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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.