In the past month, Alexander Street Press has released two new sets of item-level MARC records:

• Classical Music Library (350 records) — This is the first set of records released for this collection, with new sets on the way. Note that these records are available only in UTF-8 format and that the current release supersedes the August version.
• The Sixties (97 records) — This is also the first set of records released.

New Content

American History in Video

• 55 video titles totaling 68 hours were added, bringing the collection to 1,526 titles totaling 528 hours.
• Universal Newsreel releases from 1965 have been added, covering the first flights of the F-111 aircraft, the first use of helicopters in combat, the death of Winston Churchill, the 1964 World's Fair, the election of President Johnson and more.
• New archival films include titles from the Works Progress Administration (WPA), including Man Against the River, which deals with employment prospects for African Americans in the Depression era.
• New PBS documentaries include: the complete Ken Burns Civil War series; four episodes from the Ken Burns Jazz series; two titles from the Ken Burns America series; 19 titles from the American Experience series, including Roots of Resistance, One Woman One Vote, The Gold Rush, Influenza 1918 and many others.
• Titles from California Newsreel, the oldest nonprofit film center focusing on documentaries about social justice and social issues. New titles include July '64 (2006); and Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property (2002).

The Sixties: Primary Documents and Personal Narratives, 1960-1974

• 1,786 pages / items added totaling more than 38,000 pages from 151 sources.
• Two new memoirs, one by civil rights champion and SNCC founding member John Lewis, and the other by activist and founding yippie Jerry Rubin.
• New materials on the women's movement and its relation to civil rights and the new left.
• Oral histories from conscientious objectors to the Vietnam War.
• New ephemeral content including an original SDS (Students for a Democratic Society) pamphlet, court documents related to Muhammad Ali and his conscientious objector status and Woodstock and MLK buttons.

Twentieth Century Advice Literature

• Grew by 45 titles totaling more than 7,800 pages and now includes more than 96,000 pages from 556 sources.
• New "Guides to Business, Finance and Professional Life" include titles such as The American Hairdresser Handbook (1928), Astroworld Amusement Park Host and Hostess Manual and The Business Etiquette Handbook (1965).
• New “Guides to Character and Self Improvement” include How to Get out of the Rat Race and Live on $10 a Month (1969) and The World of the Formerly Married (1966).
• “Guides to Health, Hygiene, and Personal Appearance,” now include Always Ask a Man: The Key to Femininity (1967); Healthy, Happy Womanhood from Social Hygiene Press (1920); and The Marvels and Oddities of Sunlight.
• “Guides to Home Management” include Practical Home Repair for Women (1966) and What to Eat in Wartime from the Tip-Top Bread Company.
• “Guides to Sex, Love, and Marriage” include Every Girl is Entitled to a Husband (1963); The Rational Management of Children (1967); and What is Right with Marriage (1929).

Local and Regional History Online: A History of American Life in Images and Text

• Grew by 85 new Arcadia Publishing titles and more than 11,000 new images of America from virtually every state in the union as well as Canada.
• New content includes titles from the Arcadia “Images of America” series as well as “Black America,” “Postcard History,” “Campus History” and “Voices of America.”
• Explore historical photographs from every era and region of the U.S., including images and other primary materials relevant to the history of Americans of every race and ethnic group as well as photographs that vividly tell the stories of class and race relations, labor conditions, women’s rights and immigration in America.
• Compare architecture styles, public lands and parks, historical dress and trace the history of local towns and regions.

Counseling and Therapy in Video

• With 12 new video titles totaling about 15 hours, Counseling and Therapy in Video now includes a total of 285 videos and roughly 314 hours.
• New titles include an interview with Lisa Firestone on the basics of Alzheimer’s counseling plus a wide range of therapy sessions, including family counseling, relationship therapy, suicide prevention, integrative psychotherapy, creative arts therapy, reality therapy and brief relational therapy.
• See a complete list of the new video titles added on the What’s New page (freely browseable without authentication) at http://ctiv.alexanderstreet.com/WhatsNew/

Counseling and Psychotherapy Transcripts, Client Narratives and Reference Works

• Now has more than 1,700 new pages of full-text therapy transcripts totaling 63,600 pages of material, including more than 16,000 pages of session transcripts, more than 22,000 pages of client narratives and more than 24,000 pages of secondary reference material.
• The new, completely anonymized, in-office psychiatrist-patient conversations added to the collection represent a wide variety of therapeutic practices and techniques. Transcripts include sessions with individuals experiencing symptoms of schizophrenia, mania, bipolar disorder, depression, anxiety, attention deficit disorder, medication concerns and ordinary worries about finances, sibling competitiveness, romantic relationships, health issues, grief and loneliness. The new transcripts also include narratives of individuals dealing with physical disabilities, veterans struggling with PTSD and adolescents dealing with substance abuse and other issues.

Music Online News 

Now cross-searchable via a single interface, Alexander Street’s continuously growing music listening and reference collections constitute the broadest and most comprehensive online resource available for the study of classical, jazz, world and American music. Only Music Online delivers audio recordings, video content, full-text reference materials, musical scores, liner notes, biographies and images through a single interface.

Current users will find that all new audio released is now delivered at both 128 kbps and 192 kbps, helping make these resources even easier to use. In addition, some features that were lost in a previous upgrade have been restored; for example, reducing the number of clicks required to access a performance in the collection. Extensive new content has been added to American Song, Jazz Music Library, Contemporary World Music, Music Reference, African American Music Reference, Opera in Video and Music Online video collections.

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