2008 Annual Report - Northeastern University Libraries

Collections and
Digital Management
A Sampling of New Online
Resources:
American Chemical Society Journal
Legacy Archive
American Physiological Society Journal
Legacy Content
Duke Mathematical Journal Archive
Empire Online
Nanotechnology Electronic Book
Collection from Elsevier
Encyclopaedia Judaica
Ovid Doody’s Core Nursing E-Book
Collection
Political Reference Suite from
Congressional Quarterly
Teacher’s Research Core Collection of
electronic books from NetLibrary
Times of London for the years 1785-1985
Web of Science
World Development Indicators
Enhancing the Digital
Collections
Web of Science
This year brought the web version of the
Web of Science database to the Library.
Web of Science is often recognized as
being the premier journal citation analysis
tool. It aggregates citation data for
approximately 8,700 of the world’s most
high-impact journals across all disciplines.
The subscription to Web of Science brings
together the Science Citation Index, the
Social Sciences Citation Index, and the
Arts & Humanities Citation Index. The
research power of Web of Science lies in
its ability to search forward in time to track
the genesis and evolution of any specific
article or author’s idea. A researcher can
see how many times an article has been
cited since its publication, find items which
share cited references, and search all cited
authors.
Smithsonian Global Sound
This year the Library acquired the
Smithsonian Global Sound collection
from the Alexander Street Press. The
collection grew out of the vision and work
of Folkways Records founder Moses
Asch, who released more than 2,000
albums between 1948 and 1986, including
those by American folk legends such as
Pete Seeger, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly,
and many others. The database offers
extensive streaming music and sound files
that are fully searchable by country, culture,
genre, or even instrument. The collection
includes folk, bluegrass, blues, Broadway,
children’s, classical, jazz, and world music.
ARTstor
The Library recently acquired access to
ARTstor, which is a growing repository
of 750,000 digital images accompanied
by presentation tools for classroom
teaching and management tools for
creating personalized image collections.
ARTstor images can be used for lectures,
classroom handouts, course reserves, and
student presentations. ARTstor consists
of images from the Library of Congress,
the Peabody Museum at Harvard, the
Mellon International Dunhuang Archive, the
Schlesinger History of Women in America
Collection, the National Anthropological
Archives of Native American Art and
Culture, the Smithsonian Institution, and
more.
Digitization Project
This year marked the beginning of the
Library’s participation in the joint Boston
Library Consortium (BLC) and Open
Content Alliance digitization project. As
a partner, Northeastern has sent more
than 400 of its older (out of copyright and
pre-1923) books to a new scanning center
located at the Boston Public Library for
digitization. These works, many of them
from the Library’s rich engineering and
historical collections, are now available
as word-searchable high resolution
reproductions via the Internet Archive
(www.archive.org/details/northeastern).
Works such as American Railroad Bridges
(1889) and Battles of the British Navy
(1852) are now available to anyone with an
Internet connection. Northeastern and the
19 other BLC members have contributed
more than 20,400 rare and unique books
to the Internet Archive so far.
Serenyi Collection
This year the Library received from Peter
Serenyi, Professor Emeritus and former
Chair of the Department of Art and
Architecture, a collection of rare scholarly
works by and about the Swiss-born Le
Corbusier (1887-1965), one of the most
influential and visionary architects of the
20th century. Professor Serenyi is a scholar
of Le Corbusier and author of such works
as Le Corbusier in Perspective.
Warro-Edmonston Collection
The NU Libraries are pleased to announce
a gift of nearly one thousand books in
the humanities, with a heavy emphasis
on classical music, especially works on
opera, symphonic, and chamber music,
from Former Library Dean Edward Warro
and Boyd Edmonston. The donation also
included a large collection of historical and
literary works on the Holocaust.
Above, left to right:
Book cover of Paris
the Beautiful, one of
the Library's digitized
books
Book cover of The
Spell of Belgium,
one of the Library's
digitized books
Book cover from the
Serenyi Collection
Album cover from the
Serenyi Collection
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