What’s New at Schaffer Library

Database of the Week: Music Online

Alexander Street’s Music Online is going mobile!

What’s better than hundreds of thousands of audio recordings, videos, scores, and pages of full-text music reference? How about accessing it all on the go?

In 2010 Alexander Street’s entire music portfolio will be accessible on iPhone and iPod Touch mobile devices. Subscribers will be able to stream music and video, access scores, search and navigate full-text reference content, and even access and edit personal playlists.

Alexander Street’s iPhone and iPod Touch application will be completely free. Updating your playlists or listening to an assigned recording will literally be just a touch away. And thanks to newly developed streaming technology, you’ll do it all without buffering.

Look for Alexander Street’s iPhone app in 2010 on our Web site, on this blog, and through the iTunes store.

Music Online brings together on a single cross-searchable platform the entire suite of Alexander Street Press music products that Schaffer Library subscribes to: African American Music Reference; American Song; Classical Music Library; Classical Music Reference Library; Classical Scores Library; Contemporary World Music; Jazz Music Library; Dance in Video; The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online; and Opera in Video

It’s HOMECOMING Weekend - Check out the new library exhibit anytime this weekend - “The College Archives Go Digital” and learn how to search the Library’s Digital Archives at 3pm today in the Library atrium.

Also - there will be a Library Services Overview at the Parents’ Open House, 10:30am on Saturday in the Nott Memorial

Database of the Week: CREDO reference

This growing online library of reference material, currently with nearly 500 print publications on a variety of topics and from a range of 67 publishers, including ABC- CLIO, Cambridge, Greenwood, Macmillan, Routledge, Springer, and SAGE. Seamlessly search in all subjects, including Art, Business, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, History, Literature, Music, Religion, Science, Technology, and Related Resources, including Schaffer Catalog and other subscribed databases, such as JSTOR, and Project Muse.
Article bibliographies link to Schaffer Library catalog

Latest additions include:

• Continuum Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World
• Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World
• Encyclopedia of World Trade From Ancient Times to the Present
• First Ladies of the United States
• Great Irish Lives: An Era in Obituaries
• Great Lives: A Century in Obituaries
• Great Military Lives: Leadership and Courage - From Waterloo to the Falklands in Obituaries
• Great Victorian Lives: An Era in Obituaries
• Key Ideas in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
• Key Thinkers in Linguistics and the Philosophy of Language
• Philosophy of Science A-Z
• The Underground Railroad: An Encyclopedia of People, Places, and Operations

Featured Title of the Month

Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition in the Transatlantic World
from M.E. Sharpe

This unique A-Z encyclopedia examines every effort to end slavery in the United States and the transatlantic world. It focuses on massive, broad-based movements, as well as specific incidents, events, and developments, and pulls together in one place information previously available only in a wide variety of sources. While it centers on the United States, the set also includes authoritative accounts of emancipation and abolition in Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and Latin America.

The Encyclopedia of Emancipation and Abolition features primary source documents, a map of the transatlantic slave trade, illustrations, cross-references, a comprehensive chronology and bibliography, and covers a wide range of individuals and the major themes and ideas that motivated them to confront and abolish slavery.

Read a few of the interesting entries:
• Palmerston Act (1839): measure enacted by the British Parliament to suppress the international slave trade
• “Forty Acres and a Mule”
• Sojourner Truth (ca. 1797-1883): former slave and inspirational leader of the abolitionist movement
• Abolition in the British West Indies
• Quakers (Society of Friends)

Database of the Week: Digital National Security Archive
Created in collaboration with the National Security Archive, this database is the most comprehensive collection available of significant primary documents central to U.S. foreign and military policy since 1945.
The resource now includes 31 collections consisting of over 80,000 indexed documents, with more than 500,000 total pages. Each of these collections, compiled by top scholars and experts, exhaustively covers the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century.

Collections include:

• Afghanistan: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1973-1990
• The Berlin Crisis, 1958-1962
• China and the United States: From Hostility to Engagement, 1960-1998
• The Cuban Missile Crisis, 1962
• Iran: The Making of U.S. Policy, 1977-1980, and more.

New Collections include:
Peru: Human Rights, Drugs and Democracy, 1980-2000

Also available: CIA Family Jewels Indexed - a freely accessible, searchable subject index created by the National Security Archive and available on the DNSA site. This index and its 67 full-text documents are not integrated into DNSA, but may be searched and browsed.

Free Access until November 15th!

American History in Video provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and their presentation over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release now provides 1526 titles, with new videos from California Newsreel and PBS, equaling approximately 528 hours.

Browse by All Videos, Newsreel, Historical Eras, Years Discussed, Historical Events, People, Places, Topics, All Subjects, and Clips.

  Do you enjoy reading The New Yorker fiction issue? Now you can subscribe to their free podcast series, a monthly reading and conversation with fiction editor Deborah Treisman available at iTunes.

Each month they invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine’s archives to read and discuss.
Authors include Jhumpa Lahiri, Louise Erdrich, Tobias Wolff, and Antonya Nelson.

This month listen to the Books and Blades episode where Orhan Pamuk reads and discusses Vladimir Nabokov’s “My Russian Education.”   Episodes date back to 2007.

Download iTunes here if you don’t have it already.

Writing a senior thesis or senior project? Come learn about RefWorks, a web-based tool for managing resources and more. Thursday, October 1st- 12:50-1:50; and 7pm-8pm. Schaffer Library, 2nd floor, Instruction Room. RSVP to 388-6624 or goldermg@union.edu. (Required)

Bring a laptop if you have one.

The Library will be having more sessions in the next few weeks if you are interested.

• Dictionary of Policing, Willan Publishing in Social Sciences
• Dictionary of Prisons and Punishment, Willan Publishing in Social Sciences
• Dictionary of Probation and Offender Management, Willan Publishing in Social Sciences
• Dictionary of Youth Justice, Willan Publishing in Social Sciences
• Encyclopedia of Intelligence & Counterintelligence, M.E. Sharpe in Social Sciences
• A Glossary of Political Theory, Edinburgh University Press in Social Sciences
• A Glossary of UK Government and Politics, Edinburgh University Press in Social Sciences
• Key Concepts in Journalism Studies, Sage in Social Sciences
• Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought in Social Sciences
• Political Philosophy A-Z, Edinburgh University Press in Philosophy
• World Politics Since 1945, Pearson in History

Writing a senior thesis? Come learn about RefWorks, a web-based tool for managing resources and more.  Thursday, September 24th - 12:50-1:50; and 7pm-8pm. Schaffer Library, 2nd floor, Instruction Room. RSVP to 3888-6624 or goldermg@union.edu.

The Library will be having more sessions in the next few weeks if you are interested.

Now available:
Images from Gazette du Bon Ton (Minneapolis College of Art and Design).
The Minneapolis College of Art and Design has contributed images of early 20th-century French fashion plates from La Gazette du Bon Ton to the ARTstor Digital Library.

Wilfried Wang: Modern Architecture (University of Texas at Austin) collection now available in ARTstor.
ARTstor has collaborated with the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin to make available 458 images of modern European and American architecture in the Digital Library.