Why do we celebrate April Fool's Day?

BA, April Fools by Stijn Vogels, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0

April Fool's Day celebrations have been linked to the first day of spring in the western hemisphere, the ancient Roman festival of Hilaria, and even the date when France switched from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar. Those that didn't realize the switch celebrated the new year on April 1, which we now know as April Fool's Day.

Whatever the reason that April 1 is the day for pranks, you can find more information about any of these historical April Fool's Day topics, or more modern pranks, in the library's collection.

Have you heard about Sidd Finch? Or what about when Taco Bell advertised in the New York times that they were going to buy the Liberty Bell? Do a little digging in ProQuest this April Fool's to find some of the most successful April Fool's Day pranks of all time. 

Irish for a day or all year, these databases have something for you

Everyone knows we celebrate St. Patrick's Day on March 17, but did you know that March is also Irish-American Heritage Month? Our friends at Films on Demand have put together a list of streaming videos on that topic, accessible here. You can find videos about St. Patrick's Day through this database, too, by following this link.

If your St. Paddy's Day celebration is missing music, log onto Naxos Music Library, click on "Genres" and select World Music, then navigate to Celtic to find a selection of Celtic and Irish songs to create a streaming playlist. Have fun, and Lá Fhéile Pádraig Sona Daoibh!

Free Streaming Popular Movies!

Check out our library's trial access to Swank Digital Campus - offering unlimited user streaming of their 300 most popular films. Includes everything from Drama, Comedy, Western, Thriller, War movies, documentaries, Mystery, Action, Romance, Children/Family movies, Horror, Sci/Fi, Crime and Musicals..

Access Swank here or from our library Databases A-Z list.

**For viewing on mobile devices, please download the free “Swank Media Player” App. This is available through the App Store and Google Play. Movies will be accessed through a mobile device browser and will automatically be played through the Swank App.

**These films are for individual or secured classroom use only. Public performance use is strictly prohibited.

 

 

 

Ship Resources: Business & Management Collection Trial

Lehman Library is pleased to partner with the John L. Grove College of Business to provide trial access to the Henry Stewart Talks Business & Management Collection of video lectures and case studies.

According to the HSTalks website "HSTalks provides access to world class lectures and case studies by leading experts from commerce, industry, the professions and academia, in one online resource - accessible wherever, whenever and as often as is wanted.” - https://hstalks.com/business/

To access the Business & Management Collection, use the Databases A-Z list on the library website or click here.

There are several different search and browse features available.

For example, you can browse by lecture

or by subject

 Please remember to give us your feedback about this trial resource!

Ship Resources: Food Studies Online Database Trial

The library is partnering with the History Department to offer a trial of the database Food Studies Online from January 25 - February 25.

According to the company producing this resource, "Food Studies Online is a first-of-its-kind database, bringing together rare and hard-to-find archival content with visual ephemera, text, and video. Food studies is a relatively new field of study, and its importance is felt in many major disciplines. It has social, historical, economic, cultural, religious, and political implications that reach far beyond what is consumed at the dinner table." 

So, what is in it?

"Food Studies Online will include 80,000 pages of primary archival materials, images, and secondary works, plus 2200 hours of documentaries and series."

Search the collection using the search box, or try advanced search:

Or scroll down to browse collections or featured content:

To access the Food Studies Online Database Trial, check out the Lehman Library Databases A-Z list.

For more information about Food Studies Online, click here.

And don't forget to give us your feedback!

Ship Resources: Environment Complete

One of the new databases available this academic year through Lehman Library is Environment Complete. The search interface for this resource is very similar to many of the others provided by our library because it comes from one of our most used vendors, Ebsco.

According to Ebsco, “Environment Complete contains more than 2.4 million records from more than 2,200 domestic and international titles going back to 1888 (including over 1,350 active core titles) as well as more than 190 monographs. The database also contains full text for more than 920 journals.”

Here are some examples of subjects available to research in Environment Complete:

Agriculture

Ecosystem ecology

Energy

Environmental law

Environmental technology

Geography

Marine & freshwater science

Natural resources

Pollution & waste management

Public policy

Renewable energy sources

Social impacts

Urban planning

And many others...

To access this new database, click on the "Databases A to Z" list on the library website.

Comments about this resource? Please give us your feedback below!

Did You Know? Lehman Library Added New Databases

The Lehman Library added the following new databases this Fall, the majority of which are due to cooperative purchasing agreements through the Keystone Library Network and the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. We are very thankful to our colleagues who spearhead these purchasing agreements for the benefit of students across the State System.

New Databases:

                Digital Theatre Plus

                America History & Life with Full Text

                Art Source

                Business Book Summaries

                Business Source Complete

                CINAHL Complete

                Communication Source

                eBook Business Collection

                Education Source

                Environment Complete

                Gender Studies Database

                Historical Abstracts with Full Text

                Humanities Source

                Library & Information Science Source

                Medline Complete

                Nursing Reference Center

Lehman Library, in partnership with faculty in related departments, is running two resource trials this Fall to the following resources:

                eMarkter.com - Reports & Analysis, Searchable Data Library, Industry Benchmarks, Subject Matter Expert Interviews, Downloadable Charts & Presentations.

                psychotherapy.net – “provides access to "over 200 videos covering a wide range of modalities, theoretical approaches, and populations."

Links to access all of these resources and more can be found on the Databases A to Z page from the library website.

Ship Resources : psychotherapy.net Resource Trial

Psychotherapy.net provides access to over 200 streaming videos related to the field of psychotherapy, psychology and social work. 

Watch interviews, group therapy sessions and other training videos and learn from the experts. 

This resource includes information on a variety of topics from addiction to depression to family therapy with resources for working with specific populations like children, veterans, older adults or those with developmental challenges and everything in between.


You can enter search terms into the search box or browse by approach, issue, expert, or population. 

Trial access to this resource runs from October 1-31, 2015. If you find psychotherapy.net useful, please let a librarian or professor know. 

You can access psychotherapy.net by visiting the Databases A to Z list on the library website.

Library Databases Update: Ready to go!

Happy Saturday, Shippensburg!

It looks like Ship Library's databases are stable and available this morning -- hopefully last night's brief service window gave you some time for fun and friends. 

It's time to get back to researching your papers and assignments...

Please let us know if you're having trouble with any of the databases or would like some help with your research. The easy way is to search Instant Answers (there's an Instant Answers widget on the right side of this page) with the topic of your question - if we haven't already answered it, please submit your question through our contact form!

Library Databases Update: Friday Night

On Friday, March 28, between 9pm and 11pm, the Library's "EBSCOhost" databases may occasionally be unavailable while EBSCO does some network upgrades and maintenance.

We may experience intermittent access to EBSCOhost products and services for the duration of this service window.

Library databases which may be affected include:

• Ship Discovery Search (on the library homepage)
• Academic Search Complete
• America History & Life
• Business Source Premier
• Communication & Mass Media Complete
• Econlit
• Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text
• EBSCOhost eBooks
• Education Source
• Historical Abstracts
• Mental Measurements Yearbook & Tests in Print
• MLA International Bibliography
• Political Science complete
• Psychology & Behavioral Sciences Collection
• Social Work Abstracts
• SocIndex with Full Text
• Sociological Collection
• SPORTDiscus with Full Text

The Psychology Research Guide!

http://library.ship.edu/psychology

 

Geography Web Guide

http://research.library.ship.edu/geography

Hey Exercise Science Majors

THE EXERCISE SCIENCE WEB GUIDE!

http://research.library.ship.edu/exercise_science

Hey Literature Majors

THE LITERATURE WEB GUIDE!

http://research.library.ship.edu/literature

THE CRIMINAL JUSTICE WEB GUIDE!

http://research.library.ship.edu/criminal_justice

The Communication Journalism Library Resources Web Guide

http://research.library.ship.edu/commjourn

The Chemistry Web Guide

http://Research.Library.Ship.Edu/Chemistry 

The Biology Web Guide

http://research.library.ship.edu/biology