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READ Poster
Parkland Library's second
READ poster was unveiled during National Library Week.
The poster features Kaizad Irani,
associate professor of horticulture.
[More pictures.]
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Database Searching
Starting this summer, we'll have some new tools for our
subscription databases—Infotrac, Ebscohost, etc. "Etc."
covers quite a lot of ground—over forty databases
containing literally millions of articles! For several
years we've worked to purchase more online full-text, in
a variety of subject areas. And so we arrive at
our current challenge, which is to provide you with
better tools to sort through it all and get what you
need as efficiently and effectively as possible. Stay
tuned for Webfeat
and
SFX. You may never use these tools by name, but
they'll be the foundation underlying several changes
coming to our web page this summer and fall.
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By Popular Demand
Parkland Library will once again be serving FREE coffee
and hot tea during finals week. This is our opportunity
to wish all our students "good luck" on their exams.
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New Database
Parkland Library now has
access to an exciting digital image archive thanks to CARLI,
the Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois.
The
Saskia
Digital Image Archive contains over 30,000 digital
images of paintings, sculpture and architecture,
including images from many important collections: the
Prado, the Kunsthistorisches Museum, the Uffizi, and the
Louvre, as well as archaeological sites in Greece,
Italy, Turkey and Egypt. The images are displayed in
both high resolution and thumbnail format. The
descriptive data about the images includes references to
the occurrences of these images in 19 major art history
texts, including Gardner's Art Through the Ages,
12th edition; Understanding Art, 7th edition; Art and Ideas, 10th edition;
Discovering Art
History, 4th edition. A complete list of textbooks
is available at
http://www.scholarsresource.com/Browse/BrowseTextBooks.aspx
Information about the
Saskia collection may be found at
http://www.saskia.com/
Links to the Saskia
collection are on the Parkland Library web
page. Off-campus users will have to authenticate with
their Parkland ID numbers. If you have questions about
accessing these wonderful images, call the Information
Desk at 373-3839.
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Pi Day
For most of the Library
Staff, π
(pi = 3.14) is a nearly
forgotten remembrance of long-ago high school math. But it came back to haunt us on "Pi Day" (March 14 =
3.14) in a refreshingly pleasant way . . . . blueberry,
strawberry, apple, cherry, key lime and even chocolate
chip pies were studied in a test of gastronomic delight.
We are happy to report that unlike our math grades, Pi
Day scored an A+ from all the staff.
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