Happy Holidays from CSM Library!

We hope everyone has a great winter break. CSM Library will be closed during the break, beginning December 18, 2016 - January 16, 2017. We re-open on January 17 at 7:45am.

242 New Videos Added to our Films on Demand collection!

New Titles Notification SUBSCRIBER NEWS • AUGUST 2016 EDITION Account: College of San Mateo Number of New Titles: 242 We are pleased to announce the new titles that were added to your On Demand subscription over the past month. View your newly added titles: Click here to view a full list of the new titles just added to your collection.  Library Card sign in required if viewing from off campus. Featured Videos: Suited HBO Documentary Films Presents Suited. From producers Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner (HBO’s Girls),Suited tells the story of Bindle & Keep, a Brooklyn tailoring company that looks beyond the gender binary, creating custom-made suits for gender non-conforming and transgender clients. Mosquitoes on the Rise Grand Angle Distribution Presents Mosquitoes on the Rise In Brazil, in Africa, in Southeast Asia, and in the south of Europe, this film will follow the path of four mosquitoes, each of which is capable of transmitting viruses and dangerous parasites to humans. These mosquitoes are the carriers of dengue fever, malaria, Zika, and other infectious diseases.

242 New Videos Added to our Films on Demand collection!

New Titles Notification SUBSCRIBER NEWS • AUGUST 2016 EDITION Account: College of San Mateo Number of New Titles: 242 We are pleased to announce the new titles that were added to your On Demand subscription over the past month. View your newly added titles: Click here to view a full list of the new titles just added to your collection.  Library Card sign in required if viewing from off campus. Featured Videos: Suited HBO Documentary Films Presents Suited. From producers Lena Dunham and Jenni Konner (HBO’s Girls),Suited tells the story of Bindle & Keep, a Brooklyn tailoring company that looks beyond the gender binary, creating custom-made suits for gender non-conforming and transgender clients. Mosquitoes on the Rise Grand Angle Distribution Presents Mosquitoes on the Rise In Brazil, in Africa, in Southeast Asia, and in the south of Europe, this film will follow the path of four mosquitoes, each of which is capable of transmitting viruses and dangerous parasites to humans. These mosquitoes are the carriers of dengue fever, malaria, Zika, and other infectious diseases.

Get to know ARTSTOR, a database of art through the ages

ARTSTOR Database

September Webinars: Get the most from the Artstor Digital Library Looking for some examples of how to use the Digital Library for class projects and exams? Ever wanted to share your local image collections alongside the ones in the Digital Library? Curious about how Artstor’s collections can be used to teach across disciplines? Ready to master the Digital Library’s advanced features? Read on! All sessions are listed in Pacific Time. Find more webinars at artstor.org/webinars or email us to find a time suitable for your schedule (including international times) 30 Minute Mastery: Browse, Search and Refine If you have 30 minutes, you can quickly learn how to navigate Artstor’s digital content with useful pointers about browsing, tips for basic search techniques, and methods to refine your search results. September 7, 11:00 AM

Engage! The Best Ways to Share Images with the Artstor Digital Library We all know that the best audience is one that is engaged. This training will show you how using folders, sharing links to your groups and images, and creating PowerPoint presentations promotes collaboration and sharing – leading to highly engaged users! September 13, 12:00 PM Get Organized! Making Sense of Folders and Image Groups Take full advantage of the Artstor Digital Library! We'll show you how to save searches, create image groups and folders with different access levels, and how to share this content through downloads and exports. September 22, 12:00 PM The Do's and Don'ts of Image Copyright Concerned about copyright? Confused by fair use? Join Artstor's Deputy General Counsel for a primer on copyright law and best practices for making fair use of images for education and scholarship.  September 19, 11:30 AM Explore! New and Unique Digital Library Collections This webinar introduces Artstor Digital Library users to the breadth and depth of content in the Artstor Digital Library. We’ll briefly review how images are contributed then browse through highlights of the Digital Library including some of our most popular, unique, and newest contributed collections. The visual tour includes a look at collections contributed through Shared Shelf Commons. September 26, 9:00 AM

Learn how to sign up for & use your New York Times account: #Free Webinars 6/30

CSM Students, Staff, and Faculty:  You are invited to attend The New York Times monthly webinar series, Thursday, June 30, 2016. During the 3-part series we will demonstrate the pass activation process, tour the Times website, and introduce participants to The New York Times in Education website, a resource designed to help educators incorporate Times content into their curriculum. Register below for each session you would like to attend. You will receive a confirmation email with a ‘Join webinar’ link and an ‘Add to Calendar’ option for Outlook and Google calendars. The confirmation email will contain the webinar dial-in number, though you may also listen through the speakers on your computer. We encourage you to join the webinar 2-3 minutes early, as our meeting platform GoToWebinar will install a plug-in for your internet browser (once installed, you may be prompted to grant permission for the plug-in to run). We look forward to hearing from you and answering any questions you may have. Thursday, June 30th  Webinar 1: 8:00 AM – 8:15 AM Pacific The New York Times; Activating an Academic Pass To register, click: 8am Webinar RSVP Webinar 2: 10:00 AM – 10:20 AM Pacific The New York Times; Site Demo and Navigation To register, click: 10am Webinar RSVP Webinar 3: 11:00 AM - 11:20 AM EST The New York Times; Education Website (This webinar is for faculty only) To register, click: 11am Webinar RSVP Thank you, Adam Ritter Education Manager The New York Times

551 videos added to Films on Demand during May!

New Titles Notification SUBSCRIBER NEWS • MAY 2016 EDITION Account: College of San Mateo Number of New Titles: 551 We are pleased to announce the new titles that were added to your On Demand subscription over the past month. ✔ View your newly added titles: Click here to view a full list of the new titles just added to your collection.

Featured Video

Germany: One Night in Cologne

A mob sexual assault on young women during a New Year’s Eve celebration snapped Germany’s tolerance of mass migration. In this film, hear from victims of the attack and a lawyer who represents 125 men accused of theft. Examine conflicting views toward asylum seekers and refugees, and the impact of the attacks on German consciousness.

Viewer discretion is advised. Some language in this video may be offensive.

Library card account required to view video.

We're on break! We return Monday June 13 at 9am

School is out!
Congrats to all of the CSM graduates.

CSM Library is closed. We will reopen on Monday, June 13th at 9am.

Get Creative! CSM Library Bookmark Design Challenge: April 11-29, 2016

Create a bookmark for our Bookmark Design Challenge and enter to win for prizes. Winning bookmark will be reprinted and distributed at the library. Please visit the CSM Library for full details, and to submit your bookmark.

Avant-Garde Poster Exhibit in Library: April 18-May 20, 2016

The library has a special exhibit on display: 

Rebranding the Russian Avant-Garde

International Poster Exhibition

This exhibition presents works of contemporary international designers who are attempting to re-imagine the Russian avant-garde movement in the age of digital media. Using the Russian avant-garde as the main source of their inspiration, these artists re-contextualize familiar themes, while exploring new technologies and striving to form their own unique visual language. In addition, the show features a selection of posters by CSM digital media students.

The posters will be on display on the library's main level from April 18-May 20, 2016. Admission is free. 

New Titles from Films on Demand!

New Titles Notification

SUBSCRIBER NEWS • MARCH 2016 EDITION

We are pleased to announce that 193 new titles that were added to your On Demand subscription over the past month.

• ✔ View your newly added titles:
  Click here to view a full list of the new titles just added to your collection.
• From TED Talks to the Cutting Edge Communication Comedy Series, check out titles such as How our microbes make us who we are and Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe? to Tackling concussions and Under the shadow.

• Featured videos:

• How our microbes make us who we are
• Rob Knight is a pioneer in studying human microbes, the community of tiny single-cell organisms living inside our bodies that have a huge — and largely unexplored — role in our health. “The three pounds of microbes that you carry around with you might be more important than every single gene you carry around in your genome,” he says. Find out why.
• Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe
• Written language, the hallmark of human civilization, didn't just suddenly appear one day. Thousands of years before the first fully developed writing systems, our ancestors scrawled geometric signs across the walls of the caves they sheltered in. Paleoanthropologist, rock art researcher and TED Senior Fellow Genevieve von Petzinger has studied and codified these ancient markings in caves across Europe. The uniformity of her findings suggest that graphic communication, and the ability to preserve and transmit messages beyond a single moment in time, may be much older than we think.
• Tackling concussions
• Biomedical engineers created eye-tracking software to measure brain functions. It can quickly track eye movement and detect possible problems—slower, less controlled eye movements are typical symptoms of a concussion. The technology will be used on any smartphone or tablet.
• Under the shadow
• “When we rape we feel free,” confesses a young soldier in the Congolese Army. According to the American Journal of Public Health, 48 women are raped every hour in the Democratic Republic of Congo. The DRC earned a reputation as most dangerous country in the world for women. In this documentary, soldiers explain why they rape and describe how the atrocities took place. It follows the story of Masika, who opened a rescue center to offer counselling and shelter to rape victims. Can these women escape the shadow cast by this threat of sexual violence and will the specter of justice bring hope and resolution

ArtStor Alert! Technical Difficulties with Safari & Mobile Site Maintenance

We're writing to provide some updates to recent issues in the Artstor Digital Library.

Currently, some users accessing ArtStor remotely (with a username/password) using Safari are experiencing network error messages. ArtStor is working to address the issue and hopes to have a solution in the near future. In the meantime, please access ArtStor remotely using Firefox, Chrome, or IE. If you only have access to Safari, you can still get to the Digital Library remotely through CSM Library’s proxy server.

Additionally, this Thursday, March 24th ArtStor will be releasing a patch for ArtStor Mobile between 4:00 and 7:00 am Pacific. Although there is no scheduled downtime during this period, users accessing the mobile site may experience interruptions. This patch will fix issues experienced after viewing zoomed images, as well as erroneous remote access expiration notifications users have encountered.

Please reach out to ArtStor at userservices@artstor.org with any questions.

ProQuest Alert! ProQuest Databases will be down Saturday night for maintenance

ProQuest will be unavailable Saturday 7pm - Sunday 4am

ProQuest tools will be unavailable from 7:00 pm Saturday, March 12 - 4:00 am Sunday, March 13. We apologize for any inconvenience.

Impacted databases include:

• Business Dateline
• ebrary Academic Complete
• ebrary e-books
• Ethnic Newswatch
• Ethnic Newswatch: A History
• PILOTS: Published International Lit on Traumatic Stress
• ProQuest Biology Journals
• ProQuest Deep Indexing: Nursing
• ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health Source
• ProQuest Research Library: Business
• ProQuest Research Library: Health & Medicine
• ProQuest Research Library: History
• ProQuest Research Library: Literature & Language
• ProQuest Research Library: Science & Technology
• ProQuest Research Library: Social Sciences
• ProQuest Research Library: The Arts
• ProQuest Research Library (Combined)
• ProQuest Statistical Abstract of the US
• ProQuest Statistical Insight - Statistical Abstract
• PsycARTICLES
• SIRS Researcher

For further information about maintenance and scheduled downtime for ProQuest tools, please visit their Support Center.

112 new videos added to our Films On Demand collection!

Browse New Titles from Films on Demand: http://buff.ly/1p395bQ

Films on Demand has added 112 new videos on a range of topics from culture, music, to career resources.

A few of the most popular include:

• Festivals: Spring Festival, China
• Festivals: Day of the Dead, Mexico
• The Smiths: Collector's Set, Part 1
• The Rolling Stones: Under Review, 1967–1969 (Re-edit)
• Growing Up Trans
• Troubled Teens: Why Some Go Bad and Others Come Right—Predict My Future: The Dunedin Longitudinal Study

This database subscription is paid for by the College of San Mateo Library, and is accessible to current students, staff, and faculty of College of San Mateo with a current Peninsula Library System Library Card.

KQED MindShift features CSM Library Makerspace

KQED MindShift features CSM Library Makerspace

The College of San Mateo Library Makerspace is featured in the article "What Colleges can Gain by Adding Makerspaces to their Libraries" by Katrina Schwartz (February 5, 2016).

Read about makerspaces in three different colleges and universities in order to learn more about what makerspaces in the academic environment have to offer.

To learn more about the CSM Library Makerspace, visit our website.

Our database web addresses have changed! Make sure to update your bookmarks.

Web Address Changes for Most Subscription Databases

Hi! The CSM Library has moved to a new server for authenticating student, staff, and faculty access to subscription databases.

What does this mean for you?

If you navigate to the database you are using (for example, Academic Search Premier, or Ethnic NewsWatch) by following links from the Library website or research guide, there should be no changes for you. These links have already been updated. If you do have a problem, please let us know.

However, if you have bookmarked your favorite links or keep a list of them in WebAccess or some other webliography (a list of web resources), you will likely need to update your links so you don't encounter an error message, or otherwise have problems accessing databases from off campus.

How to recognize the new link

The new links will have a different "proxy" or authentication prefix. There is one exception, which is the Safari ebook collection, which will stay the same.

An example for the Access Science database

The "proxy" url is a found at the beginning of the database url as a prefix. This is what the old proxied link looks like for the Access Science database:

http://ezproxy.plsinfo.org:2048/login?url=http://www.accessscience.com

A proxied url, when you are off campus, will allow you to login with your library card account and PIN, so you can access the Access Science database. Notice that there are two instances of "http" in the link above. 

The first instance is for the proxy url, which ends with an equal sign. This url has changed.

OLD proxy url: http://ezproxy.plsinfo.org:2048/login?url=

NEW proxy url: http://ezproxy.collegeofsanmateo.edu/login?url=

The second instance is the database web address. The database web address will stay the same.

http://www.accessscience.com

To update the link, just replace the the old proxy url with the new proxy url. The updated proxy link for Access Science is

http://ezproxy.collegeofsanmateo.edu/login?url=http://www.accessscience.com

What you should do

For any of your bookmarks or webliographies that include proxied links to CSM Library databases, either create the bookmarks again from scratch, using the links provided on the CSM Library database page, or update manually by replacing the old proxy url with the new proxy url. Depending on your resource type, you may be able to use the find and replace feature on your application.

Remember that the Safari ebook Collection has not been impacted by this change. Its link will stay the same.

Need help?

Need help updating your bookmarks or other web resource lists? Contact a CSM Librarian.

Stitch Africa! History of African Textiles & African American Quilting #free #event #BlackHistory 2/5/16

Join us for Stitch Africa!

Renowned Textile Artist Marion Coleman will host a trunk show and lecture on the History of African and African American textiles and quilts. A quilting workshop will follow.

All events are free, and sponsored by the College of San Mateo Library.

Date: Friday, February 5th

Lecture and Trunk Show: 10:00 am - 11:00 am, Building 5, Room 202
Quilting Workshop: 12:00 pm - 4:30 pm, Building 9, Library Classroom

About Marion Coleman

Memory, family stories, cultural change, and a world filled with color serve as her inspiration. For over thirty years Ms. Coleman worked as a counselor in youth and family services. She now combines this experience with her art to create work that explores memory, social change, and community.

Ms. Coleman's work has been presented in several publications including Crafted Lives: Stories and Studies of African American Quilters, Journey of Hope: Quilts Inspired by President Barack Obama, 500 Art Quilts, Creative Quilting: The Journal Quilt Project,Textural Rhythms: Quilting the Jazz Tradition. Ms. Coleman's work has also been featured in the O, The Oprah Magazine, Quilting Arts Magazine, and American Craft Magazine. The books listed above are available in the CSM Library.

Ms. Coleman received a 2009 Alameda County Arts Leadership Award and a 2007 Creative Work Fund Grant to collaborate with two other quilt artists and the Bay Area Black United Fund for a project on African American health disparities.

Ms. Coleman has served on the Boards of Directors of the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland and Textile Arts Council of the deYoung Museum in San Francisco. She has also served on the African Advisory Council of the Oakland Museum.

Learn more about Marion Coleman at:

• Marion Coleman's webpage

• PBS interview

New York Times online accounts are now available for students, staff, and faculty!

NEW YORK TIMES inEDUCATION IS NOW AT CSM

College of San Mateo Library now offers online New York Times accounts for all students, staff, and faculty. This includes unlimited access via mobile apps on tablets and smart phones.

NYTimes.com accounts are good for one year for eligible CSM community members only (current students, staff, and faculty), after which accounts must be renewed from on campus.

Faculty are eligible for a New York Times in Education account. New York Times inEducation provides curated content for a range of disciplines on how to incorporate news content from the New York Times into your curricula.

Highlights & Features:

• Tools: Mobile Apps, Email Newsletters, Alert set up, and more
• Times Topics - A to Z, a treasure trove of news, interactive, multimedia on subjects, events, people, and places
• The Learning Network - Designed for K-12 yet relevant to all educators
• Today's Paper - For those wanting to use their print and have students follow digitally
• Interactive Graphic on Paris' Climate Change Event - So cool - Science made easy
• The Edit - The New York Times newsletter for students, with news organized by academic major, popular articles on social media, advice from experts and more, delivered to your inbox.
• New York Times inEducation Trial - Faculty resource website four-week trial. The NYTimes requires faculty to complete a 4 week trial and then request permanent access.
• Tablet Apps - Includes NYTimes Cooking app.

Only Registered Users Can:

• Save articles for later. Retrieve your Times content from any device.
• Receive custom newsletters. Sign up and get news sent right to your in-box.
• Access content tailored to you. Enjoy personalized articles, videos and slide shows.
• Comment on articles. Spark conversations with other readers.
• Email stories, videos, and multimedia. Share your favorite content with your favorite people.

NYTIMES.COM ACCOUNT SET UP

1. Click www.NYTimes.com/GroupPass
   (You must be on campus to create the account. Once created you can access your account anywhere.)
2. Click on Create Account.
3. Sign up by typing in your email address and any password.
4. Access www.NYTimes.com on any computer. Log in using the account you created.
5. Visit www.NYTimes.com/mobile on your tablet or mobile device to download your free NYT apps. Log in using the account you created.