Knox College Library News

Seymour Library

Friday, November 13th (8am – 1am)
Saturday, November 14th  - Sunday, November 15th (9am – 1am)
Monday, November 16th - Friday, November 20th (8am – 2am)

Saturday, November 21st (8am – 1am) *Finals end 10pm
Sunday, November 22nd (12noon - 3pm)

Winter Break Hours
Monday – Friday (8:30am – 5pm)

Science & Math Library

Friday, November 13th (8am – 12 midnight)
Saturday, November 14th  - Sunday, November 15th (10am – 12 midnight)
Monday, November 16th - Friday, November 20th (8am – 12 midnight)

Saturday, November 21st (8am - 11pm) *Finals end 10pm
Sunday, November 22nd CLOSED

The Illinois State Library has made available dozens of databases on a trial basis for the month of October. The Try-It! program requires a login, so please inquire at the Reference Desk in Seymour Library (x7228) or contact a librarian to obtain the login information.

The Knox College Library is please to announce that the following new databases and electronic resources are now available to Knox students, faculty and staff.

• Access World News provides access to local, in-state, national and international news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs, news web-only content and video.
• Consumer Health Complete is a comprehensive resource for consumer-oriented health content. It is designed to support patients’ information needs and foster an overall understanding of health-related topics. Consumer Health Complete provides content covering all areas of health and wellness from mainstream medicine to the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated medicine. In addition, Consumer Health Complete includes the Clinical Reference System and the Lexi-PAL Drug Guide, which provides access to up-to-date, concise and clinically relevant drug monographs.
• Grove Music Online includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, the Oxford Companion to Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music.
• MasterFILE Premier is a multidisciplinary database providing full text for nearly 1,750 general reference publications with full text information dating as far back as 1975. Covering virtually every subject area of general interest, MasterFILE Premier also contains full text for nearly 500 reference books and 164,424 primary source documents, as well as an Image Collection of over 453,000 photos, maps & flags.
• Oxford Language Dictionaries Online features essential language resources - fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.  Offering over 4 million words, phrases and translations in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese, the site also features native speaker audio pronunciation - allowing you to hear how words actually sound.
• Political Science Complete provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,900 titles and full text for more than 500 publications, including top-ranked scholarly journals, recent reference works, and professional conference papers. Its coverage consists of a wide range of topics such as law and legislation, comparative politics, political theory, international relations, humanitarian issues and non-governmental organizations. This database replaces World Wide Political Science Abstracts.
• SocINDEX with full text is the world’s most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,986,000 records with full text for 708 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 780 books and monographs, and full text for 9,333 conference papers. This database replaces Sociological Abstracts.

The Knox College Library announces a new digital collection of images and documents: Railroads in the Midwest: Early Documents and Images. This collection showcases documents, letters, photographs, and ephemera from Knox College’s Special Collections and Archives related to the history of railroads in the Midwest from the 19th century through the early 20th century up until the introduction of diesel engine technology.

Documents and maps in this collection covering the early history of railroads in the Midwest, and in Illinois in particular, provide evidence that railroads played the major role in the economic and demographic development pageant of westward expansion during the 19th century. Images in this collection document the grandeur of steam locomotive technology, and also give us a glimpse of life connected to the railroad. Allen A. Green (Knox College class of 1903) took many of the photographs in this collection.

Seymour Library
Wednesday, June 3rd  - Friday, June 5th (8:30am-5pm)
Saturday, June 6th (8:30am-4pm)
Sunday, June 7th  - Monday, June 8th (CLOSED)

Summer hours begin Tuesday, June 9th (8:30am-5pm)

Science and Mathematics Library

Wednesday, June 3rd  - Friday, June 5th (9am-3pm)
Saturday, June 6th - Monday, June 8th (CLOSED)

Summer hours begin Tuesday, June 9th (9am-3pm)

The Knox College Library will host several events to celebrate National Library Week.

Monday, April 13th - LC Egg Hunt (Seymour Library, Andrews Forum, 4pm)
How well do you know the Library of Congress classification system? Teams of 2-3 students will test their skill using the library catalog’s new feature “Text me this call number”. Interested teams should register at the Seymour Library circulation desk.

Tuesday, April 14th – Happy Library Worker Day!
Did you know that the library employs 16 full and part-time employees and over 70 students? Be sure to thank them for their efforts today!

Galesburg Public Library – Land of Lincoln Statewide Read: Connecting with Mr. Lincoln, a talk by Dr. Edward Carwardine. Dr. Carwardine is the only British author to win the prestigious Lincoln Prize awarded by the Lincoln and Soldiers Institute at Gettysburg College. He will be speaking at Galesburg Public Library at 6:30pm.

Wednesday, April 15th – Book Give-away
Free books in the Seymour Library lobby all day!

Thursday, April 16th – Trivia Contest (Muelder Reading Room, 4-6pm)
Feel like your liberal arts education has exposed you to just about everything? Test that theory with the Knox Library Trivia Contest. Open to teams of 4-6 students; sign-up your team at the Seymour Library circulation desk. Space is limited so register early!

Friday, April 17th – Caxton Club (Seymour Library, 4pm)
Chris Kraus is a filmmaker and the author of I Love Dick and Aliens & Anorexia, and coeditor of Hatred of Capitalism: A Semiotext(e) Reader. Index called her “one of the most subversive voices in American fiction.” Her work has been praised for its damning intelligence, vulnerability and dazzling speed.

All Week Long:
Books that Changed Your Life on display on the first floor of Seymour Library.

Galesburg Public Library - April 1 through April 26. Life on the Mississippi - An exhibit of photographs by Knox College Alumnus, Jenna L. Price. The photographs feature contemporary life of people living along the Mississippi river and was previously displayed at Knox College.

The Library has ongoing trials for the following databases.

• Safari Tech Books Online
  Safari Tech Books Online, a joint venture of O’Reilly Media and The Pearson Technology Group, provides full text of thousands of books in computer science, networking and technology fields: certification, enterprise computing, Java, Linus/Unix, Web development, Windows, XML, and more. Books in this collection are fully searchable. This trial expires June 26, 2009.

• Environmental Impact
  This multi-faceted database is “… a single comprehensive bibliographic information resource on climate change and other influences of humans on the biosphere. It also covers other aspects of man’s damage to the environment such as pollution, deforestation, desertification and habitat loss.” The database includes full text of 57 ebooks, CAB Reviews articles, links to climate change reports, and indexing for over 5000 journals. Note: To search the entire database, click on Abstracts Database from the top menu. This trial runs through June 15, 2009.

• Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
  Oxford Language Dictionaries Online features essential language resources - fully searchable, completely comprehensive bilingual dictionaries, and unique study materials that provide extra help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.  Offering over 4 million words, phrases and translations in French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, and Chinese, the site also features native speaker audio pronunciation - allowing you to hear how words actually sound. This trial expires May 3, 2009.

• SocINDEX with Full Text
  SocINDEX with Full Text is the world’s most comprehensive and highest quality sociology research database. The database features more than 1,986,000 records with full text for 708 journals dating back to 1908. This database also includes full text for more than 780 books and monographs, and full text for 9,333 conference papers. This trial ends June 18, 2009.

• Political Science Complete
  Provides indexing and abstracts for more than 1,900 titles and full text for more than 500 publications, including top-ranked scholarly journals, recent reference works, and professional conference papers. Its coverage consists of a wide range of topics such as law and legislation, comparative politics, political theory, international relations, humanitarian issues and non-governmental organizations. PSC’s focus is worldwide, reflecting the globalization of contemporary political discourse. This trial ends June 18, 2009.

• Grove Music Online
  Available through the Oxford Music Online gateway, Grove Music Online includes the full text of The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition; The New Grove Dictionary of Opera; and The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, second edition.  The database also includes access to the full text of the Oxford Companion to Music, The Encyclopedia of Popular Music and the Oxford Dictionary of Music. This trial ends April 17, 2009.

• Access World News Research Collection
  Research unique current and archived news content for information on topics, events, issues, people, businesses, and more through this in-depth resource. Easy online access to local, in-state, national and international news sources, including newspapers, broadcast transcripts, newswires, news blogs, news web-only content and video. Alerts and “my personal” functionality helps students and faculty track and manage their research projects. This trial goes through June 2009.

• The American West
  This online resource is collection of primary sources from the Everett D. Graff Collection at the Newberry Library, Chicago. The collection contains original manuscripts, ephemeral material (trade cards, wanted posters, photos, claim certificates, news-sheets etc), maps, and rare printed works. (Documents in pdf are not available for downloading for this trial.) This trial lasts has ended.

The Library is pleased to announce that ARTstor is now available to members of the Knox community.

“ARTstor is a digital library of nearly one million images and related data in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes; and a restricted usage environment that seeks to balance the rights of content providers with the needs and interests of content users. ARTstor is a non-profit initiative, founded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, with a mission to use digital technology to enhance scholarship, teaching and learning in the arts and associated fields.”

–from the ARTstor blog

Please note: In order to use ARTstor, your computer and browser must meet certain minimum specifications. Please contact the Help Desk if you are unsure of your current specifications, or if you need help upgrading your browser.

The Knox College Library & The Office of Instructional Technology will be presenting a series of brown bag lunches this year featuring demonstrations and discussions of technology-based information products and services that enhance teaching and learning in the liberal arts.

These brown bag sessions will meet in Ferris Lounge from noon until 1:00.  Coffee, iced tea, and water will be provided. The schedule for this fall’s ‘Technology in 20 Minutes’ programs is:

• Monday Sept 22:  What is RefWorks and how does it help you manage information? [handout-pdf]

• Wednesday Oct 1st:  How to link to online articles for electronic reserves (or in a Moodle page) [handout-pdf]

• Tuesday Oct 14th: Using Choice Reviews Online to select books for the library’s collections [handout-pdf]
  

• Thursday Nov 6th:  What is RefWorks and how does it help you manage information? [handout-pdf]

• Friday Nov 14th:  Using Choice Reviews Online to select books for the library’s collections [handout-pdf]
  

Knox College now subscribes to The Birds of North America Online from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the American Ornithologists’ Union. This database provides photos, images, habitat maps, and, in some cases, sound and video, for birds of all species in North America. In addition, the articles summarize characteristics such as behavior, breeding, food habitats, conservation and management, etc. based on the available scientific research. Full bibliographic references are provided.