Word on the Street

And the winner is . . .

After a busy and exciting ALA Midwinter meeting, it's time to announce the winners of the various Alexander Street free subscription drawings. We'd like to thank the hundreds of librarians that participated in the drawings on the exhibit floor and at our advisory board roundtables. We appreciate your participation and the excellent feedback you always provide.

Without further ado, here are your ALA Midwinter winners:

• American History in Video - Judith Downie and California State University San Marcos
• Jazz Music Library - Rich Gause and University of Central Florida
• Local and Regional History Online - Jim Dooley and University of California Merced
• Underground and Independent Comics, Comix, and Graphic Novels - Catherine Michael and Ithaca College
• American History in Video - Nan Schichtel and Grand Rapids Community College

 

All subscriptions will begin as soon as each product is launched. Early Adopter Discounts are available on these collections and others. For more information email sales@alexanderstreet.com.

American Film Scripts is Complete

The latest, and final release of American Film Scripts is live. The completed collection now contains 1,009 scripts by 1,062 writers together with Semantically Indexed information on the scenes, characters, and people related to the scripts. More than half of the scripts in the collection are previously unpublished, and most are accompanied by PDF versions of the original script.

In addition to the 186 new screenplays added in this final release, American Film Scripts has a new look and feel. Head over to http://afso.alexanderstreet.com to take a look at the new interface and software enhancements. We've improved the search engine for better performance, introduced new toolbar navigation for easier browsing, added a collocation table option on the advanced searches, and kept all other functionality the same.

Subscribers will notice that the old platform will remain active until May 1, 2009, but we encourage you to get acquainted with the new interface. After that time, any bookmarks or links into any page of the collection will automatically redirect to the correct pages on the new platform.

Newly added scripts include:

• Journey Into Fear, uncredited direction by Orson Welles (1943); screenplay by Joseph Cotton.
• The Set Up, directed by Robert Wise (1949); won special jury prize at Cannes that year.
• Suspicion, directed by Alfred Hitchcock (1939); Academy Award for Best Actress for Joan Fontaine.
• The Claim, unproduced film treatment written by James Dickey.
• Back to Bataan, directed by Edward Dmytryk; featured John Wayne and Anthony Quinn.
• Edge of Darkness, directed by Lewis Milestone; screenplay by Robert Rossen.
• In This Our Life, directed by John Huston; screenplay by Howard Koch.
• 42nd Street, directed by Lloyd Bacon (1933); chosen for National Film Registry.
• The Fountainhead, directed by King Vidor (1949); screenplay by Ayn Rand.
• Confessions of a Nazi Spy, directed by Anatole Litvak (1939) National Board of Review award for Best Film that year.
• The Woman on the Beach, directed by Jean Renoir (1947); featured Joan Bennett and Robert Ryan.
• Now, Voyager, directed by Irving Rapper (1942); National Film Registry selection.
• Far North and Silent Tongue, two screenplays written by Sam Shepard.
• Multiple scripts from films directed by: William Wellman, Michael Curtiz, Busby Berkeley, Howard Hawks, Vincent Sherman, Raoul Walsh, Curtis Bernhardt, and others.

American Film Scripts is available on the Web through annual subscription or one-time purchase of perpetual rights. For more information, including pricing and trial options, please contact sales@alexanderstreet.com or your sales representative.

Scheduled Downtime for February 12

Please be advised that we will be performing scheduled maintenance on all Alexander Street Press online collections on Thursday, February 12. Services will be disrupted for all full-text collections between the hours of 9:00 PM and 3:00 AM EST/UTC-5. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause. No disruption is expected for any of the streaming audio or streaming video collections.

If you would like to receive email alerts for scheduled maintenance in the future, please sign up at http://www.alexanderstreet.com/resources/contactupdate.htm.

Thank you for your understanding. We hope to minimize the impact this downtime has your access to your collections.

If you have any questions please contact Customer Support.

AHA Winner Announced

We'd like to thank everyone that stopped by the Alexander Street Press booth at the American Historical Association meeting in New York City last month. We were overwhelmed by the number of historians that entered our drawing, and the enthusiasm and anticipation for American History in Video.

Congratulations to Parvine Ghaffari and San Diego Miramar College, winners of the AHA drawing for a free one-year subscription to American History in Video.

To find out how you can receive Sneak-Peek access to American History in Video as soon as it is launched visit http://alexanderstreet.com/products/inforequest.htm.