October is National Information Literacy Awareness Month

President Obama has declared October National Information Literacy Awareness Month:
“Every day, we are inundated with vast amounts of information. A 24-hour news cycle and thousands of global television and radio networks, coupled with an immense array of online resources, have challenged our long-held perceptions of information management. Rather than merely possessing data, we must also [...]

Judge Sonia Sotomayor in U.S. Newspapers

To follow coverage of Judge Sonia Sotomayor as it appears in U.S. newspapers and U.S. newswires, search Lexis-Nexis Academic database by clicking on the above hyperlink.

Mahoney Library has the news!

If time is short, use the Monday through Friday publication Frontrunner (via LexisNexis Academic database) to scan “Headlines From Today’s Front Pages” of selected newspapers and magazines, as well as radio programs and television broadcasts.
For more in depth coverage, search CSE Mahoney Library’s link to Newspapers Online.
Our library also has the following newspapers in print:
Daily [...]

Swine Flu (now called 2009 H1N1 flu)

Find some up-to-date information by clicking on these “Hot Searches” in LexisNexis Academic database:
In Major US Newspapers  (explore the “People” group at left menu)
In Healthcare News (Worldwide)  (explore the “Subject” group at left menu)
In Major Papers (Worldwide)   (explore the “Geography” grouping at left menu)
In another database (Health Source – Consumer Edition), a report:
details the discovery of an [...]

Free Database Access

Several library content vendors are making some of their databases freely available in honor of National Library Week…

Blackwell Encyclopedia of Sociology Online – through 5/7
Greenwood & ABC-CLIO databases – through 4/18 only
Oxford Biblical Studies Online – through 4/16 only
ProQuest K-12 databases – through 4/17 only
American History in Video (Alexander Street Press) – through 4/30

Reducing Your Carbon Footprint

This week’s issue of CQ Researcher, Reducing Your Carbon Footprint, debates the question: Can individual actions reduce global warming?
“As climate change rises closer to the top of the government’s policy agenda – and an economic crisis intensifies – more and more consumers are trying to change their behavior so they pollute and consume less. To reduce [...]

GreenFILE & “Buying Green”

In light of CSE Green Week, it seems appropriate to point out a few environmental information sources:

“Buying Green,” a CQ Researcher report published earlier this year, discusses the marketing trend of greenwashing and highlights ways to truly reduce your impact on the environment. Also available in PDF format.
GreenFILE, a free article index provided by Ebsco Publishing, allows you to [...]

Resources on Darfur & the Sudan

In light of tonight’s program “They are Speaking: Will You Listen?” (7:00pm, Octagon, Mahoney Library), we compiled a few sources on the crisis.
Darfur is in worse shape than four years ago, Ban says
Deutsche Presse-Agentur, April 4, 2008 Friday 5:28 PM EST, POLITICS, 310 words
US urges UN to get 3,600 new troops into Darfur by June to improve security
The [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]