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Sign up for Alexander Street's Sunday Breakfast at the American Library Association Annual Conference in Anaheim Our guest speaker is the man who started Watergate.  Dubbed "the most dangerous man in America", Daniel Ellsberg was the whistleblower who turned over the Pentagon Papers to the media, setting in motion the dramatic series of events that ended with Nixon's resignation from office. The breakfast will also feature a live performance of a scene from Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers performed by the cast from the L.A. Theatre Works.  Space is limited so RSVP now.

Year-End Discounts Available As we approach the end of the fiscal year, Alexander Street is extending special offers on many of our collections.  If your library has year-end money, there is still time to take advantage of our discounts.

Alexander Street Press and MLA Announce Agreement to Offer Music Online to England's Public Libraries Alexander Street has been chosen to be part of the UK Reference Online Framework Agreement, under the terms of which public libraries in the UK can subscribe to Alexander Street’s Music Reference and Music Listening online collections.

MARC Records Available Online Libraries can now download MARC records for their Alexander Street collections.  Book-level and product-level records are available and are free of charge.  For more information visit http://marc.alexanderstreet.com.

Social and Cultural History: Letters and Diaries Online is Live! Imagine seeing into the minds of tens of thousands of individuals and knowing the details of their lives within seconds. Letters and Diaries Online is the ideal starting point for historians, sociologists, genealogists, linguists, and psychologists who want to explore and analyze human experiences.

Free Music Downloads Every two weeks, we take one complete work from Classical Music Library and make it available for download as a MP3 or WMA file.  This week: Mendelssohn's Symphony No. 4 in A, op. 90 'Italian'.

Featured The American Civil War Research Database The definitive online resource for researching the individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War. American Song A history database of 50,000 songs, this new resource includes music that relates to almost every walk of American life, every ethnic group, and every time period. The Gilded Age 40,000 pages of full text, photographs, songs for listening online, and other primary materials, along with video interviews and twenty-five critical documentary essays. ↑ Grab this Headline Animator

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