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From the General Collection
Broadway HD It's curtains up in the classroom when students find a front-row seat to some of the best live theater straight from Broadway! Award-winning writers, directors and actors become partners in theater, drama, dance, music and even literature studies. This collection (still in progress) will include streaming access to 25 premium performances of plays and musicals from the New York theater scene.
The Kilroy's List 97 monologues and scenes by female and trans playwrights. "This new collection embodies the mission of Kilroys, an advocacy group founded in 2013 to raise awareness for the underutilized work of female and trans playwrights. The monologues selected for this volume serve to highlight the talents of these writers in a wide array of pieces that vary in genre, style and gender.
Policy Map Offers easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, housing, crime, mortgages, health, jobs and more in communication across the U.S. Data is available at all common geographies (address, block group, census tract, zip code, country, city, state, MSA) as well as unique geographies like school districts and political boundaries. Data comes from both public and proprietary sources and is accessible via interactive maps, tables, charts, reports and unique analytic tools and can be shared with anyone, anywhere. It also provides an introductory orientation to GIS capabilities and data analysis/management.
Water: An Atlas This is a crowd-sourced and crowd-funded guerrilla cartography and publishing project released in 2018. This atlas continues the collaborative spirit and narrative range originally brought to life in Food: An Atlas (2013). Readers and viewers can explore how humans interact with water: controlling, politicizing, commodifying and polluting it; as well as how water is a harbinger of climate change and how water inspires our imagination and exploration.
Chinese Follow Me Film Collection A growing series that covers highly selective and representative movies throughout Chinese film history. All films in the collection come with dialogues in Chinese and subtitles in English. They are useful resources for people to study the Chinese language and to learn about Chinese culture.
The Korean Pictorial A pictorial magazine published in Tokyo, Japan in Japanese by North Koreans. It includes vivid records about the lives of North Korean immigrants in Japan and their connection with the motherland. The issues available are from the 1960s to 1980s. The holding is the only one in an academic library.
The Business Plans Handbook Series Actual business plans compiled by, and aimed at, entrepreneurs seeking funding for small businesses. Presents sample plans taken from businesses in the manufacturing, retail and service industries which serve as examples of how to approach, structure and compose business plans.
Defining Hope A documentary that weaves the stories of patients with life-threatening illness, and the nurses who guide them as they make choices about how they want to live, how much medical technology they can accept, what they hope for and how that hope evolves.
Unrest Jennifer Brea is a Harvard Ph.D. student about to marry the love of her life when suddenly her body starts failing her. Hoping to shed light on her strange symptoms, Brea grabs a camera and films the darkest moments as she is derailed by M.E. (commonly known as Chronic Fatigue Syndrome), a mysterious illness some still believe is "all in your head."
From Special Collections
The student organizations at UCI are as diverse and distinct as the student population. But there are few that have left such a striking and colorful record in the University Archives as The Star Trek Association of Irvine Publications, University of California, Irvine (PS-007.)
As the finding aid to the collection states, "The Star Trek Association of Irvine, known as STAI by its members, was a UCI student organization dedicated to "alternate realities." No founding documents [are] found in the collection, but materials indicate that the association was active from 1977 to 1991. The interests of STAI members went beyond the television program, Star Trek and extended to animation, fantasy, horror and science fiction."
The group was extremely active and centralized much of the fan-culture on campus (which at the time had no other outlet as the internet would not materialize in a meaningful way until the early 90s.) The archival record reflects this vitality. As such, the majority of the collection is made up of the association's biweekly publication Rank Amateur Press Association (RAPA), which, at around 145 issues, gives a continuous look at the changing shape and nature of fan-culture from about 1984 until 1991.
RAPA and the mix of ephemera from STAI, such as newsletters, fliers and schedules of events were not merely records of the STAI's activities and meetings, but also a creative platform for their members. The hand-drawn cover illustrations for the issues deserve recognition alone. Each one experiments with paying homage to existing Science Fiction or Fantasy characters, or series, while giving their own unique interpretations, twists or reinventions outright. Their unapologetically amateur look and irreverent tone of writing, is eerily familiar and presages to the future of fan and meme culture.
The collection has received significant attention in the past year in no small part thanks to a group of undergraduate students led by freshman, Elise Hughes. Hughes caught word of STAI and sought to resurrect the student organization via extensive research using The Star Trek Association of Irvine Publications, Taking the structure of STAI as outlined in the earliest newsletter, Hailing Frequencies (Captain,1st Officer, Crewmember), as well as many of the activities and programming ideas, Hughes and company have reimagined the STAI as their own student organization, The Anteater's Guide to the Galaxy, which meets every Tuesday night.
Material from The Star Trek Association of Irvine Publications, can be viewed in the Verle and Elizabeth Annis Reading Room on the 5th floor of the Langson Library, LL525 Monday through Friday 11-5pm. No appointment is necessary.