Word on the Street

ALA Winners and Videos from Anaheim

Alexander Street would like to thank everyone that attended the Customer Appreciation Breakfast at ALA in Anaheim, and all of you who stopped by our booth, attended the roundtable sessions, and participated in the live demos in our theatre.

We would also like to congratulate all of the winners of our one-year subscription giveaways:

Norman Belk and the South Carolina Governor's School for the Arts and Humanities won a subscription to Opera in Video.

Elizabeth Evans and Point Park University were the winners of a free year of Dance in Video.

Albert Tovar and the Azusa City Library won a subscription to any collection in our new Critical Video Editions series.

And finally, Judy Anderson and Concordia University and Michael Martinez and Reinhardt College won subscriptions to Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection as soon as it's launched.

If you have not had a chance to see the videos from ALA, including a performance by actors from the L.A. Theatre Works and a presentation by Daniel Ellsberg, then head over to our Web site.

Thanks again, and we look forward to seeing everyone at ALA Midwinter in Denver.

ALA Roundtables

If you are a librarian attending the American Library Association Annual Meeting and want the inside scoop on streaming audio and video, then you won't want to miss our roundtables.

Alexander Street will host three roundtables at ALA in Anaheim next month on Monday, June 30th and we hope you’ll attend at least one of them.

Why attend an Alexander Street Roundtable?

Our editors host these informal gatherings in order to get feedback from a small group of trusted customers on our new and soon-to-be-released collections.  We need your input!

In exchange for your time and the benefit of your expert opinion, we give you the opportunity to win a one-year subscription—and with just 25 attendees per session, the odds aren't bad!

So come, take a breather from the ALA rush and bustle, have a cup of tea or coffee, and learn about our exciting new streaming audio and video collections in theatre, dance, and opera—and forthcoming collections you’ll be among the first to know about.

Space is limited so please RSVP now.

James McPherson's presentation available online

More than four-hundred people woke up bright and early last Sunday to  hear Pulitzer Prize winning author and historian James McPherson speak at the Alexander Street Press customer appreciation breakfast during the American Library Association Annual Meeting in Washington, DC.  If you missed the presentation, or would like to see it again, you can view it here. 

Here are some pics from the event.  I'll be posting Stephen Rhind-Tutt's presentation on new developments at Alexander Street Press shortly.

James McPherson to speak at Alexander Street's ALA breakfast

Pulitzer Prize winning historian James McPherson will be the guest speaker at this summer's Alexander Street ALA breakfast on Sunday, June 24. Dr. McPherson served as an editorial adviser to Harper’s Weekly: 1857-1912, and is widely acknowledged as one of the world's foremost experts on the American Civil War.

McPherson's works include The Struggle for Equality, awarded the Anisfield-Wolf Award. In 1989, he published his Pulitzer-winning book, Battle Cry of Freedom. And in  1998 another book, For Cause and Comrades, received the Lincoln Prize. In 2002 he published both a scholarly book, Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam 1862, and a history of the Civil War for children, Fields of Fury.