Until Thursday, February 19th, the CUA Libraries has a free trial to the database Washington Business Journal, the major weekly newspaper for business, real estate, and industry news for the Washington D.C. area. The portal provides access to its sister publications in 42 other metropolitan markets in the United States.  It may be especially helpful Read More

We welcome you to test out two databases and provide us with feedback. The Digital Loeb Classical Library contains more than 500 titles in Greek or Latin with English translations. This online edition is fully searchable and includes options for annotating and extracting text. J. F. Niermeyer’s Mediae Latinitatis Lexicon Minus provides English, French, and Read More

We invite you to give us feedback on a database we are looking into purchasing: Index Religiosus The trial for Index Religiosus can be reached here Index Religiosus is an international bibliography covering Religion, Church History, Canon Law, Old and New Testaments, Sacramentology and Liturgy, influential figures, Art History, Music, Architecture, and Hagiography. It contains Read More

Our 182nd online finding aid, for the small collection of the Ancient Order of Hibernians (AOH) now available. The AOH is a Catholic, Irish-American fraternal organization founded in New York City in 1836.  It remains active today aiding newly arrived Irish immigrants, both socially and politically, and is at the forefront of issues such as Read More

An article (very nicely arranged graphically) about Catholic digital archives written by Education Archivist Maria Mazzenga is now online.

An article in the journal Pennsylvania History about labor leader, civil servant, and photographer Terence V. Powderly (1849-1924) by Associate Archivist W. J.  Shepherd now online.

Until January 30, CUA Libraries has a free trial to the database Met Opera on Demand.  The database delivers streaming audio and video of more than 500 full-length Metropolitan Opera performances from the ‘Live in HD’ series, the classic Met telecasts from 1977-2011, and over 250 radio broadcast performances that dating back to 1936. Librarians are Read More

Thanks to Chris Burroughs for our 181st EAD Finding Aid/Collection Guide, for the papers of former CUA Architecture Professor Peter Jost Blake.

Giulio Menna & Marjolein de Vos of Sexy Codicology have developed a new product called Digitized Medieval Manuscripts app which “links to more than 300 libraries in the world.1”  All of these manuscripts are available for free online from various libraries and institutions throughout the world. It’s a great tool for furthering your historical research. Read More

New finding aid/collection guide for the papers of CUA Alumni Ralph Hayes Hamilton. Thanks to Vitalina Nova.