Alexander Street Events at the American Library Association Annual conference

If you’re headed to Chicago, there are many ways to come and give us your input and to find out what’s new at Alexander Street! Visit our ALA Events Page now.

• In-Booth Training Sessions: Driving Usage: Booth # 3223
  
• Alexander Street Advisory Roundtables: Meet the Editors (first 25 to sign up)
  • On the Couch: What’s Alexander Street Doing “In Therapy?”
  • What’s New in History: Video, Photographs, Manuscripts, More
  • The Music Online Jam Session
• Customer Appreciation Breakfast (with a famous guest speaker)
• American History in Video Training Session

Most events offer terrific giveaways and drawings—Flip video cameras, free subscriptions, Starbucks cards, and surprises.

All events are easy to reach – booth #3223 in the exhibit hall, or rooms in the convention center or adjoining hotel.

Learn more and RSVP now to hold a space.

We're giving away 50 subscriptions to American History in Video—one in every state! This is in part our response to the economic downturn—a way to support libraries facing budget cuts. It's also a way for us to learn more, because—and here's the bonus—for the year of this free subscription, we will work with the 50 libraries in a true collaboration to build patron awareness. Together, we'll gather solid, actionable knowledge about what works when libraries and publishers work together to drive usage.

Apply now through the 4th of July for a free, one-year subscription to American History in Video.

Read the press release here.

Produced in partnership with Arcadia Publishing, Local and Regional History Online: A History of American Life in Images and Texts includes more than 150,000 images—it will continue to grow to include thousands of Arcadia volumes and more than one million photographs and other primary materials. Each Arcadia 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, request a free trial, or watch an online demonstration now. Read the press release here.

At launch, this continuously growing collection of streaming jazz includes more than 18,000 tracks licensed from leading jazz record labels and more than 3,800 jazz artists. All the greats are here—from John Coltrane, Charlie Byrd, and Coleman Hawkins to Count Basie, Dizzie Gillespie, and Ella Fitzgerald, to name but a few. Representing virtually every major jazz figure and genre from the 1920s to today, Jazz Music Library will be the most comprehensive online collection of recorded jazz available. Future releases of Jazz Music Library will include the NPR radio broadcast series of Marian McPartland's Peabody Award-winning Piano Jazz together with never-before-released recordings of live performances from the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival and other great jazz venues such as the Blue Note, the Village Vanguard, and more.

Available as part of Music Online, or as a standalone subscription starting at $995. Learn more about Jazz Music Library here.

Looking for the jazz festival? Alexander Street's first annual Online Jazz Music Festival has ended, but you can request a free trial for your library.

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This online collection, ideal for training in social work, psychology, education, and the other helping professions, includes hundreds of hours of streaming video content. Sessions are led by leading psychologists, psychiatrists, social workers, and academics in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K. Therapy sessions, training videos, demonstrations, case consultations, lectures, discussions, and workshops plus dozens of discussion guides make this an important and exciting new professional development and training resource. Subscriptions start at $1,500; also available for one-time purchase of perpetual rights.

Watch sample footage.

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Music Online cross-search is live

Music Online is the broadest and most comprehensive resource available for the study of classical, jazz, world, and American music. The hundreds of thousands of items in Music Online—now all cross-searchable through a single interface—include nearly 110,000 tracks of music in streaming audio from dozens of music labels and publishing partners; more than 13,000 musical scores; 45,000 pages of reference content; 285 hours of dance and opera videos; 20,000 jazz recordings; and thousands of liner notes, biographies, and images. There’s nothing else like it—Music Online is a major milestone in digital reference.

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The Romantic Era Redefined is live!

Through a partnership with London-based publisher Pickering & Chatto, students and scholars have access to important primary texts for the study of Romantic-era literature and social history—with more than 87,000 pages of Pickering & Chatto's esteemed critical editions. The collection also includes additional content from other publishers, archives, the leading Romanticism journal, The Wordsworth Circle, and other sources never-before-available online. Besides the literature—poetry, novels, short fiction, and drama—there are letters, diaries, conduct literature, speeches, travel narratives, political writings, philosophical works, theological and sociological writings, and more. Featuring work from writers in Britain, the British Empire, and North America, the collection is particularly strong in its coverage of the Romantic Era's "second generation," which spans the years from 1800 to 1830. The Romantic Era Redefined brings something distinctly new to academic study, with access to overlooked and inaccessible important works.

Learn more about The Romantic Era Redefined here. Read the press release here.

An exclusive collaboration with A&E Television Networks, this rich, online collection includes more than a thousand titles and is continuously growing, with complete videos and synchronized, scrolling, searchable transcripts. American History in Video is the only source for the complete online newsreel streams of United News and Universal Newsreel; important documentaries and series from The History Channel® and others; and archival footage. Teaching tools include custom clip-making, shareable playlists, course folders, and more.

Just $995 to $2,495 a year based on library size for unlimited SU access; also available for one-time purchase. Full details here.

Universal Newsreels, Release 56, July 14, 1958