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Welcome to Dooley Noted, the monthly newsletter for the Oxford College Library! This newsletter provides faculty and staff with information about new resources, library events, staff profiles, and other featured items.
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Preparing for Spring 2021 with the Library
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Since the start of the semester will arrive before we know it, the Oxford College Library wanted to share some resources, tips, and suggestions for ways we can support your spring semester courses.
Our latest blog post features information about the use of Open Educational
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Resources (OER), information about Emory's eBook collections, streaming video content, getting instructional support from the Library and CFDE, and additional resources.
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Oxford's Personal Librarians
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As you prepare for the start of spring semester, know that your personal librarians are here and ready to help! From helping you locate and select materials for your courses to developing custom-tailored research modules and information literacy instruction, your personal librarian is your point of contact for research support for you and your students.
Some of the things your Personal Librarian can help you with include:
- Coordinate with the Course Reserves team to ensure the items your students need are on physical or electronic reserves at the library.
- Sharing resources and strategies for plagiarism detection and prevention.
- Creating research guides for your courses that can be linked in Canvas and/or creating Canvas research modules.
- Providing one-on-one research assistance for your students.
- Integrating information literacy instruction into your classes.
- Assisting you with your personal research.
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NEW Films & Copyright Basics Guide
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Whether you are planning an in-class or other on-campus screening, or looking to assign a film to your students, the Library can help guide you through the basics of copyright compliance. A new Films & Copyright Basics Guide is now available, with answers to commonly asked questions including “How do I show a film on campus in a non-classroom setting?” and “How do I find streaming films available at Emory?”
Have more questions about films and their copyright restrictions? Contact the Course Reserves Team at oxreserves@listserv.cc.emory.edu. Other questions? Please contact your personal librarian for assistance.
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Video: Copyright & Fair Use for Online Teaching
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The brief video below provides Emory University faculty with best practices and recommended tips for sharing online resources with students both effectively and ethically.
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Open Educational Resources (OER)
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Recently, the Emory Libraries hosted a virtual workshop titled Solutions to the Challenge of Access to Course Materials in Online Instruction. To view the slide presentation from this workshop, please click the button below.
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Get Help with Open Educational Resources (OERs):
Are you considering using OER in one or more of your courses, but you aren't sure how to get started? Whether you are teaching in-person or online, using OER is a great way to provide accessible teaching resources for your students. Examples of OER include: textbooks, syllabi, learning activities, assignments, and other types of teaching resources.
The Emory Libraries' Scholarly Communications Office website has the following helpful guides on using OER in the classroom:
Contact your personal librarian to learn more about OER or to get help with identifying potential OER you could use in your courses.
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Listed below are the streaming services available to Oxford faculty, staff, and students. Please contact the Oxford Library staff if you have any questions or if you need any help accessing films.
- Kanopy Streaming: Thousands of streaming videos on all subjects from a wide range of suppliers
- Academic Video Online: Alexander Street Press documentaries, ethnographies, etc.
- Ambrose Video: Shakespeare BBC
- Digitalia Film Library: Digitalia Film Library is a multilingual, multi-national collection of films from Spain, France, other European and eastern European countries, North American Classic films, and Latin American films from many Latin American countries including Mexico, Argentina, and Brazil (Portuguese)
- Docuseek2: Documentary and social issues films from a variety of notable distributors
- Film Platform: National and international documentaries from a variety of distributors
- Met Opera on Demand
- Naxos Video Library: Opera, classical music, ballet, concerts, and more
- SWANK Digital Campus: Swank is used for course reserves. Swank films do not have public performance rights. Email the Oxford reserves team for help at OXRESERVES@LISTSERV.CC.EMORY.EDU.
Individual streaming films may also be found in discoverE if searched by title.
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Featured Database: PolicyMap
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PolicyMap is an online data and mapping application that gives users access to over 15,000 indicators related to demographics, housing, crime, mortgages, health, jobs and more. Data is available at all common geographies (address, block group, census tract, zip code, county, city, state, MSA) as well as unique geographies like school districts and political boundaries. Data comes from both public and proprietary sources. Many of the public files are available for download. PolicyMap recently released PolicyMap COVID-19 Quick Maps, a publicly available application focused on answering crucial questions faced by communities dealing with the COVID-19 virus.
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Featured Database: Qwest TV
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These are the new and trial databases Emory has acquired in the past month.
- MGG Online: MMG is a comprehensive general encyclopedia of music in the German language, offering in-depth articles on every aspect of music as well as many related areas such as literature, philosophy, and visual arts.
- Qwest TV: Streaming platform featuring hundreds of jazz, soul, funk, and world music performances, interviews, and documentaries from leading musicians.
- Trismegistos [Trial]: The collections and archives of this database were built on the Leuven Papyrus Collections and their Papyrus Archives. Trismegistos has all books and literary manuscripts dated before 800 CE, thus including Christian religious texts, in any language, not only Latin and Greek, but also Coptic or Syriac. The scope has expanded to include personal names from the Prosopographia Ptolemaica and places from the geographic database of the Fayum project.
If you have questions about any of these resources or if you have suggestions for new resources we should add, please contact your Personal Librarian.
Visit Emory's A-Z Databases List to see the complete list of New and Trial Databases.
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OverDrive Recommendations
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 The library has thousands of ebooks and audiobooks available on OverDrive, from Just Mercy to John Grisham.
Have a suggestion for the collection? We would love to acquire a title you're interested in! Please fill out our Purchase Request Form. Happy reading!
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Oxford faculty, students and staff may request books, eBooks and films for purchase by filling out our Purchase Request Form.
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