Rebekah Irwin

Head of Collections and Digital Initiatives at the Middlebury College Library.

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Routledge Performance Archive (trial access)

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Through October 31st we have access to The Routledge Performance Archive (RPA).

The RPA provides access to interviews with key figures in theatre history and contemporary practice; masterclasses with actors from around the world; excerpted and full-length contemporary productions; and documentaries. The video material spans more than fifty years of documented work and ranges across the entire spectrum of theatre topics.

Find this trial and others at http://go.middlebury.edu/trials (go/trials).
Contact your area liaison with comments and feedback.

Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān Online (trial through Oct. 26)

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For the next month we have trial access to the Encyclopaedia of the Qur’ān and the Qurʾān Concordance.

Find both on our New & Trial Resources page (go/trials).

The Encyclopaedia includes qur’ānic terms, concepts, place names, cultural history, and essays on the most important themes and subjects within qur’ānic studies.

The Encyclopaedia includes the Qurʾān Concordance which allows users to identify and localize text fragments and snippets.

Mid-late 7th century Qur’anic manuscript from Wikipedia

Email Rebekah Irwin or your library liaison with comments.

New trial: Orlando Women’s Writing in the British Isles

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Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present is a resource for researchers, students, and readers with an interest in literature, women’s writing, or cultural history.

Find Orlando and other New & Trial Resources here (go/trials).

Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Orlando 
includes biographical and writing career entries on over a thousand writers, more than eight hundred and fifty of them British women. It also includes selected non-British or international women writers, and British and international men.

Our access ends October 22, 2012.

Email Rebekah Irwin or your library liaison with comments.

New to the Library for 2012-2013

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Selected new books and DVDs for 2012-2013

New journals subscriptions for 2012

New audiobooks for iPod/mp3 players and new ebooks for Kindles, Nooks, etc.

New Library collections in Environmental Studies

New library acquisitions for the study of China

New Library acquisitions for Latin America, the Caribbean, South and East Asia, & African history

New library collections for American history

New library collections: women’s history

JSTOR is on steroids

National Geographic online archive (1888-1994)

New Library acquisitions for the Sciences

New to the library: statistics and GIS data

New to the library: technology and computer science resources

Consumer Reports online

New journal subscriptions for 2012

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Find these newly added journals and tens of thousand more in the Journals A-Z list (http://go.middlebury.edu/journals or go/journals):

Capitalism Nature Socialism
Cold Spring Harbor Protocols
Consumer Reports
Disability & Society
Environmental Justice
Fertility and Sterility
Journal of Eastern African Studies
Nature Climate Change
Nature Geoscience
German Politics
Philosophical Psychology
Radical Philosphy
South Asia: Journal of South Asian Studies

New Library collections in Environmental Studies

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Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E)
Environment & Energy Publishing (E&E) is a “leading source for comprehensive, daily coverage of environmental and energy policy and markets.” Included publications are EnergyWireClimateWireEnvironment and Energy Daily (E&E Daily), GreenwireE&E News, ETV, and E&E Reports.

Environmental Justice
A journal exploring the equitable treatment of all people, especially minority and low-income populations, with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.

GREENR Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources
A site for research on sustainability and the environment. News, video, interactive maps, and original documents covering energy systems, healthcare, food and others.

Nature Climate Change (2007 – current)
Dedicated to research on the impacts of global climate change and its implications for the economy, policy and the world at large.

Digital Sanborn Maps available

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The Sanborn Company began making fire insurance maps in 1867. Sanborn maps are valuable tools for urban specialists, social historians, architects, geographers, genealogists, local historians, planners, environmentalists and anyone who wants to learn about the history, growth, and development of American cities, towns, and neighborhoods.

Digital Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps, 1867 – 1970 has been expanded from just Vermont to all fifty states, plus the District of Columbia.

Sanborn Maps Geo Edition allows searching by GPS coordinates and includes tools that layer maps from different years on top of each other and over modern street, satellite, and hybrid layers via a Google map interface.  This enhanced version of the Sanborn maps database currently includes maps from a dozen states and will grow with time.

Both are available on the trials page at go/trials.

Middlebury College, detail from 1927 Sanborn