Big changes have taken place in the library this summer, as two years of preparation culminate in an almost complete upgrade of library systems from the back end to the front. The library invites the campus to celebrate this transition with us at our launch party Monday, August 20, at 2 pm on the …
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If you happen to be doing library research today, you will notice a change on the library home page. Our new search interface, Hope Primo is now up, replacing the MightyFind, Library Catalog, and Journal Finder. Here’s a short video introducing the major features of the tool. We hope that this centralized interface will create a more consistent search …
The library is excited to share our new system with you beginning in mid-July! For those of you doing research this summer, here are just a few things we want you to be aware of over the next couple of weeks. Beginning July 1st, HopeCat (“Books + Media” search) will be retired, and there …
Now through October 7th the DePree Gallery is hosting a dual exhibition, “Hateful Things / Resilience.” This exhibit features racist memorabilia from the Jim Crow Museum at Ferris State University, in parallel with works by major contemporary African American artists. The exhibit is “intended to encourage thoughtful, sensitive, and scholarly dialog concerning the history …
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For those of you who haven’t used it before, Naxos is the library’s primary tool for online streaming classical music. It contains over 100,000 CDs from 100s of labels such as Naxos, Sony Classical, Albany, and Inova. Naxos has recently released a new version of its app, available for apple and android. Use this app …
There are all kinds of fantastic arts-related tools hiding out there on the open web. Here are a few random favorites of mine: Chinese Painting and Calligraphy at the Seattle Art Museum – This is a fantastic online interactive exhibit of 150 works of painting and calligraphy. Not only are the digital images high quality, …
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Do you have an interest in the intersections between music and the visual arts? If so, you should check out the Répertoire International d’Iconographie Musicale (RIdIM). Don’t be intimidated by the French name! This free online database indexes over 2,100 depictions of musical instruments in works of art ranging from the 14th to the mid-20th century. …
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If you haven’t stumbled across this yet, I wanted to make you aware of a newer resource that the library subscribes to, Digital Theatre Plus. We subscribed to this last year to support the theatre department with a streaming drama resource. It is a growing database of major plays, including contemporary British theatre productions and …
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