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American novelist Philip Roth died on Tuesday night. He was 85.
The author was one of the most prolific and well-known writers in contemporary American literature. He wrote American Pastoral, Portnoy's Complaint, and The Human Stain, among his other works. He also won several literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize for his 1997 novel American Pastoral, the National Book Award, and the Man Booker International Prize.
Some of his most famous novels are available in the Frohring Library:
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We have a 1 month free trial for the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Politics.
This encyclopedia includes peer-reviewed, long-form reference articles on a wide range of topics such as political economy, world politics, political history, governance, political institutions, political violence, political philosophy as well as qualitative and quantitative methodologies and is written by experts in the field of Political Science. Each article contains extensive bibliographies on the topics covered.
The trial access ends on June 20, 2018, and the resource can be accessed and reviewed both on and off campus.
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From May 4 to May 7, the Reference Librarians Livia Piotto, Eleonora Moccia, and Manlio Perugini attended the AMICAL 2018 conference hosted by the American University of Central Asia. Like every year, the conference brought together librarians, technologists, and faculty from the 27 institutions that belong to the AMICAL Consortium.
Our JCU librarians were accompanied by Prof. Antonio Lopez, an active member of the consortium, and Prof. Shannon Russell, who attended the conference for the first time, after participating at TALIX: Teaching and Learning Innovation Exchange last February.
All JCU attendees actively participated in the conference activities with several presentations:
From one-shot to co-teaching: A story of a collaboration (Livia Piotto)
From zero to fifty in one year: Library and faculty collaboration to integrate digital literacy training in the core curriculum of English Literature (Eleonora Moccia and Shannon Russell)
Instructional training for library staff: The benefits of cooperation (Manlio Perugini)
Beyond Co-design! Next steps for ACRL Framework collaboration (Antonio Lopez)
Prof. Russell and Eleonora Moccia also attended the two-day workshop Digital tools for teaching, writing, and research: Building capacity in the Digital Humanities.
Head Librarian Elisabetta Morani could not attend the conference in person, but she presented (remotely) at the Library Resources Buyers Group annual meeting. She also received an award certificate for outstanding volunteer service for “her foundational work as Chair of the E-Resources Committee and her longstanding commitment to building a consortium that combines innovation with responsiveness to members’ current needs.”
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Within the frame of the 4m2 Gallery, the Frohring Library will host the vernissage of the Vanessa Somers Art Project on Saturday, May 12, 2018 at 6:30 pm. The project was dedicated in the name of Trustee Vreeland’s late wife and will celebrate her passion for the arts.
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May free e-book from University of Chicago Press is about the passion of science: Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything by Philip Ball.
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"Curiosity: How Science Became Interested in Everything emerges as a first-rate popular account of how science in Europe began. Accurate, witty, and reliable, the book ably shows modern readers how we got to be modern. Philip Ball adeptly sketches the virtuoso sensibility: a combination of intellectual nosiness and experimental dexterity plus the belief that, as he writes, ‘to understand everything, you could start from anywhere.’”—Wall Street Journal
Zoterobib is the new "free service that helps you build a bibliography instantly from
any computer or device, without creating an account or installing any software." It is a web service provided by Zotero, and it is the perfect solution if you don't want to learn how to use complex reference managers, or if you don't have time to do it.
Why would this new tool be better than Citation Machine, Easybib, bibme, etc.? These are all tools that we do mention in our Citation Guide, but they are unfortunately filled with adverts and often try to upsell premium services like services to review the grammar and writing of the paper. You don't want to pay more, do you? But you would like a reliable way to cite your sources.
Zoterobib is entirely ad free, it is free, like its big brother Zotero, and it has some fancy features that you don't normally find in other online citation generators.
First of all, all your citations remain stored in the browser cache so, unless you clean the chronology or you are using a computer in a lab, you can keep all your citations in one place and your computer will remember them when you access the website.
Then, you can search the web by entering the URL, ISBN, DOI, PMID, Arxiv, or title, and the citation will be automatically created for you. Plus, you can always manually edit the information entered.
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Citing sources has never been so easy!