UCLA Arts Library Theater, Film, and Television Blog

The Vanderbilt Television News Archive database (http://uclibs.org/PID/4291) has added streaming video content of NBC news for 1968-present. While this doesn’t include news magazines, the additional coverage and availability of the video online is a significant addition to the content in this resource. The database primarily provides indexing to news programs in the Vanderbilt archive, but streaming video is also available for CNN news broadcasts from 1995-present.

The UCLA Library has just licensed the digital version of the 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers, thanks to the collective efforts of the Research Library, the Center for 17th- and 18th-Century Studies/Clark Library, as well as our good friends in the History and English departments. From the vendor’s website:

The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of ‘news’ and ‘newspapers’ and the “free press”, totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden. Newly digitized, all Burney treasures are now fully text-searchable in Gale Digital Collection.

While the date range of the collection obviously precedes motion pictures, there is much content of potential interest to theater history and anyone researching this time period. In the Advanced Search, you may also pre-limit to documents with images. 

Access (UCLA users and IP addresses only): http://find.galegroup.com/bncn/start.do?prodId=BBCN

Due to some shifting of display cases in the Arts Library, the microfilm/fiche reader has been relocated from its previous spot near the computer workstations to one of the study tables in the reference area.

For patrons in need of a reader/printer, you may sign out our microfilm for use in Young Research Library’s Microform & Media Services (2nd floor).

Through August 1, the UC system has a trial to two historical Proquest databases: British Periodicals Collections I & II, and House of Commons Parliamentary Papers, 1688-2004. While neither of these is specific to the performing arts, the British Periodicals Collections may be of interest to theater researchers and historians of early cinema. It includes full-text periodical searching for British periodicals roughly covering the 18th C through the mid-1930s.

Please note that this is only a trial, and no guarantee that we will be able to subscribe to these databases. If you are UCLA student, staff, or faculty and would like access to this trial, please let me know and I’ll send you the password.

–Diana

The most recent editions of three directories have been added to the Arts Reference shelves:

(1) Hollywood Representation Directory, 35th edition, Spring 2008 (Arts Reference PN2277.L59H65). This directory includes contact information for talent & literary agents, personal managers, entertainment attorneys, business affairs departments, publicity companies, and casting directors.

(2) The Producers Masterguide (2007-2008) (Arts Reference PN1993.5.U77B46a).
Includes international professional, financial, production, commercial, and festival/awards information for producers.

(3) L’annuel du cinema 2008 (Arts Reference PN1995.5.R299 2007).
This French language cinema annual (covering 2007) includes box office info and charts, obituaries, indexes, and useful survey essays and interviews.

Two new open access e-journals of possible interest have been cataloged and linked in the UCLA Library Catalog :

World Picture
and
The Journal of E-Media Studies

This year, the Arts Library replaced our older flatbed scanners with a new KIC model. The new scanner is located next to the two library photocopiers. It costs 16 cents per image to e-mail or save to a flash drive, and has a number of capabilities. It can create color or black and white scans, and goes up to 400 dpi in JPEG, PDF, or TIFF files. It also has the capability of cropping images, and scanning one or two pages from a book at a time.

Though used more heavily by patrons in Art and Architecture, this scanner can also be quite useful for researchers in performing arts fields. It is preservation friendly, so we often allow scans of rare film periodicals in cases where photocopying isn’t allowed. It also creates much crisper image reproductions, when a particular image photocopies poorly or needs to be created in color.

If you’d like a short tutorial on using the KIC scanner, please let me know.

The Arts Library now has available the most recent editions of several citation manuals: MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (Arts Reference Desk LB2369.G53 2003), Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Research Papers, Theses, and Dissertations (Arts Reference Desk LB2369.T8 2007), The Chicago Manual of Style (Arts Reference Desk Z253.U69 2003), and the APA Publication Manual (Arts Reference Desk BF76.7.P83 2001).

These are all located in the small collection of shelves directly behind the Arts Reference Desk.

Arts and Music Special Collections have now been joined as one unit: Performing Arts Special Collections. The webpage recently underwent a makeover as well. Check it out here.

We have two exhibits now in the Arts Library display cases: Science Fiction Movie Poster Art (from book reproductions in the collection, and featuring two lobby cards from Performing Arts Special Collections); and, recent acquisitions of Artists’ Books. Read more about these exhibits on the Arts Library webpage.