Winter at Nazareth College

Librarians spend a lot of time thinking about ways to get students inside the library, teaching them about our resources and services - which are extensive and wonderful. Even with campus-wide access available, we really like to see them come through our doors. With that said, sometimes it’s good to go outside, look beyond our usual confines and embrace how winter, especially this year, has transformed the campus into a wintry wonderland. Really photo worthy!

This weekend Campus Activities Board, Student Activities & Leadership and the Undergraduate Association will be hosting the annual Winter Wonderland event, reminding me of winter festivals I’ve read about in the college Archives.

Beginning with winter picnics at Powder Mills Park in the ‘30’s, the festivals became popular annual events after the college moved to our present location in 1942. Highlights included snow sculpture competitions among the classes, sledding and ice skating, dances, concerts, and, of course, a Winter Weekend Queen.

We may not crown a court anymore, but the college’s Winter Wonderland event will still be lots of fun and good way to start off the new semester. And don’t forget to bundle up and get outside and take a few minutes to enjoy our beautiful campus.

-Deborah Janetos, Reference Librarian and Library Archivist

Chicago Manual of Style: 17th Edition

The newest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style was released in Fall 2017.  We have a copy located at the Reference Desk, and have updated our Chicago Citing Handouts.

The goods news is that there are very few changes that will affect how the majority of students use Chicago Style to cite their sources!  Some changes are noted below, along with information on where students can learn more in the Manual.

The biggest change is that Chicago is giving more clarification on how scholars should cite digital materials.  As before, they emphasize citing digital sources using a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) when available.  For most articles, the DOI will be listed on the first page (1.33).  The other option is to use a permalink (rather than copying a URL directly from the browser address bar) (14.9).  Most databases have a Permalink or Durable URL function (look for something that looks like a link chain).

They have also expanded their description of how to cite websites, blogs, and social media (14.205-10).

You can read a full description of what's new in the 17th Edition on the Chicago Manual of Style website.

The Washington Post has a somewhat humorous take on the changes.  The OWL at Purdue has also updated their Chicago Manual of Style tip sheets.

If you have any questions, please contact us!

Two Hundred Years on the Erie Canal, 1817-2017

The library is currently hosting a traveling exhibit on the history of the Erie Canal, from now until December 22, 2017.  The exhibit is located in the Browsing Lounge, on the main floor near the entrance of the library.

The exhibit, titled "Two Hundred Years on the Erie Canal, 1817-2017" celebrates the 200th anniversary of the groundbreaking of the Erie Canal.

Postcards from the Canal Society of New York State

The archival images in the exhibit come from the New York Heritage Digital Collections and the Digital Public Library of America.  The exhibit itself comes from the Rochester Regional Library Council and has been traveling to different libraries across the state throughout this year.

We have supplemented the exhibit with some related materials from our own collections.  Time also published some 'surprising facts' about the Erie Canal that are fun to read.  You can also visit the Canal Society of New York State online collections via the New York Heritage site.

As a bonus, we've also collected some children's books related to the Erie Canal and are displaying them near the children's room.

We hope you enjoy the exhibit!

The Archives: A Student's View

The Nazareth Library archives offer researchers a space for study and a safe environment to store valuable artifacts for future generations. The collections include catalogs, department and college newsletters, The Gleaner, hundreds of photographs, memorabilia, newspaper clippings and much more. We are excited to be able to share the history of Nazareth College, and look forward to assisting in any way we can.

Recently, one of our library student assistants wrote up a description of the Archives and how they've played a role in her academic work here at Naz:

From Dana Teets, Museums, Archives, Public History & Legal Studies Major

"Did you know that Nazareth has a Museums, Archives and Public History major? Well, now you do. I was the first person to declare that major here at Nazareth and I have done a couple of cool things since declaring it. One being, helping Deborah Janetos down in the college archives in the basement of the Lorette Wilmot Library.

The archives hold old school records, photos, department t-shirts, old banners, posters, diploma cases, alumni memorabilia that was donated, etc. I focused mostly on the oversized boxes that needed to be cataloged and organized.

 

While this experience may sound boring to some, it is actually quite enriching when you’re going into the field that I am. I encourage anyone who wants to have a future in museums, archives or public history to seek out any opportunity that they can! Any experience is good experience; you learn from it all whether it be good or bad."

For more information about the Archives, contact Deborah Janetos, our Archivist.  

New additions to our Art & Art History collections!

The library recently received a large donation of art and art history books from the estate of Thomas Frey.  His collection has greatly expanded our collections in Renaissance art and 19th Century art (including many books on Van Gogh), as well as ancient and modern art.

  

Mr. Frey was a Monroe County executive and an avid art enthusiast.  He often traveled to art exhibits and collected exhibition catalogs, which are a sizeable portion of the donations he made to our library.

   

Mr. Frey generously donated his entire collection to our library, in hopes that these books would be used and appreciated by the excellent visual and performing arts students, as well as the rest of our scholarly community at Nazareth.

 

Mr. Frey's obituary from the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle is available here.

Database Trial: Sage Research Methods

Our library is currently conducting a trial of SAGE Research Methods, a platform designed to support the teaching and learning of research methodology at all levels, step by step.

We have access through November 10, 2017, at this link: http://methods.sagepub.com/.

PUBLISHER DESCRIPTION:

SAGE Research methods has a wide array of tools and materials to support research and teaching, by providing not only more than 800 reference works, books and journals, but also interactive tools such as methods lists and the methods map.

What is SAGE Research Methods?

For Student Research:

• Over 220,000 pages of content covering hundreds of methodological approaches help students at every step of their project
• Concise author videos answer basic questions like “How do I choose between different research methods?” and “What do you mean by the term‘ethnography’?”

For Faculty Research:

• Offers critical support in learning new techniques and methods
• Provides crucial resources to help faculty write up their methodology for publication in the best research journals
• Provides in-depth understanding of advanced methods and includes online access to the complete Quantitative Applications in the Social Sciences (QASS) series, also known as “The Little Green Books,” as well as the Qualitative Research Methods Series (QRMS), or “The Little Blue Books” Teaching Research Methods
• Perfect complement to coursework and traditional textbooks in research methods courses for Business, Communications, Criminology, Education, Health Sciences, Psychology, Political Science, Social Work and Sociology
• Sample assignments help students easily connect to concepts
• Aids faculty who oversee research papers and theses requiring original research

More information is available on the SAGE Research Methods guide or in their brochure.

You can try a search below.  Please note that the trial is only available on campus.  If you have any questions, please contact the Reference Department.  Let us know what you think!

New Database Feature: Save PDFs Directly to Google Drive

In any EBSCOhost library database, you now have the option to save the PDF Full Text of an article directly to your Google Drive.  Our EBSCOhost databases include:

• Academic Search Elite
• Business Source Elite
• CINAHL
• Education Source
• and more that you can find our Databases List

To save an article to your Google Drive:

From the article detail page click the Google Drive icon in the tools menu on the right.

If you are not logged into your Google Drive account, you will be prompted to do so.

Note: Google authentication opens in a new window. If your browser is set to block pop-up windows, you may need to allow your browser to open a new window in order to log in.

Click Allow to authorize EBSCO to view and manage files in your Google Drive.

Click OK to close the Google Drive panel after it has indicated that your article has been saved.

Your articles are saved to Google Drive in an "EBSCO" folder.

This is a great new way of saving articles efficiently.  Please contact the Reference Department if you have any questions.