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:
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:
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.