Posts Tagged ‘Early American Imprints’
Tuesday, February 15th, 2011
In our latest issue, you’ll find an overlooked lion of abolitionism; a humorous commentary on a dated matrimonial primer; unsung talents from the golden age of radio; and a fresh conversation with a Beat Generation icon.
Writing the David Ruggles Biography: Newspapers Help Complete the Portrait of a Radical Black Abolitionist
By Graham Russell Gao Hodges, George Dorland Langdon Jr. Professor of History and Africana & Latin American Studies, Colgate University
Avoiding Errors, Fopperies, and Follies: How to be a Good Wife
By Elizabeth Hopwood, Graduate Student, English Department, Northeastern University
Early Radio Broadcasting: Solving Mysteries with America’s Historical Newspapers
By Donna L. Halper, Assistant Professor of Communication, Lesley University
Talking News with Carolyn Cassady: A Conversation with the Matriarch of the Beat Generation
By David Whittaker, Writer and Content Specialist, NewsBank
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Tags: Abolitionism, African American Newspapers, African American Periodicals, African Americans, America's Historical Imprints, America's Historical Newspapers, Beat Generation, Bertha Brainard, Carolyn Cassady, David Ruggles, Donna Halper, Early American Imprints, Early American Newspapers, Elizabeth Hopwood, Golden Age of Radio, Graham Hodges, Jack Kerouac, Kathryn Cravens, Kirsten Dunst, Matrimony, Mirror of Liberty, Neal Cassady, On the Road, Robert S. Stephan, slavery, The Readex Report, Walter Salles
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Thursday, January 13th, 2011
ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content) is an ongoing, multifaceted program that provides Readex customers with one-of-a-kind historical content unavailable online elsewhere. In addition, the ETC program ensures the latest and most useful features and functionality, and provides guidance and suggestions for making the most of your Readex collections. ETC also covers online access and storage support.
Just as Readex is committed to providing its customers with the highest level of ongoing support and maintenance, it is also committed to ensuring that its definitive and comprehensive digital collections continue to grow through the addition of highly relevant new content and features. The ETC program enables you to be certain that you are providing your users and patrons with the most complete and robust digital edition of every Readex collection available at your institution. Through ETC, new content that brings significant enrichment and up-to-date interface functionalities and features will be added periodically. In this manner, ETC will continuously enrich your Readex collections by providing added value and content for your users and patrons for years to come.
The sixth ETC release for 2010 was completed in December and included:
- Early American Newspapers: up to 230 additional issues in seven series
- U.S. Congressional Serial Set: House and Senate Journals from 1966, 89th Congress, 2nd session
- Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS): 23 issues of the Central Eurasia and Soviet Union Report.
Releases will continue throughout 2011 on a monthly basis, including additional content for Early American Newspapers, U.S. Congressional Serial Set and Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996. A new schedule of training sessions will be posted shortly.
In addition, Early American Imprints, Series I and II and American Broadsides and Ephemera transitioned in 2010 to a new America’s Historical Imprints interface that makes searching more productive for novice and experienced users alike. Specifically, the intuitive new platform provides more powerful search capabilities, including the ability to simultaneously search the full text or metadata of any combination of two or more of these previously separate collections.
As part of this update the image viewer page has also been updated for Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819. This update enables users to drag and position the image as well as reset the image view.
Questions or comments? Please feel free to post them here or email me directly at bkolcun@readex.com.
Tags: America's Historical Newspapers, Early American Imprints, Early American Newspapers, ETC: Enhancements Training and Content, Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports, U.S. Congressional Serial Set
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2010
Tags: 19th Century, African American Newspapers, African Newspapers, America's Historical Newspapers, American Antiquarian Society, American History, American Library Association, Early American Imprints, Early American Newspapers, Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports, James McGrath Morris, The Civil War, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, World Newspaper Archive
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Tuesday, October 19th, 2010
Dr. Eran Shalev, Department of History, Haifa University and author of Rome Reborn on Western Shores: Historical Imagination and the Creation of the American Republic writes:
“I cannot tell you how much the Readex historical databases have helped me over the years in my research and writing. Early American Imprints and Early American Newspapers have become integral to the way in which I write and conceptualize. And the new Supplements from the Library Company will be another valuable addition to the Archive of Americana.
“As much as I cannot think of writing without a word processor, it is impossible for me to envision historical research before Readex’s digital editions. These collections are especially crucial for scholars working from outside of the United States.”
Have Readex digital collections been valuable for your own research or for research by students and faculty at your institution? We want to hear from you! Please comment below or write to dloiterstein@readex.com.
Tags: America's Historical Imprints, America's Historical Newspapers, Archive of Americana, Early American Imprints, Early American Newspapers, Haifa University, Israel, Library Company of Philadelphia, Readex Digital Collections
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Monday, September 27th, 2010
In the September 2010 issue: the dark descent of an American literary icon; using 19th-century government documents to right wrongs against Native Americans; and a private collector’s zeal adds depth and diversity to an eminent historical collection. (more…)
Tags: America's Historical Imprints, America's Historical Newspapers, Early American Imprints, Early American Newspapers, Government Publications, Library Company of Philadelphia, Native American Studies, The Readex Report, U.S. Congressional Serial Set
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Monday, September 13th, 2010
Beginning September 14 and running through November 2, Readex will be conducting live training webinars on various digital collections. These webinars are open to all librarians, faculty and students at institutions participating in the Readex Enhancement, Training and Content (ETC) program.
While each training session will focus on interface functions and features, it will also provide important background on Readex collections from expert product specialists.
To register, please select the training session(s) you would like to attend using this ETC Training form. If you have questions of any kind, please contact Brett Kolcun, Readex Product Director at bkolcun@readex.com.
There is still time to sign up for the upcoming webinars. We hope you can join us!
Tags: America's Historical Imprints, America's Historical Newspapers, Early American Imprints, ETC: Enhancements Training and Content, FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports, Government Publications, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, World Newspaper Archive
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Tuesday, September 7th, 2010
ETC (Enhancements, Training and Content) is an ongoing, multifaceted program that provides Readex customers with one-of-a-kind historical content unavailable online elsewhere. In addition, the ETC program ensures the latest and most useful features and functionality, and provides guidance and suggestions for making the most of your Readex collections. ETC also covers online access and storage support.
Just as Readex is committed to providing its customers with the highest level of ongoing support and maintenance, it is also committed to ensuring that its definitive and comprehensive digital collections continue to grow through the addition of highly relevant new content and features. The ETC program enables you to be certain that you are providing your users and patrons with the most complete and robust digital edition of every Readex collection available at your institution. Through ETC, new content that brings significant enrichment and up-to-date interface functionalities and features will be added periodically. In this manner, ETC will continuously enrich your Readex collections by providing added value and content for your users and patrons for years to come.
The fourth ETC release for 2010 was completed in August and included:
Early American Newspapers: up to 300 additional issues in seven series;
U.S. Congressional Serial Set: House and Senate Journals from 1964, 88th Congress, 2nd Session;
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996: 25 issues of the Central Eurasia and Soviet Union Report.
Releases will continue throughout 2010 on a bi-monthly basis, including additional content for Early American Newspapers, 1690-1922, U.S. Congressional Serial Set, 1817-1994 and Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports, 1974-1996.
America's Historical Imprints
In addition, as of June 30, 2010, Readex’s Early American Imprints, Series I and II and American Broadsides and Ephemera have transitioned to a new America’s Historical Imprints platform that makes searching more productive for novice and experienced users alike. Its intuitive new interface provides more powerful search capabilities, including the ability to simultaneously search the full text or metadata of any combination of two or more of these previously separate collections.
Also as part of this update the image viewer page has also been updated for Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1800 and Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819. This update allows users to drag and position images as well as reset the image view.
Questions or comments? Please feel free to post them here or email me directly at bkolcun@readex.com.
Tags: America's Historical Imprints, America's Historical Newspapers, Early American Imprints, Early American Newspapers, ETC: Enhancements Training and Content, FBIS, Foreign Broadcast Information Service Daily Reports, Government Publications, House and Senate Journals, U.S. Congressional Serial Set
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Tuesday, August 24th, 2010
Panel Chair: Duncan Faherty, Queens College & the CUNY Graduate Center
As Cathy Davidson registers in Revolution and the Word, “at least one hundred novels were produced in America between 1789 and 1820.” Since the initial publication of Davidson’s Revolution and the Word in 1986, our sense of the variegated contours of that archive has dramatically increased. Indeed “rediscovered” texts which barely received consideration even a decade ago — like Leonora Sansay’s The Secret History (1808) — are now central parts of our rapidly expanding canon.
This panel aims to explore a still largely ignored subset of these novels: the dozens of novels published anonymously during the period. Texts such as The Hapless Orphan (1793), The History of Constantius & Pulchera (1795), St. Herbert (1796), Moreland Vale (1801), and Humanity in Algiers (1801) have much to tell us about the development of early American literary history and cultural practices, yet, perhaps, because of the lack of biographical inroads, they continue to be overlooked. (more…)
Tags: anonymity and authorship, Early American Imprints, early American literature, early American novels
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Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
In the spring 2010 issue of Occasional Miscellany, a newsletter for members and friends of the Library Company of Philadelphia, James Green discusses his organization’s recent completion of an initiative “to catalog some 3,250 pre-1820 American imprints of which the Library Company holds the only available copy.”
Writing about Early American Imprints, Green comments:
“By adding full-dress descriptive and subject catalog records to the national bibliographic database, we have made these unique items accessible for the first time. Readex…has long been in the business of publishing digital libraries of early American imprints, and they have just begun scanning the imprints we cataloged under the NEH grant to create supplements to their two digital collections of early American imprints, the Evans series (1639-1800) and the Shaw-Shoemaker series (1801-1819), named after the venerable printed bibliographies on which they are based. These are in effect the national digital archive of American print, and our additions will increase it by more than 3%.”
(more…)
Tags: American Antiquarian Society, cataloging, Early American Imprints, Evans, James N. Green, Library Company of Philadelphia, scanners, Shaw-Shoemaker, Supplements
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Wednesday, June 16th, 2010
From Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans, 1639-1980
Many of us have read about Benjamin Franklin’s scientific work with electricity, but few know that this Renaissance man is also responsible for a groundbreaking study of the Gulf Stream current.
On June 9, 2010, the following was posted by Ed Redmond (Geography and Map Reference Specialist at the Library of Congress) on MAPS-L listserv:
“With all the sad happenings in the Gulf of Mexico, there are a plethora of contemporary maps depicting the forecasted extent of the ‘event.’
“A historic map related to the Gulf that some may not be aware of is Benjamin Franklin’s 1768 map of the Gulf Stream which can be found on the Library of Congress web site via: http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.gmd/g9112g.ct000753.
“Franklin’s 1768 map can also be seen next to a modern map depicting the approximate flow of the Gulf current around the Florida peninsula via the Library’s “Places in The News” website: http://www.loc.gov/today/placesinthenews/.
“Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790), one of America’s founding fathers, is credited with the discovery of the Gulf Stream, a strong ocean current which flows north from the Gulf of Mexico along the Atlantic coast of the United States, where it joins the Labrador Current and flows eastward. In 1768 Benjamin Franklin and Timothy Folger produced the first map depicting the Gulf Stream which was published the English firm of Mount and Page. The Library of Congress holds one of the three extant copies of this very rare map.”
From Maritime Observations (1786)
A variation of the Franklin-Folger chart of the Gulf Stream later appeared in a number of publications, including Maritime Observations: In a Letter from Doctor Franklin to Mr. Alphonsus LeRoy (Philadelphia: Printed by Robert Aitken, 1786). The map was engraved by James Poupard and is preceded by a one-page description, “Remarks Upon the Navigation from Newfoundland To New-York In order to avoid the GULPH STREAM.”
From America's Historical Newspapers
These remarks (sans the map) were later published in the October 11, 1790 issue of the Boston Gazette, and the Country Journal.
The mapping of the Gulf Stream in the eighteenth century was a significant event for mariners around the world. Today, as oil in the Gulf of Mexico continues to leak, millions of Americans have a new awareness of the Gulf Stream’s flow. In a worst-case scenario, its powerful current could bring oil around Florida, up the Atlantic coast, and beyond.
Tags: America's Historical Newspapers, Benjamin Franklin, Early American Imprints, Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill, Gulf Stream, Library of Congress, Maps
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