New Off-Campus Access to Library Resources

It’s now much easier to get off-campus access to the library’s online resources with our new proxy service, an alternative to VPN. You don’t have to download software, reconfigure your browser, or anything else. Just click on a link to a database via the library’s web page, and you’ll be directed to the JHED login screen, where you’ll enter your JHED ID and password and get into the resource of your choice. That’s all you have to do! Please see our FAQ page for more details.

Ask Your Librarian: TV Ownership in the Fifties

We recently received this question: What was the number of U.S. households with television sets for each year from 1950 to 1955?

This data is from Historical Statistics of the United States, Millennial Edition Online, ed. Susan B. Carter, Scott Sigmund Gartner, et al., Cambridge University Press, 2006:

1950: 5,030,000
1951: 10,320,000
1952: 15,300,000
1953: 20,400,000
1954: 26,000,000
1955: 30,700,000 

Learned along the way:  Did you know that in 1975, 30,000 U.S. households had VCRs?  By 1981 that number had reached 3 million, and by 2000 it was nearly 86 million. 

JHU affiliates can access Historical Statistics of the United States at http://hsus.cambridge.org/HSUSWeb.  If you’re off campus, you’ll need to use the JHSecure VPN client.

NYT TimesSelect Now Free to Students, Faculty and Staff

TimesSelect, the New York Times online service previously available only to individual subscribers, is now available free of charge if you sign up with your university email address.  TimesSelect includes content such as op-ed and news columnists, archive access and multimedia features.  For more details, refer to the TimesSelect University FAQ page.

Don’t forget that we have access to current and historical full text of the New York Times and other newspapers through a number of different sources.  Take a look at our Newspapers page to get an idea of the range of databases to which we subscribe.

Traumatic Stress Literature Database

We now offer access to the PILOTS (Published International Literature on Traumatic Stress) database. PILOTS is a bibliographic database produced at the headquarters of the National Center for Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder. Its goal is to include citations to all literature on post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and other mental health sequelae of traumatic events, without disciplinary, linguistic, or geographical limitations, while offering both current and retrospective coverage. Document types covered include journals, books, book chapters, pamphlets, technical reports, and materials in all languages. Although it is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the PILOTS database is not limited to literature on PTSD among veterans.

Spring Break Hours

The Library will be open the following hours over Spring Break, March 10-17.
Saturday, March 10, 8 am to 10 pm
Sunday, March 11, 10 am to midnight
Monday, March 12 - Thursday, March 15, 8 am to midnight
Friday, March 16 and Saturday, March 17, 8 am to 10 pm
Regular hours resume on Sunday, March 18.

Spring Break Reading

Don’t want to lug your Organic Chemistry textbook to the beach?
Tired of Statistical Fluid Mechanics … volumes 1 and 2?
That history of microloans in the Developing World isn’t a real page turner?
In other words, are you looking for an entertaining book to read during Spring Break?

The McNaughton Collection of Popular Fiction and Nonfiction is a great place to start. Shelved in the sitting area on M Level, the collection has something for everyone. You can browse for best-selling mysteries, graphic novels, biographies, science fiction, humor, and literary fiction.

Here are just a few of the McNaughton titles now available.

Continue reading Spring Break Reading…

Online Reviews of Psychology Books Available

PsycCRITIQUES is the online version of Contemporary Psychology: APA Review of Books. Each week up to 20 reviews of current books and films (including Little Miss Sunshine) are posted. Reviews can be searched by author and title of the work reviewed, as well as by reviewer’s name and keyword.

Make Your Research and Writing Easier with RefWorks

RefWorks is a web-based bibliographic management system. Learn how to use it to store citations and create bibliographies.

Two 90-minute classes will be offered on March 21 and March 22, 2007. Register online for the date that you prefer.