but a booking form can assure you a film will be available and is not already booked.
Farhad Vakilitabar is now handling any questions related to booking videos and reports of damaged videos. Farhad's contact information is:
Farhad.Vakilitabar@ucdenver.edu or 303-556-5275.
Contact Ellen.Metter@ucdenver.edu when you'd like to have a film added to the Library collection.
Microfilm and Microfiche Can Now be Saved as Digital Files
Researchers can now choose to save writings from microfiche and microfilm as digital files using our new Konica Minolta Microfilm/Microfiche Digital Scanner.
The microform reader looks like the old film/fiche readers, but now, attached to a computer, it has the added capability of converting a microform image to .pdf and other formats. The image scanned from microform (for example an article from a 1907 microfilm edition of the Denver Express) can then be saved to a flash drive, e-mailed, etc. at no charge. Microform copies can also be sent to the Library's central printing area and printed for .15 per page.
The new digial scanner is located near the courtyard behind the Tech Help desk which is straight ahead of you when you walk into the library.
The microform reader looks like the old film/fiche readers, but now, attached to a computer, it has the added capability of converting a microform image to .pdf and other formats. The image scanned from microform (for example an article from a 1907 microfilm edition of the Denver Express) can then be saved to a flash drive, e-mailed, etc. at no charge. Microform copies can also be sent to the Library's central printing area and printed for .15 per page.
The new digial scanner is located near the courtyard behind the Tech Help desk which is straight ahead of you when you walk into the library.
Connections Series: Medical Databases this Friday
Connections: Seminars on the research and teaching tools available through Auraria Library.
Location: Jackson Enhanced Learning Center (ELC), Auraria Library. When you come in the front door, make a right and keep walking. The ELC is behind the many-paned, many colored wall.
Snacks Supplied: Yes! Brown bag your lunch and we'll supply desserts and beverages.
- This Friday: Medical/Health/Sports Medicine at the Auraria Library: Best Databases & Best Techniques. Fri. March 12th, 2010, 11:30 - 1:00
In addition to scholarly articles, the Library's health resources supply ebooks, images, videos, and reference resources. Our experts, Ignacio Ferrer-Vinent and Diane Turner, will help you enhance class assignments and streamline your research. Come with your questions. - Next Month: eBooks and Audiobooks. Fri. April 16th, 2010, 11:30-1:00
Learn about accessing and using scholarly and popular ebooks through Auraria Library, other libraries, free sites, and subscription services.
Films Added to Library Collection
Abe Osheroff : One Foot in the Grave, the Other Still Dancing. 46 Minutes.
CT275.O735 A2 2009. "From the front lines of the Spanish Civil War to the picket lines of the U.S. labor movement to the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi to work for human rights in Nicaragua, people know Abe Osheropeopff as an activist who threw himself into the fray with rare energy and enthusiasm through his 92 years. In this riveting documentary, Osheroff reflects on the meaning of that activism and the ideas that animated his actions in movements for social justice."-- Container.
Blind Spot, Peak Oil. 54 Minutes. HD9560.5 .B555 2009. A documentary about the current oil and energy crisis and its effect on the environment. Includes interviews with sociologist William R. Catton, evolutionary biologist Jason Bradford, environmental analyst Lester Brown, NASA's James Hansen, author Bill McKibben, and others.
Camp Amache. 5 Minutes. Streaming video available free via the Archaeology Channel. Camp Amache in Southeastern Colorado was one of 10 War Relocation Authority, or internment,
camps where US authorities forced Japanese-Americans to live after the bombing of Pearl
Harbor in World War II. Home to nearly 7,300 internees from 1942 to 1945, it now is a
National Historic Landmark. In 2008, Dr. Bonnie Clark of the University of Denver led a field school at the site, which is threatened by bottle-collecting and cattle-grazing. http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/video/campamache.html
A Collection of 2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films. 190 Minutes.
PN1993.9 C65 2008. Live action short films: Om Natten = In the night (At night) (2007) - Il supplente (The substitute) (2006) -- Le Mozart des pickpockets = The Mozart of pickpockets (2006) -- Tanghi Argentini (2006) -- The Tonto woman (2007) -- Animated short films: Madame Tutli-Putli (2007) / -- Même le pigeons vont au paradis = Even pigeons go to Heaven (2006) -- Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf (2006).
Cranford. PN1992.8.H56 C7364673 2008. 2 videodiscs. Cranford, in 1842, is a market town in northwest England. It is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness, and Matty, her demurring sister, the town is a hub of intrigue. Handsome new doctor Frank Harrison has arrived from London; a retired Captain and his daughters move in across the street and preparations for Lady Ludlow's garden party are underway. But news comes that shakes the town: a railway line from Manchester is coming to Cranford.
¿De dónde eres?: spiritual origins of the Latino/Hispanic experience in
Southern Colorado = Where are you from? 16 Minutes. F775 .D4 2009. "From the early days of Hispanic settlement in southern Colorado to the influx during the stormy days of the Mexican Revolution in the 1920s, to today's increasingly complex mix of people from all over Latin America and the Caribbean who call the Pikes Peak region their home, there is a
multifaceted and rich culture here that needs to be recorded," De dónde eres? Advisory
Committee Co-Chair Dr. José Barrera said. "The De dónde eres? initiative exists to develop
and collect oral, written, and visual resources that document the lives, customs, and
histories of the southern Colorado Hispanic/Latino Community."
Eijanaika. 151 Minutes. PN1997 .E353 1990. A view of Edo-period Japan set in 1866 on the eve of Japan's Meiji Restoration. In Japanese, with English subtitles.
Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero. 120 Minutes. HV6432.7 .F35 2004. TV program Frontline illuminates the myriad spiritual questions that have come out of the terror,
pain, and destruction of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
Global Banquet. HD9000.6 .G556 2001. Discussion of corporate farming and its global effects. Part 1. Who's invited? (25 min.) -- Part 2. What's on the menu? (25 min.).
Grave of the Fireflies. Includes English dubbed and Japanese versions and English
subtitles. PN1997 .H678 2002. 88 Minutes. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1988 in Japan and in an English version in 1992. Two orphans in war-time Kobe, Japan, face fire-bombs, hunger, homelessness, and despair as the war and their lives come to an end.
Memorias de las tres Colonias = Memories of the Three Colonies . 57 Minutes. F784.F56 M46 2008. “Memorias de las Tres Colonias,” a collection of oral interviews by six families who share memories of their lives in the Andersonville, Alta Vista and Buckingham neighborhood. The conversations capture the thoughts and feelings of local Hispanic family members who participated in the production of sugar from sugar beets during the middle years of the twentieth century. The interviews cover a wide range of topics from food to family, religion to social justice, and work to cultural celebrations.
Passing Strange. 135 Minutes. M1500 .P37 2010. A young man leaves behind his mother and life in a Los Angeles neighborhood and sets out on a journey of self-discovery in Europe during the 1970s in order to find his purpose in life through his music. Produced and directed by Spike Lee; A theatrical stage production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca. 20 Minutes. PQ6300 .P43 2007. Pedro Calderón de la
Barca would become one of Spain's most important dramatists, dominating the latter half of Spain's Golden Age of theatre. He studied law, and began writing plays in his
twenties, later serving as the court dramatist for Philip IV. Calderón wrote more than
70 secular plays and 80 autos sacramentales. As a dramatist, he had a keen dramatic sense, a lofty philosophic imagination, a wealth of poetic diction, and was a typical representative of
the devout, chivalrous, patriotic, and artificial society in which he moved.
What's the Matter with Kansas? 90 Minutes. F686.2 .W43 2009. Focuses on the political beliefs of Kansas citizens, particularly the intersection of evangelical Christianity and conservatism.
White Light, Black Rain: the Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 85 Minutes. D767.25.H6 W45 2007. In August 1945, the world was transformed in the blink of an eye when American forces dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki. The destruction was unprecedented and the bombings precipitated the end of World War II. Contains archival footage and stunning photography. Interviews are from both Japanese survivors and the Americans who believed that their involvement would help end a brutal conflict.
Why Save a Language? 27 Minutes. PM205 .W537 2006. Representatives from tribes in North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon, all of whom have indigenous language programs, discuss how the indigenous languages were broken by residential schools and why the indigenous languages should be saved as the language of religion, culture and cultural identity and as storehouses of environmental knowledge. They discuss the positive effects on children of learning the tribal language from an early age.
Auraria campus faculty members: Do you need the Library to acquire a film or films to support your teaching? Contact Ellen.Metter(at)ucdenver.edu.
CT275.O735 A2 2009. "From the front lines of the Spanish Civil War to the picket lines of the U.S. labor movement to the struggle for civil rights in Mississippi to work for human rights in Nicaragua, people know Abe Osheropeopff as an activist who threw himself into the fray with rare energy and enthusiasm through his 92 years. In this riveting documentary, Osheroff reflects on the meaning of that activism and the ideas that animated his actions in movements for social justice."-- Container.
Blind Spot, Peak Oil. 54 Minutes. HD9560.5 .B555 2009. A documentary about the current oil and energy crisis and its effect on the environment. Includes interviews with sociologist William R. Catton, evolutionary biologist Jason Bradford, environmental analyst Lester Brown, NASA's James Hansen, author Bill McKibben, and others.
Camp Amache. 5 Minutes. Streaming video available free via the Archaeology Channel. Camp Amache in Southeastern Colorado was one of 10 War Relocation Authority, or internment,
camps where US authorities forced Japanese-Americans to live after the bombing of Pearl
Harbor in World War II. Home to nearly 7,300 internees from 1942 to 1945, it now is a
National Historic Landmark. In 2008, Dr. Bonnie Clark of the University of Denver led a field school at the site, which is threatened by bottle-collecting and cattle-grazing. http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/video/campamache.html
A Collection of 2007 Academy Award Nominated Short Films. 190 Minutes.
PN1993.9 C65 2008. Live action short films: Om Natten = In the night (At night) (2007) - Il supplente (The substitute) (2006) -- Le Mozart des pickpockets = The Mozart of pickpockets (2006) -- Tanghi Argentini (2006) -- The Tonto woman (2007) -- Animated short films: Madame Tutli-Putli (2007) / -- Même le pigeons vont au paradis = Even pigeons go to Heaven (2006) -- Prokofiev's Peter & the Wolf (2006).
Cranford. PN1992.8.H56 C7364673 2008. 2 videodiscs. Cranford, in 1842, is a market town in northwest England. It is a place governed by etiquette, custom and above all, an intricate network of ladies. For spinsters Deborah Jenkyns, the arbiter of correctness, and Matty, her demurring sister, the town is a hub of intrigue. Handsome new doctor Frank Harrison has arrived from London; a retired Captain and his daughters move in across the street and preparations for Lady Ludlow's garden party are underway. But news comes that shakes the town: a railway line from Manchester is coming to Cranford.
¿De dónde eres?: spiritual origins of the Latino/Hispanic experience in
Southern Colorado = Where are you from? 16 Minutes. F775 .D4 2009. "From the early days of Hispanic settlement in southern Colorado to the influx during the stormy days of the Mexican Revolution in the 1920s, to today's increasingly complex mix of people from all over Latin America and the Caribbean who call the Pikes Peak region their home, there is a
multifaceted and rich culture here that needs to be recorded," De dónde eres? Advisory
Committee Co-Chair Dr. José Barrera said. "The De dónde eres? initiative exists to develop
and collect oral, written, and visual resources that document the lives, customs, and
histories of the southern Colorado Hispanic/Latino Community."
Eijanaika. 151 Minutes. PN1997 .E353 1990. A view of Edo-period Japan set in 1866 on the eve of Japan's Meiji Restoration. In Japanese, with English subtitles.
Faith and Doubt at Ground Zero. 120 Minutes. HV6432.7 .F35 2004. TV program Frontline illuminates the myriad spiritual questions that have come out of the terror,
pain, and destruction of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York.
Global Banquet. HD9000.6 .G556 2001. Discussion of corporate farming and its global effects. Part 1. Who's invited? (25 min.) -- Part 2. What's on the menu? (25 min.).
Grave of the Fireflies. Includes English dubbed and Japanese versions and English
subtitles. PN1997 .H678 2002. 88 Minutes. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1988 in Japan and in an English version in 1992. Two orphans in war-time Kobe, Japan, face fire-bombs, hunger, homelessness, and despair as the war and their lives come to an end.
Memorias de las tres Colonias = Memories of the Three Colonies . 57 Minutes. F784.F56 M46 2008. “Memorias de las Tres Colonias,” a collection of oral interviews by six families who share memories of their lives in the Andersonville, Alta Vista and Buckingham neighborhood. The conversations capture the thoughts and feelings of local Hispanic family members who participated in the production of sugar from sugar beets during the middle years of the twentieth century. The interviews cover a wide range of topics from food to family, religion to social justice, and work to cultural celebrations.
Passing Strange. 135 Minutes. M1500 .P37 2010. A young man leaves behind his mother and life in a Los Angeles neighborhood and sets out on a journey of self-discovery in Europe during the 1970s in order to find his purpose in life through his music. Produced and directed by Spike Lee; A theatrical stage production of the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical.
Pedro Calderón de la Barca. 20 Minutes. PQ6300 .P43 2007. Pedro Calderón de la
Barca would become one of Spain's most important dramatists, dominating the latter half of Spain's Golden Age of theatre. He studied law, and began writing plays in his
twenties, later serving as the court dramatist for Philip IV. Calderón wrote more than
70 secular plays and 80 autos sacramentales. As a dramatist, he had a keen dramatic sense, a lofty philosophic imagination, a wealth of poetic diction, and was a typical representative of
the devout, chivalrous, patriotic, and artificial society in which he moved.
What's the Matter with Kansas? 90 Minutes. F686.2 .W43 2009. Focuses on the political beliefs of Kansas citizens, particularly the intersection of evangelical Christianity and conservatism.
White Light, Black Rain: the Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. 85 Minutes. D767.25.H6 W45 2007. In August 1945, the world was transformed in the blink of an eye when American forces dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and then Nagasaki. The destruction was unprecedented and the bombings precipitated the end of World War II. Contains archival footage and stunning photography. Interviews are from both Japanese survivors and the Americans who believed that their involvement would help end a brutal conflict.
Why Save a Language? 27 Minutes. PM205 .W537 2006. Representatives from tribes in North and South Dakota, Montana, Idaho, Washington, and Oregon, all of whom have indigenous language programs, discuss how the indigenous languages were broken by residential schools and why the indigenous languages should be saved as the language of religion, culture and cultural identity and as storehouses of environmental knowledge. They discuss the positive effects on children of learning the tribal language from an early age.
Auraria campus faculty members: Do you need the Library to acquire a film or films to support your teaching? Contact Ellen.Metter(at)ucdenver.edu.
Booking Videos for Viewing: New Person to Help with Questions
Faculty members: When you'd like to book a film for class or home viewing, please use the booking request form at least 24-hours in advance to confirm availability of the film: http://library.auraria.edu/services/reserves/documents/VideoReq070709.pdf.
Films can be picked up at the AskUs Desk.
Booking forms are not required when you just want to walk into the Library and take out a film -- but a booking form can assure you that a film will be available and is not already booked.
Farhad Vakilitabar is now handling any questions related to booking videos and reports of damaged videos. Farhad's contact information is:
Farhad.Vakilitabar@ucdenver.edu or 303-556-5275.
Note that Ellen Metter is still your contact when it comes to purchasing new videos.
Films can be picked up at the AskUs Desk.
Booking forms are not required when you just want to walk into the Library and take out a film -- but a booking form can assure you that a film will be available and is not already booked.
Farhad Vakilitabar is now handling any questions related to booking videos and reports of damaged videos. Farhad's contact information is:
Farhad.Vakilitabar@ucdenver.edu or 303-556-5275.
Note that Ellen Metter is still your contact when it comes to purchasing new videos.
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