Conference Lecture
In observation of the 2012 Oxford Conference for the Book, Archives and Special Collections will be hosting Dr. David Hall for a lecture on Thursday, March 22nd at 11:30. Dr. Hall, of Harvard's Divinity School, will be speaking on “Great Wrongs?: Writers’ Expectations, Publishers’ Realities in Early America.”
For further information please contact Jennifer Ford at (662) 915-7639.
Wednesdays at 3:00 and 7:00 p.m.
Develop your research skills and learn about new resources at the JD Williams Library by attending our Wednesday Workshops.
Each workshop is 50 minutes long and "hands-on."
Sign up is recommended, but not required, at this page: tinyurl.com/wedwork.
Mar. 21: Learn how to use our new mega-search tool, One Search. It will rock your world!
Mar. 28 Using Gender Studies and LGBTQ Databases to Expand Your Research
Apr. 4: The Hidden Library: Uncover secrets in the stacks, hidden features in the website, and more.
Apr. 11: Learn how to use Scopus (database that replaced Web of Science) to do research in the sciences and social sciences.
Apr. 18: Find Your Bliss: Job Resources in the Library for those finding jobs or thinking of changing careers
Apr. 25: Still Haven't Started that Paper? Research for Procrastinators will help you get back on track.
For more info check out the Wednesday Workshops Flyer
Location: Main Library Room 106E
Questions? Contact Ruth Mirtz at rmmirtz@olemiss.edu.
New LGBT and Gender Studies databaes now available
"Gender Studies Database™ (GSD) combines the Women's Studies International and Men's Studies databases with the coverage of sexual diversity issues. GSD covers the full spectrum of gender-engaged scholarship inside and outside academia. Several thousand links to freely available and indexed full-text articles and documents on the Internet are available. Source documents include professional journals, conference papers, books, book chapters, government reports, discussion and working papers, theses & dissertations and other sources. Several hundred links provide access to carefully selected and important websites. This database includes more than 921,000 records, with coverage spanning from 1972 and earlier to the present".
"LGBT Life® with Full Text contains all of the content available in LGBT Life as well as full text for more than 130 of the most important and historically significant LGBT journals, magazines and regional newspapers, as well as more than 170 full-text monographs/books including Classics in Lesbian Studies, Gay Science: The Ethics of Sexual Orientation Research, Handbook of Research with Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual & Transgender Populations, Queer Theory & Social Change, etc. The database includes comprehensive indexing and abstract coverage as well as a specialized LGBT Thesaurus containing over 7,500 terms. Full-text content available in LGBT Life with Full Text includes The Advocate, Gay Parent Magazine, Girlfriends, GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian & Gay Studies, James White Review, ISNA News, Ladder, Lesbian Tide, New York Blade, ONE, Tangents, and many more. Additionally, all relevant bibliographic data from NISC's Sexual Diversity Studies is also included".
Access both LGBT Life® with Full Text and Gender Studies databases via the library's Alphabetical List Of Databases.
Explore everyday life as written by African Americans
The UM Libraries now has unprecedented access to online, searchable primary sources through ProQuest History Vault-The Black Freedom Struggle I & II. Vault I has 36 collections of personal papers of African Americans and records of civil rights organizations. Vault II consists of 37 collections from the records of federal government agencies.
Search Databases directly or use One-Search powered by Summon to find all our library resources on African American topics.
Check out ProQuest for more info.
New Database
SCOPUS, from Elsevier, is a comprehensive abstract and citation database containing both peer-reviewed research literature and quality web sources. With over 18,000 titles from more than 5,000 international publishers, Scopus supports research needs in the scientific, technical, medical and social sciences fields as well as in the arts and humanities.
Check out the SCOPUS Tutorial for more info.
"We Shall Always March Ahead:" Mississippi and the Civil Rights Movement
The Department of Archives and Special Collections is proud to announce the opening of the new exhibition, “We Shall Always March Ahead: Mississippi and the Civil Rights Movement.” Original items on display document the struggle against segregation and oppression in the South. Among the many topics covered are the University of Mississippi, photography, music, and politics.
The exhibition is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m and is located in the Archives and Special Collections' Faulkner Room, which is on the third floor of the J. D. Williams Library. For more information please contact Dr. Jennifer Ford at 662-915-7639 or at jwford@olemiss.edu.
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