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Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries updated

We've just added a new batch of material to Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries, the online collection created in partnership with the American Antiquarian Society! Along with an update that brings the Allen Johnson collection from 25,000 to nearly 49,000 pages, we've added 5,166 pages from four new collections, including:

• Ruth Henshaw Bascom Papers, 1789-1846
• Burr Family Papers, 1805-1836
• Anna Quincy Thaxter Cushing Papers, 1816-1918
• Waldo Family Papers, 1788-1830

Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries is available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide. For more information, including free trial and pricing requests, please email sales@alexanderstreet.com.

Scheduled maintenance on Sunday, October 17

On Sunday, October 17, 2010, we will be performing scheduled maintenance on all Alexander Street collections. While we do not expect any major service outages, access may be disrupted sporadically between the hours of 8 AM and 4 PM EDT / UTC-4.

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.

Additionally, there will be maintenance at our data center on October 19, 20, and 21. During this time our sites might be slow to respond for a few minutes at a time. We do not anticipate a severe impact on services, but you may experience brief periods of sub-optimal performance.

If you have any questions prior to the scheduled maintenance, or if you experience problems after the times listed above, please contact Customer Support. If you are the technical contact at your library and would like to receive email notifications about future service interruptions, please sign up here.

Updates to The Digital Karl Barth Library

Two new volumes of Barth's Gesamtausgabe have just been added to The Digital Karl Barth Library. The online collection now includes volumes 1 through 45 of Gesamtausgabe, in addition to The Church Dogmatics in its entirety, and Die kirchliche Dogmatik and its English translation.

The new material includes Predigten 1921 (GA I.44), 31 sermons by Karl Barth that provide not only a window into his theology as given through the spoken word, but also something of Barth himself. This collection also contains a Biblical index, and index of terms, as well as a list of names.

Also included is Karl Barth-Charlotte Von Kirschbaum Band 1 1925-1935 (GA 5.44), the first volume of correspondence between Karl Barth and Charlotte Von Kirschbaum. Von Kirschbaum and Barth shared a unique relationship: she was his pupil, secretary, companion and theologian in her own right. Along with living with Barth and his wife Nelly for over 30 years, Barth and Charlotte would often vacation together, leaving Nelly home to care for the home and the children. Containing over 130 letters and spanning the time from 1925 to 1935, this collection will be of interest to theologians and historians alike.

The Digital Karl Bath Library is available to academic institutions worldwide. For more information, and to request a free trial and price quote, contact sales@alexanderstreet.com.