Materials Research Database provides a comprehensive index to world literature on materials science and engineering and all aspects of materials processing, including metals, polymers, ceramics, composite materials and nanomaterials, as well as related business information.
The trial runs until Feb. 20, 2011. Please send your feedback to engsci@queensu.ca.
This news story is republished from the Queen’s News Centre site. (Source: http://www.queensu.ca/news/articles/living-library-literacy)
During exams, many students say they “live” at the library. This week, two students will actually move into Stauffer Library as part a campaign to raise funds and awareness about literacy around the world.
Kaleigh Smith and Grace Chen will set up their four-person tent in the Stauffer atrium, where they will live for one week. They will only leave to attend class or for their daily 70-minute break. Friends and volunteers will bring them food and any other items they need.
“I’m finally following up on something I’ve wanted to do for a couple of years,” says Ms Smith, a third-year biology student. “Everyone here at university has access to an education, and I really believe that shouldn’t be a privilege for a select few.”
Queen’s Discover the Reality of Educating All Minds (DREAM) team created Live-in For Literacy five years ago. This year, nine universities across the country are taking part in the campaign. Their goal is to raise $27,000 to build six libraries in India through Room to Read, an international organization that works in collaboration with local communities, partner organizations and governments to develop literary skills around the world.
First-year Arts and Science student Grace Chen heard about DREAM and the campaign at an orientation week event and immediately wanted to get involved. She says raising awareness will be the biggest challenge the campers face.
“The main reason we’ll be there is because we want people to stop by our tent and listen to what we’re all about,” says Ms. Chen.
In celebration of the 5th anniversary of the event, Stauffer Library will be serving cake at noon on Friday, Jan. 28. The founders of DREAM, deans from several faculties and library staff will be in attendance, and all members of the Queen’s community are welcome.
“We always look forward to hosting Live-in for Literacy in Stauffer Library,” says University Librarian Martha Whitehead. “The students’ dream is to spread education and literacy, and what better place for that message than Stauffer? The DREAM team’s vision and dedication are truly inspiring. We’re delighted they had the idea in the first place and that it has continued and grown.”
The students will be accepting donations in the Stauffer atrium between Jan. 27 and Feb. 3. No donation is too small.
“Every little bit helps,” says Ms Smith. “One dollar is one children’s book in somebody’s hand.”
Get more information or view blogs and live webcam feeds of the campers’ week.
The Queen’s Library now subscribes s to QP Source Professional, a fulltext database providing up-to-date access to Alberta legal materials: statutes and regulations; the Alberta Gazette; rules of court; annual volumes; orders in council; and various legislative-related publications.
More detailed information about the contents is available — or you can log on to QP Source Professional now.
The Library now subscribes to the database Underground and Independent Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels. From the publisher’s website:
Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novelsis the first ever scholarly, primary source database focusing on adult comic books and graphic novels. Beginning with the first underground comix from the 1960’s to the works of modern sequential artists, this collection will contain more than 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, along with 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this artform.
Explore this trial database until 28 January, 2011.
Global Market Information Database, from Euromonitor International, is global in scope and provides business-related statistics, market research reports, and more. Coverage includes information on 205 countries, their consumers, and markets, with extended data and analysis for 80 countries. Use Passport GMID to identify and compare statistics/reports for demographic, business strategy, market, consumer, industry, and company research, and to identify information such as market size, brand share, consumer profiles, and more.
Queen’s University is now a member of FADIS, the Federated Academic Digital Imaging System. This is a shared, free-to-members repository of art and architecture images. More specifically:
FADIS is learning management and courseware system developed for image based teaching of art and architecture. The goal of FADIS is the creation of a freely available common repository and delivery system for education and research available to contributing institutions.
You need to be a member of the Queen’s community in order to get a login name and password for access: please contact the Queen’s administrator for details.
The Humanities and Social Sciences Newsletter is now published.
The Library is now providing access to a legal database called JustCite. According to the publisher, Justis Publishing, JustCite
cross-references cases, legislation and journal articles and shows you how they are related. The database covers all major case law series from the UK and Ireland, as well as EU law and an increasing number of titles from common law jurisdictions around the world … The information indexed on JustCite comes from a wide and ever expanding range of resources but can be broadly organised into the four categories of Cases, Legislation, European Union Information and Legal Journals & Support Materials.
There’s more information on the JustCite site, or you can access the database directly and start searching.
The following is a list of new French-Language Literature titles (PQ1-PQ3999) at Stauffer (these titles were added to the catalogue in the last month).
Voici la liste des titres les plus récents de la littérature (langue française- PQ1- PQ3999) à la bibliothèque Stauffer.
*Please note: some titles were given to the library as gifts*
Jeux de masques, jeux de ruses dans la littérature francaise médiévale (XIIe-XVe siècles) / Gabriela Tanase.
Tanase, Gabriela.
Paris : Honoré Champion ; Genève : Slatkine [distr. outside of France], 2010.
Stauffer Library – Books
PQ151 .T36 2010
The following is a list of new Spanish & Latin American Literature books (added to the catalogue in the last month) at Stauffer Library:
Posibilidad de Miia Hakala / Alberto Torres Blandina.
Torres Blandina, Alberto, 1976-
Guatemala, Guatemala : F & G Editores, c2010.
Stauffer Library – Books
PQ6720.O7755 P67 2010
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