Citizens All: African Americans in Connecticut 1700-1850
Yale University
"Citizens All" is the collaborative work of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition (GLC) and the Center for Media and Instructional Innovation (CMI2) at Yale University. Aimed at both students and teachers, this project illustrates the importance of local history in creating as well as challenging how national and global histories are retold. The stories of international history begin with local events, with the stories of individuals, real people and places in our own backyards.
The project provides a scholarly introduction to the history of slavery in Connecticut, the process of gradual emancipation, and the struggle for citizenship rights by free blacks and abolitionists both within and beyond the state's boundaries.
The story of African Americans' efforts to become full citizens raises important questions about the very definition of "citizenship" and the ideals upon which the United States was founded. We hope that the project contributes to larger discussions of issues such as freedom, education or citizenship and stimulates new discoveries about the legacies of slavery and racism at local, regional, national and international levels. "Citizens All" grew out of GLC involvement with the US Partnership of the UNESCO Transatlantic Slave Trade Education Project: Breaking The Silence.
Don't forget other resources for local history.
CT Freedom Trail.Developed by the CT Historical Commission, this site includes information on ites in the state that are associated with the movement towards freedom of African-American citizens.
CT Historical Society. This website includes an online guide to African American Resources at the historical society.
Connecticut State Library. The library has a research guide on African Americans in CT and Slavery in CT.
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
Does Google Go Deep Enough?
Does Google's Web Search Go Deep Enough Into Scholarly Archives?
Many scholarly archives on college and public Web sites don’t show up in Google because the search engine doesn’t index them — they’re in what many call the “deep Web,” below the level that most search engines look. A new study found that fewer than half — just 44 percent — of a sample group of deep-Web pages from scholarly archives showed up in Google searches. This is just another reason to use the databases provided by the Goodwin Library.
Source: Wired Campus: The Chronicle of Higher Education July 29 2008
Many scholarly archives on college and public Web sites don’t show up in Google because the search engine doesn’t index them — they’re in what many call the “deep Web,” below the level that most search engines look. A new study found that fewer than half — just 44 percent — of a sample group of deep-Web pages from scholarly archives showed up in Google searches. This is just another reason to use the databases provided by the Goodwin Library.
Source: Wired Campus: The Chronicle of Higher Education July 29 2008
Digital Collection: New York Public Library
New York Public Library Digital Gallery.
Launched in 2005, the NYPL Digital Gallery is one of the largest open-access image databases available on the Internet. Featuring more than 600,000 digital images, content covers a variety of subjects from the arts to science and technology and includes all kinds of primary materials, such as manuscripts, maps, photographs, prints, restaurant menus, sheet music covers, and much more from the special collections of the NYPL Research Libraries and the Mid-Manhattan Library Picture Collection. The Digital Gallery offers basic and advanced searches and also allows users to browse alphabetized lists of names, subjects, and libraries. As an added enhancement, users may select and store around 50 or more images for later viewing using the “selections” option.
(Illustration: Charting North America: Maps from the Lawrence H. Slaughter Collection: Part of New England, New York, east New Iarsey and Long Iland)
Access: New York Public Library Digital Gallery
Frontiers of Science
U.S. News & World Report features "Frontiers of Science" in the August 4-11 issue. The editors pulled together some of the big scientific questions with these stories:
How will humanity evolve?
What will we eat?
Where will global warming hit home?
How did life begin?
Will we find it in the heavens?
The magazine is in the library and may be checked out. This issue makes for very interesting reading.
How will humanity evolve?
What will we eat?
Where will global warming hit home?
How did life begin?
Will we find it in the heavens?
The magazine is in the library and may be checked out. This issue makes for very interesting reading.
Try a New Search Engine: CUIL
Welcome to Cuil—the world’s biggest search engine. (Cuil is an old Irish word for knowledge--pronounced "cool".)
The Internet has grown. It’s time searching did too. The Internet has grown exponentially in the last fifteen years but search engines have not kept up—until now. Cuil searches more pages on the Web than anyone else—three times as many as Google and ten times as many as Microsoft.
Rather than rely on superficial popularity metrics, Cuil searches for and ranks pages based on their content and relevance. When it finds a page with your keywords, it stays on that page and analyzes the rest of its content, its concepts, their inter-relationships and the page’s coherency.
Then Cuil offers you helpful choices and suggestions until you find the page you want and that you know is out there. Cuil developers believe that analyzing the Web rather than users is a more useful approach. Cuil doesn't collect data about you and your habits. With Cuil, your search history is always private. Very cuil!
Source: www.cuil.com
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
Highlighting Academic OneFile
This week's highlighted database is Academic OneFile. Academic OneFile is a comprehensive, subscription-based database that currently contains more than 12,000 journals covering topics from Science, Technology and Medicine to the humanities. This easy-to-use database is the perfect fit for academic libraries, providing both academics and students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels with the ultimate periodical resource for serious research.
Use Basic Search to define your own search strategy. Results are presented in reverse chronological order. Choose Basic Search from the navigation bar. For a broader or more limited search, you may use and, or and not connectors, or limit the results to documents with full-text, peer-reviewed publications, documents with images, publication date or publication title. You may select one or more articles for viewing from the results list in full-text. Academic OneFile is available 24/7 and effortlessly delivers quality content researchers can trust.
Use Basic Search to define your own search strategy. Results are presented in reverse chronological order. Choose Basic Search from the navigation bar. For a broader or more limited search, you may use and, or and not connectors, or limit the results to documents with full-text, peer-reviewed publications, documents with images, publication date or publication title. You may select one or more articles for viewing from the results list in full-text. Academic OneFile is available 24/7 and effortlessly delivers quality content researchers can trust.
Occupational Outlook-Summer 2008
Occupational Outlook Quarterly — Summer 2008
Occupational Outlook Quarterly provides practical information on jobs and careers. Articles are written in straightforward, non-technical language and cover a wide variety of career and work-related topics such as new and emerging occupations, training opportunities, salary trends, and results of new studies from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In this issue:
+ Working in politics (PDF; 881 KB)
+ The class of 1993: Earnings and occupations by college major, 1 and 10 years after graduation (PDF; 2.1 MB)
+ Healthcare jobs you might not know about (PDF; 664 KB)
+ Brief items of interest to counselors and students
+ You’re a what? Home stager (PDF; 216 KB)
+ Job openings by industry (PDF; 280 KB)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Occupational Outlook Quarterly provides practical information on jobs and careers. Articles are written in straightforward, non-technical language and cover a wide variety of career and work-related topics such as new and emerging occupations, training opportunities, salary trends, and results of new studies from the Bureau of Labor Statistics.
In this issue:
+ Working in politics (PDF; 881 KB)
+ The class of 1993: Earnings and occupations by college major, 1 and 10 years after graduation (PDF; 2.1 MB)
+ Healthcare jobs you might not know about (PDF; 664 KB)
+ Brief items of interest to counselors and students
+ You’re a what? Home stager (PDF; 216 KB)
+ Job openings by industry (PDF; 280 KB)
Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics
Monday, July 28, 2008
Randy Pausch
Carnegie Mellon professor Randy Pausch, author of The Last Lecture, died Friday morning at his Virginia home.
Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given three to six months to live, Pausch responded last September 12 by delivering a last lecture at Carnegie Mellon called "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams." A videotape of the lecture became a YouTube hit and Pausch expanded its text into the best-selling book, The Last Lecture. Full of humor and common sense, and addressed to his three young children, the lecture urged listeners to dream and play and to not allow obstacles to discourage them. The book is available in the Goodwin Library.
Diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and given three to six months to live, Pausch responded last September 12 by delivering a last lecture at Carnegie Mellon called "Achieving Your Childhood Dreams." A videotape of the lecture became a YouTube hit and Pausch expanded its text into the best-selling book, The Last Lecture. Full of humor and common sense, and addressed to his three young children, the lecture urged listeners to dream and play and to not allow obstacles to discourage them. The book is available in the Goodwin Library.
Friday, July 25, 2008
Today in History: Collision at Sea
July 25, 1956
En route from Genoa, Italy, to New York City on a foggy July night, Italy's postwar pride, the passenger liner SS Andrea Doria, collides with the eastbound liner MS Stockholm off Nantucket, Massachusetts, and sinks, killing 46 Andrea Doria passengers and 5 crew members from the Stockholm. Later investigations determine the accident is a result of faulty radar signals and poor ballast. Legal claims against the two shipping firms, who established a joint legal fund, eventually exceed $40 million.
Source: Smithsonian Magazine July 2008
CQ Researcher: Human Rights in China
When the curtain rises on the Summer Olympics next month in Beijing, China will eagerly showcase its hypersonic economic growth and its embrace of what it calls the "rule of law." But 19 years after its bloody suppression of protesters in Tiananmen Square, China will also be displaying its human-rights record for all to judge. Human-rights advocates say the sheen of Chinese progress and prosperity hides repression and brutality by the Chinese Communist Party, including the violent repression of pro-independence protesters in Tibet, forced abortions stemming from China's one-child policy and the trampling of basic freedoms of speech, religion and assembly. Chinese government officials say their nation of 1.3 billion people has made huge strides on the legal and human-rights fronts and that the West has no business interfering in China's internal affairs
(The picture: A Tibetan protester in Brussels, Belgium, last April calls for a boycott of the Summer Olympics in Beijing following a violent crackdown by Chinese security forces on pro-independence demonstrators in Tibet. (AFP/Getty Images/John Thys)) CQ Researcher is available online from the Goodwin Library (password protected)
MapJack
Immerse yourself in panoramic views of Yosemite National Park; Chiang Mai, Thailand; and San Francisco using MapJack, a new alternative to Google Street View and Microsoft's Live Search Maps. MapJack has brighter, sharper photos than the others, and better navigation tools. To start exploring, just click and drag the icon of a person along the map in the bottom half of your browser; the photographic images in the upper portion will automatically refresh. Start-ups like Earthmine and EveryScape are developing similar next-gen maps, but for now, MapJack offers the best preview of the future of digital mapping.
Source: www.mapjack.com
Visual Introduction to the Periodic Table
The Royal Society of Chemistry has provided a free, online visualization of the Periodic Table of Elements. Click on the info button for html and pdf files that provide background information on any element. Adobe Acrobat Reader is required to read pdf files.
AccessL Royal Society of Chemistry Periodic Table
Digital Collection: Duke University
Duke Digital Collections. Founded in 1995, the Duke University Libraries’ Digital Collections have amassed impressive digital image holdings from various collections. Subjects cover an array of national and international subjects. While the database allows for federated keyword searching across the featured collections, other collections must be browsed by subject or through the alphabetized list of collection names. Access the collection here
Featured collections are freely available on the Internet and include the Emergence of Advertising in America, Ration Coupons on the Home Front (1942–1945), and the 50,000 item William Gedney Photographs and Writings collection.
Featured collections are freely available on the Internet and include the Emergence of Advertising in America, Ration Coupons on the Home Front (1942–1945), and the 50,000 item William Gedney Photographs and Writings collection.
Cellphones and Your Health
The director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute sent a memo yesterday to his employees saying that, despite many published studies saying otherwise, cellphone use could be hazardous.
Ronald B. Herberman, director of the institute and a tumor immunologist, advised staff members to keep conversations short, to hold phones away from their heads, and not to allow children to use mobile phones. He said that the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the phones could cause “possible adverse health effects including cancer.”
Dr. Herberman based his memo on the recommendations of an international panel of scientists, on which he served. The panel reviewed unpublished data.
The studies that have been published have produced conflicting results, but the largest studies found no link between cellphone use and cancer, the Associated Press reported.
Source: Lila Guterman in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Ronald B. Herberman, director of the institute and a tumor immunologist, advised staff members to keep conversations short, to hold phones away from their heads, and not to allow children to use mobile phones. He said that the electromagnetic radiation emitted by the phones could cause “possible adverse health effects including cancer.”
Dr. Herberman based his memo on the recommendations of an international panel of scientists, on which he served. The panel reviewed unpublished data.
The studies that have been published have produced conflicting results, but the largest studies found no link between cellphone use and cancer, the Associated Press reported.
Source: Lila Guterman in The Chronicle of Higher Education
Monday, July 21, 2008
Statistics Research: Sports
Resources of the Week: Niche Statistics
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor
In the course of the average workweek, we are often asked for something that involves statistics. Surprisingly, someone out there is collecting information no matter what the subject. Check out this sports business data collection. (You may need to do this off campus because your computer here is likely to be blocked from sports-related sites.)
Rodney Fort’s Sports Economics: Sports Business Data
Professor Fort, who teaches at the University of Michigan, is one of the nation’s preeminent sports economists. The collection of data here is staggering in both depth and breadth. Fort has assembled years of salary, attendance, and financial information for Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, the National Hockey League, and English and European football associations. If it’s not here, you are likely to have a very difficult time trying to find it — especially for free, on the open Web.
Source: Resource Shelf July 2008
By Shirl Kennedy, Senior Editor
In the course of the average workweek, we are often asked for something that involves statistics. Surprisingly, someone out there is collecting information no matter what the subject. Check out this sports business data collection. (You may need to do this off campus because your computer here is likely to be blocked from sports-related sites.)
Rodney Fort’s Sports Economics: Sports Business Data
Professor Fort, who teaches at the University of Michigan, is one of the nation’s preeminent sports economists. The collection of data here is staggering in both depth and breadth. Fort has assembled years of salary, attendance, and financial information for Major League Baseball, the National Basketball Association, the National Football League, the National Hockey League, and English and European football associations. If it’s not here, you are likely to have a very difficult time trying to find it — especially for free, on the open Web.
Source: Resource Shelf July 2008
Friday, July 18, 2008
Digital Collection from the Library of Congress
This is the second in our series of great digital collections:Library of Congress American History and Culture Collections.
The American History and Culture Collections, also known as the American Memory Historical Collections, began as a pilot project in 1990 to provide middle school as well as high school teachers and students with digital surrogates of collection material on CD-ROM. Over the years, the collection has become a “National Digital Library” with diverse institutions from all across the United States contributing content. Rich in imagery, the collection may be searched or browsed by way of alphabetized subject lists, time periods, and geographical locations. American Memory Historical Collections features more than 100 thematic subjects ranging from advertising to maps to women’s rights.
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The American History and Culture Collections, also known as the American Memory Historical Collections, began as a pilot project in 1990 to provide middle school as well as high school teachers and students with digital surrogates of collection material on CD-ROM. Over the years, the collection has become a “National Digital Library” with diverse institutions from all across the United States contributing content. Rich in imagery, the collection may be searched or browsed by way of alphabetized subject lists, time periods, and geographical locations. American Memory Historical Collections features more than 100 thematic subjects ranging from advertising to maps to women’s rights.
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Thursday, July 17, 2008
Three FREE Databases
The Connecticut Digital Library (iCONN) announced this week that 3 free EBSCO databases have been turned on for libraries in Connecticut.
GreenFILE: offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Teacher Reference Center: Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 periodicals. In addition, 96% of journals indexed in TRC are peer-reviewed. Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education. It is EBSCO Publishing's intention to provide access to TRC on a continual basis at www.TeacherReference.com. It will also be added to the databases on the library page.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts(tm) (LISTA): indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
GreenFILE: offers well-researched information covering all aspects of human impact to the environment. Its collection of scholarly, government and general-interest titles includes content on the environmental effects of individuals, corporations and local/national governments, and what can be done at each level to minimize these effects. Multidisciplinary by nature, GreenFILE draws on the connections between the environment and a variety of disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology. Topics covered include global climate change, green building, pollution, sustainable agriculture, renewable energy, recycling, and more. The database provides indexing and abstracts for approximately 384,000 records, as well as Open Access full text for more than 4,700 records.
Teacher Reference Center: Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for more than 270 periodicals. In addition, 96% of journals indexed in TRC are peer-reviewed. Topics include: Assessment, Best Practices, Continuing Education, Current Pedagogical Research, Curriculum Development, Elementary Education, Higher Education, Instructional Media, Language Arts, Literacy Standards, School Administration, Science & Mathematics, and Teacher Education. It is EBSCO Publishing's intention to provide access to TRC on a continual basis at www.TeacherReference.com. It will also be added to the databases on the library page.
Library, Information Science & Technology Abstracts(tm) (LISTA): indexes more than 500 core journals, more than 50 priority journals, and 125 selective journals; plus books, research reports and proceedings. Subject coverage includes librarianship, classification, cataloging, bibliometrics, online information retrieval, information management and more. Coverage in the database extends back as far as the mid-1960s.
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
New Additions to Credo Reference
Latest Additions to Credo Reference
• Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, Routledge
• Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature, Routledge
• Concise Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology, Routledge
• Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, Elsevier
• Encyclopedia of Ethics, Routledge
• Encyclopedia of Insects, Elsevier
• Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, Routledge
• Encyclopedia of the Solar System, Elsevier
• Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, Elsevier
• An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930,
• Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children, Routledge
• International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management, Elsevier
• Science in the Ancient World: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO
• Science in the Early Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO
• Science in the Enlightenment: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO
Credo Reference is a leading online reference services for libraries and information centers. There are over 300 titles consisting of an aggregate of 3.1 million entries all interconnected by over 100,000,000 links. Access from the library page!
• Companion Encyclopedia of Asian Philosophy, Routledge
• Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature, Routledge
• Concise Encyclopedia of Plant Pathology, Routledge
• Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs, Elsevier
• Encyclopedia of Ethics, Routledge
• Encyclopedia of Insects, Elsevier
• Encyclopedia of Post-Colonial Literatures in English, Routledge
• Encyclopedia of the Solar System, Elsevier
• Encyclopedia of Volcanoes, Elsevier
• An Encyclopedic Dictionary of Women in Early American Films: 1895-1930,
• Handbook of Research on the Education of Young Children, Routledge
• International Encyclopedia of Hospitality Management, Elsevier
• Science in the Ancient World: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO
• Science in the Early Twentieth Century: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO
• Science in the Enlightenment: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO
Credo Reference is a leading online reference services for libraries and information centers. There are over 300 titles consisting of an aggregate of 3.1 million entries all interconnected by over 100,000,000 links. Access from the library page!
Interlibrary Loans at Goodwin Library
In the first 15 days of July, Goodwin Library has had Interlibrary Loan transactions with:
Granby Public Library (PL), James Blackstone Memorial L (Branford), New Fairfield Free PL, Jonathan Trumbull L (Lebanon), Phoebe A. Noyes L (Old Lyme), Brooklyn PL, Hartford Seminary, E. Hampton PL, Scotland PL, Killingly PL, Cragin Memorial L (Colchester), Plumb Memorial L (Shelton), New London PL, Sprague PL (Baltic), Milford PL, Babbidge L (UCONN Storrs), Easton PL, New Britain PL, Buley L (SCSU), Briarwood College, and Prospect PL.
Granby Public Library (PL), James Blackstone Memorial L (Branford), New Fairfield Free PL, Jonathan Trumbull L (Lebanon), Phoebe A. Noyes L (Old Lyme), Brooklyn PL, Hartford Seminary, E. Hampton PL, Scotland PL, Killingly PL, Cragin Memorial L (Colchester), Plumb Memorial L (Shelton), New London PL, Sprague PL (Baltic), Milford PL, Babbidge L (UCONN Storrs), Easton PL, New Britain PL, Buley L (SCSU), Briarwood College, and Prospect PL.
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Are Your Wrists at Risk?
Learn About Carpal Tunnel Syndrome
You’re working at your desk, but you’re distracted by a tingling or numbness in your hand and wrist. Then a sharp, piercing pain shoots from your palm through your arm. If you’ve had symptoms like these for several days—or worse, weeks—or if they keep you up at night, you may have carpal tunnel syndrome.
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You’re working at your desk, but you’re distracted by a tingling or numbness in your hand and wrist. Then a sharp, piercing pain shoots from your palm through your arm. If you’ve had symptoms like these for several days—or worse, weeks—or if they keep you up at night, you may have carpal tunnel syndrome.
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