Author Archives: Sue Waterman
About Sue Waterman
Librarian for German and Romance Languages and Literature, the Humanities Center, and the Program in Jewish Studies. Curator for Modern European LiteratureGot Term Papers?
Just a reminder to all you stressed students out there – the library can help! There is a reference librarian on duty on M Level from 10 AM to 6 PM Monday through Thursday. We are trained to help with ALL kinds … Continue reading
The Further Adventures of the Digital Humanities
We told you last year about the hot, new field in humanities research, the Digital Humanities, or DH for short. Well, in the past 12 months, it hasn’t cooled off in the least! Sessions on DH at this year’s MLA … Continue reading
What the {em#&quo}?
Ever since the dawn of the Internet, computers have had a hard time dealing with words with diacritics, or accents. Even today, you may see text online with odd characters like # or {} or &em or ?@ in the space … Continue reading
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar
Recently, the library acquired a really interesting, unique and incredibly useful online resource. It goes by the curious acronym of PEP, but its actual title is more illuminating – Psychoanalytic Electronic Publishing. Well, maybe a bit more illuminating. This online … Continue reading
New Resource Alert: Humanities folks take note!
The Sheridan Libraries recently purchased a new online resource, that will be of immense value to humanities scholarship, maybe even scholarship in general. I’m talking about the Cambridge Companions Online, a collection of nearly 500 online books in literature, religion, … Continue reading
Have Books Will Travel
As you all finish up exams and papers, and head home (or elsewhere) for the holidays, here are a few tips to keep your celebrations worry-free, at least as far as the library is concerned: Renew all your books now. … Continue reading
Let there be light!
Daylight hours are shrinking once again, but if you venture outside after dark you may be pleasantly surprised by the many seasonal light displays that will help dispel the winter blues. The Winter Solstice, which occurs on December 21 this … Continue reading
How NOT to treat our books
Don’t you love to sit down with a good book, or better yet, a book that’s crucial to your research, and find that someone before you has treated it like their personal property? Don’t you love to encounter a book … Continue reading
The End of the Book?
If someone said that recent technological advances made the printed book, as the conveyor of knowledge and information, obsolete, would you think this prediction a recent one? What about a subscription service that lets you read or listen to music … Continue reading
88 Books that Shaped America
I love lists. I especially love lists of books. The Library of Congress recently complied a list of the 88 books that shaped America. Note, that this isn’t a list of the best books, but a list of the most … Continue reading