Monday, October 24, 2011

Sage Journals Online

Our subscription to the Sage journals online, called Sage Premium, has been upgraded to include over 600 journals. The new subscription also includes all new titles launched this year, such as Organizational Psychology Review; Race and Justice; Society and Mental Health; The Neurohospitalist; and Therapeutic Advances in Drug Safety. The database is accessible through the library's A-Z database page and many of the subject pages. Check it out at http://online.sagepub.com.online.library.marist.edu/search

Tuesday, October 11, 2011

New Exhibit in the Lowell Thomas Communication Center

Journey to the Land of Our Past with the Lowell Thomas Travelogues

Journalist, lecturer, author, broadcaster and famous globetrotter,
Lowell Thomas was the foremost raconteur of the twentieth century. His
long and distinguished public career began in the wartime deserts of
the Middle East and was completed here in Dutchess County. His 1919
travelogue, "With Allenby in Palestine, and Lawrence in Arabia" was
the most popular of its kind, became the lens through which the West
perceived the First World War in the Middle East, and popularized T.E.
Lawrence who became famous worldwide as "the Uncrowned King of
Arabia." The exhibit attempts to recreate the experience of Lowell
Thomas's famous travelogues as well as provide a historical survey of
the related events from 1917 to 1919. Displayed are major aspects of
the presentation, relevant documents and advertising, and biographical
sketches of major figures. Visitors learn how Thomas presented the
wartime Middle East in two parts, the land of our constructed past and
the land of the Other - the land of the Bible and that of The Arabian
Nights.

The Lowell Thomas Papers were donated to Marist College by the Thomas
family in 2006. The processing and preservation of the collection was
completed in October of 2009 with the help of a grant from the
National Archives and Record Administration's Historical Publications
and Records Commission (NHPRC). The Lowell Thomas Papers are
housed at the Marist College Archives & Special Collections,
located on the first floor of the James A. Cannavino Library.
Many of the collections images and objects have been digitized through the support of
an additional grant from the NHPRC and are available on-line at

The exhibit will be up for the 2011 - 2012 academic year.

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

Environmental History Collections

The Archives and Special Collections is becoming well known for its rich environmental history collections, which include thousands of books, documents, photographs, audio, and video materials documenting the Scenic Hudson Decision.

The Scenic Hudson Decision was a 17-year (1963-1981) legal dispute which defeated Consolidated Edison's plan to embed the world's largest pumped storage hydroelectric plant into the face of Storm King Mountain, near Cornwall, New York. The lengthy and controversial case had an immense impact on environmental and legal issues affecting the Hudson River Valley as well as the nation. The landmark case set important precedents in environmental law including: the right of citizens to participate in environmental disputes, the emergence of environmental law as a legal specialty, ideas Congress incorporated in the country's first National Environment Policy Act (NEPA), federal and state regulation of the environment, and it is credited with launching the modern environmental movement. Now approximately 1,000 books can be found on the Library catalog and all 17 of our archival collections documenting Scenic Hudson Decision have finding aids available on-line.

The environmental collections' newest addition is the recently published book,  Environmental History of the Hudson River: Human Uses that Changed the Ecology, Ecology that Changed Human Uses (SUNY Press, 2011), which includes Executive Vice President Geoffrey Brackett’s chapter  “Thy Fate and Mine Are Not Repose”: The Hudson and Its Influence