Author: dorner
Primary Sources: Brazilian Government Documents digitized by CRL
This is the first of a series of posts featuring digitized collections available through the Center for Research Libraries (CRL).
In 2000, CRL, working with the Biblioteca Nacional do Rio de Janeiro, completed digitizing over 670,000 Brazilian government documents selected because of their scarcity, importance, and volume. It is not possible to search these collections; access points are described below.
Provincial Presidential Reports (1830–1930)
These state-level messages, issued annually, summarize activities within each province. Access is by province and year, while subject access to selected quantitative information is provided through the Subject Guide to Statistics in the Presidential Reports of the Brazilian Provinces, 1830–89 compiled by Ann Hartness.
Presidential Messages (1889–93)
The President’s annual message has summarized executive branch activities since Brazil became a republic in 1889. These documents are accessible by year and, where available, by the message’s table of contents.
Almanak Laemmert (1844–89)
The Almanak, published annually, reported on the Brazilian Royal Court. It listed officials of the Court and its Ministries. Also included were sections on provincial officials for Rio de Janeiro and a supplement including a variety of information such as legislation, census data, and commerical advertising.
Ministerial Reports (1821–1960)
Each federal ministry issues an annual report that recounts its activities. Access is by ministry, year, and table of contents (where available).
Primary Sources: Meet the Press
Explore over 1500 hours of streaming media footage from Meet the Press, from its premiere in 1947 to 2013. Search the collection or browse by timeline, subject, people, places discussed, historical events, or organizations.
Transcriptions accompany the episodes and close-captioning is available. Links and embed codes allow you to easily include content within bCourses and a clipping feature is available if you create a (free) account on the site.
Exhibit: Bancroft’s New Favorites
Next week will be the last full week of the Bancroft’s New Favorites Gallery Exhibit, which closes on 1 September.
The gallery is open from 10am-4pm, Monday through Friday, excluding holidays.
For the first time in many years The Bancroft Library presents an exhibition of recent additions to its major collections. The exhibition also includes recently rediscovered masterpieces carefully collected in years past. Gold-Rush-era memoirs and advertisements, early editions of William Langland and Jane Austen, “branded” books from 18th c. Mexico, and David Johnson’s photographs of the African American community in San Francisco after World War II are but a few of the items featured. The exhibition showcases the Bancroft curators and their distinctive collecting practices, which expand the remarkable vision of library founder Hubert Howe Bancroft—documenting California as it was happening and building a library for the American West that would rival its older European antecedents.
Workshops: Learn Citation Management Tools
Over the course of the past decade a number of free software tools and apps—including Mendeley, Zotero, and RefWorks—have cropped up to help you to create, format and manage your citations. The Library has arranged this series of Fall 2017 drop-in workshops to help you get started (or dig deeper) with the citation management software of your choice:
Writing and Citing Tools: What are your options?
- August 21, 2-2:30pm, Kresge Engineering Library Training Room
- August 23, 10-10:30am, Bioscience Library Training Room (VLSB)
Citation Management: Best Practices
- September 7, 12-1pm, Bioscience Library Training Room (VLSB)
LaTeX: Creating Tables, Figures, and Bibliographies
- September 7, 4-5pm, Kresge Engineering Library Training Room
Mendeley Citation Management Workshop
- September 12, 4-5pm, Bioscience Library Training Room (VLSB)
- September 13, 12-1pm, Bioscience Library Training Room (VLSB)
Refworks: Citation Management with Google Docs
- October 4, 12-1pm, Bioscience Library Training Room (VLSB)
- October 10, 4:30-5:30pm, Moffitt Library Room 405
- October 17, 4:30-5:30pm, Moffitt Library Room 405
For more help managing your citations check out these library guides:
Primary Sources: Women’s Magazine Archive
A recent acquisition is Proquest’s Women’s Magazine Archive, a searchable archive of women’s interest magazines, dating from the 19th century. It provides access to the complete archives (with some exceptions) of Good Housekeeping (1885-2005), Ladies’ Home Journal (1885-2005), and Woman’s Day (1937-2005). Other titles include:
Better Homes and Gardens 1925-1978
Chatelaine 1928-2005
Cosmopolitan 1965-1993
Essence 1970-2000
Parents 1949-2005
Redbook 1903-2005
Seventeen 1970-2005
Women’s International Network News 1975-1985
Additional content will be added by September 2017.
Primary Sources: East India Company Archives
The Library has acquired from Adam Matthew Digital their collection of East India Company records, which will be published in three modules. The module available now, “Trade, Government and Empire, 1600-1947” includes 932 volumes of the British Government’s India Office Records (IOR):
IOR/A: The East India Company’s charters, statutes and treaties
IOR/B: The minutes of the meetings of the Courts of Directors and Proprietors
IOR/C: The minutes and memoranda of the Council of India
IOR/D: The minutes and memoranda of the general committees and offices of the East India Company
IOR/Z: Indexes to selected documents in classes B and D
These records include minutes of council meetings, memoranda and papers laid before the councils, council resolutions, charters, text of legislation, correspondence, personnel lists, and printed monographs. The Nature and Scope section of the resource provides more details.
Primary Sources: Italian Reformation Online
A collection of over 140 texts from the Italian Reformation, housed at the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale di Firenze, has been digitized and made available in the resource Italian Reformation Online. Offers PDFs of main texts of the Italian Reformation. Users may search by keyword, author, title, year of publication, or place of publication. Most of the texts are in Italian or Latin.
This resource has been added to the European History and Medieval History subject guides.
Primary Sources: Food Studies Online
Food Studies Online brings together archival content, visual ephemera, monographs, and videos that explore the important role of food and food systems. Key primary source collections are:
National Archives – Records related to the school lunch program 1940-1973 – Government documents related to the US school lunch program in the mid-20th century, including recipes used in school cafeterias, pamphlets about ending hunger in schools, and educational pamphlets on how to create healthful school lunches. Also includes factbooks with statistics of the national school lunch program in the 1950s.
National Archives – WWII Food Campaign Files, 1941-1948 – Documents, pamphlets and posters from the government’s food campaigns during WWII, including the rationing campaign “No Point-Low Point,” Food Fight for Freedom Campaign, Fat Salvage Campaign and Victory Garden Campaign. Full color posters show how campaigns were advertised. Includes packets of instructional materials for housewives who want to hold their own cottage meetings on conserving food during the war.
Food Ephemera Collection – Over 5,000 pages of ephemeral materials from the turn of the century through the 1960s. The collection is made up of educational pamphlets from food production companies as well as food labels, food advertisements, and recipe books. Brands include Jello, Quaker Oats, Libby, Kellogg, and more. These materials give insight into history of food and gender roles, foodways, food trends, food geography, and food and race.
Primary Sources: Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, 1959-
Another recent acquisition is Cuban Culture and Cultural Relations, 1959-, an online resource of more than 45,000 documents from the Casa de las Américas in Havana. This cultural institution, founded three months after the Cuban Revolution, has hosted writers and artists from Latin America and the Caribbean and the collection is a digitized version of its files on the activities of the institution in Cuba and beyond.
This resource has been added to the Latin American History Guide.
Primary Sources: Latin American Anarchist and Labour Periodicals (c. 1880-1940) Online
The Library has recently acquired Latin American Anarchist and Labour Periodicals (c. 1880-1940) Online, a collection of 971 titles held at the International Institute of Social History (IISH) in Amsterdam. As described on the website, the “collection contains numerous rare, and in many cases unique, titles. It consists of periodicals accumulated by the Austrian anarchist, historian and collector Max Nettlau (1865-1944), together with a number of later additions. Included, among many others, are the Argentine periodicals La Protesta, La Vanguardia and Acción Obrera; the Brazilian O Exempio, Jornal do Povo and Battaglia; the Chilean Voz del Mar; and the Mexican Ariete, Redención Obrera, Revolución Social and El Sindicalista.”
This resource has been added to the Latin American History guide.