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Fintel Library is pleased to announce that we are undergoing a trial of Music Online from Alexander Street press
With Music Online, Alexander Street Press aims to provide the most comprehensive database in streaming audio, video, reference, and scores on the web. Music Online allows users cross search all of the music databases published by Alexander Street Press. Music Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform the entire suite of Alexander Street Press music products that your institution subscribes to. Music Online can potentially cross-search any combination of these databases:
• African American Music Reference
• American Song
• Classical Music Library
• Classical Music Reference Library
• Classical Scores Library
• Contemporary World Music
• Dance in Video
• The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online
• Jazz Music Library
• Opera in Video
• Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries
Music Online offers hundreds of thousands of audio recordings, growing monthly, plus 400,000 pages of scores, 100,000 pages of music reference, and over 500 hours of video. Every object in the collection is indexed for subjects, historical events, genres, people, cultural groups, places, time periods, ensembles. As a result, students and scholars can combine keyword and fielded search capabilities to frame creative and highly targeted queries. You can also select to view a single database by using the dropdown menu at the bottom of the homepage of Music Online.

Music Online: Listening: http://music.alexanderstreet.com

American Song: http://amso.alexanderstreet.com
Classical Music Library: http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com
Contemporary World Music: http://womu.alexanderstreet.com
Jazz Music Library: http://jazz.alexanderstreet.com
Smithsonian Global Sound: http://glmu.alexanderstreet.com
Our access is activated effective today and will expire on 12 February, 2012.

Additional help for this product is available from http://muco.alexanderstreet.com/help or contact your favorite librarian for more information.

Fintel Library now has a subscription to Choice Reviews Online. We have an unlimited number of users, but we still encourage users to get in the habit of logging out. Simply closing out of the browser does not do it for this version. Our timeout is now set for 15 minutes. So if there is no activity for 15 minutes, it will end that session and you will need to log back in. However, if a user does not log out, then the time has to run its course (15 minutes) for him to be out of the site.

This is the URL you need to access CRO:

www.cro2.org

We have campus wide access. You can use both Quick and Advanced Search and email reviews to colleagues. Users can search the database as far back as 1988! By visiting Current Issue, you can click on the Bibliographic Essay. Those that want to reap the benefits of customization, can Create their own Passwords by clicking where it says “Register here to Create a Profile”! They can then click on My Monthly Reviews and see what has been reviewed that is connected to their Profile. This is extremely beneficial to faculty.

By creating a password/profile, you have the option to receive the Monthly Newsletter. The newsletter displays the bib record of the titles that were reviewed matching your subject areas. A password also allows one to Save Searches and Make and Save Lists. You can change your Profile at any time by clicking on My Profile, selecting what you like, and clicking on the UPDATE My Profile button at the bottom of the page.

We now have login/logout links. Please look on the right side of the page for these links. If the Login to CRO link appears, you must click on it to use the site. If it does not appear, it means you’re able to go right on!

It is very important that you use the log out links. You need to click on the log out from my password link if you are in using a password AND the log out from CRO link. So, you need to log out two times if you are logged in with a username and password. If you are not using a password, you only need to click on the log out from CRO link. Simply closing out of the browser does not log you out.

We also suggest that each user read the “Top Tips for Using Choice Reviews Online”. In the “top tips” we recommend IE for your browser and explain that you must have your pop up blockers disabled to email, download, or print reviews! We have an FAQ which is located on the left panel of the page that may answer some of your questions. Also, check out Publisher’s Choice Online (PCO). You can read about it on our Home Page. PCO gives you the opportunity to browse through the full text of titles that have been reviewed by Choice.

Need a break from all that studying? Why not a movie night? Here are some new movies that Fintel Library wants you to check out:

Jane Eyre

(2011) Focus Features presents in association with BBC films, A Ruby Films Production. Starring Mia Wasikowska (Alice In Wonderland, The Kids Are All Right) and Michael Fassbender (Inglourious Basterds), Jane Eyre is “a classic for a new generation” says Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. Wasikowska stars as the heroine who suddenly flees Thornfield Hall, the vast and isolated estate where she dares a deep connection with Thornfield’s brooding master, Edward Rochester (Fassbender). As she looks back upon the tumultuous events that led to her escape – the strange goings-on in Thornfield and the terrible secret that Rochester had hoped to hide from her forever – Jane reflects upon the people and emotions that have defined her and tested her resilience since being orphaned as a child. She realizes that she must conquer what haunts both her and Rochester…

Rome– The Complete Series (HBO)

Scre4m

(2011) Dimension Films presents; produced by Kevin Williamson; Directed by Wes Craven. The newest installment in the acclaimed franchise that ushered in a new wave of horror in the 1990s. In Scream 4, Sidney Prescott, now the author of a self-help book, returns home to Woodsboro on the last stop of her book tour. There she reconnects with Sheriff Dewey and Gale, who are now married, as well as her cousin Jill. Unfortunately, Sidney’s appearance also brings about the return of Ghost Face, putting her friends and the whole town of Woodsboro in danger

 

X-Men: First Class (2011) First Class/Twentieth Century Fox Presents, in association with Marvel Entertainment and Dune Entertainment; A Bad Hat Harry, Donners’ Company Production; A Matthew Vaughn Film: Before Charles Xavier and Erik Lensherr took the names Professor X and Magneto, they were two young men discovering their superhuman powers for the first time, working together in a desperate attempt to stop the Hellfire Club and a global nuclear war.

The Conspirator

(2011) Roadside Attractions; The American Film Company Presents, in association with Wildwood Enterprises; Produced and directed by Robert Redford. While “The Conspirator” illustrates American society’s convulsions in the wake of President Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, the film focuses on a largely overlooked character in the tragedy, Mary Surratt (Robin Wright), who owned the boardinghouse where her son John (Johnny Simmons) and triggerman John Wilkes Booth (Toby Kebbell) plotted the murder.

 

 

Bridesmaids (2011) Universal Pictures Presents, in association with Relativity Media; An Apatow Production; Written by Annie Mumolo & Kristin Wiig. Hailed as “brazenly hysterical” by People Magazine and “the best comedy of 2011” (Back Stage), Bridesmaids is the riotously funny and warmly outrageous comedy that has become the most talked about movie of the year. Critically acclaimed by fans and media alike, the “certified fresh” film (Rotten Tomatoes.com) received “two thumbs up! ®” from Ebert Presents. Surpassing Sex and the City as the number one R-rated female comedy of all time, Bridesmaids starring “Saturday Night Live” standouts Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph, is produced by comedy mastermind Judd Apatow (Knocked Up, The 40-Year Old Virgin) and marks his most successful film ever.

Fast Five (2011) Director of photography, Stephen F. Windon ; editors, Christian Wagner, Kelly Matsumoto, Fred Raskin ; music by Brian Tyler. After Brian and Mia break Dom out of jail, they find themselves trapped in Rio de Janeiro and on the run from the law. Now one last job stands between them and freedom, but will they make it before the corrupt businessmen, or the feds, catch up to them? Contains both PG-13 Rated and unrated version.

 

It’s really a common tragedy, and it plays out like this:

Jane Etudiante-Jones has a paper due and she has procrastinated. Or maybe she hasn’t really procrastinated, but things have come up that prevented her from getting the paper done, sports; Greek events; work; you know, life in general.
Now, she’s looking at a whole bunch of assignments, some major social obligations, and her calendar and realizing that that she needs to bust her hump to get it all done.

So the hump-busting commences with a marathon session at the library, maybe some coffee, and a laser-like focus on her paper. Miss Etudiante-Jones is able to find a whole lot of articles and websites that are just perfect for her work, it’s looking like the paper is a slam-dunk. So, she starts writing, copies and pastes several sections from articles into her draft, knowing that she can come back tomorrow and get the citations right, but it feels really good to have pulled together a solid-looking draft. Now it’s on to the next one, this paper is harder and she needs to take more time on it, so the first paper gets back-burner-ed, I mean why not? She already has a draft, right? Do you see where this is going?

Deadlines are amongst the sneakiest of all the monsters created by the civilized world, so when they begin popping up in Jane’s breakfast cereal, and in her e-mail, and in her “OMG, it’s REALLY DUE!” Jane does what she meant to do in the first place, she polishes up her draft and turns it in. Here’s where tragedy takes hold. She has forgotten exactly what information is from which sources, and which is her own. The paper seems to have taken on a mind of its own, and the clock is ticking, ticking, ticking, also some tocking. So, our heroine musters the best of the forces, puts together a plausible-looking works cited page, adds as many parentheticals as she can remember, and sends the paper on its merry way.

Then the letter arrives, the one informing her that she is being brought up on charges of plagiarism, Holy Cow! What happened?

What happened is that Jane did not cite her sources as she went along, hoping that her memory would be good enough to carry her along. It wasn’t. The best (and easiest) way to manage your citations is to go it as you build your paper. Sure, it may take an extra minute (or less) for each bit of material you quote, but it’s worth it. It’s so worth it. The databases in the Fintel Library collection all provide tools that pre-format citations, making the works cited page a no-brainer to create, and that only leaves the in-line citations for the student to create in a few deft keystrokes.

Save yourself the trouble, and please, please, please cite as you go.

The U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) has released its first mobile Web application (app), which provides the public with quick, easy access to information on Members of Congress. Based on the Guide to the House and Senate Members and information in the Congressional Pictorial Directory, the app allows users to browse for Members of Congress by last name, state, chamber, or party. Additionally, users can search by first and last name.

Of the new app, Public Printer Bill Boarman says, “GPO has experienced an incredible transformation in its 150 year history from handset type to handheld devices. We are very excited to release our first app for the public and provide a tool that will connect the public with Members of Congress. GPO looks forward to developing more apps in the future to provide the public with new options for accessing Government information.”

To access the app on your mobile device, go to or scan the QR code with your mobile device that is available at .

Supported Devices

* iPad or iPhone (iOS 4.3.3 or higher)
* Android devices (Android 2.1 or higher)
* Blackberry devices (Blackberry 6.0 or higher)

Lucas E. Morel is the Lewis G. John Term Professor and Acting Head of the Politics Department at Washington and Lee University, and he will be speaking tonight about Lincoln and race in the Wortmann Ballroom at Roanoke College.
Professor Lucas Morel has published “Lincoln’s Sacred Effort” and “Ralph Ellison and the Raft of Hope: A Political Companion to Invisible Man”.
This event is sponsored by the Fowler series and the Turk Pre-Law program. No tickets required.

“Let us discard all this quibbling about this man and the other man, this race and that race and the other race being inferior and therefore they must be placed in an inferior position. Let us discard all these things, and unite as one people throughout this land, until we shall once more stand up declaring that all men are created equal” —-Address to Chicago Abolitionists (10 July 1858); quoted in Roy P. Basler, ed., The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln (New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1953), 501