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by Brian Vetruba, Subject Librarian
Issue: Spring/Summer 2006
The scope of this quarterly newsletter is limited to resources and services relevant to Germanic Languages and Literatures. For general changes, see WU Libraries' What's New. Each issue will highlight new resources and provide research tips. Suggestions are most welcomed: bvetruba@wustl.edu
Last issue. Continued by: Library News for German Studies
Newsletter contents:What's new at Olin
- Full access to BDSL-Online
- MLA coverage now 1926-present
- Libraries' hours and research help during the summer
- Off the Shelf
New E-resources
New Print Resources
New Videos and DVDs
Catalog tips
- Searching for letters or correspondence
- Searching for biographies and autobiographies
- What do I do if I find the status MISSING or SEARCHING?
What's new at Olin
Full access to BDSL-Online started in April 2006: http://www.bdsl-online.de
As previously announced, WU Libraries now have full access to the online version of
the Bibliographie der Deutschen Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft (BDSL), a major bibliography for German language and literature. Coverage is from 1985-present. For coverage prior to 1985, see the print version in Olin Reference.
Tips for using BDSL (Online)
- Umlauts matter. "Boll" won't work, you need to enter "Böll" or "Boell". "ss" and ß work for an "esszet".
- English terms won't result in many hits. Only use English in title searches to find German equivalents.
- Use the subject keywords ("Schlagwörter") to refine your searches.
- Click on "Text" to display selected entries. You can print or save your selected "Auswahlsliste". To e-mail, copy and paste your selected list into an e-mail message.
- Full-text available via Get It!
MLA coverage now 1926-present
Retrospective coverage from 1926-1962 for the MLA International Bibliography is now available in First Search. Complete coverage for MLA is 1926-present. More info.
Libraries' hours and research help during the summer
Although classes are over, the Libraries are still open. Librarians and other library staff are available for research assistance and questions over the summer. WU Libraries Summer hours. For research help, contact Brian by e-mail or
phone (935-4824).
Off the Shelf
A new publication of Washington University Libraries, published twice yearly for our faculty, students, and friends. In it, you'll find the latest news on the Libraries' collections, services, donors, and more.
Spotlight on resources
Lexis-Nexis-Academic
A full-text news, business, legal, and reference database which includes about 80 German-language periodicals as well as other foreign language ones. Some examples of German titles with full-text:
- Süddeutsche Zeitung
- Die Welt
- Taz, die Tageszeitung
- Neue Zürcher Zeitung
- Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
- Der Spiegel
- Focus
Note: Lexis-Nexis is only for searching about topics; you cannot browse particular titles. For a list of browseable European news sources: European Studies: News Sources.
Lexis-Nexis News Searching Tips
- To limit your search to German-language sources, click on the "Guided News Search". Select "Non-English Language News" as news cateogry and then "German Language News" for news source
- Umlauts matter in searches (e.g. for Böll, use "böll" or "boell")
- "Esszet" (ß) should be changed to "ss" (e.g. for weiß, use "weiss")
- Limit your search to a paricular set by selecting from the "Source List"
- For additional tips, see the Help Documents
New E-resources
Arcadia : Zeitschrift für vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft. Online access to Bd.40 (2005)-; print holdings (various) Bd.1 (1966)-Bd.39 (2004)
Electronic journal.
Atlas des Deutschen Reichs.
Digitized atlas from UW-Madison Libraries. Reproduction of Ravenstein, Ludwig. Atlas des Deutschen Reichs. Leipzig: Bibliographisches Institut, 1883. Maps downloadable.
Hesse page journal. Online access to v.1, no. 2 (1997)-
Electronic journal.
Publications of the English Goethe Society . Online access to v.75 (2006)-; print holdings (various)
Electronic journal.
Transit. Online access to v.1, issue 1 (2005)-
From the University of California-Berkeley's Dept. of German. An "interdisciplinary journal dedicated to critical inquiry of travel, migration, and multiculturalism in the German-speaking world."
Voices of the Holocaust.
From the Paul V. Galvin Library, written transcripts and some audio files of interviews with Holocaust survivors from 1946. Primarily in English.
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New Print Resources
For a complete listing of what has been added in the last month for General Literature (PN) or Germanic Literatures (PT), go to Featured lists. Click on "next" to get to "PT". These lists are updated monthly and organized by call number.A selected list of recently added print resources with links to the catalog records:
Celan-Jahrbuch. Vols.: 2-8 (1988-2001/2002). Heidelberg : C. Winter Universitätsverlag, 1987-
Catalog record & Location
Childs, Peter and Roger Fowler, eds. The Routledge dictionary of literary terms. Routledge dictionaries. London: Routledge, 2006.
Catalog record & Location
Dohm, Hedwig. Become who you are: with an additional essay "The old woman" [English translation of Werde, die du bist] SUNY series, women writers in translation. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006.
Catalog record & Location
Dürhammer, Ilija. Geheime Botschaften: homoerotische Subkulturen im Schubert-Kreis,bei Hugo von Hofmannsthal und Thomas Bernhard. Wien: Böhlau, 2006.
Catalog record & Location
Focus: das moderne Nachrichtenmagazin. Weekly news magazine. München : Focus Magazin-Verlag, 1993-.
Catalog record & Location
Hansel, Johannes and Lydia Kaiser. Literaturrecherche fur Germanisten : Studienausgabe. 10., vollig neubearbeitete und erw. Aufl. Berlin: E. Schmidt, 2003.
Catalog record & Location
Heudecker, Sylvia. Modelle literaturkritischen Schreibens : Dialog, Apologie, Satire vom späten 17. bis zur Mitte des 18. Jahrhunderts. Tübingen: Niemeyer, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Heym, Stefan. The architects. European classics (Evanston, Ill.). Evanston, Ill.: Northwestern University Press, 2006.
Catalog record & Location
Jäger, Christian. Minoritäre Literatur : das Konzept der kleinen Literatur am Beispiel prager- und sudetendeutscher Werke. Literaturwissenschaft, Kulturwissenschaft. Wiesbaden: Deutscher Universitäats-Verlag, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Jakobsen, Ursula, ed. Berüuhrungen: deutsche Schriftsteller vor und nach der Mauer. Rottenburg a/N: Mauer Verlag, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Jelavich, Peter. Berlin Alexanderplatz: radio, film, and the death of Weimar culture. Weimar and now, 37. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006.
Catalog record & Location
Löwy, Michael. Fire alarm: reading Walter Benjamin's On the concept of history [English translation of: Walter Benjamin]. London : Verso, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Page, Ruth E. Literary and linguistic approaches to feminist narratology. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan/Arts & Humanities Research Council, 2006.
Catalog record & Location
Poley, Jared. Decolonization in Germany : Weimar narratives of colonial loss and foreign occupation. Studies in modern German literature, 99. Oxford: P. Lang, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Scholz Williams, Gerhild. Ways of knowing in early modern Germany. Literary and scientific cultures of early modernity. Aldershot, Hants, England: Ashgate, 2006.
Catalog record & Location
Shippey, Tom, ed. Correspondences : medievalism in scholarship and the arts. Studies in medievalism, 14. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Skiba, Jana, Larissa Volkova and Sarema Zaripova, eds. Lese-Zeit: deutschsprachige Literatur des 20. Jahrhunderts : ein Lese- und Arbeitsbuch. Bielefeld: Aisthesis, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
Symons, Morwenna Caroline. Room for manoeuvre : the role of intertext in Elfriede Jelinek's Die Klavierspielerin, Günter Grass's Ein weites Feld, and Herta Müller's Neiderungen and Reisende auf einem Bein. Bithell series of dissertations, 28; Texts and dissertations, 64. London Maney Publishing for the Modern Humanities Research Association and the Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies,University of London, 2005.
Catalog record & Location
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New Videos and DVDs
For a complete listing of what has been added in the last month for foreign language videos and DVDs, go to Featured lists. Click on "Foreign language videorecordings". This list is updated monthly and is organized by call number.A selected list of videos and DVDs in Germanic languages added to the collection in the last few months:
Title: Die Blechtrommel.
DVD; in German with optional English subtitles
Catalog record & Location
Title: Burden of dreams.
DVD; in English, German, and other languages with optional English subtitles
Catalog record & Location
Title: Diary of a lost girl (German title: Tagebuch einer Verlorenen).
DVD; silent film with English subtitles
Catalog record & Location
Title: Mutter Krausens Fahrt ins Glück.
Videocassette; in German
Catalog record & Location
Title: Trollflöjten (English title: The magic flute).
DVD; in Swedish with optional English titles.
Catalog record & Location
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Catalog tips
Searching for letters or correspondence
- Search the person's name with the term "correspondence" as keywords (e.g. "mann thomas correspondence"
- To refine your results, go into a record and click on the subject heading with "correspondence" at the end (e.g. Mann, Thomas, 1875-1955--Correspondence.)
- For correspondence between two individuals, search both names with the term "correspondence" as keywords (e.g. "mann thomas broch hermann correspondence".
Searching for biographies and autobiographies
- Go to the Catalog's Advanced Search.
- For a biography:
- Enter the person's name in the first field and select Subject from the pulldown.
- In the second field, enter "biography" and select Subject.
- For example, Subject: mann thomas; Subject: biography
- For an autobiography:
- Do 1, 2, and 3 from above.
- Also enter the person's name in another field and select Author.
- For example, Subject: mann thomas; Subject: biography; Author: mann thomas.
- For a biography:
What do I do if I find the status MISSING or SEARCHING?
- These items are currently unavailable. Request these through MOBIUS or ILLiad
- For questions about other status messages: WU Libraries Catalog Status Messages.
If you're having trouble finding what you need, consult Brian by e-mail or phone (935-4824), or library staff at the Help Desk.
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