Danielle here, your friendly Periodicals Librarian (and no comments from the peanut gallery about journal cancellations!) Something you might find of interest: The LoC has set up a YouTube account! Which you can find here. It's still growing but there are already some great videos posted.

LIFE Magazine's Pictures Online

From the website:

Welcome to LIFE.com, the largest, most amazing collection of professional photography on the Web.

LIFE and Getty Images, the two most recognized names in photography, have joined forces to provide you instant access to millions of breathtaking photographs — for free. LIFE.com not only lets you wander through the legendary LIFE and Getty archives, but with more than 3,000 new photos added every day, it also gives you the best pictures of the people and places shaping our world now.

Thanks, Danielle, for the tip!

April is National Poetry Month

Some website to celebrate with:

Gale's Poet Corner and other Gale resources

Poetry at the Library of Congress

Poets.org from the Academy of American Poets

National Poetry Month page at Infoplease

Electronic Poetry Center at SUNY Buffalo

Timeline of Poetry in English

Enjoy!

Free Database Trial: American History in Video

This trial is available to all. NO login/password is required during the trial. The name of this new database from Alexander Street Press is American History in Video and is available at: http://ahivfree.alexanderstreet.com. In a word, wow!

From a Description:

This is a massive, first-of-its kind collection of streaming video covering the entire gamut of American history–it will total 2,000 hours of video / 5,000 total videos at completion (currently it’s at about 420 hours and growing fast). It includes a wide range of documentaries (like those from The History Channel), newsreels–including the complete series of both Universal News and United Newsreel–and other contemporaneous films. It’s all deeply indexed, and the technical features make it easy to zoom in on exact moments of footage, make clips, create playlists (of clips by theme, entire films, and anything else anywhere on th e Web) and share them with a class, for example.There are synchronized scrolling transcripts for every video (and those are searchable, too).

The free trial runs through April 30, 2009.

Source: Alexander Street Press

Environmental Concerns Organization's Display

The Environmental Concerns Organization has mounted a display in the Library made from 100% recycled items.

Remember, April 22nd is Earth Day. ECO encourages everyone to wear green to show their support.

NEW BOOKS!

New books added to the Libraries' collection were put on display in the bookcase by the Reference Desk. Titles include:

Brain, Behavior, and Learning in Language and Reading Disorders edited by Mody & Silliman,

Computation Engineering: Applied Automata Theory and Logic by Gopalakrishnan,

Achieving Excellence in Preschool Literary Instruction edited by Justice & Vukelich, and

Recovering Nineteenth-Century Women Interpreters of the Bible edited by de Groot and Taylor.

Come on over and check 'em out!

More Than 112,000 Newspaper Pages Added to Chronicling America

From the Announcement:

On Feb. 26, the National Digital Newspaper Program added more than 112,000 additional historic newspaper pages to the Chronicling America Web site, hosted by the Library of Congress. The site now provides free and open access to 977,440 pages from 112 titles, that were published between 1880 and 1910 in 9 states (CA, FL, KY, MN, NE, NY, TX, UT, VA) and the District of Columbia. Six additional states–Arizona, Hawaii, Missouri, Ohio, Pennsylvania and Washington–will be contributing content later in 2009. Chronicling America is a project of the National Digital Newspaper Program, a partnership between the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Library of Congress.

Direct to Chronicling America Database and Web Site

Source: Library of Congress

New Titles on JSTOR

The Arkansas Historical Quarterly
Release Content: 1942 - 2005 (Vols. 1 - 64)

Études Rurales
Release Content: 1961 - 2003 (Nos. 1 - 167/168)

International Journal for Philosophy of Religion
Release Content: 1970 - 2005 (Vols. 1 - 58)

Machine Translation
Release Content: 1989 - 2005 (Vols. 4 - 19)

Mississippi Review
Release Content: 1972 - 2006 (Vols. 1 - 34)
ISSN: 0047-7559

The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Release Content: 1877 - 2003 (Vols. 1 - 127)
Moving Wall: 5 years

The Review of Metaphysics
Release Content: 1947 - 2005 (Vols. 1 - 59)
Moving Wall: 3 years