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Featured Resources

Library Friends Gifts at Work

Each year the University Library acquires a number of unique and valuable items through the generosity of Library Friends. Collective gifts to the Annual Fund, individual gifts of endowed funds, and in-kind contributions provide valuable resources that strengthen the Library’s outstanding collections. As described in the list below, these resources make the difference between an ordinary library and one that is extraordinary in the depth and scope of its holdings.

Annual Fund Dollars at Work: Sample Purchases

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Arts and Sciences III, JSTOR ($10,000)
Focused on the arts and humanities, Arts and Sciences III provides high-resolution, scanned images of more than 120 journals back to the first date of issue. This new collection is especially strong in art and architecture, music, theater, religion, and foreign languages and literatures. It also includes important titles in the fields of film studies, folklore, performing arts, and religion.

EconLit, American Economic Association ($2,610)
The American Economic Association’s electronic bibliography, EconLit, indexes more than thirty years of economics literature from around the world. Compiled and abstracted in an easily searchable format, EconLit is a comprehensive index of journal articles, books, book reviews, collective volume articles, working papers, and dissertations.

Journal of Semantics, Oxford University Press ($643 annually)
The Journal of Semantics publishes articles, notes, discussions, and book reviews in the area of academic research regarding the semantics of natural language. Explicitly interdisciplinary, it integrates philosophical, psychological, and linguistic semantics as well as semantic work in the areas of logic, artificial intelligence, and anthropology.

1902 Catalog of Magic Lantern Motion Picture Films, Klein Optical Company Opticians ($578)
Purchased at the request of a faculty member, this single-volume trade catalog provides insight into a unique period of American cultural history. The Victorian “Magic Lantern” shows, which predated the use of flexible moving film, projected images from animated glass slides onto a stage or screen.     

  

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