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Confidential Print: North America, 1824-1961

The Confidential Print series originated out of a need for the British Government to preserve all of the most important papers generated by the Foreign and Colonial Offices. Some of these were one page letters or telegrams – others were large volumes or texts of treaties. All items marked ‘Confidential Print’ were printed and circulated immediately to leading officials in the Foreign Office, to the Cabinet, and to Heads of British missions abroad.

Over the next few years Adam Matthew will be offering complete series of Confidential Print relating to different regions including the Middle East, Africa and South America. All documents are full text searchable.


JSTOR Update – “Bibliography” Added as New Discipline, New Titles Released

With the new release of Book History, Textual Cultures and Libraries & and the Cultural Record, JSTOR has added a “Bibliography” discipline to the archive. JSTOR will continue to introduce a small cluster of bibliography journals in Arts & Sciences VIII that approach the discipline from analytical, descriptive and textual perspectives. With interdisciplinary research from art & art history, language & literature, and library science, bibliography analyzes the physical condition, publication editions and formats, and the textual criticism of manuscript and printed materials, including the transmission of texts, the theory and practice of editing, and all aspects of the history of printed matter.

Book History (Arts & Sciences VIII)
Vols. 1-6 (1998-2003)
Moving Wall: 5 years
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press

Libraries & the Cultural Record [2006- ]  (Arts & Sciences VI)
Previous Title: Libraries & Culture [1988-2006]
Previous Title: The Journal of Library History (1974-1987) [1974-1978]
Previous Title: Journal of Library History, Philosophy, and Comparative Librarianship [1973]
Previous Title: The Journal of Library History (1966-1972) [1966-1972]
Vol. 1, No. 1 (January, 1966) – Vol. 7, No. 4 (October, 1972);
Vol. 8, Nos. 1-3/4 (January – July/October, 1973);
Vol. 9, No. 1 (January, 1974) – Vol. 22, No. 4 (Fall, 1987);
Vol. 23, No. 1 (Winter, 1988) – Vol. 41, No. 2 (Spring, 2006);
Vol. 41, Nos. 3-4 (Summer-Fall, 2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: University of Texas Press

Textual Cultures [2006- ] (Arts & Sciences VIII)
Previous Title: Text [1981-2006]
Vols. 1-17 (1981-2006);
Vol. 1, Nos. 1-2 (Spring-Autumn, 2006)
Moving Wall: 3 years
Publisher: Indiana University Press

Three journals from earlier Arts & Sciences collections have been added to the Bibliography discipline:

American Literature (Arts & Sciences I)
American Literature provides analysis of American authorship-from colonial to contemporary, and American publishing history as well as commentary on new editions and reprints.

World Literature Today (Arts & Sciences V)
WLT provides supplementary social, economic, and cultural research for Bibliography.

Huntington Library Quarterly (Arts & Sciences VII)
Covering the literature, history, and arts of the sixteenth to eighteenth centuries in Britain and America, Huntington Library Quarterly highlights the textual and bibliography studies of this historical period, including the history of printing and publishing, as one of its primary concentrations.

Upcoming Titles to be added to the Bibliography Discipline at a later date:

Studies in Bibliography (This title will appear in the Arts & Sciences VIII Collection)
Published by the Bibliographical Society of the University of Virginia, this journal is  a forum for today’s  textual and bibliographical work.


E-books and E-journals loaded and deleted in December 2009

Going forward we would like to keep library staff and users up to date on a monthly basis regarding new E-books and E-journals added to YUL collections as well as those deleted. If you have any questions regarding these titles please contact Aaron Lupton Here are the stats for December 2009:

Electronic Resources Loaded

APA Psycbooks
173

Books 24 x 7 E-Books
Business Pro
176

Engineering Pro
190

Executive Blue Prints
24

Executive Summaries
7

Finance Pro
20

IT Pro
247

Knovel (Chemistry) E-Books
6

Marcive
617 ebooks, 25 emaps, 1 computer file, 74 ejournals and 8 integrating resources

Electronic Resources Deleted

Ebrary – Canadian Electronic Collection

Ecological Goods and Services Survey Summary

An Overview of Agriculture in the Rural Municipalities of the Lower Souris River Watershed

Ebrary – Taylor and Francis

Quality Management in Education : Sustaining the Vision Through Action Research


Canadian Book Review Annual

Canadian Book Review Annual online allows librarians access to this collection of authoritative reviews of English-language, Canadian-authored scholarly, reference, trade, children’s, and youth books published in Canada.

CBRA is now fully digitized and available online for library patrons and librarians. This resource offers over 30,000 reviews and over 100 new titles added every month.

The online search capability lets you find titles to help build your Canadian collection and provide you with depth of coverage. The reviewers in their fields provide evaluations.