What’s New Fall 2009
Articles, Books & Beyond Online
An online version of our popular Library orientation workshop is now available. Eight super quick video tutorials will lead students through finding full-text articles, locating books & reserves, and more. If they ace the orientation quiz they can print out a certificate of completion. http://library/sonoma.edu/orientation/.
Tweet with the Library
Want quick updates about Library happenings or things of interest – then why not follow the Library on Twitter? Twitter is a free service that lets you keep in touch through the exchange of quick, frequent answers to one simple question: “What are you doing?” Follow us at http://twitter.com/ssulib. You can also follow us via RSS.
SSU ScholarWorks
Faculty and qualified graduate students can now publish original work in ScholarWorks (the new campus digital archive), making it permanently accessible to researchers around the world via the Web. Best of all, the Library will handle your upload. To find out more about getting published, email Karen.Brodsky@sonoma.edu and visit SSU ScholarWorkshttp://sonoma-dspace.calstate.edu/.
In the University Library Gallery
“Live-Dance-Paint” Works by Ceija Stojka Romani (‘Gypsy’) Artist will be on exhibit from Aug 17, 2009 – Oct 30, 2009. Gallery talks, a Romani film series, and reception with Romani music are scheduled throughout the semester. Visit http://library.sonoma.edu/about/gallery.html. Ceija Stojka’s paintings depict her life as a traveling Romani woman before and after World War II, the trauma she and other Roma experienced in the Nazi concentration camps and the hope she has for future generations to overcome oppression. “Live-Dance-Paint” is the first showing of Stojka’s work in the United States.
Cambridge Histories Online
This new collection provides full text online access to the complete 250-plus volumes of Cambridge Histories reference series. It provides political, economic and social history, philosophy and literature of selected countries and subjects. Click on Databases from the Library’s homepage to access.
Criterion Collection
We've added more new titles to our collection of this film series! Criterion has been dedicated to gathering the greatest films from around the world and publishing them in editions that offer the highest technical quality and award-winning, original supplements. Try a keyword search in the Snoopy catalog for "criterion collection."
California Historical Newspapers: 1846-1922
This database offers great primary source documents in California history. Titles include Alta California, San Francisco Bulletin, the Mercantile Gazette and Prices Current, Shipping List and Register, San Jose Mercury News, and more. Click on Databases from the Library’s homepage to access.
Welcome to our Web Services Librarians!
Joe Marquez
Joe joins us from the City of Seattle Clerks Office. He has his MLIS from University of Washington.
Alex Smith
Alex joins us from Wayne State
College in Nebraska and has his MLS from Kent State University.
