This week’s post was meant to be a treatise on libraries role in students’ journey to information and reading habits – and we will get to that. We were overwhelmed by well-intentioned people referring us to this article: The Mistrust of Science By Atul Gawande  June 10, 2016. It is a part-scathing and part-hopeful piece Read More

Are we worried about too much Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) or the death of the humanities – or both? At many universities, including ours, we are having the conversations about making science more accessible to undergraduates in exploratory courses; and we are having the conversations about how science researchers can be better at Read More

Taras Zvir in Religious Studies and Humanities Services has created a research guide on Medieval Philosophers. This guide is intended to become a starting point for students, scholars, and researches to philosophers of medieval times (AD 400 – 1400).  It lists prime sources and selected secondary sources, and any other applicable materials on a given Read More

Nineteenth Century Collections Online  (NCCO) provides full-text, fully searchable content from a wide range of primary sources for the “long” 19th century, 1789-1914. NCCO indexes the full text of books, newspapers, pamphlets, manuscripts, maps, diaries, photographs, statistics, literature, government reports, treaties, and other kinds of documents in both Western and non-Western languages.  Released incrementally beginning Read More

‘Fragments of Old Comedy,’ edited by Ian Storey and Jeffrey Henderson and covering a number of ancient Greek poets, has been published in volumes 513-515 of the Loeb Classical Library. With few exceptions, the Greek text is taken from Poetae Comici Graeci.  The volumes are on the shelf in the Greek and Latin Seminar Room. Read More

The MARC records for 3,842 titles found in the Library of Latin Texts (Series A and B) have been added to the library catalog.  Special thanks to Kristen Frederickson, Information Processing Librarian, for uploading the records. You can search the catalog using a title search or a keyword search using ‘Library of Latin Texts’.  Each Read More

The library science students in the course “Humanities Information” (LSC634) have created research guides to the following subjects: Architect Aesthetics (Elizabeth Dodson) Chaucer (Jessica Sprigings) Christian Iconography and Architecture (Madison Bolls) Modern Art (Viveca Pattison) Mythology (Cecilia Cho) Renaissance Art (Elizabeth Deegan) The students and instructor have created a poster that details their experiences working Read More

Religious Studies and Humanities Services in Mullen Library present two new research guides on Shakespeare:  Shakespeare Studies: General and Shakespeare Studies: Performance. The guides were created by Samantha Saporito, GLP and edited by Kevin Gunn, Coordinator of Religious Studies and Humanities Services.  Faculty suggestions came from our Renaissance scholars Professors Michael Mack, Daniel Gibbons, Todd Read More