Announcement: Web Training for Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)

Event: Free web training event for users of  ECCO (Eighteenth Century Collections Online)

When: January 24, 2008 at 1:00 PM

Hosted by: Gale

For: CUNY Graduate Center students and faculty

“Gale is committed to providing our customers with the training necessary to make your product experience successful. Our free Web conferences let you receive valuable product training from the convenience of your desktop. This Web-based training event will provide participants with an in-depth overview of the Eighteenth Century Collections Online database. “ “Upon completion of this course, participants will:– Maximize the different search strategies such as browse author, browse works and advanced search– Distinguish the different content within the tabular results and limits available

– Utilize different article features such as print, mark list, etc.

To learn this and more, all you need to do is register. Your confirmation information will be e-mailed to you at the time of registration. At the time of the event, click the event link and dial in to the phone number that is supplied at the time or your registration. It’s that easy!”

To register, or for more information, simply click the link below:

January 24, 2008 1:00 p.m. – 12:00 p.m. Eastern Time http://www.uptilt.com/ct.html?rtr=on&s=4rs,x0od,2bb2,flqb,3owu,cy1l,axoq

Eligible registrants will be asked to provide their Gale account number. To obtain this number, or for further information, please contact  contact Caroline Fuchs at 212.817.7085 or email cfuchs@gc.cuny.edu

Mina Rees Library Announcement

It is with pleasure that we announce that the Mina Rees Library at the CUNY Graduate Center now subscribes to the Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO). ECCO will nicely complement the collection of eighteenth-century materials housed in the Reading Room, and will enhance the scholarly pursuit of eighteenth-century studies here at the Graduate Center. Much gratitude and many thanks are extended to President William P. Kelly and Provost Linda N. Edwards for their great effort and support in the library’s acquisition of ECCO. Researchers, scholars and students of the eighteenth century are appreciative.   ECCO offers every page of 150,000 books published during the eighteenth century in English, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Latin, Spanish, and Welsh. In addition to searches by author, title, and publisher, these books may be searched by individual categories such as fine arts, history and geography, law, literature and language, medicine, science, and technology, religion and philosophy, social sciences, general reference, or a combination of two or more subjects. Illustrated works may be searched by cartoon, map, music, portrait, etc. ECCO may also be browsed by author and title. For further information, visit the Mina Rees Library at: http://www.library.gc.cuny.edu/