Monday, September 25, 2006

Congratulations, NewsWatch and NewsLink Indiana

The "NewsWatch" and NewsLink Indiana broadcast programs at Ball State University will partner with MSNBC for the opportunity to have student productions seen by a national audience. Congratulations on this great opportunity!

Read more at http://www.bsu.edu/update/.

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Friday, September 15, 2006

September 2006 newsletter online

You can read the latest issue of the Library Insider at http://www.bsu.edu/library/virtualpress/libinsider/. The newsletter will keep you up-to-date on the latest news and events at the the Ball State University Libraries.

This month's issue included information about new library funding, additions to the music collection, the increased availability of full-text journals through the University Libraries' online databases, instructions on how to care for optical discs, and more. Read all the articles in the September 2006 issue online.

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Monday, September 11, 2006

McClatchy-Tribune collection

Ball State University users can access the McClatchy-Tribune Collection from the University Libraries' databases page: http://www.bsu.edu/ libraries/ electronicresources/ databases.asp. This database, formerly known as the Knight-Ridder Collection, includes newspaper articles published in the last 90 days. Over 100 newspapers from around the nation published by McClatchy are available in the database; this includes the Chicago Tribune, Orlando Sentinel, Seattle Times, and others.

You can search the database for keywords or browse by publication. For example, this sample keyword search of the database will find articles on Sept. 11th remembrance activities. You can also browse publications by title and date; for example, this link takes you to all the articles from the July 4, 2006, issue of the Chicago Tribune.

If you have questions or would like additional training on library resources, please contact Stacy. To find out more about the University Libraries' latest resources, check out the News & Events blog.

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Friday, September 08, 2006

Washington Post blogs again

Over the summer, the Washington Post launched a collaborative online project called PostGlobal. Using the blog format, thirty contributors respond to and discuss a question of global significance each week. You can read more about the project at http://blog.washingtonpost.com/ and on the Surprise Highway blog.

What do you think of this new type of "news"? How might it affect journalism, especially news creation and consumption? Will this format gain popularity, or prove too difficult to maintain (like other Post blogging experiments, explained here and here)?

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Congratulations, Professor Pritchard

Congratulations to Robert Pritchard, assistant professor of journalism, for his recognition as an outstanding junior faculty member at Ball State University and his many other achievements. (Read more at http://www.bsu.edu/ccim/journalism/.)

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Friday, September 01, 2006

Labor Day hours

Bracken Library will open at noon on Monday, September 4, 2006.

For a complete listing of the University Libraries' hours, please see http://www.bsu.edu/library/article/0,,14625--,00.html.

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