Library News for German Studies

New Books, Aug. 16-31, 2007 (partial listing)

Andreas Hofer : an historical novel / by Louisa Mühlbach ; translated from the German by F. Jordan ; illustrated by Gaston Fay. New York : D. Appleton, 1868.

Austria, Hungary, and the Habsburgs : essays on Central Europe, c.1683-1867 / R.J.W. Evans. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

Der blonde Eckbert / Ludwig Tieck ; mit Originalholzschnitten von Johannes Lebek ; Herausgegeben und kommentiert von Ronald Salter. [Menningen] : Edition Curt Visel, 1998.

Carpe Mundum : German youth culture of the Weimar Republic / Luke Springman. Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 2007.

The clearing / Peter Steiner ; translated and with an afterword by Todd C. Hanlin. Original German title: Die Lichtung. Riverside, Calif. : Ariadne Press, 2007.

Die Generation danach : der Nationalsozialismus im Familiengedächtnis / Margit Reiter. Innsbruck : StudienVerlag, c2006.

First meeting with the hussar / Gregor von Rezzori ; [translated by Catherine Hutter.] Original German title: Ein  Hermelin in Tschernopl. New York : Harcourt, Brace, c1959.

Historical dictionary of contemporary Germany / Derek Lewis ; with Ulrike Zitzlsperger. Lanham, Md. : The Scarecrow Press, 2007.

Horsd'œuvre : Essays. St. Pölten : Residenz, 2005.

Körper im Nationalsozialismus : Bilder und Praxen / Paula Diehl (Hg.). Paderborn : Fink ; Paderborn : Schöningh, 2006.

Das Kulturlexikon zum Dritten Reich : wer war was vor und nach 1945 / Ernst Klee. Frankfurt am Main : S. Fischer, c2007.

"Kulturproblem Frau" : Weiblichkeitsbilder in der Kunst des Nationalsozialismus / Elke Frietsch. Köln : Böhlau, 2006.

Literatur und Selbstopfer : historisch-systematische Studien zu Gryphius, Lessing, Gotthelf, Storm, Kaiser und Schnitzler / Katja Malsch. Würzburg : Königshausen & Neumann, c2007.

Other witnesses : an anthology of literature of the German Americans, 1850-1914 / edited with introductory essays by Cora Lee Kluge. Madison, WI : Max Kade Institute for German-American Studies, University of Wisconsin--Madison, 2007.

Positive Dialektik : hoffnungsvolle Momente in der deutschen Kultur : Festschrift für Klaus L. Berghahn zum 70. Geburtstag / Jost Hermand (Hrsg.). Oxford ; Berlin : Lang, 2007.

Queen Hortense : a life picture of the Napoleonic era / By L. Mühlbach ; translated from the German by Chapman Coleman. New York : D. Appleton and Company, 1881.

Schülersoldat des Dritten Reiches : von der Schulbank an die Kanone, aus der Flugzeugkanzlei hinter den Panzer : Zeitzeugenbericht / Wolfgang Rittmann. Halle : Projekte-Verlag 188, c2005.

Violence, culture and identity : essays on German and Austrian literature, politics and society / Helen Chambers (ed.). Oxford ; New York : P. Lang, c2006.

Wohin verschlug uns der Traum? : die griechische Antike in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des Dritten Reichs und des Exils / Daria Santini. Frankfurt am Main : P. Lang, 2007.

Zerreissproben/Double bind : Familie und Geschlecht in der deutschen Literatur des 18. und 19. Jahrhunderts / Christine Kanz (Hg.). Bern : EFeF, c2007.

Changes in copyright in Germany

Copyright laws are changing in Germany. Unfortunately it looks at those access to materials in electronic format will be even more restrictive in German libraries.

Also these changes may directly affect you if you published works in Germany (i.e. from a German publisher) before 1995. From my understanding, you have one year to declare that you want to retain rights to distribute your work online (e.g. in the form of an e-book). If you don't, this right will stay with the publisher. And this right pertains to German and non-German authors alike.

Klaus Graf on the H-Soz-u-Kult listserv discusses this in detail and also provides sample letters one can use to send to publishers.

NOTE: I'm not a lawyer and this does not constitute legal advice. Nor do I purport to be an expert translator of German legalese.

http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/forum/id=930&type=diskussionen

***Changes in Off-Campus Access to Library Resources***

In part from feedback on the library survey this past Spring, we've changed the way we provide access to library resources from off-campus to make it easier for everyone. You'll no longer need to configure your browser. Instead, you'll login to the proxy server once using your WU ID number and the password you've set up to logon to library computers. Then you simply go to the resource of your choice.

• Full announcement
• Instructions (including how to delete browser settings for the old proxy system)
• Proxy logon page (NOTE: this can be bookmarked for quick access)
• For some databases, you may be able to bookmark directly to the resource. One example is the BDSL.
• NOTE: if you clicked on a link to http://libproxy.wustl.edu (or used a bookmark to it), you'll start at the Library homepage. But if you clicked on a link to a database, you'll be connected to that resource. As long as you follow links from there your connection will be proxied. The hostname (first part of the URL) in your browser's address bar will contain '.libproxy.wustl.edu.'

Feel free to contact me with questions. Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu ; 935-4824 ; IM: wulibgerman)

***ILLiad logon and password changes***

We are changing the way you login to the ILLiad interlibrary loan system. Instead of using your current username and password, you will instead need to use your University ID number and the password you use to logon to library computers.

If you have never set this password, go to https://lansing.wulib.wustl.edu/password-change.asp to change it. The temporary password (which must be changed at the first use) is the first 2 letters of your last name (first letter capitalized and second in lower case) followed by your University ID. For Faculty and Staff, your University ID is your six-digit employee number.

Example: The temporary password for John Doe with University ID 123456 would be Do123456.

These changes will occur August 24 - August 29, 2007. Your current username and password will continue to work until the changes are completed. If you have any questions or encounter any problems, please contact Brian (bvetruba@wustl.edu , 935-4824); Nada Vaughn, ILL Supervisor at 935-4087; or the Olin Library Help Desk at 935-5410.

Article on WU Contemporary German Lit. Collection

The most recent issue of Off the Shelf features an article on the Contemporary German Literature Collection housed in Olin Library.

http://library.wustl.edu/offtheshelf/OTSspr07.pdf

New Books, Aug. 1-15, 2007 (partial listing)

After the Reich : the brutal history of the Allied occupation / Giles MacDonogh. New York : Basic books, 2007.

Die Ballade vom Schneien : Roman / Gerhard Meier ; mit einem Nachwort von Peter Weber. Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp, 2007.

Can these bones live? : translation, survival, and cultural memory / Bella Brodzki. Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2007.

Contemporary German fiction : writing in the Berlin republic / edited by Stuart Taberner. Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007.

Contemporary German prose in Britain and France (1980-1999) : a case study of the significance of otherness in translation / Wiebke Sievers ; with a foreword by Susan Bassnett. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2007.

Drei Gedichte zum Erbeben [i.e. Erdbeben] von Lissabon : Die Zerstörung von Lisabon, Die Ruinen von Lissabon, Gedanken bei dem Erdbeben / Johann Georg Zimmermann ; mit einem Nachwort herausgegeben von Martin Rector und Matthias Wehrhahn. Hannover-Laatzen : Wehrhahn, 2005.

Finding Europe : discourses on margins, communities, images ca. 13th - ca. 18th centuries / edited by Anthony Molho, Diogo Ramada Curto, and Niki Koniordos. New York : Berghahn Books, 2007.

Gottfried Benn : Wechselspiele zwischen Biographie und Werk / herausgegeben von Matías Martínez. Göttingen : Wallstein, 2007.

Kafka and cultural Zionism : dates in Palestine / Iris Bruce. Madison, Wis. : University of Wisconsin Press, c2007.

Lyrik und Narratologie : Text-Analysen zu deutschsprachigen Gedichten vom 16. bis zum 20. Jahrhundert / Jörg Schönert, Peter Hühn, Malte Stein. Berlin : De Gruyter, 2007.

Life and death in a German town : Osnabrück from the Weimar Republic to World War II and beyond / Panikos Panayi. London : Tauris Academic Studies, 2007.

Der Mai ist vorbei : Roman / Peter Henisch. St. Pölten : Residenz, 2005.

Measuring the world / Daniel Kehlmann ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway. Original German title: Die Vermessung der Welt. New York : Pantheon Books, c2006.

Migrants' literature in postwar Germany : trying to find a place to fit in / Alfred L. Cobbs ; preface by Friedemann Weidauer. Lewiston, N.Y. : Edwin Mellen Press, c2006.

Peeling the onion / Günter Grass ; translated from German by Michael Henry Heim. Original German title: Beim Häuten der Zwiebel. Orlando, Fla. : Harcourt, Inc., c2007.

Sire, das war ich : Leben Gundlings Friedrich von Preussen Lessings Schlaf Traum Schrei : Heiner Müller Werkbuch : Ortstermin: Berlin-Lichtenberg 2006 / herausgegeben von Wolfgang Storch und Klaudia Ruschkowski. [Berlin] : Theater der Zeit, 2007.

Theater and nation in eighteenth-century Germany / Michael J. Sosulski. Aldershot, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, c2007.

Voices of the other : children's literature and the postcolonial context / edited by Roderick McGillis. New York, NY : Garland Pub., 2000.

Women and literature in the Goethe era (1770-1820) : determined dilettantes / Helen Fronius. Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

More Electronic Journal titles with Project Muse

WU Libraries recently upgraded our e-journal package with Project Muse to include all titles in its Premium Collection. With this, we have gained access to about 50 new journal titles. For a complete list of titles in the Premium Collection:  http://muse.jhu.edu/about/subscriptions/collection_comparison_2008.html

Some titles of particular note:

• Comparatist  (0195-7678)
• Comparative critical studies  (1744-1854)
• Seminar : a journal of Germanic Studies (0037-1939)
• Studies in eighteenth-century culture  (0360-2370)
• Translation and literature  (0968-1361) 

To see which electronic journals the Libraries have access to, seach in the Catalog by Journal Title ; or search in the Full-text journals A-Z list. More info: http://wulibraries.typepad.com/germannews/2007/02/finding_electro.html 

Libraries' Increase in German Literature titles

Recently, we modified our profile with our main vendor in Germany to increase the number of primary and secondary titles in German literature sent to us. Specifically, we're increasing titles in Early Modern through 19th century.

Overall, the Libraries have also increased the book budget for English-language items in all subject areas. So, you'll also see an increase in the number of titles of German literary criticism titles in English.

These changes are in response to feedback you provided us during the focus groups and interviews we conducted last year.

Österreich Portal -- German Teaching Resource

Österreich Portal is a website of language learning modules for teaching German. The site requires user registration to access. The modules focus around different Austrian cultural and historical themes, such as  music, sports, the Vienna zoo, and the post World War II period in Austria. The site include self-guided quizzes as well as a glossary to assist with vocabulary and historical topics.

For New Graduate Students--reception and info webpage

All new graduate students are cordially invited to the Libraries' Reception and Orientation for New Faculty Members and Graduate Students. Refreshments will be served!

WHEN/WHERE: Tues., Aug. 28, 2007, 3-5pm at Olin Library

There will be opportunities to go on a tour of Olin Library, see demos of library databases and talk to Brian Vetruba, subject librarian for Germanic Languages and Literatures. 

The information webpage for new graduate students has been updated. Please encourage new students to take a look at it: http://library.wustl.edu/subjects/germanlit/newgradstudents.html