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Database Trials
The Mardigian Library has received a new trial offer for the following item:
Title: International Studies Online
Dates available: through Jan. 31, 2012
Description: The online version of the International Studies Encyclopedia contains over 400 specially commissioned, peer reviewed essays, written and edited by an international team of scholars.
If you are interested, please go to the Library’s website, click on the “Faculty Services” link, click on the “Trial Databases” link at the bottom of the left hand column, and sign in with your User name and UM-Dearborn password.
We encourage you to try International Studies Online and give us some feedback. A positive review does not guarantee that we will have funds to acquire the item; but it could help us determine whether we should pursue this item when funds are available. You may send your feedback to: [email protected]
E-book updates
This OCLC database is a catalog of online electronic books available through libraries worldwide. Some are available in full text.
Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960–1974
The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives 1960-1974 contains books and other documents such as diaries, letters, autobiographies, written and oral histories, manifestos, government documents, memorabilia, and scholarly commentary all related to this turbulent era. It is the definitive electronic resource for students and scholars researching the history, culture, and politics of the time.
Database updates
This collection provides full-text access to over 700 journals related to law and law enforcement, paralegal studies, homeland security, crime investigation, forensic science, and more.
Dissertations & Theses @ CIC Institutions
Dissertations and Theses @ CIC Institutions includes full text of dissertations and theses from Indiana University, Michigan State University, Northwestern University, Ohio State University, Penn State University, Purdue University, University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Iowa, University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Nebraska, and University of Wisconsin.
Gannett Newsstand offers full-text access to 87 local and regional newspapers published by Gannett throughout the country. It includes the Detroit Free Press from 1999 to present and the Lansing State Journal from 2002 to present. Simple searching for obituaries and death notices is included.
Providing full text of newspapers from around the world, ProQuest Newsstand includes access to articles from recent years of the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and many others. The Detroit News is available from 1989 through a few weeks ago.
SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs
SCIPIO: Art and Rare Book Sales Catalogs describes art auction and rare book catalogs for sales from the late 16th century to scheduled auctions not yet held. This resource includes all major North American and European auction houses, as well as important private sales. Records include titles of works, names of artists or authors, the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, sellers, etc.
Reminder: Voice/Vision Archive sponsoring three dance performances in January
The Voice/Vision Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archive is co-sponsoring three performances of the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company’s “Legacy Project” at the Berman Center for the Performing Arts in West Bloomfield. The “Legacy Project,” narrated by Dorfman, is presented in three parts and is set to music by Ilse Weber, composed while she was imprisoned in a ghetto. Dorfman is the company’s director and a child of Holocaust survivors. She choreographed the dances that bring together her family’s stories, Jewish history, and the universal struggle for identity among immigrants.
The three performances are scheduled for the following dates and times:
Thursday, January 26 – 7:30 p.m.
Friday, January 27 – 10:00 a.m. (Family matinee)
Saturday, January 28 – 8:00 p.m.
For ticket information, please contact the Berman Center for the Performing Arts:
6600 W. Maple Rd., West Bloomfield, MI 48322 (248) 661-1000 http://bermancenter.jccdet.org/ticketing/
For more information on the Carolyn Dorfman Dance Company, including an artist’s statement, please visit: http://cddc.info/
The Holocaust Memorial Center and the Jewish Community Center of Metropolitan Detroit are also co-sponsoring these performances.
