Leddy Library News

Leddy Library now has access to The Vogue Archive.  The Vogue Archive contains the entire run of Vogue magazine (US edition), from the first issue in 1892 to the current month, reproduced in high-resolution color page images. Every page, advertisement, cover and fold-out has been included, with rich indexing enabling you to find images by garment type, designer and brand names. The Vogue Archive preserves the work of the world’s greatest fashion designers, stylists and photographers and is a unique record of American and international fashion, culture and society from the dawn of the modern era to the present day.

In addition to the editorial content, all covers, advertisements and pictorial features have been captured as separate documents to allow for searching and discovery. For advertisements, the featured company and brand names have been assigned to the document records, and all image captions are captured to a high accuracy, allowing accurate retrieval of photographs and illustrations. Contributor names that appear in image credits, such as photographers, stylists and illustrators, are also indexed. You can also limit your search by journal editor, to find items published during the editorship of, say, Diana Vreeland (1963-71) or Anna Wintour (1988-present).

The Vogue Archive also features specialist indexing of full-page images from photo features. This has been newly created by Condé Nast, with expert indexers using controlled lists to apply keywords to each separate image within a document. There are separate designated fields for Fashion Item (e.g. kimono, Breton jacket, scoop neckline), Person Pictured, Company/brand, Designer Name and Material (e.g. chiffon, wool, taffeta).

New this month at Leddy: 7 Exciting New Electronic Resources.

- Detroit Free Press, 1831-1922

- Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800 and Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1670-1800

- Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969

- Victorian Popular Culture: Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic; Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks; Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment

- London Low Life

- American Periodicals Series Online

- American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries

Detroit Free Press, 1831-1922

The Detroit Free Press published its first edition before Michigan entered statehood and when wild animals outnumbered the people living in the city. Its editor assigned a writer to walk the waterfront and record the shipping news each day, creating the first news “beat.” The Free Press also was the first U.S. newspaper to print a regular Sunday edition and the first to publish court testimony. It sent reporters to Civil War battlefields to describe the action, set up a Washington bureau to report on politics, and was the first American newspaper published in Europe when it began a London edition in 1881.

Early American Imprints, Series I: Evans 1639-1800 and Supplement from the Library Company of Philadelphia, 1670-1800
Series I contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period. Series I is based on Charles Evans’ renowned “American Bibliography” and Roger Bristol’s supplement and includes more than 36,000 printed works and 2.3 million pages. The Supplement, from the acclaimed holdings of the Library Company of Philadelphia, contains a broad range of recently uncovered books, pamphlets, broadsides, and U.S. House and Senate Bills and Resolutions, offering nearly 1,000 rare and unique items printed during a 130-year period spanning the colonial era and the formation of the new nation.

Confidential Print: Middle East, 1839-1969
Consists of ‘Confidential Print’ documents issued by the United Kingdom Foreign and Colonial Office since c1820, this collection covers the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956, to the partition of Palestine, post-Suez Western foreign policy and the Arab-Israeli conflict. Confidential Print: Middle East is a fundamental resource for academics, students and researchers studying the modern Middle East. These historical documents inform the volatile situation in the region today.

Victorian Popular Culture: Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic; Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks; Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment
Victorian Popular Culture contains a wide range of source material relating to popular entertainment in America, Britain and Europe in the period from 1779 to 1930, and shows how interconnected these worlds were. Spiritualism, Sensation and Magic explores the relationship between the popularity of Victorian magic shows and conjuring tricks and the emergence of séances and psychic phenomena in Britain and America. Circuses, Sideshows and Freaks focuses on the world of travelling entertainment, which brought spectacle to vast audiences across Britain, American and Europe in the 19th and early 20th century. From big tops to carnivals, fairgrounds and dime museums, it covers the history of popular shows and exhibitions from both audience and professional perspectives. Music Hall, Theatre and Popular Entertainment features material on music halls; theatre (legitimate and illegitimate); pantomime; pleasure gardens; exhibitions; scientific institutions, and visual delights such as magic lanterns shows and dioramas.

London Low Life
This collection brings to life the teeming streets of Victorian London, inviting students and scholars to explore the gin palaces, brothels and East End slums of the nineteenth century’s greatest city. From salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thoroughfares offers an unparalleled insight into the dark underworld of the city. Children’s chapbooks, street cries, slang dictionaries and ballads were all part of a vibrant culture of street literature. This is also an incredible visual resource for students and scholars of London, with many full colour maps, cartoons, sketches and a full set of the essential Tallis’ Street Views of London – a unique resource for the study of London architecture and commerce. We also include George Gissing’s famous London scrapbooks from the Pforzheimer Collection, containing his research for London novels such as New Grub Street and The Netherworld.

American Periodicals Series Online
American Periodicals Series Online™ (APS Online) includes digitized images of the pages of American magazines and journals published from colonial days to the dawn of the 20th century (1741-1940). Titles range from Benjamin Franklin’s General Magazine and America’s first scientific journal, Medical Repository; popular magazines such as Vanity Fair and Ladies’ Home Journal; regional and niche publications; and groundbreaking journals like The Dial, Puck, and McClure’s.

American Periodicals from the Center for Research Libraries
This resource contains full text and full-color scans of journal content that can be cross-searched with American Periodicals Series Online, ProQuest Historical Newspapers, and other leading historical collections from ProQuest, and spans the 19th century through the dawn of the 20th century. The collection contains special interest and general magazines, labor and trade publications, scientific and literary journals, and photographic periodicals, as well as other historically significant titles. Key titles include: American Annual of Photography; The Craftsman; Electrical Age; Hampton’s Magazine; House & Garden; The Labor Journal; The Occident; American Jewish Advocate; Popular Science; and Woman’s Protest Against Woman Suffrage.

Today is the grand opening of Leddy Library’s new Research Data Centre.

There will be a formal program today at 2:00 p.m which will followed by a reception near Williams Cafe. Join us!

The Leddy Library has an extensive collection of graphic novels and comic collections on the third floor of the Leddy Library’s main building in the call number ranges of PN 6700 – PN 6790. Highlights of this collection are currently being showcased in the front lobby display of the Leddy Library. The display was put together by Dr. Heidi Jacobs and Dino Spagnuolo.

In the display case across from the Williams Cafe, more sequential art is featured through the work in the student assignments from Dr. Dale Jacob’s English 452 class on the Contemporary Graphic Novel.

And speaking of comics, the Leddy Library now offers a new online resource : Underground and Independent Comics, Comix and Graphic Novels

Beginning with the first underground comix from the 1960’s to the works of modern sequential artists, this collection will contain more than 75,000 pages of comics and graphic novels, along with 25,000 pages of interviews, criticism, and journal articles that document the continual growth and evolution of this artform  At present there are 23,199 pages in 130 series and 355 publications

[The collection includes one of my personal favourite comic series: Love and Rockets. Yay! - mw]

Need to know the step by step instructions to do some DNA fingerprinting in the lab?

Springer Protocols is a database of reproducible laboratory protocols in the Life and Biomedical Sciences.

Compiling protocols from Humana’s successful book series Methods in Molecular Biology, Methods in Molecular Medicine, Methods in Biotechnology, Methods in Pharmacology and Toxicology, and Neuromethods, as well as from a vast number of Laboratory Handbooks, such as The Biomethods Handbook, The Proteomics Handbook, and the Springer Laboratory Manuals, Springer Protocols offers researchers access to nearly thirty years worth of time tested, easily reproducible, step-by-step protocols for immediate use in their lab.

Springer Protocols covers:

• Biochemistry
• Bioinformatics
• Biotechnology
• Cancer Research
• Cell Biology
• Genetics/Genomics
• Imaging/Radiology
• Immunology
• Infectious Diseases
• Microbiology
• Molecular Medicine
• Neuroscience
• Pharmacology/Toxicology
• Plant Sciences, and
• Protein Science

NFB.ca is a web site where you can watch hundreds of films produced by the National Film Board of Canada.  The NFB’s mission is to make these films accessible to all Canadians and as such,  it’s free for personal use.

The Leddy Library has subscribed to NFB.ca to allow for educational use of their films in the classrooms of the University of Windsor.  Teaching guides to NFB films are also available.

Don’t know where to start? Start here to explore all the documentaries, animations and dramas that the National Film Board has to offer.

By the way, the promotional image used on the Leddy Library front page is from RIP! A Remix Manifesto:

Join filmmaker Brett Gaylor and mashup artist Girl Talk as they explore copyright and content creation in the digital age. In the process they dissect the media landscape of the 21st century and shatter the wall between users and producers. Creative Commons founder, Lawrence Lessig, Brazil’s Minister of Culture, Gilberto Gil, and pop culture critic Cory Doctorow also come along for the ride.

That’s something close to this librarian’s heart. That, and The Log Driver’s Waltz.

The Leddy Library is pleased to announce our new eBooks platform, Books @ Scholars Portal. Now, our users can search and access our collection of over 40,000 ebooks from such scholarly publishers as Elsevier, Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press, Taylor & Francis and Springer from one source.  And in addition, readers also have access to over 200,000 ebooks from Open Access publishers such as the Internet Archive. Using Books @ Scholars Portal you can

• Browse books by subject
• Print or download parts of a book
• Save citations to RefWorks, Endnote and Zotero 
• Read books online through an elegant interface

Perhaps, just in time for a certain computer company’s launch of a certain product?

The Leddy Library now has access to The Culinary Arts Collection – a database of over 3 million articles from 250 major cooking and nutrition magazines as well as reference content. Coverage includes thousands of searchable recipes, restaurant reviews, and industry information from the 1980′s to the present.

Access to this collection and other research tools has been brought to us through the work of Knowledge Ontario – a partnership dedicated to providing Ontarians with the digital tools they need to build stronger, healthier communities. It is also through Knowledge Ontario that the Leddy Library participates  in the AskON virtural reference service.  If you appreciate these services, please consider supporting the work of Knowledge Ontario  by sending a testimonial postcard.

The University of Windsor libraries (both Leddy and Law) are excited to announce the launch, effective May 4, 2009, of our new library catalogue. The new catalogue was developed through the Conifer Project. Windsor librarians, working with partners from Laurentian University, Algoma University, and the Northern Ontario School of Medicine, have developed the Conifer catalogue based on the Evergreen system, which was in turn developed by librarians in Georgia.

The new catalogue will offer students, faculty, and staff at UWindsor an attractive search interface based on standards-compliant web design. A robust server environment will ensure increased speed and reliability. New features will also be available.

The url for our new catalogue is http://windsor.concat.ca. If you have bookmarked our old catalogue (sometimes known as Voyager or Webvoy), please change your bookmarks! The new catalogue will also be available, as always, from the library catalogue links on the Leddy Library and Law Library web sites.

Please be aware we expect a few growing pains as we implement the new system. If you have any questions or concerns, don’t hesitate to ask someone in your library.

On June 3, the Canadian Research Knowledge Network, of which the Leddy Library is a partner, announced the Digital Content Infrastructure for the Human and Social Sciences (DCI) Project, a partnership of the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI), 8 provinces, and 67 Canadian universities. The project will provide students and researchers with stable, long-term access to high quality interdisciplinary content in English, French and other languages. Through this project, Leddy Library will be able to provide access to the following new resources:

• China: Trade, Politics and Culture, 1793-1980
• Defining Gender, 1450-1910 Online
• Eighteenth Century Journals I
• Eighteenth Century Journals II
• Empire Online
• Mass Observation Online
• Medieval Travel Writing
• Slavery Abolition and Social Justice, 1490-2007
• CAIRN
• Érudit
• Classical Scores Library
• Theatre in Video
• InteLex Past Masters
• Canadian Publishers Collection
• Oxford University Press e-books
• Cambridge University Press e-books
• Taylor and Francis e-books
• Periodicals Archive Online
• ALPSP Learned Journals Collection

For more information about these research tools, here is a copy of the full CRKN press release. Watch for these to start showing up soon on our e-resources A-Z list and our relevant subject pages.