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Lynn Novick at ALA Midwinter Dallas 2012

Lynn Novick, film director and producer, spoke about her work on the recent film Prohibition, with Ken Burns, at Alexander Street's Customer Appreciation Breakfast at the Midwinter Conference of the American Library Association. Alexander Street hosts the breakfast twice a year, and this time 311 librarians were treated to Novick's compelling presentation showcasing the political and cultural parallels between life today and during Prohibition. The audience also got a glimpse of Alexander Street's plans for new products and services in 2012. To learn more, view president Stephen Rhind-Tutt's presentation here.

                                                     

Increasing Faculty Usage of Streaming Video

On April 26th, President of Alexander Street Press Stephen Rhind-Tutt and Vice President of product development Peter Cieffetti, along with Kim Stanton of The University of North Texas gave a free webcast on "Increasing Faculty Usage of Streaming Video."

If you were unable to attend the live webcast, you can download and listen to the archived version by clicking here!

The presentation showed use cases of how streaming can be used, including:

  • Examples of how video can improve research
  • Examples of how video has been combined to improve learning for specific courses
  • Examples of how to annotate and publish video

 

 

Video Presentation by Stephen Rhind-Tutt: Charting Vanishing Voices

This presentation was given at the Charting Vanishing Voices Workshop in Cambridge, UK on July 29, 2012.

This practical workshop brought university-based researchers in anthropology, geography and linguistics into conversation with representatives from international organisations that aggregate and disseminate large holdings of ethnographic and linguistic data. Through brief presentations and extended discussions, participants explored innovative ways of visualising cultural and linguistic diversity and shared techniques and tools for representing endangerment, both cartographically and geospatially.

Download the Power Point Presentation here.

 

 

 

 

Save the Date: Customer Appreciation Breakfast with Temple Grandin

If you’ll be in Seattle for ALA Midwinter, please join Alexander Street Press for our customer appreciation breakfast on Sunday, January 27, 2013 at 7:30am.

In addition to offering a delicious hot breakfast and sharing information about Alexander Street’s newest collections, our event will feature a rare appearance by guest speaker Temple Grandin, world-renowned animal scientist and bestselling author.

Named one of 2010’s TIME 100 People, and featured in the Emmy®-award winning biopic Temple Grandin, Dr. Grandin is celebrated for sharing her experiences of living with autism. Her work is featured in The Boy Inside and The Spectrum of Autism, films in Alexander Street’s Health and Society in Video collection. VAST: Academic Video Online also features her work, along with more than 35 other videos about the autism spectrum.

This event will fill quickly, so RSVP now!
You’ll also learn the latest details about our new and forthcoming video databases, including:
  • Asian Studies in Video
  • Black Studies in Video
  • Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume III
  • Dental Education in Video
  • Ethnographic Video Online: Volume II
  • LGBT Thought and Culture
  • Twentieth Century Religious Thought Volume I: Christianity
  • World War II Newsreels, 1929–1946
  • Plus: Developments in VAST: Academic Video Online and Music Online
WHEN: Sunday, January 27, 2013
 
TIME: 7:30 am to 9:00 am

WHERE: The Westin, Grand II and III
1900 5th Avenue
Seattle, WA
 
RSVP: This event is by invitation only. We expect seats to fill quickly, so RSVP today! If another key decision maker is attending ALA, please forward this invitation to that person.

For more information on these and our other collections, or to request a trial, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com.

We hope to see you in Seattle!

VIDEO: Temple Grandin Speaks at ALA Midwinter Seattle

                                                     

 

Named one of 2010’s TIME 100 People, and featured in the Emmy®-award winning biopic Temple Grandin, Dr. Grandin is celebrated for sharing her experiences of living with autism. Her work is featured in The Boy Inside and The Spectrum of Autism, films in Alexander Street’s Health and Society in Video collection. VAST: Academic Video Online also features her work, along with more than 35 other videos about the autism spectrum.

 

Online Publisher Celebrates Women’s History Month with Free Access to Popular Online Collection of Primary Materials and Teaching Tools

ALEXANDRIA, VA and BINGHAMTON, NY, March 3, 2010—In partnership with SUNY Binghamton's Center for the Historical Study of Women and Gender, Alexander Street today announced that one of their most popular online resources, Women and Social Movements in the United States 1600-2000, Scholar’s Edition, will be freely accessible for the month of March so that all librarians, students, instructors, and scholars can explore the site’s rich collection of primary materials and teaching tools without passwords or fees. The URL is http://wass.alexanderstreet.com

Named a Best Reference Database of the year by Library Journal and an Outstanding Academic Title for the year by CHOICE Academic Reviews, Women and Social Movements has garnered numerous awards and wide recognition, and is one of the most heavily visited women's studies sites online. Ordinarily accessible only to faculty and students at subscribing colleges and universities, the collection includes primary materials such as diaries, letters, photographs, and pamphlets and makes them cross-searchable together with scholarly essays, commentaries, bibliographies, and other important reference and secondary materials in what is the most comprehensive documentation of women's activism in public life to date. New content is added to the site semi-annually.

Edited by the project's creators, professors Kathryn Kish Sklar and Thomas Dublin of SUNY Binghamton, Women and Social Movements also boasts an editorial board of leading women's history scholars from across the U.S. At the heart of the collection are about one hundred document projects organized around interpretive questions that give context to the wealth of primary materials. Questions such as, “How did the National Women's Conference in Houston in 1977 shape a feminist agenda for the future?” and “How did black and white southern women campaign to end lynching, 1890-1942?” serve as ready-made classroom tools and as models that teach students how to work with, interpret, and conduct research using primary sources. A free companion blog, Women and Social Movements: The Online Discussion, serves as a community forum for women’s history scholars who discuss how they’ve made use of the resource in their courses, share syllabi, and exchange ideas.

Said Professor Sklar, “The open access period makes it possible for faculty and students at universities that haven’t been able to subscribe to the collection to get in and make use of these materials. When we announced a similar opportunity in 2006, tens of thousands of visitors from all over the world came to the site. Since then, the collection has grown to include thousands of additional primary documents, teaching tools, reviews, and other materials, including conference proceedings, biographies, and government documents.”

According to Alexander Street Vice President Eileen Lawrence who commented on the collection’s continued popularity since its launch in 2003, “Women and Social Movements remains one of the collections we are most proud to have published—it’s a must-have resource at every level, from two-year colleges to the largest research institutions and the most specialized graduate programs. That’s in large part thanks to the efforts of Kathryn Kish Sklar and Tom Dublin who have created not only an invaluable teaching and research tool, but a vibrant community of history scholarship that revolves around this collection.”

To access Women and Social Movements, visit http://wass.alexanderstreet.com before April 1, 2010.

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections in the humanities and social sciences. Since its beginnings in 2000, Alexander Street has developed a reputation for uniquely powerful search capabilities powered by Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing™ and for offering content not available anywhere else. Alexander Street collections are available to library and educational institutions via annual subscription or outright purchase of perpetual rights.

Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request extended access to Alexander Street online collections by emailing Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com) or phoning 703-212-8520 x116 for a username and password.

Learn more about Women and Social Movements at http://wass.alexanderstreet.com  
 
Contact Details
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116 / 202-641-7819 (mobile)
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)
http://www.alexanderstreet.com

Alexander Street Streaming Music and Video Content to go Mobile in 2010

ALEXANDRIA, VA, November 9, 2009—Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press today announced that they will release a free iPhone application in early 2010 that will make their complete line of online streaming music collections—including Classical Music Library, Jazz Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries—fully accessible on iPhone and iPod Touch handheld devices. With subsequent releases, patrons of subscribing libraries will also be able to access all Alexander Street video collections, such as American History in Video, Theatre in Video, and Ethnographic Video Online.

Says Alexander Street president Stephen Rhind-Tutt, “The iPhone is an increasingly important device for accessing digital content, and we want to make sure our customers benefit from the flexibility and ease of access that mobile devices offer.”

Patrons of libraries that subscribe to Alexander Street’s Music Online and video collections will also be able to access and edit personal playlists, making it easy to stream music and video content and instantly update playlists on the go. They will also be able to search and navigate full-text resources, including classical scores. A blog post on the publisher’s site offers a screenshot and additional information.

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections in the humanities, social sciences, performing arts, and music. Alexander Street’s Music Online is a fully cross-searchable suite of hundreds of thousands of classical, jazz, American, and world music recordings; scores; and pages of full-text reference content. Alexander Street collections are available to library and educational institutions via annual subscription or outright purchase of perpetual rights.

Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request extended access to Alexander Street online collections by emailing Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com) or phoning 703-212-8520 x116 for a username and password.

Contact Details
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116 / 202-641-7819 (mobile)
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)
http://www.alexanderstreet.com

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives and Reference Works Wins APEX Award

Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, and Washington DC (August 5, 2009)— SAGE and Alexander Street Press are pleased to announce that Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives and Reference Works has won a 2009 APEX Award of Excellence in the One-of-a-Kind Web & Electronic Publications category.

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works, a unique research and training resource for psychologists and other mental health professionals, contains over 2,000 transcripts of actual therapy sessions and major reference works. The entries include non-fiction, first-person diaries, letters, autobiographies, oral histories, and personal memoirs, which have been made anonymous to protect patient privacy. The content has been thoroughly indexed, enabling researchers to find materials by diagnosis, symptoms, or patient demographics.

The APEX awards are sponsored by the editors of Writing That Works, a bimonthly newsletter for communicators who write, edit, and manage business publications. The newsletter is published by Communications Concepts, Inc., a company that provides publishing direction to marketing professionals.

“We’re pleased that Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works has been recognized by APEX as a one-of-a-kind, practical research and learning tool for practitioners, researchers, and students in the fields of psychology, psychiatry, counseling, therapy, and social work,” said Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Alexander Street Press President. “Awards like this attest to the quality content and delivery that SAGE and Alexander Street Press provide.”

Learn more about Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works by visiting http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/psyc.htm.

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About SAGE Publications
SAGE is a leading international publisher of journals, books, and electronic media for academic, educational, and professional markets. Since 1965, SAGE has helped inform and educate a global community of scholars, practitioners, researchers, and students spanning a wide range of subject areas including business, humanities, social sciences, and science, technology, and medicine. A privately owned corporation, SAGE has principal offices in Los Angeles, London, New Delhi, Singapore, and Washington DC. www.sagepublications.com

About Alexander Street Press
Since 2000, Alexander Street Press has been bringing together the skills of traditional publishing, librarianship, and software development to create large-scale quality electronic collections in the humanities and social sciences. Today, Alexander Street Press offers more than 50 online collections totaling many millions of pages, providing unique resources for scholarship. http://www.alexanderstreet.com
 

About APEX
APEX is the Annual Awards for Publication Excellence Competition, which is sponsored by the editors of Writing That Works, the bimonthly newsletter for communicators who write, edit and manage business publications. Writing That Works is published by Communications Concepts, Inc., which, since 1984, has provided problem-solving information to professional communicators, including focused services to help publishing, PR and marketing professionals improve publications and communications programs. http://www.apexawards.com/

Contact Details
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 116
202-641-7819 (mobile)
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

 

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