University Library Blogs

The library recently purchased Latin American Newspapers, a collection from the World Newspaper Archive.  From the description:

Latin American Newspapers represents the initial result of the partnership between the Center for Research Libraries community and Readex, a division of NewsBank to systematically create an extensive Web-based collection of international newspapers. CRL will guarantee the long-term availability of this news content for the CRL community.

This groundbreaking online collection provides more than 35 fully searchable Latin American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Featuring titles from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and elsewhere, Latin American Newspapers offers unprecedented coverage of the people, issues and events that shaped this vital region between 1805 and 1922.

Latin American Newspapers features such key publications as La Nacion, La Prensa and Vanguardia (Buenos Aires), Correio da Manha and Jornal do Commercio (Rio de Janeiro), O Estado de São Paulo (São Paulo), Mercurio (Santiago), La Prensa (Havana), El Guatemalteco (Guatemala City), Daily Chronicle (Georgetown, Guyana), La Revista de Yucatan (Merida, Mexico), La Patria, Mexican Herald and El Monitor Republicano (Mexico City) , El Dictamen (Veracruz Llave, Mexico), La Estrella de Panama and Star & Herald (Panama City), El Peruano and West Coast Leader (Lima), Port of Spain Gazette (Port of Spain), the Venezuelan Herald (Caracas) and more than a dozen others.

Latin American Newspapers now contains more than 425,000 pages of content.  New titles and issues will be released periodically on a rolling basis at a rate of nearly 100,000 pages per month, with an initial goal of one million pages by fall 2009.   The collection will contain potentially more than 1.5 million pages by the end of the project.

The library recently purchased Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II, which adds nearly seven million pages of content from close to 50,000 new titles to what could already be accessed through Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO).  The publisher states:

With content from an eclectic variety of materials, including books, directories, bibles, sheet music, sermons and advertisements, Eighteenth Century Collections Online, Part II offers full-text search capabilities supported by comprehensive metadata. The materials in the collection support research in every academic discipline, including literature, history, geography, the social sciences, fine arts, medicine, science, religion, philosophy and law. Source institutions include The British Library, Oxford University, National Library of Scotland, University of Texas, and the Library of Congress.

This new content is available via the Eighteenth Century Collections Online interface.  For additional details about ECCO, see the library’s original announcement about its purchase.

The library now has access to The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online from Alexander Street Press.  From the publisher’s description:

The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music Online is the first comprehensive online resource devoted to music research of all the world’s peoples. More than 9,000 pages of material, combined with entries by more than 700 expert contributors from all over the world, make this the most complete body of work focused on world music.

Each volume contains an overview of the region, a survey of its musical heritage, traditions and themes; and a description of specific musical genres, practices, and performances. Articles include detailed photographs that show musicians, musical instrument, and the cultural context of dances, rituals, and ceremonies. Other images include drawings, maps, and musical examples for further study. Since its first publication in 1997, The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music has been the pre-eminent reference work for research in ethnomusicology.

A review of this resource is available here.

The Georgia State University Library’s Johnny Mercer Collection website has been redesigned in honor of the Johnny Mercer Centennial. The website includes information on the manuscript and oral history collections, song and discography databases, and internet resources related to Mercer, his collaborators, and the popular music of his era.

The Popular Music and Culture Archives is presenting a series of radio programs during the month of June that highlight aspects of Johnny Mercer’s music and career. The programs will be broadcast on WRAS-Atlanta, 88.5 FM on Sundays, June 14 and 21, 2009, from 4-6 p.m.  These programs will feature Mercer’s musical output as a vocalist, as well as rebroadcasts of Mercer on vintage radio shows such as the Camel Caravan and Chesterfield Music Shop. 

For more information, please contact:
Kevin Fleming
Popular Music and Culture Archivist
Special Collections and Archives
Georgia State University Library
404-413-2891
kfleming@gsu.edu

Due to maintenance, all ProQuest databases, including ABI/INFORM Complete, American Periodicals Series Online, Ethnic Newswatch, GenderWatch and Research Library, will be unavailable from 10 p.m. on Saturday, April 18th through 6 a.m. on Sunday, April 19th.

The library now has access to volumes of the Encyclopedia of Associations, a resource providing detailed information about nonprofit member organizations, via the Gale Directory Library.  This product can be accessed via the library’s list of electronic resources and databases.

This resource was canceled for 2009.

This resource was canceled for 2009.

Family & Society Studies Worldwide, Left Index, and Women’s Studies International, all formerly hosted on BiblioLine, are now available on the EBSCOhost platform.  Access to all three of these titles is available through the library’s list of Electronic Resources & Databases.

This resource was canceled for 2009.