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	<title>YUL Updates &#187; William Denton</title>
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		<title>New! Academic Charts Online</title>
		<link>http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/2012/07/11/new-academic-charts-online/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Jul 2012 14:00:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Denton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently arranged a subscription to Academic Charts Online, a new tool that slows users to perform analytics on popular music chart data from around the world. Academic Charts Online contains tools that allow you to interpret, graph, analyse, compare &#8230; <a href="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/2012/07/11/new-academic-charts-online/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p style="text-align: left;">We recently arranged a subscription to <a href="https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/muler780989" target="_blank">Academic Charts Online</a>, a new tool that slows users to perform analytics on popular music chart data from around the world.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-3543 alignnone" title="academic" src="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/files/2012/07/academic-300x191.png" alt="academic" width="300" height="191" /></p>
<p style="text-align: left;">Academic Charts Online contains tools that allow you to interpret, graph, analyse, compare and  contrast musical trends and interactions. You can also listen to audio samples for each track and album.</p>
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		<title>RACER will be offline Saturday July 14th</title>
		<link>http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/2012/07/09/racer-will-be-offline-saturday-july-14th/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Jul 2012 20:38:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Denton</dc:creator>
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		<title>New from Adam Matthew Digital: Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 05 Jul 2012 18:20:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Denton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently added Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966 to our collection of Adam Matthew Digital products. Spanning the full era of the modern European colonisation of Africa, from the occupation of Algeria by France, through increasing British presence on the west &#8230; <a href="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/2012/07/05/new-from-adam-matthew-digital-confidential-print-africa-1834-1966/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
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<p>We recently added <a href="https://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/muler780312" target="_blank">Confidential Print: Africa, 1834-1966</a> to our collection of Adam Matthew Digital products.</p>
<p>Spanning the full era of the modern   European colonisation of Africa, from the occupation of Algeria by  France,  through increasing British presence on the west African coast  and around the  Cape of Good Hope in the south, the Berlin Conference  which set off the  ‘Scramble for Africa’, the high-water mark of  economic exploitation of Africans  in the Congo Free State, rivalries  amongst European powers and the era of  withdrawal that followed the  Second World War, <em>Confidential Print: Africa</em> serves as a resource for academics,  students and researchers studying modern Africa and its recent history.</p>
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		<title>York Business Librarian validates altmetrics for research impact evaluation</title>
		<link>http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/2012/06/06/york-business-librarian-validates-altmetrics-for-research-impact-evaluation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 06 Jun 2012 14:14:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Denton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Business librarian Xuemei Li has become one of the first librarians to ever have a study validating the usefulness of altmetrics published in an academic journal. Her first research study was published in April, 2012 in Scientometrics and Li’s second study was &#8230; <a href="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/2012/06/06/york-business-librarian-validates-altmetrics-for-research-impact-evaluation/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3496" title="Xuemei Li" src="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/files/2012/06/Xuemei-Li-269x300.jpg" alt="Xuemei Li" width="262" height="284" />Business librarian Xuemei Li has become one of the first librarians to ever have a study validating the usefulness of altmetrics published in an academic journal. Her first research study was published in April, 2012 in <em>Scientometrics </em>and Li’s second study was accepted by the <em>17<sup>th</sup> International Conference on Science and Technology Indicators</em> which will be taking place in September 2012.</p>
<p>Altmetrics is the study of social media metrics used for analyzing and informing scholarship. “Researchers are integrating various social media tools such as blogs, wikis, Twitter, and social bookmarks into their research processes to save, organize, share, and disseminate various research sources. It is even more difficult for traditional bibliometric indicators to capture the totality of research influence on the web,” Li explains. “Nevertheless, the traces left by researchers and the general public through those social media tools hold big potential for measuring different research influences, and this is what altmetrics aims to measure. Altmetrics can be used to complement traditional citation-based measurements.”</p>
<p>Li’s first study of altmetrics sampled 1613 papers published in <em>Nature</em> and <em>Science</em> in 2007 and compared citations with reader counts. Li found significant statistical correlations between citations from Web of Science and Google Scholar and reader counts from the social media bookmark tools CiteULike and Mendeley. The findings suggest that the type of scholarly influence one’s research has, as measured by these social media tools, is related to traditional citation-based impact.</p>
<p>Li’s second study compared nearly 1400 Faculty of 1000 (F1000) post-publication peer reviews, and Mendeley usage data, with traditional bibliometric indicators. This study suggests that F1000 –a database that stores only the best quality biomedical articles after they’ve been published, as selected by over 10,000 faculty members worldwide – is good at acknowledging the merit of an article from (the F1000) experts’ point of view while Mendeley reader counts are more closely related to citation counts. </p>
<p>“Faculty are striving to demonstrate the impact of their research in a world where the web has become a critical communications channel,” explains Cynthia Archer, York University librarian. “Li’s ground-breaking research serves to validate the usefulness of social media based altmetrics to monitor and track faculty research impact.”</p>
<p>Li and other researchers are working hard to identify, monitor, and evaluate potential social media tools towards building reliable altmetric indicators.</p>
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		<title>Archives the new home for memoir on race relations</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Jun 2012 12:36:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Denton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When asked about his overarching goal for writing his autobiography, A Struggle to Walk with Dignity – The True Story of a Jamaican- born Canadian, Gerald A. Archambeau responds, “To inspire youth to never give up on the goodness of &#8230; <a href="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/2012/06/04/author-donates-to-the-archives-his-memoir-chronicling-canadian-race-relations-and-his-personal-fight-for-equality/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2012/06/01/authors-memoir-on-race-relations-donated-to-archives/?utm_source=YFile_Email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MorningEmail"><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3478" title="A Struggle to Walk with Dignity" src="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/files/2012/06/A-Struggle-to-Walk-with-Dignity-194x300.jpg" alt="A Struggle to Walk with Dignity" width="194" height="300" /></a>When asked about his overarching goal for writing his autobiography, <em>A Struggle to Walk with Dignity – The True Story of a Jamaican- born Canadian</em>, Gerald A. Archambeau responds, “To inspire youth to never give up on the goodness of human beings regardless of race.”  With this aspiration in mind Archambeau has donated a collection of his works – him memoir and three scrapbooks – to Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections.</p>
<p>The scrapbooks narrate Archambeau’s life through a series of photographs, postcards, and newspaper clippings pertaining to race relations and his employers the Canadian National Railway (CN), Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR), and Air Canada. The scrapbooks refer to the collective fight for human rights equality and Archambeau’s quotes written throughout add personal reflections of his own struggle. These scrapbooks, chronicling his life, served as the catalyst for writing the book <em>A Struggle to Walk with Dignity – The True Story of a Jamaican-born Canadian.</em></p>
<p>Catherine Davidson, associate university librarian of collections, believes that Archambeau’s donation will be a valuable instructional resource for undergraduate humanities programs, specifically courses in Canadian history and race relations. “Archambeau’s memoir and scrapbooks shine a light on the racial segregation and inequality that were prevalent in Canada at the time. Archambeau’s scrapbooks in particular are a fascinating read; they bring the issues to life for the reader.”</p>
<p><strong>About Gerald A. Archambeau</strong></p>
<p><a href="http://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2012/06/01/authors-memoir-on-race-relations-donated-to-archives/?utm_source=YFile_Email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=MorningEmail"><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3479" title="Gerald Archambeau" src="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/files/2012/06/Ger.png" alt="Gerald Archambeau" width="229" height="229" /></a>Archambeau was born in Jamaica B.W.I. to a Panamanian father of African, French, and Aboriginal ancestry and mother of Caucasian and African ancestry – although he was raised by his grandmother and three aunts.</p>
<p>As a teenager Archambeau was forced to immigrate to Canada by his mother and stepfather, a Barbadian who fought for the Canadian army in WWII and for that reason was granted Canadian citizenship. Archambeau moved to Canada so the three could qualify for veteran housing in Montreal.</p>
<p>Because of his love for trains Archambeau was employed as a porter for CN and CPR for over 15 years.  He writes next to a newspaper clipping about the porters in one of his scrapbooks, “The true gentlemen of the rails – service with a smile even though we were insulted at times.” Despite racial clauses in some union contracts, Archambeau’s time on the rails was quite happy. “We served Canada’s wealthy who could afford to ride in sleeping cars, club cars, parlour cars, and eat in the dining cars. Porters who provided good service were tipped and always had money in their pockets.  Very few incidences of open racism occurred on the railways and if there were any problems (the porters) could report it to the train conductor who would handle it according to railway rules.”</p>
<p>In the 1960s the railway business started to decline in popularity and in 1967 Archambeau began working for Air Canada as a station attendant, later being promoted to lead ramp foreman. It was at this point that Archambeau had to fight for equality because of improper workplace practices and behaviours.  </p>
<p>When Archambeau retired in 1993 his wife Marion encouraged him to write his autobiography.  <em>A Struggle to Walk with Dignity</em> <em>–The True Story of a Jamaican- born Canadian</em> was published in 2008 by Dr. J. Patrick Boyer, President of Blue Butterfly Publishing. His book can be summed up best by Archambeau himself, “The most important thing to me in life is my integrity as a human being – not as a race or a colour, but as a person. My book is a very humanistic story about interactions between people of the human race.”</p>
<p>For more information about Gerald Archambeau’s donation or how to integrate it into coursework and research, please contact: Anna St.Onge, Archivist of Digital Projects and Outreach, Clara Thomas Archives &amp; Special Collections, Room 305, Scott Library, <a href="mailto:astonge@yorku.ca">astonge@yorku.ca</a>.</p>
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		<title>18th century Bible and typography masterpiece acquired by Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 22 May 2012 13:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Denton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two hundred years after its printing a copy of John Baskerville’s folio edition of the Holy Bible – one of only 1,250 printed in Cambridge, England in 1763 – made its way to Canada. That same rare Bible was transferred &#8230; <a href="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/2012/05/22/18th-century-bible-and-typography-masterpiece-acquired-by-clara-thomas-archives-and-special-collections/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3460 alignnone" title="Lennox, Tottenham, Archer" src="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/files/2012/05/Lennox-Tottenham-Archer-300x224.jpg" alt="18th century John Baskerville Bible placed in the care of York University Libraries" width="300" height="224" /></p>
<p>Two hundred years after its printing a copy of John Baskerville’s folio edition of<em> </em>the Holy Bible – one of only 1,250 printed in Cambridge, England in 1763 – made its way to Canada. That same rare Bible was transferred by Richard Tottenham to York University Libraries’ (YUL) Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, making it one of only two copies in a Canadian academic library.</p>
<p> John Baskerville’s folio edition of<em> </em>the Holy Bible was printed by Cambridge University Press in 1763. Baskerville was recognized as a type-setting trailblazer and Random House notes that this edition of the<em> </em>Holy Bible<em> </em>is, “a Baskerville masterpiece, regarded as the finest and most important work from Baskerville’s Cambridge Press.” The Bible was printed in Baskerville’s Great Primer type which is slender and delicate, combining elegance with readability – important traits since the book was intended to be read aloud from church pulpits. T.B. Reed describes the Bible in <em>A History of the Old English Letter Foundries</em> as Baskerville’s “magnum opus&#8230; his most magnificent as well as most characteristic specimen.” </p>
<p>Michael Moir, university archivist and head of Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, notes the scholarly value that this Bible can bring to coursework and research at York. “At first glance one may think a Bible would be an excellent teaching aid for humanities courses, but I think it could seamlessly be integrated into fine arts curriculums and research – specifically book design courses,” says Moir. “John Baskerville is known as a typographic expert and this folio edition of<em> </em>the Holy Bible can be a valuable resource for fine arts undergraduate students studying the evolution of the printing process and typography.”</p>
<p><img class="size-medium wp-image-3461 alignleft" title="Second Marquess of Ely" src="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/files/2012/05/2nd-M-of-Ely-214x300.jpg" alt="Second Marquess of Ely" width="214" height="300" /></p>
<p>Speaking to the authenticity and longevity of this 250-year-old Bible are hand-scribed records of birth and baptismal dates within Tottenham’s family, dating back to the year 1810. These recordings trace Tottenham’s lineage and suggest the year in which the Bible was originally purchased by the second Marquess of Ely (Tottenham’s ancestor.) Preserving these familial references was important to Tottenham and part of the reason that he decided to bestow the Bible to Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections. “My siblings and I wanted the Bible to be housed at York so it could be studied and used to enhance scholarship and research,” Tottenham explains. “But I also knew it would be well preserved which was important to me because the Bible contains references to my ancestry.”</p>
<p>This Bible has been entrusted to the archives due, in large part, to a coincidental conversation between Tottenham and York University LA&amp;PS professor, John Lennox. “Richard (Tottenham) and I have been friends and neighbours for many years and in a recent conversation he serendipitously mentioned that he inherited an 18<sup>th</sup> century Bible,” Lennox explains. “I thought it would be of great interest to scholars and researchers and a marvelous addition to our rare books collection. I mentioned to Richard that Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections would be able to conserve the Bible’s historical value while making it accessible to the public. I&#8217;m delighted about the whole thing and tremendously grateful to Richard for placing the Bible in York University Libraries’ (YUL) care and to Michael Moir for making it happen.”</p>
<p>For more information about John Baskerville’s edition of the Bible or how to integrate it into coursework and research, please contact:</p>
<p><strong>Anna St.Onge</strong><em><br />
Archivist, Digital Projects and Outreach</em></p>
<p> Clara Thomas Archives &amp; Special Collections, Room 305, Scott Library<br />
<a href="mailto:astonge@yorku.ca">astonge@yorku.ca</a></p>
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<p style="text-align: left;">Photograph and painting:</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">1)  (From left to right) Professor John Lennox, with friend Richard Tottenham, present John Baskerville’s 18<sup>th</sup> century Holy Bible<em> </em>to university librarian, Cynthia Archer.</p>
<p style="text-align: left;">2)  A painting of the second Marquess of Ely,  Richard Tottenham’s ancestor and purchaser of the John Baskerville Bible in the year 1810.</p>
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		<title>New eResource Trial: NewspaperDirect Library PressDisplay</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 20:39:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Denton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We currently have access to ProQuest&#8217;s Library PressDisplay on a trial basis. Library PressDisplay provides online access to international newspapers in full-color, full-page format.  The collection currently includes more than 1,200 U.S. and international titles—from 94 countries in 48 languages. You can access &#8230; <a href="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/2012/05/17/new-eresource-trial-newspaperdirect-library-pressdisplay/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We currently have access to ProQuest&#8217;s <span><strong>Library PressDisplay</strong> on a trial basis. </span></p>
<p><span>Library PressDisplay provides online  access to international newspapers in full-color,  full-page format.  The collection currently includes more  than 1,200 U.S. and international titles—from 94 countries in 48  languages. </span></p>
<p>You can access the trial here: <span style="font-family: arial; font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://www.proquest.com/trials/trialSummary.action?view=subject&amp;trialBean.token=ASEIKA2FWAEGBYKY2OU9">https://www.proquest.com/trials/trialSummary.action?view=subject&amp;trialBean.token=ASEIKA2FWAEGBYKY2OU9</a></span></p>
<p>The trial will run until June 14th.</p>
<p>If you have any questions or comments, please contact ereport at yorku dot ca</p>
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		<title>New eResource Trial: Encyclomedia</title>
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		<dc:creator>William Denton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We currently have access to Encyclomedia on a trial basis: http://scuola.encyclomedia.it/enter-eol Encyclomedia Online is a multimedia project designed to aid the study and understanding of the history of European civilization, directed by Umberto Eco and produced by EM Publishers for &#8230; <a href="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/2012/05/16/new-eresource-trial-encyclomedia/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We currently have access to <strong>Encyclomedia </strong>on a trial basis: <a href="http://scuola.encyclomedia.it/enter-eol">http://scuola.encyclomedia.it/enter-eol</a></p>
<p>Encyclomedia Online is a multimedia project designed to aid the study and understanding of the history of European civilization, directed by Umberto Eco and produced by EM Publishers for Italian language institutes for italian language.<br />
Encyclomedia covers the history of politics and government, social and economic history, the history of philosophy, religion, sciences, music and musical practice, communication, literature and theatre, and art and architecture.<br />
Encyclomedia is a cross-disciplinary reference tool which employs digital reference technology to bring out spatial and temporal interconnections and facilitate users’ understanding of the context surrounding and the relationships between people, events, and ideas.</p>
<p>The trial expires <strong>May 30th</strong>.</p>
<p>If you have any questions about the trial please contact ereport at yorku dot ca</p>
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		<title>New eResource: Nineteenth Century Collections Online</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 20:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Denton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We recently acquired Nineteenth Century Collections Online from Gale. Nineteenth Century Collections Online contains 3 separate collections: British Politics and Society Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society includes tens of thousands of primary sources related to the political &#8230; <a href="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/2012/05/10/new-eresource-nineteenth-century-collections-online/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>We recently acquired <a href="http://www.library.yorku.ca/find/Record/muler760931" target="_blank">Nineteenth Century Collections Onlin</a>e from Gale.</p>
<p><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-3447" title="nineteenth" src="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/files/2012/05/nineteenth-300x195.png" alt="nineteenth" width="300" height="195" /></p>
<p>Nineteenth Century Collections Online contains 3 separate collections:</p>
<p><strong>British<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial Unicode                   MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> </span>Politics<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial Unicode                   MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> </span>and<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial Unicode                   MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> </span>Society</strong></p>
<p><em><span>Nineteenth Century Collections Online: British Politics and Society</span></em> includes tens of thousands of primary sources related to the political  climate in Great Britain during the “long” nineteenth century.</p>
<p><strong>Asia<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial Unicode                   MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> </span>&amp;<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial Unicode                   MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> </span>West<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial Unicode                   MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> </span>Diplomacy<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial Unicode                   MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> </span>&amp;<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial Unicode                   MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> </span>Cultural<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial Unicode                   MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> </span>Exchange</strong></p>
<p><em><span>Nineteenth Century Collections Online</span></em><em>: <span>Asia and the West: Diplomacy and Cultural Exchange</span></em> features a range of primary source collections related to international  relations between Asian countries and the West during the 19th century.  These documents include  government reports, diplomatic correspondence, periodicals, newspapers,  treaties, trade agreements, <span>NGO</span> papers, and more.</p>
<p><strong>Corvey<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial Unicode                   MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> </span>Collection<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial Unicode                   MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> </span>of<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial Unicode                   MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> </span>European<span style="font-family: &quot;Arial Unicode                   MS&quot;,&quot;sans-serif&quot;;"> </span>Literature</strong></p>
<p><em><span>Nineteenth Century Collections Online</span></em>: <em>European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection</em> includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German  titles. The collection is sourced from the library of Victor  Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was discovered in the late 1970s. The Corvey Collection  includes fiction, short prose, dramatic works, poetry and  more.</p>
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		<title>Finnish-Canadian “memories” donated to Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 12:43:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>William Denton</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[York University professor Varpu Lindström is known as a “memory keeper” in Finnish-Canadian communities. What’s extraordinary about the “memories” that Lindström keeps is that they aren’t just hers – they are reminiscences of many Finns who immigrated to Canada in &#8230; <a href="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/2012/05/10/finnish-canadian-%e2%80%9cmemories%e2%80%9d-donated-to-clara-thomas-archives-and-special-collections/">More <span class="meta-nav">&#187;</span></a>]]></description>
				<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><img class="alignleft size-full wp-image-3441" title="Varpu Lindström" src="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/files/2012/05/varpu_lindstrom.jpg" alt="Varpu Lindström" width="137" height="214" />York University professor Varpu Lindström is known as a “memory keeper” in Finnish-Canadian communities. What’s extraordinary about the “memories” that Lindström keeps is that they aren’t just hers – they are reminiscences of many Finns who immigrated to Canada in the 1880s to early 1900s as a result of economic depression and war in Finland. Lindström has donated her retrospective collection of professional and scholarly research to York University Libraries’ (YUL) Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections with the intent of preserving these historical documents for future generations.</p>
<p>Varpu Lindström was born in Helsinki, Finland in 1948 and immigrated to Canada in 1963. She pursued a distinguished career as a professor and scholar at York University, specializing in North American social history, immigration, and women’s studies. Lindström is recognized both nationally and internationally as an expert in Canadian immigration history, particularly that of Finnish-Canadians. Her research has manifested itself into several publications such as <em>Defiant Sisters : A Social History of Finnish Immigrant Women in Canada, 1890-1930</em> and <em>From Heroes to Enemies : Finns in Canada, 1937-1947</em>. Lindström was also a researcher and historical consultant for the National Film Board’s 2004 critically acclaimed documentary, <em>Letters from Karelia</em>.</p>
<p>Several decades of Finnish-Canadian research has resulted in Lindström creating, acquiring, and now donating to Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections over 7.2 metres of textual records. These records include diaries, family correspondences, financial ledgers, war-relief funding and other organizational records, sound recordings of oral histories, folk music, documentary films, and over 1,000 books, almanacs, and plays published by Finnish authors in North America.</p>
<p>“I think it would be great to have Lindström’s collection integrated into undergraduate coursework and research here at York University,” says digital projects and outreach archivist for Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections, Anna St. Onge.  “Documents from Lindström’s collection give researchers a sense of the immediacy of history and could certainly add realism to Canadian history coursework that focuses on North American immigration and settlement.”</p>
<p> In addition to primary source material, Lindström acquired photocopies of rare documents such as two volumes of a Soviet register of Finnish war crimes, a list of persons found in the mass grave at Karhumaki, and Soviet lists of North American Finns who journeyed to Karelia to help build a socialist utopia.</p>
<p><img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-3442" title="Pertti Kaski collection" src="http://www.library.yorku.ca/cms/updates/files/2012/05/Pertti-Kaski-collection-205x300.jpg" alt="Pertti Kaski collection" width="215" height="314" />Also a part of Lindström’s donation is the <a href="http://pi.library.yorku.ca/dspace/browse?type=series&amp;value=Pertti%20Kaski%20photograph%20collection">Pertti Kaski photograph collection</a> which has been digitized and uploaded to <a href="http://pi.library.yorku.ca/dspace/">Yorkspace</a>.</p>
<p>Chronicling the immigration experience from the perspective of a teenage girl, Lindström has given Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections a collection of correspondences between herself and her best friend back in Finland, Kaisa Lindberg, written from 1963 to 1965. Many of these letters were published in the 2012 book, <em>Letters from an Immigrant Teenager</em>. Lindström’s generous donation to Clara Thomas Archives and Special Collections has helped to position York as a leader in Finnish-Canadian research in North America, advancing new efforts to preserve the records of the Finnish community in collaboration with the archives of Lakehead University and the Finnish Canadian Association.</p>
<p>For more information about Varpu Lindström’s donated documents or how to integrate this special collection into coursework and research, please contact:</p>
<p><a href="http://www.yorku.ca/astonge/"><strong>St. Onge, Anna</strong></a> <em><br />
Archivist, Digital Projects and Outreach</em></p>
<p>Clara Thomas Archives &amp; Special Collections, Scott Library 3<sup>rd</sup> Floor<br />
<a href="mailto:astonge@yorku.ca">astonge@yorku.ca</a></p>
<p> To see the finding aid for this collection, see: </p>
<p><a href="http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000558.htm">http://archivesfa.library.yorku.ca/fonds/ON00370-f0000558.htm</a></p>
<p> *Images from the Pertti Kaski collection, showing a group of Finnish family and remnants of a postcard from Helsinki, 25 June 1918. YUL, Clara Thomas Archives, ASC08114</p>
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