News from Mardigian Library: Database updates

August 9, 2013

Read the latest from the Mardigian Library.

Database Updates

Black Studies in VideoBlack Studies in Video
Black Studies in Video features award-winning documentaries, newsreels, interviews, and archival footage surveying the evolution of black culture in the United States. In partnership with California Newsreel, the database provides unique access to their African American Perspectives collection, and includes films covering history, politics, art and culture, family structure, social and economic pressures, and gender relations.

ICSD (Inorganic Crystal Structure Database) Web
ICSD Web is the world's largest database for completely identified inorganic crystal structures. ICSD contains about 156,000 peer-reviewed data entries, including their atomic coordinates, dating back to 1973.

20th Century AdviceTwentieth Century Advice Literature
Twentieth Century Advice Literature provides the instructional, prescriptive, behavioral, and etiquette literature that defined standards of personal conduct for millions of Americans and reflected the prevailing social mores across the twentieth century. Included are handbooks, manuals, textbooks, etiquette guides, self-help books, instructional pamphlets, and how-to books that illustrate both how Americans actually behaved and how they felt they ought to behave.

World NewsreelsWorld Newsreels Online, 1929-1966
World Newsreels Online includes the full run of newsreels on significant historical events from throughout the 20th century. Includes the "March of Time" series, and selected videos from American History in Video and World History in Video, but adds new material from France, Japan, the Netherlands, and other countries throughout the world.

Legal Forms Library
Legal Forms Library includes copies of Michigan legal forms and documents (mostly in Word format) to help you with your legal needs – whether for business, personal, or litigation purposes. Legal Forms Library is continuously updated to reflect current state laws and also includes a law digest, legal questions and answers, and an attorney directory.