Streaming live today (Wednesday, January 13th) the First Annual World’s Fair Use Day is a free day-long web event that lets you listen in on the conference that is being held in Washington, DC.  If the legal use of copyrighted materials in contexts such as higher education is an important topic for you, and it is really important for all of us, why not listen in.

Welcome back everyone!

This Fall I’m trying something new.  I am offering online office hours with Adobe Connect.

Twice a week (starting September 24th), on Mondays and Thursdays from 3pm to 4pm, I will be online in a virtual meetingspace ready to help you with your research needs.  Here is the link: http://drexelmeeting.na4.acrobat.com/r55763449/

screenshot of Adobe Connect meetingspace

With this tool, you will be able to watch me demonstrate a database, explain how to collect citations with RefWorks or Zotero, or chat about your research topic, all in realtime.  Adobe Connect is AV chat ready to facilitate a real discussion and several people can be in the meetingspace at once, so a whole group can join in the conversation.

This will be a trial to see if there is interest in this kind of service.  If there is, I may be able to expand the hours I am available.

And don’t worry, I’ll still be just as available as I always have been. You can reach me in person or electronically over IM, email, or phone.

Literature Criticism Online (trial) through June 11th

For the next month the Library will have a trial subscription to the Literature Criticism Online database. The trial allows you to explore the extensive fulltext resources of Gale’s ten major literary criticism series. While selected content from each series is available online to the Drexel community in the related database Literature Resource Center, and Hagarty Library has partial runs of four of the ten series in our Reference collection, the LCO offers the fulltext access to the complete backfile of each series.

The database includes the Contemporary Literary Criticism, Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism, Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature Criticism from 14001800, Shakespearean Criticism, Classical and Medieval Literature Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Short Story Criticism, Drama Criticism, and Children’s Literature Review.

Of course, as with all of our database trials, I am very interested in hearing your response to this resource.

So, welcome to my new Humanities blog! This will hopefully become an outlet for me to let you know about new resources for the humanities available to Drexel University students. Some of these will be library resources like new databases or books and journals. Some of what I will be writing about will be interesting websites available to everyone over the internet. And sometimes I will write about new tools and techniques that could help you interact with humanities information in a new way.

I welcome comments, tips and suggestions and am especially interested in hearing what tools and resources you find most helpful.