The annual Innovative Users Group conference was held in San Francisco April 23-26. Three from Middlebury attended. Here are some of the highlights from my perspective. More
Posts by Arabella Holzapfel
Innovative Users Group – a conference report
Categories: LIS Staff Interest
Tags: Conference Reports
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British Documents from the past in China – trial through May 14
Categories: LIS Staff InterestUntil May 14, we have access to three Chinese history collections:
China: Culture and Society 
Spanning three centuries (1750-1929), this resource makes available rare pamphlets from Cornell University Library’s Charles W. Wason Collection on East Asia. In addition, China: Culture and Society features a host of secondary resources, including scholarly essays, an interactive chronology, mini guides, and editors’ choices from the collection.
China: Trade, Politics and Culture 1793-1980
This digital collection offers English-language sources relating to China and the West, 1793-1980, including: papers of key individuals involved in the Chinese Maritime Customs service; papers of missionaries active in all regions of China; fully searchable run of the Chinese Recorder, 1867-1941, and more.
Foreign Office Files for China, 1919-1980
The complete British Foreign Office files dealing with China, Hong Kong and Taiwan during these decades of 1919-1980. The documents cover politics, industry, trade and cultural affairs and include eyewitness accounts, weekly and monthly summaries, and economic assessments and synopses on leading Chinese personalities.
Email eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu or your liaison with comments please.
A to Z maps – on trial until June 15th
Categories: LIS Staff InterestA to Z maps online provides 100,000s of royalty-free, downloadable maps for academic and non-commercial use.
- USGS data
- GIS files
- Historic and antique maps
- Geological and topographic maps
- CIA maps
- Political maps across time (e.g. Africa with changing borders throughout the 20th century)
- Multiple and unusual projections
- Hurricane maps
- Volcano maps
- Flags of the world
- Tree and bird distribution maps
- Educational maps and games (crossword puzzles!)
- and more…
We have free access until June 15th. Let us know what you think – email eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu or your liaison.
Summon slow and/or down
Categories: Helpdesk Alerts, LIS Staff InterestWe have received the following from the folks at Summon:
the Summon service has experienced interruptions in service. We are aware of the issue and actively working to resolve it. We will follow up again once we have more detail.
It just took well over a minute to get the search screen when I typed “go/summon” in an address bar. I did a very simple search a couple of minutes ago and the connection timed out. A comment to this post will be added when we become aware that service is restored.
Tags: Service Outages
Trial: Oxford History of Western Music
Categories: LIS Staff InterestThe Middlebury College community has 30 days to evaluate the usefulness of the Oxford History of Western Music . Fascinating text and images including scores,
archival illustrations,
and more! Browse through the Oxford History of Western Music and let us know what you think. Email us at eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu or contact your liaison.
Friday Links – March 29, 2013
Categories: LIS Staff InterestIf Famous Websites Were People
What would the LIS Blog act like? Comments, please.
Blog censorship by threat of lawsuit: Posts removed...
Friday links – March 22, 2013
Categories: LIS Staff InterestMerchandising the Circ Desk: the importance of visual cues: “… The lesson: put your stuff on display. Just like in a jewelry store or a bakery, seeing sells. Make it visible to the people who need it see it. Shape an encounter that encourages browsing. …”
Digital Theatre Plus – trial access through April 13
Categories: LIS Staff Interest“Experience the thrill of live theatre brought directly to your teaching space” through Digital Theatre Plus. We have trial access to this through April 13th. At this time, only username-password access is provided. (Campus-wide access should be available by the time we decide whether to purchase.) If you would like login credentials, please send an email from a middlebury.edu email account to eaccess-admin@middlebury.edu.
After you use Digital Theatre Plus, let us know what you think! Please send feedback to Rebekah Irwin or your liaison.
