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Tamiment Library Serials: A Research Guide
Overview & HighlightsThe Tamiment Library & Robert F. Wagner Labor Archives holds 249 current serial subscriptions and 15,000 non-current serials. The collection includes labor union convention proceedings, union journals, strike bulletins, underground newspapers, internal bulletins of radical organizations, and scholarly journals in labor and radical history in print, on microfilm, and on microfiche. Highlights from the library's collections, including the covers of a number of serials, may be viewed in two online exhibits, "Anarchist Collections in the Tamiment Library," and "CPUSA: Ninety Years of History" on Flickr. Current SerialsResearchers may browse a list of current serials in the Tamiment Library's collections. To see which issues the library holds, search BobCat, NYU's library catalog. TIP: Limit search results to the Tamiment Library's holdings by choosing "Tamiment/Wagner Archives" in the drop-down list of specific libraries after logging in to BobCat. Searching for SerialsSearch Strategy - Because not all of the serials in the library's collection have been cataloged, locating titles in the Tamiment Library may require searching BobCat, reading a finding aid online, consulting unpublished lists in the library, and/or using published guides to periodicals in print and on microfilm. Consult reference staff if you can't find a title. Title Searching - If you are looking for a specific serial for which you know the title, do a Phrase search in BobCat under "Journal title" (e.g., Title = Daily Worker). Subject Searching - To find serials on a particular topic, do a Subject search in BobCat. For example, Deciphering the BobCat RecordHoldings - After determining that the library holds a particular title, read the "Library Has" statement in the BobCat record to see which issues are in the collection. Sometimes there will be more than one holding statement. If a title is available in print and in microfilm, for instance, there will be two holding statements and two call numbers. When a title is available in both formats, researchers are given the microfilm. Uncataloged PeriodicalsNot all of the Tamiment Library's serials have been cataloged to date. Retrospective cataloging is currently underway and new titles are added every day. Please ask if the library holds serial titles that do not appear in BobCat. Boxed NewspapersThe Tamiment Library has a collection of Boxed Newspapers containing approximately 1,200 titles in 510 boxes. The newspapers were published by international and local labor unions in the United States and Canada, radical political parties (Anarchist, Communist, Maoist, Socialist, Trotskyist), the New Left, and by organizations representing civil rights movements (African-Americans, prisoners, etc.), peace movements, protest against the war in Vietnam (including titles published by American soldiers), activity in support of national liberation movements, student and youth activism, the counterculture, feminism and gay liberation, and other social and political movements. Only 15% of the titles in the Boxed Newspapers collection have been fully cataloged in BobCat to date, but there is a finding aid online that lists all of the newspapers in the collection, cataloged and not. The Boxed Newspapers finding aid aid shows the title, publisher, first and last year of holdings, and box number, but it does not show complete holdings of the issues in the library’s collections. Serials on MicrofilmThe Tamiment Library holds approximately 900 individual serials titles on microfilm. Some of the microfilm reels duplicate print issues while other serials are only available on microfilm. Tamiment's microfilm is cataloged in BobCat with beginning with the call number "Film R-7xxx." To browse a list of the cataloged microfilm collections in the Tamiment Library in numerical order, log into BobCat and do a search under “Film R-7000” in the Call Number field. Consult the Microfilm Binder at the Tamiment Library's Reference Desk for a full list of the microfilm holdings. Underground Press CollectionsIn addition to the serials on microfilm cataloged at the title level, the Tamiment Library holds three related collections of underground newspapers on microfilm from UMI that contain hundreds of additional serials titles. These newspapers are a valuable record of radical thought and counter-culture opinion and are relevant to the study of history, education, literature, journalism, sociology, law, psychology, and other subjects. These collections have been cataloged at the collection level in BobCat; only a few of the newspapers titles have been cataloged individually. But since each of the collections is accompanied by a published guide, researchers have ready access to the contents of the reels. The main Underground Press Collection (Tamiment Call #: Film R-7001), consists of over 550 newspapers dating from 1963 to 1985. (476 reels) The Hoover Supplement (Tamiment Call #: Film R-7002) was added to the Underground Press Collections in 1988. Filmed from holdings in the newspaper archives at the Hoover Institution on War, Revolution and Peace at Stanford University, the supplement contains 266 titles. These include 88 missing issues from UMI's original collection and 178 additional titles. Publications in the Hoover Supplement reflect various perspectives of the late '60s and '70s. (16 microfilm reels) The University of Missouri--Columbia Supplement UMI (Tamiment Call #: Film R-7003) was filmed at the University of Missouri-Columbia School of Journalism, which is recognized as one of the leading journalism schools in the country. This collection contains 123 titles from the early 1960s through the late 1970s. (9 microfilm reels) Search BobCat under Call Number: "Film R-7001," "Film R-7002," or "Film R-7003" to see catalog records for the collections and their accompanying guides. Notable Sources of Digitized SerialsFollowing are links to selected sources of digitized serials. Some of the titles on the list are are subscription databases made available through NYU LIbraries. Alt Press Watch America's Historical Newspapers, 1690-1922 APS Online Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 1841-1902 Harper's Weekly Making of America – Cornell Making of America – University of Michigan The Nation Online ProQuest Historical Newspapers Periodical GuidesFollowing is a selected list of periodical guides that are particularly useful for research in the Tamiment Library's subject areas. These volumes are available on the reference shelves in the library's reading room. The call numbers may be different from those in your own library. The American Labor Press: An Annotated Directory. Washington, D.C.: American Council on Public Affairs, 1940. Compiled at the University of Wisconsin as a WPA project, this directory lists 676 periodicals, including 30 from Canada. The titles are arranged by union federation (at this time, the AFL and CIO were separate organizations) including independent unions and cooperatives. It also includes union publications issued by left political parties and organizations, general labor publications, and a separate section for Canada. The information provided includes the size, average length, price, advertising policy, and more. Call #: Z 7164 L1 A45 The American Radical Press, 1880-1960. Edited with an introd. by Joseph R. Conlin. Westport, Conn., Greenwood Press [1974] 2 v. (xiv, 720 p.) American Labor Union Periodicals: A Guide to Their Location / Naas, Bernard G. and Carmelita J. Sakr. Ithaca: Cornell University, 1956. Begun under the sponsorship of the Committee of University Industrial Relations Librarians, this acts as a union serial list with entries for over 1,700 periodicals. While out of date for holdings and listing only twenty libraries, this guide does provide important information on each title in the traditional union list format. It is divided into two parts with separate indexes for each part. Part I includes periodicals of federations, national, and international unions and their locals; Part II contains the periodicals of regional organizations in both the United States and Canada. Call #: Z 7164 L1 N14 Annotations: A Guide to the Independent Critical Press. 3rd updated ed. / Marie F. Jones. Baltimore, MD : Alternative Press Center, 2004. Documents and describes titles that were either indexed in the Alternative Press Index and/or members of the Independent Press Association. Entries are arranged alphabetically with subject index. Availability of full text and microform, periodical review, indexing and abstracting, subject index, publishing information, columnists and noted contributors, and other information is also included. Call #: PN 4784 U 53 A565 2004 Currents on the Left: An Annotated Bibliography of Radical and Left-Wing Journals. Compiled by John Liberty. Sacramento : Library, California State University, 1974. Call #: Z7165.U5 C32 1974. From Radical Left to Extreme Right: A Bibliography of Current Periodicals of Protest, Controversy, Advocacy, or Dissent.. 2d ed. rev. and enl. [by] Robert H. Muller, Theodore Jurgen Spahn, and Janet M. Spahn. Ann Arbor, Campus Publishers [1970]-1976, [c1970-1975]. Call #: Z7165.U5 M82 The Immigrant Labor Press in North America, 1840s-1970s: An Annotated Bibliography / Dirk Hoerder. New York: Greenwood Press, c1987-. The Labor and Newspaper Preservation Project, based at the University of Bremen in Germany, has compiled an impressive guide to an important historical source. Covers Canada and the United States but excludes the publications of French-Canadian, Chicano, and Puerto Rican residents. It also omits those from South America, Asia, and Africa due to the "refusal" of any North American foundation to participate in the project. Each entry contains an introductory essay with endnotes, and a bibliography of sources. The annotated listings provide extensive bibliographic information. The listings are by ethnicity within a geographic region of Europe. Each volume ends with a combined title index. The "Speaking Peoples" sections also have their own indexes. Scholarly introductory essays. Call #: Z 6953.5 A1 H63 1987 v.1-3 Journals of Dissent and Social Change: A Bibliography of Titles in the California State University, Sacramento, Library. 6th Ed. Compiled by John Liberty. Sacramento: The Library, 1986. Call #: Z7164.S66 L5 1986 Radical Periodicals in America, 1890-1950: A Bibliography with Brief Notes. Walter Goldwater. 3d ed. New York: University Place Book Shop, 1977, c1964. 56 p. Contains 321 entries, a genealogical chart and a concise lexicon of the parties and groups which issued them, a brief bibliography, editor and organization indexes. Goldwater was a bookseller and collector, and veteran of the left, whose notable collection of works by African American authors was donated to NYU’s Fales Library. Trade Union Publications: The Official Journals, Convention Proceedings, and Constitutions of International Unions and Federations, 1850-1941 / Reynolds, Lloyd George and Charles C. Killingsworth. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1944-45. 3 volumes subject index to journals and convention proceedings of fifty international union and federations. Indexing includes letters to the editor. Volume 1 is in two sections. Part I describes the project and indicates what was or was not indexed. Part II lists unions by industry. Volume 1 has its own indexes to unions and subjects covered in these two parts. Each union entry contains basic directory information followed by an evaluative section on its history and publications. Volumes 2 and 3 are the subject index to the union publications using fifteen hundred subject headings. There is a glossary of headings, explanation of the citation system, and a list of the unions indexed and their code numbers. An important and unique source of information. Call #: Z 7164 L1 R4 Undergrounds: A Union List of Alternative Periodicals. James Philip Danky. Madison, State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1974. Call #: Z6944.U5 D3 Reference SourcesIn addition to the periodical guides and indexes referenced in this research guide, there are numerous encyclopedias, biographical sources, chronologies, bibliographies, and secondary sources to assist with serials research. There are aslo two notable websites for alternative press research: Alternative Press Center’s Online Directory NewPages: Alternatives in Print & Media Updated 2/20/08 |
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