This is for historical purposes only, and only covers the period from 1998 through 1999. Please also refer to the 1996-1997 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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Librarians' Index to the
Internet January 5: Today the completely redesigned (from the ground up) site is unveiled, with searching and browsing enhancements, a new look, and a new URL (http://lii.org/), although SunSITE still hosts it and the old address will still get you there. |
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Current Cites January 3: The December issue is now available. |
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The Jack London Collection December 22: The short story collection On the Makaloa Mat is now available in its entirety. |
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The Jack London
Collection December 20: The short story collection A Son of the Sun is now available in its entirety, including the illustrations from the first edition. |
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The Jack London Collection December 14: Revolution and Other Essays is now complete, as well as the short story collection Dutch Courage and Other Stories. |
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The Jack London Collection December 10: Thanks to the Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts, another SunSITE service, there are now concordances available for several of London's most popular works, including The Call of the Wild and White Fang. |
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Current
Cites December 1: The November issue is now available. |
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The Jack London Collection November 2: The database of images has been updated and enhanced, with an improved interface and links to high-resolution versions of most images. |
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Current
Cites November 2: The October issue is now available. |
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Current Cites October 1: The September issue is now available. |
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The Jack London Collection September 14: Jack London's account of his days as a hobo, The Road, is now available with all of its first edition illustrations intact. |
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Current
Cites September 1: The August 1999 issue is now available. |
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Russian
Independent Newspaper Collection August 24: A browseable and searchable index to the UC Berkeley collection of Russian independent newspapers. We regret that we must limit the use of this collection to UC Berkeley faculty, students and staff. |
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Current
Cites August 5: The July 1999 issue is now available. |
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The Jack London Collection August 3: The novel Michael, Brother of Jerry has been added. |
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Free Speech Movement: Student Protest - U.C. Berkeley, 1964-65 July 16: Some of the archives of an important movement in Berkeley's history are now online. |
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Search UC Libraries July 2: This new local area search engine offers simultaneous searching of all the library web sites of University of California campuses. |
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Current Cites July 1: The June issue is available. |
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The Last Jews of Libya June 17: A site chronicling some of the last Jews remaining in Libya, by photographs, writings, and the spoken word. |
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Mapping the Icelandic
Genome June 16: A new site joins the Making PCR (Polymerase Chain Reaction) site as part of The Anthropology of Biotechnology collection of resources. |
| LibraryLand June 7: LibraryLand now works quite differently, and also sports a new look. Now searches of this index to library-related sites returns a summary screen of results. From there, you can select the site for which you want to see the individual pages that match your search. |
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Current Cites May 28: The May issue is now available. |
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Current Cites April 30: The April issue is now available. |
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The Java Corner April 28: Our Java Corner now comes to us from our sister SunSITE in Romania, as a "mirror" of the site they maintain. |
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UCB-UCSF Joint Medical Program
Thesis Index April 15: A searchable and browseable index to theses written as partial fulfillment for the requirements of five-year Master of Science/M.D. program. |
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Government & Social
Science Data Library April 8: U.S. Census Subject Summary Tape File 1, Foreign-born population in the U.S., and the Tiger/Line 1997 files (available for ftp). |
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LibraryLand April 6: An index to information for librarians is now available. Beginning with a browseable list of resources, we are progressively crawling the sites to produce a comprehensive index to library-related information on the Internet. |
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Current Cites April 6: The March issue is now available. |
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Current
Cites March 2: The February 1999 issue is now available. |
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The Jack London
Collection February 22: An earlier version of the famous short story To Build a Fire is now available to allow comparison between the early version written for a juvenile audience, and the famous version written for adults that followed six years later. |
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World Humanities Survey February 17: We are now the new home to this searchable database of humanities institutions and centers around the world. |
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Online Video Files February 12: The UC Berkeley Media Resources Center has mounted a number of streamed video segments for your viewing pleasure. They include some incredibly cool things from Les Blank (mounted by permission). |
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Current Cites February 2: The January issue is now available. |
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Oral Histories
Online January 21: Oral histories from the UC Berkeley Regional Oral History Office, including a number of interviews with Suffragists. |
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The Jack London Collection January 19: A new page discussing what is commonly referred to as Jack London's Credo has been added, which includes an informative and authoritative historical discussion. |
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Current Cites December 23: The December issue is now available. |
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Current Cites November 25: The November issue is now available. |
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SunSITE Hardware and Software November 15: We are now up on new hardware. |
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American Cultures
Resources November 13: A new section of American Cultures Resources is inuagurated with the bibliographic guide Access to American Cultural Heritages: A Study Guide to Issues of Representation, Delivery and Control in both HTML and Adobe Acrobat versions. |
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Current Cites
November 6: The October issue is available. |
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The Jack London Collection The short story collection Dutch Courage and Other Stories (published posthumously in 1922), was inaugurated with the story Dutch Courage. The frontispiece illustration, and the one illustration in the Dutch Courage story is included. |
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The Emma Goldman Papers October 12: "Hindle Wakes" has been added to Goldman's book The Social Significance of the Modern Drama. |
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The Jack London Collection October 9: The collection of short pieces The Human Drift was added in its entirety: "The Human Drift," "Small-Boat Sailing," "Four Horses and a Sailor," "Nother That Ever Came To Anything," "That Dead Men Rise Up Never," "A Classic of the Sea," "A Wicked Woman (Curtain Raiser)," and "The Birth Mark (Sketch)". |
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Current Cites October 8: The September 1998 issue is released. |
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SWISH-Enhanced October 7: Version 1.2 is released, which adds crawling capability, among other things, to this Web site indexing software. |
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The Jack London Collection October 6: The short story collection The God of His Fathers is now complete with the addition of "The Great Interrogation", "Which Make Men Remember," "Siwash," "The Man With the Gash," "Jan, the Unrepentant," "Grit of Women," "Where the Trail Forks," "A Daugter of the Aurora," "At the Rainbow's End," and "The Scorn of Women." |
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Social Science &
Government Data Library September 22: New files are now available:
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The Jack London Collection September 3: The short story collection Lost Face is now complete with the addition of "Lost Face," "Trust," "That Spot," "Flush of Gold," and "The Passing of Marcus O'Brien." |
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Current Cites August 31: The August 1998 issue is released. |
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Alex Catalogue of Electronic Texts August 28: An innovative index to digital texts in the subject areas of English literature, American literature, and Western philosophy. |
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The Jack London Collection August 21: The novel The Valley of the Moon has been added to the collection. |
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Current Cites August 3: The July issue is now available. |
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The Jack London Collection July 31: The short story collection The House of Pride & Other Tales of Hawaii is now complete with the addition of "Chun Ah Chun" and "The Sheriff of Kona." |
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The Jack London Collection July 28: The short story collection When God Laughs & Other Stories is now complete with the addition of "When God Laughs," "A Wicked Woman," "Created He Them," "Make Westing," "Semper Idem," "A Nose For the King," "The 'Francis Spaight'," and "A Curious Fragment." |
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Redesigning
Library Services: A Manifesto July 20: This book by Michael Buckland inaugurates our collection of library literature. The volume is available in both Adobe Acrobat and HTML formats. |
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Current
Cites July 17: A new Current Cites service has been added, Article Search, which is an index of all free Web-accessible articles cited in Current Cites since January 1995, around 225 of the best information technology articles on the net. All that and a complete redesign of the site, too! |
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The Jack London Collection July 6: The collection of non-fiction essays Revolution and Other Essays, is being added, beginning with the title essay. |
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Literature @
SunSITE June 30: A new Robert Louis Stevenson book has been added, The Silverado Squatters, set in California's Napa Valley. |
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Current Cites June 29: The June 1998 issue has been released. |
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The Jack London
Collection June 25: The collection of essays The War of the Classes, in which London holds forth with his socialist views, is now complete. |
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The Jack London
Collection June 25: The novel Jerry of the Islands is now available. |
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The Jack London
Collection June 25: The novel Adventure is now available. |
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The Jack London
Collection June 22: London's boxing novel The Game joins the London Collection. |
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KidsClick! June 16: The Web guide created by librarians for kids has joined the family of resources that the SunSITE has fostered to make the Internet easier to use. |
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Literature @
SunSITE June 9: A new section on the work of Robert Louis Stevenson is inaugurated with his work Across the Plains. |
| Making PCR (Polymerase Chain
Reaction) June 8: A collection of documents relating to the history of the discovery of the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). This site is part of the Science & Technology In the Making project. |
| Search the SunSITE June 2: A new program is being used to search the SunSITE, which we believe will make site-wide searching more fruitful. It introduces an iterative approach: first items are retrieved that have your search words in the titles of the documents, then, if you request it, it will find your words in the headings of documents, and finally in the body of the text. Let us know if you have any difficulty with it or questions about it. Thanks! |
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Current Cites June 1: The May issue of Current Cites is now available. |
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Rubbings of Chinese Inscriptions
May 13: These are selected scans of Chinese rubbings from the collection of the East Asian Library at the University of California, Berkeley. |
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Anthropology Emeritus Lecture Series: UC Berkeley May 11: Biographical and bibliographical selections featuring UC Berkeley Anthropology Faculty who have been chosen for the Annual Emeritus Lecture Award. |
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Current Cites May 7: The April issue of Current Cites is now available. |
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The Making of America:
II April 24: The planning site for The Making of America: II digital library project is now available. |
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The Jack London Collection April 17: The short story collection South Sea Tales is now complete with the addition of "The House of Mapuhi," "The Whale Tooth," "Yah! Yah! Yah!," "The Heathen," "The Terrible Solomons," "The Inevitable White Man," and "The Seed of McCoy." |
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Current
Cites April 2: The March issue of this current awareness publication for information professionals is now available. |
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Social Science & Government
Data Library March 30: Subject Summary Tape File 5, Characteristics of the Asian and Pacific Islander Population in the U.S. has been added to the site. It contains sample data for this population. |
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Online Medieval and Classical
Library March 26: The Story of the Heath-Slayings ("Heitharviga Saga") has been added to the collection. Originally written in Icelandic (Old Norse) sometime in the 12th Century A.D. Author unknown. |
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Online Medieval and Classical
Library March 17: The Story of the Ere-Dwellers ("Erybyggja Saga") has been added to the collection. Originally written in Icelandic (Old Norse) sometime around the middle of the 13th century. Author unknown. |
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The Emma Goldman Papers March 6: An excerpt from Living My Life has been added to Goldman's Writings. |
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The Jack London
Collection March 5: A new section "Plays" has been added to London's Writings. The first play to be completed, The Acorn-Planter, is about the Nishinam tribe and their eventual encounter with explorers. |
| CurrentCites February 27: The February 1998 issue is now available. |
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Social Science & Government
Data Library February 5: A project of UC DATA and the UC Berkeley Library to make CD-ROM data available via a web interface. |
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CurrentCites January 7: The December 1997 issue is now available. |
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© 1999 UC Regents. All rights reserved.
Document maintained at http://sunsite.berkeley.edu/new.html
by the SunSITE Manager.
Last update December 20, 1999. SunSITE Manager:
manager@sunsite.berkeley.edu