Wonding what's going on in West Palm Beach or Bowling Green, Kentucky? What about Sao Paulo, Brazil? or New Dehli, India? You can now find news sources from all over the world in Access World News, which contains local, regional, and national U.S. newspapers as well as full-text content of key international sources including newspapers, magazines, broadcast transcripts, newswires, and news videos.

DePaul's interface offers shortcuts to local news sources, like the Chicago Sun-Times, Chicago Tribune, and the Redeye, as well as key national papers, such as the New York Times, and the Washington Post. Access World News offers an easy to use keyword search for these individual titles, or you can browse issues by date, giving users an alternative to Lexis Nexis. And once you find an article you like, it is a snap to email yourself the full text, print it out, or export the citation information.

If you are looking for international news, you can use the interactive world map to choose a continent of interest, and then drill down to the country, state, and city level to browse local news sources in Egypt, Zimbabwe, or Bangladesh. 

 

The following content has been added to the Image Collection Database

Ancient Art: Classical Sculpture from the British Museum

Islamic Art: Decorated Manuscript Pages and Folios

African Art: Sculpture of the Songye Culture

Asian Art: Animals in Chinese Painting, Woodblock prints by Hiroshige

Medieval and Renaissance Art: Chartres Cathedral

Modern and Contemporary: Paintings by Rene Magritte, Works by Vito Acconci

Architecture: Images of the Quadracci Pavilion at the Milwaukee Art Museum by Santiago Calatrava

For more information about the Image Collection, or for assistance in locating images, contact the Image Collection staff.  

 

We now have access to a new online database for scholarly research, industry news, and market trends related to hospitality and tourism. Sources included in this database are domestic and international in scope, and full text is provided for many of the journals, company and country reports, and books.

You'll find Hospitality and Tourism Complete especially useful for research in these areas:

• Food & beverage management
  
• Hotel management & administration
• Hospitality law
• Culinary arts
• Leisure & business travel

Our research guides for Business & Economics and Management are great places to find additional resources in these areas. Or ask a librarian if you need suggestions for other places to continue your research. 

 

Although Christopher Columbus set out to discover a western ocean route to Asia in 1492, he instead stumbled across the Americas and sparked an era of exploration in the "New World". Columbus Day is now observed as a public holiday throughout the Americas and in many Spanish-speaking countries. In honor of the 400th anniversary of the historic voyage, Chicago hosted the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893, and in 1937 President Roosevelt proclaimed October 12th as "Columbus Day". Of course, much controversy surrounds this holiday, especially related to Columbus' treatment of indigenous people. In fact, Columbus was eventually accused of mismanagement in the New World and ordered back to Spain.

We have plenty of resources to help you learn more about the Age of Exploration; use the library catalog to search for books about exploration in the Americas, first encounters between Native Americans and Europeans, and other related topics. And use our History research guide to find databases like America: History and Life.

DePaul University Libraries are open as usual on Columbus Day.

photo: Images of Christopher Columbus and His Voyages: Selection from the Collections of the Library of Congress

Touted as the most comprehensive, consumer oriented health content around, Consumer Health Complete, is designed to support patients' information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. This database contains encyclopedias, fact sheets, and drug information, as well as featuring a Health Highlight (which is trick-or-treat safety tips this month!). Patrons can also browse by topic, and find information on Alternative Treatments, Food, Nutrition & Exercise, and Surgeries & Procedures. Remote access is available to current members of DePaul's community, and alumni can access this resource (and others!) in our library labs in both the Richardson Library and the Loop Library.  

Long before the days of blogging, one of the best ways to broadcast your opinion was by pamphleteering. An important means of public debate, pamphlets can offer today's researchers insight into popular attitudes and ideas of the time. And now JSTOR has released a digital collection of more than 20,000 19th-century British pamphlets covering a wide range of political, social, and intellectual thought. Some pamphlets include additional material like advertisements, maps, cartoons, letters, and petitions. 

If you're looking for primary resources from this period, try browsing the pamphlet collection from the title list, or try a keyword search using the Advanced Search screen and marking the checkbox labeled "Pamphlet".

Here are just a few examples of what you'll come across in this new resource (login remotely using your Campus Connect ID and password):

• A letter to George Washington, on the subject of the late treaty concluded between Great Britain & the United States of America, including other matters (1819) by Thomas Paine 

• Mr. J. S. Mill upon personal representation (1884) by John Stuart Mill

• Opinions of Women on Women's Suffrage (1879)

• A Letter to the Queen, in behalf of her suffering people: to which is added, a plain and ernest appeal to the fears of the land-owners (1841) by "The Poor Man's Friend" 

• A Word to the Wise: observations on peerage for life (1856) by Charles Babbage

• Army sanitary administration, and its reform under the late Lord Herbert (1862) by Florence Nightingale

Have you ever had trouble choosing a topic for a term paper?  Are you interested in following current events? Let CQ Researcher be your guide to the current social and political issues of our day.  CQ Researcher is a weekly publication that covers current and controversial issues with complete summaries, timelines and bibliographies. I like to use CQ as a starting point for research because it provides an overview of the issue at hand including a brief history of the topic, a look at the current situation and the outlook for the future.  Another cool feature is the pro and con argument found in each article, always helpful when writing on a controversial topic.   CQ Researcher can be used to browse topics as well, which can be helpful in choosing a viable paper topic.  As if CQ Researcher weren't great enough, they've expanded the scope to include international topics (see the CQ Global link on the right of the CQ hompage).  Impress your friends, amaze your professors! Use CQ from the library or at home! 

CQ is available in print and electronically.  To get to the database, type CQ Researcher into the library search box and login with your Campus Connection info.  The most recent print copies are located behind the Lincoln Park library reference desk and older issues can be found in the Reference Collection at the call number R. 909.82 E23a. 

 

It’s officially fall—if you listen carefully, you might be able to hear the post-summer whimpering of kids consigned to classrooms again. At one high school in New York, however, that also means creating comic books about their lives. In Manga High: Literacy, Identity, and Coming of Age in an Urban High School, Michael Bitz “explores the convergence of literacy, creativity, social development, and personal identity” and includes students’ original art and writing from his four-year study.

While hooking teens on writing via comics makes sense, something tells me that math might be a harder sell. Jo Boaler, a professor of mathematics education at Stanford University, sees this as a crisis. After following student progress and observing successful strategies, she articulates a new course of action in What’s Math Got to Do with It?: Helping Children Learn to Love Their Least Favorite Subject—and Why It’s Important for America.

Moving on to my own most favorite subject, Worlds of Sound: The Story of Smithsonian Folkways tells of Moses Asch’s lifelong quest to document “folk expression” in all its forms—folk, bluegrass, country, jazz, blues, and sound recordings that included tree frogs, the poetry of Langston Hughes, train locomotives, and civil rights sit-ins. His label’s amazing treasures became part of the Smithsonian collection after his death (and are available in our Smithsonian Global Sound database).

To see if any of our other new books sound good, look for the New Titles link in the catalog or check out the displays at the Lincoln Park or Loop Libraries.

 

We've replaced the Lincoln Park Campus microfilm readers with two new digital readers that offer options for both scanning and printing to paper. The new machines are faster, easier to use, and produce higher quality images. So getting material like historic issues of the  New York Times and the DePaulia on microfilm or documents from the ERIC education database on microfiche will be a little more convenient.

Digital scans of microfilm can be cropped and edited and then saved to a flash drive or emailed as an attachment. Paper printouts will remain free of charge. The new readers can accommodate microfilm, microfiche and ultrafiche.

Microfilm might seem intimidating at first, but we'll help you get the hang of it! Library staff are available to help you find the microfilm you need, set up the machines, and make your copies or scans.

Other new equipment in the library includes color photocopy machines that double as scanners, which were highlighted in a summer blog post and are ready for use at both the Lincoln Park and Loop campuses.

The Image Collection has added content in the following areas:

Ancient Art: Roman Painting

Northern Renaissance Art: Art from the Burgundian Court of Charles the Bold

Renaissance Art: Paintings and Drawings by Leonardo da Vinci

Baroque Art: Dutch cityscapes of the Golden Age

African Art: Costumes and Ritual Objects of the Zulu and Maasai Cultures

Modern Art: Work by James Ensor, Arthur Dove, Peter Blake, the Italian Futurists and the German artist group known as Die Brücke

Photography: The work of Robert Mapplethorpe and Ana Mendieta

For more information about the Image Collection, or for assistance in locating images, contact the Image Collection staff.  

Image: Leonardo da Vinci. Proportional Study of a Man in the Manner of Vitruvius. 1492. Gallerie dellAccademia di Venezia