Rorschach test controversy

There's been a bit of a flap recently over the "leaking" of the "answers" to the famous Rorschach ink blot psychological test in a Wikipedia article. If you'd like to know more about this test, try our PsychArticles database.

Breaking glass...

Please don't be alarmed by the sounds of breaking glass - it's the construction workers as they work on the window replacement project! The current windows were 20 plus years old, and this should add to the energy efficiency of our library.

(If you wondered if this was really a photo of construction here, you were right to be curious! This is a 1964 photo of construction work at Lincoln Center, obtained from our AP Multimedia Archive.)

New APA & MLA style guides

Two of the most widely used and assigned style guides for writing up your research are coming out with new editions this summer. One is the 6th edition of the APA Manual, and the other is the 7th edition of the MLA Handbook. We are ordering copies for our reference collection, and the Diana Hacker sections on APA & MLA in our Citation and Bibliography Help page will be getting updated by the publisher.

WoW!

World of Warcraft that is ;-) For those not familiar with it, World of Warcraft is a highly popular (5 million subscribers) online game, grounded in the earlier fantasy game of Dungeons and Dragons. Being such a massive online phenomenon, it naturally has attracted much attention, including that of the scholars who both played the game and then wrote about it in Digital culture, play, and identity : a World of Warcraft reader , a book the library recently acquired.

Father of the thesaurus?

Peter Mark Roget, pictured here, was a 19th century physician, and also the creator of the famous Roget's Thesaurus, which has been in print ever since its first publication in 1852. While there had been other thesaruses before his, Rogets was the first with widespread and lasting appeal. (Many copies of the current edition of Rogets are to be found in Drake Library.)
There's a well done article on him in the Times of London. Soon to come from Oxford University Press is the Historical Dictionary of the Oxford English Dictionary. There is an article in today's Times on it, and we will be ordering it here at Drake.

"When in the course of human events..."

Take a moment this Fourth of July weekend to read the document that launched this holiday.
We have many books, videos, articles and other resources to learn more about the Declaration of Independance, the Founders, and the Revolution. Ask us for help if you need, and have a pleasant and relaxing holiday!

Having more than one...

Databases that is, not chips, lol, like the old 1967 Lays Potato Chip ad shown here. Now when you enter a search in that "SearchMe" article search box on our main web page, you are searching three databases at once, a collection of thousands of journals, magazines and newspapers, going back decades, even a century or so in some cases.