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As reported in Inside Binghamton University (November 29, 2007), Distinguished Professor of Africana Studies Isidore Okpewho was the guest editor of a special issue of Research in African Literatures (Vol. 38, no. 3, Fall 2007). This issue on African oral ...

Many of you have had a library instruction session. All library instruction sessions done for classes in the School of Management or the Economics department have their own webpages. Current class pages can be found by going to the Libraries’ ...

Argentine poet, Juan Gelman has won the most prestigious literary prize of the Spanish-speaking world, the Premio Cervantes. The Libraries have many works by Gelman, both in Spanish and in English. For a sampling from infoLINK, the library catalog, see ...

Been assigned a Wall Street Journal article to read, but your professor hasn’t put it in Blackboard? The Wall Street Journal is available via the Factiva database. There is a tutorial available on accessing the Wall Street Journal via Factiva. ...

The Libraries now have two computers that can play multi-region DVDs (i.e., non-U.S.). They are located in the Media Room inside of the East Reading Room just off of the Bartle Library lobby. ...

New York City’s place in film and in film history has become the subject of a number of books. The Libraries’ have the following materials on this theme. Books City that never sleeps : New York and the filmic imagination ...

In November, the Modern Language Association released a report showing that enrollments in foreign language courses at U.S. institutions had increased by approximately 13% since the report was last done in 2002. Spanish, French and German still account for ca. ...

Earlier this month, the United States passed a free trade agreement with Peru. The Libraries’ have significant holdings on the topic of free trade and globalization in Latin America. Selected Holdings on Free Trade & Globalization in Peru Mitchell, William ...

The Libraries’ are currently trialing the Oxford Language Dictionaries Online, which offers online access to Spanish, French, German, and Italian dictionaries. ...

While Binghamton University does not currently offer a PhD in Africana Studies, students have been studying Africana Studies since the early days of BU. To see a list of related dissertations from 1986-2006, check out Africana Studies: BU Dissertations. ...