Librarian Andrew Frank will conduct drop-in training sessions on RefWorks on Tuesday’s and Wednesday’s from 3-4 pm in the Alden Room on the lower level of the library.   RefWorks is web-based software which allows you to easily copy and store cited references from various databases, and quickly generate bibliographies in any citation style (Chicago, MLA, APA, etc.). 

For more information, or to schedule additional RefWorks training sessions, please contact Andrew at franka@dickinson.edu.

More information about RefWorks is available on the Library website at:  http://lis.dickinson.edu/Library/Research/CitingRes/refworks.html

The Library has a free trial from now through November to RIPM (Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals). RIPM covers music literature from 1800 to the mid-20th century, when RILM’s coverage begins.

For more information about RIPM, see www.ripm.org.

The Library has just added the Fantasy Jazz Catalogue to its Naxos Music Library subscription. This collection of jazz, blues, and R&B music has been compiled from labels such as Prestige, Debut, Riverside, Stax and Volt, Specialty, and Pablo.  To access it, just click the link to Naxos Music Library Jazz on the Library’s Databases page.

This resource allows for two simultaneous users, so please click “log out” when finished.

Over the summer we evaluated each book in our print reference collection.  We moved many items to the circulating collection, or replaced them with more current print or electronic editions.  The result is a smaller, but more up-to-date, browsable print reference collection.   The space gained will be used for additional seating and special displays.

Oxford Islamic Studies is now available online and listed with the Library’s databases. This fully integrated resource features reference content and commentary by renowned scholars in areas such as global Islamic history, concepts, people, practices, politics, and culture.

The Contemporary Literary Criticism Series is now available online and is listed among the Library’s databases as “Literature Criticism Online”. Literature Criticism Online represents a range of modern and historical views on authors and their works across regions, eras and genres. It Includes Contemporary Literary Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 1400-1800, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, as well as Drama Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Shakespearean Criticism, and Short Story Criticism.

One of the benefits of our recent library catalog update is an improved language limiter.  Now, if you want to search for a work in a particular language, just select that language from the drop-down menu below the “search” and “reset” buttons.

This is particularly useful to those who are looking for foreign language films.  From the drop-down menus, select the desired language and format (DVD or videotape), and only films with dialogue in that particular language will be displayed in the search results.