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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.

New online reference books from ABC-Clio

• Abortion in the United States
• Campaign and Election Reform: A Reference Handbook, Second Edition
• Conflict Between India and Pakistan: An Encyclopedia
• Encyclopedia of the African Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture
• Encyclopedia of the Jewish Diaspora: Origins, Experiences, and Culture
• Mexico: A Global Studies Handbook
• Nations and Nationalism: A Global Historical Overview
• Renewable and Alternative Energy Resources: A Reference Handbook
• Utopias in American History
• Women, Science, and Myth: Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present

New online reference books from Sage

• Encyclopedia of Children, Adolescents, and the Media
• Encyclopedia of U.S. Campaigns, Elections, and Electoral Behavior

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.

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.

Added content in FBIS Daily Reports
Foreign Broadcast Information Service (FBIS) Daily Reports The 3rd and 4th releases (of a total of 8 releases) of the FBIS Daily Reports online has been issued. Content from China and Asia has been significantly enhanced

• FBIS Daily Reports, 1974 - 1996 - Part 3
  • People's Republic of China (CHI), 1974-1980
  • China (CHI), 1981-1996
• FBIS Daily Reports, 1974 - 1996 - Part 4
  • Asia & Pacific (APA), 1974-1987
  • East Asia (EAS), 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.

What is Early English Books Online? From the first book published in English through the age of Spenser and Shakespeare, this incomparable collection now contains about 100,000 of over 125,000 titles listed in Pollard & Redgrave's Short-Title Catalogue (1475-1640) and Wing's Short-Title Catalogue (1641-1700) and their revised editions, as well as the Thomason Tracts (1640-1661) collection and the Early English Books Tract Supplement. Libraries possessing this collection find they are able to fulfill the most exhaustive research requirements of graduate scholars - from their desktop! - in many subject areas, including: English literature, history, philosophy, linguistics, theology, music, fine arts, education, mathematics, and science.
 
With the generous support of the Clerkin Family Fund and the Class of 1954 21st Century Library Fund, the University Libraries have been able to add the Early English Books Online (EEBO) collection to the resources available to our students and faculty.

The National Digital Security Archive has been added, graciously funded through the Lester D. Stickles '18 Endowment. This database of declassified government documents provides primary sources material on some of the major events during the past 60 + years.  The Berlin Crisis of the 50's, US policy in the Vietnam War, El Salvador, Nicaragua, the Philippines,  all are contained within this archive.
 

Books24x7 - online computer manuals, guides and programming books
 
2000 new titles have been added to the Books24x7 collection and records for these titles added to the Library Catalogs - just do a keyword search for Books24x7.
 
Need an Office 2007 manual, need a tutorial in pivot tables in Excel, a quick guide to Visual Basic or C++,  can't quite follow the instructions in a Microsoft help file?  All of these are contained within the Books24x7 collection.
 
The Libraries subscribe to this service to provide the largest number of these rapidly changing manuals.  Users must create an account using an on-campus computer and will have to log in each time using that account.
 
 

Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of over 1,700 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 95 contributing publishers.
 
Over 300 new Ebooks have been added to the Library Catalog and a list of the added titles by Call Number has been created.

With the Library's new subscription to Marquis Who’s Who on the Web, you get access to current biographies of all individuals who appeared in any one of the following Marquis print titles since 1985:

(Formerly Who's Who in Finance & Industry)

NOW INCLUDED:

• Who’s Who in American Politics - over 36,000 biographies of important political leaders.
• Who’s Who in American Art - over 14,000 of today’s most prominent individuals in American Art.
• Who’s Who in American History - over 110,000 biographies from our archive of Who Was Who in America.