Word on the Street

The July issue of Music Media Monthly is live. A monthly publication edited by Rick Anderson, this blog brings you reviews of the best recordings, books, videos, and Web sites for music lovers.

Editor Rick Anderson writes: "You thought July was hot enough already? Well, you haven’t experienced hot until you’ve checked out the offerings in this month’s issue of Music Media Monthly. Break out the sunblock, because Anne Shelley is filling you in on a brilliant Aaron Copland documentary and an equally glorious video examination of the art of the thematic variation (as performed by Danie Barenboim, Andras Schiff and Yefim Bronfman). Steve Dankner discusses a blistering new book on Liszt’s transcriptions and a collection of studies on Ravel.
Gene Hyde brings us word of a steaming-hot website for drummers and lovers of drumming in all musical genres. And I discuss several blazingly
great new releases from such tropical climes as Jamaica (Roy Ellis), North Carolina (Don Dixon and Marti Jones), er, New York (Paul Motian),
and, um, Germany (Echo Beach). Put on your hippest sunglasses, break out your most styling parasol, and enjoy! Read it here.

Try our new video products free for the month of April!

There's a lot in store for Alexander Street video this year: we'll be growing to 10,000 titles, adding a new cross-discipline video platform, and offering individual streaming titles.

Kicking things off, we've just released three new collections: Filmakers Library Online; Education in Video; and Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II. You can access all three of these and explore them for yourself until April 30. Register here to get started!

For more information about Alexander Street video, or to request extended trial access, email [email protected].

Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II is now live!

Our newest online collection, Counseling and Therapy in Video: Volume II, is now live! The second volume of Alexander Street Press's award-winning Counseling and Therapy in Video features more than 300 additional hours of training videos, reenactments, and footage of actual therapy sessions conducted by renowned psychiatrists, psychologists, and social workers.

This collection features world-renowned therapists such as Albert Ellis, Phil Zimbardo, Allen Ivey, John Norcross, Arnold Lazarus, Otto Kernberg, Violet Oaklander, and many others, demonstrating their methods in true-to-life situations. Spanning dozens of therapeutic methods, diagnoses, and cultural groups, this collection updates and expands upon the first, and taken together,the two editions provide more than 700 hours of video.

To request a free trial or price quote for your library, email [email protected].

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].

We've joined forces with Filmakers Library!

Filmakers Library has been bringing high-quality, issue-based documentaries to the education market for more than forty years. Some of its award-winning titles include Original Intent: The Battle for America; Who Killed Vincent Chin?; Prison Lullabies; The Danish Solution: The Rescue of the Jews in Denmark; and Muslims in Love. And earlier this month, we made an exciting announcement: Alexander Street has acquired Filmakers Library.

A little later this year, we'll be bringing you their entire library as a subscription-based streaming video database called Filmakers Library Online, and making it possible for libraries to order and instantly stream individual Filmakers Library films.

For more information, check out the full press release here.

The premiere of Booklist Online Video Review

The inaugural issue of Booklist Online Video Review hit in-boxes today. Video Review is "a bimonthly digital newsletter featuring new reviews of videos for adults and youth. Booklist’s video coverage is an essential resource for public and school librarians . . ." The first issue of this free e-newsletter can be viewed here, and you'll want to be sure to subscribe.

If you've already read issue #1, you'll notice the advertisements for free access to Alexander Street's American History in Video. Our free access periods have been so popular that we've decided to do it one more time! Check Video Review for more details and start streaming today.

New MARC records available

We've released 4 new sets of MARC records, which are currently available for download at http://marc.alexanderstreet.com. As always, our MARC records are freely available. You can also find MARC records for Alexander Street collections on OCLC WorldCat.

New record sets include:

• Latin American Women Writers, supplement 2 - This set contains 133 records with links to 133 sources, in MARC8 format. To date, we've released 428 records for this collection.
• Latino Literature, supplement 1 - This set contains 82 records with links to 82 sources, in MARC8 format. To date, we've released 1,150 records for this collection.
• Dance in Video, supplement 1 - This set contains 147 records with links to 161 works, in both MARC8 and UTF8 formats. To date, we've released 244 records for this collection.
• Alexander Street Literature, supplement 1 - Please note, this supplement is intended for customer who have the full Alexander Street Literature package including drama. The set contains 215 records with links to 215 volumes, in MARC 8 fomat.

You will also find an updated release schedule at http://marc.alexanderstreet.com. Please email [email protected] with any questions or comments.

The March on Washington

This Saturday marks the 47th anniversary of The March on Washington and Martin Luther King's legendary "I Have A Dream" speech. The March was organized to put pressure on Congress to pass civil rights legislation.

Below is newsreel coverage of The March on Washington from Universal Newsreels. Subscribers to American History in Video can find the video, along with its synchronized, scrolling transcript, here.

American History in Video continues to grow to 2,000 hours of important documentaries, newsreels, public affairs videos, and archival footage. For more information, and to request a free trial and price quote for your library, 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.

New performances in Theatre in Video

US and Canadian subscribers to Theatre in Video will notice that the online collection was recently updated with 23 new titles. The newly added films come from the Broadway Theatre Archive and include works by Edward Albee, Jean Anouilh, Eugene O’Neill, Lanford Wilson, Arthur Miller, William Saroyan, Neil Simon, Anton Chekhov, Thornton Wilder, and Wendy Wasserstein, among others.

Featured actors include Geraldine Fitzgerald, Linda Hunt, Meryl Streep, Alfre Woodard, John Lithgow, Jeff Daniels, Faye Dunaway, Kevin Kline, Frank Langella, Blythe Danner, Olympia Dukakis, Susan Sarandon, Harvey Keitel, Sir John Gielgud, and Sir Ralph Richardson.

Titles include Death of a Salesman, The Skin of Our Teeth, The Time of Your Life, Uncommon Women and Others, The Seagull, An Enemy of the People, For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide, Fifth of July, The Good Doctor, and The Pirates of Penzance.

Customers outside of the US and Canada will see these films added to the collection shortly. For more information on Theatre in Video, and to request a free trial or price quote for your library, please email [email protected].