Monday, October 30, 2006

Digital Video Collection: New Titles!

OhioLINK continues to expand its collection of online digital videos, and Miami University Middletown is playing a key role. Recently, the staff of the Gardner-Harvey Library selected 20 new titles to add to the collection, and paid for statewide digital access to them. Miami students, faculty, and staff may now use computers on- or off-campus watch or show any of the following videos:

- E-Commerce in Business
- Problem Solving (Series: Back to the Basics)
- Conflict Resolution and Etiquette (Series: Back to the Basics)
- Clerical Skills for New Employees
- Free Market Economies: The Commanding Heights
- Outsourcing: White Collar Exodus
- eBay: Managing Success
- Daily Cafe Operations
- Key Functions of a Business: A Case Study
- Global Capital Market: Risks and Rewards
- Common Mistakes People Make In Interviews
- Informational Interviewing and Networking
- Computer Worms and Viruses
- Cancer Story
- Incriminating Evidence: Forensic Specialists in Action
- E-mail Alert: How E-mail Becomes E-evidence
- Tillie Olsen: "I Stand Here Ironing"
- Flannery O'Connor
- Henry David Thoreau: In His Own Words
- Langston Hughes: His Life and Times

To access any of the above titles (in addition to the hundreds already in the collection), go to the Digital Video Collection at http://dmc.ohiolink.edu/media/ffhLogin and search or browse by title, keyword, or subject. Keep in mind that links to individual videos can be placed in Blackboard or emailed.

Monday, October 09, 2006

Access to The Chronicle of Higher Education

Miami University Libraries has just added a subscription to Chronicle Campuswide, which means that the full Chronicle of Higher Education is now available online from any computer on campus. The subscription includes not only the most recent weekly Chronicle and daily online stories, but also an archive of Chronicle content dating back to 1989.

To access The Chronicle from campus, you may either enter "chronicle.com" in your browser or click on the link for "Chronicle of Higher Education" in the alphabetical list of indexes and databases (linked from the Gardner-Harvey Library site. From off-campus, you may also use The Chronicle by clicking on the link in the alphabetical list of indexes and databases, and then entering your Unique ID and password.

The current MIDCHRONICLE email list, which supplies the daily summary of stories posted to The Chronicle site, will continue shortly once our campus subscription issues are solved. You may subscribe to the list at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/midchronicle.html