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From the TCU Library blog What's New at the TCU Library?
TCU Library Staff Excellence Recognition Award
Attention TCU faculty, staff and students! Here’s your chance to thank a library staff member who has been especially helpful to you or to honor someone who has distinguished himself/herself as an outstanding library employee.Mary Couts Burnett Library is currently accepting nominations for its 12th annual TCU Library Staff Excellence Recognition Award, sponsored annually by the Friends of the TCU Library. The honoree will receive a certificate of merit and a monetary award at a holiday gathering in January.
Please return the nominating form (Staff Award Nomination Form) to John Araujo, Chair of the Award Committee, TCU Box 298400, by Friday, December 11, 2009.
2009 Library Staff Recognition Award Committee
John Araujo, Chair
Dr. June Koelker (Dean)
Dr. Karen Steele, Chair Faculty Library Committee
From the TCU Library blog Special Collections at TCU
The upcoming KERA documentary, "Living with the Trinity," includes photographs and video from the Jim Wright Papers. It airs Monday, 23 November, at 9pm on channel 13. Check it out.
From the TCU Library blog Arts & Humanities Lifeline
Hello All,
I just finished teaching a wonderful class on fiction written for children and juveniles in 19th century America (before Kindle and IPod people). Below is a list of primary and secondary resources for research purposes.
The best search terms are "children's literature" and "juvenile literature." Also, once you have your text and author, use them in the databases to search for more resources that review their text, other items they may written and criticism of their work.
19th Century Periodical Resources
Have a good one,
Ammie E. Harrison
Arts and Humanities Librarian
I just finished teaching a wonderful class on fiction written for children and juveniles in 19th century America (before Kindle and IPod people). Below is a list of primary and secondary resources for research purposes.
The best search terms are "children's literature" and "juvenile literature." Also, once you have your text and author, use them in the databases to search for more resources that review their text, other items they may written and criticism of their work.
19th Century Periodical Resources
Have a good one,
Ammie E. Harrison
Arts and Humanities Librarian
From the TCU Library blog Library Basics for New Users
Learn to use the TCU Library online, anytime!
Learn to use the TCU Library online with Searchpath 2009!Searchpath will teach you...
- How to find and evaluate information sources.
- How to choose a topic and how to find sources and info for that topic.
- How to search the TCU Library catalog.
- How to find articles in our online databases, how to pick the right database, and how to distinguish between popular and scholarly (or peer-reviewed) journals.
- How to better search the Web, and how to evaluate information found on the Web.
- How to cite your sources, including copyright information and how to avoid plagiarism.
From the TCU Library blog Government Information Connection
In the morning of December 7, 1941, United States Naval and military forces in Hawaii were attacked by Japanese bombers, sustaining tremendous losses of both life and equipment. It was this attack that caused the US to enter World War II.
Four years later, after Japan's defeat, Congress set out to "make a full and complete investigation of the facts relating to the events and circumstances leading up to or following the attack." (S. Con. Res. 27, 79th Cong.). The Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack was formed to determine whether or not anything could or should have been done to prevent the attacks and to suggest ways to prevent similar attacks in the future. These hearings ran from November, 1945- May 1946.
Copies of the hearings are available this month in the Government Documents Alcove. They include testimony and copies of documents relevant to the hearings. They cannot be checked out, but they can be read in the library and copied.
Please stop by the Government Information office if you need assistance.
Four years later, after Japan's defeat, Congress set out to "make a full and complete investigation of the facts relating to the events and circumstances leading up to or following the attack." (S. Con. Res. 27, 79th Cong.). The Joint Committee on the Investigation of the Pearl Harbor Attack was formed to determine whether or not anything could or should have been done to prevent the attacks and to suggest ways to prevent similar attacks in the future. These hearings ran from November, 1945- May 1946.
Copies of the hearings are available this month in the Government Documents Alcove. They include testimony and copies of documents relevant to the hearings. They cannot be checked out, but they can be read in the library and copied.
Please stop by the Government Information office if you need assistance.
From the TCU Library blog Frog Triage
From the TCU Library blog Business Exchange
Here is a pdf version of the power point I showed tonight. The links should all be good. Basically, it contains some websites for self-assessment of career interests and websites that describe the nature, typical day, salary ranges, etc. of various careers. As an added bonus, some of the websites give job hunting advice, industry information, etc.
FIGCareerResearch
Annoyingly, you have to click the link twice.
Enjoy!
FIGCareerResearch
Annoyingly, you have to click the link twice.
Enjoy!
From the TCU Library blog Science is Meant to be Social
Perhaps I read too much Slate, but I really do like most of the writing on their site. Today, I came across an article by Tim Wu called, "Is there 'Hope' for Shepard Fairey?: How does fair-use law work anyway?"
Wu begins his article with a fair-use case that is currently in the news: Shepard Fairey is the artist who created the poster of President Obama called "Hope" (You can see it here). He used an AP photo of President Obama to create this particular poster. Fairey is now accused of lying about which AP photo he used and is caught in a legal battle over whether his use of the photo constitutes "fair-use."
At the library, we are very concerned about copyright issues and plagiarism, which is why we try to provide access to all the writing style guides and links to citation guides on the web.
In this particular article in Slate, Wu does a great job of explaining how fair-use law works in terms of copyright issues and gives some good examples of how it can be applied.
If you're interested about learning more about copyright and fair-use, this article is worth a read.
Wu begins his article with a fair-use case that is currently in the news: Shepard Fairey is the artist who created the poster of President Obama called "Hope" (You can see it here). He used an AP photo of President Obama to create this particular poster. Fairey is now accused of lying about which AP photo he used and is caught in a legal battle over whether his use of the photo constitutes "fair-use."
At the library, we are very concerned about copyright issues and plagiarism, which is why we try to provide access to all the writing style guides and links to citation guides on the web.
In this particular article in Slate, Wu does a great job of explaining how fair-use law works in terms of copyright issues and gives some good examples of how it can be applied.
If you're interested about learning more about copyright and fair-use, this article is worth a read.