Library News

American History in Video Trial

Faculty, Staff and Students: NU Libraries has launched a trial of the video streaming collection, American History in Video until March 25th, 2010. The URL for the trial is: http://ahiv.alexanderstreet.com Visit this product’s help page for search tips and more informaton. American History in Video collection includes 2,000 hours of video and more than 5,000 titles. “The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release provides videos from new partners Newsreel Films and Documentary Educational Resources, additional PBS and The History Channel titles, archival footage from NASA and NARA, additional Universal Newsreel, and much more.” Feel free to send your feedback to Debra Mandel at d.mandel@neu.edu or call her at 617-373-4902.

New LibX Browser Plugin version released today

A new version of our LibX browser extension, (version 1.5.6) (version 2, updated 5/13/2013) is available today!  If you’re already using LibX, you may be prompted to update the plugin sometime in the next few hours.  This version works in Firefox 3 and IE7 Firefox 20 and Chrome 26. LibX for the NU Libraries offers: • An optional search bar at the top of the browser window for NuCat, Nexpress, and WorldCat Local • Highlight any text  in a web page and drag it to the search bar (see video) • Right-click highlighted browser text and search in NuCat, Nexpress, WorldCat or Google Scholar (see video) • Click the embedded N in Amazon, WorldCat, Google, more, and search in NuCat or Tour (see video) • Right-click a web page or URL, including Google Scholar, and log in from home with Library/myNeu login (see video) • Click any isbn, issn, doi, or PMID on the web, and link to NuCat or full text (see video). This version is compatable with Firefox 3, and with IE 7 in XP and Windows (no Chrome version yet). The new version supports links to COINs, a standard for creating citations (see a video of how it works in Wikipedia) The plug-in helps save time, avoid frustration, and bring the library’s content to where you are on the web. Try it out! Download LibX for NU Libraries here

Feb. 11 Illustrator Workshop in the DMDS: Sign Up Now!

Illustrator Basics [Click Here to Register for this Workshop] 2/11 @ 2:50pm-4:30pm This workshop teaches how to create images using the basic tools of Illustrator. Leave with an understanding of vector images and type. Learn how to create, edit, and bring your ideas to the screen. For more information, call Thomas Bary at 617-373-3399.

Take our Mobile Survey… Please!

Do you use a mobile device for more than just phone calls and texting? If so, we’re interested in knowing if you would like to be able to use it for better access to library services. A very brief survey (4 questions) goes live on the Library home page, so here’s your chance to help us decide what would be useful and helpful for your research needs. Please take a minute to let us know what library information you want to access on your phone or handheld device. The survey is on our home page, or here: http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/L957V2G

Carmen Pola records now available for research

The Carmen A. Pola papers are open for research in the Archives and Special Collections Department, 92 Snell Library.  A guide to the collection is available online.  Carmen Pola is a community activist who settled in Mission Hill, Boston, in 1972. The materials date from 1970-2006 and document Pola’s work with the Puerto Rican Festival, the Boston Public Schools, the Project to Monitor the Code of Discipline, Mayor Raymond Flynn’s Administration, and Roxbury Unites for Families and Children. The collection includes photographs, correspondence, grant proposals and reports, surveys, charts, organizational records, legal materials, political campaign literature, catalogs, booklets, and meeting minutes. Read the full press release here. If you’re interested in this topic, in addtion to perusing the records in Archives, you might be interested in checking out Latina Politics, Latino Politics: Gender, Culture, and Political Participation in Boston by Carol Hardy-Fanta. Below is a picture of Carmen Pola and Mayor Ray Flynn viewing a report in the Mayor’s office, ca. 1986.

Carmen Pola and Mayor Ray Flynn view a report in the Mayor's office, ca. 1986