Pacific Northwest historical newspaper archive (TRIAL)

Trial Access through June 30, 2009

http://infoweb.newsbank.com/best/pnhna

A dig­i­tized ver­sion of the his­tor­i­cal Seat­tle Times (1896–1984) will soon be added to NewsBank’s Pacific North­west His­tor­i­cal News­pa­per Archive, a unique col­lec­tion of dig­i­tized news­pa­pers from Wash­ing­ton state and sur­round­ing areas. The expand­ing col­lec­tion cur­rently includes the Belling­ham Her­ald (1903–1922), Morn­ing Olympian (1891–1922), Olympia Record (1902–1922), Tacoma Daily News (1890–1898), Idaho States­man (Boise, 1864–1922), Ore­gon­ian (Port­land, 1861–1922) and even a rare Japan­ese and English-language title from Seat­tle. users of all ages and skill lev­els will find it easy to search and browse a wide range of impor­tant news­pa­pers that cap­ture the region’s fas­ci­nat­ing past.

Contemporary world music

http://womu.alexanderstreet.com/

Con­tem­po­rary World Music will con­tain 50,000 tracks that deliver the sounds of all regions from every con­ti­nent. The data­base will con­tain impor­tant gen­res such as reg­gae, world­beat, neo-traditional, world fusion, Balkanic jazz, African film, Bol­ly­wood, Arab swing and jazz, and other gen­res such as tra­di­tional music — Indian clas­si­cal, fado, fla­menco, klezmer, zydeco, gospel, gagaku, and more. This release includes 1,082 albums, equalling 14,235 tracks.

Archive Grid

http://archivegrid.org

Archive­G­rid is an impor­tant des­ti­na­tion for search­ing through his­tor­i­cal doc­u­ments, per­sonal papers, and fam­ily his­to­ries held in archives around the world.

Thou­sands of libraries, muse­ums, and archives have con­tributed nearly a mil­lion col­lec­tion descrip­tions to Archive­G­rid. Researchers search­ing Archive­G­rid can learn about the many items in each of these col­lec­tions, con­tact archives to arrange a visit to exam­ine mate­ri­als, and order copies.

Alexander Street Press downtime 4/9/09

Please note that we will be per­form­ing sched­uled main­te­nance on all Alexan­der Street Press full-text col­lec­tions on Thurs­day, April 9, 2009. Ser­vices may be dis­rupted spo­rad­i­cally between the hours of 6:00 PM and 12:00 AM PDT. We apol­o­gize in advance for the incon­ve­nience. No dis­rup­tion is expected for any of the stream­ing music or stream­ing video collections.

If you have any ques­tions prior to the sched­uled main­te­nance, or if you expe­ri­ence prob­lems after times listed above, please con­tact Cus­tomer Sup­port at support@alexanderstreet.com or +1 703.212.8520.

American History in video (TRIAL through 4/30/2009)

http://ahivfree.alexanderstreet.com

This new online resource for teach­ing and research is grow­ing to include thou­sands of rare news­reels from 1929 through the 1960s, includ­ing the entire series of both Uni­ver­sal and United. You’ll also find the his­toric Longine Chrono­scope broad­casts and hun­dreds of hours of doc­u­men­taries from lead­ing pro­duc­ers such as The His­tory Channel®.