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Alexander Street and Arcadia Publishing Launch Local History Collection Containing Hundreds of Thousands of Images and Texts

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ALEXANDRIA, VA and CHARLESTON, SC, June 23, 2009—Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press and local history book publisher Arcadia Publishing today announced the release of Local and Regional History Online: A History of American Life in Images and Texts. The collection includes hundreds of thousands of images and corresponding texts from every region and state in the U.S. and from many areas of Canada. It will grow to contain more than one million cross-searchable images, including photographs, postcards, maps, and other primary materials.

Says Alexander Street history editor Greg Urquhart, “Arcadia is the largest and most respected local history publisher in the U.S. and the best imaginable partner for this project. Every Arcadia book captures a piece of American history through primary documents and images. With Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing™, the collection becomes a massive and powerful primary-source research tool, a tapestry of the places and people that constitute this country’s social history.”

Urquhart noted that the collection will serve many disciplines, showing the personal stories and photos of immigrants, laborers, and newsmakers; documenting the local architecture of homes and businesses; showing images of racism and tolerance; and delivering history as observed in real time. Said Urquhart, “Researchers can identify images related to a specific region or event; compare architectural trends across regions and time periods; trace waves of immigration over time; or find images that give them a sense of labor conditions in New York’s garment district in the 1900s, or that help them understand living conditions in a Japanese internment camp during WW2, for example.”

Arcadia Publishing’s CEO Richard Joseph pointed out that the collection will be equally valuable for public library patrons. “Whether you’re a genealogy buff, a local historian, or a student exploring your home town’s history or the migration of family members around the country, this collection will give you a curbside look at bygone days and a street-level understanding of the lives of prior generations. Search across regions and decades for others who share your family name; trace changes to your home town’s Main Street from the late 1800s to the early 1900s; explore the history of a favorite building or public park; and find images of the places your grandmother remembers from her childhood. The collection is both addictive and fascinating. It presents history in the most meaningful sense.”

Local and Regional History Online can be browsed online for free at http://lrho.alexanderstreet.com.The collection is available to libraries via subscription or outright purchase of perpetual rights. Libraries can purchase the entire collection or select specific regional subsets. Individuals who are interested in accessing the collection should contact their university or public library for more information or to request trial access.

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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. 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. Visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com for more information.

About Arcadia Publishing
Established in 1993, Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States. Their mission is to make history accessible and meaningful and to celebrate and preserve the heritage of America’s people and places. Find your place in history in more than 5,000 books at www.arcadiapublishing.com.

About Local and Regional History Online
Learn more about Local and Regional History Online at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/lrho.htm or browse it for free at http://lrho.alexanderstreet.com. A guided Flash video tour of the collection can be found at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/video/LRHO/demo.html Libraries can subscribe to the entire collection or to subsets by geographical region. Interested libraries should contact sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com) for a price quote.

Media Contact Details
Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request trial access to the collection by emailing Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com) or by phoning 703-212-8520 x116 for a username and password.

Alexander Street Press
Meg Keller
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)
703-212-8520 x 116
http://www.alexanderstreet.com

Arcadia Publishing
PJ Norlander
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www.arcadiapublishing.com

Alexander Street to Host First Annual Online Jazz Music Festival, May 12-14

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ALEXANDRIA, VA—From Tuesday, May 12 through Thursday, May 14, electronic publisher Alexander Street will host the first annual Online Jazz Music Festival at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/JAZZfest.htm. Ordinarily accessible only to patrons of subscribing libraries, Alexander Street’s newest streaming music collection, Jazz Music Library, will be openly accessible to visitors worldwide for the duration of the festival.

Other planned festival highlights include: Concord Jazz videos featuring Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans, and Michael Feinstein; free music downloads; quizzes in which visitors can test their jazz knowledge; a juried playlist competition; and special discount coupons from publishing partners Concord Jazz and Jazzology. All visitors to the Online Jazz Music Festival will be entered in drawings to win prizes that include free CDs, a Flip video camera, and a free, one-year subscription to Jazz Music Library for the winning visitor’s public or university library.

Says music editor Liz Dutton on Alexander Street’s goals in hosting the festival, “We wanted to celebrate the launch of Jazz Music Library by giving access to people who might not otherwise be able to use it. It’s also a way to let people know about the collection. As more and more libraries subscribe, patrons tell us how thrilled they are to have access to this kind of resource.”

Continuously growing, Jazz Music Library currently includes more than 18,000 audio tracks featuring more than 3,800 artists in streaming audio. Covering virtually every important jazz composer and performer from the 1920s to today and the full range of jazz genres from big band to free jazz, the collection currently includes works licensed from a long list of record labels, including Audiophile, Concord Jazz, Contemporary Records, Fantasy, Jazzology, Milestone, Prestige, and Riverside. Says Dutton, “Festival attendees can listen to recordings from the Charlie Byrd Trio, Stan Getz, Eric Dolphy, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Nnenna Freelon, the Count Basie Orchestra, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, and thousands of others.”

Future releases of the collection will include the NPR radio broadcast series of Marian McPartland’s Peabody award-winning Piano Jazz as well as rarely heard live performances from the Monterey Jazz Festival and the Newport Jazz Festival, together with live recordings from famous jazz venues including the Village Vanguard, the Blue Note, the Apollo, the Jazz Standard, the Black Hawk, the Five Spot, and many others. Most of these recordings are made available in Jazz Music Library for the first time.

Additional information about Jazz Music Library is available on the Alexander Street Press Web site at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/jazz.htm and from the Online Jazz Festival Web Site at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/JAZZfest.htm.

* All dates / times are EDT / GMT -4.

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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, music, and performing arts. Since its beginnings in 2000, Alexander Street has delivered uniquely powerful search capabilities powered by Alexander Street’s Semantic Indexing™ and content not available anywhere else. Alexander Street collections are available to library and educational institutions via annual subscription or outright purchase of perpetual rights.

Festival Access
All visitors can access Alexander Street’s Online Jazz Music Festival at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/JAZZfest.htm from Tuesday, May 12 at 7:00 a.m. through Thursday, May 14 at midnight (EDT, GMT-4). Free access to Jazz Music Library is available from the URL above for the duration of the festival.

Trial and Reviewer Access
Free trial access is available to libraries and educational institutions. To request trial access and pricing information, email sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com). Reviewers, media contacts, libraries, and university faculty may request access to Jazz Music Library by emailing Meg Keller at mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

Contact Details
Meg Keller, Director of Marketing
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703.212.8520 x 116
mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com (mkeller [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com)

Alexander Street Debuts Streaming Video Series of Milgram's Defining Experiments in Social Psychology

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Alexander Street Press announces the addition of a six-film series featuring the innovative and often controversial experiments of social psychologist Stanley Milgram. This set is available for the first time in streaming format exclusively through Alexander Street.

The series centers around the defining experiments of Milgram’s career, most notably his revolutionary study on obedience to authority. The film Obedience includes the only authentic footage of Milgram’s famous 1961 experiment, in which subjects at Yale University were told to administer electric shocks of increasing severity to another person. The stunning results of the experiment, which showed that sixty-five percent of participants administered the experiment’s final massive 450-volt shock, remain relevant more than fifty years later as people continue to ask themselves, “Would I pull that lethal switch?”

Other films in the Milgram series include:

The City and the Self — A combination art and documentary film exploring the concepts of urban overload, selective attention, and cases like the murder of Kitty Genovese.
Conformity and Independence — An examination of psychology’s primary findings on why people conform, obey, and dissent in various social situations.
Human Aggression — An exploration of the major scientific principles governing human aggression, using examples from a youth gang to illustrate how aggression is learned and expressed.
Invitation to Social Psychology — An overview of the guiding principles of social psychology, including reenactments of experiments from renowned researchers like Asch, Bandura, and Zimbardo.
Nonverbal Communication — A collection of expert interviews discussing research theories on nonverbal behavior including gesture, expression, and body language.

A preview of this series can be found on the Alexander Street Press YouTube channel. Videos from the Milgram series are available individually or as a series, and can be purchased online in streaming video format or as DVDs.

For more information on The Stanley Milgram Films on Social Psychology, or to order, visit http://www.alexanderstreet.com/milgram. Qualified faculty and library staff may request trial access and pricing information by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com. To request a reviewer copy, please contact Abby Horowitz at ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:

Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

Alexander Street Press' The Sixties Collection Grows By Over 8,000 Pages

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OCTOBER 18, 2011 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) -- Electronic publisher Alexander Street Press announces the addition of over 8,000 new pages and more than 1,000 new sources to its popular collection, The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974.

The range of new materials added to The Sixties reflects the publisher’s commitment to providing affordable educational access to the highest quality primary-source content for scholarly research. For the first time, The Sixties contains materials from the Fred Hirsch Ephemera Collection at San Jose State University. Researchers will find among the fascinating items in this collection a “Free Angela Davis” protest pamphlet; a report on a community patrol set up to monitor abuse by police in low-income areas (published in the San Jose Peace Officers’ Association bulletin, The Vanguard), and a congressional district proposal to create an offshoot to the Democratic Party called the “Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party.”

Fred Hirsch, a union activist and organizer, was a key player in 1960s civil rights activism and the materials from his collection are extremely valuable in the study of that time period. Among his many achievements, Hirsch wrote the first pamphlet exposing CIA machinations in the Latin American labor movement and participated in the Mississippi Freedom Summer project to help register African American voters in Mississippi.

“The immediacy of these documents is spectacular,” said Julie Miller, editor of The Sixties. “The Hirsch collection provides a window into the passion of the people involved in activism in the 1960s. You can feel the palpable suspicion of law enforcement in narratives like The Vanguard report, and see the passion and power of activists through the layout of the Angela Davis pamphlet.”

Along with the Fred Hirsch materials, archival documents from the Wilcox Collection at the University of Kansas and from Stony Brook University have been added -- The Sixties now contains more than 89,000 pages and over 4,000 sources.

More information on The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960 to 1974 can be found at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/products/sixt.htm . Qualified faculty and library staff may request a trial and pricing information for VAST or any individual video collections by emailing sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com ( sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com).

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections for scholarly research, teaching, and learning. Our products are available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide via annual subscription or one-time purchase. Learn more at http://www.alexanderstreet.com.

Contact for Media Inquiries / Reviewer Access:
Audrey DeGregorio, Marketing Communications Associate
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 X116
adegregorio [at] astreetpress [dot] com

Alexander Street Debuts Contemporary Documentary Collection

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APRIL 30, 2013 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press’s newest collection Filmakers Library Online: Volume II will feature 100 issue-based documentaries produced from 2009 to the present, adding colorful perspective to virtually any academic program.

A follow-up to the award-winning first volume, Filmakers Library Online: Volume II delivers timely films that often can’t be found anywhere else. Content in the collection covers education, international relations, politics, psychology, criminal justice, the arts, history, gender studies, and more.

Films are hand-selected by an experienced team of editors for their individual merits, with a careful focus on critically acclaimed titles, award winners, and those shown at industry festivals. Titles in the collection’s first release include:

Africa’s Last Taboo—Award-winning correspondent Sorious Samura’s investigation into the experience of being gay in Africa (2012).
The Big Fix—An exposé on the aftermath of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill (2011, Official Selection, Cannes Film Festival).
Google Baby—A journey across three continents to examine the up-and-coming baby production industry in the age of globalization (2012, Western Psychological Association).
Julian Bond: Reflections from the Frontlines of the Civil Rights Movement—A modern-day portrait of the SNCC founder and renowned civil rights leader (2012, Virginia Film Festival).
Let Fury Have the Hour—A raw, unapologetic journey into the heart of today’s creative counter-culture (2012, Official Selection, Tribeca Film Festival).
Lost and Sound—A profile of three deaf individuals trying against the odds to rediscover music (2012, Official Selection, SXSW Film Festival).
Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness—The life and times of the Yiddish writer often called the “Jewish Mark Twain” (2012, Jerusalem International Film Festival).
The Silent Truth: Crimes Against Women in the Military—A chronicle of the suspicious death in Iraq of US Army Private Lavena Johnson (2012).

“The films in this collection speak volumes about the cultures, lifestyles, and events affecting people across the world, but also in our own backyards,” said Andrea Traubner, editor at Alexander Street Press. “To see today’s most relevant issues brought vibrantly to life adds important layers of meaning, whether you’re studying the history of civil rights or the future of our planet.”

Filmakers Library Online: Volume II is available to academic, public, and school libraries worldwide. No special setup or software is required—all you need is a Web browser. Prices are scaled to institutional size and budget. To request a free trial or price quote, please email sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:

Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

Alexander Street Sponsors Developments To Important Library Software: Partners with Equinox Software to Enhance Evergreen

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(ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press has sponsored Georgia-based Equinox Software, Inc. in the development of new enhancements to its Evergreen Open Source ILS library software.

Equinox is recognized as the international leader in Evergreen support, migrations, and software development. Evergreen, which launched in 2006, is a highly-scalable, open source integrated library system (ILS) that helps library patrons locate materials, and aids libraries of all sizes in managing, cataloging, and circulating those materials. The software is currently in use in more than 1,000 libraries globally.

The sponsored development project will build onto the existing ILS in two phases. The first phase includes creating enhancements to date-sensitive bibliographic searches and MARC record output. The second phase involves developing new functionality for the overlay of existing records. The end result will be an updated software system that enables increased efficiency and accuracy of record-keeping for thousands of librarians worldwide.

“We’re delighted to have this opportunity to support Equinox’s important work,” says Pat Carlson, Vice President of Metadata Standards and Bibliographic Controls at Alexander Street Press. “These enhancements will translate into meaningful changes in the user experience for countless librarians and their patrons.”

The project is expected to conclude in March of 2013, and will be included in the forthcoming release of Evergreen following community review.

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About Alexander Street Press
Alexander Street Press is an electronic publisher of award-winning online collections and video for scholarly research, teaching, and learning. Our products are available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide via annual subscription or one-time purchase. Learn more at http://www.alexanderstreet.com.

About Equinox Software, Inc.
Founded in 2007 by the original Evergreen developers, Equinox is an active and enthusiastic voice in the open source community. Equinox’s unparalleled depth of knowledge regarding libraries and library data is reflected in services including implementation, development, support, hosting, and educational services for both Evergreen and Koha software. For more information on Equinox Software, please visit http://www.esilibrary.com.

Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:
Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

Alexander Street Announces Winners Of 52-Collection Giveaway Free Streaming Access For One Year To A Library From Each State

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(SEATTLE, WA) – Alexander Street Press (ASP) has selected the winners of its 52-collection giveaway. One qualified library was selected from the applicants of each state—plus the District of Columbia and Canada—to win a year of free streaming access to Filmakers Library Online.

Filmakers Library Online contains more than 1,000 high-quality, issue-based documentaries and independent films from around the world—over 800 hours of content in all. Library Journal named the collection a 2011 Editor’s Choice Award winner, and Booklist declared it “highly recommended.”

The diversity of content in the database makes it ideal for libraries that are new to streaming video and looking to jumpstart their collections. Content is hand-selected to meet the needs of researchers and teaching faculty in a wide variety of disciplines: from race and gender studies, international relations, and criminal justice to the environment, bioethics, psychology, and the arts.

Alexander Street’s streaming video collections deliver many benefits for libraries: unlimited simultaneous users, nothing to circulate or shelve, and comprehensive indexing and transcription that allow users to easily locate content of interest, create clips and playlist to show later, and more.

Winning libraries were chosen from qualified entrants who applied through the ASP Web site. Winners will join an advisory panel, providing key thoughts and feedback throughout the year on how video resources are being used in their libraries.

A complete list of winning libraries can be found below.

For more information on Filmakers Library Online, or to request a free trial or price quote, please contact sales [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com.

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Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:

Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press

3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

The following libraries have been awarded one-year, no-cost subscriptions to Filmakers Library Online and have agreed to participate in Alexander Street Press’s advisory group.

State	Institution
Alabama	Levi Watkins Learning Center, Alabama State University
Arkansas	Boreham Library, University of Arkansas ‒ Fort Smith
California	Westmont College
Florida	Monsignor William Barry Memorial Library, Barry University
Hawaii	University of Hawaii at Manoa
Idaho	Boise Public Library
Illinois	Sauk Valley Community College
Indiana	Hamilton Library, Franklin College
Iowa	Henderson-Wilder Library, Upper Iowa University
Kansas	Forsyth Library, Fort Hays State University
Kentucky	Bluegrass Community & Technical College
Louisiana	LeDoux Library, Louisiana State University ‒ Eunice
Maine	Portland Public Library
Maryland	Harford Community College Library
Massachusetts	Wheelock College Library
Michigan	Glen Oaks Community College Library
Minnesota	Martin Luther College Library
Mississippi	Hinds Community College
Missouri	East Central College
New Hampshire	Amherst Town Library
New Jersey	Burlington County College
New Mexico	Santa Fe University of Art and Design
New York	Hinkle Library, Alfred State College
North Carolina	Gerald B. James Library, Rockingham Community College
Ohio	Xavier University Library
Oklahoma	Langston University
Oregon	Kellenberger Library, Northwest Christian University
Pennsylvania	The Art Institute
Rhode Island	University Libraries, University of Rhode Island
South Carolina	Coastal Carolina University
Tennessee	Bryan College
Texas	ACU Library, Abilene Christian University
Washington	Edmonds Community College
Wisconsin	Madison Area Technical College Library

Filmakers Library Online Nominated For Learning On Screen Award

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(ALEXANDRIA, VA) – Alexander Street Press’s collection Filmakers Library Online has received a nomination for a 2013 Learning on Screen Award from the British Universities Film & Video Council.

For more than 40 years, Filmakers Library, an imprint of Alexander Street Press, has delivered high-quality, issue-based documentaries and independent films from around the world. Filmaker’s Library Online brings together more than 1,000 of these titles in a single, easy-to search, multidisciplinary collection of streaming video designed specifically to meet the needs of researchers and teaching faculty.

The collection includes documentaries popular in humanities and social science classrooms and features the most relevant and contemporary topical coverage, including race and gender studies, human rights, global studies, multiculturalism, international relations, criminal justice, the environment, bioethics, health, political science, psychology, arts, literature, and more.

The Learning on Screen Awards “celebrate and reward excellence in the use of moving image and related media in learning, teaching and research.” Filmakers Library Online received a nomination in the General Education Non Broadcast / Multimedia Award category. Winners will be announced at a ceremony in London on Thursday, April 18, 2013.

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Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:

Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press

3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
703-212-8520 x 313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

Join us at ALA Midwinter!

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RSVP to the Alexander Street Customer Appreciation Breakfast.

We're very excited to be hosting this Midwinter's Customer Appreciation Breakfast again this year in Dallas, TX.

This time, you’ll hear about new video collections in many more disciplines, the fast growth of VAST: Academic Video Online, new full-text collections in gay and lesbian studies, anthropology, twentieth-century religious writing, and more—and new technologies, including an unprecedented way for your users to interact with media. And our guest speaker is one of today’s most notable documentary filmmakers.

You’ve watched the public-television series Prohibition (last month), Baseball: The Tenth Inning (last year), The War (2007), andFrank Lloyd Wright (1998). You can quickly name the co-producer who’s in the spotlight—Ken Burns. Do you know the other—equally sharing the directing and producing credits?

Come to our ALA customer breakfast to meet and hear Lynn Novick, whom The New York Times called “A Steady Presence Out of the Limelight”. Several Ken Burns / Lynn Novick film series are in Alexander Street’s American History in Video. Ms. Novick is a Yale alumna who worked in research at the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of American History, at WNET public television in New York, and as associate producer for Bill Moyers, before joining up with Mr. Burns. We’re thrilled to have Ms. Novick as our guest speaker!

At the breakfast, you will also learn about:

Developments in VAST: Academic Video Online – our multidisciplinary streaming video product growing quickly to 20,000 titles.
A new technology that will radically change the way users interact with online information! We can’t tell you more now, but you’ll want to be here to find out.
A brand-new way for you to bring your own content to the Alexander Street platform.
Classical Scores Library: Volume II—live this month.
Anthropology Online—live this month, the highly anticipated full-text companion to Ethnographic Video Online.
Gay and Lesbian Thought and Culture—live in mid-2012.
The March of Time—live early in 2012, the landmark newsreel project (1930s – 1960s) that put Time magazine into theatres and on television.
New global newsreels going into World History in Video.
Classical Music in Video—live early 2012, bringing classical performances to Alexander Street’s video offerings.
...and more. Please join us!

Please e-mail us as marketing [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com to request an invitation to the breakfast or roundtables.

South African University Libraries Grow Resources with African Women’s Writing Collection

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September 24, 2012 (ALEXANDRIA, VA) – South African university libraries are expanding their academic resources in the area of African women’s writing with the addition of literary anthologies from Alexander Street Press.

Universities including University of Western Cape, North West University, Rhodes University, and the University of Fort Hare have all expanded their academic offering to include volumes from the Women Writing Africa project.

This four-volume series is available at no charge to academic libraries throughout the African continent from Alexander Street Press. The series was developed by The Feminist Press and aims to restore African women’s voices to the public sphere. Each region-specific volume collects oral and written narratives as well as a variety of historical and literary texts to increase the visibility of the oral and written literary expression of African women.

The series’ four distinct volumes include:

Volume 1: The Southern Region, which documents and maps the extraordinary and diverse landscape of African women's oral and written literatures across the south beginning in the early 1800s.
Volume 2: West Africa and the Sahel, which draws upon more than a decade of research and covers the territory where many African Americans find their roots.
Volume 3: The Eastern Region, which traces the history of Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda, and Zambia in more than one hundred texts that date back to 1711.
Volume 4: The Northern Region, which includes more than one hundred texts from Algeria, Egypt, Mauritania, Morocco, Sudan, and Tunisia and features works from 3000 BCE to the present, covering subjects from Egyptian queen’s marriage proposal to contemporary women promoting new marriage and family laws.

These volumes are part of a larger collection, Black Women Writers, a global resource available through subscription or perpetual access. Academic institutions can sign up for access by visiting http://www.alexanderstreet.com/wwav2012. More information about Women Writing Africa and Black Women Writers is available online.

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Contact for Media Inquiries/Reviewer Access:

Abby Horowitz, Marketing Writer
Alexander Street Press
3212 Duke Street
Alexandria, VA 22314
United States
703-212-8520 x 313
ahorowitz [at] alexanderstreet [dot] com

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