Archive for March 2012

New Trial for North American Theatre Online

North American Theatre Online includes several full-text drama collections, and reference sources such as O’Dell’s Annals of the New York Stage, the Oxford University Press Companion series, and Greenwood’s American Theatre Companies as well as playbills, posters, photographs, and related theatrical ephemera. A full description of the scope and content can be found here

Update 3/28-ILLiad Log-In Issue Resolved

3/28 ILLiad log-ins for our ILL system are working again after an outage earlier. Please contact our librarians at refmill@colby.edu if you continue to have problems with the system.

National Gallery of Art’s new open access image collection: NGA Images

Press release March 16, 2012. “Washington, DC—The National Gallery of Art announces the launch today of NGA Images, a new online resource that revolutionizes the way the public may interact with its world-class collection at http://images.nga.gov. This repository of digital images documenting the National Gallery of Art collections allows users to search, browse, share, and [...]

2012 Healy Prize essay contest

WANTED! STUDENT ESSAYS ON IRISH SUBJECTS written independently or for a Colby course, completed in the 2011-2012 academic year.   Colby’s annual Healy Prize honors the James Augustine Healy Collection of Irish and Irish-American Literature, located in Special Collections, Miller Library.    Prize: $200   DEADLINE: Monday, 16 April 2011, 4:30pm   Submission: Drop off [...]

New Trial: OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Looks through lots of leads to useful resources in the many targeted subject bibliographies comprising the OXFORD BIBLIOGRAPHIES ONLINE

March Science Library Exhibit: History of Technology

This month’s exhibit exhibit celebrates the history of technology from ancient times to the Internet.   A preview of the books is displayed on the Science Library home page along with a link to a document of resources.  The books are on display to browse as you enter the Science Library.