Word on the Street

New music content added

This was a big week for our music products: we've added a lot of content to four different collections!

• 1,837 pages of content have been added to Classical Music Reference Library, representing four titles from Princeton University Press (if this month's issue of Music Media Monthly got you in a Schoenberg mood, you're in luck: one of those titles is Schoenberg and His World).
• 28 videos have been added to Dance in Video, with styles ranging from baroque to hip-hop. Dance in Video now contains 275 hours of video from 314 different titles.
• 18 new videos have been added to Opera in Video, including a number of performances from the Royal Opera House and several documentaries. The collection now contains 174 videos spanning 488 hours. 
• The biggest news of all: Classical Scores Library is now complete! The new content added to the collection (from composers like Girolamo Frescobaldi, Antonio Vivaldi, and Diana Blom) puts it at 400,000 pages of sheet music.

For more information about any of our music and performing arts collections, or to request a free trial or price quote for your library, email [email protected].

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! This update consists of 12,743 pages from three collections, including:

• Jane Briggs Smith Fiske Papers, 1806-1923, offering insight into the daily life of a farmer's wife and record her many daily activities, as well as news of her family and the local community.
• Diaries of Catherine Dean Flint from the Flint Family Papers, 1858-1868, offering details on the life of a middle-class merchant's daughter and politician's wife.
• Lizzie A. Wilson Goodenough Diaries, 1865-1875 and Lizzie Cora Goodenough Diaries, 1901 and 1903: the diaries of a working-class mother and daughter.

This update brings Manuscript Women's Letters and Diaries to over 69,000 pages of material from 26 collections!

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].

Listen for three times as long!

Last month, we did something huge: we tripled the size of our Music Online collection. You read that right: tripled. We added more than 400,000 new recordings to individual libraries, including 46,000 tracks into American Song, 61,000 tracks into Jazz Music Library, and 132,000 tracks into Contemporary World Music. We also added something entirely new, just for subscribers to the complete Music Online—Listening suite: nearly 140,000 recordings of 20th century popular music, including pop, punk, hip-hop, country, and musical theater.

We've also increased search speeds and functionality, and we've improved sound quality. We're not done yet: expect that track number to grow even more throughout this year!

For full details, visit our website to read the press release and learn more about Music Online.

Updates to Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection

 60 new plays have been added to Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection! This update brings Audio Drama to 241 plays; when complete, it will have 300 plays, and additional scene-level indexing will be coming in 2011. Some of the new additions include:

• Neil Simon's Barefoot In The Park, starring Eric Stoltz and Laura Linney
• Molière's The Misanthrope starring Kevin Gudahl, Hollis Resnik, and Harry Althaus
• Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest starring James Marsters
• Moisés Kaufman's Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde starring Simon Templeman
• Shakespeare's Pericles
• Moss Hart's Light Up the Sky

Also new with this update is Send To Mobile functionality! Now you can take the collection with you by streaming works directly to your mobile device.

Audio Drama: The L.A. Theatre Works Collection is available to libraries and educational institutions worldwide. For more information, including free trial and pricing requests, please email [email protected].

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 [email protected].

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 [email protected].

Women and Social Movements updated

The latest issue of Women and Social Movements in the U.S. is now live. Subscribers will find a wide range of new materials—document projects, document archives, book reviews, full-text sources, and News from the Archives. If you subscribe to the Scholar's Edition, you'll also find a new secondary essay relating to the publications of State and Local Commissions on the Status of Women.

The new document projects include:

• an exploration of the contributions of African American women to the civil rights movement in the twentieth century, by Professor Gail Murray
• a compelling view of the work of Catholic laywomen during, and just after, World War I to provide social services for immigrants in East St. Louis, IL, by Jeanne Petit

In the new document archive, Marcia Gallo offers a selection of issues from The Ladder, published by the Daughters of Bilitis between 1956 and 1972. In her introductory essay, Gallo discusses the founding and the evolution of the magazine and its place in the emerging lesbian and second-wave feminist movements in these years. The archive itself includes more than a thousand pages chosen to illuminate the changing approaches taken by the journal’s editors over time.

Subscribers to Women and Social Movements in the U.S. - Basic Edition can access all of the new material at http://wasm.alexanderstreet.com.

Subscribers to Women and Social Movements in the U.S. - Scholar's Edition can access all of the new material, including the secondary essay, at http://wass.alexanderstreet.com.

For more information, and to request a free trial or price quote for your institution, please contact [email protected].

Also, keep your eyes peeled for Women and Social Movments, International.

Social Theory has been completed!

We've just uploaded the final batch of new material into Social Theory, and the collection is now complete! Social Theory now contains over 150,000 pages of material from over 400 works by 145 authors.

Newly added titles include:

• Reification: A New Look At An Old Idea by Axel Honneth
• Volume 1- Volume 4 of The Mind and Society by Alfred Pareto
• Cultural Reality and The Method Sociology by Florian Znaniecki
• Studies In the Theory of Human Society by Franklin Henry Giddings

Social Theory is available to libraries and academic institutions worldwide. For more information, and to request a free trial and price quote, please email [email protected].

New content added to literature collections

We've updated several of our literature collections with new titles from authors around the world. All new content is available to subscribers now in the following online collections:

• Black Women Writers - Over 4,600 pages of new content is available from authors such as Phyllis Wheatley, Sojourner Truth, Makeda Silvera, Tananarive Due, and others.
• Caribbean Literature - Close to 5,000 pages of new content has been added from authors hailing from Barbados, Martinique, Guyana, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Cuba.
• Latin American Women Writers - Over 6,500 pages of new material has been added from Chile, Uruguay, Brazil, Nicaragua, Mexico, Argentina, and other countries in Latin America. Included are several volumes of the periodicals A Mensageira (Brasil), Vide Femenina (Uruguay), and Semanario de las Señoritas Mejicanes (Mexico).
• South and Southeast Asian Literature - Over 1,600 pages of new content from authors such as  Manoj Das (India), Suniti Namjoshi (India), and Siew-Yue Killingley (Malaysia).

The above collections, as well as 4 others, are available and cross-searchable through Alexander Street Literature. For more information, or to request a free trial or price quote for any of our literature collections, please contact [email protected].

New client narratives

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives, and Reference Works has recently been updated with over 6,000 pages of narratives. The entire collection currently contains over 78,000 pages  illuminating the experience of mental illness and its treatment.

Notable titles in the recent content upload include Purge: Rehab Diaries, When the Piano Stops: A Memoir of Healing from Sexual Abuse, and She Bets Her Life: A True Story of Gambling Addiction.

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts is available to libraries, academic institutions, hospitals, and counseling training facilities worldwide. The full-text collection is the perfect companion to Counseling and Therapy in Video. For more information, and to request a free trial or price quote for your institution, please contact [email protected].