There is now new full-text content in LexisNexis Congressional! First, the LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection adds hearings dating back to 1824. There are famous hearings such as those concerning […]
Summer Reading, or, How will you spend your summer “vacation”?
Endless stretches of time before us, lazy hazy days and long hours of sunlight. And yet, the perennial question: what should we read this summer? We all have lists of […]
Featured: Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS)
Created by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts, FBIS Daily Reports (1974-1996) offers foreign views and perspectives on historical events from thousands of monitored broadcasts and […]
Quoth the Raven : “Evermore!”
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the birth of Edgar Allan Poe, a writer forever associated with Baltimore and not only because he happened to die here. His final […]
New: Vanderbilt TV News Archive
We’re awfully excited to announce that the Libraries recently subscribed to a streaming video resource called the Vanderbilt TV News Archive. The Archive has been recording TV news broadcasts since […]
Online Jazz Music Festival May 12-14
Alexander Street’s First Annual Online Jazz Festival May 12 – 14, 2009 http://alexanderstreet.com/JAZZfest.htm For the next three days, you can listen to more than 18,000 jazz recordings online, and get […]
Preparing for the MCAT, GRE, GMAT, or LSAT?
Studying this summer for standardized tests or licensing exams? Testing and Education Reference Center includes study guides and online practice tests to sharpen your approach for the MCAT, GRE, GMAT, […]
Earth Day
Wednesday, April 22 is Earth Day. Take this day (which should be year-round!) and inform yourself about the environment. Concerned about our water usage? Apprehensive about pollution? Consult the books […]
World Atlas of Language Structures Online for Free
If you’re interested in the properties and structural diversity of languages, you’re in luck. A new edition of a print reference has moved online, and is freely available. The World […]
“April is the Cruellest Month”
Thanks to T.S. Eliot, that line pops in my head every single April without fail. And how appropriate then that April is National Poetry Month. Search the Faber Poetry Library […]