Library closing at 3 today

Because of the incoming storm, the library will close at 3pm today, Tuesday March 14.  We apologize for the inconvenience.

Databases and ILLiad are currently unreachable *UPDATE*

Because of the recent windstorms affecting the Rochester area, Nazareth's internet service has been affected.  At this time, Nazareth is using a back-up internet service provider, and has not been able to establish service with our databases vendors and our interlibrary loan provider, ILLiad.  Nazareth ITS staff is continuing to work on this issue and will update the community as needed.  Thank you.

*UPDATE*
The library has been able to re-establish our connections with some of our database providers.  We are continuing to work to get all services restored.  Thank you.

Women's History Month Film Series: Free for Students!

March is Women's History Month!  Celebrate by watching some fantastic films by and about women at The Little Theatre.  Best of all, students get free admission with their college ID!

This month The Little Theatre in Rochester is celebrating Women's History Month with a collection of documentary and narrative films about trailblazing women. 

Special speakers, including local educators and women's right advocates, will lead audience discussion after most of the films.

The series is sponsored by a New York Council on the Humanities New York Action Grant, and co-presented by The Susan B. Anthony Institute for Gender and Women's Studies at the University of Rochester.

The screenings begin this Sunday at 3pm with Sonita.  Here is a short description from The Little:

If 18-year old Sonita had a say in things, Michael Jackson would be her father and Rihanna her mother. She captures her dream of being a famous rapper in her scrapbook. For the time being, her only fans are the other teenage girls in a Tehran shelter. There, Sonita, a refugee from Afghanistan, gets counseling for the traumas she has suffered and guidance in shaping her future. Her family has a very different future planned for her: as a bride she's worth $9,000. What's more, women aren't allowed to sing in Iran. How can Sonita still succeed in making her dreams come true?

Director Rokhsareh Ghaem Maghami ends up personally involved in answering that question, reigniting the discussion as to how documentary makers should relate to their subjects. This is just one of the many unexpected twists in an exciting journey replete with the setbacks and successes of a young women looking for her own path. The film's core consists of Sonita artistically arguing against the disastrous forced marriage practices that obstruct her freedom in an impressive, dramatic rap video.

This screening is presented with community partner Girls Rock! 

Girls Rock! Rochester is a 501c(3) nonprofit camp dedicated to using music creation and performance as tools for cultivating self confidence in girls and trans youth. The film will be introduced by members of Girls Rock! Rochester and a performance will follow the screening.

You can find out more about this film, and the others in the series, on The Little's website.  

If you'd like more information, please contact Ilka Datig at idatig5@naz.edu.  She is a member of the organizing committee and will be leading one of the panel discussions.  

TV News Archive: Search 1,300,000+ US TV News Broadcasts!

The TV News Archive, originally released in 2012, is an amazing resource for journalists, scholars, teachers and students.
 

In the Archive you can view over a million video clips from United States news broadcasts aired since 2009.

You can navigate the archive in a number of ways:

• Search closed captions and transcripts
• Use advanced search to search by network/broadcaster
• View clips from 1,333,000 shows since 2009
• Share custom show clips and track popularity
• Browse by special topics, such as 9/11, Trump Archive, and more!

The TV News Archive is run by the Internet Archive:  "The Internet Archive works to preserve the published works of human kind. Standing on the shoulders of Vanderbilt University’s Television News Archive project, the Internet Archive collects and preserves television news. Like library collections of books and newspapers, this accessible archive of TV news enables anyone to compare, contrast and quote statements from this influential medium."

More tips

Scan and view show segments:

• Shows are presented in 60 second segments, each with a video and corresponding transcript text.
• Scroll left and right to scan through segments of a show; search terms are highlighted in transcript text.
• To search within a show transcript text try Ctrl + F to search inside the page.

Share and embed short clips/quotes from a show:

• Shareable quotes are limited to 60 seconds. Refine your quote selection by clicking the “Edit” button and dragging the handles.
• Click a social media button to finalize and share your quote.
• Your quote will be assigned a permalink. You can always come back to see it!

If you have questions about using this resource, contact Ilka at idatig5@naz.edu. 

New E-book Collection Trial

For the next few weeks the library will be running a trial of the EBSCO ebook Academic Collection database.  You can access the database here from on campus.

Publisher's description:

"This growing subscription package contains a large selection of multidisciplinary eBook titles representing a broad range of academic subject matter, and is a strong complement for any academic collection. The breadth of information available through this package ensures that users will have access to information relevant to their research needs.

Offering more than 150,000 e-books, this collection includes titles from leading university presses such as Oxford University Press, MIT Press, State University of New York Press, Cambridge University Press, University of California Press, McGill-Queen's University Press, Harvard University Press and many others. Additional academic publishers include Elsevier, Ashgate Publishing, Taylor & Francis, Sage Publications and John Wiley & Sons.

Subject Coverage Includes:

Art
Business and  economics
Education
Language arts and discipline
Literary criticism
Medical
Performing arts
Philosophy
Poetry
Political science
Religion
Social science
Technology and engineering
Other academic fields
All titles are available with unlimited user access, and titles are regularly added to the collection at no additional cost."

Please send your feedback regarding the ebook database to Ilka Datig at idatig5@naz.edu.  We appreciate it!

Free access databases: including monographs, images, data and more

The librarians at the City Colleges of Chicago maintain an excellent list of free, public databases.  This list is regularly updated and is organized alphabetically (but can be searched by keyword by using Control-F on a standard computer).  Here are some of the highlights:

Gutenberg-e:  A digital book collection.

"Columbia University Press is pleased to announce that Gutenberg-e is now an open access site. These award winning monographs, coordinated with the American Historical Association, afford emerging scholars new possibilities for online publications, weaving traditional narrative with digitized primary sources, including maps, photographs, and oral histories."

Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930: A primary sources collection.

"Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930, is a web-based collection of historical materials from Harvard's libraries, archives, and museums that documents voluntary immigration to the United States from the signing of the Constitution to the onset of the Great Depression. Concentrating heavily on the 19th century, Immigration to the US includes over 400,000 pages from more than 2,200 books, pamphlets, and serials, over 9,600 pages from manuscript and archival collections, and more than 7,800 photographs. By incorporating diaries, biographies, and other writings capturing diverse experiences, the collected material provides a window into the lives of ordinary immigrants.

In addition to thousands of items that are now accessible to any Internet user, the collection includes contextual information on voluntary immigration and quantitative data. The site offers additional links to related digital resources on immigration to the US, including vital materials on the African diaspora."

OECD iLibrary:  A collection of economic reports.

"The online library of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) featuring its books, papers and statistics and is the gateway to OECD’s analysis and data."

    

If you have questions about using any of these databases, please send your question to the Reference Department at answers.naz.edu.

Celebrating African American History Month in February

February is African American History Month.  To mark the occasion we have gathered some items from our archives and general collection to celebrate.  You can see our display at the entrance to the library.

Please come visit the display, and send any questions to Ilka and Debbie at refdesk@naz.edu.