This short video shows you how to search WorldCat effectively, refine your results, create a WorldCat account and export your results to RefWorks.
Rock On With Rock’s Backpages
Rock’s Backpages is a massive library of rock music reviews, interviews, features and more from the early 1960s right up to the present day. The fulltext articles are sourced from magazines such as Creem, Rolling Stone, New Musical Express, Melody Maker, Crawdaddy! and Mojo. Articles are fully searchable by artist, date, genre, keyword etc. including a sophisticated ‘advanced search’ option. Rock’s Backpages also provides exclusive mp3 audio files of original source interviews.
We’ve made Rock’s Backpages available both on and off campus. Check it out!
App of the Week: SpringerLink
Leading scientific publisher Springer has just launched a SpringerLink mobile app for iPhone and iPod Touch. The app is free to download from iTunes and provides unlimited access to over 5.4 million documents (including abstracts, book and journal covers, and more than 127,000 open-access research articles) spanning every area of science, technology and medicine.
Nova Scotian Institute of Science Proceedings Online
The Dalhousie Libraries are pleased to announce that Volumes 1 to 34 of the Proceedings of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science are now available online. Spanning the years 1863 to 1984, the historic back issues of the journal can be found in the DalSpace repository.
The Libraries embarked on this digitization project to provide greater access to the Proceedings and to highlight the achievements of the Nova Scotian Institute of Science, a learned society which celebrates its 150th anniversary in 2012. The online publication contains hundreds of articles written by Nova Scotian scientists and provides insights into the history of science and the development of scientific research throughout the province.
Funding for this project was granted by the Dalhousie Libraries Digital Initiatives Committee and through a donation from the Nova Scotian Institute of Science.
The Vogue Archive Online, On Trial
We’re offering The Vogue Archive for your viewing pleasure on a trial basis! The trial runs until February 17, and as part of our suite of Proquest databases it is available on and off campus.
The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition) from 1892 to the present day, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. More than 400,000 pages are included, constituting a treasure trove of the work from the greatest designers, photographers, stylists and illustrators of the 20th and 21st centuries. Vogue is a unique record of American and international popular culture that extends beyond fashion. The Vogue Archive is a great primary source for the study of fashion, gender and modern social history past, present and future.
New Streaming Audio Available in Online Classical Music Library
Great news for classical music lovers! Alexander Street Press has just added 1,409 new albums (over 35,000 tracks) to its Classical Music Library, an online database of streaming audio. The new release contains content from EMI Classics, Angel Records, Capitol Catalog, and more. Check out the list of new tracks – there’s something for everyone.
The Classical Music Library also has free biweekly downloads. You can sign up for alerts when new tracks are made available and follow news and announcements on Alexander Street Press’ music blog. Happy listening!
Novanet Libraries Food Drive
FOOD FOR FINES
January 30 – February 10, 2012
Reduce or clear your library fines with food!
For every non-perishable food item donated, participating Novanet libraries** will reduce your library fine by $2, to a maximum of $20. All food donations will be given to Feed Nova Scotia (recommended items).
Bring your donations of canned goods or other non-perishable foods to the Circulation Desk at any of the Dalhousie Libraries during regular hours. We accept cash as well, and you can make contributions even if you don’t owe book fines.
Good for the libraries, good for the food bank — good for you!
**Food For Fines is an initiative of the libraries at Mount St. Vincent University, Dalhousie University, University of King’s College, Cape Breton University, Atlantic School of Theology, St. Francis Xavier University, Saint Mary’s University, Nova Scotia Agricultural College, NSCAD University, and the Nova Scotia Community Colleges.
Killam Learning Commons Closure
On Wednesday, December 21 the South Learning Commons in the Killam Library will be CLOSED to the public until 10 am. This is to allow Custodial Services to clean and polish the floors.
For Help Desk assistance please see staff at the Circulation Desk. Hardware Services and the Atlantic Research Data Centre will be unavailable until 10 am.
We apologize for any inconvenience!
Killam Holiday Hours
Wednesday Dec. 21: 8 am – 6 pm
Thursday Dec. 22: 8 am – 6 pm
Friday Dec.23: 8 am – 12 pm
Saturday Dec. 24: CLOSED
Sunday Dec. 25: CLOSED
Monday Dec. 26: CLOSED
Tuesday Dec.27: CLOSED
Wednesday Dec. 28: 10 am – 6 pm
Thursday Dec. 29: 10 am – 6 pm
Friday Dec. 30: CLOSED
Saturday Dec. 31: CLOSED
Sunday Jan.1, 2012: CLOSED
Monday Jan. 2, 2012: CLOSED
Regular hours resume on Tuesday January 3, 2012.
Business Expert Press’s Digital Libraries
The Libraries are offering Business Expert Press’s Digital Libraries on a trial basis. These ebooks will be available until January 21, 2012 (trial has been extended as site was down temporarily).
Business Expert Press publishes concise, practical ebooks for students advancing towards degrees in business/management, or anyone, in fact, interested in entrepreneurship. For students seeking a BS or MBA, BE Press authors translate real-life business experiences into teaching tools in topics such as accounting, supply chain management, cultural issues, and sustainability. Editors from Georgetown University, the University of Southern California, Boston University, Georgia Tech and others are building curriculum-connected collections mapped to the programs taught in business and management schools, so they’re relevant for today’s students.
Explore this resource now, and let us know what you think!