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Though it's a sweltering Houston summer outside, it's cool inside UHD's W.I. Dykes Library thanks to new blue panels surrounding the stairs linking the 4th and 5th floors. The splash of color is a welcome final touch to the 4th floor renovation project, seen below. Enjoying the new view are (l-r) library staff member Michael Myers and student workers Etisha, Jeffrey, and DaShauna.
Students of Texas history now have access to Texas Historical Newspapers with full-text articles from 41 Texas newspapers published between 1836 and 1985. The collection includes newspapers from major cities, such as Austin, Dallas, Fort Worth, Galveston, Houston, and San Antonio, as well as smaller towns like Clarksville, Huntsville, Nacogdoches, and Palestine. It even includes one issue of the early Spanish-language newspaper, Gaceta de Texas (1813). Coverage of the Dallas Morning News extends from 1885 to 1985. Overall, Texas Historical Newspapers has strong coverage of newspapers from the periods of the Texas Republic, early statehood, Reconstruction, and the early twentieth century.
Look for Texas Historical Newspapers under History Databases or News Databases on the UHD Library website.
We are pleased to introduce the American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals Collection: 1691-1820, a new EBSCOHost database with full-text magazines from this early period of American history. The collection includes 550 publications imported by the colonists or published on American soil. The full text of each document is presented with a unique viewer that makes it easy to navigate across a page or zoom-in on hard-to-read passages. For more information, see the EBSCOhost AAS Collection website.
The AAS Historical Periodicals Collection is part of a new product line from EBSCOhost that will focus on historical publications. The next release in this product line, the Arte Publico Hispanic Historical Collection: Series 1, will be available here at UHD in September 2009. Here is a Sales Demonstration.
Many of the current news stories about the Iran Election situation are about how the mainstream U. S. media are failing in their coverage. If you want to see real-time information from and about Iran, see sources such as:
Of course, you can also go straight to Twitter and look for the Trending Topic #iranelection, but registration is required.
Be aware that a hazard of these real-time, non-media sites is the lack of confirmation and verification. For mainstream media sites that seem to be providing more current coverage and are authoritative, see MSNBC and BBC News.
This month the library added more than 900 journals in the Social Sciences and the Humanities as part of an ongoing initiative to build strong journal collections in all subjects taught at UHD. We expect to purchase more new journals in the fall, so please send us your recommendations.
Here are some of the new journals purchased this month:
For more journals purchased as part of our journals initiative, please see the Taylor & Francis Humanities & Social Sciences Library, New Journals in Social Work, National Council of Teachers of English Journals, and ScienceDirect Journals & E-Books.
The internal UHD Library stairway between the 5th floor and the 4th floor Library Computer Lab in the One Main Building will be closed on Friday, June 12, 2009 for construction. Access between the two levels of the Library will still be available via the stairs and elevators on the Main Street side of the building.
The W.I. Dykes library celebrates Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month with a book display just inside the 5th floor entrance to the library (1 Main Building).
Books for the display were selected to present a range of topics relating to LGBT issues, including history, sociology, law, literature, art, and children's books. The backdrop for the display bears definitions of LGBT related terminology, in order to broaden awareness of LGBT concepts and to promote discussion.
Celebrate Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Pride Month by visiting the Dykes library to see our display, and to find further information on this or any topic!
The University of Houston-Downtown is seeking an excellent candidate for the position of Circulation/Reference Librarian. UHD enrolls over 12,000 undergraduate and graduate students and offers daytime, evening, and weekend courses through both classroom and various technology-enabled mediums. UHD has received top rankings by U.S. News & World Report for wireless Internet accessibility and for the diversity of its student body. Houston is the nation's fourth most populous city and second lowest in terms of cost of living among major American cities. The city is home to 23 Fortune 500 companies and many other world-class institutions in the areas of energy, medicine, aerospace, manufacturing, and business services. The university's proximity to downtown enables excellent access to these and the many other resources available in Houston and the surrounding region.
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