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Macbeth Goes Digital: Folger Shakespeare Library Launches Digital Texts

Posted on by Janet Clarke

Folger Shakespeare Library announces the release of its new Digital Texts, a free, online resource that offers twelve of Shakespeare’s most popular plays from Folger Editions. Try Folger Digital Texts. From the Folger press release: Folger Digital Texts offers meticulously edited,…

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Posted in Arts & Humanities, Comparative Studies, MFA Theatre & Film, Research, Theatre, Writing and Literature

South Asian Women’s Creative Collective’s literary festival

Posted on by Janet Clarke

November 30-December 1, 2012 in New York City. Storytelling and creative processes have undergone a revolution in the digital age. We dip in and out of different forms of media, borrow from each other every day, and create completely new…

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Posted in Arts & Humanities, Asian and Asian American Studies, Cultural Analysis & Theory, South Asian Studies, Writing and Literature

DATABASE TRIAL: New World Cinema: Independent Features and Shorts, 1990–Present

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200 full length feature films from leading independent distributors…

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Cinema Studies, Cultural Analysis & Theory, Database Trials, Film Studies, MFA Theatre & Film, Writing and Literature

NYS Poet and Author Announced

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Marie Howe to serve as the 10th New York State Poet, Alison Lurie as the 10th New York State Author. Marie Howe succeeds Jean Valentine as NYS Poet and joins a long line of distinguished poets who have served in…

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Posted in Arts & Humanities, Writing and Literature

NEW! American Periodicals Series Online

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Over 1,100 American magazines spanning 200 years and covering nearly every aspect of American culture.

Posted in Arts & Humanities, Databases, History, Journalism, Music, Philosophy, Political Science, Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics, Social Sciences, Theatre, Writing and Literature

Reader’s Advisory

Posted on by Janet Clarke

Stony Brook University Libraries offers a helpful tool to assist you in researching a number of popular books and films found in our collection. Throughout the Main Stacks, patrons may find small signs posted on random aisles providing a title that can be located in…

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Posted in Books, Classics, Comparative Studies, Film Studies, Melville Library, Reader Advisory, Research, Writing and Literature

Latino Writing Collections

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Trial access is available until October 15th to three collections of Latino Writing. The collections include poetry, short stories, folk tales, novels, memoirs, non-fiction, and plays in both Spanish and English from Latino writers around the world. They are made…

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News from Project MUSE

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Project MUSE introduces linked subject headings (reproduced from Project MUSE’s recent email announcement) Users of Project MUSE articles and Tables of Contents in our recently-launched new format may have noticed an additional feature – “clickable” subject headings for each article,…

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Posted in Classics, Comparative Studies, Databases, History, Political Science, Women's Studies, Writing and Literature

MLA International Bibliography adds older content

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MLA International Bibliography has added nearly 40 years of retrospective content (i.e., bibliographic citations) covering the years from 1926 to 1962.

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Fiction Connection – a Readers’ Advisory Service

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BooksInPrint.com now includes a reader’s advisory service called Fiction Connection. Readers can use Fiction Connection to find book suggestions based on books they have already read, authors they like, or topics of interest. Biographies and biographical novels are also included…

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