What’s New? How about our blog
mgooch May 6th, 2009
We have transitioned our blog to the new campus blog system. We have a “snazzier” design. In the coming year we will be transitioning the entire Libraries web site to the new campus design.
ticTOCs Table of Contents Service
mgooch April 2nd, 2009
The University of Liverpool in conjunction with the ticTOCs Consortium have developed a free table of contents (TOC) service that covers over 14,000 journals.You can set up a free account that allows you to be alerted when specific journals publish a new issue. You can read a review of the service or go directly to it and try it out yourself.
Color Day Exhibit in Special Collections
mgooch March 26th, 2009
The exhibit “Color Day at Wooster: A Rite of Spring” is currently on display in Special Collections, The College of Wooster Libraries. Throughout history many cultures have celebrated spring with festivals, dances, and community gatherings. This exhibit traces the history of Color Day through images, memorabilia, flyers, invitations and yearbooks from our College Archives Collection.
As early as 1899, the young women from Hoover Cottage, the women’s dormitory, celebrated the first day of May with a simple ceremony to crown their Queen of the May, Carrie Crowl (Class of 1900). By Spring 1905, the senior class called for a transformation of May Day into the first Color Day—a day set aside “to conserve and transmit college traditions and to cultivate college loyalty.” The early chapel talks and rallying around the Black and Gold soon gave way in 1911 to a full-scale production, complete with the crowning of the first Color Day queen, Helen Harrington Compton (Class of 1912). The earliest observances included a rose wreath drill and English folks dances, but by the late 1910s the celebrations also included many outdoor athletic events. Over the years the event has included elaborate pageants or teas, as well as formal balls. By the late 1960s Color Day became a more casual event. Marked by the changing times, Color Day events took the form of picnics and informal dorm gatherings. Although the tradition officially came to an end with the last Color Day in 1969, the college has continued to celebrate the greening of the campus with alternative spring festivals.
Materials will be on display March 25–May 15, 2009. Special arrangements can be made for classes or small groups to view more materials from our collection. For more information about the exhibit, contact Denise Monbarren at ext. 2527 or Elaine Smith Snyder at ext. 2155.
OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center Restored
mgooch March 19th, 2009
The OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center has been fully restored as of March 18.
OhioLINK EJC
mgooch February 9th, 2009
Beginning last Wed., Feb. 4, the OhioLINK storage system suffered a serious, and supposedly impossible, failure that affected all services except the Central Catalog. All systems with the exception of the Electronic Journal System (EJC) have been restored. At this point in time, it has been determined the EJC problems are more extensive than first anticipated. As a result, OhioLINK has established a temporary page for ACCESSING EJC JOURNALS VIA A TEMPORARY PAGE on their site. They will continue adding access to publishers sites as it is established. At this point in time, The College of Wooster does not have access to journals from Elsevier. OhioLINK is working on adding this capability soon. For any questions please don’t hesitate to contact the Library staff.
New Administration, New Whitehouse.gov
mgooch January 27th, 2009
With the inauguration of the 44th president come the transition of the whitehouse.gov web site. Browsing the new site one will find some innovative uses of the site including video of the inauguration and the president’s weekly address. At the same time, some might be asking how they might be able to access the Bush administration’s White House site. The former administration’s web site has been preserved by the National Archives and can be accessed at their web site. Among the items available at the former whitehouse.gov site are various reports on the Bush record.
New Databases
mgooch January 27th, 2009
The Libraries recently acquired a broad range of exciting new databases. Here’s a partial list:
- British Periodicals Collection 1 (a.k.a. English Literary Periodicals, 1681-1914) (Proquest)
- Black Studies Center & the International Index to Black Periodicals - Full-text (Proquest)
- Early English Books Online (Proquest)
- NY Times Archive, 1851-2000 (Proquest)
- Times (London) Digital Archive, 1785-1985 (Gale)
- Women and Social Movements in the U.S. (Alexander Street Press)
- 7 Drama collections (Alexander Street Press)
- C19: The Nineteenth Century Index (Proquest)
- Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals (Proquest)
More information about each and direct links to the databases are available from the New Databases page (as well as from our comprehensive “Databases By Title” page).
Database Trials Page
mgooch October 21st, 2008
We currently have trials to databases from two publishers. Gale Publishing has trial access available to The College of Wooster for a number of their databases covering a variety of historical resources such as the New York Times, various other historical newspaper collections, and other historical subject areas.
Additionally, Readex is currently providing trial access to many of their collections of historical newspapers, Congressional material, and the FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) full-text content.
These resources can be accessed via our Trial Databases page.
“Remembering John F. Kennedy: Selections from The Christine Camp Archives”
mgooch October 15th, 2008
“Remembering John F. Kennedy: Selections from The Christine Camp Archives” is currently on display in Special Collections, The College of Wooster Libraries. November 22, 2008 marks the 45th anniversary of the death of President John F. Kennedy. To commemorate this anniversary, Special Collections is featuring an exhibit of photographs, signed prints, publications, and memorabilia tied to the Kennedy family.
The personal archives of Christine Camp (Class of 1951, Distinguished Alumni 1990) highlight her time as a student at Wooster and her career in Washington. In the early 1950s, Camp was one of the first female intelligence officers who worked for the Central Intelligence Agency. In the late 1950s, she was one of few women who worked as a member of the Washington press corps. Camp worked on John F. Kennedy’s first presidential campaign and later served as assistant to White House Press Secretary, Pierre Salinger. In the early 1970s, she worked as Deputy Press Secretary for George McGovern. The collection includes scrapbooks, framed photographs, artwork, monographs, memorabilia, recordings, and transcripts of a series of interviews she had done for the Kennedy Library. The monographs include many inscribed and signed editions from the members of the Kennedy family and the administrative staff.
The exhibit is available for viewing Monday – Friday, 8 a.m. – 5 p.m., October 15 – December 19, 2008. Special arrangements can be made for classes or small groups to view more materials from our collection. For more information contact Denise Monbarren (x2527) or Elaine Smith Snyder (x2155).
New Display in Special Collections
mgooch August 15th, 2008
“Wooster’s Missionary Community: At Home and Abroad” will be on display in the Department of Special Collections, The College of Wooster Libraries, August 18 – October 10, 2008. Materials from our College Archives Collection include minutes, programs and photographs related to Wooster’s missionary homes, the Women’s Foreign Missionary Society, and books from the Missionary Alcove Collection.
The exhibit highlights materials from The Noyes Collection. Donated by Henry Noyes, this collection includes family diaries, correspondence, clippings, and primary resources that he gathered while writing his work, China Born. The materials and Henry’s manuscript document his family’s long involvement with missionary work both at Wooster and abroad. Emily Noyes was the first woman to graduate from the college in 1874 and, over the years, several family members have followed in her footsteps.
Also featured are materials from The Rice Collection, the personal collection of Mary Compton Rice and her husband, Dr. C. Herbert Rice. They both dedicated their lives to work with educational missions in India. Dr. Rice served as a professor of psychology for six years at Forman Christian College in Lahore and then later served as the principal of Ewing Christian College in Allahabad. They both witnessed the upheaval when India and Pakistan were partitioned in August 1947. The collection includes scrapbooks, journals, diaries, photographs, and correspondence.
The exhibit is available for viewing Monday – Friday 8 a.m. - 5 p.m. Special arrangements can be made to view additional works from our collections. For more information, contact Denise Monbarren (ext. 2527) or Elaine Smith Snyder (ext. 2155).
