What’s New at Schaffer Library

ARTstor and the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin have collaborated to share more than 5,700 images from the Hal Box and Logan Wagner Collection of Mexican Architecture and Urban Design. This collection richly documents outdoor communal spaces in Mexico, including Pre-Columbian sites, as well as buildings and public spaces from the 16th through 20th centuries.

Hal Box, a practicing architect, studied and documented the 16th to 17th century open air churches of Mexico under the auspices of Earthwatch, with additional funding from the Graham Foundation, the University Research Institute, and the University of Texas Institute for Latin American Studies. Logan Wagner, a native of Mexico and an architect-builder with degrees in anthropology, architecture, and a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, led the field work for twelve summers. Box, Wagner, and volunteer groups carried out photographic documentation of open air churches and other civic spaces in the states of Morelos, Mexico, Michoacán, Yucatan, Quinatna Roo, and Hidalgo.

To view the Hal Box and Logan Wagner: Mexican Architecture and Urban Design (University of Texas at Austin) collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click “Hal Box and Logan Wagner: Mexican Architecture and Urban Design (University of Texas at Austin).” Or search the keywords: box wagner.

For more information on recent collections and events visit ARTstor announcements.

For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Hal Box and Logan Wagner: Mexican Architecture and Urban Design (University of Texas at Austin) collection page.

Just one of several new titles from the ABC-CLIO’s “Ethnic Diversity Within Nations” series now available on CREDO reference.

From Canada’s profound racism in the 19th and early 20th centuries to its radical shift in immigration policy in the 1960s, this one-of-a-kind reference explores the past 1,000 years of ethnicity in Canada.

During World War II thousands of Japanese immigrants were incarcerated in prison camps; yet in the 1980s Asian immigrants outnumbered Europeans 6:1. What caused this turnaround in immigration policy? How did one of the most racist nations in the world become one of the most welcoming?

See More About this Book at CREDO reference

 The ebrary eBook collection is a growing collection of more than 42,000 books and historic and geopolitical maps, every page searchable. Especially strong in key academic subject areas including Business & Economics, Computers, Technology &
Engineering, Humanities, Life & Physical Sciences, and Social and
Behavioral Sciences.

eBooks are available from more than 150 publishers, such as: Brill Academic Publishers, John Wiley & Sons, Johns Hopkins University Press, MIT, Taylor & Francis, Palgrave-MacMillan, and more. Features personalized bookshelves, annotation abilities, and highlighting. Requires download of plug-in viewer from site.

Individual titles will soon be available for searching/browsing in the online catalog. Search/Browse the ebrary catalog.

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HSDL Critical Releases in Homeland Security [July 2009]

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. [Login to the HSDL required to open documents.*]

AVMA Emergency Preparedness and Response
American Veterinary Medical Association

Persistence of Racial and Ethnic Profiling in the United States: A Follow-Up Report to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
American Civil Liberties Union; Rights Working Group

Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan: June 2009 Report to Congress in Accordance with the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (Section 1230, Public Law 110-181)
United States. Dept. of Defense

Security at the Edge — Protecting Mobile Computing Devices
National Association of State Chief Information Officers

U.S. Immigration Policy
Council on Foreign Relations

Unclassified Report on the President’s Surveillance Program
United States. Dept. of Justice. Office of the Inspector General; United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Office of Inspector General; United States. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Office of the Inspector General; United States. Dept. of Defense. Office of the Inspector General; United States. National Security Agency. Office of Inspector General

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

Considered the “definitive resource for a new generation of economists,” Palgrave Macmillan published The New Palgrave
Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition in 2008; edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume.
While some classic articles from the 1987 were retained, around 80% of the text was either entirely new or substantially rewritten to reflect the depth of change within the discipline between the editions.
“This new edition retains the inspiring tradition of bringing together the world’s most influential economists writing in their own voice on their areas of expertise, but in its online incarnation it has married this tradition with the benefits of a dynamic, updated resource serving the information needs of a new generation of economists.”
Check out the Latest updates for more nformation.

Oxford updates the Dictionary of National Biography with a special focus on gardeners and engineers of everyday life. This update includes entries on 87 men and women who died before 2000, plus 20 New ‘reference groups.’

NEW BIOGRAPHIES
• Gardeners—national profession and pastime
This month brings you 30 biographies of men and women who shaped the history of British gardening.
Many made their name cultivating and promoting now popular plants, including the ‘daffodil king’ Peter Barr and Henry Eckford, ‘father of the sweet pea.’ There’s also Christopher Leyland who gave his name to the rapid-growing, conifer, Leylandii—now a controversial feature of domestic gardens but originally an ideal plant for Leyland’s Northumberland estate.

• Engineers of everyday life
You’ll also find ten inventors and pioneers of modern forms of domestic and public sanitation. Household names include Thomas Twyford and John Shanks, together with George Jennings, whose public conveniences for the Great Exhibition gave rise to the term ’spend a penny.’ They are joined by figures associated with public health, including James Simpson —inventor of water filtration beds—and Jesse Dawes, the pioneer of modern refuse collection and salvage—in which Britain once led the world.

• Preservers of nature
In Darwin’s anniversary year, the Oxford DNB looks at those who enabled flora and fauna to be studied before photography. New subjects include taxidermists Rowland Ward and Walter Potter —creator of anthropomorphic tableaux—and botanical artist, Lilian Snelling.

GROUPS IN HISTORY
As well as biographies, this update adds 20 new groups in Themes.

TOPICAL LIVES FROM THE OXFORD DNB
Further biographies are available in the complete Oxford DNB now available—free, online, and at home—via your public library or daily with our Life of the Day service and bi-monthly podcast.

See May 2009 Update for further details.

From EBSCO:

We are pleased to announce that EBSCO Publishing, in collaboration with the ATLA, has enhanced the Scripture Authority File functionality available on ATLA Religion Database, ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials and ATLASerials Religion Collection via EBSCOhost.

Previously, ATLA Religion Database, ATLA Religion Database with ATLASerials and ATLASerials Religion Collection via EBSCOhost included a flat scripture authority file that displayed scripture references in alphabetical order and required users to search for exact scripture references indexed in a given citation.

With the new authority file, users can browse the books of the bible in canonical order and drill down to the chapter, then verse level. Selecting an entry at the book, chapter, or verse level will execute a search for all records indexed with that book, chapter or verse.

With the new scripture authority file, EBSCO has added an expanded scripture reference searching for records indexed with a scripture range.  For example, if a user selects Acts in the new scripture authority and drills down through Chapter 1 and elects to search Verse 5, they will return records indexed with Acts 1:5, as well as records indexed with Acts 1:1-11 or Acts 1:1-15:35.

Check out ATLA Religion Database now.

228 Full-Text Journals
This latest release sees the addition of three new titles to Literature Online’s library of full-text journals; Carlyle Studies Annual, Commonwealth: Essays and Studies and Tolstoy Studies Journal. This release also sees the withdrawal of one full-text journal; Hypatia: A Journal of Feminist Philosophy, at the request of the publishers. The addition of these journals brings the total number of titles up to 243. Further titles will be added in forthcoming releases, increasing still further Literature Online’s coverage of contemporary scholarship in the fields of literary and cultural studies.
See Information Centre: What’s New? for complete update information.

Special Collections in Schaffer Library will be closed beginning June 15, 2009 for renovations to the space to improve the climate control system. 

During the closure we will not be able to retrieve materials or to answer research questions as the collections will be in storage.  A reopening date is not known at this time.  We will notify everyone when we are ready to reopen.

For immediate questions phone (388-6620, 388-6616) or email (specialcollections@union.edu) and we’ll try to help.

One of the library servers is experiencing technical difficulties and is currently off-line.  This will affect the display within the online catalog, access to many of our databases and indexes, as well as to the Union College Postcard Collection.

Try ConnectNY or Worldcat for easy catalog access. You can get call numbers and locate items in Schaffer Library or order material via Interlibrary Loan.

Links to Databases listed under “Any Topic” will work - including EBSCOhost, ProQuest, Wilson, Web of Science, Project Muse, and  JSTOR.

Please see a Reference Librarian for assistance with connecting to other resources. We apologize for this inconvenience and will hopefully be fully operational in a few days.