Question of the Week-June 26, 2009

When were the Trinidad Mine Strikes, and who was the Governor of Colorado during the strikes?

E-Books

Netlibrary is a collection of electronic books, or "eBooks", which you can read online. The books are full text, and you can search the text for words or phrases related to your topic. The NetLibrary collection includes over 13,000 copyrighted books selected specifically for Colorado community college libraries. Subject areas in the current NetLibrarycollection include: Psychology, Sociology, Literature, Jobs & Careers, Business & Economics, Computer Science, Education, History, Latin American Studies, Political Science, Health & Wellness, and more.

It's easy to use the NetLibrary E-book collection:
From on-campus, go to the CCA Library website: http://www.ccaurora.edu/students/library/
Then, click on the link for Ebooks
Finally, type keywords related to the kind of books you want to find in the search box.

From off-campus, go to www.ccaurora.edu/ccapwd
Put in the username of ccapwd, and the password of Peacock1
Then, click on the Netlibrary link toward the bottom of the page
Finally, type keywords related to the kind of books you want to find in the search box.

Website of the Week-Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection

Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection is a searchable online database that includes Colorado's earliest historic newspapers. Early years of over 60 newspapers, including the Rocky Mountain News, Boulder Camera, Colorado Chieftain are now available online. The digital collection now contains over 250,000 pages covering 1859 - 1924, and represents 56 Colorado cities and 38 counties.

Researchers can leaf through an issue page by page search the database by topic look at an individual article by itself or as part of the full page search through articles, graphics, letters to the editor and ads search a single newspaper, a group of papers or all papers. The project is a collaboration of the Colorado Digitization Program, the Colorado State Library and the Colorado Historical Society. The project is partially funded by LSTA and IMLS grants.

If you're doing research on Colorado History, there's no better source than Colorado's Historic Newspaper Collection.

Check it out by clicking here: http://www.coloradohistoricnewspapers.org/Default/welcome.asp?skin=Colorado&QS=Skin=Colorado&e

Question of the Week-Friday, June 19th, 2009

What was the name of the controversial representations of traditional American Indian culture produced in a limited edition from 1907-1930 that continues to exert a major influence on the image of Indians in popular culture that you can find in the American Memory project?

Website of the Week-The Library of Congress American Memory Project

American Memory provides free and open access through the Internet to written and spoken words, sound recordings, still and moving images, prints, maps, and sheet music that document the American experience. It is a digital record of American history and creativity. These materials, from the collections of the Library of Congress and other institutions, chronicle historical events, people, places, and ideas that continue to shape America, serving the public as a resource for education and lifelong learning.

This is a great resource for finding primary sources (sources that document events that happened as they occurred) such as diaries, letters, and journals of historical figures, famous and ordinary.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/index.html