Colgate University Libraries News and Events

The Connect-NY server will be unavailable Tuesday May 25th for migration to new hardware. We expect it to be accessible again on Wednesday.

You can now use text/SMS to ask your reference question.  Contact the librarians at (315) 775-8951 during Reference Librarian hours, and we'll text you back.
At the same time the email reference interface has been changed to make it easier to complete.  For all of the ways you can ask a question, please go to the Ask a librarian link on the Libraries' main page.

The Libraries have been able to add the following additional resources:
 
Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)
ECCO delivers every significant English-language and foreign-language title printed in Great Britain during the eighteenth century, along with thousands of important works from the Americas.   It vividly brings this period to life with materials ranging from books and directories to Bibles, sheet music, sermons and advertisements and contains 26 million pages of text from more than 136,000 titles (155,000 volumes)
 
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: a Transnational Archive : Part 1 Debates over Slavery and Abolition
SAS is a historical archive that embraces the scholarly study of slavery in a comprehensive, conceptual and global way. It contains 1.5 million pages, including more than 7,000 books and pamphlets, 80 newspaper and periodical titles, and a dozen major manuscript collections.  It strongly supports research with a U.S. focus, but also includes resources from Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean – allowing for comparative research.
 
Illustrated London News
With its debut in 1842, The Illustrated London News became the world's first fully illustrated weekly newspaper, marking a revolution in journalism and news reporting. It presented a vivid picture of British and world events - including news of war, disaster, ceremonies, the arts and science - with coverage ranging from the Great Fire of Hamburg to Queen Victoria's fancy dress ball at Buckingham Palace, both featured in the first issue. In The Illustrated London News Historical Archive you will find the entire run of the publication (1842-2003) - including all Special Numbers and Reports - reproduced in high-quality colour facsimile images.
 
World Newspaper Archive - African Newspapers
African Newspapers features titles published in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Languages include English, German, French, Portuguese, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Sotho, and others.  Titles will include:

• East African Standard, Mombasa Times & Uganda Argus (Kenya)
• Leselinyana la Lesutho (Lesotho)
• O Africano (Mozambique)
• Lagos Standard (Nigeria)
• Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser (South Africa)
• Ilanga Lase Natal (South Africa)
• Buluwayo Chronicle (Zimbabwe)

The Special Collections department invites you to check out our Summer 2010 exhibit of early postcards of Colgate (on Level 2 at Case).
It's interesting to note that these are printed color images of Colgate, a technology that was not common to American postcard publishers until around 1930. All of the cards in this exhibit date from prior to or just after the First World War -- that is, prior to 1919. How is this possible? As it happened, German printers were far ahead of the rest of the printing world in their ability to print colored cards. The original images for each card were obviously made in Hamilton, then shipped to Germany to be transferred to linen cards.
The postcards depict a Colgate both familiar and foreign. Whitnall field has stood the test of time, but what happened to the old Gymnasium that used to stand next to it, where J.C.C. is now? Are those bushy things next to Taylor Lake the same towering willows we walk past today?
We hope you'll stop by and enjoy the exhibit, explore the images and find out what strikes you as the biggest change, and what has remained the same on our beautiful campus.