Showing posts with label reference sources. Show all posts
Showing posts with label reference sources. Show all posts

Friday, November 30, 2012

Theater Arts 61A "Ancient & Medieval Drama" assignment

Here are a few Cruzcat subject headings for an assignment for Theater Arts 61A "Ancient & Medieval Drama". They have to find a medieval play (500-1500) and then a modern production of it. It would probably be helpful for them to have some context for the medieval version.
Reference material:

A companion to the medieval theatre
McH Ref PN2152.C66 1989


Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Citing maps

The most helpful source (in citing a map) is Cartographic citations : a style guide,

There are copies in both reference collections, as well as the Map Room. It's skinny and pam-bound. Z6021 .C55 2010

- Cynthia

Wednesday, April 20, 2011

ArchiveGrid

Great publicly accessible online resource for locating archives nationwide (and searching for materials in them):

ArchiveGrid
http://www.archivegrid.org/

Tuesday, March 1, 2011

BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill resource


In case people are still getting questions about the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill, I wanted to let you know that we recently received the official report to the president: Deep Water: The Gulf Oil Disaster and the Future of Offshore Drilling (http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu/record=b3539867~S5) and the accompanying recommendations (http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu/record=b3539868~S5).

I also wanted to share this Deepwater subject guide created by the Gov Docs librarian at MSU: http://guides.library.msstate.edu/content.php?pid=136282&sid=1167503

And a reminder about the bibliography link that Cynthia sent out back in May:
http://www.southalabama.edu/univlib/govdocs/gd/oilspill2010.html

--Jess

Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Grateful Dead Research Guide

There is a new guide to help students, or anyone, with questions about researching the Grateful Dead phenomenon. It is located both in the subject guide list and the how to list:

http://library.ucsc.edu/help/howto/grateful-dead-research-guide

The Grateful Dead Archive is being processed and will not be available for researchers until spring 2012.

Thursday, December 16, 2010

New music research guide

Many thanks to Paul Machlis for his new guide, How to Find Music in the Library.

It's a great review for helping patrons find music sources on the desk.

Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Phone books

Laura's recent post on pay phones pushed the notion of phones to the front of my reference brain so my attention was quickly captured by Leah Garchik's December 13th column in the San Francisco Chronicle highlighting a unique reference work:


In his new "The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book That Everyone Uses But No One Reads," historian Ammon Shea writes that for a few decades at the end of the 19th century and start of the 20th, there was a hand-lettered Chinese phone book in San Francisco. This was for Chinese customers of Pacific Bell who used the only foreign-language phone exchange in the country.


Chinatown's first phone, in a Bush Street office, was in operation in the 1880s, and was much used by "farmers selling produce or looking for laborers." Beginning in 1890, residents had access to a public phone in the offices of a Chinese-language newspaper. By 1894, a Chinatown switchboard linked 37 phones; in 1898, they became part of Pacific Telephone and Telegraph.


Because Chinese characters are based on ideas rather than letters, the "directory" system was not alphabetic, and most operators would spend a great deal of their first months on the job trying to memorize phone numbers.

UCSC doesn't have The Phone Book: The Curious History of the Book that Everyone Used but No One Reads, but the section describing this distinctive San Francisco phone directory in more detail is included in the Google Books preview here.

While Santa Cruz may not have such a distinctive history of telephone directories our Special Collections Department does have a small collection of phone directories from as far back as 1918. The collection is in NRLF and more details about its scope can be found here.

Other historical directories more readily available include Polk and Haines directories which can be found in Cruzcat.  A detailed list of historical collections of local telephone directories held in various repositories throughout the county can be found on page 65 of Every Structure Tells a Story: How to Research the History of a Property in Santa Cruz County.

Monday, November 15, 2010

Ref College and Careers collection

Hi all,

As part of the reference reduction I'm planning to do some heavy weeding in the college and careers collection outside of the BI room. Much of the material can obviously be withdrawn or moved into the ref collection under its call number. If there is anything questionable I'll consult with the appropriate bibliographer, but if you have questions or concerns about this collection or the material in contains please let me know. Once I've cleared it I will ask cataloging to remove that location from Cruzcat.

thanks, Frank

Tuesday, June 8, 2010

Randall's Religious Studies subject guide

Here is a permanent link which may be of help. If any links are broken, there are still references that you can look up in Cruzcat:

http://members.cruzio.com/~krstudstill/religious_studies_research_guide3.htm

Wednesday, June 2, 2010

Kerry's business resources guide

Many thanks to Jess for successfully moving Kerry's invaluable Business Resources guide into Drupal. You can access it here:

http://library.ucsc.edu/help/howto/business-resources

or from the list of "How to" guides.

Wednesday, May 5, 2010

2010 Oil Spill incident site

from Cynthia Moriconi in Maps:

Here is a link to the Bibliography created by a Reference Librarian at the University of South Alabama for the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill Incident 2010:

http://www.southalabama.edu/univlib/govdocs/gd/oilspill2010.html

It will be updated with the latest information.

Tuesday, May 4, 2010

Kerry's business guide

In case you need access to Kerry great business research guide, it's on the old server, and here is the link:

http://library2.ucsc.edu/collect/businessweb.html

I had a market research question that this was perfect in answering.

Best,

Laura

Thursday, February 18, 2010

Writing class focused on surfing

There is a Writing section that is focused on topics related to surfing. I've helped a couple of students with this topic and have a few strategies to share:

-not using the * symbol for truncating -- too many items come up with "surface"; leaving it as keyword "surfing" worked much better

-adding "NOT internet" to the keyword search was extremely helpful in the article databases

-Encyclopedia of Surfing: McH Ref GV840.S8 W3476 2003
http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu/record=b2282202~S5

-article databases: Academic Search Complete; Historical Abs; in Illumina (surfing is a Descriptor in CSA) used Oceanic Abs, both Psych dbs, Socio Abs

-adding ideas/subject terms such as surfers, culture, subculture, counterculture, sport psychology, extreme sports, risk-taking, recreation, coastal management, environmental protection, business, marketing, etc.

Hope this is helpful.

Best,

Laura

Thursday, February 11, 2010

Class: History 30 "Making of Modern Africa"

Hi all,

Beth and I recently conducted research sessions for David Anthony's
History 30 (Making of Modern Africa) and History 137B (Africa 1800 to
Present) classes, and you will notice lots of activity around these topics
just now. Although Beth and I are happy to assist them when they have hit
research roadblocks, please be aware that they should first consult and
*use* the resources listed in the dedicated guides for each of these
classes linked on the Course Materials page (and to which we introduced
them in class) and below. They should be assured that Reference Desk staff can help
them as well as Beth and myself.

Thanks,
Ken and Beth

History 30 Guide:
http://library.ucsc.edu/course-guides/history-30-making-of-modern-africa

History 137B Guide:
http://library.ucsc.edu/course-guides/history-137b---africa-1800-to-the-present

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Global Books in Print cancelled

Due to systemwide budget cuts our subscription to Global Books in Print has been cancelled and the database is no longer available. If you maintain a web page that linked to this database please update it.

thanks, Frank

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Hebrew Bible

A number of students have asked about copies of the JPS Tanakh in the Library
collection. You may want to share the following
information with them.

First, they should know that most copies of Tanakh
and Torah are in the 4th floor stacks and circulate.

Second, while we have a limited number of editions
titled "Tanakh" there are many others that
essentially fit that bill. And in fact, there are
a number of editions in the collection that use
the JPS Tanakh translation that are not identified
that way (unless you look closely).

Third, there are copies of the text in many forms.
Those in English-Hebrew versions will usually
page right to left. There are also quite a few
English-only editions for those who prefer that.
They should be aware that Tanakh=Old Testament
and Torah=Five Books of Moses=Pentateuch=Chumash.
Some editions come in multiple volumes.

Finally, most of our Tanakh and Torah editions
include some commentary. Typical of the opening
of Bereisheit (Genesis), there is a lot of of
commentary, so much so that there is only one or
two lines of text per page, the rest taken up by
commentary. While this makes for halting
reading, the commentary can be helpful for
research purposes.

Here are a few examples of useful copies currently
on the shelves:

The Jewish study Bible : Jewish Publication
Society Tanakh translation
BS895 .J4 2004
http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu/record=b2376601~S5

Etz Hayim : Torah and commentary
BS1223 .L54 2001
http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu/record=b2447623~S5

Genesis : the traditional Hebrew text with new JPS
translation
BS1235.3.S325 1989
http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu/record=b1132076~S5

The Soncino Chumash : the five books of Moses with
Haphtaroth
BS704.S673 1983
http://cruzcat.ucsc.edu/record=b1260109~S5

Knowing that these will disappear quickly, I
thought I'd look for some online sources:

http://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Bible/jpstoc.html
http://www.mechon-mamre.org/p/pt/pt0.htm
http://www.shamash.org/tanach/text.shtml
http://bible.ort.org/books/pentd2.asp?ACTION=displaypage&BOOK=1&CHAPTER=1#P1
http://tanakhml2.alacartejava.net/cocoon/tanakhml/d13.php2xml?sfr=1&prq=1&pnt=tru&acc=tru&dia=tru&enc=heb&xml=non

They can also find free copies as iPod/iPhone apps.

-- Lee

Tuesday, November 17, 2009

Campus publications: general catalog, schedule of classes, The Navigator, academic calendar

I asked the Registrar's publication editor to outline the print and electronic publication pattern for the four major campus publications. FYI, the information is given below. As we untangle this, Janet will attempt to amend the Cruzcat records.

-Christine

UCSC General Catalog:
Beginning with the 2004-2005 year, the General Catalog went to a biennial printing schedule. One year the catalog is printed, the next year it is updated online, with updates less encompassing than revisions for the printed year's catalog. In addition to the current General Catalog, previous year's catalogs, both online updates and printed catalogs dating back to 2003-04, are available online at http://reg.ucsc.edu/catalog/index.html. The printing status of the General Catalog for the upcoming year, 2010-11, is uncertain. No decision has been announced yet that we are or are not printing it. The current General Catalog is online athttp://reg.ucsc.edu/catalog/index.html.

Quarterly Schedule of Classes:
The Schedule of Classes was printed each quarter up to and including fall 2009. As of winter quarter 2010, the Schedule of Classes is no longer printed, but is available online at http://reg.ucsc.edu/soc.htm. In addition to not printing it, the winter 2010 Schedule of Classes includes several changes from previous quarters. One is that informational text that was duplicated in the Schedule of Classes and either the Navigator or General Catalog has been removed from the Schedule of Classes (with a few exceptions that are specific to a particular quarter). Additionally, previous Schedules included complete class listings that included all courses, sections, dates and times, locations, instructors, and requirements. That is no longer included in the Schedule of Classes as of winter 2010 because the online class search mechanism in AIS (Academic Information Systems) has been modified and greatly improved (https://pisa.ucsc.edu/class_search/). The search parameters are limited to the
current and immediately preceding quarter, however, so this is likely to impact anyone looking back to find whether a particular course was offered. The current Schedule of Classes is online at http://reg.ucsc.edu/soc.htm.

The Navigator Undergraduate Handbook:
This is a little less clear. The last officially printed copy of the Navigator we have dates to 2002-03. Subsequent year's Navigator's are not archived online since they are to be used by incoming undergraduates and are updated annually. If, however, you are missing years subsequent to 2002-03, we can get you an online address to print copies to bring your collection up to date. The current Navigator is online at http://reg.ucsc.edu/navigator/index.html.

The Academic and Administrative Calendar:
The calendar was printed through the 2008-09 academic year, but was not printed this year (2009-10). Printable PDF versions of the current and previous year's calendars dating back to 2004-05 are available online at http://reg.ucsc.edu/calendar/index.html.

Tuesday, November 10, 2009

History 10 - primary source questions

We are getting more questions from History 10 students needing primary sources. Their assignment is to find a letter that is ideally from the time period of a historical event (ex. the Missouri Compromise), or at least not after 1877, and then write 5-7 pages about it's historical significance. I had luck with a Thomas Jefferson letter (on Library of Congress site) about the Missouri Compromise. Consult Kerry's class guide for more sources:

http://library.ucsc.edu/course-guides/history-10a-united-states-history-to-1877

Friday, November 6, 2009

Online guides for Writing and Core classes

As we get used to our new website, it might be helpful to highlight a couple of ways to introduce Writing and Core students to research (thanks to Debbie and Annette):

Getting Started (linked on our home page)
-takes students step-by-step through constructing a research paper
http://library.ucsc.edu/content/constructing-your-research-paper

Writing subject guide (linked on home page under "Subjects" and "Course Materials & ERes")
-outlines research process steps with links
http://library.ucsc.edu/course-guides/writing

Friday, October 30, 2009

San Francisco City Directories - now online - free

Subject: [calix] San Francisco City Directories - Now online - free

San Francisco City Directories are now online - free - Here are the direct links:
San Francisco City Directories
1927. http://www.archive.org/details/crockerlangleysa1927rlporich