Highlighting a Few of the St. Olaf Libraries' Amazing Electronic Resources

The Libraries have over 130 electronic research tools, many providing full-text and images. This month we would like to highlight a few of them.

Early American Newspapers Digital

Early American Newspapers, Series I, 1690-1876 offers fully searchable, cover-to-cover reproductions of nearly 350,000 issues from over 700 historical American newspapers, totaling more than 1.5 million pages. Focusing largely on the 18th century, this digital edition is based on Clarence S. Brigham's "History and Bibliography of American Newspapers, 1690-1820" and other authoritative bibliographies. The resource enables users to easily view, magnify, print and save items.

Early American Imprints, Series I. Evans .

Early American Imprints, Series I is “definitive resource” for researching every aspect of 17th- and 18th-century America . This digital collection contains virtually every book, pamphlet and broadside published in America over a 160-year period. Digitized from one of the most important collections ever produced on microform, is based on Charles Evans' renowned “American Bibliography” and Roger Bristol's supplement. It includes a vast range of publications, including advertisements, almanacs, bibles, broadsides, catalogs, charters and by-laws, contracts, cookbooks, elegies, eulogies, laws, maps, narratives, novels, operas, pamphlets, plays, poems, primers, sermons, songs, speeches, textbooks, tracts, travelogues, treaties and more.

Here, for instance, is the title page of a document from 1792, “An Anthem Designed for Thanksgiving Day”

http://va012.newsbank.com/cache/evans/fullsize/ra_0FC71DBC49E57280_2_2.pdf

New York Times (1851 - 2003)

The Historical New York Times offers "full page and article images with searchable full text back to the first issue. The collection includes digital reproductions providing access to every page from every available issue."

These sources and others can be accessed from the libraries webpage under Electronic Research Tools. Please stop by the Reference Desk in any of the three libraries if you need research assistance.