Chicago Manual of Style Now Online!

Humanities scholars take note: Kimbel Library now provides access to the two most recent editions of the Chicago Manual of Style Online. 

Unlike the print edition - which is still available in the library - the online format allows an unlimited number of users at the same time.

The newest edition (16^th) includes updated tips for citing blogs, podcasts, and other electronic sources, the use of DOIs vs. URLs, greater coverage of electronic publications and more content on use of bias-free language.

Hardcore fans of the CMOS may find the facsimile copy of the original (1906) edition and the extensive user-submitted FAQ fascinating, but most users will want to start with the Citation Quick Guide which covers the citation basics of sources from books to blog posts.

Part 3 of the Digital Archive

 "Slavery and Anti-Slavery" now available

In 2010, the library purchased the digital archive Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational Archive. Dr. Charles Joyner is an editor of the  four-part series, with each part scheduled for annual release. Part 2 was released last summer.

We now have access to Part 3: The Institution of Slavery

Part 3 looks at the inner workings of slavery from 1492-1888 and includes legal documents, plantation records, personal accounts, newspapers, and government documents, and shows how enslaved people rebelled against the institution of slavery. This collection of primary source materials allows users to research slavery in terms of a labor and legal system, the relationship between master and slave, slavery and religion, free labor, and the lives of free African Americans.

Topics of interest include include the Zong (or Shong) Massacre, the Dred Scott case, records of John Brown’s raid at Harper’s Ferry and the Dememara rebellion.

Collections include:

Records of East Florida
Benjamin Tappan Papers
Blair Family Papers, 1755-1968
J.F.H. Claiborne Papers, 1818-1885
James Henry Hammond Papers
John J. Crittenden Papers, 1783-1913
Official Transcripts of Reports on the State of the British Colonies in North America and the West Indies: 1721-1766
The National Anti-Slavery Standard
Journals of the Assembly of Jamaica

Documents are included in the library’s catalog; Part 1 and part 2 comprise over 10,000 documents.

Users can download entire documents (up to 250 pages) in PDF format to a PC or mobile device and can generate citations for selected text. 

Bravo, Encore!

Library Technology and Systems has been busily working on a number of new and interesting projects over the last few months. Well, the time has finally arrived to introduce Encore, which has a sleek new look and feel, with enhanced functionality that we think everyone will really appreciate. Here are a few of the things Encore offers:

• Simultaneously search through Kimbel Library’s catalog and five Ebsco databases 
• Spell checking
• A related information function (it looks for more keywords relevant to your topic)
• Book summaries
• Cover images
• CHOICE Magazine reviews
• Many facets (or limiters): narrow or expand your results by format, location, language, publication date, and more to find what you need

Try Kimbel Library's Encore Search for yourself and let us know what you think. This is our first step toward a more discovery-based system of information retrieval. Enjoy!

The Lily, Southern County Histories now in Accessible Archives

The Lily, the first newspaper for women, is now available to CCU users through the subscription database Accessible Archives.

"Intemperance is the great foe to her peace and happiness. It is that above all that has made her Home desolate and beggared her offspring…"

Published in Seneca Falls, New York and edited by Amelia Bloomer, The Lily initially focused on the exclusion of women from temperance societies. While the evils of drink remained a constant during its publishing lifespan (1849-1853), The Lily eventually included articles on women’s rights and called for change in laws that were unfair to women. Many articles were authored by Elizabeth Cady Stanton under the pen name Sunflower.

Accessible Archives has also added Southern states to the American County Histories.

American County Histories (1870-1900)  provide an overview of a specific region during the latter part of the 19th century and are considered foundational records for local history and genealogical research. The Southern states now join the Histories from New England, the mid-Atlantic and some Western states. Content found in the  Histories can include crime statistics, population shifts, transportation systems, settlement patterns and religious trends. Counties indexed for South Carolina are Edgefield, Greenville, Marion, Marlboro, Old Pendleton, Orangeburg, Sumter and Williamsburg.

An excerpt from the Marion County records:
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"Mr. Lowrimore gives us the name of another early settler in Britton’s Neck, by the name of James Crockett, in the following words: “Another settlement which I forgot to note was old James Crockett, an old Englishman, came and settled on Little Pee Dee, near what is known as Pawley’s Camp, the place where old Tory Pawly, hid, when old General Marion was ransacking this part of the country for the Torys; but the said Crockett obtained a warrant, and in 1734, he taken up and had granted to him a tract of land. I have had the old plat and grant in my hand many times.” This was probably the progenitor of the celebrated David Crockett, of frontier fame in the wild West, seventy-five or eighty years ago."

NEW FILMS ADDED TO FILMS ON DEMAND

Kimbel Library subscribes to Films on Demand, or FOD, a film database which gives students and faculty immediate access to over 8,000 films from PBS, CNBC, Frontline, the Royal Opera House, Meridian, National Geographic, Nova and much, much more.

More than 1,750 new films have been added to FOD this spring, including:

1. Ken Burns' The National Parks: America’s Best Idea series
2. Art 21: Art in the 21st Century series
3. The Big Picture – “the official television report by the U.S. Army to its members and to the American people,” produced by the U.S. Army, 1951-1964
4. African-American Lives series
5. CNBC’s Titans, on America’s titans of business
6. Latin Music USA

You can browse the film collection in the FOD site, or search for these and any other film in the library’s catalog.

De-Stress Fest

April 30 - May 2

It's official, we're stocked up and ready for finals week! Each evening our staff will be going around the library and giving away snacks. Stay happy and healthy this week by taking some time to De-Stress @ your library.

• Take a brain break by working on some puzzles
• Write on our Wall of Inspiration
• Let out your stress through Pinata Therapy on Monday, 4/30, @ 6pm
• Make a Stress-ball on Wednesday, 5/2, from 6-8pm

The food in the cart is taller than me!

Titanic Lives

If you've watched Titanic in 3D this week or want to mark the centenary of the disaster at 2:20 a.m. this  Sunday,  you might want to dive into the venerable Dictionary of National Biography.


The DNB 's Titanic Lives  available online through Kimbel Library, features the life stories of those central to the sinking, including:

• Captain Edward Smith, who was criticized for pushing the ship to excessive speed on the night of the disaster;

• Joseph Ismay, head of the White Star Line who " made his escape under controversial circumstances" and

• Wallace Hartely, orchestra leader, who played on deck as passengers evacuated.

• Passengers, performers and others peripheral to the Titanic event.

One bio you won't find here is Molly Brown; for that, jump into the American National Biography, also available through Kimbel Library.