Syrian Refugees -- What you said

Nearly every week, I pose a question on a dry-erase board near the entrance of the library. It's the Library's way of engaging with students, learning from you, and providing a space where you can learn from each other. Last week, we asked,

"Syrian Refugees:  What Should We Do?"

Moved by some of your thoughtful responses, I wanted to keep the conversation open by posting what you wrote.

Some are harder to read so here are a few close ups.

Thank you for your honesty and willingness to respond to a complex question.

Paige

Paige Mann

Physical Sciences Librarian/Web Experiences Librarian

Banned Books Week

September 27 - October 3 is Banned Books Week, a time in which we can celebrate our freedom to read and explore diverse ideas. This year Banned Books Week focuses on challenges to young adult literature. Events planned over the next several days include a a lunch time Read-Out, a discussion of young adult literature and why it is frequently challenged or banned, a literature display in the Library, and an introduction to a year-long program focusing on subversive literature.

Banned Books Week events are sponsored by the Center for Diversity and Inclusion, Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, and Armacost Library. Special thanks (in advance) go to Leela MadhavaRau, M.G. Maloney, Heather King, Zack Ritter, Sigma Tau Delta, and the students of the Harry Potter and the Widely Applicable Skill-Set first-year seminar.

Banned Books Display
When: All week
Where: Library entrance, 2nd floor
The Armacost Library will highlight banned and challenged literature available in its collection.

Hunsaker Read Out
When: Tuesday, September 29, 11:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Where: Outside the Irvine Commons
Brave members of the community will read from their favorite banned or challenged book. Stop and listen for a spell, or join in the freedom to read. Banned and challenged books will be available for perusal.

Subversive Verses & Courageous Conversations
When: Wednesday, September 30, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Larsen 126 
Leela MadhavaRau, Associate Dean, and Zack Ritter, Associate Director, of Campus Diversity and Inclusion, will introduce a year-long program of subversive literature and films that have been challenged or banned. These fine works will lead us as a community to engage in courageous conversations.

Why YA?
When: Thursday, October 1, 7:00 p.m.
Where: Orton Center
Join Heather King, Professor of English, and M. G. Maloney, Assistant Director of the Johnston Center for Integrative Studies, in a discussion of young adult literature to consider why it is frequently challenged and banned.

Welcome back Bulldogs!

Photo of Thurber by Carlos Puma, 2012, Redlands Visual Assets

Armacost Library welcomes everyone back to campus.
A new semester means new classes, and new research assignments! Fortunately we have new resources to help you out. Some of which include the following:

Link+
Link+ allows the University of Redlands community to borrow books and other tangible items from libraries across California and Nevada. The service is free and items can be delivered to the Armacost Library and other, select locations. Check out our blog post on Link+ to learn more!

CQ Researcher Plus Archive
Expands CQ Researcher’s 12,000 word, journalist-authored reports to include the time period from 1923 to ten years ago.

International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance Full Text
An index to reviews and scholarly articles covering the performing arts, maintained by the Theatre Research Data Center at Brooklyn College.

Loeb Classical Library
Access over 520 volumes of classic Greek and Latin texts presented in parallel translation.

Psychotherapy.net
View streaming videos of counseling sessions with master psychotherapists.

LINK+

The Armacost Library is now a member of LINK+, a resource-sharing system that allows current University of Redlands students, faculty, staff and administrators to borrow books and media at no charge from over 50 academic and public libraries throughout California and Nevada. LINK+ enhances the Armacost Library's existing interlibrary loan program by adding several useful, time-saving features. LINK+ requests can be placed through the Armacost Library catalog or the shared LINK+ catalog, and items you borrow arrive faster (generally in 3 - 4 days) because they are delivered to us by courier rather than shipped through the mail.  In addition, the status of LINK+ requests can be monitored at any time by checking your personal library account online.

To access LINK+, go to the LINK+ catalog. Once you identify an item you need that is not available in the Armacost Library, click the "Request this item" link. During this process, you will be asked to verify your University of Redlands affiliation by logging in to your Armacost Library account.  After an item you request has arrived, we will notify you by email that it is available for pickup at the Armacost Library's Help Desk. You may keep books borrowed through LINK+ for 21 days and request one 21-day renewal.  Most media, including DVDs and audio CDs, may be kept for 7 days but cannot be renewed.

Some LINK+ member libraries also participate in two optional programs called Pick-up Elsewhere and Visiting Patron. Pick-up Elsewhere enables you to have items you request delivered to a different LINK+ library. Visiting Patron allows you to  use your University of Redlands ID card to check out items directly from a LINK+ library you visit in person. Both of these programs are useful if you are away from the Armacost Library and would like to use a library closer to your home or workplace.

For more details and complete instructions on how to use LINK+, check our  LINK+ information page.  You can also ask at the Armacost Library's Help Desk or call us at 909-793-8022. 

Library Open House

Greetings new students! The Armacost Library will host an open house on Friday, September 4th, from 8:00 a.m. - 10:00 a.m.

Please drop by to enjoy light refreshments, short tours, and discussions with your Librarian. That's right, all students have their own Librarian depending on what their major is. For example, there is an Arts Librarian, a Natural Sciences Librarian, and so on. We look forward to introducing you to all the ways in which the Library supports student research.

Summer Reads

August brings us the last lazy summer days and a reminder that there's still time to spend laying in the sun with an enticing book for company. Consider the following highlights from the Armacost Library collection as you decide on your end-of-the-summer reading material.

Adventure
Kon-tiki: Across the Pacific by raft by Thor Heyerdahl
On April 28, 1947, Thor and five other Norwegians set sail from Peru in a balsa raft to try to reach the Polynesian islands.

Wild: From lost to found on the Pacific Crest Trail by Cheryl Strayed
"Strayed faces down rattlesnakes and black bears, intense heat and record snowfalls, and both the beauty and loneliness of the trail. Told with great suspense and style, sparkling with warmth and humor, Wild vividly captures the terrors and pleasures of one young woman forging ahead against all odds on a journey that maddened, strengthened, and ultimately healed her." ~From the publisher.

Romance
Blue is the warmest color by Julie Maroh
"...a young woman named Clementine discovers herself and the elusive magic of love when she meets a confident blue-haired girl named Emma." ~From the publisher

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon
Scottish Highlands, 1945. Claire Randall, a former British combat nurse, is just back from the war and reunited with her husband on a second honeymoon when she walks through a standing stone in one of the ancient circles that dot the British Isles. Suddenly she is a Sassenach--an "outlander"--in a Scotland torn by war and raiding clans in the year of Our Lord . . . 1743. ~From the publisher.

The time traveler's wife by Audrey Niffenegger
Love between an artist and time-traveling librarian who has been diagnosed with Chrono-Displacement Disorder.

Comedy / Satire
Bridget Jones's Diary by Helen Fielding
Meet Bridget Jones - a 30-something Singleton who is certain she would have all the answers if she could: a. lose 7 pounds. b. stop smoking c. develop Inner Poise. ~Back cover

Cat's Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
"Vonnegut's satirical commentary on modern man and his madness. An apocalyptic tale of this planet's ultimate fate, it features a midget as the protagonist, a complete, original theology created by a calypso singer, and a vision of the future that is at once blackly fatalistic and hilariously funny." ~From the publisher.

Cat out of hell by Lynne Truss
"...much of what we fear about cats is true. They do think they're smarter than humans, for one thing. And, well, it seems they are! What's more, they do have nine lives. Or at least this one does - Roger's older than Methuselah, and his unblinking stare comes from the fact that he's seen it all." ~From the publisher.

Fantasy / Horror
Alif the unseen by G. Willow Wilson
Winner of the 2013 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel.
"In an unnamed Middle Eastern security state, a young Arab-Indian hacker shields his clients—dissidents, outlaws, Islamists, and other watched groups—from surveillance and tries to stay out of trouble. He goes by Alif—the first letter of the Arabic alphabet, and a convenient handle to hide behind. [...] Alif must struggle for life or death, aided by forces seen and unseen." ~From the publisher. 

Fledgling by Octavia Butler
An incredibly unique vampire story. A "novel that tests the limits of "otherness" and questions what it means to be truly human." ~From the publisher.

The hundred thousand kingdoms by N. K. Jemisin
"Yeine Darr is an outcast from the barbarian north. But when her mother dies under mysterious circumstances, she is summoned to the majestic city of Sky. There, to her shock, Yeine is named an heiress to the king. But the throne of the Hundred Thousand Kingdoms is not easily won, and Yeine is thrust into a vicious power struggle with cousins she never knew she had." ~From the publisher

Science Fiction
Wool by Hugh Howey
"In a ruined and toxic future, a community exists in a giant silo underground, hundreds of stories deep. There, men and women live in a society full of regulations they believe are meant to protect them. Sheriff Holston, who has unwaveringly upheld the silo's rules for years, unexpectedly breaks the greatest taboo of all: He asks to go outside. His fateful decision unleashes a drastic series of events." ~From the publisher

Lovestar: A novel by Andri Snær Magnason ; translated from the Icelandic by Victoria Cribb.
"LoveStar, the enigmatic and obsessively driven founder of the LoveStar corporation, has unlocked the key to transmitting data via birdwaves, thus freeing mankind from wires and devices. Cordless modern men and women are paid to howl advertisements at unsuspecting passers-by, REGRET machines eliminate doubt over roads not taken and soulmates are identified and brought together. Indridi and Sigrid, two happy young lovers have their perfect worlds threatened when they are 'calculated apart' and are forced to go to extreme lengths to prove their love." ~From the publisher

Summer Book Sale and Clothing Drive

This year the book sale will be held on Thursday, June 18th, from noon - 4:00 p.m. and Friday, June 19th, from 8:00 a.m. - 4:00 p.m. You will find us at the Armacost Library's North Patio, Garden Level.

You are also welcome to bring clean work clothes on hangers for the Ready to Work clothing drive.

For complete details, please refer to the flyer below:

Redlands and the Citrus Industry

Silent film actress Colleen Moore and the San Bernardino Mountains
Cover of The California Citrograph, October 1923, Vol. 8, Iss. 12

The citrus industry has quite a history in Southern California, and Redlands is one of the cities in which groves were tended for many years. As a citrus town, active packing houses packaged and shipped fruit, smudge pots were lit when the temperatures dropped to protect citrus trees from freezing, and growers prepared to bring their best fruit to the annual Orange Show in San Bernardino, California, to compete for awards.

In the Armacost Library, industry specific publications bring to life the history of citrus in Redlands. The California Citrograph, aimed at citrus growers, published on topics such as propagation, pest control, packinghouse technology, and highlighted people and cities in the industry. After a scan of the covers from the first decade (1915-1925), two were of interest, showcasing the San Bernardino mountains in the background, and a silent film actress in the foreground. For example, here is a close up of silent era film actress Virginia Valli, preparing orange juice, with the Redlands citrus district behind her.

The California Citrograph, June 1923, Vol. 8, Iss. 8.

The California Citrograph also covered the annual Orange Show held in San Bernardino, California, which the Redlands Chamber of Commerce and Redlands area citrus growers attended regularly.

In fact, the Redlands Chamber of Commerce won 2nd prize for a motion exhibit in both 1921 and 1922:

Interested in discovering more local gems like these? Come check out The California Citrograph in the bound periodicals section of the Library. Or, pick up an issue of Citrus Leaves, published beginning in 1921 by Redlands based Mutual Orange Distributors (MOD), a cooperative association of local citrus shippers.

Who's Reading the Reader?

"Who's reading the reader?" is the theme of this year's Choose Privacy Week (May 1-7, 2015).


"During Choose Privacy Week the American Library Association invites librarians and library users to engage in a conversation about protecting and defending reader privacy rights and how to acquire the knowledge, skills, and tools necessary to address the widespread surveillance and data mining that collects information about users’ communications, reading and web surfing habits."


The American Library Association will be hosting a week-long online forum for Choose Privacy Week featuring various speakers on privacy and surveillance.  Librarians have long been advocates for their patrons' privacy.   

In 1972 Zoia Horn became the first U.S. librarian ever jailed for withholding information as a matter of conscience by refusing to testify against antiwar activists accused of a bizarre terrorist plot.  She was the chief reference librarian at Bucknell University at the time.   

Librarians have been and continue to be opponents of the broad surveillance power afforded by the Patriot Act. 

"Sonnie and Macrina both see privacy as not just an issue of intellectual freedom, but also of social justice. 'We serve members of communities who have been historically under greater surveillance than the rest of the population: immigrants, Muslim-Americans, people of color, political dissidents,' Macrina explained." http://www.thenation.com/article/206561/librarians-versus-nsa

Recently privacy and security concerns were raised about Adobe Digital Editions platform for ebooks collecting and transmitting user data over insecure networks.  "Adobe’s total failure to protect user information during transmission may be a violation of privacy laws." 

Interested in protecting your own privacy?  Check out the Surveillance Self-Defense toolkit from the Electronic Frontier Foundation. 

Tune in to the forums taking place during Choose Privacy Week, and check out some of the books, films, and other resources on privacy and surveillance available at Armacost Library.  

Going Live on Monday: The New Article Databases & Online Resources

It's been around since January and as mentioned last month we're replacing the old Article Databases & Online Resources with the new Article Databases & Online Resources on Monday, May 4, 2015.

As you may recall, you'll need to update any bookmarks for

 (old) http://library.redlands.edu/databases

with

(new) http://library.redlands.edu/az.php

You may also recall that at the top of your screen you'll be able to filter databases by subject, type, as well as alphabetically.

When you filter by subject, rather than changing the resources listed in the lower part of your screen you'll instead be dropped into the "Find Articles" tab of the appropriate subject research guide. We intentionally designed it this way so that lists of resources are presented within the context of learning more about a subject. 

The ability to filter by source type is new and will limit the databases and online resources listed in the bottom half of your screen. We hope that it offers added functionality for our researchers, but it also raises questions for us as educators. How do we as library faculty curate such lists in a manner that enables independent inquiry without being prescriptive? Students who are used to research assignments that require them to report facts rather than explore their own unique curiosities alongside communities of knowledge may approach lists such as these and misunderstand how to use them. They may mistake information sources to be static objects ready for consumption rather than dynamic knowledge ready to be wrestled and interacted with; and view sources as fitting arbitrary categories determined by others rather than interpreted by the researchers themselves. 

We're also aware that researchers are sometimes confronted with the surprisingly confusing complexity of searching, filtering, evaluating, selecting, and locating sources. We are thus interested to see how researchers respond when their experiences don't quite match their expectations. For example, many databases listed under the type "scholarly" will also include non-scholarly content. Using the library website as a tool for learning, we'll modify this page over time to meet the educational needs of our users.

Returning to the new Article Databases & Online Resources, you'll find that you're still able to locate the full text of a specific item whether it at the journal, magazine, newspaper, or article level. There's a new area devoted to new and trial databases and I encourage you to see what's there periodically. When you click on the "View new & trial databases" button you'll also see a form where you can let us know how these resources might impact your teaching and learning. 

Speaking of feedback, in response to an observation that this page was "like walking into a huge big box store with no idea how to narrow" down one's choice of resources, we agreed and collapsed the legend that explained what the database icons represented, removed additional content on the page, and tried to reduce the visual clutter as a whole. We hope this is better, but please let us know your thoughts.

Overall, since January 2015 we've received a total of seven feedback forms (1 School of Education student, 1 administrator, 2 faculty, and 3 School of Business students). Some of the feedback was positive, others offered constructive suggestions. Where possible we've tried to incorporate your suggestions, but even when we can't implement your ideas immediately we still take your suggestions into consideration as it informs our work in general on the website. Thank you to the seven for their thoughtful comments. We invite you and everyone to continue to share your thoughts and experiences with by clicking on "What do you think of this page?" or by writing in the comments below.

Preservation Week

Memories and treasures should last a lifetime and be passed on to future generations.  Preservation Week aims to inspire all of us to preserve personal, family and community collections of all kinds, as well as library, museum and archive collections. It raises awareness of the role libraries and other cultural institutions play in ongoing preservation.

  

You may not know the preservation story behind the Oscar winning movie “The King’s Speech” (2010). This movie about King George VI and his speech therapist depicts a stuttering King George (Colin Firth) who is supported by his unorthodox therapist Lionel Louge (Geoffrey Rush) in making a never-forgotten and faultless speech announcing the declaration of war on Nazi Germany in 1939.

A little-know fact about this great movie is that it was enriched by the discovery of Logue’s notebooks recording each therapy session. Hundreds of diary entries, letters, and other documents form the basis for the movie and a book The King’s Speech: How One Man Saved the British Monarchy, co-authored by Logue’s grandson, Mark, and published to coincide with the release of the film. These documents, long abandoned in an attic and perhaps close to being tossed as “just old papers,” were invaluable primary source material for the movie, the book and for future researchers.

Like these diaries there are countless treasures in attics, basements, and even libraries that, with preservation, will provide innumerable sources for future movies and books, and enrich our lives in infinite and unknown ways.

Libraries, archives, museum and others are dedicated to making sure that diaries, letters, recordings and all kinds of other materials continue to be preserved and shared widely. Here are some examples:

Voices of the Holocaust http://voices.iit.edu/

In 1946 Dr. David P. Boder, a psychology professor from Chicago’s Illinois Institute of Technology, traveled to Europe to record the stories of Holocaust survivors in their own words. These recordings, over 90 hours of interviews, represent the earliest known oral histories of the holocaust and are available through this online archive.

Closer to home the A.K.Smiley Public Library is a beautiful example of building preservation. Built in 1898 the library is a California Historical Landmark and listed in the National Register of Historic Places. It houses the Heritage Room collecting and preserving documents, maps, oral histories and more, that chronicle the life of Redlands, the Inland Empire and all Southern California. 

Center for American War Letters http://www.chapman.edu/research-and-institutions/cawl/

The Center for American War Letters is a unique and extensive manuscript collection of previously unpublished letters from every American conflict, beginning with handwritten notes from the Revolutionary War and on up to emails sent from Iraq and Afghanistan.

At the University of Redlands both the Armacost Library Special Collections and the University Archives are working diligently to preserve the history of this institution and beyond. The Library has begun digitizing some of these collections (see Barney Childs) and both undergraduate ( Honors and Proudian Honors theses) and MSGIS graduate student work in our institutional repository called InSPIRe@Redlands.

Some interesting numbers around preservation efforts:

•       80% of U.S. libraries, museums, and archives have no paid staff for collections care; 22% have no staff at all for this important function. 71% of institutions say they need additional training and expertise to care for their collections—11% report urgent need.
•      40% of surveyed institutions have no funds allocated for preservation; only 13% have access to permanent (e.g. endowment) funds for preservation. 68% allocated less than $3,000 for preservation in the previous budget year. From the American Library Association found at: http://www.ala.org/alcts/sites/ala.org.alcts/files/content/confevents/preswk/pdfs/shockingstats.pdf

Earth Day and the Environmental Movement

"Earth image and star field background" by NASA Goddard Space Flight Center

In 1962, Rachel Carson published her landmark book, Silent Spring, which sparked an awareness of pesticide use on human health. Along with the publication of Silent Spring, the emerging environmental movement in the U.S. was fueled by environmental decay, catastrophes, and mismanagement of natural resources. Environmental events of particular note during the late 1960s included the Santa Barbara oil spill,  the proposed Trans-Alaska Pipeline System, the FDA seizure of DDT laden coho salmon caught in Lake Michigan, ecosystem damage in the Great Lakes due to pollutants, and fire on the oil-slicked Cuyahoga River in Cleveland (Scheffer, 1991). The civil rights, anti-war, and women's-rights movements also contributed to the nationwide call for action and change.

In 1970, U. S. Senator Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin announced a national teach-in to take place on April 22nd. 20 million people participated across the country in protests and educational events that brought environmental devastation to the forefront of public attention. Following this first Earth Day came the creation of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency as well as the Endangered Species, Clean Air, and Clean Water Acts, and the ban on agricultural use of DDT.

Earth Day is a time to revisit, reflect, and act, on current environmental issues that endanger our health, public lands, and future as a species. So some of us may want to turn our attention to  the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, or the places in the Pacific Ocean which collect microplastics, fishing nets and other debris from North America and Asia. Marine life, including turtles, fish, and birds, are at risk due to ingestion of, or entanglement with, plastics. 

In addition, although the hydraulic fracturing, or "fracking" boom, comes with some economic benefits, fracking wastewater continues to pollute ground water, including California aquifers with the carcinogen benzene. Listen to University of Redlands' Dr. Timothy Krantz explain benzene and its effects on public health. 

On top of the state wide drought, bottled water companies like Nestle, continue to bottle and sell water from springs and aquifers. Nestle has been operating in the San Bernardino National Forest on a permit that expired in 1988. Read more about this local issue in The Desert Sun article, "Bottling water without scrutiny."

Armacost Library provides many resources to brush up on the history of the environmental movement and beyond.

Further Reading

Desert solitaire: A season in the wilderness / by Edward Abbey

Silent spring / by Rachel Carson 

An inconvenient truth: The planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it / Al Gore.

Field notes from a catastrophe: Man, nature, and climate change / Elizabeth Kolbert.

The end of nature / Bill McKibben.

Environmental impacts of hydraulic fracturing / Frank R. Spellman.

History of Earth Day and the U.S. environmental movement
The Man from Clear Lake: Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson / Bill Christofferson.

Forcing the spring: The transformation of the American environmental movement / Robert Gottlieb.

First along the river: A brief history of the U.S. environmental movement / Benjamin Kline. The shaping of environmentalism in America / Victor B. Scheffer.

Documentaries Crude / a Red Envelope Entertainment presentation of an Entendre Films production  The 11th hour / produced by Leonardo DiCaprio Gasland / a film by Josh Fox Eco-fiction The monkey wrench gang / Edward Abbey. A friend of the earth / T. C. Boyle. Stand on Zanzibar / John Brunner. Ecotopia: The notebooks and reports of William Weston / Ernest Callenbach. The Lorax / by Dr. Seuss.

Jazz Appreciation Month

Jazz Appreciation Month, or JAM, is a time to celebrate the history and cultural impact of jazz music. Why April? This month of spring is the birth month for several leading jazz figures, such as Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Bessie Smith, Johnny Dodds, Billie Holiday, Charles Mingus, Lionel Hampton, Gerry Mulligan, Shorty Rogers, Tito Puente, and Herbie Hancock.

In addition, this year's JAM poster features Billy Strayhorn since it's his centennial year. You can see the full poster, created by the Smithsonian Museum, at the end of this post.

The JAM exhibit in the Library highlights various items from our collections. The record covers from the LP collection are particularly intriguing, attempting to illustrate the sounds of big band or avant-garde jazz, as well as the tunes of artists like Duke Ellington and Jelly Roll Morton.

Thanks go to Trisha Aurelio, Technical Services Supervisor, for putting together this exhibit and reminding us to appreciate and celebrate the cultural heritage of jazz.

Using mobile devices for library research, part 4

We all know mobile devices such as tablets and smartphones are useful for communicating and surfing the web, but in this series of blog posts, I've been sharing ideas for how you can also use a mobile device to conduct research in the library.

In my first post, I showed how you can use a mobile device to browse the Armacost Library catalog, search a database, or take notes in an app. In my second post, I delved into a couple databases (Ebsco and Naxos) that offer mobile-friendly apps and websites. My third post focused on Evernote, an app I use every day to get work done. This final post is about citation management on a mobile device.

What are Citation Management Programs?

Citation management programs exist to help you keep track of the sources you consult for a research project, and insert references into documents as you write. These programs have two parts:

1) A citation library listing the sources you used (essentially a database with fields for author, title, publisher, date, etc.)

2) A piece of software allowing the citation library to communicate with your word processor, whether it be Word, LibreOffice, LaTeX, etc.

Armacost Library recommends Zotero as a free alternative to expensive commercial programs like  Refworks and Endnote. Most citation management programs are owned and developed by library publishers, but Zotero is developed as an open source project, supported by the Corporation for Digital Scholarship, George Mason University, and an army of volunteers who contribute code, write documentation and test new features.

Citation Management on a Mobile Device

Citation management programs like Zotero weren't originally designed to be used on mobile devices, but you can use some simple workarounds to get common tasks done.

Add new items to your library

Use the Zotero bookmarklet to add a book or article you are viewing to your Zotero library.

View and manage your citations

Since there are no native Zotero apps on Apple or Android devices, use the Zotero.org website to log in and view your citations. Alternatively, you could use third party software like Papership to view your library on an Apple device, or Zandy for Android. Many researchers use the Zotfile plug-in to help organize citations they have already added.

Papership lets you add a PDF to your Zotero library from your web browser

Print or email a cited source

When you save an item to your Zotero library it typically includes a link back to the full text PDF, which you can use to load the source in your browser for easy printing or sharing. Alternatively, third party apps like Papership make it easy to search or browse for a source; you can then use the print and email functionality built into your mobile device.

Inserting citations into your paper

This is one area where mobile device support still falls short of what you experience on a desktop or laptop computer. Apple's Pages app, Microsoft Office 365 and other common mobile word processing programs do not offer connections to your Zotero library, so you'd have to manually create citations for documents you type up on a mobile device.

Share your experiences

In this series of blog posts, I've shared some of my experiences using mobile devices as part of my research process. What about you, do you find tablets or smartphones to be helpful with your research? Share your comments below!

New Article Databases & Online Resources Page

Have you looked at the new Article Databases & Online Resources page? It's got everything from the old page, plus a few new options.

(click the image above for a better view)

• View all databases on a single page from A to Z *NEW*
• Filter databases by subject
• Filter databases by type (of resources included in the database) *NEW*

• Filter databases by alphabet
• Search by database title or description *NEW*  We decided to remove this feature since it appeared to confuse our patrons. It's limited in that it will only search databases by title and description, however search logs showed that people used it to try and find sources on their topic. [updated 4/30/2015]
• Looking for a specific journals, magazines, and newspapers? Find it here
• Looking for a specific article? Find it here
• View new & trial databases *NEW*

Use it to find a few databases and online resources. We'll change over to the new page in a few months, but we want to know what you think. Are there too many database types? Are there too many databases listed under these source types? Hate the colors? Want us to include a picture of your weird Uncle Jeeter? Let us know.

One last thing, if you've bookmarked the old page, you'll need to update the old URL from

http://library.redlands.edu/databases

to

http://library.redlands.edu/az.php.

Questions? Write them in the comments or send them to library [at] redlands [dot] edu.