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Chill for Jazz Appreciation Month
April is Jazz Appreciation Month. The Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of American History has led this nationwide effort to recognize America's great creative contribution since 2002. Visit the Smithsonian web site for Jazz Month posters, Jazz 365 (this day in Jazz history), oral histories, and school activities, songs and lesson plans on jazz immortals such as Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, and Benny Carter.
In our online collections, you will discover thousands of facts, biographies, discographies, and videographies in the new Encyclopedia of Popular Music, a part of Oxford Music Online. A digital version of Colin Larkin's 10-volume Encyclopedia of Popular Music, 4th Edition, this database offers 27,000 entries covering not just jazz but popular music of all genres and periods from 1900 to the present day, including country, folk, rap, reggae, techno, musicals, and world music. The Encyclopedia also offers thousands of additional entries covering popular music genres, trends, styles, record labels, venues, and music festivals. Key dates, biographies, and further reading are provided for artists covered, along with complete discographies that include record labels and release dates.
Though the Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is known primarily for its extensive coverage of classical works and composers, the online version has a sizable collection of articles on jazz musicians, composers, styles, organizations, and festivals. Articles are drawn from the 2nd edition of the New Grove Dictionary of Jazz (2002) and include longer treatments of overview topics such as the history of jazz. Later this summer, Grove will join the Encyclopedia of Popular Music in Oxford Music Online, which will feature links out to audio files and periodical articles.
The Naxos Music Library offers streaming audio of classical, world and folk, and even contemporary jazz, including selections from Cuba, Brazil, hep cats from Hungary, and many swingin' Scandinavians.
For more listening and learning opportunities, visit free Web sites such as the Red Hot Jazz Archive, which features recordings and history of the genre before 1930, the Library of Congress' Photographs from the Golden Age of Jazz, or their Jazz on the Screen, a filmography of jazz music in movies. Hey, you could even visit our Performing Arts and Media department and check out some jazz!
WHAN that Aprille with his shoures soote...
April is also National Poetry Month and is a time when many students are working on literature research papers. But April doesn't have to be the cruelest month, if you let the Libraries help you locate literary criticism in these resources:
Literature Resource Center (LRC) offers background information on works of literature and types of works from all time periods as well biographical sketches of more than 13,000 authors. Here you will find essays on writers and works from Homer to Harry Potter and beyond, as well as a literary timeline and an encyclopedia of literary terms and concepts.
Whether you need essays on local poets such as Miller Williams or Mohja Kahf or critical evaluations frequently-assigned works such as "Mending Wall" by Robert Frost, " The Red Wheelbarrow," by William Carlos Williams, or W.B. Yeats' "Sailing to Byzantium," LRC can give you a head start on your research.
In contrast to the basic info in LRC, the MLA International Bibliography (MLA) is the comprehensive resource for locating criticism on "modern" literatures, from the Middle Ages to the present day. MLA also indexes articles, book chapters, and dissertations on film, language, and folkways. MLA is an especially useful tool for locating scholarly articles on thematic topics such as "the influence of blues and jazz on American poetry," "slam poetry and performance," or "poetry on the Internet."
So many poems were meant to be read aloud. On the Academy of American Poets' site, you can enjoy hundred of poets reading their work through the poets.org Audio Archive.
National Library Week - Join the Circle of Knowledge
National Library Week is April 13-19 and the theme for 2008 is "Join the circle of knowledge @ your library."
First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is a time to celebrate the contributions of our nation's libraries and librarians and to promote library use and support. All types of libraries - school, public, academic and special - participate.
Celebrate by circling the globe and visiting some breathtaking online collections from the great libraries of the world:
- Library of Congress: American Memory Project
- New York Public Library: Digital Gallery
- British Library: Treasures in Full
- Bibliothèque Nationale: Gallica
- Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek: Digital Collections
- National Library of Australia: National Treasures of Australia's Great Libraries
- National Diet Library, Japan: Porta
- The Huntington Library: Selected Treasures
- The Newberry Library: Digital Exhibits
Searching for digital libraries? You might try the OAIster search engine. OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources. OAIster provides access to these digital resources by "harvesting" their descriptive metadata (records) using OAI-PMH (the Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting).
OAIster currently contains records for more than 15 million images, documents, films, and sound recordings, drawn from the collections of almost 1000 participating libraries, museums, and other institutions. OAIster can be searched by Title, Author/Creator, Subject, Language or Entire Record. Searches can also be limited by resource type (text, image, audio, video, dataset) and sorted by title, author, date and hit frequency.
Old News: Database News Archive
Database News for March 2008 Index Arkansas adds Newspaper Coverage | Search the Catalog from Facebook | Ebsco Enhancements | Encyclopedia of Life Debuts
Database News for February 2006 Celebrating Black History Month | Oxford African American Studies Center | Civil Rights in Arkansas | Alexander Street Databases | Carter G. Woodson Works | Additional Web Resources
Database News for January 2008 Politics and Primaries | Chicago Manual of Style Online | Novel Knovel Subjects | Universities around the Globe
Database News for November - December 2007 Libraries Go to the Movies | InfoLinks Updates | New York Times Archive | Get Lost in Space
Database News for September - October 2007 Access Science | New Social Sciences Databases | Eureka Databases move to Firstsearch | Scifinder Scholar 2007 | New AgEcon Search Features
Database News for July - August 2007 InfoLinks Redesign | Lexis Nexis Redesign | Design on Trial
Database News for April - May 2007 Upcoming Changes in Remote Access | 19th Century Newspapers Collection | New PILOTS Database from CSA | ERIC database now links to Find it!
Database News for February - March 2007 Find it! | Celebrate Black History Month
Database News for December 2006 - January 2007 Ebsco Visual Search | RefGrab-It | ISI Web of Science Citation Report Tool | Art Museum Image Gallery Grows
Database News for November 2006 Celebrating American Indian Heritage Month | SciFinder Scholar 2006 for Mac| Rule, Britannica | New Journals in JSTOR, Project Muse
Database News for October 2006 Worldwide Political Science Abstracts | Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month | New Look for Science Direct E-Journals | Google Scholar Direct Export to RefWorks
Database News for August - September 2006 New Look, Features for ISI Web of Knowledge | Social Sciences on CSA | Chronicle of Higher Education Site License | Google Video Collects Clips
Database News for June-July 2006 Chronicle of Higher Education Site License | Black Women Writers Debuts | MLA International Bibliography Archive | New CSA, Gale Databases to Try Out
Database News for April-May 2006 Encyclopedia of Arkansas Debuts | Handbook of Chemistry and Physics Online | Referex Engineering EBooks | Time Travel to Ancient and Medieval Scholarship | Your Comments, Reviews in WorldCat
Database News for March 2006 Rice is Nice: The UA AgNIC Site is Unveiled | UA System Libraries Expand ScienceDirect Titles | Find Book Reviews, Find Fiction | New Titles, Features in JSTOR
Database News for February 2006 Celebrate Black History Month with a Song | More Music to your Ears: Naxos and Classical | Additional Resources for African American Studies
Database News for January 2006: American National Biography | Oxford Reference Online | History Databases Redesigned | New Look for Lexis Nexis Congressional
Database News for November/December 2005: American Indian Heritage Resources | ASCE Research Library | ProQuest Update | SciFinder Scholar for Mac OS X
Database News for October 2005: Arkansas in the Civil War | Art Museum Image Gallery | Google Scholar and Scirus | Morningstar.com | WilsonWeb adds Search Alerts
Database News for September 2005: Celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month | Mental Measurements Yearbook & International Political Science Abstracts - now on Ebsco | GWLA Bioengineering Gateway | New SciFinder Scholar Software | CAB Abstracts Backfiles
Database News for August 2005: Knovel Library | GeoScienceWorld and GeoRef | Patrologiae Graecae | UALR Joins ScienceDirect Group | New SilverPlatter / WebSPIRS Features | Remote Access Down August 17
Database News for July 2005: Wiley E-Books Arrive | Computo Ergo Sum: Philosopher's Index Online | AMICO is now CAMIO | PAIS Kaput
Database News for May - June 2005: Open WorldCat and RedLightGreen | New ILLiad Links to Databases | API: Arkansas Publications Index
Database News for April 2005: API: Arkansas Publications Index | Life and Times of Jorge Luis Borges | Plant Management Network | Lexis Nexis Company Dossier and Country Analysis | IEEEXplore version 2.0 Launched | GeoScienceWorld Trial
Database News for March 2005: Early English Books: Text Creation Partnership | GeoScienceWorld Trial | Inside Higher Ed | Peeved by PDFs?
Database News for February 2005: Celebrate Black History Month | Economist Intelligence Unit | Knovel Trial and Demos | Ovid Nursing Journals
Database News for January 2005: Knovel Trial | ProQuest Dissertations and Theses | New Center for Research Libraries Purchases | INSPEC Archive now Available | Cochrane Library now on Wiley
Database News for December 2004: Books in Print with Reviews | Google Scholar and OpenWorldCat Projects | Patrologia Latina and Acta Sanctorum | New SciFinder Software
Database News for November 2004: Search Alerts!
Database News for October 2004: ERIC and E*Subscribe Changes | Beilstein CrossFire Software Update | Oxford Dictionary of National Biography | Gale Virtual Reference Titles
Database News for September 2004: Black Thought and Culture | Classical Music Library | "My Library" on InfoLinks | PAIS Archive | New RefWorks Interface | MLA Now on Ebsco | INSPEC and Compendex | Electronic Reserves and Article Linking
Database News for July / August 2004: Congressional Serial Set Online | New Web of Knowledge Interface | Electronic Reserves and Article Linking | British Theses Index
Database News for May / June 2004: JSTOR Arts and Sciences III | Annual Reviews Backfiles | Compendex Links to ILLiad
Database News for April 2004: Merck Index Online | INSPEC | Alexander Street Press
Database News for March 2004: U.S. Congressional Serial Set Trial | Evans Early American Imprints | Naxos Music Library | AMICO Image Library Update | Learn More about Alexander Street Databases
Database News for February 2004: ScienceDirect Journals Add Years, Titles | RefWorks Step-by-Steps | History Databases Now Link to ILLiad | INSPEC Now on Ebsco
Database News for January 2004: Compendex Engineering Index Backfiles | Communication & Mass Media | SciFinder Scholar 2004 | MathSciNet Enhancements | Grove Art and Music Databases
Database News for December 2003: Reader's Guide Retrospective | Oxford University Press Databases | New Look for Early English Books Online
Database News for November 2003: Mental Measurements Yearbook | Public Library of Science | Spanish Periodical Indexes | Ebsco Resources for Children | BioOne Indexing Database | Classical.com Trial
Database News for October 2003: Encyclopedia Americana Online | Communication Abstracts Trial | RefWorks Tutorials Online | Web of Knowledge Training | ILLiad Database Links | ProQuest Links to Library Catalog
Database News for September 2003: Web of Science: Citation Indexes at your Fingertips! Current Contents Connect | Lexis Nexis Training | RefWorks Workshops
Database News for July / August 2003: ZMATH Database | Sociological Abstracts Migrates | SilverLinker Now Available | ProQuest Redesign | RefWorks Enhancements
Database News for May/June 2003: Black Drama Expands Contents | Reference Universe Trial | Europa World Year Book | Take our Electronic Resources Survey
Database News for April 2003: Art Full-Text | Grove Jazz joins Grove Encyclopedia of Music and Musicians | CHEMnetBASE and ENGNetBASE Trials | ACLS History E-Book Project Trial | FirstSearch Now Exports to RefWorks
Database News for March 2003: Beilstein CrossFire Now Available | Sage Full-Text Journal Collections Trial | RLG Cultural Materials Database | Pennsylvania Gazette Online | ASFA: Aquatic Sciences and Fisheries Abstracts
Database News for February 2003: Project MUSE Electronic Journals | Conference Board's Research Database | The Nineteenth Century Goes Digital | Moody's FIS is New Mergent Online
Database News for January 2003: AMICO ART Image Library | EHRAF Ethnography and Archaeology Collections | JSTOR adds Arts & Sciences II and General Science Collections | CINAHL Moves to Ebsco | FirstSearch adds Alternative Press Index Archive | New Oxford English Dictionary Features | New RefWorks Features | New Compendex Interface
Database News for November - December 2002: Digital Dissertations: Dissertation Abstracts + Full Text | Polling the Nations Trial | SciFinder Scholar 2002 | CINAHL Trials | ERIC Database now on FirstSearch | MLA International Bibliography adds Thesaurus | PUBScience is Discontinued by Dept. of Energy
Database News for October 2002: JSTOR Ecology & Botany Collection | Science Next Wave | Physical Education Index | American Chemical Society E-Journal Archives | HarpWeek
Database News for September 2002: RefWorks: Bibliographic Citation Manager | Center for Research Libraries | Current Protocols Online | Lexis-Nexis Databases Redesigned
Database News for July/August 2002: InfoLinks gets a New Look | Market Research Monitor | ATLA Religion Index | Eureka Interface Changes
Database News for June 2002: Early English Books Online: Centuries of Primary Sources at Your Desktop! Bibliography of Asian Studies | Ebsco now Links to JSTOR | FirstSearch Removes Acxiom Telephone Book Files
Database News for May 2002: IEL: Full IEEE / IEE Database Now Available! Current Index to Statistics Online | Trial of Safari Computer Books Online | Enhanced FirstSearch Features
