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Research in Gender and Women’s Studies
March is Women’s History Month and Andersen Library has plenty of resources to help you learn more about gender history and the history of women. North American Women’s Letters and Diaries: Colonial to 1950 This collection includes one of the … Continue reading
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Tagged databases, featured resource, federal government, gender studies, government info, history, online resources, women, Women's History Month
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Dissertation database free for February 2013
If you join the free ProQuest Discover More Corps you can access the ProQuest Dissertations & Theses database until February 28. While you can search for many dissertations and master’s theses in the database, the full text is not always … Continue reading
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A Plastic Free Life?
Is living a plastic-free life even possible? Beth Terry of Oakland, California, author of the blog, MyPlasticFreeLife.com, thinks we should try. Read her Plastic-free Living Guide for a long list of ways to–if not completely eliminate–at least dramatically reduce the … Continue reading
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Tagged education, environment, online resources, plastics, sustainable living
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E-Books from Academic Publisher Brill
UWS libraries now have access to 2007-2013 ebooks from Brill, an academic publisher in the humanities and social sciences. You can search for keywords, or browse by authors or by the titles in these subject categories: Asian Studies Biblical Studies, … Continue reading
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Big International Business in 2010
Euromonitor, the provider of the Passport Reference & Markets, has shared their top ten articles of 2010*, which provides insight into the main growth areas and concerns in the current business environment. * shared with permission from the publisher Top … Continue reading
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Tagged consumers, databases, Euromonitor, online resources, passport reference and markets, spending
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Historical newspaper articles: Chicago Tribune, 1849-1986
Have you ever wondered what was on the front page of the Chicago Tribune on December 7, 1941? Are you looking for information on Wisconsin’s reaction to the Lincoln assassination? Maybe you’re curious about the effects of Prohibition on businesses … Continue reading
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Tagged databases, history, newspapers, online resources
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Celebrate Earth Day! Film showings in the Library
To celebrate Earth Day (Thursday, April 22), the Andersen Library is showing films on April 19-April 22 which are free and open to all! These films will be shown on the main floor of the Library in the TV area. … Continue reading
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Tagged Earth Day, library events, movies, online resources, sustainability
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Historical Abstracts database trial!
The Library is very excited to announce that a trial of the Historical Abstracts database is now available for use by all faculty, staff, and students. The trial will be active until the end of spring semester. Historical Abstracts is … Continue reading
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Tagged databases, history, new stuff, online resources
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New Online Reference Titles (Ebooks)
We’ve added new online reference titles from the Gale Virtual Reference Library in history, literature, multicultural studies, social sciences, and technology: History American Decades, 10v, 2001 American Decades Primary Sources, 10v, 2004 Ancient Greece, 3v, 2007 The Antebellum Era: Primary … Continue reading
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Presidential campaign TV commercials, 1952-2008
I know, I know, after the recent presidential election, we’ve probably all had our fill of campaign commercials. But this web site is worth a few minutes of your time, I promise. The Museum of the Moving Image put together … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, federal government, history, media, online resources, politics, primary sources, research, web sites, white house
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