Tuesday, October 14, 2014

Digital Sanborn Maps

The Digital Sanborn Maps database is experiencing technical issues and is not presently available.  After we received a complaint from a student Nan Matson contacted their technical support people and received the following response, 

"Thank you for contacting Technical Support today. We are currently experiencing system difficulties and we apologize for any inconvenience this may cause you and your users.

We have every available resource working on the problem with the goal of restoring access to the system as soon as possible. I do not have specific details to share with you at this time.

Again, we apologize for this inconvenience and we appreciate your patience during this process. "

 
Patrons see a login box when clicking on the browse maps button that does not work with their Pipeline MT username and password.

Sharon


Wednesday, October 1, 2014

Finding "Abstract Journals" for English

This question has come up a handful of times in recent weeks, and it's an odd one.

Students in an upper level English class are needing to find an "abstract journal" as a requirement for a bibliography they are compiling.

I did find something in Harner's Literary Research Guide (Ready reference shelf R 820.9 H 22l 2008) that might be useful: Abstracts of English Studies. It is shelved in Peroidicals, and we have 1958-1979 (Volumes 1-23). The title was discontinued in 1994. I am including a scan of the relevant page from Harner's below.



If you have other suggestions for how to find an "abstract journal" for English, please share!

--Jason