What Can You Do Under Copyright?

Faculty, do you know what you're allowed to do under copyright in the classroom?

Check out the Association of Research Libraries' (ARL) Know Your Copy Rights website.

You'll find a helpful brochure there, an easy-to-read chart, plus specific discussion on using copyrighted works in teaching.

New book: The Last Lion

William Manchester and Paul Reid's The Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill,  (call # 941.084 M36 2012) is a new addition to Plough Library's collection. You'll find it on the New Book shelf.

For more about the book, watch Reid's discussion from C-SPAN.

New books can be checked out for two weeks.

Islamic Art Spot: Arts of the Book...

How were books made in the past? Here's a video describing Islamic book-making and illustration - Arts of the Book and Miniature Painting. It's one of the free online resources available through the Muslim Journeys Bookshelf.

The Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, conducted in cooperation with the American Library Association. Support was provided by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Additional support for the arts and media components was provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. 

Encyclopedia of Sustainability

New in Credo Reference Online, Robin Morris Collin and Robert William Collin's Encyclopedia of Sustainability (ABC-CLIO, 2010) addresses sustainability as it relates to the environment, justice, and economics.

Divided into three parts--"Environment and Ecology," "Business and Economics," and "Equity and Fairness," each part provides an overview, definitions, a section on government involvement, discussion of controversies, and projections of trends and future developments.

Appendices include links to portal websites as well as statements of principles. Bibliographies are also included.

Islamic Art Spot - Mosques

Check out Mosques and Religious Architecture from the National Endowment for the Humanities. It's one of the many resources we have access to as part of the Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys grant. In addition to the video essay, the page includes cross-references to books on the Bookshelf--all of which are available for check-out at Plough Library.

The Bridging Cultures Bookshelf: Muslim Journeys is a project of the National Endowment for the Humanities, conducted in cooperation with the American Library Association. Support was provided by a grant from Carnegie Corporation of New York. Additional support for the arts and media components was provided by the Doris Duke Foundation for Islamic Art. 

Knovel Tools and Applications for Every Project Phase

Check out this infographic from Knovel that illustrates how their tools and applications can be used in projects.

We subscribe to four Knovel collections: Biochemistry, Biology and Biotechnology; Chemistry and Chemical Engineering; General Engineering and Project Administration; and--newly added-- Manufacturing Engineering. The collections include hundreds of books, fully available online; many include interactive features.

Students, faculty, and staff at CBU can use our Knovel resources from both on-campus and off.

Learn to Organize your Research with RefWorks

Learn to gather and organize your research with the RefWorks citation management tool in two free webinars this June:

Part I - Gather and Organize your Research Sources in RefWorks
Thursday, June 20, 2013
2:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00
Part I covers direct exports, open URLs, attachements, the last imported folder, adding a citation to a folder, exporting from a library catalog, RefGrab-It, and Quick Search.

Part II - Gather and Organize your Research Sources in RefWorks
Wednesday, June 26, 2013
10:00 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (New York, GMT-04:00
Part II covers using RefWorks to search external catalogs, entering a citation manually, RSS feeds, managing folders, duplicates, and advanced search.

A basic understanding of RefWorks is required.

For other webinars and training, see the RefWorks-COS Training Website.