Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present by Cambridge University Press includes entries on over a thousand authors’ lives and writing careers, contextual material, timelines, intertextual links, and bibliographies.
Find Orlando and other New & Trial Resources here.
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
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.
Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO) is a full-text, searchable research collection of 19th century monographs, newspapers, manuscripts, photographs, maps, ephemera, and statistical data.
Currently, Middlebury College has access to two collections: British Politics and Society and European Literature, 1790-1840: The Curvey Collection.
Both collections can be searched together through the Nineteenth Century Collections Online website and through our New Trials page.
Ultimately, this research collections will grow as the following groups of archives are added:
Please send comments to Rebekah Irwin (rirwin@middlebury.edu) or your library liaison.
For the month of April, please visit the following East Asian historical archives databases. The Library is considering them through a collaboration with several Vermont colleges:
India Raj and Empire
Original manuscript material ranging from the foundation of the East India Company in 1615 to records of daily life in Agra, Bombay, Lahore, and Madras. Included are diaries, letters, maps, sketches and official and private papers. The collection is particularly strong for the 18th and 19th centuries.
Foreign Office Files for India, Pakistan and Afghanistan, 1947-1980
Three archival collections drawn from the British Foreign Office files on the countries of South Asia from shortly before Indian partition and independence up to 1980. The archival documents are divided into the following sections: (1) Independence, Partition and the Nehru Era, 1947-1964, (2) South Asian Conflicts and Independence for Bangladesh, 1965-1971 (3) Afghanistan and the Cold War, Emergency Rule in India, and the Resumption of Civilian Rule in Pakistan, 1972-1980.
Empire Online
Empire Online is an interactive digital collection exploring colonial history, politics, culture and society. The archive is designed specifically to encourage the use of primary sources in teaching and includes 1000s of images of unique primary material including maps, manuscripts, pamphlets, paintings, drawings and rare books spanning five centuries from a translation of Columbus’s 1492 voyage to the 21st century.
Although these three collections are available separately, they can be searched as a group using Archive Explorer.
These trials can also be found on the New & Trial Resources page (go/trials).
Please send comments to Rebekah Irwin (rirwin@middlebury.edu) or your library liaison.
All of Middlebury College now has access to the Journal of the American Medical Association from 1998 to the current issue. Access JAMA here directly, or through our Journals A-Z list.
And you don’t need to add a secret username and password to access JAMA content as in years past. Anyone on campus (or off campus) can access JAMA.
Enjoy!
Along with over ten liberal arts colleges, Middlebury has arranged to trial several Chinese language research databases.
We now have trial access to over 45,000 Spanish language books, research papers, and doctoral thesis, all in full-text, via e-libro. Access e-libro here or visit our New & Trials page for a list of additional library resources.
The trial runs through April 12th. Please send comments to Rebekah Irwin (rirwin@middlebury.edu) or your library liaison.
Today, March 8th, Middlebury College Library celebrates 102 years of International Women’s Day. (And March is also Women’s History Month, so what the heck, let’s celebrate all month long.) The U.N. has a helpful timeline detailing the history of this day and the theme of International Women’s Day 2012: Empower Rural Women – End Hunger and Poverty.
Women's Day 1914, Germany
The Library has endless ways to celebrate women, so today, we’ll name but a few. Please add your own comments below and add to the festivities.
Visit our Women’s and Gender Studies (WAGS) Research Guide
Search Women and Social Movements a research archive organized around the history of women in social movements in the US between 1600 and 2000.
Listen to Biophilia, by Björk, the Icelandic pop star, or anything by Björk, for that matter. Request her CDs at the Davis Library’s circulation desk.
Watch the first season of Xena, Warrior Princess, the French film Séraphine, about a self-taught, middle-age painter, or How to Be a Woman, a compilation of school classroom films of the 1940s-1980s including Let’s make a sandwich (1950) and Why study home economics (1955).
Stream an audio recording by Sofia Gubaidulina, the ground-breaking Russian/Tatar composer known for combining bongos, cymbals, tam-tams, among other percussion instruments.
Or simply browse Midcat for books, DVDs, and more, all about: Women.
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