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This collection represents an album of 98 sepia albumen photographs taken by the expatriate German photographer Peter Klier. Most of the photographs probably date from the early to late 1890's. The provenance of Colgate's album is unknown, but it was almost certainly the gift of one of numerous Madison University graduates working as missionaries in Burma. Klier was known to market such albums to visitors. The album has considerable religious, ethnographic, and artistic value, especially since many of the physical subjects must have decayed or been destroyed during the intervening years.

Oxford Islamic Studies Online and Oxford African American Studies Center added
Oxford Islamic Studies Online
Content includes the forthcoming Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (6 volumes, 2008), The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, The Islamic World: Past and Present, The Oxford History of Islam, The Oxford Dictionary of Islam, Hanna Kassis's A Concordance of the Qur'an, two translations of the Qur'an published in the Oxford World's Classics series, and What Everyone Needs to Know about Islam
Oxford African American Studies Center
The Oxford African American Studies Center provides students, scholars and librarians with more than 8,000 articles by top scholars in the field.
Content includes:

• Africana, which presents a powerful account of the African and African American experience in five volumes.
• The new Encyclopedia of African American History, 1619-1895 which documents the full range of the African American experience from the arrival of the black explorer, Esteban, who arrived with the Spanish in 1527, to the death of Frederick Douglass.
• A forthcoming companion set, the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present, which offers the most extensive treatment of African American history into the twenty-first century and will be fully available online in 2009.
• The fascinating three-volume Black Women in America, Second Edition, edited by Darlene Clark Hine.
• The much-anticipated African American National Biography, ultimately offering over 6,000 biographies. New entries from this landmark work are continually added as part of the regular update program.

 
Date: May 7, 2008

Vanderbilt Television News Archive added
The Vanderbilt Television News Archive has been added complements of the Core Program which paid for the first year subscription. It is the world's most extensive and complete archive of television news. Broadcasts from CNN and NBC are available as streaming videos. The Archive covers news broadcasts from 1968 to present.
 
Date: May 2, 2008