Taste of Twitter (Notes from Class)

Taste of Twitter

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Twitter Support

• Tweetie for Mac also available for PC, iPhone, and more
• TweetDeck
• Hootsuite for updating multiple accounts now or in the future
• TinyURL for shortening URLs (from http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/ tohttp://tinyurl.com/mjfopd)
• bit.ly "a simple URL shortener" (from http://parklibrary.jomc.unc.edu/tohttp://bit.ly/WoE39)

Using Twitter

• Twitter in Plain English Short explanatory webcast.
• Elements Of Twitter Style Explains mentions, re-tweets, replies, and more, from Red Sweater Blog.
• Ray's 2.0: Advice: don't use Twitter's so called "retweet"!
• Twitter is the New CNN by Lance Ulanoff at PCMag.com
• Twitter & the Library of Congress blog post by my alter ego, CogSciLibrarian.

Please follow @JoMCParkLib on Twitter if you're not already!

Books in Print Online!

Books in Print contains records for millions of in-print, out-of-print and forthcoming book, e-book, audio, and video titles. Reviews from well-known resources are included when available. You can search for bestsellers and award-winning books.

Remember that you can check out thousands of these titles via the UNC Libraries!

Market Research Resource

Business Insights Interactive provides strategic management reports of various industries. Each report is based upon unique market research and provides detailed analyses of major markets. Industries include consumer goods, energy, financial services, healthcare, and technology. Current reports include The Future of Digital Home Entertainment and The Lifestyle Disorders Market Outlook to 2014.

ProQuest Digital Microfilm

The UNC Libraries recently licensed online access to ProQuest Digital Microfilm. This is a digitized version of microfilm -- it looks just like microfilm but is available online.

Newspapers include:



• News and Observer
• Chicago Tribune

• Los Angeles Times

• New York Times

• San Francisco Chronicle

• Wall Street Journal

• Washington Post

Coverage is 2008-present, with a 2-3 month embargo. Currently, there is no 2010 content.

Like everything, this database has some pros & cons:

• Cons: There is no search function; like microfilm, you must select a newspaper (click on select at the top left of the page), then choose a year, month, day, and date.
• Pros: The image quality is pretty good and downloads as a pdf. Additionally, you can access the content from anywhere, unlike microfilm, which requires a dedicated reader.

I'm very curious to know your reaction. If you use this resource, please contact me with your feedback.

American Broadsides and Ephemera: *awesome*

American Broadsides and Ephemera

Includes 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900; also 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection of American broadsides and ephemera. Facsimile images are full-color and fully searchable. Browse by genre, subject, author, place of publication, or language.

Subjects include contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual occurrences and natural disasters to official government proclamations, tax bills and town meeting reports.

American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900 also offers autobiographies and dying confessions of convicted criminals, theater playbills, sheet almanacs, publishers' prospectuses, advertisements, newspaper carriers' addresses, patriotic and popular songs and poems and items illustrating political party organizations and controversies.

More Online News Archives @ UNC Libraries

Great new online news archives / compilations, made available through the UNC Libraries. You may have seen some of these before, but there is new content:

Archive of Americana
Primary source materials for in-depth study of the history of the United States. Component parts include:

• America's Historical Newspapers, about 2000 titles from 1690 to 1920s
• Early American Imprints Series I and II, over 70,000 printed works from 1639 to the 1820s
• American Broadsides and Ephemera, over 30,000 documents from 1639 to 1900.

World Newspaper Archive

More digitized newspapers from around the world from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Components include:

• African Newspapers, more than 40 papers published from around 1800 to the 1920s
• Latin American Newspapers, more than 35 papers published from around 1805 to the 1920s

Titles with coverage dates

Chinese Research Resource Online via UNC Libraries

Duxiu Knowledge Search

2 million full-text scholarly resources and books in all subjects. Formats include books, journal articles, conference papers and video clips. The full-text isn't available online, but you should receive contents by email within 2 hours. Search & articles are in Chinese. 1930s-present.

The Princeton University East Asian Library newsletter describes Duxiu as "... an enormous combined Google Scholar and Google Books for Chinese material. But Duxiu has its own characteristics; there is no real English equivalent. Duxiu is a huge content-based database composed of 600,000,000 full text pages, with very flexible searches (full-text, books, articles, theses, web pages, newspapers). Some text you can read immediately, other texts you can send to yourself by email." (I'd confirm that myself, but my Chinese reading is so rusty as to be non-existent)

What Can You Ask a Librarian?

A recent Library Hacks blog post at Duke's Perkins Library, Ever wonder what you can ask a reference librarian? prompted me to publicize some of the questions we've been asked at the Park Library. They include (along with answers, where feasible):

Basic Questions, students asked for ...

• Communication Yearbook by call number. (check the catalog)
• Dissertations by former JoMC students (online! from 1997-present in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses full-text *)
• Related: looking for a MA thesis by a former JoMC student (list is online)
• How to request books from another library (Carolina BLU rocks!).
• Printing, printing, printing! Lots of questions about printing. We currently don't have the "free" ITS printers anywhere in Carroll Hall, and we answer lots of questions about that.

More Complex Questions, where folks asked for ...

• Alcohol advertisements from the late 1960s to present (Duke's Ad*Access is a great start, as are some of the other resources on this page)
• Editorial cartoons (this research page can help)
• An article from the Los Angeles Times from 1984 (we have the LA Times from 1881-1986*& the most recent 6 months in LexisNexis *)
• Tough one: readership of southern, American newspapers in the mid-1800s. We found some material in books and other old-fashioned sources.
• Industry surveys of the motorcycle industry (I love these market research resources!)
• Articles from North Carolina newspapers about an event that took place in southeastern NC in the mid-80s to mid-90s. The papers the patron needed weren't on microfilm ... helped her find the appropriate microfilm source and identify specific dates via the Charlotte Observer (available from 1985-present in America's Newspapers *)

Many of these links will work regardless of your institutional affiliation. The links followed by an * are available to the UNC community only.

The Park Library staff and I are happy to answer questions about doing research in journalism & mass communication. You can reach me by email (swbrown @ unc . edu), by phone at 919.843.8300, IM to JoMCParkLib, and now you can even text Qs to us at 919-200-0713.

Ask us anything!

Africa newspaper archives

World Newspaper Archive: Africa

Full-text of over 40 newspapers published in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Languages include English, German, French, Portuguese, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Sotho, and others.

Dates covered: 1800 - 1922

African Americans & Mass Media

I've put together a display of books & resources about African Americans and mass media in honor of Black History Month.

It's in one of the display cases facing the elevator, so if you're up in the library's neighborhood, please stop by & take a look. The bibliography is available online (pdf) and in the library.

Historical Resources @ UNC Libraries

And there are still more great historical resources that are new in the UNC Libraries!

Opinion Archives includes full-text from many sources. The search engine could use some work, but the full-text content is pretty amazing.

• Harper's (from 1850 - present)

• The New Republic (from 1914 - present)

• The New Yorker (1925 - present)
• NACLA's (North American Congress on Latin America) Report on the Americas (from 1966 - present)

• Commentary (from 1945 - present)
• The American Spectator (from 1967 - present)
• Dissent (1954 - present)
• National Review (from 1955 - present)
• Commonweal (from 1924 - present)
• The Nation (from 1865 - present)

• New York Review of Books (from 1963 - present)

Business Periodicals Index Retrospective, 1913-1982 Covers advertising, communications, computers, marketing, mass media, publishing, and many industries such as banking, cosmetics, health care, real estate, transportation, and more.

More New @ UNC Libraries

***** FBIS (Foreign Broadcast Information Service) Daily Reports 1974 - 1996 ******

These reports are translations into English of international radio and television broadcasts, news agency transmissions, and magazines and newspapers. The work of collecting and translating reports is done by the offices of the United States Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS).

Reports cover military affairs, politics, the environment, societal issues, economics, and science and technology. More than 50 languages, from Arabic to Swahili, have been translated into English.

FBIS is organized into 8 parts:

• Middle East and [North] Africa (MEA), 1974-1987; Near East and South Asia (NES), 1987-1996
• South Asia (SAS), 1980-1987; Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), 1974-1980 and (AFR), 1987-1996
• China (CHI), 1974-1996
• Asia and the Pacific (APA), 1974-1987; East Asia (EAS), 1987-1996
• Latin America (LAT and LAM), 1974-1996
• Eastern Europe (EEU), 1974-1996
• Soviet Union/Central Eurasia (SOV), 1974-1996
• Western Europe (WEU), 1974-1996

****** Global Development Finance ******

External debt and financial flow data for the 135 countries that report public and publicly-guaranteed debt to the World Bank's Debtor Reporting System. The time series for 216 indicators run from 1970 to 2006, with contractual obligations data projected for another 10 years. GDF Online also includes topical country data and regional aggregates showing time series in table and chart form. The topics are: external debt, aggregate net resource flows (long term), net flows and transfers on debt, net financial flows from multilateral institutions, and international bond issues (new and outstanding).

***** North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories *****

Over 100,000 pages of personal narratives, including letters, diaries, pamphlets, autobiographies, and oral histories from immigrants to America and Canada. Several thousand pages of Ellis Island Oral History interviews are included as are thousands of political cartoons.

The materials begin around 1840 and extend to the present, focusing heavily on the period from 1890 to 1920. People from many countries are represented, including more recent waves of immigrants from Latin America and Asia. Some audio files are included, as are facsimile images showing pages of the immigrants' scrapbooks.

New in the UNC Libraries

UNC Libraries has just acquired four cool resources:

***** Times Literary Supplement Historical Archive ******* 1902-2005

Includes every page of every issue of the TLS from 1902 to 2005, over 300,000 reviews, letters, poems and articles.

***** Periodicals Archive Online ******* 1802 to 2000
Retrospective journal access to 654 journals in the humanities & social
sciences. Journal titles sorted by subject:

• Black Studies: 8 journals
• Business / Management: 19 journals
• Economics: 30 journals
• Law: 11 journals
• Political science: 65 journals
• Psychology: 31 journals
• Public Administration: 10 journals

***** British Periodicals *******
Searchable full text and page images of 500 periodicals published between 1681 and 1921. Collection I corresponds to the microfilm collection, Early British Periodicals. Collection II comprises the microfilm editions of English Literary Periodicals.

***** KLD Stats *******
Corporate social responsibility ratings over the past 17 years for 3000 of the largest U.S. publicly traded companies by market capitalization. Statistical data includes 90+ social and environmental indicators. Note: KLD Stats is available through WRDS & is only on computers in Davis Library.