{"id":3518,"date":"2016-04-17T14:49:01","date_gmt":"2016-04-17T18:49:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/volumesandissues\/?p=3518"},"modified":"2019-09-27T11:51:08","modified_gmt":"2019-09-27T15:51:08","slug":"magazines-of-the-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.fitnyc.edu\/volumesandissues\/2016\/04\/17\/magazines-of-the-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Magazines of the Week"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi, welcome back!<\/p>\n

We’re going to do something a bit different for today. For today we picked the subject of hoverboards. We’re going to show you a few different places to get information about them.<\/p>\n

But first, this fun image from Mad Magazine:<\/p>\n

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(Yes, we know we used MAD<\/em> as the MoW a few months ago, but their covers are so great! You’ll probably see more of them for this reason. And the New Yorker<\/em> covers, too!)(Here’s the link to that post<\/a>, which includes a history of MAD<\/em> magazine.)<\/p>\n

Being a quirky humor magazine, their take on the hoverboard craze has a tongue-in-cheek list piece and a zany illustrated piece:<\/p>\n

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So how did hoverboards get to market?<\/p>\n

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This is from the “What’s New” section of the February issue of ToyBook<\/em>, a trade magazine for the toy industry. Obviously the toy industry is eager to sell these things, so they aren’t the best source for unbiased reporting.<\/p>\n

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ToyBook<\/em> is one of the active titles we maintain for our Toy Design major<\/a>. It focuses on costumes, games, dolls and figures, and stuffed toys. It also features many products with licensing tie-in to larger franchises, i.e. Star Wars, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Disney films.<\/p>\n

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So how, with FIT library databases<\/a>, would we find out more about hoverboards and their safety issues? A good basic database is Business Source Complete from Ebscohost<\/a>. Login using your FIT username and password, and then you can search for your topic.<\/p>\n

A quick search for “hoverboards” gave me 98 articles, many from Fortune<\/em>, Time<\/em>.\u00a0 Further into the listing, titles as diverse as Electronic Design<\/em> and Modern Healthcare<\/em>. You can’t get to these without that FIT username and password, but those who can log in can easily read lots on the subject.<\/p>\n

Come take a look!<\/p>\n

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