Text Us!: Ask a Librarian

The library offers a number of means for you to Ask a Librarian for research help and information. Besides visiting our service desks in the library, you can phone us, email us, and chat with us online. This week we introduce another way to Ask A Librarian: text messages (SMS). Now you can send us a text message with a question, and we’ll send a reply back to your phone or mobile device. Simply send your messages to:

267-266-4375

We’ll do our best to give you as complete an answer as possible. Be aware, while you can send us messages during off-hours (late at night, early in the morning) don’t expect a reply until the morning working hours. (You probably know the drill, but: Standard text messaging fees may apply, depending on your service plan.)

Historical Newspapers Content Update 1/11/10

The following content was recently added to:

America’s Historical Newspapers

Publication

Issues

Publication Location

Date Start

Date End

Boston Daily Advertiser

10312

Boston, MA

1860-01-03

1900-12-31

Manufacturers’ and Farmers’ Journal

35

Providence, RI

1861-01-01

1898-12-31

Ulster Gazette

5

Kingston, NY

1803-12-17

1821-05-30

Morning Telegraph

1

New York, NY

1870-01-02

 

Gazette-Telegraph

6

Colorado Springs, CO

1914-01-05

1921-04-23

New York Herald

1412

New York, NY

1875-04-20

1898-12-31

Evening Times

2048

Grand Forks, ND

1906-01-03

1914-03-28

Illustrated New Age

891

Philadelphia, PA

1863-07-29

1866-06-30

New Yorker Volkszeitung

12

New York, NY

1889-05-05

1898-08-18

 

Latin American Newspapers

Publication

Issues

Publication Location

Date Start

Date End

Diario de la Marina

1

Havana, Cuba

1902-03-11

 

Estrella de Panama

1545

Panama, Panama

1872-01-01

1904-02-28

Prensa

30

Buenos Aires, Argentina

1909-05-01

1909-05-31

Star and Herald

2119

Panama, Panama

1857-06-02

1877-06-30

Credo Reference Update: 12/21/09

Credo Reference recently added the following new titles:

  • Cambridge Handbook of Consciousness
  • Cambridge Handbook of Expertise and Expert Performance
  • Cambridge Handbook of Personal Relationships
  • The Cambridge Handbook of Psychology and Economic Behaviour
  • Cambridge Handbook of Psychology
  • The Cambridge Handbook of Sociocultural Psychology
  • The Edinburgh International Encyclopaedia of Psychoanalysis, Edinburgh University Press
  • Key Thinkers in Psychology, Sage UK
  • Religious Holidays & Calendars, Omnigraphics

ARTstor Update 12/11/09

ARTstor has announced the following:

Now available: Images of modern and contemporary Latin American art
Approximately 170 images of modern and contemporary Latin American art from Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, and Uruguay are now available in the Digital Library.

Now available: Architectural photography from Ralph Lieberman
Approximately 1,400 new images from Ralph Lieberman are now available in ARTstor.

Now available: African art and field photography from Christopher Roy
ARTstor has collaborated with Christopher D. Roy to share approximately 3,500 images of African art and culture, now available in the Digital Library

Trial of Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection

We have trial access to Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection thru 2/7/10.  The collection will include more than 300 important dramatic works in streaming audio from the curated archive of the nation’s premiere radio theatre company. The plays—which include some of the most significant dramatic literature of the nineteenth, twentieth, and twenty-first centuries—are performed by leading actors from around the world and recorded specifically for online listening.

The collection presents classics of the Western canon, modern works by American luminaries, originally commissioned plays, and high profile docudramas—by both renowned and emerging playwrights, such as:

  • Julius Caesar, William Shakespeare’s classic tale of duplicity, betrayal and murder, performed by Stacy Keach, Jobeth Williams, and Kelsey Grammer;
  • Arthur Miller’s The Crucible performed by Richard Dreyfuss, Michael York and Ed Begley, Jr., which mirrors the anti-Communist hysteria of the 1950s through the lens of the seventeenth-century Salem, Massachusetts witch trials;
  • Reginald Rose’s classic study of persuasion and power, Twelve Angry Men, starring Hector Elizondo, Richard Kind and Dan Castellaneta;
  • The Cherry Orchard , Anton Chekhov’s timeless story of an aristocratic Russian family’s fading fortunes and struggle to maintain their status in a changing world, starring Marsha Mason, Charles Durning and Jennifer Tilly;
  • Top Girls by Olivier Award-winning playwright Caryl Churchill, a modern comedy exploring the personal expense of one woman’s rise to the top of her field during the go-getting ‘80s, starring Amy Brennenman, Carolyn Seymour and Megan Austin Oberle;
  • The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, an L.A. Theatre Works originally commissioned docudrama about the seminal 1925 Scopes trial, starring Ed Asner, Mike Farrell and Sharon Gless.

More info is available here.  Your feedback is appreciated.

The Sixties: Content Update

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 recently added over 9,000 pages of new content from 430 sources.  The new content includes issues of several underground newspapers, including AMEX-Canada, Booklegger Magazine, Despite Everything, Fifth Estate, Free Student, The Paper, The Rag,The Partisan, Sanity, and The Vanguard.

Also included are materials from the radical right, such as The Truth Seeker and newsletters written by Americans for Conservative Action and American Association for Justice.

Newly added materials from the radical left include documents and papers by Students for a Democratic Society and the Black Liberation Movement.

A complete listing of the new content can be seen on the site’s What’s New page.