We have added a new module to our existing ProQuest History Vault collection, the NAACP Papers.

This collection contains nearly 2 million pages of internal memos, legal briefings, and direct action summaries from national, legal, and branch offices throughout the country. It charts the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)’s work and delivers a first-hand view into issues including: lynching, school desegregation, and discrimination in the military, the criminal justice system, employment, and housing, among others.

YUL has acquired two new collections of leadership development streaming videos from Books 24×7.

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The two collections are 50 Lessons and Leadership Development Channel

The 50 Lessons collection features over 1,200 interview presentations from business leaders sharing personal experiences of today’s most pressing business issues.

The Leadership Development Channel (LDC) collection is more diverse in both learning design and presentation format and features over 2,000 on-demand video programs featuring business authors, experts and Executives. The LDC includes content of varying lengths from 2-60 minutes long.

Both collections include downloadable video formats suitable for mobile devices, meeting starters and classroom integration. Both collections also offer live events. An annual series of live, interactive satellite and webcast events provide executives with thinking in business and leadership through live and interactive presentations featuring  thought leaders including Ram Charan, Tom Peters, Lynda Gratton, Patrick Lencioni and more. Up to seven live events are produced annually.

We recently acquired a series of new french-language digital historical collections from Gale.

Patriotes aux Armes!

This collection consists of newspapers and periodicals; broadsides; leaflets; and books and pamphlets and other documents produced by or relating to the underground resistance in France, Belgium, Holland, and Italy.

L’Affaire Dreyfus: son influence dans la creation de la France moderne

“The Dreyfus Affair and the creation of modern France“ describes the controversy of 1894 – the date of the arrest of Dreyfus – to 1908, the official transfer of the ashes of Emile Zola to the Pantheon.

Actes royaux francais, 1256-1794

Approximately 16,000 pamphlets covering this period in French history are available in this collection. It offers information on the legislative history and governance of France, as well as other aspects of French life.

Journaux de la Revolution de 1848

The revolution of 1848 caused the final collapse of monarchy in France, and in the power vacuum that followed a range of competing voices sought to control the future direction of the country. The social and political upheavals of this period are detailed in this collection of newspapers and periodicals.

La France pendant la guerre 1939-1945: Resistance et journaux de Vichy

Providing perspectives from both the Vichy government and the resistance movement, this collection constitutes the sum of the French press that actually reached Britain during the Occupation of 1940-44. It is the record of what was known by the British about the hearts and minds of the French people at the most dramatic period of their shared history.

The Responsa Project contains an electronic collection of Torah literature and  encompasses a variety of Jewish sources representing a period of over three thousand years of heritage and tradition. All texts are fully typed in, proofread and hyper-linked. The database includes the Bible and its principal commentaries, the Talmud Bavli and Yerushalmi with commentaries, Midrashim, Zohar, Halachic Law (Rambam, Shulchan Aruch with commentaries) and Responsa collection – questions and answers (‘Shut’ in Hebrew).