Need an example of flamenco music for a class? Would you like to explore how music addresses issues of social justice around the world? Do you just want to listen to some zydeco or calypso? Then Contemporary World Music (CWM) is the database for you! Albertsons Library now offers access to over 50,000 tracks plus liner notes, through the recent addition of Contemporary World Music to our list of listening databases (which also includes American Song, African American Song, Classical Music Library, and Smithsonian Global Sounds for Libraries).
CWM’s publisher, Alexander Street Press, notes “Contemporary World Music complements Alexander Street’s Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries®, together offering a cross-searchable source of more than 85,000 tracks.” Music gives us a window into the cultures that create it and “Contemporary World Music delivers the sounds of all regions from every continent, for scholarship and pure enjoyment.” As an interdisciplinary database, Contemporary World Music will serve scholars and students across many disciplines as a “source for research in musicology, ethnomusicology, anthropology, folklore, and performance studies.”
You can access CWM any time by going to the Albertsons Library database page and clicking on “Contemporary World Music.” The library also offers access to CWM (and most of our other databases) from your home computer; you merely need your BroncoWeb ID and password to login. For more information, feel free to contact Amy Elliott, Reference Librarian, at x6-4302 or by email.
The Albertsons Library is excited to announce the addition of another database to its ever-expanding collection of online resources. Give a big hello to the Oxford Reference Online Premium.
This great reference tool brings together in one place over 175 dictionaries, language reference works, and subject reference works (including Oxford Companions series), as well many other bells and whistles including maps and timelines. What is magical is that you are able to search across all the Oxford titles in this collection at once. So you can locate multiple entries on your topic. Sweet!Examples of far-ranging titles available this database includes:- Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible
- The New Encyclopedia of Birds
- Dictionary of Chemistry
- Dictionary of Economics
- Oxford-Hachette Concise French Dictionary
- The Oxford Companion to the Garden
- Dictionary of Environment and Conservation
- Concise Oxford Companion to Irish Literature
- Oxford Dictionary of Islam
- The Oxford Companion to Twentieth-Century Literature in English
- The Oxford Companion to Women’s Writing in the United States
- Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
A complete list of titles (we are talking a lot of good stuff) is available here: http://www.oxfordreference.com/pages/Subjects_and_Titles__2FTo access this amazing resource, point your mouse to the Albertsons Library database page, then select “O” (for Oxford, of course) from the A-Z list… and away you go!What do you want to know? Odds are you will FIND IT in the Oxford Reference Online Premium database.
Rick Stoddart
Reference Librarian
