New Enhancements in PolicyMap

See what’s new in PolicyMap, a GIS mapping tool, which is used at SHU in many programs such as Public Health, Political Science and Education for student assignments and useful data for grant applications.  There are fantastic new enhancements to make PolicyMap even more essential in your classroom and for your research including simplified data labels, histograms for ranges, an amazing number of boundaries and custom regions you can create, data benchmarks for context and the ability to add local data to PolicyMap that is important for your research. On  June 1,  the Libraries held a webinar that looked at new data including predominant race, mortgage denials/redlining, Social Vulnerability Index (CDC), andjh Medically Underserved Areas.  The recording of the June 1 webinar is located here.  Additional sessions will be scheduled over the summer.  Stay tuned to SHU Libraries social media.

Information about new features is listed below:

There are additional resources available with sample assignments about using PolicyMap in the classroom here:  https://policymap.helpdocs.io/academic-resources.

Please contact your liaison librarian for more information about PolicyMap.

New Online Exhibits from Walsh Gallery

Walsh Gallery recently added three major collections to Google Arts and Culture, the D’Argenio Coin Exhibit 1 (Early coins), the D’Argenio Coin Exhibit 2 (Roman coins), and an exhibit of Native American BasketryGoogle Arts and Culture is a rapidly growing site that displays highlights from over 2,000 museums and private collections. Its app, which can be downloaded from Google Play or the Apple Store, allows the visitor to interact with the artwork through AI features like virtual tours and exhibits.

The D’Argenio Collection, which consists of 427 rare coins from ancient Greece, the Roman Republic, the Roman Empire and Byzantium was donated to the university by Ronald D’Argenio MS’76/JD’79. The collection allows us to trace the relationship of the earliest Roman coins of the Republican period to its immediate Greek predecessors.  It includes coins with images of Julius Caesar, the first Roman leader to have his portrait represented on a piece of currency.

We also see his imperial successors over the next three centuries represented, including the infamous Caligula and Nero.  Byzantine coins in the collection from the fourth to fourteenth centuries AD demonstrate the changes in design –including the introduction of full-faced portraits– once the capital of the Roman Empire shifted from Rome to Constantinople.  The exhibit can be accessed through Google Arts and Culture Walsh Gallery’s main page and the coins can be found through searches in Google Arts and Culture’s main interface, allowing the coins from Seton Hall’s collection to be seen in the context of numismatics collections around the world.

Google Arts and Culture also displays highlights from Seton Hall’s one-time University Museum of Anthropology and Archaeology Collection, now stewarded by Walsh Gallery.  This museum contained an extensive collection of Native American material culture, collected and sometimes excavated by archaeologist J. Kraft. Kraft was an expert in the Lenape tribe of New Jersey, but his collection encompassed materials from Native American peoples across the Americas.  The basket exhibit shows some of the finest examples of the craft in Seton Hall’s collection.

 

Free Streaming Films Available Through COVID-19

#SHU_Libraries Kanopy, our on-demand streaming video platform, has provided a  collection of films the SHU community can watch free of charge for the next 30 days.

You can find a full list of titles here.

Download the guide to see new films available from March 13 to  April 12, 2020. This list will continue to grow  so be sure to check back.

DOWNLOAD THE FREE FILM GUIDE

Library Services & Support Due to COVID-19

Seton Hall University Libraries has made contingency plans to support remote research and teaching services due to COVID-19.

Updates on Library Remote Services here.

Instruction Services Available Remotely here.


Library Materials Available Remotely
Ebooks
Articles in Databases
Articles via Interlibrary Loan*
Research Guides
Archives & Special Collections Digital Collections
eRepository – SHU Scholarship
*subject to availability of other institutions


Research Services Remotely
Librarians can assist with:


Ways to get help:

THE 14TH ANNUAL JIM AND JUDY O’BRIEN CAPITAL MARKETS COLLOQUIUM

On February 12, 2020, approximately 300 students, faculty and guests attended the 14th Annual Jim and Judy O’Brien Capital Markets Colloquium, which was held at the Walsh Library. The colloquium, co-sponsored by the University Libraries and the Stillman School of Business, was held for the first time at the library, which proved to be an excellent location for the day’s events.

15 concurrent workshops ran from 9:30 a.m.to 6:15 p.m. Some highlights of the day’s events included an opportunity to apprentice with a representative from Napier Park, a credit platform that has 14 billion dollars in assets; a workshop on the growing sector of e-sports; and the dress rehearsal of the 3-time champion CFA Team ((note Seton Hall has won the Chartered Financial Analyst Research Challenge 3 times and placed 11 times).

Jim O’Brien ’82 and Ned May delivered the keynote address.  Jim O’Brien is the Senior Managing Partner of Napier ParkGlobal Capital and the recipient of the 2013 Many Are One Humanitarian Award from Seton Hall.

For more information on this event, please contact Chelsea Barrett, Business Librarian, at 973-275-2035.

 

 

Faith and Art: Evangelization in the 21st Century

Artist David Lopez will present a lecture on “FAITH & ART – Evangelization in the Twenty-First Century,” and bring some of his precious artwork to display.

When: Monday, February 17th at 5:00 p.m.
Where: Walsh Library, Common Area

View a PDF flyer announcement here.

David is an award-winning Spanish painter and multidisciplinary artist who lives and  works in Valencia. A devout Catholic, he received the Pontifical Academy Award in 2012 from Pope Benedict XVI for his contribution to the development of Christian humanism in contemporary society. David is currently developing artistic projects in the United States with the support of the President-Director of the Musee du Louvre, the Director of the National Gallery of London and the Pontifical Council of Culture in the Vatican. Since 1999 he has worked with an international group of artists on aesthetics projects for liturgical spaces around the world.

“People see a  landscape, and it  excites them. They feel an aesthetic pleasure, regardless of whether they understand the mathematics behind that beauty. As artists, somehow, we perceive those laws and transform them into curves, lines, colors…Art is a relationship of forms, textures and colors. At the same time art is an interpersonal relationship—a dialogue ultimately with God.” – David Lopez

For more information, please contact the Program of Catholic Studies at (973) 275-2808 or by email at Gloria.Aroneo@shu.edu.

Should you require additional assistance from Disability Support Services, please call (973) 313-6003 prior to the event.

 

 

 

Commemorating the 30th Anniversary of the Velvet Revolution

#SHU_Libraries and Seton Hall University are organizing a series of events to mark the 30th anniversary of the Velvet Revolution in Czechoslovakia.

Please visit the Velvet Revolution Online Exhibition Space for more information https://library.shu.edu/velvet-rev

~ All events are free and open to the public ~


Thursday, February 13th , 6:30 to 8:30 p.m.

Walsh Library | Ground Floor | Beck Rooms

Thursday, February 27th , 1 to 1:45 p.m.
Corrigan Hall 75

  • Dr. Dena Levine and sophomore Abigail Pierre, in a performance of piano works by Czech composers:

1. Six Piano Pieces, Opus 7, No. 4 (Idyll II) by Josef Suk (1874-1935)
2. From “On an Overgrown Path, Book II”: Andante by Leoš Janáček (1815-1866)
3. Slavonic Dance, Op. 72, No. 8 in A-flat Major for four hands by Antonín Dvořák (1841-1904)

Followed by a wrap-up conversation.
Bring your own lunch. Beverages will be provided.


Thursday, February 27th , 6:30 to 7:30 p.m.
Walsh Library | Ground Floor | Beck Rooms

This series of events has been made possible through the support by the University Libraries, the School of the Communications and the Arts, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department of History, the Russian and East European Studies Program, and the Slavic Club.

Please visit the Velvet Revolution Online Exhibition Space for more information https://library.shu.edu/velvet-rev

Love Data Week Feb. 10-13

Join #SHU_Libraries  for Love Data Week, February 10th-13th at the South Orange and Nutley Campuses.

As part of Love Data Week (#lovedata20), the University Libraries will offer three days of programming at the South Orange and Nutley campuses to highlight the growing importance of data in the research process.

We invite faculty and students to come learn about the Library’s new subscription databases and how to use open-access programs like Twitter Data, R Programming, and data management tools for research. All events are free, but please register using the link for each event, below!


SCHEDULE OF EVENTS

Monday, February 10th
Common Area | Walsh Library | South Orange Campus

11:00 AM         Introduction to Seton Hall’s Institutional Repository [register                             here]
11:30 AM         Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research                               (ICPSR) [register here]
12:00 PM         PolicyMap [register here]
12:30 PM         Predatory Journals [register here]
1:00 PM           Managing Your Online Presence [register here]


Tuesday, February 11th
Common Area | Walsh Library | South Orange Campus

11:00 AM         Library News Subscriptions [register here]
11:30 AM         Tableau [register here]
1:00 PM           Intro to R Programming [register here]
2:00 PM          Data Management [register here]
3:00 PM          Twitter Data Panel [register here]
4:30 PM          Book Discussion: Health Services Research and Analytics                                       Using Excel with Dr. Nalin Johri, PhD, MHA. [register here]


Thursday, February 13th
IHS Campus Nutley

2:00 PM          ICPSR [register here]
2:30 PM          PolicyMap [register here]
3:00 PM          Predatory Journals [register here]
3:30 PM          Book Discussion: Health Services Research and Analytics                                       Using Excel with Dr. Nalin Johri, PhD, MHA [register here]


For more information please contact:
Prof. Lisa DeLuca (973) 761-7959 | lisa.deluca@shu.edu

Highlights from the Valente Library

The Valente Library continues to acquire materials donated by prominent scholars in the field of Italian Studies. Recently cataloged and shelved on the third floor are books from the library of Dr. Patricia Hochschild Labalme, a Renaissance scholar, who taught at Wellesley, Barnard, and Hunter Colleges, and New York University. She also directed the humanities program of the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation. Other parts of her library were donated to the American Academy in Rome and to Kenyon College. Dr. Labalme received a master’s and a doctorate from Harvard. She was the author of Bernardo Giustiniani: A Venetian of the Quattrocento (1969) and numerous articles. To donate to our growing Italian Studies collection, please contact Dr. John Buschman, Dean of University Libraries, John.Buschman@shu.edu