New Trial: Qwest TV
Link: Qwest TV Trial through April 25, 2022 A music/concert streaming site.
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!
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.
Off campus? Download Lean Library!
Working on your research or studying at home? Looking for scholarly material for your presentation? Download the Lean Library Access browser extension and access research material anytime, anywhere.
American Radio Art at the End of the Millenium
This guest post for World Day for Audiovisual Heritage was written by Stuart Wheeler, MA ‘21, who has spent the past several months working with the World Music Archives as well as Special Collections & Archives to help process collections from contemporary American composers including John Cage and Ned Sublette. One of his projects was … Read more