NYTimes: Persevering for a Saint of Their Own

This article appeared in Sunday’s (3/23/08) New York Times. It details efforts made by the Sisters of Charity to make the case for canonization for Sister Miriam Teresa Demjanovich, a Sister of Charity and CSE graduate. Click the link below to read more about Sister Miriam Teresa’s story.

Persevering for a Saint of Their Own

More information can be found in this NYTimes story from 1998:
Q & A; This Saint May Take A While To March In

CQ Researcher: Women in Politics

Does gender bias hurt female candidates? This week’s CQ Researcher offers an in-depth report on this very question.

“The number of women holding political office in the United States has grown substantially over the past two decades. But even with a record number of 86 women in Congress today, men still outnumber women by more than 5-to-1. Historically, women faced significant disadvantages in running for office and winning voter approval. Experts say those barriers are lower today, but perhaps not completely gone. Within Congress, female lawmakers have helped bring greater attention to some issues affecting women, families and children, but partisan divisions have thwarted some of their initiatives. Meanwhile, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former first lady, is waging the most formidable presidential campaign by a female candidate in U.S. history. But many of her supporters say her campaign has been hurt by still prevalent sexism in media coverage of the race.”

• Do women candidates face political disadvantages because of their sex?
• Has the increased number of women in political office affected public policy?
• Should women cast a “gender ballot” to try to correct the underrepresentation of women in public office?

Read the rest of the report here.

CQ Researcher Report: Gender Pay Gap

Each week the CQ Researcher addresses a different topic of current interest. This week’s CQ Researcher report asks the question: Are women paid fairly in the workplace? 

“More than four decades after Congress passed landmark anti-discrimination legislation – including the Equal Pay Act of 1963 – a debate continues to rage over whether women are paid fairly in the workplace. Contending that gender bias contributes to a significant “pay gap,” reformists support proposed federal legislation aimed at bringing women’s wages more closely in line with those of men. Others say new laws are not needed because the wage gap largely can be explained by such factors as women’s choices of occupation and the amount of time they spend in the labor force. Meanwhile, a class-action suit charging Wal-Mart Stores with gender bias in pay and promotions – the biggest sex-discrimination lawsuit in U.S. history – may be heading for the Supreme Court. Some women’s advocates argue that a controversial high-court ruling last year makes it more difficult to sue over wage discrimination.”

• Is discrimination a major cause of the wage gap? 
• Are new laws needed to close the gender pay gap?
• Is equity possible after the Supreme Court’s Ledbetter ruling?

Read the rest of the report here.

New Books: Business, Economics, Communications, Education, Military, Nursing & Health Care

Mahoney Library at the CSE Health Fair

If you missed us at Wednesday’s campus Health Fair, you can still pick up handouts and view our poster on Research Heart Disease in the library lobby area.

For general health information try these library databases:

• Health & Wellness Resource Center (articles, videos, reference & other tools)
• Health Reference Center Academic (articles)
• Health Reference Center (encyclopedias, videos)
• Health Source: Consumer Edition (articles)

and these websites:

• Medline Plus
• Healthy NJ
• National Institutes of Health: Health Information
• PDRHealth
• Centers for Disease Control & Prevention

Thanks to Renita Krasnodebski, Jane Sawyer, Amy Schleigh and Victoria Wollny for their work in representing Mahoney Library at the Health Fair.

Nature Photography on Display

Mahoney Library has a beautiful collection of nature photographs on display during the month of March. Stop by and take a look. The photos were all taken by local photographer Richard Howland. For additional photos, see http://rdhowland.com/.

NJKI Status Update for CSE

The New Jersey Knowledge Initiative ran out of money to fund the 11 databases that it provides to universities and small business throughout the state. The program’s budget was cut by the legislature and full funding was not restored for this year.

 What does this mean for us? Well, CSE will retain access to 6 of the 11 databases:

• Business Source Premier and Regional Business News
• Biomedical Reference Collection: Comprehensive
• CINAHL and PRE-CINAHL
• Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins High Impact Journal Collection, via Ovid

CSE will no longer have access to the following databases:

• ReferenceUSA
• Wiley InterScience
• Nature Journals
• Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Comprehensive
• Medline via Ebsco

Two items of note regarding the list above:
(1) CSE does still have access to Nursing and Allied Health Collection: Expanded, a subset of the Comprehensive version, via Jersey Clicks; and (2) CSE has access to Medline via FirstSearch and Ovid, as well as via the free version from the National Library of Medicine.