Over the summer the library has purchased or subscribed to several new databases which are up and running for your fall information needs.
The U.S. Serial Set is a collection of U.S. Government publications compiled under directive of the Congress. It contains comprehensive and often detailed information on an extremely wide range of subjects. Its earliest documents date from 1789 and additions are made continually.The Serial Set includes House and Senate documents and reports, Senate executive reports, maps and Senate treaty documents. It’s a great source of primary documents.
The Digital National Security Archive contains the most comprehensive set of declassified government documents available. The resource now includes over 80,000 meticulously indexed documents. Compiled by top scholars and experts, the DNSA exhaustively covers the most critical world events, countries, and U.S. policy decisions from post World War II through the 21st century. It offers unparalleled access to the defining international strategies of our time.
AskART Academic offers extensive biographical information about American artists as well as book and periodical references, along with international artists’ auction records and images. Over 6,000 museums and dealers are also referenced. As a member of AskART, one has complete access to information about the artists’ biographies, auction records, financial graphics, magazine ads pre-1998, and images.
The Chicago Defender is the newest addition to our full text historical newspaper collection. We now have access from 1910 to 1975. The Chicago Defender has been a voice of the black community with more than two-thirds of its readership outside Chicago. The newspaper was a proponent of The Great Migration, the move of over 1.5 million African-Americans from the segregated South to the industrial North from 1915 to 1925. It reported on the Red Summer race riots of 1919, and editorialized for anti-lynching legislation and the integration of blacks into the U.S. military.