May 8, 2015: The 70th Anniversary of V-E Day, the end of World War II in Europe.

No single blog post could ever encompass the enormous tragedy of World War II. For that matter, many books only try to take on selected aspects of the war, its causes, and consequences. Here is a small sample of book titles available at the Sawyer Library:


Print:

Swansong 1945: A Collective Diary of the Last Days of the Third Reich
By Walter Kempowski; translated from the German by Shaun Whiteside.

Five Days that Shocked the World:
Eyewitness Accounts from Europe at the End of World War II
By Nicholas Best

The Holocaust and the Revival of Psychological History
By Judith M. Hughes

E-Books:

The War in the Empty Air:
Victims, Perpetrators, and Postwar Germans"
By Dagmar Barnouw

Getting History Right:
East and West German Collective Memories of the Holocaust and War"
By Mark A. Wolfgram

The War Complex:
World War II in Our Time
By Marianna Torgovnick

Frank Wedekind and his play "Spring's Awakening"

In coordination with this year's Pioneer Performance Series production of Spring Awakening, the musical, (based on a 19th century German play by Frank Wedekind), and Professor Jay Rosellini's presentation about the original work and Wedekind’s legacy in drama history, the Sawyer Library is highlighting items in the Library's collection related to the play and its German author.

The contemporary production:

• Spring Awakening
  Book and lyrics by Steven Sater ; music by Duncan Sheik. Online access via eBrary.


• Spring Awakening : In the Flesh
  Written by David Cote ; principal photography by Doug Hamilton and Joan Marcus.

The English translation of Wedekind's play:

• Spring's Awakening: Tragedy of Childhood
  By Frank Wedekind; English version and ten notes by Eric Bentley

The original play:

• Frühlings Erwachen : eine Kindertragödie
  Frank Wedekind ; mit einem Nachwort von Georg Hensel

Biography and criticism of Frank Wedekind (1864-1918):

• Frank Wedekind
  By Sol Gittleman


• Frank Wedekind
  by Alan Best

• Twentieth-Century German Dramatists, 1889-1918
  Access book at Gale's Dictionary of Literary Biography Online


• The Playwright & Historical Change; Dramatic Strategies in Brecht, Hauptmann, Kaiser & Wedekind
  By Leroy R. Shaw

German literature and culture:

• The Cambridge Companion to
  Modern German Culture
  View full text via Cambridge Online

Reviews of performances, and articles about the play, from
the New York Times, spanning from 1908 to 2008.

All are available online to Suffolk University students and staff, via
the Historic New York Times database.

• Isherwood, Charles. "Injecting Real Youth into a Youthful show." New York Times (1923-Current file): 1. Sep 15 2008. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.


• BELLAFANTE, GINIA. "Sex, Repressed and Unleashed." New York Times (1923-Current file): 2. Feb 09 2007. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.


• Isherwood, Charles. "THEATER REVIEW: A Rock 'n' Roll Heartbeat for German Schoolboys of the 19th Century." New York Times (1923-Current file): 1. Jun 16 2006. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.


• SISARIO, BEN. "Duncan Sheik." New York Times (1923-Current file): 1. Feb 26 2006. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.


• Gussow, MEL. "Stage: Juilliard Players do 'Spring Awakening'." New York Times (1923-Current file): 40. Dec 19 1977. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.


• Funke, LEWIS. "Theater: Wedekind's 'the Awakening of Spring': Sex-Education Sermon at Pocket Theater 1891 Play Conveys Air of a Museum Piece." New York Times (1923-Current file): 50. May 13 1964. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.


• Gelb, ARTHUR. "Theatre: Dated Sermon: 'Spring's Awakening'Is an Essay on Sex." New York Times (1923-Current file): 30. Oct 10 1955. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.


• "COURT BARS SEX PLAY: Justice Erlanger Finds "The Awakening of Spring" Unfit for Public." New York Times (1857-1922): 13. May 03 1917. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.


• "THE AWAKENING OF SPRING": A Tragedy of Childhood by the German Playwright, Frank Wedekind." New York Times (1857-1922): 1. Oct 01 1910. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.


• Special Cable to THE NEW,YORK TIMES. "CHILD ACTORS SEEN IN GERMAN SEX PLAY." New York Times (1857-1922): 9. Oct 29 1908. ProQuest. Web. 8 Jan. 2015.

Help Us Choose Books for the Sawyer Library

Patron Driven Acquisition - Help Us Buy Books

 

Sawyer Library has initiated a Patron Driven Acquisition (PDA) program with eBrary titles.  These new titles are listed below.  A PDA program means books are purchased only if they are used.

If you are interested in reading any of these books, open one and print a page or two or view it for at least 10 minutes, and we will purchase the book.  

Simply search the title in the Suffolk University catalog.

Childism : Confronting Prejudice Against Children

Rise of Female Kings in Europe, 1300-1800

Sudan and Darfur, and Darfur : What Everyone Needs to Know

Sex and the Office : A History of Gender, Power, and Desire

Fandom Unbound : Otaku Culture in a Connected World

Women in Business : Navigating Career Success

Millennials and the Workplace : Challenges for Architecting the Organizations of Tomorrow

Politics of Crowds

Strangers at the Gates

Population History of the United States

Last Season of Innocence : The Teen Experience in the 1960's

Generational Use of New Media

Facing Fear : The History of an Emotion in Global Perspective

Buy It Now : Lessons from EBay

Humanity : A Moral History of the Twentieth Century, Second Edition

State and the Stork : The Population Debate and Policy Making in US History

Drugs for Life : How Pharmaceutical Companies Define Our Health

Bloomberg Financial : Wealth Regeneration at Retirement : Planning for a Lifetime of Leadership

Climate Change and Human Mobility

Pay : Why People Earn What They Earn and What You Can Do Now to Make More

Aging and the Art of Living

Unlikely Secret Agent

Social Innovation : Blurring Boundaries to Reconfigure Markets

Managing Corporate Social Responsibility : A Communication Approach

Leaderless Economy : Why the World Economic System Fell Apart and How to Fix It

Demography of Roman Italy

Foreign Intervention in Africa

Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers

Global Crisis : War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

Do Good Well : Your Guide to Leadership, Action, and Social Innovation

TRIOS : Occupy : Three Inquiries in Disobedience

Au Pair (2nd Edition)

Global Political Hot Spots : Congo (2nd Edition)

Excess : Anti-consumerism in the West

Human Capitalism : How Economic Growth Has Made Us Smarter - and More Unequal

Children and the Internet

Cosmopolitanism and Culture

Liberalization in Aviation : Competition, Cooperation and Public Policy

Creating a New Civilization through Social Entrepreneurship

Population, Fear, and Uncertainty : The Global Spread of Fertility Decline (2nd Edition)

After the Death of Childhood

Timewatch : The Social Analysis of Time

Evolutionary Psychology : A Clinical Introduction

Society under Siege

Immigrant Women Workers in the Neoliberal Age

Ringtone Dialectic : Economy and Cultural Form

Third Industrial Revolution in Global Business

Mass Flourishing : How Grassroots Innovation Created Jobs, Challenge, and Change

Identity, Citizenship, and Violence in Two Sudans : Reimagining a Common Future

Protestantism and Progress : A Historical Study of the Relation of Protestantism to the Modern World

Communities and Networks : Using Social Network Analysis to Rethink Urban and Community Studies

Fangasm : Supernatural Fangirls

Information Society : Issues and Illusions

New Cold War History : Visions of Freedom : Havana, Washington, Pretoria, and the Struggle for Southern Africa, 1976-1991

Short History of the Twentieth Century

MIT Press Essential Knowledge : Memes in Digital Culture

Empire of the Air : Aviation and the American Ascendancy

Transport and Society : Strategies for Sustainable Mobilities : Opportunities and Challenges

Digital Politics in Western Democracies : A Comparative Study

What Everyone Needs to Know : Economic Development : What Everyone Needs to Know

Fan CULTure : Essays on Participatory Fandom in the 21st Century

Cultural Politics of Media and Popular Culture : Media and the Rhetoric of Body Perfection : Cosmetic Surgery, Weight Loss and Beauty in Popular Culture

Collaborative Media : Production, Consumption, and Design Interventions

Social Movements in Global Politics

Financial Management Association Survey and Synthesis : Too Much Is Not Enough : Incentives in Executive Compensation

Consuming Work : Youth Labor in America

TechnoFeminism

Where the Negroes Are Masters : An African Port in the Era of the Slave Trade

Will the Middle East Implode?

Modern Intellectual and Political History of the Middle East : Raging Against the Machine : Political Opposition Under Authoritarianism in Egypt

Wasted Lives : Modernity and Its Outcasts

In 100 Years : Leading Economists Predict the Future

Global Development Crisis

Twentieth-Century Europe : A Brief History (3rd Edition)

Beyond Sustainability : A Thriving Environment

Violent Accounts : Understanding the Psychology of Perpetrators Through South Africa's Truth and Reconciliation Commission

Ain't Got No Home : America's Great Migrations and the Making of an Interracial Left

Protest Inc. : The Corporatization of Activism

People, Planet and Profit : Socio-Economic Perspectives of CSR

Connecting the Greater West Series : Working Women into the Borderlands

Modern African Writing Series : 491 Days : Prisoner Number 1323/69

Help with Constructing a Works Cited List (Bibliography) using MLA or APA:

It's April, also known as term paper season.

That means gathering and formatting your list of sources to include on your 'works cited list' (also referred to as a 'reference list' or 'bibliography'). Most students are required to use either the MLA or APA style of citations.

Here are some links to guides which will offer some help with this (unpleasant, but) necessary step in writing a research paper.

• Citation Styles, Tools & Techniques

Note in particular the following guides:

• Citing Your Sources - APA Style
• Citing Your Sources - MLA Style
• Citations: Deciphering and Using Them

In addition, the Library subscribes to tools which can help you automate this process. Furthermore, some of the article databases will also gather the components for the citation:

• RefWorks
• RefWorks Resource Guide (i.e. a how-to guide)
• NoodleBib
• Citation Tools in Sawyer Library Databases

New Book: "The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets"

The animated sit-com, "The Simpsons," has made its way into American popular culture, both as a reflection and as an influence. But did you know that for all these years, it has also been sneaking in references to high level mathematics? This is according to the new book The Simpsons and their Mathematical Secrets"

The author, Simon Singh, is both a fan of the show and has his Ph.D. in particle physics. According to the book's summary, Singh noticed and documented so many allusions to math in The Simpsons, that it could "form the basis of an entire university course."

Sawyer Library Hidden Treasure: Europe Since Versailles

This latest unburied 4th floor Sawyer Library gem, Europe Since Versailles, features political cartoons drawn by Sir David Low from the decades between World War I and World War II. During this time of shaky peace, Sir Low's caricatures lambasted world nations and their leaders as their political interactions frequently presaged being sucked into a second world war. So pointed were the critiques against Nazi "governance" in particular, that Adolf Hitler himself placed Sir David Low on a list of people to be rounded up after Germany's conquest over England (Streicher, 6). Fortunately for Low, England never fell to Germany, and he continued designing scathing editorial cartoons, thumbing his nose at Hitler's apoplectic rage. 

In this reprinted edition of Sir David Low's works, Lawrence Streicher has added an introduction, epilogue, and partial bibliography of Low's collected works. Frequent characters in Low's satirical cartoons include: Maxim Litvinov, Neville Chamberlain, Pierre Laval, Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini, Aristide Briand, and Joseph Stalin. Check out this item to chuckle at sharp images depicting the ineffectiveness of politics (my, how things change!), or bemoan the inevitability of civilian pain and suffering at the end of this era.


Image credit: "DAVID LOW (English Cartoonist)" belongs to Flickr user NCMallory. License to use: CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/deed.en)

Sawyer Library Hidden Treasure: Portrait of an Age

Re-discovered in the Sawyer Library 4th floor collection, Portrait of an Age contains a rich assemblage of un-posed and frequently un-authorized photographs taken by Erich Salomon from the late 1920s to the beginning of WWII. Pictorial historiographer, pioneer in the art of photojournalism, and master of the well-placed hidden camera, Salomon was known among politicians of Europe as “the king of the indiscrete” (66). This collection of Salomon’s candid photos, selected by Han de Vries and Peter Hunter-Salomon, shows political life in action at the League of Nations and throughout Europe, and highlights living scenes among royalty, well-known historical personages of Europe and America, and the every-day person of the era. Notable figures photographed by Salomon include: Albert Einstein, Igor Stravinsky, Arturo Toscanini, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Marlene Dietrich, Upton Sinclair, Duchess of York (Queen Mother Elizabeth) Winston S. Churchill, Benito Mussolini and Klara Zetkin. Check out this item to view through Erich Salomon’s lens the period style, the interactions among rulers and politicos, the action at exclusive royal banquets, and some of daily life during the years between World Wars I and II.

Table of Contents:

• Who was Erich Salomon?
• The epoch of the League of Nations
• Germany in 1930
• Europe and its conferences
• The year in Geneva
• Judges and courts
• Artists, intellectuals, and society
• America in 1930
• A look at France in 1935
• On the eve of World War II

Image credit: Ermanox_img_0794.jpg By Rama (Own work) [CC-BY-SA-2.0-fr (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/fr/deed.en)], via Wikimedia Commons

Did You Know...We Have Our Own Google Scholar!

Although your average reference librarian will usually suggest that using one or more of our (expensive) fulltext-rich, enhanced scholarly databases is the best way to tackle most academic research, we also recognize that people love to just Google their topics.  The massive, scatter-shot nature of Google always ensures that you will get some results, no matter what you plug into the search box.  And if those results are not the best possible research materials, many students (and some faculty) don't much care.

Google is smart enough to know that to be all things to all people, they needed to help academics winnow out more scholarly materials when they search.  Hence, Google Scholar.  The company says that "Google Scholar provides a simple way to broadly search for scholarly literature. From one place, you can search across many disciplines and sources: articles, theses, books, abstracts and court opinions, from academic publishers, professional societies, online repositories, universities and other web sites. Google Scholar helps you find relevant work across the world of scholarly research."  And although they are not exactly transparent about what goes in and what doesn't, they do have information about inclusion and metrics at this page.

One of the (several) frustrations about Google Scholar is, however, that much of the scholarly literature they index is in publisher databases that charge a lot of money.  If a database doesn't know who you are or how you are academically-affiliated, they will likely offer to provide easy access to a wide variety of peer-reviewed journal articles if you are willing to provide credit card information and pay between $15 and $75 dollars to view and download them.  But, remember those expensive databases I mentioned in the first paragraph? We own or subscribe to a myriad of them.  And those databases might well provide "free" access to those same articles as long as you are a current student or faculty of CAS/SBS!  But YOU MUST GO THROUGH OUR VERSION OF GOOGLE SCHOLAR.

As you can see from the URL in this screenshot,  the link to Google Scholar that you find on our homepage or in our LibGuides actually runs through our proxy server, allowing you to be authenticated and recognized as a Suffolk University researcher, no matter where you are, 24/7.

So when you do a search and get results, a great many of the articles that might come from sources like JSTOR, Wiley Online Library, Sage Journals Online and other databases, will open for you (after you authenticate) when you click on the title.

Keep an eye out for the 360Link that you sometimes see to the right.  This will check our eJournal Locator across all databases. This clickable access can make research much easier.  But be aware of two things.  First, not all materials cited in Google Scholar come from scholarly journal databases.   And, secondly, like all libraries, we do not own all items or all databases.  So, our version of Google Scholar can be a great help, it is not the magic bullet of universal literature access.  (Alas, universal open access is just a dream we dreamed.)

Also, consider using the Advanced Search Option in Google Scholar--

a hard-to-spot popup box. Here, you can indicate an author you want, look for an exact phrase (even just in the title of the article) or specify a date range.  This allows for (slightly) more focused searching.

But there are other things that Google Scholar can be useful for besides providing a wide-ranging index with links.  Did you know that many people use it to track cited references of important articles?  For an explanation of that, see this LibGuide page.  And related to this, some software and services actually use Google Scholar to do the kind of "citation analysis" we usually associate with the "impact factor."  Publish or Perish is an example.

And did you know that you can export Google Scholar references to RefWorks?  It's one of the "Settings."

 And for more on RefWorks, see this guide.

So, yes, Google Scholar can be a useful tool because it searches across so many materials.  But it is essential that you critically evaluate the items you find in it--especially those NOT from a peer-reviewed journal.  There are some sources in Google Scholar (like other student term papers) that your professor will probably not want to see on your bibliography.

Bottom line, if you are planning on using Google Scholar, be cautious and critical.  And if you are a member of the Suffolk community, be sure to use our version to reduce dead-end (or costly) frustration!

Sally Ride

Did You Know...that the late astronaut Sally Ride was the first American woman in space? She was also the only astronaut chosen for President Reagan's Rogers Commission to investigate the Space Shuttle Challenger accident.

Sally Ride (foreground) and life partner Tam O'Shaugnessy. Photo: American Library Association and AP News, 2008.

Later in life, Sally Ride helmed various projects and organizations designed to increase the public's awareness of and interest in science and space exploration. After a stint as professor of physics at University of California, San Diego, Ride became President of CalSpace; joined the board of directors for Space.com; founded the NASA-affiliated EarthKAM earth-from-space photography project; and eventually started Sally Ride Science. The latter is an organization devoted to supporting young womens' interests in science, math, engineering, and technology.

To read more about the life and times of Sally Ride (born May 26, 1951 and died July 24th, 2012), please see her online full-text biography in our Sawyer database, Biography in Context.

Notable E-Books:

- Leaving earth [electronic resource] : space stations, rival superpowers, and the quest for interplanetary travel, by Robert Zimmerman.

- A dictionary of space exploration [electronic resource], edited by E. Julius Dasch.

Note to Faculty: Harvard Business Review for Course Work

As you may already know, one of the crown jewels of Ebsco's top-of-the-line business database, Business Source Complete (BSC), is their complete run (back to 1922!) of the Harvard Business Review (HBR), one of the most important business journals ever published. A mix of the popular and practical with the highly academic, HBR is, indeed a valuable journal. That's why B-school professors are often interested in using articles from it for class readings.

Although HBR is in our database with full-text PDFs, you may have noticed the scary warning at the end of the articles that reads:

"Harvard Business Review Notice of Use Restrictions, May 2009Harvard Business Review and Harvard Business Publishing Newsletter content on EBSCOhost is licensed for the private individual use of authorized EBSCOhost users. It is not intended for use as assigned course material in academic institutions nor as corporate learning or training materials in businesses. Academic licensees may not use this content in electronic reserves, electronic course packs, persistent linking from syllabi or by any other means of incorporating the content into course resources. Business licensees may not host this content on learning management systems or use persistent linking or other means to incorporate the content into learning management systems. Harvard Business Publishing will be pleased to grant permission to make this content available through such means. For rates and permission, contact permissions@harvardbusiness.org."

Generally, when a library leases a database, the use of persistent links (or PURLs) in BlackBoard syllabi would be considered "fair use" at that institution. But Harvard likes to write its own rules, and Ebsco is going along with it.

Therefore, even linking to the database record for an HBR article is, according to Harvard, not an "intended" use of database content, and according to them, verboten unless specifically licensed. So, as a faculty member at Suffolk, you might think that you (or the Bookstore, if they were helping to prepare your CoursePack) might have to email Harvard or go through a process at the Copyright Clearance Center to be able to use HBR for class.

Au contraire! As it so happens, our previous library director contracted via Ebsco to also license something called "Harvard Business Review for Course Work." We pay a large (and I would term it exorbitant) additional annual fee to cover course-related use of HBR. Exactly what does this extra fee cover? Harvard (and Ebsco) have always refused to spell that out. Early in our acquisition process I spoke to a Harvard rep. on the phone and tried to pin down the details. He was evasive. So I finally said that as far as I was concerned "anything short of handing out hundreds of copies of articles to strangers at Park Street Station was covered." And he concurred.

So, if you would like to use HBR in class, PLEASE DO SO. Although, as I say, we have no specifics for this so-called license. However, our interpretation of what we get for the fee is everything warned against in the above statement. That is, you may use HBR articles for:

• Electronic Reserves
• Course Packs (prepared by you or by the SU Bookstore for Suffolk student use)
• Persistent Linking to BSC/HBR Articles in Online Syllabi, Emails or BlackBoard Postings
• Even making Multiple Photocopies from a PDF and handing them out in class!

Keep in mind that this is ONLY for HBR. For most articles that you find in one of our online resources (either from the publisher or an aggregator like Ebsco) putting a stable proxyized link--one requiring a Suffolk IP or authentication of the user--on a reading list in your class BlackBoard account would be considered appropriate, but making multiple copies and handing them out or reprinting the article in a course pack would NOT.

(We are not copyright attorneys here at the Library, but if you are interested in delving into the nature of "fair use," you might want to look through our LibGuide on the Ethical Use of Information.)

We pay this very large fee to keep all Suffolk use of HBR covered, so please utilize this resource! Simply access the journal via links in our eJournal Locator or our Online Catalog, and identify the articles you want to use. Print them, download PDFs, or copy and paste the "Permalink" you can capture from a BSC record into your syllabus.

Ignore the warnings at the end of articles and please do NOT pay additional fees at Harvard Publishing or at CCC for Suffolk use of HBR. (Alas, the fair thing would be for those warnings to not appear on our copies of HBR articles. And BSC Permalinks should only work for institutions that pay the extra fee, like us. Harvard Publishing and the CCC should also refuse to accept additional HBR fees from anyone affiliated with Suffolk. But the world is not a fair one, so it is important for you to remember that you are completely covered for all HBR use while you teach at Suffolk....and while we can continue to pay this fee.)

If you want more information on PURL use in class readings, you might want to consult this general PURL guide and this one specific to BlackBoard.

And happy reading in the Harvard Business Review!

Link of the Week: The Economic Census

Most people are familiar with the U.S. Census, which is supposed to count every U.S. resident and is conducted every 10 years. (2010 is a census year - so if you have not returned your census form yet, here is what your community stands to gain by having a high participation rate.)

However, the Census Bureau also conducts an Economic Census. This is done every 5 years, the most recent one being from 2007. The data collected provides a detailed snapshot of the U.S. economy, by counting the number of establishments nationwide, their sales, their annual payroll, and the number of their employees. The Census Bureau then assigns each establishment to a specific industry, according to the North American Industry Classification System (NAICS). The 2007 NAICS is comprised of 1,175 industries grouped into 20 sectors, and by means of the Economic Census, these industries can in turn be viewed from the national to the local level.

Why would someone who is not a government official be interested in such things? The statistics can provide a tool to identifying business markets and competition. Comparing changes from one census to the next can illustrate trends in industries by location (or for that matter, trends in different locations by industry).

It takes some time before the Economic Census data is compiled and released. This is done in stages, and the bulk of the data sets are available 2-3 years after the census is conducted.

Not surprisingly, finding and using the data effectively can be a challenge, but there are tools available to help.

One is a reference book held by the Sawyer Library: Industry Research Using the Economic Census : How to Find It, How to Use It, by Jennifer C. Boettcher and Leonard M. Gaines.

Other tools come from the Census Bureau itself, which has posted a User Guide and instruction materials (Power Point slides and handouts) from conference lectures held around the country. The instruction materials and included exercises are especially helpful, since they provide an insight into the types of queries the Economic Census can answer.