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Library Prize Info Sessions

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Would you like to win $1,000 and a prestigious award from Temple Libraries? The deadline for submitting your work to the 2010 Library Prize for Undergraduate Research is Monday, March 29, 2010. Learn more about the Library Prize at two upcoming info sessions: 1) Monday, March 22 from 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in Paley Library, Room 130 (mezzanine level) 2) Thursday, March 25 from 10:00 a.m. to noon in Paley Library, Room 130 (mezzanine level) These sessions are your opportunity to ask questions and get a leg up on the competition! Don’t forget to check out our Library Prize website, especially our How to Apply and FAQ pages.

Bibliography of the History of Art Ceases Publication

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The Temple University Libraries were notified today that the Getty Research Institute has discontinued publication of the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA), a critical database in the field of art history. Furthermore, we regret to report that the Getty will switch off all access to the BHA at the end of March 2010. Proquest, the distributor through which Temple has had access to the BHA, confirmed in writing to us that the Getty had been looking for a buyer for the database but that as of last week, no other publisher was willing to buy and continue the database. So Getty is pulling the plug. ProQuest maintains that no extension of access for any customers will be possible after March 31.

Alternatives:

  • The Bibliography of the History of Art is a superior database and its coverage has not been duplicated in any single database available to us, but the Temple University Libraries can offer you some alternative databases that provide some overlap of BHA content.
  • ARTbibliographies Modern: Covers around 150 of the journals on BHA’s list, with unsurpassed strengths in areas such as modernism, contemporary global art and photography
  • British Humanities Index: Covers around 80 BHA journals, covering subjects such as fine art, antiques, museums, classical studies, European studies and interdisciplinary studies
  • Design and Applied Arts Index (DAAI): Covers 40 BHA journals, with overlapping subject strengths in costume and dress, decorative arts and interiors

Again, all access to the Bibliography of the History of Art (BHA) will cease on Wednesday, March 31, 2010. Please continue to use this resource until then.

— by Jill E. Luedke, Reference & Instruction Librarian / Art Subject Specialist

JSTOR Update 3/1/10

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The following journals have been added to JSTOR.

Occupational and Environmental Medicine [1994- ]
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=occuenvimedi
Previous Title: British Journal of Industrial Medicine [1944-1993] (0007-1072)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=brijindumedi
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1944) – Vol. 50, No. 12 (December, 1993);
Vol. 51, No. 1 (January, 1994) – Vol. 63, No. 12 (December, 2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: BMJ Publishing Group
ISSN: 1351-0711
Note: The remaining content for Vol. 1 (1944) will be released as soon as the issues become available to JSTOR.

The Wilson Quarterly (1976-)
http://www.jstor.org/action/showPublication?journalCode=wilsonq
Release Content:
Vol. 1, No. 1 (Autumn, 1976) – Vol. 32, No. 4 (Autumn, 2008)
Moving Wall: 1 year
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars
ISSN: 0363-3276

Credo Reference Update: 3/1/10

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Credo Reference recently added the following:

  • The Cambridge Handbook of Computational Psychology
  • The Cambridge Handbook of Violent Behavior and Aggression
  • Dictionary of Environmental Science and Technology, Wiley
  • Dictionary of Forensic Psychology, Willan Publishing
  • Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science, Wiley
  • The Encyclopedia of Public Choice, Springer Science+Business Media
  • Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, Elsevier Science & Technology
  • Encyclopedia of the Human Genome, Wiley
  • Women in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia, ABC-CLIO

Alexander Street Press Music Update : 2/25/10

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New content has been added to several of the Alexander Street Music Online collections:

African American Music Reference: 1,317 pages in 15 titles from Chelsea House Publishers, Hampton Institute Press, and David McKay. New titles include:

  • Traditional Black Music Series (13 volumes) by Jerry Silverman (sheet music including spirituals, slave songs, songs of protest and civil rights)
  • Sheet music of hymns and religious folk songs published by Hampton Institute Press
  • Echoes of Africa in Folk Songs of the Americas (Beatrice Landeck)
  • African American Music Reference now totals 34,112 pages

American Song: 912 tracks from 40 albums of traditional folk songs, rural blues, gospel hymns, and more. Highlights include:

  • 9 volumes of traditional folk songs recorded specifically for American Song by folk singer Jerry Silverman. These folk songs were collected and published in his Folk Song Encyclopedia. These are the recordings that complement the sheet music in the Encyclopedia. Liner notes for the songs include a description of the folk song plus the complete lyrics.
  • Country/rural blues from Takoma Records
  • I’m Going Down to North Carolina – The Complete Recording ofthe Red Fox Chasers, 1928-31, from Tompkins Square Records

Classical Music Library: 3,528 tracks from 258 albums from Bridge Records, Celestial Harmonies, and Mark Custom Records, 1,300 new compositions were added to the collection, including wind ensemble/wind symphonies, choral music, contemporary music by Luciano Berio, David Rakowski, and more. Examples of new albums include:

  • David Rakowski: Etudes, Vol. 3
  • Three Quartets: The Apollo Saxophone Quartet
  • Theme and Variations: Improvisations On Children’s Songs
  • H. Kling: 40 Characteristic Etudes for French Horn
  • Susan Levitin, Gerald Rizze: 20th Century American Duos for Flute & Piano
  • The American Impressionist Organ

Classical Scores Library: 9,716 pages from 205 scores from Faber Music, Ltd., and Universal Edition. New scores include compositions by Thomas Adès, Julian Anderson, Alban Berg, Victoria Borisova-Ollas, Anne Boyd, Arcangelo Corelli, Colin Matthews, Robert Schumann, Peter Sculthorpe, Carl Vine, Carl Maria von Weber, and more. Classical Scores Library now contains 14,757 scores and 318,263 pages.

Jazz Music Library: Additional indexing has been completed for over 1,000 albums in Jazz Music Library. New fields, including complete instrumentation, subgenres, and biographical data were released for these albums.