What’s New at Schaffer Library

Database of the Week: Literature Online - LION

ProQuest is pleased to announce the latest release of Literature Online.

228 Full-Text Journals:

This latest release of Literature Online sees the addition of eight new titles:
Journal of the Fantastic in the Arts, Margaret Atwood Studies, The Scriblerian and the Kit-Cats, Studies in the Fantastic, Old English Newsletter, CR: The New Centennial ReviewFourth Genre and Red Cedar Review.

The addition of these journals brings the total number of titles up to 259. This is in addition to the regular update to our Criticism resources: this release contains both new full-text journal articles and new bibliographic records from ABELL, plus the MLA International Bibliography (MLAIB).

New Biographies:

The latest release of Literature Online also sees the addition of 70 new and revised biographies, including biographies for Julie Agoos, Edmund Blunden, Marina Carr, Aldous Huxley, Neil LaBute, Sharman Macdonald, Howard Sackler and Irwin Shaw. Literature Online now contains more than 4,300 biographies. Author biographies are specially commissioned for Literature Online, and give an authoritative and accessible overview of the author’s life, work and critical reception. These biographies can be found by following links from Author Pages, by using Search: Criticism & Reference, or simply by entering an author’s name in Quick Search.

Plus, Literature Online features more than 17,500 author records. Each of our author records contains at least one of the following: an authoritative and accessible biography, full-text of the author’s works, a comprehensive bibliography of primary works or a list of full-text critical and reference materials relating to the author. Author records can be accessed by searching in the Search: Authors or Search: Texts pages or from the Quick Search feature from any page.

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

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)

  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.

• 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.

How can Schaffer Library Help?  Come stop by on Tuesday afternoon to meet some staff and find out what’s new.

Just a few of the many services available to you:

• Ask a Reference Librarian to help you find answers.  In person, phone, and email.
• Find books and more through our online catalog.  Search for books, government documents, videos, audio CDs, and electronic materials in the collections.  Use the “More Info” button to read reviews, search other library catalogs, and look for related journal articles.
• Seamless access to other catalogs via  ConnectNY– a consortium of 13 college and university libraries in New York State.  Books will be delivered to Schaffer Library for pickup, usually within 2-3 business days.
• Did you know that searching Google Scholar can lead you to high-quality resources that have been reviewed by subject experts and paid for by Schaffer Library?
• Want to keep up-to-date with news and events? Follow us on Facebook or Twitter.
• Find wireless access throughout the building.
• Try WebFeat - search multiple databases and catalogs simultaneously.

Stay tuned for more!

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Working Papers

Center on International Cooperation

Title: Building on Brahimi: Peacekeeping in an era of Strategic Uncertainty
Author: Richard Gowan, Bruce Jones, Jake Sherman
Date: April 2009

The Combating Terrorism Center at West Point

Title: Radical Islamic Ideology in Southeast Asia
Author: Scott Helfstein, editor
Date: July 2009

CONfines de Relaciones Internacionales y Ciencia Política

Title: A Virtuous Circle for All? Media Exposure and Political Trust in Europe
Author: Oscar G. Luengo, y Marcus Maurer
Date:April 2009

Title: La misión rusa Arktika 2007 y sus implicaciones para el balance mundial de poder en el siglo XXI
Author: José Miguel Alonso Trabanco
Date: February 2009

Title: Retos locales de la política social en México: el funcionamiento del Programa de Desarrollo Humano “Oportunidades” en una comunidad indígena bajo el sistema de gobierno de usos y costumbres
Author: Mariana Gabarrot Arenas, Carmen Ávila Jaquez
Date:January 2009

Title: La importancia de la Convención sobre la protección y la promoción de la diversidad de las expresiones culturales de la UNESCO y su impacto en las políticas culturales mexicanas
Author: Fabiola Rodríguez Barba
Date:January 2009

Title: De la White House a la Black House : elección presidencial de los Estados Unidos en el 2008. ¿Movilidad social ascendente?
Author: Juan Paul Farías Peña
Date: January 2009

Title: Política Informática y Educación: el caso de la Escuela Superior Latinoamericana de Informática (ESLAI)
Author: María Fernanda Arias
Date: October 2008

Council on Foreign Relations

Title: Credit Default Swaps, Clearinghouses, and Exchanges
Date: July 2009

Title: U.S. Nuclear Weapons Policy
Author:
Charles D. Ferguson, William J. Perry, Brent Scowcroft
Date: April 2009

Full details can be found at What’s New For August 2009

This growing online library, currently with 400+ print publications on a variety of topics and from a range of publishers, including ABC-CLIO, Cambridge, Greenwood, Macmillan, Routledge, and SAGE.

Seamlessly search in all subjects, including Art, Business, Dictionaries, Encyclopedias, History, Literature, Technology, and Related Resources: Schaffer Library Catalog, EBSCOhost, JSTOR, Oxford Reference, PsycARTICLES, Business Source Premier and more.

A sampling of titles includes The Bridgeman Art Library Archive, Computer Graphics Companion, Great American Court Cases, and The Encyclopedia of the History of American Management.

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