Collins Unbound

To support the 2010 Race & Pedagogy National Conference, Collins Library is showcasing resources you can use to explore all kinds of issues related to diversity.
Today, we’re featuring online multimedia resources:

Naxos Music Library
A comprehensive collection of classical music available online, it also includes jazz and folk music. Naxos also features traditional music from all over the world, including Africa, Asia, and North and South America.

ARTstor
A digital library of over one million images in the areas of art, architecture, the humanities, and social sciences, with a set of tools to view, present, and manage images for research and pedagogical purposes.

Films on Demand
Provides online streaming access to thousands of films from Films for the Humanities and Sciences. Film topics related to diversity issues include: Anthropology, World Music, World Religions, Global Politics, Special Education, African American Studies, Asian American Studies, Latino Studies, Native American Studies, Social Inequality, Women’s Studies, World Literature, and World Languages, among many more.

Interested in finding out more? You can always Ask-a-Librarian!

To support the 2010 Race & Pedagogy National Conference, Collins Library is showcasing online, full-text resources you can use to explore all kinds of issues related to diversity.
Today, we’re celebrating diverse perspectives with alternative news sources:

Alt-Press Watch
A full text database comprised of articles from more than 210 alternative and independent press newspapers, magazines and journals.

Ethnic News Watch
Focuses on ethnic area studies and related arts, business, education, environment, history, journalism, political science and sociology news. Includes selected Spanish language sources.

LexisNexis Academic
News coverage includes deep backfiles and up-to-the-minute stories in national and regional newspapers, wire services, broadcast transcripts, international news, and non-English language sources.

World News Connection
An online news service offering an extensive array of English-language and translated news and information. Compiled from thousands of non-U.S. media sources, it covers significant socioeconomic, political, scientific, technical, and environmental issues and events.

Interested in finding out more? You can always Ask-a-Librarian!

To support the 2010 Race & Pedagogy National Conference, Collins Library is showcasing online, full-text resources you can use to explore all kinds of issues related to diversity.
Today, we’re highlighting resources that are great for researching cultures, languages, places and perspectives all over the world:

Culture Grams
Concise reports on over 182 cultures of the world, and all US States and Canadian Provinces. Covers daily life and culture, history, customs and lifestyles of the world’s people.

CQ Global Researcher
Offers international perspectives on vital issues with original, single topic reports.

Europa World Online
Online version of the Europa World Yearbook, covering political and economic information from over 250 countries and territories.  Includes comparative statistical information, directories and maps.

Oxford Language Dictionaries Online
Fully searchable bilingual dictionaries and study materials that provide help with learning and using an expanding range of languages.  Includes Chinese, French, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

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To support the 2010 Race & Pedagogy National Conference, Collins Library is showcasing online, full-text resources you can use to explore all kinds of issues related to diversity. Today, we’re highlighting resources for researching people and personal narratives:

Biographies Plus Illustrated
Contains more than 111,000 biographies and obituaries, and more than 32,000 photographs of the subjects. Biographies are searchable by name, profession, place of origin, gender, race/ethnicity, date of birth, date of death, keyword, and more.

In the First Person
An index to letters, diaries, oral histories, and other personal narratives. It indexes close to 4,000 collections of personal narratives in English from around the world.

Contemporary Women’s Issues
Provides full text access to global information on women in 150 countries. Indexes books, journals, newsletters, research reports from non-profit groups, government and international agencies, and fact sheets.

Interested in finding out more? You can always Ask-a-Librarian!

In honor of the 3^rd annual Moment-Us and the upcoming Race & Pedagogy National Conference, Collins Library is showcasing online, full-text resources you can use to explore all kinds of issues related to diversity.
Today, we’re highlighting general resources that are great for getting an overview and background on controversial, complex topics:

Opposing Viewpoints
Brings together full-text articles, primary source documents, statistics, and more to provide context for current social issues.

Oxford African American Studies Center
A comprehensive collection of full-text materials focusing on the lives and events which have shaped African and African American history and culture.  Contains biographies, images, primary source documents with commentaries, maps, tables and charts, thematic timelines and much more.

Sage Reference Online
This fully-searchable collection of the electronic versions of Sage’s print encyclopedias covers a wide variety of diversity related issues in-depth. The collection includes:
Encyclopedia of African American Society
Encyclopedia of Anthropology
Encyclopedia of Black Studies
Encyclopedia of Disability
Encyclopedia of Gender and Society
Encyclopedia of Homelessness
Encyclopedia of Multicultural Psychology
Encyclopedia of World Poverty

Interested in finding out more? You can always Ask-a-Librarian!

More Diversity Series:
Collins Celebrates Diversity – Explore the World!
Collins Celebrates Diversity with Biographical Resources!
Collins Celebrates Diversity with Alternative News!
Collins Celebrates Diversity in Multimedia!