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17th-18th century Burney Collection newspapers (online) added

November 21, 2008 - 3:24pm — mike

The Burney Collection has been added to the primary sources available for student and faculty research.
The newspapers, pamphlets, and books gathered by the Reverend Charles Burney (1757-1817) represent the largest and most comprehensive collection of early English news media. The present digital collection, that helps chart the development of the concept of news and newspapers and the free press, totals almost 1 million pages and contains approximately 1,270 titles. Many of the Burney newspapers are well known, but many pamphlets and broadsides also included have remained largely hidden. The earliest publication is dated 1604 and the latest 1800.

RefWorks Workshops

November 11, 2008 - 3:27pm — clarence

Come to a 45 minute training session and learn to use RefWorks and Write-N-Cite to semi-automatically format citations and bibliographies in your research papers.
Sessions are in the Cronin Learning Lab (Case-Geyer 501):

 
 

 
 
Tuesday, November 18
11:30am – 12:15pm

 
 
Friday, November 21
1:30pm – 2:15pm

 
 
Or call x7402 to schedule an appointment.

New Books and Videos list added during October created

November 4, 2008 - 8:45am — mike

Filled with over 1,400 titles added during the month of October, the September new books lists are available by call number and subject.
 
84 new videos ranging from documentaries to feature films have also been processed during October.

FBIS Daily Reports adds Latin American and Caribbean content

November 1, 2008 - 1:40pm — mike

Added content in FBIS Daily Reports Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports The 5th releases (of a total of 8 releases) of the FBIS Daily Reports online has been issued. Content from contained is from Latin America and the Caribbean.
 
FBIS Daily Reports, 1974 - 1996 - Part 5 Latin America (LAM), 1974-1987 Latin America (LAT), 1987-1996
 
ABOUT FOREIGN BROADCAST INFORMATION SERVICE Created by the U.S. intelligence community to benefit policy makers and analysts, FBIS Daily Reports offer foreign views and perspectives on historical events from thousands of monitored broadcasts and publications. Translated into English from more than 50 languages - from Arabic to Swahili - these comprehensive media reports from around the globe include news, interviews, speeches and editorial commentary.

Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict (Online) has been added.

November 1, 2008 - 1:27pm — mike

New electronic reference books have been added.
 
Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict: a political, social, and military history (Online) has been added.
 
The Encyclopedia of the Arab-Israeli Conflict goes beyond simply recapping military engagements. In four volumes, with more than 750 alphabetically organized entries, plus a separate documents volume, it provides a wide-ranging introduction to the distinct yet inextricably linked Arab and Israeli worlds and worldviews, exploring all aspects of the conflict. The objective analysis will help readers understand the dramatic events that have impacted the entire world, from the founding of modern Israel to the building of the Suez Canal; from the Six-Day War to the Camp David Accords; from the assassinations of Anwar Sadat and Yitzhak Rabin to the rise and fall of Yasser Arafat, the 2006 Palestinian elections, and the Israeli-Hezbollah War in Lebanon.