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For those who remember, and might miss, the shelves of popular magazines sold by the checkout counter at the grocery store, or rows upon rows at brick-and-mortar bookstores like Barnes and Noble, we can see many of them again through our popular magazine databases.

The magazines are all digitized and searchable, with downloadable PDFs that, while not the glossy paper of the printed originals, bring out the vibrant colors, images, and advertisements of a physical magazine.

Some of our magazine databases include:

• EBSCO Magazine Archives with access to titles including Time, Sports Illustrated, Fortune, The Atlantic. Coverage for these titles usually begin at the first issue published.
• Women’s Magazine Archive with access to titles like Cosmopolitan, Essence, Good Housekeeping, Woman’s Day and more. Coverage ranges from the late-19th century through to the early 21st century.
• Vogue Magazine Archive with the full issues of the American version of Vogue from 1892 to the present.
• Jet Magazine Archive with issues from 1951 to 2014.
• Rolling Stone Archive with issues from 1967 to the present.

All of our magazine databases are listed on our Library Databases A-Z list.

Check out the list to start your research into social, cultural, economic and literary history as told through these popular magazines!

Our research & instruction librarians are flying the coop and setting up temporary roosts around campus to bring research support right to you!

Our Bantam Research Roost program, which debuted during the spring 2024 semester and has returned this fall, is a traveling librarian initiative designed to increase the library’s visibility and accessibility on campus, fostering a more inclusive environment and supporting student academic success. Whether you’re a student working on an assignment or a faculty member seeking new resources, the Bantam Research Roost brings the library’s expertise directly to you, making it easier than ever to tap into our wealth of resources and expertise, wherever you are on campus.

Once a week, throughout the semester, our research librarians and peer research assistants will visit a different campus location between 11:00 a.m. and 2:00 p.m.  Stop by our table to get answers to research questions and learn about exciting resources, services, and events in the library.

Our friendly librarians can help you at any stage in your research, whether that’s brainstorming or focusing research topics or questions, finding relevant sources, evaluating sources, or citing and managing your sources.  Faculty are also invited to begin a conversation about how we can support your courses through instruction sessions or assist with your own research needs.

As an added incentive the first student to speak with us each week will receive a $5 Peter B’s gift card (while supplies last)!  We will have additional goodies including stickers and (usually) candy for everyone to enjoy when you visit our roost.

The Research Roost schedule can be found on the Campus Calendar and our location will be posted as a story on our Instagram account (@trincoll_library) each week.

Lastly, remember our friendly and knowledgeable librarians and peer research assistants are available to help you with your research beyond the roost.  You can make an appointment to meet with us at a time that is convenient for you or send us an email.  We are always happy to chat and help you find the answers you need.

Research & Instruction Librarians, Rosie (left) and Susan (right) sit at the Bantam Research Roost table in Mather during its launch in the spring 2024 semester.

Peer Research Assistant, Alex Golz sits at the Bantam Research Roost table on the Long Walk during the second roost of the fall 2024 semester.

Formerly Visual Resources until 2022, the Digital Asset Management team is comprised of Amanda Matava, Digital Archivist/Department Head, who joined Trinity in 2017, and Benny Bauer, the Digital Media Librarian, who joined Trinity in 2022.

JSTOR

Trinity’s institutional landing page in JSTOR (launched 2020).

Over the past year, Amanda and Benny have been adding to and restructuring our content in JSTOR, which serves as an institutional repository, image library, and digital archive. As the admin for JSTOR, Amanda also works behind the scenes with developers to improve usability and pilot initiatives. Please reach out to Amanda with any questions about JSTOR!

Among its highlights are the Art Collection, curated by Art Collection Manager Barbara Sternal; the Trinity Archival Image and Video Collection, which now contains over 2,300 items; and the Lloyd Best Institute of the Caribbean Archive, which contains digitized photographs, newspapers, and cultural heritage materials from the Lloyd Best Institute of the Caribbean in Trinidad and Tobago, a collection Trinity is assisting to digitize and process with the support of a Modern Endangered Archives Program grant.

For faculty and students seeking images for courses or research, visit the institutional teaching collection or browse JSTOR Images, which now includes the Artstor Digital Library.

Finally, visit the JSTOR workspace to save, describe, and organize materials for your research or courses. Collect images and text materials into folders, which can be exported as a .zip file or power point presentation.

Web Archives

Amanda has been developing Trinity College’s web archive in Archive-It, a product of the Internet Archive, since 2022 in order to capture Trinity’s web presence with a primary focus on blogs, online-only publications, and scholarship. If you don’t see something, it may already be found in the Wayback Machine (such as the library’s website, which has been captured many times since the 1990s).

For those looking to archive their own web pages or projects, Conifer is free and easy to use!

Collaboration

This summer, students participated in hands-on digitization and learned about cataloging cultural heritage materials as part the second iteration of RELG-321, taught by Professor Susanne Kerekes. Under the guidance of Amanda Matava, students utilized the department’s overhead camera to photograph their amulets and then uploaded them to the JSTOR Forum cataloging platform, where they learned how to enter metadata for their objects. Amanda also assisted Public Humanities Collaborative students this summer in photographing cultural heritage materials from China and Puerto Rico which included textiles and pottery/stoneware. The students used the department’s overhead camera in order to capture high-resolution overall views of the materials.

Students research and practice cataloging in JSTOR Forum

Students photograph amulets. One student (left) assisted with positioning the object and raising/lowering the camera while a second (right) operated the camera shutter.

Professional Development

Amanda and Benny have been working on various professional development opportunities. Benny recently attended the IDEAL Conference in Toronto and NEA (New England Archivists), of which they are actively engaged in interest circles and the organization’s newsletter. Benny is also active in organizing library food drives throughout the academic year.

This past year, Amanda has spoken at several conferences with Christina Bleyer including the Visual Resource Association (Fall 2023) and Boston Library Consortium (Spring 2024) on The Watkinson’s post-custodial archiving project with the Lloyd Best Institute of the Caribbean. Amanda and Christina also spoke in Trinidad and Tobago at the opening of the digital archive.  Our article for the VRA Bulletin on the project describes our work in greater depth and detail. Amanda also began pursuing the Digital Archives Specialist Certification (DAS) from the Society of American Archivists and has completed about half the requirements.