William S. Hein & Co., Inc. Offers Unprecedented Complimentary Global Access to Comprehensive Slavery Research Collection
Getzville, NY (PRWEB) October 07, 2016 -- William S. Hein & Co., Inc. has released the newest HeinOnline collection, Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law. This collection, developed under the direction of Paul Finkelman, Ariel F. Sallows Visiting Professor of Human Rights Law at the University of Saskatchewan College of Law, has been in development for more than three years, with an investment by the Hein Company of tens of thousands of dollars. During the development of the collection, the Company’s market research indicated that Slavery in America and the World would be a very successful and profitable collection once offered on a subscription basis. However, while the Hein Company is a for-profit corporation with fiscal responsibilities to its shareholders, its mission statement contains a number of core values, one of which is Corporate Citizenship. This means that, as a company, Hein resolves to make a positive difference in the community.
The crisis revolving around race relations in America and the recent events surrounding this crisis have made the Hein Company rethink the idea of financially profiting from the sale of a collection on slavery. As good corporate citizens, Hein realized that a unique opportunity existed to make a positive impact in the community, in the profession and very possibly in a wider arena. Therefore, the decision was made not to charge for this collection, but to provide complimentary access to Slavery in America and the World to anyone with an interest in the subject: libraries, institutions, students, researchers, or any other entity within the global community. By doing this, the Hein Company will realize a different form of profit by potentially making a difference during this troubling time.
The Hein Company has always recognized the impact librarians have within their communities. Their social consciousness, their communication skills, their ability to interact in a positive fashion with young children, students of all ages, high school, college and graduate level faculty, business people, attorneys, judges and the public in general put them in a unique position to open lines of communication to address the issues Americans are faced with today. By providing complimentary access to Slavery in America and the World, a wide audience has an opportunity to be more informed about the history of slavery and the pain of racism. By using this collection, librarians can be in the forefront of a movement to help educate their communities and create an environment for open and positive dialogue, which may go a long way in helping find solutions to the distressing issues confronting all of us.
The Hein Company hopes you will add this collection to your institution. Please join them in making a difference today.
To register for access, visit http://home.heinonline.org/access-registration/.
For more information, please visit http://home.heinonline.org/slavery/.
About This Collection
Slavery in America and the World: History, Culture & Law brings together, for the first time, all known legal materials on slavery in the United States and the English-speaking world, as well as materials on free African-Americans in the colonies and the U.S. before 1870. Included are every statute passed by every state and colony, all federal statutes, all reported state and federal cases on slavery, and hundreds of books and pamphlets on the subject. In total, the collection contains more than 1,000 titles and nearly 850,000 pages.
About HeinOnline
HeinOnline is the premiere product of William S. Hein & Co., Inc., which has been serving the library community for more than 95 years as a legal publisher, periodical subscription agent, and the world’s largest distributor of legal periodicals. HeinOnline includes nearly 140 million pages and more than 120,000 titles, and has subscribers in more than 175 countries. It is the world’s largest image-based research collection available in an online, fully-searchable format. Having built a reputation for excellence in image-based legal research, HeinOnline delivers a wealth of current information and more historical content than any other database.
Shannon Sabo, WILLIAM S. HEIN & CO., INC., http://www.HeinOnline.org, +1 716-533-4153, [email protected]
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