Welcome to the June 2007 issue of The American Mosaic newsletter, an insider's guide to the latest enhancements and updates to The American Mosaic suite of digital reference products documenting the American multiethnic experience.

Now Available:

• Early Review: "The most beautifully designed electronic product I've ever seen"
• New Content for The African American Experience
• The Mosaic's First Podcast: An Interview with Ilan Stavans
• Stop By and See Us: ALA, BCALA
• Coming this Summer and Fall
• Expanded Access to the Mosaic

Early Review: "The most beautifully designed electronic product I've ever seen"

These are the words Cheryl LaGuardia of Harvard College Library uses to describe The Latino American Experience (LAE) in the June 15 issue of Library Journal. Praising the database's volume of content and presentation - "as creatively functional as it is attractive" - her review concludes by recommending LAE for public and school libraries "for its online access to material long overdue for coverage by electronic publishers."

New Content for The African American Experience

This month 33 new titles were added to the already robust African American Experience, bringing the total number of fully searchable, full-text volumes to more than 400. Ranging from multivolume encyclopedias, such as the three-volume Encyclopedia of American Civil Rights and Liberties (2006) and two-volume Encyclopedia of the Reconstruction Era (2006), to new biographies on Dr. Dre, Billie Holiday, and Lucille Clifton, this content represents an acquisition value of more than $3,500 in print titles. See complete list of titles.

The Mosaic's First Audio Podcast: An Interview with Ilan Stavans

"I love to think of the Internet as a place where people surf, jump in to find new things, but the moment they jump out, they have been transformed, they are new, they look at the world differently. And I think it is very important to provide information that is trustworthy and invites reflection, critical analysis, offers some historical context..."

This is just one sound bite from our first-ever podcast, which debuts this month on The Latino American Experience (and can also be heard on the integrated American Mosaic site). In a wide-ranging discussion, Dr. Stavans shares his thoughts on the immigration debate, Spanglish, and the digital divide. The interview marks the first of many discussions Dr. Stavans plans to have with Latinos working in a variety of fields. To listen or download, click here.

Stop By and See Us: ALA, BCALA

Greenwood will be offering demonstrations of The Latino American Experience and The African American Experience, as well as The American Mosaic integrated site, at several upcoming conventions, including the American Library Association Annual Conference June 23-26 in Washington, D.C., and the 6th National Conference of African American Librarians (BCALA) August 2-5 in Fort Worth, Texas. Please come by the Greenwood booth at any or all of these conferences, ask for a demo, or tell us what you think of the Mosaic. For more information on our demonstration schedule at ALA in Washington, D.C., stop by booth number 3735 or click here.

Coming This Summer and Fall

Over the next several months, The American Mosaic will continue to add new features and content. Starting this summer we will be adding 23 new lesson plans and our first-ever blog to The Latino American Experience. Our next full enhancement, scheduled for October 2007, will add more than 30 new titles to The African American Experience and LAE, including 100 Hispanics You Should Know, the two-volume Icons of Hip Hop, encyclopedias on slave resistance and rebellion, race riots, and antislavery and abolition, as well as book-length biographies of Alex Rodriguez, Michael Jordan, and Bob Marley.

Expanded Access to the Mosaic

Sections of The American Mosaic and The Latino American Experience are now available to non-subscribers. Web users can conduct a Search, take a tour through the Browse categories, or evaluate the title list - almost everything short of opening an article - before being asked to log in. So tell your friends and colleagues about us, send them to am.greenwood.com or lae.greenwood.com, and let them see what they've been missing. This feature will soon be available for The African American Experience as well.

For more information on The American Mosaic, The African American Experience, or The Latino American Experience, go to www.greenwood.com/mosaic.

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