Did you know we have lots of comics and graphic novels in the library? Many are print but we also have a large collection available online in Underground & Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels. We just bought new material for this online collection bringing us up to 1900 online comic books.
Alexander Street Drama
We’ve expanded our Alexander Street drama collection and now have the full collection which is called Alexander Street Drama.
We now have six collections that are cross-searchable via the North American Theatre Online interface. Find each individual collection on our database page or ebook master page.
Previously, we had Asian-American Drama, Black Drama, 2nd ed., and Latino Literature. We now have access to North American Indian Drama (244 plays), North American Women’s Drama (1517 plays) and 20th Century North American Drama (1905 plays). As usual, there’s lot of production-related content including ephemera.
Records for these collections will be added to the CUNY Catalog soon.
Alexander Street in the Classroom
Our fabulous Alexander Street databases are perfect for use in-class, particularly AMERICAN HISTORY IN VIDEO. Did you know you can link directly to specific videos and create custom clips?
On the anniversary of the Cuban Missile Crisis, here’s related videos from this collection.
While you were away … 5 New Alexander Street Databases
The library has acquired access to five new databases from vendor Alexander Street. They cover a variety of disciplines and topics in the humanities and are available for your searching pleasure:
- African American Music Reference
- Anthropology Online
- Asian American Drama
- Latino Literature
- Underground & Independent Comics, Comix, & Graphic Novels
They can be accessed via the library’s list of databases, all of which help you locate articles, primary documents, news articles, images, and more for your research!
Furthermore, the library has also purchased dozens of new e-books, adding more titles to our ever-growing accumulation of e-books! Visit the library’s list of e-book collections to see what we have to offer (especially via the MyiLibrary and Project MUSE vendors).
Keep checking back to see what else we add over the summer to aid you in your research in the fall!
If you’re having difficulties accessing the databases or e-books, check out the library’s instructions on accessing electronic resources from home. If you’re still having trouble, don’t hesitate to ask a librarian!
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New! Counseling and Therapy in Video
Counseling and Therapy in Video from Alexander Street is now live. This growing collection will eventually have 400 hours and more than 330 videos. Off-campus access will be available early next week.
Music Online trial
We are trialing Alexander Street’s Music Online product through the end of March:
Here is the full blurb from Alexander Street:
You can view the music collections either individually or-as we recommend-through the unified Music Online interface at http://music.alexanderstreet.com.
Continue reading “Music Online trial”
New Content for American History in Video
from Alexander Street: There has been another new content load for American History in Video — 1,008 new titles/253 new hours. The collection is now over halfway complete, with 1019 hours live.
Highlights Include:
* Newsreel Films and Black Panther Party Library
11 titles from the 1960’s era, including Columbia Revolt (about the Columbia sit-in) and 10 films from the Black Panther Party Library, including Marty Kenner, Movement Lawyers, Wheelock Conference, and Repression
* Documentary Educational Resources
Six new films, including Indian Self Rule, The Earth Is Our Home, and Kamikaze: Testimonials from WWII Suicide Pilots
* Presidential inauguration footage from the National Archives in Maryland
* Space footage and films from NASA
* Hundreds more releases from Universal Newsreel
In addition to the films themselves there are also many new Release Notes available (seen either in the Newsreel Browse area or in the Summary tab on the video screen)
* The Big Picture Series
From the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, showcasing military life and events of the Korean War era
* Vision USA Series
From the US Information Agency/Department of State, a 1970’s era series presenting American life and history to overseas audiences as a form of diplomacy
*Great archival footage showing campaign ads from 1960, the 1939-1940 World’s Fair, old Native American footage, US film defending the Japanese-American internment, and more
You can see all of the new titles by going to the What’s New page at this link — http://ahiv.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew
On Trial: American History in Video (Alexander Street)
“American History in Video” provides the largest and richest collection of video available online for the study of American history, with 2,000 hours and more than 5,000 titles on completion. The collection allows students and researchers to analyze historical events, and the presentation of historical events over time, through commercial and governmental newsreels, archival footage, public affairs footage, and important documentaries. This release includes over 1260 titles, equaling approximately 420 hours.” Access on-campus only.
Trial through May 16, 2009
New Content Added to Black Drama
We’ve upgraded to Black Drama, Second Edition, which adds 110 plays (for a total of 1310 plays) from 210 playwrights to the collection. New and notable additions to the second edition include plays written by Pearl Cleage (American), Maryse Conde (Guadeloupean), Alice Childress (American), Femi Euba (Nigerian), James Weldon Johnson (American), Adrienne Kennedy (American), Anna Deveare Smith (American), Ngugi wa Thiong’o (Kenyan), Roy Williams (English), and many others.
The Gilded Age, On Trial
(from the publisher) The Gilded Age brings primary documents and scholarly commentary together into a searchable collection that is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching this important period in American history. In addition to an extensive selection of key treatises that reflect the social and cultural ferment of the late nineteenth century, The Gilded Age offers a wealth of rare materials, including songs, letters, photographs, cartoons, government documents, and ephemera. This primary content is enhanced by video interviews with scholars and numerous topical critical documentary essays. Covering such themes as race, labor, immigration, commerce, western expansion, and women’s suffrage, these essays illuminate the rapidly changing cultural landscape of America during the decades between the end of the Civil War and the election of Theodore Roosevelt.”
On trial through July 1, 2008. Access on campus only.
