New online Language and Literature resources

I wanted to let you all know that the Libraries have recently acquired new online resources that I hope will be of value to you and your students.
 

Latino Literature contains approximately 380 plays and 67,500 pages of prose and poetry by Chicano, Cuban, Puerto Rican, Dominican and other Latin writers working in the United States.

North American Theatre Online contains over 40,000 pages of full-text material from major reference sources, as well as in-depth details about more than 10,000 plays, theatrical ephemera such as playbills and posters, and links to related web sites. The database will continue to grow quarterly, with the goal of eventually covering everything related to the North American stage from the 1600s to the present.

Oxford Reference Online is a collection of over 100 subject specific reference sources and dictionaries from Oxford University Press, including:

The New Oxford American Dictionary The Australian Oxford Dictionary The Canadian Oxford Dictionary The Oxford American Dictionary of Current English The Concise Oxford English Dictionary The Oxford Dictionary of English (2nd edition revised) The New Zealand Oxford Dictionary The Oxford American Thesaurus of Current English The Oxford Paperback Thesaurus The Oxford Dictionary of Abbreviations The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology The Oxford Dictionary of English Grammar Concise Oxford Companion to the English Language A New Dictionary of Eponyms The Oxford Essential Dictionary of Foreign Terms in English The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Linguistics The Oxford Dictionary of Proverbs The Oxford Dictionary of American Usage and Style Pocket Fowler’s Modern English Usage The Concise Oxford Companion to African American Literature The Concise Oxford Companion to American Literature The Oxford Companion to American Literature The Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature The Oxford Companion to Australian Literature The Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature

The Oxford Companion to Chaucer The Concise Oxford Companion to Classical Literature The Oxford Companion to Crime and Mystery Writing The Oxford Companion to Edwardian Fiction The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature The Oxford Companion to English Literature The Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales The Oxford Companion to German Literature The Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature The Oxford Companion to Italian Literature The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Literary Terms The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation The New Oxford Companion to Literature in French The Oxford Companion to New Zealand Literature The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States The Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature A Dictionary of Shakespeare The Oxford Companion to Shakespeare The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry in English A Dictionary of Writers and their Works A Dictionary of African Mythology A Dictionary of Asian Mythology A Dictionary of Celtic Mythology A Dictionary of English Folklore A Dictionary of Superstitions A Dictionary of World Mythology The Oxford Companion to World Mythology The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Quotations

Xreferplus  is a digital reference library containing approximately 200 reference books from a variety of publishers. Including dictionaries, encyclopedias, thesauri, books of quotations, and many subject-specific titles, among these you will find:

A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics

Bloomsbury Dictionary of Contemporary Slang

Brewer’s Dictionary of Modern Phrase and Fable

Brewer’s Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, Millennium Edition

Dictionary of Eponyms, Manser

Dictionary of Foreign Phrases and Abbreviations, H.W. Wilson

Divided by a Common Language

Rawson’s Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk

Rawson’s Wicked Words

The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms

The Bloomsbury Good Word Guide

The Browser’s Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases

The Devil’s Dictionary

The Penguin Rhyming Dictionary

A Dictionary of Literary Symbols

Dictionary of Shakespeare, Peter Collin Publishing

The Bloomsbury Dictionary of English Literature

The Cambridge Guide to Children’s Books in English

The Cambridge Guide to Literature in English

The Cambridge Guide to Women’s Writing in English

The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story

The Continuum Encyclopedia of American Literature

The Continuum Encyclopedia of British Literature

The Continuum Encyclopedia of Children’s Literature
 
New books and videos are arriving every day, if you requested something and you want to check on its status, either search the Source online catalog or call me directly.

Video collection open

I am pleased to announce that the videotape and DVD collections, located on the 2nd floor, are now open for browsing. You are invited to stop in, browse the shelves, and check out one of the many items in this collection.

OED and Readers’ Guide are now online

We have recently been able to purchase two new online resources of interest to the English faculty:

Readers’ Guide Index and Readers’ Guide Retrospective

The familiar green volumes in an online version with retrospective coverage back to 1890.

Oxford English Dictionary

The new edition in progress along with the standard 2^nd edition and the OED are both now available online at UNC.

And, as always, please feel free to contact me directly if you have any suggestions, concerns, or observations related to the University Libraries’ collections and services.

Project Muse

I’m glad to be able to deliver some good news for the English Department: UNC has joined Project Muse and we have all the titles linked to the online catalog with an additional search screen available at http://0-muse.jhu.edu.source.unco.edu/search/search.cgi?searchtype=advanced