This is for historical purposes only, and only covers the period from late 1996 through 1997. Please also refer to the 1998-1999 What's New Archive and the current What's New.
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new item has been added to an existing section of the server
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service has been added
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SWISH-Enhanced December 24: Version 1.1 of this free Web site indexing software and its associated interface AutoSwish is released. |
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The Jack London
Collection December 19: The short story collection The Faith of Men and Other Stories is now complete, with the addition of "A Relic of the Pliocene", "A Hyperborean Brew", "The Faith of Men", "Too Much Gold", "The One Thousand Dozen", "The Marriage of Lit-Lit", and "The Story of Jees Uck." |
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Aerial
Photography Online December 15: A collection of aerial photographs of the San Francisco Bay Area and Yosemite National Park has been added. |
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The Jack London
Collection December 3: The short story collection Moon Face and Other Stories is now complete, with the addition of "Moon-Face," "The Leopard Man's Story," "Local Colour," "Amateur Night", "The Minions of Midas," "The Shadow and the Flash," and "Planchette." |
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The Jack London
Collection December 2: With the addition of "The Unparalleled Invasion," "The Enemy of All the World," "The Dream of Debs," "The Sea Farmer," and "Samuel," the short story collection The Strength of the Strong is now complete. |
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The Jack London
Collection December 1: The published speech The Tramp, has been added to the War of the Classes. |
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Online Medieval and Classical
Library November 26: The Laxdaela Saga, an anonymous work written in Icelandic (Old Norse) around 1245 A.D., joins the collection. |
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The Jack London
Collection October 24: Martin Eden, all 46 chapters of it, joins our collection of Jack London's writings. |
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Online Medieval and
Classical Library October 20: The Nibelungenlied, a work of Germanic mythology from ca. 1200 A.D. (date uncertain), was added. |
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Current Cites September 30: The September 1997 issue was released. |
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The Emma Goldman Papers September 29, 1997: A number of new essays have been added to the Published Essays and Pamphlets section, including "Samuel Gompers", "An Unexpected Dash Through Spain", "Voltairine De Cleyre", "Durruti Is Dead, Yet Living", and "Trotsky Protests Too Much". |
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The Jack London
Collection September 24: Some of Jack London's speeches, as published in War of the Classes have been added, including The Scab and How I Became a Socialist. |
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The Jack London
Collection September 10: By popular demand, the novel The Star Rover (1915) joins the collection of London's writings. This is the only copy of this work on the Internet. |
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The Jack London
Collection September 5: The Night Born, a collection of Jack London's short stories, is now complete. |
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The Emma Goldman Papers September 2: Two new sections have been added, Speeches and Newspaper and Third Party Accounts. |
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Current Cites August 29: The August 1997 issue of Current Cites has been released. |
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Online Medieval &
Classical Library August 18: The Lay of the Cid joins the collection. |
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SWISH-Enhanced August 15: Fast, free, and flexible search software optimized for Web use. Includes the AutoSwish front-end that makes index creation and maintenance a snap. Brought to you by Kevin Hughes, Enterprise Integration Technologies, and the Digital Library SunSITE. |
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The Jack London
Collection August 15: A new Multimedia section is being inaugurated with a digitized full-length song called Jack & Charmian by Doug McArthur and Jeffra. It appears here on SunSITE with their permission. |
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Days of Cal August 14: A site devoted to the history of the University of California, Berkeley (affectionately known as "Cal") debuts today. Highlights include many photographs from the University Archives. |
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The Jack London
Collection August 12: The short story collection Children of the Frost is now complete. Most of these stories are only available here. |
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Draft Guidelines
for Electronic Scholarly Editions August 11: These draft guidelines from the Modern Language Association of America Committee on Scholarly Editions are now available and open for comment. |
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Online Medieval & Classical
Library August 8: The Story of the Volsungs ("Volsungasaga") has been added. |
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The Advanced Papyrological Information
System: APIS August 7: The APIS project constitutes the efforts of papyrologists at a number of American universities to integrate in a "virtual" library the holdings from their collections through digital images and detailed catalog records that will provide information pertaining to the external and the internal characteristics of each papyrus, corrections to previously published papyri, and republications. This site also serves as the home site of the Tebtunis Papyri. |
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Current Cites August 1: The July 1997 issue of Current Cites is now available. |
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The Jack London Collection July 25: A new section containing brief descriptions of and information about the many Jack London organizations throughout the world, as well as announcements of any pending Jack London events. |
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The Jack London Collection July 23: The short story collection Tales of the Fish Patrol has now been added in it's entirety. This collection, centered on the San Francisco Bay of London's youth, includes such classics as A Raid on the Oyster Pirates and The Siege of the 'Lancashire Queen'. |
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Online Medieval & Classical Library July 22: Danish History by Saxo Grammaticus joins the collection. |
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The Jack London Collection July 16: Jack London's Works by Date of Composition adds an important component to the Bibliographies and Research Aids section. |
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CALIPR: Preservation Planning Software July 11: A free MS Windows program to assess the needs of book and document collections for institutional or statewide planning. |
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The Emma Goldman Papers July 2: Two essays have been added to the Published Essays and Pamphlets section: A New Declaration of Independence and Preparedness: The Road to Universal Slaughter". |
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Literature @ SunSITE June 12: A new section on the work of Mary Austin is inaugurated with what is perhaps her most famous work, The Land of Little Rain. |
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Current Cites June 2: The May 1997 issue of Current Cites (published on May 30) is now available. |
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Literature @ SunSITE May 15: A new section on the work of Jane Austen is inaugurated with Emma and Persuasion. |
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Literature @ SunSITE May 14: A new section on the work of Frederick Douglass is inaugurated with his autobiographical work Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave. |
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Emma Goldman Papers May 6: The initial screen has been redesigned and there is now a new section, Emmarabilia, which has a catalog of publications and commemorative items from the Emma Goldman Papers, testimonials from those touched by Goldman's life, and information on how you can further the work of the Emma Goldman Papers Project. |
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UCB Library
Pathfinder May 5: A powerful, Web-accessible library catalog that demonstrates cutting-edge Web and Z39.50 technology makes searching the holdings of UC Berkeley libraries easier and more effective than ever. |
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Emma Goldman Papers May 2: After adding dozens of new digitized documents from the collection of the International Institute for Social History in Amsterdam and the Van Pelt Collection of the University of Pennsylvania Library, we now have over 50 letters, pamphlets, handbills and manuscripts available for viewing. The interface is also completely upgraded to allow flexible searching and browsing. |
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Emma Goldman Papers May 1: The Life and Times of Emma Goldman: A Curriculum for Middle and High School Students offers curricular resources for teachers to help their students explore issues such as freedom of expressions, women's rights, anti-militarism and social change. |
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Current Cites April 30: The April 1997 issue of Current Cites is now available. |
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Hardware and Software April 29: A major hardware upgrade brings the SunSITE up to 1GB of RAM and four CPUs. |
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Java Workshop 2.0 April 16: We are the main SunSITE mirror site for the Java Workshop 2.0 Pre-Beta Release Program. Get your free software while it lasts! |
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The American Heritage Project April 11: "The Project is creating a shared database of SGML-encoded finding aids describing and providing access to collections documenting American history and culture." |
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Digital Page
Imaging and SGML April 7: A site that explains and demonstrates a technique to electronically "bind" scanned page images in a way that facilitates navigation. |
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Current Cites March 31: The March 1997 issue of Current Cites is now available. |
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Berkeley Digital Library
SunSITE March 27: The SunSITE splash screen gets a makeover, to add the capability to serve advertisements for SunSITE resources at random. The entry program (written in Perl) also automatically routes Lynx users to an alternative text-only index page. |
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Librarians' Index to the Internet March 24: A searchable and browseable index to Internet resources on a wide variety of topics. This index is being built by a group of California librarians and now numbers around 2,500 annotated and categorized resources. It is updated online on a daily basis. |
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Bibliographies A new SunSITE section of Bibliographies is being inaugurated with African American Theses and Dissertations 1907-1990, University of California Berkeley. It is both browseable and searchable. |
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The Emma Goldman Papers March 11: A new Moving Pictures section of the Emma Goldman Papers site is being inaugurated with a Hearst Metrotone Newsreel "Famous Anarchist Back From Exile". |
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PubLib and PubLib-Net March 10: SunSITE is the new home for PubLib, THE public libraries electronic discussion, and it's subset PubLib-Net of only those messages related to the Internet in public libraries. |
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Literature @ SunSITE March 6: A new section on Joseph Conrad is being inaugurated with Heart of Darkness. |
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Current Cites February 26: The February issue was published today. |
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The Online Medieval & Classical Library February 19: The Life of King Alfred by Asser, Bishop of Sherborne has been added. |
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The Online Medieval & Classical Library February 18: The Legend of Good Women by Geoffrey Chaucer has been added. |
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The South Asian Diaspora
Database February 18: A database to facilitate networking among people interested in the South Asian Diaspora sponsored by the South/Southeast Asia Library at the University of California, Berkeley. |
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The Jack London Collection February 13: A new section on Jack London's Journalism: Non-fiction Newspaper and Magazine Pieces has been added, and the first item is The Story of An Eyewitness, his account of the San Francisco Earthquake and Fire. |
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The Online Medieval & Classical Library February 12: Yvain, or The Knight with the Lion, by Chretien DeTroyes has been added. |
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The Jack London Collection February 10: The text of London's novel Burning Daylight is now illustrated with the original plates. |
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The Online Medieval & Classical Library February 10: The Argonautica by Apollonius Rhodius has been added. |
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The Online Medieval & Classical Library February 7: Lancelot, or The Knight of the Cart, by Chretien DeTroyes has been added. |
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The Online Medieval & Classical Library February 6: The text Erec et Enide, by Chretien deTroyes has been added. |
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The Jack London Collection February 5: The short story collection The Red One is now complete, with the addition of The Hussy, Like Argus of the Ancient Times, and The Princess. |
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The Madera Method February 4: New to this site that helps teach K-12 students reading, writing and history, is a "California Histories" section of the Madera Method Library. It is being inaugurated with a wonderful collection of newspaper article excerpts and advertisements from the 1870's to the 1910's called The Madera Project. |
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The Jack London
Collection February 4: The Rise and Fall of Jack London in Poland charts the publishing history of Poland's favorite american author, examining the reasons for London's amazing popularity and sudden decline with the public, and analyzes the underlying forces in his chilly critical reception in the Polish Academy. |
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Literature @ SunSITE January 31: We're adding a section on Henry David Thoreau, which we are inaugurating with Civil Disobedience. |
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The Online Medieval and Classical Library January 30: The text Cliges, by Chretien DeTroyes has been added. |
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Statistics January 29: Thanks to Thomas Dowling, we now have a nifty new service that tracks which browsers SunSITE users are using, based upon the last 10,000 hits on the server. Check it out! |
| Current Cites January 28: The January 1997 issue of Current Cites is now available. |
| A Video Welcome January 22: A video welcome message by University Librarian Peter Lyman has been added to the SunSITE splash screen. The Berkeley Multimedia Research Center is responsible for producing it. |
| Emma Goldman Papers
January 22: Several essays added to Anarchism and Other Essays and the opening essays of The Social Significance of the Modern Drama. |
| The Jack London Collection
January 2: The Frank Putnam Letters, a collection of nine letters from Jack London to Frank Putnam relating to the publication of "The One Thousand dozen" that illustrate just how hard it was for a young writer to make it around the turn of the century. |
| The Jack London Collection
December 19: The novel Burning Daylight has been added. |
| The Emma Goldman
Papers December 19: More essays have been added to Anarchism and Other Essays. |
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NCSTRL: Networked Computer Science Technical Reports
Library December 16: The Berkeley Computer Science Division has transferred control of their technical report archive and their participation in the NCSTRL project to the Berkeley Library. Come visit it's new home! |
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The PATH (Partners for Advanced Transit and
Highways) Database December 13: The world's largest bibliographical database pertaining to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). |
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California Heritage
December 12: A new collection of archival finding aids and thousands of photographs (eventually about 25,000) relating to California history. |
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See A Librarian Final
Report December 12: A project by one of our digital librarians to "explore the feasibility of long distance, real time communication for the exchange of ideas between librarians and quite possibly between librarians and other information seekers." |
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The University of California Digital
Library: A Framework For Planning and Strategic Initiatives December 4: The report of the University of California Digital Library Executive Working Group. |
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Index Morganagus December 4: A project by one of our digital librarians to explore methods of indexing library- and information science related electronic serials and organizing them into some sort of meaningful scheme. |
| The Jack London Collection
December 12: More short stories are being added today and tomorrow, particularly to the Love of Life collection. December 4: more of London's writings, a new page of links to other London and London-related Web sites, and more. |
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The Emma Goldman Papers
December 12: My Disillusionment in Russia is now available. December 4: A new section of sample documents from the book edition of Goldman's papers. Watch for curriculum documents to help teachers use the site, and also excerpts from My Disillusionment in Russia (1923). |
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by the SunSITE Manager.
Last update November 6, 1998. SunSITE Manager:
manager@sunsite.berkeley.edu