Library News for English Literature

British Humanities Index

We now have on-line access to the British Humanities Index.  Below is a brief description:

'An international abstracting and indexing tool for research in the humanities, BHI indexes over 370 internationally respected humanities journals and weekly magazines published in the UK and other English speaking countries, as well as quality newspapers published in the UK. Regular monthly updates ensure subscribers can retrieve the latest material on a wide range of arts and humanities subjects, aided by a completely interactive thesaurus and the capability to link to electronic fulltext of many journal articles.' (from BHI Factsheet)

http://libproxy.wustl.edu/login?url=http://www.csa.com/htbin/dbrng.cgi?username=rain29&access=rain2929&db=bhi-set-c&adv=1

I will be adding BHI to the MultiSearch groups.

Password change and reset forms

If you have forgotten your library password, you can now reset and change it yourself using online forms.  Both forms require you to enter your email address.  You need to use your @artsci.wustl.edu address.

Links to the forms are below.

Password reset:  https://interface.wulib.wustl.edu/patron/password-reset/

Password change:  https://interface.wulib.wustl.edu/patron/password-change/

Please email passwordhelp@wumail.wustl.edu or call 314-935-5410 if you need help.

New database-- Medieval Sourcesonline

"Developed from the Manchester University Press Medieval Sources series, this is an exciting electronic project which provides the full text of all of the books in the series for students, academics, colleges and universities. Bringing an amazing wealth of information together for the first time Medieval Sourcesonline delivers crucial history documents to the desktop quickly and easily." (from database homepage)

NOTE: Not actually a searchable database across all the texts; browse to find individual works and use the search function within Acrobat to search the PDF files.

New Databases in MultiSearch Groups

I have recently updated the MultiSearch groups to include the following databases/ebooks:

English Literature MultiSearch Group:

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers-- subject gateway

Book Review Index--index   
Iter Gateway to the Middle Ages and Renaissance--index
Times Literary Supplement-- ejournal
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography--ebook
Oxford Reference Online--ebook
18th Century Journals II-- newspapers
Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages--ebook
International Medieval Bibliography--index
Medieval and Early Modern Sources Online--subject gateway
Middle English Compendium--ebook
Literary Encyclopedia—ebook

Books in Print--index
Times Digital Archives-- newspapers

American Literature MultiSearch group:

17th-18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers-- subject gateway
Book Review Index--index   
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography--ebook
Oxford Reference Online--ebook
Radical Scatters--subject gateway
North American Women's Drama-- subject gateway
Literary Encyclopedia--ebook
19th Century Newspapers-- newspapers
Books in Print--index
North American Letters and Diaries-- subject gateway
20th Century North American Drama-- subject gateway

 

You  can get to these groups by selecting MultiSearch from the University Libraries' homepage.  Once at the MultiSearch page, choose the appropriate subject group, and you will see the list of databases.  It is best to search each database individually rather than as a group.

Meet the New Subject Librarian

Please join me in Olin Library's Ginkgo  Reading Room on Wednesday, March 19^th from  4-6 p.m. 

If you are unable to attend, please give me the opportunity to meet you via telephone, email, or in person.  I would be happy to come to your office, or you could find me in office #124 in Olin Library.

I also include a brief bio below.

 
Kris Helbling began November 1^st, 2007 as a Reference/Subject Librarian for American and English Literature.  Kris is a native of St. Louis and has experience in teaching English at Clayton High School and at Fontbonne University.  She earned her MAT (Masters of Arts in Teaching, English concentration) from Washington University, recently changed careers and in 2004 completed a Masters of Library Science degree at the University of Missouri-Columbia.  You can contact Kris at helbling@wustl.edu, 5-7466, or at the Olin Reference Help Desk.

 

New Off-Campus Access Service

Using subscription databases off-campus will be much easier with the Libraries' new proxy service. You'll be asked to log in once using your WU ID number and the password you use to log on to the public computers in the Libraries. Then, you will in most cases be able to navigate freely among the various databases and journal packages (there are some exceptions). Additional information is here; please let us know if you encounter any problems.

Logging on to the ILLiad Interlibrary Loan System

All library patrons who have an ILLiad interlibrary loan account will be receiving an email about a change in the log on procedure. Instead of using your current username and password, you'll use your university ID number and the password you use to log on to library computers. This change will occur 8/24-8/29. If you have questions or encounter problems, contact Nada Vaughn at 935-4087 or the Olin Library Help Desk at 935-5410.

ArticleReach Direct for Getting Articles Quickly

The Libraries have launched a new unmediated delivery service for requesting journal articles. As usual, for immediate access, check to see if the Libraries provide the full text in paper or electronic format via the familiar Get it! retrieval options. But if not, follow the ArticleReach Direct link and click through the forms. You'll receive an email message when the article is ready, usually 2-3 days, and you'll log in to My Catalog to retrieve it. More information about the service is here.

More eJournals

The Libraries now subscribe to the Project Muse Premium Collection.  Previously, we had access to all titles in the Standard Collection.  For a comparison of the two collections, see: http://muse.jhu.edu/about/subscriptions/collection_comparison_2008.html.

Neureuther Competition Winners!

Congratulations to this year's winners of the WU Libraries' 20th annual Neureuther Student Book Collection Essay Competition:

Undergraduate category
1st place: Robin Meyer, “My Collection: Defined”
2nd place: Lauren Hosek, “The Not-So-Silent Past: An Archaeology Collection”

Graduate category
1st place: Tafline Crawford, “Science and Politics in the History of Paleoanthropology”
2nd place: Carter Smith, “Thinking the Line: A Collection of Books on Poetry and Visual Art”

Selected books from the winning collections will be on display in Olin Library the week of April 30th, and the essays are now posted on the Neureuther website.

Library Book Sale

The West Campus Library will be holding a book sale April 25-26, 10:00am-4:00pm, in Conference Room C. Prices range from $.50 to $2.00. Come find a bargain. The sale is open to all.

BSA New Scholars Program

The Bibliographical Society of America is accepting applications for its New Scholars Progam. The program "seeks to promote the work of scholars who are new to the field of bibliography, broadly defined to include any research that deals with the creation, production, publication, distribution, reception, transmission, and subsequent history of texts as material objects (print or manuscript)."  The deadline for application is July 31. For more information, contact Gregory Pass, Chair, New Scholars Program, at passga@slu.edu.

The Machine is Us/ing Us

I just came across Web 2.0 ... The Machine is Us/ing Us (final version), posted to the TEI listserv. In this thought-provoking video Michael Wesch, Assistant Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Kansas State University, demonstrates how the creation, organization, and distribution of data on the web is evolving and prompting us to "rethink a few things."

Here at WU, on-going efforts in digital scholarship and humanities computing are described at the Washington University Digital Gateway. Feel free to stop in; visitors are most welcome. Interested in learning more about TEI?  Consider applying for a Summer Graduate Fellowship in Humanities Computing (deadline for application: April 6).

Tell Us What You Think

Please take a few minutes to fill out the WU Libraries' service survey. Many of you participated in this survey in 2004. Based on the results, we made improvements in services, collections, and facilities. In addition to comparing our 2007 results with 2004, we will compare our results to the more than 500 North American libraries that have already participated in the survey. This enables us to benchmark best practices among large research libraries. More information about the suvey is here. The survey will be available through March 26. Thanks for participating.

Deadline for Book Recommendations

The end of the WU Libraries' fiscal year is rapidly approaching. Please forward along any recommendations for library book purchases by Friday, April 27. With the exception of books needed for summer school reserve, we will begin placing orders again after the new fiscal year begins on July 1.