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RIPM - Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals indexes music periodical literature from approximately 1800 to 1950, providing complete indexing of contents including articles, reviews, illustrations, music examples, advertisements, press reviews, and more.

By Cheryl Oestreicher, Project Archivist, Andrew J. Young Papers, Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History

"Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations" is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center to uncover and make available previously hidden collections documenting the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta and New Orleans. The project is administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Each organization regularly contributes blog posts about their progress.

Forty years ago, Andrew Young conducted his first political campaign by running for Congress in 1970. Though he lost that year to incumbent Fletcher Thompson, in 1972 Young was the first African-American from the Deep South elected to Congress since Reconstruction. Throughout his political career, Young conducted seven political campaigns: Congress in 1970, 1972, 1974, and 1976; Mayor of Atlanta in 1981 and 1985; and Governor of Georgia in 1990. His name lent to catchy slogans including “Think Young,” “Keep Young,” “I’ve Got Young Ideas,” “Young Ideas for Atlanta,” “Young for Atlanta,” “Andy Young Working for Georgia,” “Belafonte is a Young Believer,” and “I’m a Young Lover.”

The Acta Sanctorum Database is an electronic version of the complete printed text of Acta Sanctorum, from the edition published in sixty-eight volumes by the Societe des Bollandistes in Antwerp and Brussels. It is a collection of documents examining the lives of saints, organised according to each saints feast day, and runs from the two January volumes published in 1643 to the Propylaeum to December published in 1940.

Claude Chabrol, one of the founding members of the French New Wave, has passed away on September 12 at the age of 80. Together with Éric Rohmer, he co-authored one of the first books on Alfred Hitchcock (Hitchcock, the First Forty-Four Films). His suspense thrillers are often compared to Hitchcock, but Chabrol succeeded at developing his own approach which empahsized psychological subtlety and often included incisive depictions of French provincial and bourgeois life.

By Christopher Harter, Director of Library and Reference Services, Amistad Research Center

"Working for Freedom: Documenting Civil Rights Organizations" is a collaborative project between Emory University's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library, The Auburn Avenue Research Library on African American Culture and History, The Amistad Research Center at Tulane University, and The Robert W. Woodruff Library of Atlanta University Center to uncover and make available previously hidden collections documenting the Civil Rights Movement in Atlanta and New Orleans. The project is administered by the Council on Library and Information Resources with funds from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Each organization regularly contributes blog posts about their progress.

The Andrew Young Oral History Collection, found within the papers of New Orleans writer and oral historian Tom Dent at the Amistad Research Center, encompasses 50 individual interviews conducted from 1980 to 1985 as part of Dent’s work on the autobiography of his childhood friend, Andrew Young.  As early as 1979, Dent was working on the autobiography, though he wasn’t officially hired as a consultant until 1981-1982, and he continued to work on the book until 1986. Dent traveled to Atlanta, Georgia, to conduct a series of interviews with Young before beginning to research Young’s early days in New Orleans and civil rights era history for the draft of the book, with the working title “An Easy Burden.”

Ethnographic Video Online is a collection of documentary films in streaming video format for the visual study of human culture and behavior.  Includes classic and contemporary documentaries produced by leading video producers in the discipline; previously unpublished footage from working anthropologists and ethnographers in the field; and select feature films.

JapanKnowledge is a portal to the largest Japanese language online reference collection. It includes encyclopedias (e.g.