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November 9, 2009

Digital collection of Government Comic Books now online!

The result of a two-year scanning and research project shepherded by Richard Graham, Assistant Professor and Digital Media Librarian, brings the content of 180 Comics, posters, and congressional hearings about comics onto the web as a new digital collection (http://comics.unl.edu). The federal government published and sub-contracted an interesting spectrum of comics for various agencies, while at the same time it was investigating and actively pursuing attempts to censor them.

This collection provides entire content of the comic books online and each is available for download in pdf form. A few sample titles included in the collection are:

• Johnny Gets the Word, by the New York Department of Health Centers for the Treatment of Venereal Diseases
• Dignity and Respect: A Training Guide on Homosexual Conduct Policy produced by the US Dept. of the Army
• On the Trail of the Missing Ozone produced by the US Environmental Protection Agency

To browse the entire collection, go to: (http://comics.unl.edu)

October 30, 2009

Little Nooks from Great Books exhibit in Love Library

The traveling exhibit of miniature rooms based on popular children's books from the Kruger Collection of Miniature Furnishings and Decorative Arts is on display in Love Library. From now until December 17, the exhibit will be housed in second floor display area of Love Library North. Specific scenes include the cabin interior from "Little House on the Prairie" and the Gryffindor common room from "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." The exhibit is accessible the same hours Love Library is open.

October 20, 2009

UNL Libraries Streams Music Files

Study or relax to music from the UNL Libraries website (http:iris.unl.edu). The Naxos Music Library contains jazz, contemporary, blues, classical and many other genres of music. A second streaming audio music database, The Classical Music Library, features the 55,902 tracks of music from earliest times earliest times (e.g. Gregorian Chant) to the present, including many contemporary composers. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music, to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.

To access both databases start at E-Resources page

Under the Arts & Humanities column – click on Music

More streaming music databases will be added soon!

October 12, 2009

Text Call Number to Your Cell Phone

Having trouble reading your handwriting, or remembering the call number, or are you getting lost in the stacks when you are looking for a book? You can now send the call number to your cell phone or look up the book location before you go to the stacks. This new feature can be found under the link WebBridge in either Encore or the classic catalog. Please remember, when you are sending a text message your cell phone plan may charge you for the text message.

September 29, 2009

Alumni Association now have access to two electronic databases

Paid members of the UNL Alumni Association now have access to two electronic databases – Academic Search for Alumni which provides access to 3,350 journals and 8,200 abstracts and Business Source for Alumni, which provides access to business magazines, journals, reports and profiles. Get more information here: http://community.huskeralum.org/LibraryAccess