Ancestry.com: now at Seattle and Tacoma

http://ancestrylibrary.proquest.com

The pop­u­lar resource Ancestry.com has only been avail­able at the Both­ell cam­pus, and is now avail­able in Seat­tle, Tacoma and remotely via proxy login.
Ances­try has wide-range cov­er­age of the United States and the United King­dom, includ­ing cen­sus, vital, church, court, and immi­gra­tion records, as well as record col­lec­tions from Canada and other areas. A col­lec­tion of more than 4,000 data­bases includ­ing U.S. Fed­eral Cen­sus images and indexes from 1790 to 1930; the Map Cen­ter con­tain­ing more than 1,000 his­tor­i­cal maps; Amer­i­can Genealog­i­cal Bio­graph­i­cal Index (over 200 vol­umes); Daugh­ters of the Amer­i­can Rev­o­lu­tion Lin­eage (over 150 vol­umes); The Great Migra­tion Begins: Immi­grants to New Eng­land, 1620–1630; Social Secu­rity Death Index (updated monthly); WWI Draft Reg­is­tra­tion Cards; Fed­eral Slave Nar­ra­tives; a strong Civil War col­lec­tion, and more indexes and orig­i­nal images will be added

ARTstor visit/training opportunity

ART­stor train­ing 3/24 and 3/25

Please join us for ART­stor train­ing next Tues­day and Wednes­day, March 24–25. Eliz­a­beth Berenz from ART­stor will be at the UW to con­duct sev­eral train­ing ses­sions over the two days. Please RSVP to Denise Hat­twig (dhattwig@u.washington.edu) with the ses­sion(s) you plan to attend. Thank you, and hope to see you at the training!

If you missed our train­ing ses­sions, please see the fol­low­ing resources for self-help training:

Intro­duc­tion to ART­stor is for every­one inter­ested in an overview of the data­base and its fea­tures. Ses­sion out­line here: http://help.artstor.org/wiki/images/5/5a/Artstor-training-intro-pack.pdf

Teach­ing with ART­stor is for fac­ulty who use images in teach­ing. Includes instruc­tion on using ART­stor images in Pow­er­point. Ses­sion out­line here: http://help.artstor.org/wiki/images/1/18/Artstor-training-teach-pack.pdf

ART­stor for Infor­ma­tion Pro­fes­sion­als is for librar­i­ans, cura­tors, and tech­nol­ogy and library staff. Ses­sion out­line here: http://help.artstor.org/wiki/images/4/40/Artstor-training-info-prof-pack.pdf

Wildlife worldwide migrating from NISC to Ebsco

Wildlife world­wide (also called Wildlife & ecol­ogy abstracts) is in the process of migrat­ing from NISC to Ebsco access. Access on both plat­forms will be avail­able until March 20, after which access will be avail­able only via Ebsco.

OLD url: http://biblioline.nisc.com/scripts/login.dll?BiblioLine&dbname;=QWW

NEW url:http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile;=ehost&defaultdb;=fzh

RISM migrating from NISC to Ebsco

RISM: the inter­na­tional inven­tory of musi­cal sources after 1600 is in the process of migrat­ing from NISC to Ebsco access. Access on both plat­forms will be avail­able until March 20, after which access will be avail­able only via Ebsco.

OLD url: http://biblioline.nisc.com/scripts/login.dll?fastfwd_db=prod∏=67&NISCCXID;=WASHINGTONEDU

NEW url : http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile;=ehost&defaultdb;=rsm

Visit from Alexander Street Press

Please join us for a visit from Jenni Wil­son, of Alexan­der Street Press.

Tues­day March 10
9–11 a.m.
OUGL 220

Jenni will be here to describe what’s new, answer ques­tions, etc. We have a num­ber of resources from them already, espe­cially in the Fine Arts, Human­i­ties and Social Sci­ences. Many of these resources include mul­ti­me­dia such as video and audio files.
http://www.alexanderstreetpress.com/

Feel free to attend for part of the ses­sion if you can’t attend all of it.

Human Rights Documents online (TRIAL)

TRIAL Access March 3 — May 1, 2009
Human Rights Doc­u­ments Online (HRDO) will ulti­mately con­tain all human rights doc­u­ments col­lected by the Human Rights Inter­net (HRI) in Ottawa in Canada since 1980.

These doc­u­ments emanate from 483 non-governmental human rights organizations(NGOs) world­wide, some of which have a uni­ver­sal scope, whilst oth­ers focus on the attain­ment of human rights in a spe­cific area of the world.

http://hrd.idcpublishers.info/
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