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Learning Commons

admin3010 — Tue, 09 Apr 2013 12:06:58 +0000

The Learning Commons will be a tech-infused comfortable study space and one-stop academic help center…with good coffee! The project is a collaboration of the Provosts Office, UI Libraries and ITS to create an intellectual hub for undergrads at UI. For more information about the Learning Commons go to the Learning Commons website, or view our recent blog posts.

Global Commodities: Trade, Exploration, and Cultural Exchange

admin3010 — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:52:06 +0000

Global Commodities: The story of 15 different commodities, from chocolate to oil to wine, is told in this new database by Adam Matthew. Each commodity is documented through a wide range of manuscript materials, maps, posters, paintings, photographs, ephemera, objects and rare books so that the student can explore the origins of the commodity, their first uses, the trade that developed and the ways in which these items were marketed and consumed.
The project touches on themes of exploration and discovery; imperialism and attempts at monopoly; trade Wars; translocation and economic geography; slavery; mass production; luxury; taste; and the evolution of global branding.

Afro-American Imprints, 1535-1922: From the Library Company of Philadelphia

admin3010 — Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:50:52 +0000

Created from the Library Company’s acclaimed Afro-Americana Collection—an accumulation that began with Benjamin Franklin and steadily increased throughout its entire history—this unique online resource will provide researchers with more than 12,000 printed works. These essential books, pamphlets and broadsides, including many lesser-known imprints, hold an unparalleled record of African American history, literature and culture.

Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO)

admin3010 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 14:27:29 +0000

NCCO provides literally millions of pages of primary resource material, as well as a collection of European literature, from the “long” 19th century, roughly 1790-1918. The first four (of a projected 12) archives are: Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange; British Politics and Society, British Theatre, Music, and Literature: High and Popular Culture; and, European Literature 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection. The latter contains 9,000+ titles by popular and obscure writers, especially some lesser-known women writers.

Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969

admin3010 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 13:27:53 +0000

Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969 covers the whole of modern British involvement in North Africa and the Middle East: from the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Documents range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties.

Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966

admin3010 — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 12:28:54 +0000

Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 covers the whole of the modern period of European colonization of Africa: from coastal trading in the early nineteenth century, through the Conference of Berlin of 1884 and the subsequent Scramble for Africa, to the abuses of the Congo Free State, fights against tropical disease, Italy’s defeat by the Abyssinians, World War II, apartheid in South Africa and colonial moves towards independence. The Confidential Print series, issued by the British Government between c. 1820 and 1970, originated out of a need to preserve the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Documents range from single-page letters or telegrams to comprehensive dispatches, investigative reports and texts of treaties.

Cambridge Companions Complete Collection

admin3010 — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:39:22 +0000

Volumes in the Cambridge Companions series are collections of essays aimed at providing introductions to major writers, artists, philosophers, composers, topics, and periods.

House of Commons Parliamentary Papers

admin3010 — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:37:32 +0000

The HCPP database provides access to millions of pages of historical documents produced in the course of British parliamentary business from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries. The eighteenth-century material includes Lords as well as Commons publications, Journals, and Private Acts from 1688 to 1834. In addition to the nineteenth- and twentieth-century Commons sessional papers, HCPP includes full text of reports of debates in Lords and Commons published in Hansard from 1803 to 2005 as well as the Parliamentary RegisterM of debates from 1776 to 1805.

Classic Mexican Cinema

admin3010 — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:36:55 +0000

The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema is illuminated in this collection of popular movie periodicals. Not only does it include chief magazines such as Cinema Reporter (1943-1965) and Cine Mundial (1954-1955), it also features extremely rare copies of El Cine Gráfico from 1935 and of the weekly El Mundo Ilustrado (1902-1910). The true extent of the popularity of Mexican film is illustrated by Cinelandia (1931-1947), which was published in Hollywood both in Spanish and in English. This collection also includes dozens of film flyers, which were distributed on the streets to lure people into the cinema. Finally, for the first time this collection gives access to the personal scrap books of Fernando de Fuentes (1894-1958), one of the leading Latin-American filmmakers to this day. These volumes contain reviews, movie stills, programs, and advertisements, shedding a unique light on the career of this pioneering director. The sources in this collection, heretofore only accessible in the archives of the Filmoteca de la UNAM in Mexico City, will be invaluable to scholars and researchers working on film and media studies, Latin American studies, and many other aspects of the historical, social, and political impact of cinema.

Anthropology Online

admin3010 — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 18:34:23 +0000

Anthropology Online is a fulltext database complementing Ethnographic Video Online. It can be searched with Ethnographic Video Online or separately. This first release of AO includes 140 titles covering topics in cultural and physical anthropology. Additional titles will be added. Note that in Internet Explorer, pop ups must be enabled in Alexander Street Anthropology to search AO only. Alexander Street recommends Firefox or Chrome.