What’s New at Schaffer Library

Credo adds titles including Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia

The experiences of women in the Middle Ages have been receiving growing amounts of attention, and we are only now beginning to appreciate the full extent of their contributions. Women significantly shaped medieval political, economic, and cultural life as rulers, religious leaders, wives, patrons, teachers, healers, merchants, warriors, and agricultural laborers. They also produced enduring works in historiography, literature, music, and the visual arts. Comprehensive in scope, meticulous in scholarship, and accessible in style to general readers and specialists alike, this encyclopedia offers full coverage of the myriad roles, experiences, and contributions of women in the medieval world.

Written by leading scholars in a variety of fields, Women in the Middle Ages offers alphabetically arranged entries that conclude with extensive bibliographies of both primary and secondary sources. Entries cover people and topics ranging from the third to the fifteenth centuries, and treat well-known figures, more recently discovered or re-evaluated figures, and much more. Medieval women in the principal stages of life, both mortal and spiritual, are also covered in entries on childhood, virginity, marriage, widowhood, penitentials, hagiography, and relics. This illustrated encyclopedia also includes a general bibliography and a guide to related topics.

For more information and a list of recently added and updated titles.

General Logisitcs for the end of term:

Group Study Rooms:

Rooms 3-8 in the basement need to be reserved (2 hours at a time). You can sign up to 2 hours ahead of your desired time per day.

Rooms 14, 15, and 220 are unlocked and available on a first come, first serve basis.

Students who need to use VCR/DVD players to view “Reserve” movies should reserve a group study room ahead of time.

The LCD monitors in group study rooms 007 & 008 are not working. We hope to have them repaired as soon as possible.

Hours

The building will be open continuously (24 hours) for study from 8am Friday, March 12 until the regular closing time Thursday, March 18. Reference Desk services are available regular hours. Circulation Desk services will be unavailable from 2am through 8am on these days.

Remember to not leave your laptops and other personal possessions unattended. If you need to borrow a security lock - see someone at the Circulation Desk.

Yes we know it’s the 9th week of term but …

maybe you need some additional resources to help you finish that paper, thesis (fill in the blank!)

We are trialing several databases that might be of interest. Remember to check the New Online Trials site for regular updates and send any feedback or questions to Gail Golderman.

Did you know you can search the Schenectady Daily Gazette archive for free? [1920-1997.]
Stories published before 1997 can be found using the new Google News Archive search.  The search currently goes back to the 1920s but will eventually extend coverage back to 1897 once Google finishes the digitization project.   Google is still in the process of digitizing the microfilm and the archive cannot yet be considered comprehensive.  When the work is complete the gaps should be eliminated.  Currently Google has digitized nearly 8 million articles.
Printing or downloading is not available, but Schaffer Library has microfilm holdings here in the library from 1955 to the present.
Enter your search terms and choose the third button on the search box.

Access to the full-text of the current paper online is available via username and password for the Union College community. Check the web catalog for a complete list of holdings information.

Multidisciplinary and Discipline-Specific Collections at JSTOR
The following journals have been added to the JSTOR archive.
More detailed information about titles and collections available at Union College can be accessed from JSTOR’s Available Collections page.

Academe [1979- ] (Arts & Sciences VIII)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=academe
Previous Title: AAUP Bulletin [1956-1978] (0001-026X)

The American Art Review (Arts & Sciences VIII)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=amerartrevi

The Art World (Arts & Sciences VIII)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=artworld

The Decorator and Furnisher (Arts & Sciences VIII)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=decoandfurn

English in Africa (Arts & Sciences VIII)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=englafri

Japanese Journal of Religious Studies [1974- ] (Arts & Sciences VIII)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=japajrelistud
Previous Title: Contemporary Religions in Japan [1960-1970] (0010-7557)
Note: Content for this title is released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

Journal of Philosophical Logic (Arts & Sciences VIII)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jphillogic

The Journal of English and Germanic Philology [1903- ] (Arts & Sciences VIII)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=jenglgermphil
Previous Title: The Journal of Germanic Philology [1897-1902] (0364-2968)

Occupational and Environmental Medicine [1994- ] (Life Sciences; Health & General Sciences)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=occuenvimedi
Previous Title: British Journal of Industrial Medicine [1944-1993] (0007-1072)
Note: The remaining content for Vol. 1 (1944) will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

The Wilson Quarterly (1976-) (Arts & Sciences VI)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=wilsonq

Every two weeks, the Homeland Security Digital Library identifies “Critical Releases in Homeland Security,” a targeted collection of recently-released documents of particular interest or potential importance.

DHS Controls Over Firearms
United States. Dept. of Homeland Security. Office of Inspector General

Mullahs, Guards, and Bonyads: An Exploration of Iranian Leadership Dynamics
RAND Corporation

Report to Congress on Implementation of Section 1001 of the USA PATRIOT Act (as required by Section 1001(3) of Public Law 107-56) [February 2010]
United States. Dept. of Justice. Office of Inspector General

Technical Steps to Support Nuclear Arsenal Downsizing
American Physical Society.

Now available through Project Muse, Anthropological Linguistics provides a forum for the full range of scholarly study of the languages and cultures of the peoples of the world, especially the native peoples of the Americas. Embracing the field of language and culture broadly defined, the journal includes articles and research reports addressing cultural, historical, and philological aspects of linguistic study, including analyses of texts and discourse; studies of semantic systems and cultural classifications; onomastic studies; ethnohistorical papers that draw significantly on linguistic data; studies of linguistic prehistory and genetic classification, both methodological and substantive; discussions and interpretations of archival material; edited historical documents; and contributions to the history of the field.
Available issues: Volume 51, Number 1, Spring 2009. See more MUSE journals in Anthropology and Language & Linguistics

Free Featured Download from Classical Music Library is Schumann’s Piano Sonata No. 2 in G minor, Op. 22, performed by pianist Abdel Rahman El Bacha.

Robert Schumann wrote this sonata for piano as a reworking of his Concert sans orchestre (1836). The final movement was revised in 1838 after Schumann decided he wasn’t satisfied with the original.

This recording is performed by Abdel Rahman El Bacha, pianist.

Download this work free now through March 2, 2010 at Classical Music Library Promo site.

Classical Music Library currently contains over 125 works by Schumann. Subscribers can view these works here.

“In 1926, historian Carter G. Woodson introduced the National Observance of Black History to honor two Americans who influenced the lives and social condition of African Americans: former President Abraham Lincoln and abolitionist and former slave Frederick Douglass. To recognize their lasting contributions — and in observation of Black History Month — iTunes U has assembled these collections that highlight African-American leaders, artists, and scholars. ”

History content includes The Carter G. Woodson Institute from the University of Virginia, Stanford University’s “The Modern Freedom Struggle,” New York Historical Society, with Frederick Douglass and the Underground Railroad in New York, Northwestern University - The Black Arts Movement in the Broader Legacy of the Civil Rights Movement, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum - “Nazi Olympics, African American Athletes.”

Speeches & Oral History includes Say it Plain: Great African American Speeches, Cornell West at Southwestern College, Center for Africana Studies at Johns Hopkins University, Explorations in Black Leadership- University of Virginia, Black History, Lectures, and Speakers at Norfolk State University, and Columbia Center for New Media Teaching & Learning - Mapping the African American Past (MAAP).

Music offers Baylor University’s Black Gospel Music Restoration Project, the Louis Armstrong Jazz Oral History Project, as part of the New York Public Library’s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Hip Hop Matters Lecture Series, from the University of Houston, The Artistry of Pops: Louis Armstrong at 100, presented by The Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University with Wynton Marsalis & Stanley Crouch, musician & author Host: Robert O’Meally, and American Public Media’s African American Spirituals with Joe Carter.

and…

Literature with University of South Florida’s Lit2Go Series, a collaboration between the University and the Florida Department of Education, and more.

See the full offerings at iTunes U Spotlight on Black History Month

Exhibit Opening in Schaffer Library - February 9th, 3:45 pm

Announcing “Dickens in America,” an exhibit in Schaffer Library commemorating Charles Dickens’ two mid-nineteenth century tours of the United States, both of which included stops in nearby Albany. The exhibit opens at 3:45 p.m. on Tuesday, February 9 in the atrium of Schaffer Library with belated birthday cake for the “Inimitable” Dickens (who was born on February 7) provided by the students of Dickens House.

The exhibit features first editions of Dickens’ fiction and non-fiction writings on the United States as well as archival materials from the papers of John Bigelow (Union College Class of 1835), who became personally acquainted with Dickens during his “public readings” tour of the U.S. in 1867/68. Also featured in the exhibition: the College’s recent acquisition of an illustrated first edition of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol (1843) along with subsequent editions of this famous work, a condensed version of which Dickens included among his public readings.

Watch for other upcoming events associated with the exhibit, which runs through early April, including a stage reading of “A Christmas Carol” on April 12 in the Nott Memorial directed by Theater Arts faculty.