Tag: Italiano
40,000 e-books via ebrary
Ebrary’s Academic Complete is UC Berkeley’s newest and largest subscription-based collection of e-books. It offers nearly 40,000 current titles in a wide range of subjects and provides immediate access to many current titles (mostly in English) for French studies such as Blood and violence in early modern France / Stuart Carroll, France and women, 1789-1914: gender, society and politics / James F. McMilland, Colonial memory and postcolonial Europe : Maltese settlers in Algeria and France / Andrea L. Smith, Politics and theater: the crisis of legitimacy in restoration France, 1815-1830 / Sheryl Kroen, The feminist encyclopedia of French literature / Eva Martin Sartori, Pulp surrealism: insolent popular culture in early twentieth-century Paris / Robin Walz, and hundreds more.
All records have already been loaded to Pathfinder to facilitate their discovery. For direct access to and information on how to download the ebrary reader, please see http://site.ebrary.com/lib/berkeley.
Europeana goes live
After a brief and overwhelminingly popular launch in November, Europeana – the European digital library, museum, and archive has relaunched its current prototype, providing direct access to more than 2 million digital objects, including film material, photos, paintings, sounds, maps, manuscripts, books, newspapers, and archival papers.
Plans for Europeana Version 1.0 with links to over 6 million digital objects are in store for 2010. One of many parallel projects of The European Library, this cross-cultural and scientific heritage portal is funded by the European Commission and its member states, overseen by the EDL Foundation, and made possible through the efforts of an extensive network of partners and contributors.
ARTstor adds Magnum photos
Colette, 1952
ARTstor Digital Library has recently added more than 73,000 images from Magnum Photos International – a renowned group of documentary photographers.
"This collection relates to courses of study across the arts, humanities, social sciences, and beyond. The ARTstor community will now be able to access high-quality photographs from around the world, covering industry, society and people, places of interest, politics, news events, disasters and conflict, from the late 1930s to the present day. From the Spanish Civil War to the Gulf War, from Marilyn Monroe to Paul Newman, from John Updike to Toni Morrison, from Christian Dior to Oscar de la Renta, from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the crisis in Chechnya, these images capture wars, celebrities, authors, fashion designers, and defining moments in our shared history.
Magnum Photos International, Inc., is a cooperative founded just after World War II and owned today by its 80 prominent photographers, including Henri Cartier-Bresson, Robert Capa, Eve Arnold, Elliott Erwitt, Josef Koudelka, Rene Burri, Hiroji Kubota, Susan Meiselas, Martin Parr, Alex Webb and dozens of others. Magnum was created from the belief that photographers must have a point of view in their imagery that transcends any formulaic recording of contemporary events. "Magnum is a community of thought, a shared human quality, a curiosity about what is going on in the world, a respect for what is going on, and a desire to transcribe it visually," said Henri Cartier-Bresson." Read more on ARTstor’s Magnum Photos page.
French Collection News blog to become…
…the Romance Language Collections news blog! In an effort to better inform across departmental, linguistic, and geographic barriers, future posts in this blog will include resources relating to the study of other major Romance languages including but not limited to Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, and Catalan. Traffic on this otherwise quiet blog is expected to increase during the upcoming academic year but will not be overwhelming by any means.
OskiCat is here!
By now, most of you have discovered that links to Pathfinder and GLADIS are nowhere to be found on the Library’s web site. In their place you will notice the bizarre neologism OskiCat – (Berkeley mascot) + cat(alog). What this means is that the massive migration of millions of records from the former online catalogs to a new and improved integrated library system is now complete. From this point forward, OskiCat is what you will need to use for most of your UC Berkeley library needs.
A few of the improvements that OskiCat brings are highlighted on the Library’s web site along with a growing list of FAQs and a quick tour of the new catalog:
• You can track items you have requested from storage.
• You can quickly check what items you have checked out.
• It’s easier to renew items online.
• You can find course reserves quickly and easily.
• You can limit your search results to your preferred libraries.
• It reminds you ahead of time when your items are due.
• It includes more campus libraries.
• You can limit your search results to online items.
• You can request materials check out to another borrower.
Relevant to research in the Romance languages, you will notice that OskiCat fully supports Unicode so that you can now search and retrieve results with diacritics. Neither GLADIS nor Pathfinder ever supported this global standard.
OskiCat also displays permalinks (permanent URLs) in each record so that you can link to the most recently updated record from your bibliographies, blogs, course guides, and web sites like bSpace.
At present, OskiCat does not allow those eligible for the RLCP to make direct borrowing requests from Stanford and UT Austin. However, you can continue to use the borrowing request form to initiate such requests.
While the first step in records migration was completed on June 24, it is important to keep in mind that much records clean-up work and refinement of the public interface remains to be done. With your constructive criticism, it is our hope that OskiCat will continue to evolve into a more perfect catalog. You may submit comments on the OskiCat’s questions & comments form designed for that very purpose.
Italian Libretto Collections in the Music Library
The Music Library has just completed a multi-year project to catalog two major collections of rare Italian opera libretti: the Taddei Collection consisting of 4,403 libretti dating from 1600 to 1953, and the Sicilian Libretto Collection containing about 930 libretti dating from 1650 to 1900. These two collections constitute one of the largest and most important collections of historical opera libretti in the U.S. Thanks to a Collections Access grant from the Library in 2005, they are now available to our faculty, students, and many users nationwide and worldwide. To browse the collections in Oskicat, type the title search "Taddei libretto collection" or "Sicilian libretto collection."
We are deeply grateful to the following graduate students for their dedicated work on the project: Rebekah Ahrendt, Laura Biggs, Sean Curran, Scott Edwards, Jose Neglia, Kimberly Parke, Camille Peters, Emily Richmond, Brandon Schneider, and Noel Verzosa. SJSU intern Elliott Smith also assisted.
An article by Rebekah Ahrendt and Camille Peters will be published in a forthcoming issue of Notes, the quarterly journal of the Music Library Association, with more detailed information about these collections.
originally posted on CU News by Elisabeth Spohrer, Jean Gray Hargrove Music Library
Fellini’s Libro dei sogni
Fellini, Federico, 1920-1993. Libro dei sogni a cura di Tullio Kezich e Vittorio Boarini; con una testimonianza di Vincenzo Mollica. Milano: Rizzoli, 2007.
Art History/Classics New Books f PN1998.3.F45 A3 2007 Library Use Only
Libro dei sogni by Federico Fellini comprises the exact facsimile reproduction of two of his sketchbooks. In them, Fellini, encouraged by the Jungian analyst Ernst Bernhard, took to annotating and illustrating his dreams. The first book comprises approximately 245 pages and covers the period from November 30, 1960 to August 2, 1968. The second, of 154 pages, covers the period from February 1973 until the end of 1982 – twenty-two years, added to which are various separate pages and some notes dated 1990.
The two tomes bound in one therefore embrace three decades. The gap of four and a half years between the two books (with the exception of one or two loose leaves) is a mystery. Some believe that Fellini abandoned the annotation of his dreams in those years while others are convinced of the existence of another sketchbook which was possibly unthinkingly lent to an American scholar or simply lost during a move. In addition to the almost 400 pages which form the two sketchbooks there are a number of facsimiles of miscellaneous sketches offered as gifts for publication in various journals. The miscellany of surreal and mysterious ideas, irrealizable fantasies and precognitions gives us a privileged insight into Fellini’s contemplation of his interior world.
The handsome folio also includes a transcription of the manuscript description interspersed with the sketch or sketches of each dream, arranged by page numbers and including a small reproduction of the relative dream, and the transcription of the text of the published dreams. The volume opens with introductory texts by the editors and a testimony by Vincenzo Mollica on Fellini’s opinion of these dreams, which he considered as strip cartoons waiting for development which formed, in his own words, “all my art, all my cinema." The work concludes with an index of names of Fellini’s films and of the personages mentioned in his dreams.
12 New Reference Books
Here’s a short list of new reference works that have arrived in the past few months. As you’ll note in the location field, not all are shelved in Doe Reference. You can click on the titles to check availability and view the full records in OskiCat.
Dictionnaire de mai 68 / sous la direction de Jacques Capdevielle et Henri Rey. Paris: Larousse, c2008.
Main (Gardner) Stack DC414 .D44 2008
Diccionario de periódicos diarios españoles del siglo XX /Antonio López de Zuazo Algar. Madrid: Editorial Fragua, 2008.
Doe Reference PN5314 .L66 2008
Le guide des prix et concours littéraires / Bertrand Labes.
Monaco: Rocher, 2008.
Main (Gardner) Stack PQ150.L5 L33 2008
Enciclopedia del español en los Estados Unidos: anuario del Instituto Cervantes / Humberto López Morales, coordinador. Madrid: Instituto Cervantes: Español Santillana, c2009.
Main (Gardner) Stack E184.S75 E556 2009
Doe Reference E184.S75 E556 2009
Diccionario panhispánico de citas (1900-2008) / Delfín Carbonell Basset. Barcelona: Ediciones del Serbal, 2008.
Main (Gardner) Stack PN6095.S5 C37 2008
Dizionario veneziano della lingua e della cultura popolare nel XVI secolo / Manlio Cortelazzo.
Limena: La linea, 2007.
Main (Gardner) Stack PC1847 .C677 2007
Dizionario dei comici e del cabaret / Giangilberto Monti.
Milano: Garzanti, 2008.
Main (Gardner) Stack PN2687 .M66 2008
Dizionario di italianismi in francese, inglese, tedesco / a cura di Harro Stammerjohann ; e Enrico Arcaini … [et al.]. Firenze: Accademia della Crusca, 2008.
Main (Gardner) Stack PC2582.I8 D53 2008
Dictionnaire elementaire fraņcais-creole / Pierre Pinalie. Nouv. ìed. aug. Paris: L’Harmattan, 2009.
Main (Gardner) Stack PM7852 .P56 2009
Dictionnaire amoureux des langues / Claude Hagège ; dessins d’Alain Bouldouyre. Paris: Plon/Odile Jacob, c2009.
Main (Gardner) Stack P29 .H333 2009
Dictionnaire des chansons politiques et engagées / Christiane Passevant, Larry Portis ; préface, Alain Pozzuoli; postface, Serge Utgé-Royo. Paris: Scali; [S.l.] : Distribution Interforum Editis, c2008.
Music ML3918.P67 P37 2008
Diccionari de la literatura catalana / director Alex Broch. 1. ed. Barcelona: EnciclopÌedia Catalana, 2008.
Doe Reference PC3901 .D52 2008
California Italian Studies Journal
Created by a group of scholars from across the University of California, California Italian Studies (CIS) is a new digital, peer-reviewed journal, devoted to publishing innovative and influential research being done in Italian Studies across the world today. As spelled out in the journal’s Charter, CIS, which is assisted in its mission by a distinguished international advisory board, is especially committed to the principles of interdisciplinarity and comparativity. CIS wishes to promote outstanding critical work (on any period from the Middle Ages to today, and on any subject related to Italy) that engages in a theoretical reflection on its own approach, and on its implications within larger disciplinary, interdisciplinary and transnational contexts. The journal ultimately intends to foster new dialogues and stimulate intellectual exchanges among a broad spectrum of scholars and students within and outside of Italian Studies.
The digital medium, open access, full subject and name searchability, and cross-referencing of our journal are meant to facilitate and enhance this intellectual process. The creative use of the digital platform of CIS is also ideal for enhancing and sharing research in fields such as music, visual culture, and cinema and media studies, which may not be as well served by traditional print journals. CIS will be published annually online through the eScholarship, with a main section on a specific theme constituting the principal body of each annual issue, and a second, open-theme section devoted to a range of outstanding essays and articles on other topics. A small selection of texts, translations, documents, notes, survey articles, or work in progress deemed to be relevant and of exceptional interest (either for the thematic or for the open section) will also be included in each annual issue at the discretion of the editors.
“Open access is a key component of today’s efforts to integrate specialized-knowledge-production institutions with the wider network of information exchange generated by the digitalization of media culture,” said Editor Claudio Fogu. “We are proud and excited to connect Italian Studies with this global trend.” eScholarship (http://escholarship.org/) provides open access, scholarly digital publishing services to the University of California and delivers a dynamic research platform to scholars worldwide.
OA Journals in eScholarship
The California Digital Library’s eScholarship provides an open-access digital publishing platform for the University of California. To date, there are 35 journals in the repository including many of interest to those who work with romance languages: California Italian Studies Journal (UCOP), Carte Italiane (UCLA), Comitatus: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies (UCLA) , Litterae Caelestes (UCLA), Mester (UCLA), and Paroles gelées (UCLA).
Open access (OA) is a growing international movement that provides a means for authors to retain copyright and disseminate their research without restriction. The Library has made available a basic definition with a list of resources to consult. Much has been written about open access. In April, an informative report titled “Open Access in France” was published. In May, a similar report titled “Open Access to Scholarly Outputs in Spain” was presented at a seminar in Granada. Also last month, the director of Collections here at Berkeley and the head of the Biosciences Library co-published an article titled “Institutional Open Access Funds: Now Is the Time” that discusses the success of initiatives like the Berkeley Research Impact Initiative which directly funds Berkeley researchers who publish in OA or hybrid OA journals that require publishing fees.
If you are considering launching a new scholarly journal or moving an existing journal to a more green open-access platform, you may want to read more about the benefits of open-access publishing , including greater discoverability, increased citations, author retention of copyright, perpetual access, and more. To find out how to receive funding for publishing an individual article in an OA or hybrid OA journal, please visit the Berkeley Research Impact Initiative (BRII) web site.