Westphal Research

Drexel faculty are invited to join colleagues and liaison librarians for the opening of a renovated space in W. W. Hagerty Library. Research Connections, Room 210, is a designated faculty space within the library that provides faculty a collaborative environment for researchers from across the University to gather to reflect, share, present, and/or discuss research, interdisciplinary ideas or projects of mutual interest. 

The room includes armchair seating for twelve, whiteboard and glass writing surfaces, a projector and a telephone hook-up for conference calls. Personal laptops may be used or borrowed from the Libraries' kiosk or circulation desk. If you are interested in seeing this new space, the Libraries will be hosting open house coffee hours. I'll be there to greet Westphal faculty on Thursday, May 9, from 3 to 4:30 PM.

Alexander Street Press, which provides access to collections such as American Song and Dance in Video, has announced improvements to their embedded media player.

These enhancements include:

• Full controls (play/pause, next/previous, volume control)
• Full-screen functionality with full controls
• Re-size the iframe to any size
• Rename the iframe to have any title you want to display above the embed by default
• View the summary metadata for each embed work, or track if it's a multi-track embed
• Audio embeds offers the pop out player from the embed itself
• Reliable and functional on all browsers.

Starting Fall quarter, Drexel Libraries will implement a new reserves system, Ares, to manage all library reserves requests. Library reserves requests will need to be submitted electronically through Blackboard Learn. This is a significant change to our reserves processing workflow, and we ask that you please begin thinking about and submitting your reserves requests as soon as possible.

Attached is some general information about Ares. The URL below will link you to an instructional video for submitting a request through Blackboard Learn. Expect more instructional materials, including videos and PDFs in the upcoming weeks.

http://rmcp.dcollege.net/playlists.aspx/1274/23596/html

If you are unsure of how to submit library reserves requests, please contact Laura Chance, Library Reserves Coordinator at W.W. Hagerty Library. Laura is offering one-on-one appointments, over the phone instruction, and Ares workshops to walk instructors through our new reserves processing. You can email her at lac344@drexel.edu or reach her by phone at 215-895-6786.

Drexel University Libraries now has access to the Vogue Archive, which is a complete searchable archive of American Vogue, from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images.

Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world’s greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.

The archive is available via the library's catalog and in the Design and Merchandizing and Fashion Design research guides.