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Professor Manning Marable was the founding director of Colgate's Africana & Latin American Studies program.  He died in April, 2011, just days before the release of his critically acclaimed biography Malcolm X:  A Life of Reinvention.
 
The book has been described by Wil Haygood in the Washington Post as going "... deeper and richer than a mere homage to Malcolm X. It is a work of art, a feast that combines genres skillfully: biography, true-crime, political commentary. It gives us Malcolm X in full gallop, a man who died for his belief in freedom, a man whom Marable calls the 'fountainhead' of the black power movement in America."
 
This and dozens of other works by Professor Marable are available at the Colgate University Libraries by searching the library catalog by author/Marable, Manning.
 
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New ABC-Clio ebooks
The 9/11 Encyclopedia: Second Edition
Anti-Immigration in the United States: A Historical Encyclopedia
Ethiopia
Ethnic Groups of Europe: An Encyclopedia
India Today: An Encyclopedia of Life in the Republic
 
New Oxford Digital Reference titles
Dictionary of African Biography
Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture
Oxford Encyclopedia of the Books of the Bible
 
New volumes have been added to Cambridge Histories Online
The Cambridge History of African American Literature
The Cambridge History of Australian Literature
The Cambridge History of China : v .5 The Sung Dynasty and its Precursors, 907–1279
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature : To 1375
The Cambridge History of Chinese Literature : From 1375
The Cambridge History of Christianity v.3 Early Medieval Christianities, c.600–c.1100
The Cambridge History of Christianity v.4 c.1100–c.1500
The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Music
The Cambridge History of English Poetry
Cambridge History of English Romantic Literature
The Cambridge History of French Literature
Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy
Cambridge History of Latin America v.9 :Brazil since 1930
The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy v.1
The Cambridge History of Medieval Philosophy v.2
The Cambridge History of Nineteenth-Century Political Thought
The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity v.1
The Cambridge History of Philosophy in Late Antiquity v.2
Cambridge History of Science : v.6 The Modern Biological and Earth Sciences
The Cambridge History of South Africa v.1 From Early Times to 1885
The Cambridge History of the American Novel
Cambridge History of the Book in Britain v.6 1830–1914
Cambridge History of The Byzantine Empire
The Cambridge History of the Romance Languages v.1 Structures
Cambridge History of Turkey v. 1 : Byzantium-Turkey, 1071–1453
Cambridge World History of Slavery, v.1
Cambridge World History of Slavery, v. 3
New Cambridge History of Islam
    The New Cambridge History of Islam v.1 The Formation of the Islamic World, Sixth to Eleventh Centuries
    The New Cambridge History of Islam v.2 The Western Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries
    The New Cambridge History of Islam v.3 The Eastern Islamic World, Eleventh to Eighteenth Centuries
    The New Cambridge History of Islam v.4 Islamic Cultures and Societies to the End of the Eighteenth Century
    The New Cambridge History of Islam v.5 The Islamic World in the Age of Western Dominance
    The New Cambridge History of Islam v.6 Muslims and Modernity: Culture and Society since 1800

Today we celebrate the birthdate of famed Scottish poet Robert Burns who was born in Ayrshire in 1759.  Perhaps you know the words to "Cotter's Saturday Night",  "Scots, Wha Hae", "Auld Lang Syne", or "To A Mouse"? For more information see the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
 
"Wee, sleekit, cow'rin', tim'rous beastie,
O what a panic's in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi' bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an' chase thee,
Wi' murd'ring pattle!"
-  "To a Mouse (1786)
 

Coming back from the semester break, it would be hard to miss the Traveling Abolition Museum exhibit from the National Abolition Hall of Fame and Museum which is currently on Level 5 of Case-Geyer.
 
Colgate University Libraries have access to a great number of relevant online resources on abolition and anti-slavery in addition to our extensive print collections.  A few are listed below:
Slavery and Anti-Slavery: a transnational archive

We have access to part I: Debates over Slavery and Abolition and part II: Slave Trade in the Atlantic World. Slavery and Anti-Slavery includes collections on the transatlantic slave trade and the global movement for the abolition of slavery from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century.

• This database contains:2.6 million cross-searchable pages: 10748 books, 130 serials, 32 manuscript collections and 377 supreme court records and briefs

African American Newspapers - 1827-1998  - Newsbank Readex
African American Newspapers, 1827-1998 enables users to search more than 270 African American newspapers published in the 19th and 20th centuries. Created in partnership with the Wisconsin Historical Society, the Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress, African American Newspapers chronicles a century and a half of the African American experience
 
African American Newspapers - 19th Century-  Accessible Archives
This enormous collection of African American newspapers contains a wealth of information about cultural life and history during the 1800s and is rich with first-hand reports of the major events and issues of the day, including the Mexican War, Presidential and Congressional addresses, Congressional abstracts, business and commodity markets, the humanities, world travel and religion. The collection also provides a great number of early biographies, vital statistics, essays and editorials, poetry and prose, and advertisements all of which embody the African-American experience.
 
Databases containing full text articles and newspapers

• American Antiquarian Society Historical Periodicals - 1691-1877

This collection documents the life of America's people from the Colonial Era through the Civil War and Reconstruction, to provide digital access to the most comprehensive collection of American periodicals published between 1691 and 1877. More than 7,600 periodicals comprised of over seven million pages is be available.  Searching on terms such as slave* retrieves more than 25,000 articles.
A number of early ebook collections including:

• America's Historic Imprints (Early American Imprints - Evans and Shaw-Shoemaker) 1639 -1820
• Eighteenth Century Collections Online (ECCO)  -1800-1900

A more extensive list of print and online resources is available on the SubjectPlus pages : Abolition & the Underground Railroad created by Emily Hutton-Hughes.

The Art Full Text database moved last month to the EbscoHOST platform however the links in JournalFinder and ArticleLinker still pointed to the WilsonWeb platform.  As of today, Art Full Text content is linked to the EbscoHOST content.  Any users who have saved persistant links to content in the WilsonWeb platfrom should update them.

The new book lists are available for the month of December.  New videos added during December have also been processed.

If you have questions as you get settled, Ask a Librarian.  We're available in Case Library and Cooley Science Library;  come see us in person or call, email, chat, or text with us.  For details click on the Ask a Librarian icon on the Libraries' main webpage (also at http://exlibris.colgate.edu/services/reference.html )  We'll be happy to meet and talk with you!

The Encore catalog interface will be upgraded on Thursday, January 12, between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. and there will be a brief outage of the service while the upgrade occurs.  The Classic catalog should remain available during the upgrade.

Happy New Year to you! Have you made any resolutions yet? I have a big list already and changing ALL of my passwords is definitely not on it. But after checking out this comic, I'm reconsidering. Not only is the idea that an eight letter password can be hacked in two hours a bit frightening, but the Daring Librarian gives some excellent suggestions for keeping track of all your passwords. Plus she recommends completely separate, not used anywhere else, passwords for Facebook and banking. I couldn't agree with that more.
 
New New Years Resolution? Password upgrade!

LASR Scheduled Maintenance January 4 and 5
The Case Library LASR system will be undergoing regular maintenance on Wednesday, January 4 and Thursday, January 5, 2012. Maintenance requires taking the system out of service. Deliveries from LASR to the Case Library Circulation Desk will be made as follows during the maintenance work:
 After    Wednesday, Jan 4, 9 AM    Before    Wednesday, Jan 4, 11 AM    Will be Available    Wednesday, Jan 4, 11:30 AM

After    Wednesday, Jan 4, 11 AM    Before    Wednesday, Jan 4, 3:30 PM    Will be Available    Wednesday, Jan 4, 4:30 PM

After    Wednesday, Jan 4, 3:30 PM    Before    Thursday, Jan 5, 7 AM    Will be Available    Thursday, Jan 5, 8:30 AM

After    Thursday, Jan 5, 7 AM    Before    Thursday, Jan 5, 11 AM    Will be Available    Thursday, Jan 5, 11:30 AM

After    Thursday, Jan 5, 11 AM    Before    Thursday, Jan 5, 3:30 AM    Will be Available    Thursday, Jan 5, 4:30 AM
 
Please call the Circulation Desk at x7300, menu choice 3, to verify that materials have been delivered before traveling to the library to pick up requests. Completion of the maintenance work and resumption of the regular delivery schedule will be announced on the Libraries’ web site. Thanks for your patience during this inconvenience.