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Check out the new literary-related resources added to the library collection in the past month!

• New American Literature Materials
  
• New English Literature Materials
  
• New Film & Media Arts Materials

View all new books added in the past month by topic, too!

The Science and Society Picture Library in South Kensington, London, represents images from the UK Science Museum; the National Museum of Photography, Film, and Television; the National Railway Museum.

The collections include 4000 personalities, the Daily Herald and Manchester Daily Express archives, the Kodak collection, the Photographic Advertising Archive, and the work of Julia Margaret Cameron, William Henry Fox Talbot and Tony Ray-Jones.

Check out the galleries for highlights of the collections or browse the main subjects by using detailed categories.

The American Library Association's (ALA) Office for Intellectual Freedom released its list of "10 Most Challenged Books of 2007":

1. “And Tango Makes Three,” by Justin Richardson/Peter Parnell 

Reasons: Anti-Ethnic, Sexism, Homosexuality, Anti-Family, Religious Viewpoint, Unsuited to Age Group

 

2. “The Chocolate War,” by Robert Cormier

Reasons:  Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Violence

 

3. “Olive’s Ocean,” by Kevin Henkes

Reasons:  Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language

 

4. “The Golden Compass,” by Philip Pullman

Reasons:  Religious Viewpoint

 

5. “The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn,” by Mark Twain

Reasons:  Racism

 

6. “The Color Purple,” by Alice Walker

Reasons: Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language,

 

7. “TTYL,” by Lauren Myracle

Reasons:  Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

 

8. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,” by Maya Angelou

Reasons:  Sexually Explicit

 

9. “It’s Perfectly Normal,” by Robie Harris

Reasons:  Sex Education, Sexually Explicit

 

10. “The Perks of Being A Wallflower,” by Stephen Chbosky

Reasons:  Homosexuality, Sexually Explicit, Offensive Language, Unsuited to Age Group

Project Muse recently released a list of its Top 20 journals accessed in the past year.  The journals included:

• Advertising & Society Review • American Quarterly • Bulletin of the History of Medicine • Callaloo • Eighteenth-Century Studies • ELH • Human Rights Quarterly • International Security • Journal of College Student Development • Journal of Democracy

• MFS: Modern Fiction Studies • MLN • Modernism/modernity • New Literary History • Postmodern Culture • Reviews in American History • Social Forces • Technology and Culture • Theatre Journal • World Politics

Project Muse recently added new titles to its collection, including:

• American Literary Realism (2007-present)
• Journal of Sports Media (2008-present)
• Journal of Film and Video (2008-present)

Also, Project MUSE is in the process of updating the look of its website in order to improve navigation and the user experience. The first phase of updating has just been unveiled: a new look for the journal articles.   MUSE has updated the look and format of the article page to provide users with more functionality and more information specific to the article.

TU Libraries now has access to the journal, International Journal of Mobile Communications!

International Journal of Mobile Communications publishes articles that present current practice and theory of mobile communications, mobile technology, and mobile commerce applications. The international dimension is emphasized in order to meet the needs of accelerating technological change and changes in the global economy. 

TU Libraries now has access to Alternative Press Index Archives (1969-1990) which indexes roughly 290 alternative, radical and left periodicals, newspapers and magazines reporting and analyzing the practices of cultural, economic, political and social change. 

The Archives can be searched simultaneously with Alternative Press Index (1991-present), providing increased coverage.

TU Libraries is currently trialing the database, BBC Monitoring Library.

BBC Monitoring Library reports news from state owned, independent and clandestine media sources in over 150 countries, in more than 100 languages to provide a distinctive and internationally respected news service.  BBC Monitoring operates around the clock, reporting on political and economic events that have an impact upon internal affairs, international relations, human rights and business.  News is translated in to English without additional analysis or editorial comment to ensure the impartiality and authority expected from the BBC.

The trial ends May 30th.  Let us know if this database would be useful to you in your research/projects!

Literature Online (LION) recently added four new full-text journals to its collection:

• Conradian (2004-present)  [Publication Information]
• John Clare Society Journal (2006-present)  [Publication Information]
• Langston Hughes Review (2002-present)  [Publication Information]
  
• The Year's Work in English Studies (2007-present)  [Publication Information]

Literature Online also released 47 new or revised author biographies.  Specially commissioned these biographies give an authoritative and accessible overview of the author's life, work and critical reception. The biographies can be found by following links from Author Pages, by using Search: Criticism and Reference, or simply by entering an author's name in Quick Search.

Accessing and understanding multiple viewpoints on controversial issues has just gotten easier with a new browseable Pro/Con section in CQ Researcher.  Browse Pro/Cons in over 200 topic areas including: abortion, air pollution, elections, Iraq, privacy, television, and many more. 

Users can access this new browse feature from the left navigational menu on the homepage.