The Patriot Spot

The Robert R. Muntz Library will feature the exhibit “The Great Bronze Age of China: An Exhibition from the People’s Republic of China” in the library’s reading room. The exhibit will run from July 7^th to August 8^th, 2008.

The exhibit is part of the traveling exhibit series provided by Humanities Texas, the Texas affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. The exhibit provides an opportunity for the campus and the community to get a glimpse of the brilliant artistic achievements of the Chinese Bronze Age culture from its beginnings, around 2,000 B.C., to its final flowering in the second century B.C. The exhibit reveals the superb skills of ancient artists, and it enables us to learn about the religious, political, economic, and cultural aspects of a civilization which developed around the same time that Stonehenge in England was being built and that the principles of Judaism were being framed. With the upcoming Olympiad in Beijing, this exhibit is another way for us to learn more about China.

Humanities Texas, the state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, conducts and supports public programs in history, literature, philosophy, and other humanities disciplines. Humanities Texas also supports various programs across the state such as lectures, oral history projects, teacher institutes, museum exhibitions, and documentary films. In addition, Texas Humanities circulates more than 5o exhibits, including the exhibit the library will be featuring.

The “Great Bronze Age of China” exhibit is free and open to the public. It can be viewed during library regular hours. For hours and information about the library, please visit our library website. For more information about the exhibit and other activities in the library, contact Angel Rivera, Outreach Librarian, at (903) 566-7165 or arivera@uttyler.edu.

The library has just gotten a trial to Sabin Americana, 1500-1926. The password for the trial is sabin.

With more than 29,000 full-text primary source documents, Sabin Americana covers a span of 400 years in North, Central and South America, as well as the Caribbean providing a full-text searchable digital collection that highlights the society, politics, religious beliefs, literature, customs and momentous events of the times – from an American and global perspective. Users will have quick access to books, pamphlets, broadsides and documents from an assortment of genres – from sermons and political tracts to legislation and literature.

Give it a try and let us know what you think - leave a comment here or send us an email. The trial ends 3/27/2008.

To find out what trials we have access to at any given time, click on the “Databases by Subject” link on the Library’s Homepage and then click on the “Database Trials” link.

“Footnote.com is a place where original historical documents are combined with social networking in order to create a truly unique experience involving the stories of our past.

The Footnote.com collections feature documents, most never before available before on the Internet, relating to the Revolutionary War, Civil War, WWI, WWII, U.S. Presidents, historical newspapers and naturalization documents.”

Our trial to Footnote is good through February 21st. The trial is only available on-campus.

December 7, 1941 was the day of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. It drew the United States into the war. The Handbook of Texas Online has a note today on Doris Miller, a native Texan serving aboard the USS West Virginia who shot back at the Japanese aircraft. Read the story here.