Middlebury College now has full access to The Illustrated London News digital archive, 1842-2003. The archive incudes over 260,000 color pages and full-text searching. Find it on our Journals & Databases page (go/journals) or our Databases A-Z page (go/databases).
Library as Book
This month’s magazine has a nice collection of vignettes of the library during finals.
From Library Journal / The Digital Shift:
“Multidisciplinary Open Access journal publisher PeerJ announced the publication of its first 30 peer-reviewed articles today. Co-founders Jason Hoyt, formerly chief scientist and VP for research and development for Mendeley, and Peter Binfield, formerly publisher of the Public Library Of Science (PLOS), launched PeerJ in June 2012. They quickly garnered support for the project, ultimately assembling an Editorial Board of 800 academics and an advisory board of 20—five of whom are Nobel Laureates…”
Full article.
Safari Books Online, our digital library with over 22,886 ebooks on technology, digital media, and design, announced some recent changes.
Find more ebooks and scholarly essays in Oxford Handbooks Online.
We’ve expanded access to include the following collections: Philosophy, Religion, Economics & Finance, Music, Literature, History, and Political Science.
Find OHO and other new library acquisitions & current trials here.
Helen Hartness Flanders
Middlebury College’s Library & Information Services (LIS) will participate in a federal grant rewarded to the Northeast Document Conservation Center to digitize wax cylinder recordings in the Flanders Ballad Collection, one of the nation’s great archival collections of New England folksong, folklore, and balladry.
Working in partnership with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the grant will use IRENE/3-D, a system that uses digital imaging to retrieve sound from historical recordings made on discs and wax cylinders that might otherwise be unplayable. IRENE/3-D was used at the Library of Congress in 2012 to extract sound from discs produced by Alexander Graham Bell whose contents hadn’t been heard since they were made about 125 years ago.
Wax cylinders, Middlebury’s Special Collections & College Archives
Middlebury College will make available over 200 wax cylinders and more than 1,000 records from the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection. This new technology will make it possible to capture sound even from broken and cracked cylinders and records, making it possible to play ballads not heard for over 80 years.
Along with Middlebury College, The Woody Guthrie Archives and The Carnegie Hall Archives will make historical records available to the project.
Learn more
The Library of Congress Blog post on IRENE/3D
Playback: 130-Year-Old Sounds Revealed at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Press Release for the NEDCC Grant Project
About Middlebury College – Helen Hartness Flanders Collection
About Carnegie Hall Archives Collections
About the Woody Guthrie Archives
Until February 15 the Middlebury College Libraries has trial access to Proquest’s House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP), a full-text searchable database with the working documents of government for all areas of social, political, economic, and foreign policy from the 18th century to the 21st.
House of Commons at Westminster 1808 (Wikimedia Commons)
Visit our New & Trial Resources page or search the House of Commons Parliamentary Papers (HCPP) here.
Please share your comments with Rebekah Irwin or your subject liaison.
Until February 6 we have access to the following:
Factiva.com from Dow Jones is a business and general reference resource that includes information in the areas of business, current events, communications, technology, foreign policy, and more. For the trial, when you are on the FACTIVA site, go up to the first tab “Search” and choose “Search Builder”.
The Vogue Archive is a comprehensive collection of American Vogue issues from its inception in 1892 to the present. Every issue has been reproduced in high-resolution color and is searchable by designer, brand name and garment type.
ProQuest History Vault: Struggle for Women’s Rights, 1880–1990: Organizational Records
This collection follows the growth of the women’s rights movement in America from the campaign for women’s suffrage to the passage of the Equal Rights Amendment and beyond. The archive includes the National Woman’s Party Papers (1913-1971), League of Women Voters collection (1918-1974), and documents about the Women’s Action Alliance (1971-1996).
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