American Broadsides and Ephemera: *awesome*

American Broadsides and Ephemera

Includes 15,000 broadsides printed between 1820 and 1900; also 15,000 pieces of ephemera printed between 1760 and 1900. Based on the American Antiquarian Society's landmark collection of American broadsides and ephemera. Facsimile images are full-color and fully searchable. Browse by genre, subject, author, place of publication, or language.

Subjects include contemporary accounts of the Civil War, unusual occurrences and natural disasters to official government proclamations, tax bills and town meeting reports.

American Broadsides and Ephemera, Series I, 1760-1900 also offers autobiographies and dying confessions of convicted criminals, theater playbills, sheet almanacs, publishers' prospectuses, advertisements, newspaper carriers' addresses, patriotic and popular songs and poems and items illustrating political party organizations and controversies.

More Online News Archives @ UNC Libraries

Great new online news archives / compilations, made available through the UNC Libraries. You may have seen some of these before, but there is new content:

Archive of Americana
Primary source materials for in-depth study of the history of the United States. Component parts include:

• America's Historical Newspapers, about 2000 titles from 1690 to 1920s
• Early American Imprints Series I and II, over 70,000 printed works from 1639 to the 1820s
• American Broadsides and Ephemera, over 30,000 documents from 1639 to 1900.

World Newspaper Archive

More digitized newspapers from around the world from the 19th and early 20th centuries. Components include:

• African Newspapers, more than 40 papers published from around 1800 to the 1920s
• Latin American Newspapers, more than 35 papers published from around 1805 to the 1920s

Titles with coverage dates

Chinese Research Resource Online via UNC Libraries

Duxiu Knowledge Search

2 million full-text scholarly resources and books in all subjects. Formats include books, journal articles, conference papers and video clips. The full-text isn't available online, but you should receive contents by email within 2 hours. Search & articles are in Chinese. 1930s-present.

The Princeton University East Asian Library newsletter describes Duxiu as "... an enormous combined Google Scholar and Google Books for Chinese material. But Duxiu has its own characteristics; there is no real English equivalent. Duxiu is a huge content-based database composed of 600,000,000 full text pages, with very flexible searches (full-text, books, articles, theses, web pages, newspapers). Some text you can read immediately, other texts you can send to yourself by email." (I'd confirm that myself, but my Chinese reading is so rusty as to be non-existent)

What Can You Ask a Librarian?

A recent Library Hacks blog post at Duke's Perkins Library, Ever wonder what you can ask a reference librarian? prompted me to publicize some of the questions we've been asked at the Park Library. They include (along with answers, where feasible):

Basic Questions, students asked for ...

• Communication Yearbook by call number. (check the catalog)
• Dissertations by former JoMC students (online! from 1997-present in ProQuest Dissertations & Theses full-text *)
• Related: looking for a MA thesis by a former JoMC student (list is online)
• How to request books from another library (Carolina BLU rocks!).
• Printing, printing, printing! Lots of questions about printing. We currently don't have the "free" ITS printers anywhere in Carroll Hall, and we answer lots of questions about that.

More Complex Questions, where folks asked for ...

• Alcohol advertisements from the late 1960s to present (Duke's Ad*Access is a great start, as are some of the other resources on this page)
• Editorial cartoons (this research page can help)
• An article from the Los Angeles Times from 1984 (we have the LA Times from 1881-1986*& the most recent 6 months in LexisNexis *)
• Tough one: readership of southern, American newspapers in the mid-1800s. We found some material in books and other old-fashioned sources.
• Industry surveys of the motorcycle industry (I love these market research resources!)
• Articles from North Carolina newspapers about an event that took place in southeastern NC in the mid-80s to mid-90s. The papers the patron needed weren't on microfilm ... helped her find the appropriate microfilm source and identify specific dates via the Charlotte Observer (available from 1985-present in America's Newspapers *)

Many of these links will work regardless of your institutional affiliation. The links followed by an * are available to the UNC community only.

The Park Library staff and I are happy to answer questions about doing research in journalism & mass communication. You can reach me by email (swbrown @ unc . edu), by phone at 919.843.8300, IM to JoMCParkLib, and now you can even text Qs to us at 919-200-0713.

Ask us anything!

Africa newspaper archives

World Newspaper Archive: Africa

Full-text of over 40 newspapers published in Ghana, Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nigeria, South Africa, Uganda, and Zimbabwe. Languages include English, German, French, Portuguese, Afrikaans, Xhosa, Sotho, and others.

Dates covered: 1800 - 1922

African Americans & Mass Media

I've put together a display of books & resources about African Americans and mass media in honor of Black History Month.

It's in one of the display cases facing the elevator, so if you're up in the library's neighborhood, please stop by & take a look. The bibliography is available online (pdf) and in the library.