The Modern Language Association has updated their guidelines for formatting bibliographies in scholarly works. The updates include changes in formatting for the titles of books, periodicals and other published materials, changes in citing online resources and more.
A guide to the new revisions can be found at Purdue University’s Online Writing Lab.
Ramsey Library has recently welcomed the transfer of the Early American Imprints collection on microfiche from Appalachian State University’s Belk Library. This collection is widely accepted as the definitive resource for primary source materials about life in 17th and 18th century America.
The collection includes books, pamphlets, presidential letters, government reports and other materials published between 1639 and 1819.
Series I is based on Charles Evans’ American Bibliography and Roger Bristol’s Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography. This series covers 1639-1800. Series II is based on Ralph B. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker’s American Bibliography, 1801-1819.
Early American Imprints can be found in the microforms section on the ground floor of Ramsey Library.
JSTOR, well-known to many students as the preeminent online archive of over one thousand academic journals, has announced its merger with Ithaka, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping institutions of higher education make productive use of information technology. This merger will come with a name change; the newly formed organization will be called Ithaka. For now, we will refer to the archive as both JSTOR and Ithaka.
Tuesday afternoon found the lobby of Ramsey Library full of students eager to see President Obama's historic inauguration. The plasma televisions in the lobby and Cafe Ramsey stayed tuned to inauguration coverage all day, so that students could stay abreast of the events in Washington, D.C.
A Blessed and Happy New Year from all your friends and colleagues in Ramsey Library!
“OLD” ONLINE CATALOG UNAVAILABLE THRUSDAY, 1/8
Ramsey Library’s old and familiar online catalog will be unavailable most of the day Thursday, 1/8 in order to install a new catalog server at Appalachian State. You can, however, still search the library’s catalog by taking advantage of the Beta version of our new and much improved interface, AquaBrowser. You can access AquaBrowser from a link on the library’s home page or more directly by going to http://aquabrowser.wncln.org. Take it for a spin. We think you’ll be impressed. PLEASE NOTE: While the main server’s being replaced AquaBrowser will work but will not show call numbers.
A NEW GUIDE TO THE BEWILDERING QUESTION OF “FAIR USE”
In a mid-November release, the Chronicle of Higher Education announced that a new guide by American University’s Center for Social Media offers free legal advice to clarify the fair use provisions of copyright law “. . . —and its authors say that the "fair use" provisions of copyright law are more permissive than many professors may think.” The “Code of Best Practice in Fair Use for Media-Literacy Education” was created over 10 meetings involving more than 150 educators before being reviewed by a panel of lawyers “who are experts in fair use.” Be sure to check it out as well as other guides to the use and ownership of intellectual property at UNC Asheville’s intellectual property web site.
“Panel Issues Guide to Using Copyrighted Material in the Classroom”
Chronicle of Higher Education
11 November 2008
The Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Media Literacy Education
American University Center for Social Media
UNC Asheville Intellectual Property/Copyright
UNC Asheville Intellectual Property/Copyright ~ Copyright Information
IS THE REIGN OF GREAT BOOKS OVER? AGAIN??
If you missed this in the Chronicle due to end-of-semester crunch, you may want to give a look to The Chronicle Review’s December 19, 2008 essay, “What Ails Literary Studies; Reading’s Next Chapter; Great Books and the Consensus Canon Breathe Their Last.” The essay also asks “What will take their place?” Well, whatever it is, NOTES FROM RAMSEY LIBRARY hopes we already have it! See where you stand on the argument!
“What Ails Literary Studies”
The Chronicle Review
December 19, 2008
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