IntelliConnect Has Been Added to the Databases page 

IntelliConnect replaces the CCH Internet Tax Research Network database. It provides federal, state, and international tax information. It also includes articles from professional journals and legal information including cases, regulations, and laws.

Free Trial for Defining Gender, 1450-1910

Defining Gender provides electronic access to original source material intended to enrich the teaching and research experience of those studying history, literature, sociology, and education from a gendered perspective. Sources include Ephemera, pamphlets, books, diaries, periodicals, letters, and poetry published between 1450 and 1910. The database publishers have restricted PDF Downloads during the trial however you can still view and print images. Defining Gender, 1450-1910 is available from the Databases page. The trial ends November 16th.

Free Trial for Eighteenth Century Journals I-III 

Eighteenth Century Journals I-III contain selected material from the Hope Collection at the Bodleian Library, Oxford University, Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, the British Newspaper Library at Colindale, London and Cambridge University Library. The database publishers have restricted PDF Downloads during the trial however you can still view and print images. Eighteenth Century Journals is available from the Databases page. The trial ends November 16th.

Free Trial for Footnote History and Genealogy 

Footnote History and Genealogy contains millions of historical documents and photos thanks to partnerships with the National Archives and other organizations. It also contains various U.S. Censuses. Footnote History and Genealogy is available from the Databases page. The trial ends November 12th. The username is ball and the password is trial.

Free Trial for Literary Manuscripts 

Literary Manuscripts contains unpublished poems, working notebooks, holograph manuscripts and drawings allowing researchers and students to trace the interconnection of Victorian authors – and subsequently their texts – through their personal correspondence. Some of the authors included: Matthew Arnold, The Brontës, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Robert Browning, Wilkie Collins, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, George Eliot, George Gissing, Thomas Hardy, Henry James, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, John Ruskin, Alfred Tennyson, William Makepeace Thackeray. The database publishers have restricted PDF Downloads during the trial however you can still view and print images. Literary Manuscripts is available from the Databases page. The trial ends November 16th.

Free Trial for Victorian Popular Culture 

This database is a resource for the study of popular entertainment in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It Contains ephemera related to spiritualism and circuses. Downloads during the trial however you can still view and print images. Victorian Popular Culture is available from the Databases page. The trial ends November 16th.

November Tip of the Month

It easy to use ilocker in the library to save a paper you are working on or an image you are scanning. The public computers in the Ball State University Libraries are configured to map the computer you are logging into to your ilocker account. This means that you can save a file to your ilocker without having to log into your ilocker account. All you have to do us click on File or the Microsoft Office button in upper left corner of any Office 2007 application. Next you click on Save as. Then click on the arrow next the Save in box and select your username on 'ilocker.bsu.edu\users' (W:) and then Save.

Events

Through December 30, 2009

Dr. Charles E. Braker Orchid Photographs will be on exhibit in Bracken Library through December 30, 2009. This exhibit features the photographs of retired Purdue University professor Dr. Charles E. Braker. The photographs in this collection are the result of Bracker's passion for orchids and photography. Also showcased in this exhibit is the rare four volume edition of Reichenbachia, a 19th century series of books which contain color plates of orchids named after orchidologist, Heinrich Gustave Reichenbach. These books were published in two series, each volume dedicated to a particular queen or empress beginning with Queen Victoria and ending with the Queen of the Belgians. 300 of the top orchid images may also be found in the University Libraries Digital Media Repository. A demonstration of the digital collection can be seen on October 20, 2009 from 4:00p.m.-5:00p.m. in the Schwartz Digital Complex. For more information, please contact Lajmar Anderson at ldanderson@bsu.edu.