We now have access to China Ancient Books Catalogue, via China International Book Trading Corporation (CIBTC).

About this e-resource
The General Catalogue of Chinese Ancient Books is a general catalogue of existing Chinese ancient books, which aims to comprehensively reflect the varieties, editions and collection status of Chinese ancient books stored in major libraries in China (mainland China, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan) and some overseas libraries.

The “General Catalogue” collects Chinese books written by people from ancient times to the early Republic of China and copied, engraved, typeset, and photocopied, gathers the records of various collections, follows the traditional four-part classification method, and classifies and records the titles and volumes of each book, the author’s era, the author’s name, the method of writing, the year of publication, the publisher, the place of publication, the type of edition, and the inscription of each book, and at the same time reflects the information of the main collection institutions of each book.

The “General Catalogue” has completed the largest investigation and description of the existing Chinese ancient books so far, recorded most of the editions of the existing Chinese ancient books, and recorded the rare varieties of Chinese ancient books collected by libraries in Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan, Japan, Korea, North America, Western Europe, etc., providing bibliographic tools for experts and scholars and a communication platform for ancient book peers.

We now have access to Papers of Amiri Baraka, Poet Laureate of the Black Power Movement, via Gale.

About this e-resource
This collection of Amiri Baraka materials was made available by Dr. Komozi Woodard. Dr. Woodard collected these documents during his career as an activist in Newark, New Jersey.The collection consists of rare works of poetry, organizational records, print publications, over one hundred articles, poems, plays, and speeches by Baraka, a small amount of personal correspondence, and oral histories.

The collection consists of materials from the years 1913 through 1998 that document African American author and activist Amiri Baraka and were gathered by Dr. Komozi Woodard in the course of his research. The extensive documentation includes poetry, organizational records, print publications, articles, plays, speeches, personal correspondence, oral histories, as well as some personal records. The materials cover Baraka’s involvement in the politics in Newark, N.J. and in Black Power movement organizations such as the Congress of African People, the National Black Conference movement, the Black Women’s United Front. Later materials document Baraka’s increasing involvement in Marxism.

We now have access to Black Nationalism and the Revolutionary Action Movement: The Papers of Muhammad Ahmad (Max Stanford), via Gale.

About this e-resource
This collection of RAM records reproduces the writings and statements of the Revolutionary Action Movement (RAM) and its leaders. It also covers organizations that evolved from or were influenced by RAM and persons that had close ties to RAM. The most prominent organization that evolved from RAM was the African People’s Party. Organizations influenced by RAM include the Black Panther Party, League of Revolutionary Black Workers, Youth Organization for Black Unity, African Liberation Support Committee, and the Republic of New Africa. Individuals associated with RAM and documented in this collection include Robert F. Williams, Malcolm X, Amiri Baraka, General Gordon Baker Jr., Yuri Kochiyama, Donald Freeman, James and Grace Lee Boggs, Herman Ferguson, Askia Muhammad Toure (Rolland Snellings), and Kwame Ture (Stokely Carmichael).

We now have access to Egypt and the Rise of Nationalism, a collection of files from the UK National Archives, via East View.

We now have access to the Nezavisimost’ Digital Archive (1991-2002) via East View.