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February 2009
This is the fifth issue of Alexander Street’s monthly bulletin covering:
• important news
• MARC record availability
• product updates
• reviews we’ve received
• conferences we’re attending
• scheduled maintenance dates and anticipated impact on your access
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Important News
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The
Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to
1974 is live!
Log in here to get immediate access to the only
dedicated online archive of 60s primary source content with
a 48-hour Sneak Peek
pass!
- The final release of
American Film Scripts
is live! More than 1,000 classic and contemporary
movie scripts are available online, the vast majority
available nowhere else.
Log in here to get immediate access with a
48-hour Sneak Peek
pass!
- We're Seattle-bound and feeling groovy—if
you're going to ACRL, be sure to
RSVP now for the Alexander Street Press
Sixties
Sit-In! We'll be giving away a free, one-year
subscription to The
Sixties, TWO Flip video cameras, and daisies for your
hair, so come spend 15 minutes in booth #525 and Get Groovy
with Alexander Street!
-
American History in Video
launches in March!
Sign up now to get a Sneak Peek username and password
emailed to you the second it goes live!
- The 2009 Alexander
Street Press Catalog is here!
Download your electronic copy now. Both high resolution
and low resolution versions are available in PDF format.
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FREE! MARC
Records
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We have LOTS of NEW MARC Records—and they’re free! Newly
released records include:
- Alexander Street Drama: Product- and book-level
records are now available for all of the titles in this
package
at
http://www.alexanderstreet2.com/marc/asdr.html
- Supplemental Record Sets for the following 8 collections
are now available:
- American Film Scripts (33 records)
- Caribbean Literature (25 records)
- South and Southeast Asian Literature (68 records)
- Black Women Writers (17 records)
- The Gilded Age (12 records)
- Irish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (4 records)
- Black Short Fiction and Folklore (17 records)
- Digital Library of the Catholic Reformation (274 records)
- Book-level records (274 records) are now available for
Latin American Women Writers
- Product-level records are now available for:
- Black Drama, 2nd Edition
- Opera in Video
- Dance in Video
- North American Theatre Online
- Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online
Visit http://marc.alexanderstreet.com to download all
records and to check our schedule of forthcoming MARC record
releases.
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records, sign up
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Product Updates
| To see a list of recent
updates—in content, functionality, or technical features—for
any of the Alexander Street collections listed below, simply
follow the link. If a collection isn’t listed, there have
been no updates over the past month. For additional
information please email
marketing@alexanderstreet.com
Music and Performing Arts
- African American
Music Reference
- 11 new titles (3,346 new
pages) from University Press of Mississippi,
University of Oklahoma Press, and Da Capo Press.
- Total number of pages for the
collection is now 22,095.
- To browse the complete list
of new titles, visit the freely accessible “What’s
New” section of this collection online at
http://aamr.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew
- American Song
- 3 new albums (863 new tracks)
take the total number of tracks in this collection up to
17,858.
- To browse the complete list of
new tracks, visit the freely accessible “What’s New”
section of this collection online at
http://amso.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew
- Classical Music Library
- Is now LIVE on our new
platform, which features a streamlined interface and a
range of new features and functionality. Browse the
collection at
http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com
- New playlist functionality
lets users create, annotate, and share content—not only
from our collections—but from anywhere on the Web.
Build an entire course listening and reading list from a
single interface.
- Please note that we are in the
process of migrating all
Classical Music Library
subscribers over to the new platform at
http://clmu.alexanderstreet.com
You will not need to do anything to make this happen
(your links and bookmarks will automatically forward to
the new site in April), but you may want to read the
Transition Guidelines
that describe how and when this migration will take
place. In the interim, all new content feeds will be
added only to the new site, and your users will have
access to that content in April.
- Classical Scores
Library
- 3,888 additional scores take
the total count to 11,987 (209,140 pages).
- New content from
University Music Editions
and Faber Music
includes 1,257 works from the Renaissance period; 1,021
Baroque scores; 314 Classical; and 53 twentieth-century
scores.
- Highlights of new scores
include works by Albioni, C. P. E. Bach, Berlioz,
Binchois, Buxtehude, Caldara, Carissimi, Couperin,
Dowland, Gesualdo, Gluck, Michael Haydn, Janequin,
Knussen, Loewe, Colin Matthews, Rameau, Schubert, Peter
Sculthorpe, Senfl, Strauss, Stravinsky, Telemann, and
Zacow.
- To browse the complete list of
new tracks, visit the freely accessible “What’s New”
section of this collection online at
http://shmu.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew
- Contemporary World Music
- 53 new albums (224 tracks).
- Total number of tracks for the
collection is now 13,726.
- To browse the complete list of
new tracks, visit the freely accessible “What’s New”
section of this collection online at
http://womu.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew
- Dance in Video
- 68 new videos taking the total
number of hours in this collection to 201.
- To browse the complete list of
new titles, visit the freely accessible “What’s New”
section of this collection online at
http://daiv.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew
Drama
- American Film Scripts
- Our final release is now
live!
- Contains the texts of 1,009
screenplays, more than half of which are previously
unpublished.
- Nearly 700 scripts are
accompanied by PDFs of the originals.
- This update includes 186
new screenplays. Highlights include:
- Journey Into Fear,
uncredited direction by Orson Welles (1943);
screenplay by Joseph Cotton
- The Set Up,
directed by Robert Wise (1949); won special jury
prize at Cannes that year.
- Suspicion,
directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1939); Academy
Award for Best Actress for Joan Fontaine.
- The Claim,
unproduced film treatment written by James
Dickey.
- Back to Bataan,
directed by Edward Dmytryk; featured John Wayne
and Anthony Quinn.
- Edge of Darkness,
directed by Lewis Milestone; screenplay by
Robert Rossen.
- In This Our Life,
directed by John Huston; screenplay by Howard
Koch.
- 42nd Street,
directed by Lloyd Bacon (1933); chosen for
National Film Registry.
- The Fountainhead,
directed by King Vidor (1949); screenplay by Ayn
Rand.
- PLEASE NOTE THAT the previous
versions of the site will remain active until May 1, 2009.
After that time, you will not need to do anything;
any bookmarks or links customers have into any page of the
databases will automatically redirect to the correct pages
in the upgraded versions.
Social Sciences
- Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client
Narratives, and Reference Works
- 268 new therapy session
transcripts added, bringing the total number of
transcripts in the collection to 899 (13,000 pages)
- The collection as a whole
now includes a total of 53,200 pages:
- 13,000 pages of session
transcripts
- 21,000 pages of client
narratives
- 18,000 pages of
reference material
- Featured new content
includes:
- The Case of Mrs. C.:
Transcripts of a complete, 219-session therapy
arc between a young woman and her psychoanalyst,
Hartvig Dahl, from their initial session through
to their final meeting.
- Verilogue Sessions:
More than 100 transcripts of psychiatry sessions
with a particular focus on medication management
- To browse this collection
visit
http://psyc.alexanderstreet.com
Social
and Cultural History
- Twentieth Century Advice
Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex,
and the Family
- 20,000 pages added
- Total number of pages in
the collection is now 67,839
- New featured titles
include:
- The Police and Minority
Groups (1947)
- The Teen-Age Manual
(1948)
- Instructions Before
Marriage (1960)
- How to Stay out of
Court (1970)
- How to Handle
Grievances (1943)
- Housewife Handbook
(1953)
- History of the American
Negro (1970)
- The Bookshelf Parent's
Guide (1958)
- Young Living (1963)
To browse the complete list of new
tracks, visit the freely accessible “What’s New” section of
this collection online at
http://adli.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew
- The Gilded Age
- New content includes 10
critical documentary essays and a wide range of new
titles totaling 5,000 total new pages of text
- This update takes the
collection’s total page count to 44,000 pages
- New titles added include:
- Picturesque Sketches of
American Progress
- On the Frontier:
Reminiscences of Wild Sports, Personal Adventure
and Strange Scenes
- Illinois Currency
Convention
- Narratives of Colored
Americans
- Nez Perce Joseph: An
Account of His Ancestors, His Lands, His
Confederates, His Enemies, His Murders, His War,
His Pursuit and Capture
- To browse the collection,
visit
http://gild.alexanderstreet.com
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Reviews We've Received
- The American Civil War Research Database has been
named a Library Journal 2008 Best Reference!
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Conferences We're Attending
We will be attending the following conferences in months ahead, and hope you’ll stop by our booth if you’re there!
- SCELC Vendor Day: March 9, 2009; Los Angeles, CA.
- ACRL 14th National Conference: March 12-15, 2009; Seattle, WA;
Booth #525
OAH Annual Meeting: March 26-28, 2009; Seattle, WA; Booth
#408
To see a complete list of the conferences we plan to attend, visit
http://alexanderstreet.com/events/index.htm
Scheduled Maintenance
Alexander Street will be doing scheduled maintenance across all collections on
MARCH 12, 2009. In general, our maintenance process is designed to ensure minimal disruption, and we don’t anticipate significant downtime or access interruptions in excess of more than a few minutes per collection. In the event that downtime is prolonged for any reason, we will post alerts to each affected collection, and we will send an email to your technical services contact.
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