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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 7 Gale Virtual Reference Library titles:

• The Encyclopedia of Islam
• Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education
• Encyclopedia of the Social and Cultural Foundations of Education
• Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, & Recovery
• International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers
• Encyclopedia of Food and Culture

In addition, the library purchased 7 Oxford Digital Reference Shelf titles:

• The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature
• International Encyclopedia of Linguistics
• Encyclopedia of Social Work
• Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895
• Oxford Classical Dictionary
• The Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America

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

The library now has access to the following titles via Gale Virtual Reference Library:

• Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film
  The preface states, “Readers will find in the Schirmer Encyclopedia of Film the major facts about film history, clear explanations of the main theoretical concepts and lines of scholarly interpretation, and guidance through important debates. Approaching cinema as art, entertainment, and industry, the Encyclopedia features entries on all important genres, studios, and national cinemas, as well as entries on relevant technological and industrial topics, cultural issues, and critical approaches to film.”  Read reviews of this title on Amazon.com
• Encyclopedia of Counseling
  From the introduction,”By covering all of the major theories, approaches, and contemporary issues in counseling, the encyclopedia includes close to 600 entries. To enable the reader to understand the major approaches and themes within the field of counseling, the current encyclopedia has been divided into four volumes: (1) changes and challenges facing counseling, (2) personal and emotional counseling, (3) crosscultural counseling, and (4) career counseling. However, each volume will also contain a cross-volume Reader’s Guide and a cross-referencing system to entries in other volumes. In this way, we have created a flexible encyclopedia that can be used together as a set or separately by volume depending on the need of the user.”  Read reviews of this title on Amazon.com

Going out of town after classes finish?  Need something to listen to on the long flight or drive?

We’ve just posted a guide to finding audiobooks for free, both in the library (we have a small collection on CD) and online.  Before you shell out to Amazon or Audible for listening material, take a look!

Audiobooks Guide

ticTOCs Journal Tables of Contents Service is a free site that monitors over 12,000 scholarly journals to alert researchers to new items.  Readers can subscribe to be notified via e-mail, RSS, or many other formats whenever new issues of journals are published.

The library now has access to the following titles via ScienceDirect:

• Encyclopedia of Infant and Early Childhood Development
  The foreword states, “This is an impressive collection of what we have learned about infant and child behavior by the researchers who have contributed to this knowledge. …This wonderful reference will be a valuable resource for all of those interested in child development, be they students, researchers, clinicians, or passionate parents.”  A review of this title is available here.
• International Encyclopedia of Public Health
  The foreword states, “The International Encyclopedia of Public Health is a tour de force in sorting through the history and prospects of important (and often contested) arenas of research and policy..While these volumes are published fully in English, contributors hail from 40 countries and many different languages.”  A review of this title is available here.

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.