On your Apple device or through Safari, use ArtStor’s Mobile site to search 1,000,000+ images by keyword, browse the collection, and more.

The Library now provides online access to the mother of all Latin dictionaries, the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae. Still a work in progress, the TLL covers the letters A-M, O and part of P (Not bad for a dictionary that began in 1894!).

Note that we also have online access to the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae (TLG)).

• Gallup Brain
  Dates of Coverage: 1935 – Present
  Searchable database of the thousands of Gallup Polls conducted from 1935 to today. Users can search questions, results, specific surveys, and associated articles. Also houses Gallup Poll and Gallup Management Journal articles that feature in-depth public opinion and management data analyses.

• Polling the Nations
  Dates of Coverage: 1986 – Present
  Polling the Nations is a compilation of surveys conducted by over 1000 polling organizations in the United States and 100 other countries from 1986 to the present time. The pollsters included in the database are: US polling organizations (e.g., Harris International, The Pew Center); universities (e.g., Rice University, University of Maryland); newspapers (e.g., New York Times, Los Angeles Times); Television news organizations (e.g., CBS, NBS, Fox, CNN); international polling organizations (e.g., Eurobarometer; special interest groups (e.g., Boy Scouts, AFL-CIO)

• Roper Center Public Opinion Archives
  Dates of Coverage: 1935 – Present
  The Roper Center archives datasets from thousands of surveys with national adult, state, foreign, and special subpopulation samples. These datasets are listed in the Catalog of Holdings. Online access to many datasets are provided through the Roper Express service. US nationwide public opinion polls since 1935 are available through the iPoll service. A full-text retrieval system, the iPOLL online database is organized at the question-level.

The Library has access to a fabulous array of electronic primary and secondary resources for research on Black history. Here are some of our more recent additions:

• Accessible Archives (includes several African American newspapers)
• African American Periodicals 1825-1995
• African American Newspapers 1827-1998
• American Song (includes African American genre)
• African Newspapers 1800-1922
• Black Freedom Struggle
• Black Studies Center
• Chicago Defender Archive 1910-1975
• New York Amsterdam News Archive 1922-1993
• Oxford African American Studies Center

EndNote or Zotero? Or both?

Take one or all of the workshops described below to learn about tools to manage citations.

What’s that? Not able to attend one of the scheduled sessions? Contact us! Individual EndNote and citation management instruction and consultations can be scheduled at your convenience.

To register or if you have questions, contact Karen Jung at 725-3311 or kjung@bowdoin.edu.

Zotero

Zotero is an alternative for managing citations that resides in your web browser, “right where you do your work.” It can be used as a stand-alone manager, or in conjunction with EndNote.

Friday, 3/2/12, 2:00-3:00 PM - ECR, H-L Library

Thursday, 4/5/12, 12:00 – 1:00 PM - ECR, H-L Library

EndNote 101

EndNote is bibliographic citation management software tool that allows you to maintain a “personal library” of references and citations. It can also import citation information from the Library’s Catalog, online indexes, and databases. If you use Microsoft Word, you can insert citations from your personal libraries directly into your documents and create bibliographies from those citations. This workshop will teach you to use EndNote and EndNote Web (both of which are easy to use, but not intuitive) in just one hour.

Monday, 2/6/12, 2:00-3:00 PM - ECR, H-L Library

Thursday, 2/16/12, 2:00 – 3:00 PM - ECR, H-L Library

Wednesday, 3/7/12, 2:00-3:00 PM - ECR, H-L Library

Tuesday, 4/10/12, 10:00-11:00 AM - ECR, H-L Library

Bowdoin now has unlimited user access to Oxford University Press’s Social Explorer (we previously had a maximum of 3 simultaneous users). And they have begun adding the 2010 Census data and more. Here’s their press release:

Social Explorer is bringing in the New Year with new data, including 2010 Census Data, making Social Explorer the current and authoritative resource for all US demographic needs.

New Data

Social Explorer, an online research tool containing quick and easy access to demographic information from 1790 to the present, updated on a rolling basis, now includes the below data.

• 2010 Census Data – all Summary File 1 data is now available in Social Explorer. This means that users have data for all US states and territories, for all summary levels and all variables. Data from the Census includes information such as age, sex, and race.
• 2010, 2008-2010, and 2006-2010 American Community Survey Data – all new releases of the American Community Survey (ACS) conform to the 2010 Census boundaries and estimates and offer data down to the block group level. The ACS is the replacement of the Census long form, offering data on education, income, immigrations, ethnicity, language disability, home heating fuel, health care coverage, and more.
• Redistricting Data from the 2010 Census – you can explore the PL-94 census file through our maps and reports. Social Explorer’s customized reports present an extract of these 2010 data along with the 2000 figures to give users a side-by-side comparison of change.

At their September meeting in 1970, the Governing Boards of Bowdoin College accepted the recommendation of the Pierce Report (named for committee chairman and Trustee William Curtis Pierce ‘28) and voted in favor of coeducation, thus ushering in the first class that included women degree candidates in the fall of 1971.

The exhibition A New Vitality, featuring documents, photographs, and publications from the Bowdoin College Archives, celebrates the fortieth anniversary of coeducation at Bowdoin by chronicling that transitional time in Bowdoin’s history and by demonstrating many of the ways that women in the Bowdoin community have enriched the fabric of college life throughout its history, both before and after the advent of coeducation.

A New Vitality complements a website devoted to the history of coeducation at Bowdoin, which was created as a class project by the students in Professor Jennifer Scanlon’s Fall 2011 class “Forty Years: The History of Women at Bowdoin” (GWS 280).

A few important things for users to know:

• If you look up a Wiley Blackwell journal title in the catalog or get to it via one of our databases, and you have another choice for accessing it via JSTOR or Academic Search Premier, for example, please choose one of those instead of the WileyBlackwell link. That will save us quite a bit of money!
• If you want to include a Wiley Blackwell journal article on Blackboard, do not LINK to the journal article – you must download the PDF to your desktop and then upload it to Blackboard. If you link to it, we will get charged for every view! We created a webpage with information on how to do this, and this page is linked from the Library’s Services for Faculty page (under Reserves) and from the IT Blackboard page. Here is the link directly to the page: http://library.bowdoin.edu/services/reserves/wiley-blackwell.shtml

The collection will be on display through May 9th 2011.

Nick Telenson ’14, Adam Zhang, ’14, Sean Moran ’14, Daniel Lesser ’14, and George Lopez, coach, performed Beethoven’s Quartet Opus 18, No. 1 in F major.