Reference at Newman Library

Books about Bridges

As Randy noted recently, we’re seeing Baruch College Campus High School students working on an assignment about bridges. Here are some book sources to use:

If anyone else has further ideas about this assignment and sources to recommend, please add them as comments on the original blog post so that chat reference staff at other colleges have access to these suggestions as well. I found some suggestions from last year after searching the archives of the LIBSDL list. If anyone wants to post that info here as a comment, that would be awesome and make the info more accessible to all.

Trial: Loeb Classical Library

Vendor description: “The mission of the Loeb Classical Library, founded by James Loeb in 1911, has always been to make Greek and Latin literature accessible to the broadest range of readers. The digital Loeb Classical Library extends this mission into the twenty-first century. Harvard University Press is honored to renew James Loeb’s vision of accessibility and presents an interconnected, fully searchable, perpetually growing, virtual library of all that is important in Greek and Latin literature. Epic and lyric poetry; tragedy and comedy; history, travel, philosophy, and oratory; the great medical writers and mathematicians; those Church Fathers who made particular use of pagan culture — in short, our entire Greek and Latin Classical heritage is represented here with up-to-date texts and accurate English translations. More than 520 volumes of Latin, Greek, and English texts are available in a modern and elegant interface, allowing readers to browse, search, bookmark, annotate, and share content with ease.”

Trial ends: December 13, 2014

Access: on campus only; use link on trials tab of main databases page

Please share with any interested faculty and encourage feedback on the form we have on the trials tab

Trial: Chinese Newspapers Collection (1832-1953)

Vendor description: “Read details in these 12 English-language Chinese newspapers that you won’t find elsewhere, about the artistic, social, scientific, and political thinking of China as the country transitioned from more than 2,000 years of imperial rule to a republic.

Explore the civil wars, the Japanese invasion, the occupation by foreign nations, the rise of communism, and more, from 1832-1953. With the cover-to-cover full-images, you will see cartoons, editorials, classifieds, and even advertising. This makes this resource a snapshot of life, crucial for a variety of subject study, including anthropology, Asian/Chinese/Japan studies, colonial studies, ethnic studies, history, political science, and sociology.”

Trial ends: November 9, 2014

Access: on and off campus; use link on trials tab of main databases page

Please share with any interested faculty and encourage feedback on the form we have on the trials tab