What’s New in the Oviatt Library Web Pages

Oviatt Library on Facebook

Facebook users — become a fan of the Oviatt Library! Leave a note on our wall or discussion board, or post pictures of the library. You can also add the Oviatt Library Search application, to search the Library catalog from your Facebook profile page.

Posted under Services – May 13th, 2008, 5:08 pm
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Digital Exhibition on Anti-Semitism

The Oviatt Library presents In Our Own Backyard: Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California 1933-1945, a virtual version of the 1989 CSUN Urban Archives Center exhibit of the same name.  The original exibition was co-sponsored by The Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, the Martyrs Memorial & Museum of the Holocaust, and the CSUN Bibliographic Society. It includes materials contributed by Joseph Roos, UCLA Special Collections, and the California State Archives.

Posted under Social Sciences & Education, Arts & Humanities, Services, News & Current Issues – May 2nd, 2008, 10:51 am
Social Sciences & Education, Arts & Humanities, Services, or News & Current Issues

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Who’s Who on the Web

Marquis Who’s Who on the Web has been added to Databases A-Z.  It contains biographies of over 1.4 million people of note in the United States and around the world, taken from 21 Marquis Who’s Who print publications such as Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, and Who’s Who in American Politics. 1985-present. Access limited to 1 user at a time.  

Posted under General/Multi-Subject, News & Current Issues – April 14th, 2008, 5:00 pm
General/Multi-Subject, or News & Current Issues

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New Music Database

Classical Music Library is a database of classical music sound recordings with more than 50,000 tracks along with program notes, reference texts (composer biographies, history), and images. Music includes vocal and instrumental works from the Middle Ages to the present. Repertoire ranges from vocal and choral music to chamber, orchestral, solo instrumental, and opera.  You can find Classical Music Library on Databases A-Z and our Information Sources for Music pages.

Posted under Arts & Humanities – April 14th, 2008, 4:55 pm
Arts & Humanities

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Psychology Database Added

PsycCRITIQUES, a full text database with reviews of current books and popular films in psychology, has been added to Databases A-Z and our Find Articles and Research Data subject pages

Posted under Social Sciences & Education, Arts & Humanities – February 21st, 2008, 2:19 pm
Social Sciences & Education, or Arts & Humanities

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New Library Catalog Features

We’ve added several new features to our Library Catalog.

• Send result to your cell phone
  When you find an item in the catalog you want to retrieve, click the “Send via Text Message” button to send the location, call number, title and author information to your cell phone (your cellular carrier may apply charges; not available for electronic text resources or unbound periodicals)
• Submit your search to WorldCat.org
  If you don’t find what you’re looking for in our catalog, you can submit your search to Open WorldCat by clicking the WorldCat button at the top of the search results screen. If you find the item you want in WorldCat, you’ll be able to use the FindText link to submit an Interlibrary loan request (FindText limited to CSUN users only).
• New Audio and Video
  The “New Audio” and “New DVD/Video” lists are now conveniently linked in the right-hand box on all search screens

Posted under Services – February 6th, 2008, 4:24 pm
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History Databases on New Platform

America: History and Life and Historical Abstracts have moved from ABC-CLIO to EBSCOHost, with expanded coverage (1964- and 1955-, respectively).

Posted under Social Sciences & Education – February 4th, 2008, 9:45 am
Social Sciences & Education

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Humanities and Social Sciences Dissertations

Dissertations: Humanities and Social Sciences from Proquest is now available on Databases A-Z.

Posted under Social Sciences & Education, Arts & Humanities – January 16th, 2008, 2:13 pm
Social Sciences & Education, or Arts & Humanities

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Scitopia Federated Search

Scitopia is now available on our Databases A-Z page.  A collaboration of 15 science and technology societies, Scitopia provides free full-text access to scholarly work, government documents and patents spanning 150 years.

Posted under Science & Technology – November 16th, 2007, 3:13 pm
Science & Technology

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Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog

We’ve added a link to the open-access Traditional Music and Spoken Word Catalog to our Databases A-Z page.  Most of the audio recordings included were produced 1933 and 1950.  From the American Folklife Center description:

The card catalog represented in this online database was first created by Work Projects Administration (WPA) workers in the late 1930s and early 1940s, and continued by the Archive of Folk Song (now part of the American Folklife Center) staff into the early 1960s. Its purpose was to provide the public with access to the thousands of individual songs, tunes, folk tales, sermons, monologues, and life stories in the Archive’s collections.

Posted under Social Sciences & Education, Arts & Humanities – November 16th, 2007, 2:50 pm
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