Environmentalism has often focused on the bad things we do: fossil fuel burning, biodiversity loss, pollution—essentially, our whole unsustainable way of living on earth. And indeed our way of life may need to change, as recent crises ranging from climate to credit have suggested. But change is not just about doing less bad: we also need to reconstruct a larger vision of the good life in the midst of these crises to guide our hopes and our hard work. Environmental Affairs Symposium 2009 will recruit religious leaders, political commentators, economists, artists, and others working alongside environmentalists and environmental scholars in reimagining the good life and what it means for the crises we face today. The Environmental Studies department and Watzek Library invite you to read up on some of the issues that will be presented at the 12th Annual Symposium on Environmental Affairs: Reimagining the Good Life, October 27-29, 2009.

What in the world is WorldCat? The Library search box has changed! Check out our tutorials on this powerful new search tool. With L&C WorldCat, you can now search L&C, Summit and Worldcat and thousands of journal articles simultaneously. L&C WorldCat also offers a more Google-esque search experience- a single search box, relevancy ranking of search results, results sets that bring multiple versions of a work together under one record, faceted browse capability, citation formating options, cover art, reviews, ratings and lists, and additional evaluative content. Let us know what you think!

With L&C WorldCat, you can now search L&C, Summit and Worldcat and thousands of journal articles simultaneously. L&C WorldCat also offers a more Google-esque search experience- a single search box, relevancy ranking of search results, results sets that bring multiple versions of a work together under one record, faceted browse capability, citation formating options, cover art, reviews, ratings and lists, and additional evaluative content.  Let us know what you think!

Watzek Library has purchased the Gerritsen Collection Online. This resource provides full-text access to the 4700 books, pamphlets and periodicals on women's history spanning four centuries and 15 languages. The collection reflects the revolution of feminist consciousness and the movement for women's rights. At left: Vida Milholland of New York City was arrested at the White House in Washington, D.C., July 4, 1917, while picketing for women's right to vote; she served three days in District Jail.

Watzek Library now has access to the Film Literature Index, the first periodical index devoted to the literature of film, designed for the scholar, the student, and the general reader. It annually indexes 150 film and television periodicals from 30 countries cover-to-cover and 200 other periodicals selectively for articles on film and television. The Film Literature Index is known for its comprehensive indexing system that includes more than 2,000 subject headings for detailed analysis of articles and reviews.

You can watch some of the latest additions to the Library's video collection without coming to the library, or checking them out. Watzek Library has subscribed to 19 videos from FMG on Demand. These are educational titles such as: "You only live twice; virtual reality meets real world in Second Life", "Freakonomics with Levitt and Dubner", and "Battle of the Brains; the case for multiple intelligences". (Note that viewing a video in the full screen mode doesn't work on Macs - yet).

The Library of Congress has joined forces with Flickr, the popular photo hosting site, to share its remarkable collection of early 20th century photographs. The LOC hopes users from around the world will enrich the image descriptions by contributing tags and comments. Check out the images here, or as a slideshow.

The latest issue of The Chronicle of Higher Education is available online to the L&C community at chronicle.com, as well as back issues to 1995. For off campus access, follow the "single journals" link to The Chronicle from the library's journal title search.

Watzek Library has a public scanner in the main floor copier room, which you can use to scan documents. It is conveniently located near the periodicals area of the library. Once a document is scanned, you can email it to yourself, upload it to webdisk, save it to a key drive, or print to a library printer. Next time you want to copy a document, try the scanner instead of a photocopy machine.

Watzek Library's Digital Services group has been busy this summer applying the concept of a mashup to the L&C library catalog and Summit. According to Wikipedia, a mashup is a "web application that combines data from more than one source to make an integrated experience." If you access the catalog or Summit from the library homepage and you're using Firefox or Internet Explorer (sorry, not available for Safari, yet), you'll notice some added widgets when viewing the full record for books or AV materials. Notably, we are now offering:

• a clickable cover art image, courtesy of Amazon
• a link or search box to Google Book Search
• direct RefWorks linking
• links to a book review search in Academic Search Premier

We hope these new features add to your research experience. Note, however, that the system is in a beta state. Please send suggestions or report bugs to refdesk@lclark.edu. If this piques your interest in mashups, there are many other great examples of them on the web, among them Walk Score and HousingMaps. If you don't find a mashup that does what you want, you can always make your own.