Take a digital tour of the 15th-18th centuries in two new Sterne Library databases. With the recent addition of the Burney Collection (17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers) and Early English Books Online (EEBO), Sterne Library has expanded the online primary source material available to UAB students, faculty, and staff.
Early English Books Online includes over 125,000 literary and historical works printed in the English language from 1473-1700 plus works printed in Great Britain and its dependencies in any language. The first book printed in English, original texts and drawings by Galileo, plays and poetry of Shakespeare, works by Isaac Newton, musical exercises by Henry Purcell, and the novels of Aphra Behn are but a few of the works that are part of the 22 million digitized pages in EEBO.
“Documenting 200 years of cultural, political, social and historical events, 17th and 18th Century Burney Collection Newspapers is the largest single collection of English news media, including newspapers, newsbooks, proclamations and pamphlets. It provides researchers with information and insight into England’s development as a world power, as well as the emergence of the modern newspaper.” (Gale Cengage Learning)
Contact me if you have questions about the content or use of these new resources.
Have an overdue book, or two? No worries! During National Library Week, 4/15-4/19, bring a nonperishable, never opened item with you when you check in your book and have your fines forgiven! Up to $5 per book can be forgiven with a total of $25 possible per person. All donations will go to the Community Food Bank of Central Alabama. Get details from the Sterne Library News blog.![Arnaud Titoy [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File%3AJapanese_Reading.jpg "Arnaud Titoy [CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons")
