NOTES FROM RAMSEY LIBRARY; 2008-1

From all in Ramsey Library we hope that you and yours enjoyed a safe and wonderful holiday season, and we wish you the very best of new years!!
STREAMING VIDEO ACCESS TO PBS PROGRAMS

As we begin an exciting new semester, Ramsey Library is very pleased to announce the availability of some of the best and most popular PBS educational and documentary programming from accessible via the Internet. Provided by NC LIVE — North Carolina’s virtual library cooperative — students, faculty, and staff can view these programs via computer on campus, in classrooms, from home, or wherever you have access to the Internet (off campus users please note that a high speed internet connection and Flash Media Player 9.0 or higher are required to use this resource) . The collection offers nearly 250 PBS programs including the Emmy award winning series “American Experience” and “Frontline,” as well as groundbreaking programs such as Ken Burns’ “The Civil War, “ “Baseball,” and “Jazz.” We anticipate that a second group of videos will be available later in January 2008 that will include children’s programming from the highly acclaimed “Cyberchase” and “Liberty Kids” series.

The NC Live PBS Video Collection is accessible via the Ramsey Library web site. ChooseResearch Databases and find the NC Live PBS Collection listed under General Indexes,Audio/Video Resources or the title list.

Check them out at:

NC LIVE Media Collection
http://0-media.nclive.org.wncln.wncln.org/
RAMSEY OFFERS RSS FEEDS

Hard at work toward the end of the fall semester, Ramsey Library and the WNCLN network now offer RSS (really simple syndication?) feeds. Check it out athttp://wncln.wncln.org/screens/feeds_example.html or go to any WebPac search screen and click on ‘Our RSS feeds’ in the right-hand (crème colored) box. If you have any suggestions for additional feeds, please contact Janet Ferguson (jferguso@unca.edu) or Brandy Bourne (bbourne@unca.edu) in Ramsey Library.
SCIENCE & JSTOR

Good news! Our friends at JSTOR (http://www.jstor.org/) have just announced that the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and JSTOR reached an agreement at the end of 2007 under which Science will continue its participation in JSTOR (read online availability via Ramsey Library). Science will be available with a 5-year moving wall. In addition, JSTOR officials expect to introduce more opportunities within the JSTOR site for users to link directly to Science’s website from Science legacy content (backfiles) located in JSTOR.