FEATURED RESOURCE
Here’s a nifty (NOTES’ colloquialisms may need a bit of updating?) one you and your students may have missed. SimplyMap is a web-based mapping database for developing thematic maps — and reports — using thousands of demographic, business, and marketing data variables. Covers census block-groups, census tracts, zip codes, cities, counties, states, and the entire United States. Includes Mediamark Research (MRI) data, covering usage and consumption for thousands of products, including actual brand data, details of frequency of usage, and more. Data and maps can be exported. Requires user to create an account.
Check it out at http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/scripts/redirect.pl?db=www.nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?rsrc=247
CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION ONLINE
As I hope most of you know already, Ramsey Library subscribes to the Chronicle of Higher Education online. As a result of this site license, each of you has electronic access to the contents of the Chronicle and can choose to receive a variety of newsletters. In a recent development, once you’ve logged into the Chronicle web site, you can stay logged in for a full year. Just check the “keep me logged in” box. You don’t have to log in to read premium content so long as you’re using a computer on campus. You have IP access to all of Chronicle.com. But you do need to be logged in to take advantage of other Chronicle services such as e-mailing an article, posting a comment, subscribing to any free e-newsletter, creating a job alert, and more.
Check it out at http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/scripts/redirect.pl?db=chronicle.com/section/Home/5.
UNC ASHEVILLE YEARBOOKS ONLINE
In its last issue, NOTES announced the availability of UNC Asheville yearbooks online as part of the North Carolina Digital Heritage Center. NOTES is very pleased to announce that all 39 years of The Summit (1939-1985 with gaps) are now up and available.
Be sure to take the tour, accessible from UNC Asheville’s page in the Digital NC Library.
TLTR: RECENT NEWS OF NOTE (from a variety of perspectives!)
New Technologies to Get Your Students Engaged, By Ryan Cordell
Online tools can help with teaching while allowing student to engage with one another and with larger academic communities.
College 2.0: Across More Classes, Videos Make the Grade, By Jeffrey R. Young
Some traditional courses are beginning to accept multimedia projects in lieu of final papers.
In Learning, the Lasting Value of Place,By Joseph E. Aoun
Online education will be part of the future, but on-site instruction brings benefits beyond the obvious.
The Humanities, Done Digitally, By Kathleen Fitzpatrick
What is digital humanities? Or more important, what are they? (Is there an English major in the house? There’s that troublesome correct grammar that just refuses to sound right!)
OTHER RECENT NEWS OF NOTE
The Library of Congress Adds a Jukebox
The new National Jukebox makes more than 10,000 early-20th-century recordings available for free streaming online.
What They’re Reading on College Campuses
Posted by Brandy on May 12, 2011 1:26 PM
