New Trial: Oxford Bibliographies

Link:  Oxford Bibliographies Trial through April 30. 2022. Offers exclusive, authoritative research guides across a variety of subject areas. Combining the best features of an annotated bibliography and a high-level encyclopedia.    

New Trial: British Online Archive

Link:  British Online Archive Trial through April 8, 2022 Over 4 million records drawn from both private and public archives. These records are organised thematically, covering 1,000 years of world history, from politics and warfare to slavery and medicine.    

New Trial: African Historical Newspapers

Link:  African Historical Newspapers Trial runs through April 30, 2022. Features more than 90 nineteenth and twentieth-century African newspapers from around the world. Includes 60 African historical newspapers (1821 – 1900 ) sourced from the British Library, London.  

New Trial: Digitalia Film Library

Link:  Digitalia Film Library Trial from Mar 7 – April 7, 2022 A multilingual collection of films from Spain, France and other European countries, North American Classic films, and Latin American films from South America, Central America and Caribbean including Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Brazil, Bolivia, Costa Rica, Guatemala and others.      

New Trial: Digitalia Hispanica

Link:  Digitalia Hispanica Trial from Mar 7 – April 7, 2022 Database includes access to fully searchable full-text pages and images from a variety of journals and books in Spanish.      

Enter the 2022 Library Prize Competition!

Library Prize poster

We are looking forward to receiving entries from currently enrolled Wesleyan undergraduate students of papers demonstrating excellent in library research and writing from courses taken from Spring 2020 through Winter 2022.  More information and the application form is available here.  Faculty and library staff may nominate students here.

Olin Book Exhibit celebrates Wesleyan Diversity Summit

A new exhibit in Olin Library’s east hallway celebrates Wesleyan’s 2nd annual Diversity Summit “Critical Race Theory: From Concept to Action” and the annual Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Commemoration.  Come browse and check out works by featured speakers Dr. Gloria Ladson-Billings and Andratesha Fritzgerald, as well as other books related to CRT.  Dr. … Read more

Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Justice updates from the Library — Winter 2022

Folks, I’m pleased to share updates from the Wesleyan Library on our work towards a more just library, campus, and world. We welcome your questions, suggestions, and collaborations as we continue this crucial work. — Andrew White, University Librarian Team A – Walls of the Library Team A has been working on a few different … Read more

Library Joins the MIT Direct to Open Program

The Library recently joined MIT’s Direct to Open program, and is excited to see this cross-library collaboration gain ground as MIT seeks to invigorate the publishing of academic open access ebooks.