Find out the connection this Thursday and take part in a conversation on gaming culture.
May 24, 4 to 5 PM
W.W. Hagerty Library, room L-33 (Lower Level)
| Kevin Impellizeri, doctoral candidate in history at the University of Delaware, will discuss his research on a DIY community of programmers who built games for the Bally Astrocade console in the 1980s. From 1978-1986, they published a newsletter before moving to a Usenet group. Visit their online treasure trove for Astrocade enthusiasts at Bally Alley. |
 | Kevin has been tracing the group’s motivations, development, and conversations about ownership production. The case study is a part of Kevin’s larger research project on the history of video games and American culture. A Q&A session and discussion will follow the presentation. |
Get research assistance for your Engineering 103 project. Schedule a library consultation with Jay Bhatt, Liaison Librarian for Engineering. Visit the Libraries’ Engineering Research Guides and click on the “Book a Reference Consultation” button below the chat widget. It’s easy!
Also check out additional resources for engineering research – there are several tutorials designed specifically for your ENGR 103 project.
Upcoming workshops:
Attention upperclassmen and graduate students – do you know how to find watershed studies? Do you know what review articles are, how to find them, and why they are useful?
Learn the answers to these questions tonight (Wednesday, Feb 1), along with other useful tips and strategies for getting started with research in your discipline. There will be time at the end of the session to ask questions. Workshop registration is not required.
| Workshop Topics- Types of research sources
- Review articles
- Subject versus multidisciplinary databases
- Database limiters
- Reference management tools
Time: February 1, 4:00 to 5:00 PM
Location: W.W. Hagerty Library, room L33 |
TUESDAY NOVEMBER 8 – 4-5pm – Hagerty Library room L33
Whether just starting your research or looking to push the boundaries of your existing projects you need to know what’s happening in your field and who the movers & shakers are. This workshop will demonstrate how the Web of Knowledge databases can help you dig deeper in your research topic and quickly uncover the most critical journals, researchers and research centers that you’ll need to follow. Using the Web of Knowledge’s linking features, you can identify the threads of the research conversation that are most important to your own work, and then learn to follow them quickly and easily.
Sign up in advance with an email to LibInstruction@drexel.edu.
We’ve told you about Find It, and now we introduce you to Get It, another useful tool for finding what you need from the Drexel Library website. We are very excited to announce that we are replacing SFX, our old full text finding system with Get It, which will be much more user friendly, dependable, and higher quality. Press the Get It button anywhere you see it to link from database citations and abstracts to full text articles.
Don’t get Get It? Give it a shot and see how it works. If you have questions or feedback, we want to know. Please email erlib@drexel.edu.
