Primary source collections

Among the online resources available through the libraries are the Alexander Street Press collections known as "The Street." This is a group of 11 document files from diverse subject areas. You will find here primary sources for drama, poetry, and black studies; as well as letters and diaries from various historical periods. See Alexander Street Press under "Other Collections."

The Chronicle of Higher Education online

A site license for The Chronicle of Higher Education is now in place. Members of the campus community – faculty, staff, and students – can now get access to the on-line version of The Chronicle from campus computers, or from off campus with a campus computer account.

From on campus, you can go directly to The Chronicle site at http://chronicle.com without further authorization.

If you are off campus you need to go through the proxy server at http://webproxy.potsdam.edu:2048/login?url=http://chronicle.com or find the link on the Libraries’ web page; go to Finding Articles>For Newspaper Articles. You will be prompted to enter your campus computer account username/password.

Project Muse: online journal collection...

The large collection of online journals in the arts, humanities, and social sciences known as Project Muse includes a diverse and exciting array of journals from many of the world's leading university presses and scholarly societies. One can search the entire collection or browse through individual journals. Many fields of study at SUNY Potsdam will find materials of interest in this rich resource.

New QUIET study room

Do you need silence to study? Is the second floor of the library too loud for you, even when everyone's being mostly quiet? Does the barely-audible music from everyone else's headphones distract you completely?

Then we have an new option for you when you study. We're proud to announce the creation of the Silent Study Room, on the second floor of Crumb Library. Room 204 (waaaay back in the corner by the art books) is now a room for Silent Study, with a couch, a few soft chairs, a few tables, and NO talking, NO headphones, and NO other ambient noise.

If silence is your thing, check it out. If not... have you tried the group study tables in the basement?

Let us know what you think of this idea (or anything else) in the Suggestion Box by the Circulation Desk!

Google and Microsoft "Book Search"

Add Microsoft to the list of those providing access to scanned books. As with the earlier release of "Google Book Search", the "Microsoft Live Book Search" allows complete viewing only for out-of-copyright titles. This beta release claims to contain "tens of thousands" of books. Links to both services, as well as many other online book collections, such as the venerable Project Gutenburg, and the fine directory of online book collections - the Online Books Page at the Univ. of Pennsylvania - are on the library's E-Books page.

Iraq Study Group Report

An online version of the Iraq Study Group report has been posted. Find it at: http://permanent.access.gpo.gov/lps76748/iraq_study_group_report.pdf
This is a report of a bi-partisan committee.

Children's Book Week

This week is Children's Book Week, which has been celebrated the week before Thanksgiving in schools in libraries for more than 80 years.

In honor of Children's Book Week, may I suggest a few of my favorites?

• The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster, in Crumb Library at Juv. PZ 8.J98 PH
• The Little House books, by Laura Ingalls Wilder, in Crumb Library at Juv. PZ7.W6461 Li2
• The His Dark Materials trilogy by Phillip Pullman, in Crumb Library at Juv. PZ7.P968 Go 1996
• Click Clack Moo, by Doreen Cronin, in Crumb Library at Juv. PZ7.C88135 Cl 2000

You can search for your favorite kids' books easily in BearCat by choosing "Juvenile" in the drop-down "Change Collection" box. (No boring grown-up book results in those searches!)

Click here for more information on the history of Children's Book Week, where they say,

"Book Week brings us together to talk about books and reading and, out of our knowledge and love of books, to put the cause of children's reading squarely before the whole community and, community by community, across the whole nation. For a great nation is a reading nation."

Enjoy!