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Celebrate Hawaii

On August 21, 1959 the Unites States officially welcomed its newest member—Hawaii. If your library subscribes to Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries you can celebrate the 51st anniversary with dozens of tracks of Hawaiian music. Below are 3 albums to enhance your luau and get your guests doing the hula.

Original Hawaiian Steel Guitar performed by Tony Ku & Tomomi Sugiura

Hawaiian Drum Dance Chants: Sounds of Power in Time performed by Tom Hiona

Musics of Hawai'i: Anthology of Hawaiian Music - Special Festival Edition

Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries is available to academic institutions and libraries worldwide. To request free trial access or a price quote for your library, please email [email protected]. Library patrons should contact the electronic resources department at their local library, as this online collection is available to institutions only. For more information about Smithsonian Folkways, visit their Web site.

New content added to Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries

Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries, the online collection created in partnership with the American Antiquarian Society, has just been updated with 197 pages of original manuscripts.

The Allen-Johnson collection has been updated considerably, and two new collections of manuscripts are now available. Subscribing libraries will now see the Ellen Tucker Emerson Letters (1863-1865) and Sara Osborn Letters (1743-1799).

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 [email protected].

New MARC record sets available

New MARC record sets from Alexander Street are available, free of charge, at http://marc.alexanderstreet.com. Newly added sets include:

• Women and Social Movements in the US: Basic Edition, supplement 1 — The first supplemental set for the Basic Edition, this file contains 91 records representing 98 books and pamphlets.
• Women and Social Movements in the US: Scholar's Edition, supplement 2 — This file includes 91 records representing 98 books and pamphlets in the Scholar's Edition.
• Classical Scores Library, supplement 2 — This file contains 1,699 records representing 1,700 scores.
• Images of America, supplement 1 — This first supplemental set includes 465 records representing 465 books.
• Opera in Video, supplement 1 — This set contains 105 records representing 106 works.

All MARC record sets listed above are in MARC8 format. In addition to these supplemental sets, we've also released a title/URL list for Contemporary World Music customers outside of the United States and Canada. For more information and an updated release schedule, visit http://marc.alexanderstreet.com.

Celebrate Bastille Day with a free streaming playlist

We're celebrating Bastille Day by offering a free streaming playlist for your mobile device. Simply scan the QR code below with your smartphone, or visit http://goasp.it/july14 on your 3G mobile device, and listen to music celebrating le quatorze juillet.

This free playlist can be streamed on your mobile device through August 15. Enjoy and bonne écoute!

134 hours of video added to American History in Video

American History in Video was recently updated with 134 hours of additional footage. The collection currently features over 4,800 videos totaling 1,215 hours.

The newly added videos include newsreel and archival films from The Big Picture, Universal Newsreels, and the Longines Chronoscope series. Additional documentaries from The History Channel® and PBS's "American Experience" series have also been added. A more detailed list of the newly added content can be seen here.

For more information on American History in Video, including free trials and price quotes for your library, please email [email protected].

And if you'd like Sneak Peek access to the forthcoming World History in Video, you can sign up here.

The Sixties grows by over 10K pages

An exciting new update of The Sixties has just occurred, with new content available from Ramparts Magazine and partnering archives and institutions, as well as improved functionality.

In partnership with The Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender, and Reproduction, The Sixties now features the first set of materials from the Sexual Freedom League. These documents highlight the League's unique perspective on the sexual revolution, and more material will be added soon.

Also available are materials from the Nettie Feinberg Button Collection and the Radical Education Project Collection, courtesy of Stony Brook University.

And over 100 issues of the groundbreaking Ramparts Magazine are now included in The Sixties, with more to follow.

In an effort to make all of the images, text, and ephemera in The Sixties easily readable, we've added new functionality that allows all content to be viewed as clear, navigable images in addition to text.

 

The newly added icons let you toggle between 4 viewing options, select how many images you see at a time, and zoom and rotate.

With this update, The Sixties now includes over 67,000 pages from 1,345 sources. For more information, or to request free trial access, please contact [email protected].

Three new streaming video collections

Alexander Street is launching three new streaming video collections by the end of 2010!

Education in Video is the first online collection of streaming video developed specifically for training and developing teachers. More than 1,000 video titles totaling 750+ hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms give your education students a way to observe the intricacies of behavior, tone, facial expression, and body language that define effective teaching styles. The collection's wealth of course, study, and discussion guides; assessment checklists; and themed playlists give your education faculty ready-to-use teaching tools.

World History in Video: English-Language Documentaries will give faculty, students, and history lovers access to more than 1,750 important, critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide. A rich survey of human history from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall, World History in Video is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Its unparalleled geographical and chronological coverage delivers the sights, sounds, artifacts, and histories from around the world straight to your desktop.

Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II both updates and expands upon the first collection, with special emphasis on contemporary topics such as family therapy, child therapy, geriatric therapy, play therapy, weight control and eating disorders, post-traumatic stress disorder, sex therapy, culturally sensitive therapy, and cognitive-behavioral therapy.

The second volume of Alexander Street Press’s award-winning Counseling and Therapy in Video will feature more than 300 additional hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers.

Sign up now to receive Sneak Peek access to these collections as soon as they are launched. You can also read the press release here.

If you'd like more information, or if you'd like to request a trial or price quote for your library, please email [email protected].

Free access to Images of America

Images of America, the online collection from Alexander Street Press and Arcadia Publishing, is growing in size and now includes over 225,000 pages and 350,000 images. Over 1,800 Arcadia titles are now in the collection, and we've also added new functionality.

If you took a trial in the past, or if you've never had the opportunity to explore Images of America, now is your chance to see all of the new content. We're offering free access to the entire collection through July 15th. Register now at http://alexanderstreet.com/LRHOfree.htm.

We've also recently added playlist functionality to Images of America. You can now organize, save, and share images. Playlists can also be annotated, and you can include links to content anywhere on the Web. After you register for free access, look for the "Playlists" tab in the top toolbar. 

You'll need to create and account or sign in to permanently save your playlists. Once you do so, just look for the "Add to Playlist" icon on any page in Images of America. You can add entire books or just the relevant pages.

Images of America is available to libraries via annual subscription or one-time purchase, with pricing scaled to your institution. If you'd like to request more information or a price quote for your library, please email [email protected].

Advisory Roundtables at ALA

If you're heading to ALA in Washington, D.C., why not give our editors 45 minutes of your time at one of our advisory roundtable sessions? Our editors host these informal gatherings in order to get feedback and suggestions on new and forthcoming collections. We're hosting five different sessions, and all are conveniently located at the convention center or in ALA hotels no more than 2 blocks away. In exchange for your time we'll give you the opportunity to win a one-year subscription.

Join us at one or more of the following:

• Alexander Street’s Comics and Graphic Novels Roundtable
• What’s New in Alexander Street Video
• “On the Couch” with Alexander Street: Counseling and Therapy Advisory Roundtable
• Going Global: Alexander Street’s History in Video Advisory Roundtable
• Alexander Street’s Music Advisory Roundtable

You can learn more about all five session and RSVP here.

And don't forget to stop by booth #3813 in the exhibit hall!

Coming soon - World History in Video

The latest streaming video collection from Alexander Street, World History in Video: English-Language Documentaries will give faculty, students, and history lovers access to more than 1,750 important, critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide. A rich survey of human history from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall, World History in Video is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Its unparalleled geographical and chronological coverage delivers the sights, sounds, artifacts, and histories from around the world straight to your desktop.

Learn more about World History in Video and sign up now for sneak peek access to the collection as soon as it's launched.