Word on the Street

Video in the Library webcast - May 4th

On May 4th Alexander Street and Library Journal will host a free webcast focused on the latest trends in video delivery and what they mean for libraries. Register now for "Video in the Library: Trends and Best Practices" on Tuesday, May 4th from 2 to 3 PM EDT.

Alexander Street president Stephen Rhind-Tutt, Arizona State University's deg farrelly, and Harvard College Library's Cheryl LaGuardia will discuss new video formats and delivery options, technology and software overviews, licensing and copyright issues, and other questions your library may have about video. The webcast will present you with all the information you need to make informed decisions about how to deliver video services that best serve your patrons' needs.

Learn more and register now at http://www.libraryjournal.com/alexandervideo.

Scheduled maintenance on April 24

We will be performing scheduled maintenance on all Alexander Street Press collections on Saturday, April 24, 2010 between 8 AM and 4 PM EDT / UTC-4. Please note that access to all collections could be affected for up to 4 hours. We apologize in advance for any inconvenience this may cause. As always, we'll try to keep any periods of downtime to a minimum, but please plan accordingly.

If you have any questions prior to the scheduled maintenance, or if you experience problems after the times listed above, please contact Customer Support at support@alexanderstreet.com or +1 703.212.8520.

Thank you for your patience and understanding.

Two collections named Best Reference titles by Library Journal

Today Library Journal released their annual Best Reference list for 2009. Among the ten online resources identified as top reference titles are two Alexander Street streaming video collections, American History in Video and Counseling and Therapy in Video.

Also a 2009 Booklist Editors' Choice selection for Best Reference, American History in Video is freely accessible through April 30th.

And if you're interested in hearing about the latest trends in video delivery and what they mean for libraries, you can register now for Alexander Street's May 4th webcast, "Video in the Library: Trends and Best Practices." More information can be found here.

For more information on Alexander Street's Best Reference titles, please read our press release. If you'd like to request a free trial or pricing information for your library, please email sales@alexanderstreet.com.

New release of Social Theory

Last month we updated Social Theory with new materials from a host of important social theorists. The collection is nearing completion and now contains over 145,000 pages. Newly added works from prominent theorists include:

• The Perfect Crime by Jean Baudrillard
• The Authoritarian Personality by Theodor Adorno
• Language and Symbolic Power by Pierre Bourdieu
• Art as a Social System by Niklas Luhmann
• The Twilight of the Idols by Friedrich Nietzsche
• Stigma by Erving Goffman
• Postmodernity and its Discontents by Zygmunt Bauman
• One-Dimensional Man by Herbert Marcuse
• Macro History: Essays In the Sociology of the Long Run by Randall Collins

Newly added works from women theorists include:

• Resident Alien: Feminist Cultural Criticism by Janet Wolff
• Property, Women and Politics: Subject Or Objects by Donna Dickenson
• A Rational Position on Suffrage: At the Request of the New York Times Charlotte Perkins Gilman
• The Everyday World as Problematic: a Feminist Sociology by Dorothy Smith
• Situating the Self: Gender, Community and Postmodernism in Contemporary Ethics by Seyla Benhabib

Finally, the remaining 18 volumes of The Collected Works of Marx and Engels have been added along with several titles from Polity Press.

Social Theory is available to libraries worldwide via annual subscription or outright purchase. For more information and to request a free trial or price quote for your library, please email sales@alexanderstreet.com.