June 11, 2008

The Gale Virtual Reference Library provides access to more than 1,000 electronic reference titles – eBooks – in virtually any subject area including health, science, art, history, biography and many more.

If this database is useful for your research, please post comments here or contact the Electronic Resources Librarian.

May 16, 2008

The library has added two new databases of music: African American Music and American Song.

African American Music covers jazz, blues, gospel, and other forms of African American musical expression. It brings 50,000 tracks of music to students, scholars, and patrons. The collection contains recordings by the top names in the history of black American music. Premier artists such as Ma Rainey, Lead Belly, Mahalia Jackson, Alberta Hunter, Tampa Red, and William “Bunk” Johnson are showcased. At least 5,000 of the tracks are rare or never-before-published, and the other 45,000 are in-copyright and included through arrangement with distinguished labels such as Document Records, Rounder Records, Delmark Records, and Nessa Records. Read more information about the collection.

American Song is a history database that will contain 50,000 tracks that allows people to hear and feel the music from America’s past. The database will include songs by and about American Indians, miners, immigrants, slaves, children, pioneers, and cowboys. Included in the database are the songs of Civil Rights, political campaigns, Prohibition, the Revolutionary War, the Civil War, anti-war protests, and more. This release includes 865 albums, equaling 14,632 tracks.

As always, if this database is useful for your research, please post comments here or contact the Electronic Resources Librarian.