NEW Online Video Database: VAST

VAST: Academic Video Online

This Alexander Street Press flagship video product provides over 13,000 titles, and is growing at more than 500 new videos per month.

By 2013 it will include more than 20,000 films. Covering a wide range of disciplines, VAST lives up to its name as a comprehensive resource tailored to each of your departments.

For the last year or so, the CSI Library has provided access to a handful of the video databases provided by the Alexander Street Press (American History, Dance, Education, and Ethnographic). As of last week, you can find these and many more in VAST: Academic Video Online. This database contains all the streaming videos in 21 collections:


American History in Video

Area Studies Video Online

Art & Architecture Video Online

Business & Economics Video Online

Counseling & Therapy in Video

Dance in Video

Education in Video

Ethnic Studies Video Online

Ethnographic Video Online

Health and Healthcare in Video

Humanities Video Online

Law & Criminal Justice in Video

Opera in Video

Philosophy & Religious Studies in Video

Politics & Current Affairs Video Online

Psychology Video Online

Religion & Philosophy in Video

Science Video Online

Theatre in Video

Women's & Gender Studies Video Online

World History in Video

World Languages & Literature in Video


Access is easy from off campus; just use your CSI computer login. www.csi.edu/library

GREENR - New to the CSI Library

The CSI Library has added a new online subscription database for students. Just in time for Green Week!

GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) is a new online resource that offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more.

GREENR is an important part of a new generation of solutions from Gale designed with users in mind.


GREENR is interactive and current, allowing users to navigate issue, organization and country portals. It's a one-stop site dedicated to studying sustainability and the environment.
Take a look at www.csi.edu/library

Spring Break Almost Here!

Hang in there! Spring Break is almost here - just one more week!

Fact of the Day

Which group of people had access to Facebook when it was first established in 2004?

Visit http://www.oxfordreference.com/pub/views/fact-of-the-day.html?date=2012-02-16 to find the answer to today's question!

Did you know?

Why was the 14th of February chosen as Valentine's Day?

Visit http://www.oxfordreference.com/pub/views/fact-of-the-day.html?date=2012-02-14 to find the answer to today's question!

Another Fact of the Day

Which English novelist and poet wrote: "Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity"?

Visit http://www.oxfordreference.com/pub/views/fact-of-the-day.html?date=2012-02-10 to find the answer to today's question!

Welcome Back!

We have survived two weeks of this Spring Semester. The weather has gone from 50 degrees to blowing snow and back to 50 degrees. This has been a very different winter.

Students have come back to the library in droves and I love it! The library was so quiet over the Christmas break. I really enjoy having the students back and bringing the library back to life.

The Library Staff will start having weekly workshops on a vary of topics. A couple that are planned are on the LearningExpress database and on how to use our online audiobooks. Be sure to watch your email for times of these workshops.

Welcome Back,
Teri

Another Fact of the Day

What is a chiasmus?

Visit http://www.oxfordreference.com/pub/views/fact-of-the-day.html?date=2012-01-26 to find the answer to today's question!