Collection News: February 2009

• African American Studies: Keneth Kinnamon Collection
• Online Resources for Black History Month
• Arkansas Academy of Science Archive
• New Journals from Science Direct
• New Collections at the Center for Research Libraries

	The family of Keneth Kinnamon--former professor of English at the University of Arkansas and a distinguished, nationally recognized scholar of African-American literature—generously donated his very significant book collection of approximately 600 volumes covering all aspects African-American literature and culture, as well as a portion of Kinnamon’s academic and classroom papers. Professor Kinnamon graduated from the University of Texas in 1953 and earned his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1966. He taught at the University of Illinois from 1965 to1982, serving as Head of the English Department for the five years of his tenure there, after which he became chair of the English Department at the University of Arkansas and Ethel Pumphrey Stephens Professor of English. He was the author, editor, or co-editor of eight books—including most recently a voluminous and comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Richard Wright—over a hundred articles and notes, and numerous reviews. He was one of the first American scholars to champion the field of African-American Studies and retained all his life a passionate dedication to civil rights. Professor Kinnamon's collection is still being cataloged for the Libraries, but you can already find hundreds of volumes on African American literature, history, and culture by searching the catalog under the special subject heading, "Keneth Kinnamon Collection."

The Libraries offer a number of resources that allow you to explore African American history and culture from the comfort of your keyboard, including:

	The Oxford African American Studies Center offers timelines, images, and more than 8,000 signed articles drawn from authoritative reference sources, including: African American National Biography, a new scholarly compilation of more than 4,000 lives from the earliest days of European exploration to the present day. Africana, an encyclopedia of the African and African American experience in five volumes The Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 The Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present Black Women in America, the comprehensive 2nd edition of an important biographical source The Studies Center offers the ability to search or browse entries for persons, topics, time periods, primary source documents, maps, and charts and tables. Includes links to recommended web sources as well as teaching materials and features.
	Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora is the most comprehensive collection yet created of stories from Africa and the African Diaspora. When complete, it will offer more than 8,000 short stories and folktales, ranging thematically from oral traditions that date back many hundreds of years to contemporary tales of modern life. In addition to these works, the database includes complete runs of selected literary magazines, such as Kyk-Over-Al and The Beacon. Black Short Fiction and Folklore from Africa and the African Diaspora currently features over 6,400 short stories and more than 47,000 pages.
	“Land of (Unequal) Opportunity: Documenting the Civil Rights Struggle in Arkansas,” is an online collection created by the University Libraries that offers documents and images tracing the history of civil rights in the state of Arkansas.  The web site contains over 2000 pages of documents, photographs, broadsides, pamphlets, drawings, cartoons, and other images.  While the project emphasizes the 1957 Little Rock Central High School integration crisis and the rights of African American Arkansans, it covers all time periods and includes civil rights issues pertaining to women, homosexuals, and the Japanese Americans held in Arkansas relocation camps during World War II.  Users may browse the digital collection or search by keywords.
	Black Drama currently offers approximately 1450 plays by 250 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. Plays date from the mid-1800s to the present and were written by authors from North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print. Nearly a quarter of the collection will consist of previously unpublished plays by writers such as Langston Hughes, Ed Bullins, Willis Richardson, Femi Euba, Amiri Baraka, Randolph Edmonds, Zora Neale Hurston, and many others.
	Black Thought and Culture currently contains contains 1297 sources with 1100 authors, which includes the non-fiction published works of leading African Americans. When complete, Black Thought and Culture will provide approximately 100,000 pages of monographs, essays, articles, speeches, and interviews written by leaders within the black community from the earliest times to 1975. The collection includes the works of W.E.B. Du Bois, Carter G. Woodson, Alain Locke, Mary McLeod Bethune, Booker T. Washington, Marcus Garvey, Langston Hughes, Richard Wright, Ralph Ellison, Ralph Bunche, Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr., Angela Davis, Houston Baker, Jesse Jackson, Ida B. Wells, Bobby Seale, and many others. Search or browse by author, title, subject, year, topic, historical event, or by keyword in full text.
	Black Women Writers is a growing collection that currently offers more than 35,000 pages of poetry and prose. Including fiction, poetry, and essays from three continents and 20 countries, the database gives an unparalleled view of black women’s struggles through time. Some of the authors whose works are now available include: Rita Dove, Audre Lourde, Phyllis Wheatley, Lucille Clifton, Nikki Giovanni, Harriet Jacobs, and Sojourner Truth.

 

The University Libraries recently completed a cooperative project with the Arkansas Academy of Science to digitize the back issues of the Society's Proceedings and Journal.

The Arkansas Academy of Science began meeting in 1917 as a group of scientists wishing to establish regular avenues of communication with one another and promote science and the dissemination of scientific information in the state. Over the years since, the Academy has been led by scientists of notable accomplishment, such as Dwight Moore, Ruth Armstrong, C. E. Hoffman, Jewel Moore, Joe Nix, Ed Dale, to name a few. The Academy is a non-partisan, non-political, professional organization consisting of scientists who pay dues to join with other scientists to promote science in the state and region. The specific areas of science included (but not limited to) are Biomedical, Botany, Plant Science, Chemistry, Physics, Astronomy, Engineering, Geology, Environmental Science, Ecology, Invertebrate Zoology, and Vertebrate Zoology.

The major publication of the Academy is the Journal of the Arkansas Academy of Science (1997 - ) and, previously, the Proceedings of the Arkansas Academy of Science (1941-1996). Through an exchange program, abstracting services and special subscriptions, the Journal is distributed to approximately 30 of our 50 states and 25 foreign countries.

Volumes 1-60, 1941-2006, are now available on the AAS archive page.

The libraries of the University of Arkansas 4-year campuses, including:

• UAF: University of Arkansas, Fayetteville
• UAFS: University of Arkansas - Fort Smith
• UALR: University of Arkansas at Little Rock
• UAM: University of Arkansas at Monticello
• UAMS: University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
• UAPB: University of Arkansas Pine Bluff

 

have collaborated for several years to share subscriptions to more than 600 research journals published by Elsevier on their ScienceDirect platform. By eliminating duplicate subscriptions and fine-tuning the package to best match UA research needs, the consortium was able to add several new titles this year, including:

• Applied and Computational Harmonic Analysis
• Biophysical Journal
• Current Opinion in Genetics & Development
• Ecological Modelling
• European Journal of Combinatorics
• Journal of Hazardous Materials
• Journal of Virological Methods
• Organic Geochemistry
• Trends in Microbiology

In most cases, the online holdings in our subscription extend back to 1997. Additional titles, such as Aquatic Toxicology, Food Policy, and Trends in Cognitive Sciences, will be available soon.

The Center for Research Libraries, a cooperative collection of rare research materials, has announced the following purchases for 2009. CRL is an international not-for-profit consortium of colleges, universities and libraries that makes available scholarly research resources to users everywhere. CRL is governed by the major research libraries of North America and is funded by fees, grants and contributions. Its outstanding collections include more than 3.5 million volumes of research materials rarely held in North American libraries. CRL offers large collections of foreign dissertations, newspapers, and microfilm sets. Because the University Libraries have membership in CRL, University of Arkansas students, faculty, and staff may borrow these collections through Interlibrary Loan.

 

American Religions Collection - Series 2: Nontraditional American Religions: Eastern Religions: Buddhism, Shintoism and Japanese New Religions
Gale Cengage / Primary Source Microfilm
47 reels; List price $9,400
From the holdings of the American Religions Collection, Department of Special Collections, Donald C. Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, this large and unique collection covers alternative religious movements and practices.

American Religions Collection - Series 3: Nontraditional American Religions: Eastern Religions: Hinduism, Sikhism, and Sant Mat
Gale Cengage / Primary Source Microfilm
52 reels; List price $10,400
From the holdings of the American Religions Collection, Department of Special Collections, Donald C. Davidson Library, University of California, Santa Barbara, this large and unique collection covers alternative religious movements and practices.

Confidential U.S. State Department Central Files: Biafra-Nigeria, 1967-1969
UPA collection from LexisNexis
21 reels; $4,540
The U.S. State Department Central Files are the definitive source of American diplomatic reporting on political, military, social, and economic developments throughout the world in the twentieth century. This edition consists of the Central Files for Biafra-Nigeria for the period between 1967 and 1969, arranged according to the State Department Records Classification System, February 1963-July 1973. Only three US institutions own this title. Meanwhile scholars’ interest in contemporary Nigeria and its recent history is growing especially in light of global energy issues.

Foreign Office Files for Japan and the Far East:  Series One: Embassy & Consular Archives - Japan (1905-1940)  Part 1: Correspondence to and from Japan, 1905-1920 (PRO Class FO 262/1466-1511 & 2033-2034).
Adam Matthew Publications
18 reels; $3,600
Through the complete files of the British Embassy and Consular Archives in Japan, this project documents the immense political, social, cultural and economic changes in Japan in the first two decades of the twentieth century. This set provides primary source documents in support of a wide range of topics of interest to students of the history of Japan. 

Foreign Office Files for Japan and the Far East:   Series One: Embassy & Consular Archives - Japan (1905-1940) Part 2: Detailed Correspondence for 1921-1923 (PRO Class FO 262/1512-1601).
Adam Matthew Publications
44 reels; $8,800
This part concentrates on the years 1921 to 1923. It features important files on: the Anglo-Japanese Alliance, China, the internal political situation in Japan, the Pan Asiatic League, the Washington Conference of 1921-1922 on Naval Disarmament and questions on the Far East, the Dutch East Indies, the Great Earthquake of 1923 and the requirements for Earthquake Relief, and reports on proceedings in the Japanese Diet. This set provides primary source documents in support of a wide range of topics of interest to students of the history of Japan.

Foreign Office Files for Japan and the Far East:  Series One: Embassy & Consular Archives - Japan (1905-1940) Part 3: Detailed Correspondence for 1924-1926 (PRO Class FO 262/1512-1601).
Adam Matthew Publications
44 reels; $8,800
This part makes available the strong sequences of subject files for the years 1924 to 1926, packed with daily observations and detailed correspondence on a wide range of issues. There is a strong emphasis on economic and electoral reform. Many documents cover the Chinese Boycott at the end of the Taisho Period.  There is much material on Japanese politics, the Court, social conditions, the earthquake, and relations between Japan and Great Britain, China, Russia and the United States.

Foreign Office Files for Japan and the Far East: Part 4: Detailed Correspondence for 1927-1929 (PRO Class FO 262/1673-1741).
Adam Matthew Publications
44 reels; $8,800
Focuses on the growing status of Japan as a Great Power, her naval strength and industrial development under Emperor Hirohito. It makes available complete subject files for the years 1927 to 1929. These comprise detailed correspondence and background papers arranged alphabetically by subject heading within each calendar year.  There is an abundance of material on China, Japan and Manchuria.

Foreign Office Files for Japan and the Far East:  Series One: Embassy & Consular Archives - Japan (1905-1940) Part 5: Detailed Correspondence for 1930-1933 (PRO Class FO 262/1742-1860, 1989-2003 & 2035.
Adam Matthew Publications
25 reels; $5,000
Concentrates on the period 1930-1933 with particularly strong files on subjects such as:
The Growth of the Military, the World Financial Crisis, the invasion of Manchuria, developments in Manchuria and the Manchukuo Administration, the situation in Shanghai, the Lytton Commission Report, Naval Disarmament, Relations between Japan and America, Education in Japan, Labor and Industrial Relations in Japan, Japanese activities in the Netherlands East Indies, Japanese aggression against China.

Foreign Office Files for Japan and the Far East:  Series One: Embassy & Consular Archives - Japan (1905-1940) Part 6: Detailed Correspondence for 1934-1940 (PRO Class FO 262/1861-1988, 2004-2032 & 2036-2039)
Adam Matthew Publications
13 reels; $2,600
Concentrates on the period 1934-1940. There is an emphasis on Japanese economic and military expansion, their withdrawal from the League of Nations, the North China Incident, the European Crisis and British misgivings about an "Open Door" policy in the Far East. These FO 262 files for the years 1934-1940 leave little room for doubt about the main concerns at that time: the likely repercussions of Japan’s aggressive foreign policy, particularly in relation to China, Manchuria and the threat to British, American and Dutch interests in the Far East.

Grassroots Feminist Organizations, Part 1
Gale Cengage / Primary Source Microfilm
60 reels; $12,000
Important primary resource for the study of the origin and development of the women's liberation/Second Wave of the American women's movement.  Consists of eight of the most active of the Second Wave grassroots organizations: Boston Female Liberation, 1968-1974; The Boston Area Feminist Coalition; Boston Women's Union, Records, 1973-1976; Women's Educational Center; Women's School (Cambridge, MA), Records; Abortion Action Coalition, 1970-1982; Women Against Violence Against Women, Records, 1972-1985; Massachusetts Coalition of Battered Women Service Groups, Records, 1979-1981.

Grassroots Feminist Organizations, Part 2
Gale Cengage / Primary Source Microfilm
36 reels; $7,200
Important primary resource for the study of the origin and development of the women's liberation/Second Wave of the American women's movement. This new series contains a collection of essential materials for the study of the development of Second Wave Feminism - the women's movement concerned with the issues of equality, the sexist power structure, and the end to discrimination and oppression. Second wave feminism, a phrase coined by Marsha Lear, rose out of the Civil Rights and anti-war movements in which women, disillusioned with their second-class status even in the activist environment of student politics, began to band together to contend against discrimination.

Incunabula: The Printing Revolution in Europe 1455-1500. Units 46 and 47
Gale Cengage / Primary Source Microfilm
448 fiche; $17,000 list price
Covering a wide range of subject matter and literary forms, these units offer a broad survey of what was available to the German reading public in the later 15th century. The material illustrates how, in the broader literary context of the time, original works created in Germany interlink with works translated or (more often) adapted from foreign sources.  The books chosen -- many of which feature simple but strikingly effective woodcuts -- span some 40 years, from about 1461 to 1500. They were printed predominantly in the south German printing centers Augsburg, Strasbourg and Basel, but other towns such as Nuremberg, Heidelberg and Ulm are also well represented.

Incunabula: The Printing Revolution in Europe 1455-1500 - Unit 56 & 57: Bibles and Commentaries parts 1 & 2
Gale Cengage / Primary Source Microfilm
855 fiche; $17,000 list price
Incunabula: The Printing Revolution in Europe 1455-1500 - Unit 58 & 59: Bibles and Commentaries parts 3 & 4
Gale Cengage / Primary Source Microfilm
888 fiche; $17,000 list price
Introduction and selection: Dr. Kristian Jensen (Head of Incunabula, the British Library, London).  Bibles and Commentaries were an important part of 15th Century printing and this collection brings together a wide range of them. As well as numerous Latin editions, including the 42-line "Gutenberg" Bible of 1454/5 and the 36-Line Bamberg bible, there are Czech, French, German and Italian translations. It includes books printed in Rome, Venice, Paris, Lyons, Louvain, Strasbourg, Basel, Cologne, Nuremberg, Speyer, Bamberg and Mainz and works by commentators such as Nicolaus de Lyra, Johannes Marchesinus, Aurelius Augustinus and Gregorius I, amongst others.

Receipt Books, c1575-1800, from the Folger Shakespeare Library
Adam Mathews Publications
18 reels; $3,600
This project brings together over 80 manuscripts from the holdings of the Folger Shakespeare Library dating from 1575 to the end of the 18th century.  What was it like to sit at table in a Tudor household? Or at a great feast? To toil in the garden? Or to be ill with toothache? Receipt Books opens up daily life in Tudor and Stuart England.  If you want to see into the kitchens, gardens, butteries and bedchambers of Tudor and Stuart England, then Receipt Books provides a most valuable guide.

Sex and Sexuality 1640-1940, Part 5: Gay Literature from Anacreon to John Addington Symonds from the British Library London
Adam Mathews Publications
15 reels; $3,000
This is an essential resource for all those interested in the History of Gay Literature.  Works such as Claude Summer’s The Gay and Lesbian Literary Heritage (1995) have made it clear that there is a rich tradition of writings by and about homosexuality, but few libraries possess these texts.  This project seeks to fill that gap, by making available rare volumes from the Private Case and other collections at the British Library. 

Shanghai Political and Economic Reports 1842-1943: British Government Records from the International City
Archive editions
18 volumes; $10,990
The remarkable and durable institution of the International Settlement allowed the British to report in detail on political and economic matters in Shanghai and China. This collection of primary documents establishes a comprehensive series of despatches in the main from the British consul in Shanghai to the British ambassador to China based usually in Peking but in the 1930s based in Shanghai itself. The form and extent of communications vary during the period and include annual reports and trade returns, judicial reviews, despatches on topics of interest and telegrams on urgent matters. After 1920 a series of quarterly political reports and six-monthly intelligence summaries are initiated and some other irregular periodic reports emerge.

Soviet Cinema Film Periodicals 1918-1942, Part 1: Journals
IDC Digital Library
521 fiche; $9,248
Soviet Cinema Film Periodicals 1918-1942, Part 2: Newspapers
IDC Digital Library
66 fiche; $2,812
This new collection includes Soviet film magazines and newspapers from the 1920s and 1930s, reflecting the most interesting and fertile period in the history of Russian film. Film periodicals from the 1920s and 1930s are a unique source for a variety of information on the history of Soviet cinematography, and the material has yet to be fully studied and appreciated by scholars. These publications are largely absent from book collections in the West, and are now presented for the first time as a large, complete set.  They shed light on the production side of Soviet cinematography, as well as on the theoretical and practical concepts developed by the period’s leading directors and critics. They also highlight the role of film in Soviet cultural life.

Vogue (London); also known as British Vogue
Mindata Publishing Company
1,382 fiche; $10,580
British Vogue quickly became the definitive chronicle of fashion and taste, reporting extensively on Paris fashion but also much concerned with the social scene.  Today, early Vogue is as much of interest for its comments (articles were often noted by authors) on the people, plays, decoration, manners and attitudes of Europe at the time as for its fashion coverage.  The microfiche edition includes all the advertising pages and Vogue Pattern books.

Total List Price - $172,370.00