Category Archives: Humanities
Hours of Good Listening with Streaming Media
Today music is everywhere — cars, elevators, shopping malls and more. With streaming media resources, the library can offer you a personal playlist that may be very different than what you would typically encounter. For example, search the Naxos Music Library’s comprehensive … Continue reading
The Strange Life of the Snake According to People’s Daily
The digital edition of People’s Daily is one of the recent additions to our growing collection of Chinese language resources. What is People’s Daily? People’s Daily (Renmin ribao) is the most important daily newspaper in the People’s Republic of China. … Continue reading
Did you miss us at this year’s Intersession?
If you did not get the chance to sign up for our intersession course, “Introduction to Library Research,” co-taught by Chella Vaidyanathan and Yunshan Ye, hear what the students who did have to say about the course upon finishing the … 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
In Celebration of Dictionaries
Depression, murder, insanity….not the first words that come to mind when contemplating lexicography. Nevertheless, such is the history of English dictionaries. The stories of Samuel Johnson, James Murray and W.C. Minor make for a fascinating historical read. Dictionaries in their … Continue reading
Maps! Wonderful Maps!
Maps–they are not just the half-torn wrinkled sheets couples used to grab from each other in their stranded car while arguing about which road to take (that was before the advent of GPS navigation devices, of course). Usually associated with … Continue reading
Got Classification? “Dewey Ever!”
From ancient times, there have been attempts to sort collections of texts and to create classifications for collected information. The earliest known archives and libraries were discovered in Ugarit with clay tablets covered in cuneiform writing. Some great libraries were … Continue reading
A Celebration of New Year’s Celebrations
When the crowds gather at Baltimore’s Inner Harbor on the evening of December 31, and the live music begins playing, and the fireworks bring the night sky to vivid life, we’ll be participating in one of the most longstanding rituals … Continue reading
American Drama
Many know of Walt Whitman as America’s first true poet and the liberator of American literature. What many might not know is that Whitman did not emerge on the literary scene out of nowhere. In fact, Whitman spent a great … Continue reading