Alexander Street Press News and Updates

resources for promoting your library's music collections

With the help (and gentle prompting) of our customers Alexander Street has designed some marketing materials for your library.  Visit http://alexanderstreet.com/resources/index.htm to download a zip file full of ways to boost music database usage.  Once you have the PDF files you can customize them to your library, and the services you offer.  From there, print them out and use them everywhere to remind patrons of the valuable resources at their disposable.  We recommend keeping them on hand at your circulation desk and providing them with each check-out, or at your computer work stations.

Another great way of promoting your library's services is with our free music downloads  Every two weeks,  we take a complete work from Classical Music Library and make it available for free download.  You can add a link to the free download site on your library's homepage, your own blog site, or anywhere else you think people may like free downloads.  You can use either a simple text link, http://musicdownloads.alexanderstreet.com/promo, or you can grab one of t the banner ads below. Hint:  to get the html, pick the "just give me the code" option.

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View the music weblog for more info on the download program,  or contact our marketing department at gurquhart@astreetpress.com for help with the banner ads or download service.

Please feel free to leave your comments or suggestions here for other ways to improve usage.  As always, don't hesitate to contact us if you have questions, or suggestions for ways that Alexander Street Press can better serve you.  Email technical questions to support@astreetpress.com, or marketing inquiries to gurquhart@astreetpress.com.

 

Black Drama reviewed by CHOICE

Heavy praise for Alexander Street's now complete, Black Drama from R.J. Cirasa of Kean University.  Among the highlights are historical and contemporary works, by authors from America and the African diaspora.

New URLs for Literature Resources

New editions of the Alexander Street Press literature databases are now available on our World Literature Series platform.  In addition to a new and improved user interface, these databases will be cross-searchable in the coming months.  Please update your URLs for the following literature products:

• Latino Literature - http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/lali
• Latin American Women Writers - http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/laww
• Black Short Fiction - http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/blfi
• Black Women Writers - http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/blww
• Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period - http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/swrp

It is important to update your URLs and use the new editions of these resources in order to have access to the latest content.  While the old versions will remain active until April 2008, only the new editions will be updated regularly with additional content.  You can subscribe to the RSS feeds on the database homepages for updates on new content.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at support@alexanderstreet.com.   Thanks and enjoy!

Some Content Currently Unavailable

Due to an unexpected technical error on one of our servers, content is temporarily unavailable in the following databases:

Caribbean Literature
South and Southeast Asian Literature
Primary Sources in Counseling and Psychology
Classical Scores Library

Liner notes and images in African American Music Reference are also unavailable at this time, but full text is still available. 

In addition to these databases, the new versions of our literature products are also affected.  However, these databases are fully functional on our old platform.  Until this problem has been resolved please use the following URLs to connect to the literature products:

Latino Literature - http://lali.alexanderstreet.com
Latin American Women Writers - http://laww.alexanderstreet.com
Black Short Fiction - http://blfi.alexanderstreet.com
Black Women Writers - http://blww.alexanderstreet.com
Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period - http://swrp.alexanderstreet.com

We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to have this issue resolved in the next 24 hours.

Check back here, or add this blog's feed to your RSS reader (like My Yahoo!), for the latest developments on this situation.

If you have any questions please feel free to contact me at support@alexanderstreet.com.  Thank you for your patience.

-Patrick Cole
Customer Support

Possible service interruptions this weekend

We will be conducting some standard maintenance on our servers this weekend.  Users of our databases may experience some short service interruptions this Sunday, August 12th after 12 noon.

Service should be fully restored before Monday, August 13th. 

Check back here, or add this blog' feed to your RSS reader (like My Yahoo!), for any changes in this schedule.

Product Usage Stats Now Available Online

Wish there was an easier way to get your usage statistics?  The new Product Usage Statistics site is finally here!  Usage data for your full-text databases can now be obtained online at your convenience.  For more information on the site and to receive your login credentials, please contact Patrick Cole at support@alexanderstreet.com.