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June 2009
Important News
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It's time to RSVP and save your spot for Alexander Street's ALA Annual Customer Appreciation Breakfast, Sunday, July 12, at 7:30 a.m. at the Hyatt Regency, McCormick Place in Chicago. The food is always good, the speaker is always amazing, and this breakfast fills up quickly, so hurry and RSVP now!
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Jazz Music Library is live! Access it for free through June 30th. Go to http://jazz.alexanderstreet.com to see—and hear—our latest Music Online collection. It currently includes 1,964 albums and 19,022 tracks, and it's growing all the time. Access the entire collection through June 30th with the username "jazzlibrary" and the password "jitterbug."
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Counseling and Therapy in Video is live. Ideal for training in social work, psychology, education, multicultural studies, and other areas, this online collection includes more than 300 hours of streaming video. Demonstrations, training videos, actual therapy sessions with real clients, reenacted sessions, lectures, discussions, and workshops give students and instructors exciting new tools. Supplementary materials include transcripts, discussion guides, and teaching aids. Learn more about the collection here, browse it for free, or request a trial.
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The Romantic Era Redefined is live. You already have access to the big names and canonical writers, such as Wordsworth and Byron, but what about the others? Writings by women . . . travel and exploration narratives . . . scientific writing . . . gothic literature . . . social and political writing . . . "second generation" works? Now, Alexander Street brings scholars and students the rest of the canon. There are critical editions from the preeminent Pickering and Chatto of London, including reproductions of original texts, all unavailable elsewhere online; the full run of the core Romanticism journal The Wordsworth Circle; and other rare and hard-to-find materials, many published between 1800 and 1830. The Romantic Era Redefined is an important resource for English literature, comparative literature, cultural studies, gender studies, history, and women’s studies. Learn more about the collection here, browse it for free, or request a trial.
- We have two new online collections launching in June. Sign up for Sneak Peek access, and we’ll send you a username and password good for 48 hours as soon as they go live.
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Local and Regional History Online will launch with nearly 800 titles and more than 160,000 images—and it will continue to grow to include thousands of volumes from the largest publisher of local and regional history books, Arcadia Publishing. Each book tells a small piece of American history. But when searched together through Alexander Street's Semantic Indexing™, the collection becomes a massive and powerful primary-source research tool for academic libraries and a great way to bring local history and genealogical information into the public library. Learn more about the collection here—or take a quick product tour.
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Drawn entirely from the extensive holdings of the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester, Massachusetts, Manuscript Women’s Letters and Diaries from the American Antiquarian Society, 1750-1950 will bring together 100,000 pages of the personal writings of women of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries, displayed as high-quality images of the original manuscripts, extensively indexed and online for the first time. Learn more about the collection here.
- We’ve identified some errors in the first batch of MARC records for Classical Music Library, and we are busy correcting the problem! We expect to have a replacement set soon—our apologies for any inconvenience this has caused. We'll post an alert as soon as these records are back up—stay tuned.
Through new partnerships with PBS and other leading documentary film providers, including WGBH and California Newsreel, we will be adding hundreds of hours of new documentary content over the next few months alongside that of The History Channel®, already in American History in Video. Access the complete title list here.
In May, American History in Video grew by 144 new video titles totaling 19 hours, taking the total counts to 1,409 titles and 439 hours. Key additions include 14 hours of Universal Newsreel for most of 1959 and 1961, including footage of Castro and Cuba, Cold War issues, the first visit of the Bolshoi Ballet, sentencing of Adolf Eichmann, the first woman to swim the English Channel, and Kennedy’s first year in office. Also included are six new History Channel documentaries, including Destiny at Fort Sumter; John J. Pershing, the Iron General; and The Lost Evidence, Breakout from Normandy.
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960 to 1974 now includes four new titles totaling 969 pages taking the total to 35,429 pages from 104 sources. The collection now includes a total of 84 oral histories; 279 ephemeral items; 1,550 government documents; 153 interviews; 857 memoirs and autobiographies; 92 diaries; and more than 500 photographs and illustrations. New titles added are:
New technical enhancements in the collection enable photograph / image-only searches and the ability to search by theme.
We added 116 books and manuals totaling 16,447 pages to Twentieth Century Advice Literature: North American Guides on Race, Gender, Sex, and the Family in May, taking the total to 511 sources totaling 88,465 pages. Examples of titles added include:
The Gilded Age was updated with 24 new critical documentary essays and more than 1,000 pages of full text, taking the total count to more than 54,000 pages. New titles added include Cynthia Ann Parker: The Story of Her Capture, by James T. DeShields (1886);The Sears Roebuck Catalog (1897); and critical documentary essays on the Grange Movement, The Knights of Labor, the controversy over Social Darwinism, and the Haymarket Bombing.
Social Theory grew by more than 32,500 pages from 100 authors last month, taking the new total to 122,666 pages.
- The result of agreements with German publisher Suhrkamp Verlag, this release includes 26,000 pages of German language titles from Jurgen Habermas, Theodor Adorno, and Niklas Luhmann.
- Highlights of works in English include 33 volumes of the Complete Works of Marx and Engles as well as works by Zygmunt Bauman, Lewis Coser, Anthony Giddens, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Herbert Marcuse, Talcott Parsons, Dorothy Smith, Alain Touraine, Alexis de Tocqueville, and Max Weber.
Added in May to Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works are 1,000 new pages of session transcripts, 1,000 new pages of client narratives, and 6,000 new pages of reference works. The collection now includes a total of 61,900 pages of material, including more than 14,000 pages of transcripts, more than 22,000 pages of client narratives, and more than 24,000 pages of secondary reference material.
The collection’s archive of anonymized transcripts now total 14,000 pages. Highlights of recently added content include:
- The Verilogue Transcripts: We’ve added 52 transcripts, most dealing with prescription psychopharmaceuticals in the treatment of depression, bipolar disorder, adult ADHD, and schizophrenia.
- The Steve Andreas Collection: We’ve added 15 new sessions from this pioneer of neuro-linguistic programming. Sessions feature the method’s application for such issues as anger management, grief, and addiction.
Client narratives now total 22,000 pages of the collection. New highlights of recent content added include:
Reference works now total 24,000 pages. Highlights of recent content additions include:
- The Encyclopedia of Behavior Modification and Cognitive Behavior Therapy (SAGE, 2005)
- The Encyclopedia of Applied Developmental Science (SAGE, 2005)
Here's what's new in May:
- Classical Music Reference Library now includes 26,858 essays and images from 26 sources for a total of 17,147 pages. In May, we added three new reference titles totaling 966 pages:
- Contemporary World Music was updated with 448 albums—a total of 6,447 tracks, taking the total count to 1,530 albums and 20,682 tracks. Record labels added include ARC Music, Blue Flame Records, Intersound, Karuna, Triloka, Rounder Records, Sheridan Square Records, and Six Degrees Records. There’s a little of everything in this round of content uploads—from Afrobeat, electronic lounge music, rembetika, and belly dance, to reggae and dub. Some of the new albums added include: 80 Years: London Jewish Male Choir; Bobi Céspedes: Rezos; Cinematic: Classic Film Music Remixed; Cutting Razor–Rare Cuts From The Black Ark; Emad Sayyah: Ma Ajmal Beirut–Modern Bellydance from Lebanon; and Hugh Masekela: Hope.
- A total of 278 new scores and 16,164 pages were added to Classical Scores Library this month, taking the total to 12,644 scores and 229,586 pages. The new scores come to us thanks to Edition Peters and University Music Editions. New opera scores and libretti come from the collection French Opera in the 17th and 18th Centuries, housed at the Barry S. Brook Center for Music Research and Documentation. New scores include works by: Delius, Destouches, Devienne, Dove, Le Sueur, Lully, Maw, Mehul, Piccinni, Rameau, Rathbone, Reich, Salieri, Satie, and many others.
New Features Coming Soon
In June, Classical Scores Library will sport a new, faster-loading image viewer that will make it easier to access long scores, regardless of bandwidth. The new image viewer will let you choose between the new, quick-loading, lower resolution jpg file and the traditional higher resolution PDF file for every score in the collection.
Other enhancements include thumbnail images that let you see and scroll through multiple pages without having to open the score. Enhanced printing options let you print an entire score, just a movement, or a range of pages you select.
These new features will also appear within the new Music Online cross-search interface. We'll alert you as soon as these new features are live.
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!
Alexander Street will be doing scheduled maintenance across all collections on JUNE 11, 9:00 PM to 3:00 AM EDT/GMT-5 and JULY 9, 9:00 PM to 3:00 AM EDT/GMT-5. Please be aware that you may see interruptions of up to one hour across all Alexander Street online collections on both dates. 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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