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I-SHARE will be unavailable from approximately 12:01am until 10:00am, this Sunday, December 16, 2007, due to operating system maintenance. 

Also, Ulrich’s Periodicals will be unavailable from 9 PM on Friday, Dec. 14 to 9 PM on Saturday, Dec. 15, also for maintenance reasons.

Thank you for your patience as we perform these necessary updates.

October’s featured

 ARTstor Image Gallery:“Pumpkins, BONES and Witches“ 

ENTER HERE October Image Gallery   

Follow the above link to view twenty-five multicultural images selected from the ARTstor Digital Library that depict pumpkins, bones or witches, including:

 ● a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho

● a Mexican calaca figure celebrating the Day of the Dead festival

● Skull with Books by Dutch artist Jan Davidsz de Heem

● a Japanese hanging scroll with ants hauling a pumpkin

● a burning witch from a 16^th-century German broadsheet

● an early American gravestone

● an anatomical illustration from Juan de Valverde’s Anatomia (1556) 

Note: To view images in ARTstor’s Image Gallery, pop-up blocker needs to be (temporarily) disabled 

ARTstor is a digital library of approximately 550,000 images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes. The Digital Library serves users both within the arts and in disciplines outside of the arts in fields as diverse as American Studies, Anthropology, Asian Studies, Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies, Music, Religious Studies, and Renaissance Studies. To access ARTstor:  http://www.artstor.org/index.shtml  or http://www.augustana.edu/library/Research/images.html 

Welcome back, faculty!

Tredway Library has an EXCITING new resource: Choice Reviews Online. This is the online equivalent of the Choice card book reviews. With Choice Reviews Online, you have immediate access to the latest reviews of books published in your field!

There’s really only ONE thing you need to do right now:  set up a “profile” (account) with Choice. By doing so, you specify exactly what kinds of books interest you – and then Choice sends you an email each month containing book reviews that match your profile!  (Please note that our subscription to Choice Reviews Online allows only 4 simultaneous users. If you are denied access, simply try again later.)

• To create your profile, go to www.cro2.org    (Note: This link is also available on the “Resources for Faculty” page of the library website)

• On the right side of the screen, click “REGISTER here to create your profile.” Enter basic information about yourself, choose a username and password, and then choose the specific book categories that match your interests.

• Click “Update My Profile” at the bottom of the screen.

That’s it! For more information about using Choice Reviews Online, please refer to the attached handout, or contact your liaison librarian.
choice-reviews-online.doc