Litwack Collection Expands Mahoney Library Holdings

Nathan and Aida Litwack recently donated to Mahoney Library a substantial portion of their personal library, thereby enriching the college’s collections in many areas. Approximately seven thousand volumes arrived at Mahoney Library at the end of the spring term, and the library staff has been working diligently to process the collection and make it available [...]

Wilson Web Database Trials

The following databases from H.W. Wilson are available as free trials through the end of May. If you get a chance to evaluate one or more of these databases, please let us know what you think by submitting a reply below this post.
Art Full Text
Database Information: http://www.hwwilson.com/databases/artindex.htm
Reviews: http://www.hwwilson.com/reviews/artFT_review.htm
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Art Museum Image Gallery
Database Information: http://www.hwwilson.com/databases/artmuseum.htm
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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 [...]

Free Database Access for National Library Week

In honor of National Library Week (April 13-19), a few library content vendors are providing free access or open trials to their database products during the week.
Gale will be offering access to Academic OneFile, Gale Virtual Reference Library (online reference books), Literature Criticism Online, Nursing Resource Center, Small Business Resource Center, and several others: http://www.accessmylibrary.com/libraryweek/?grid=05308.
Greenwood will be [...]

Sociology Department: Senior Student Research Exhibit

Sociology poster presentations are currently on display in the Mahoney Library lobby. The posters in this exhibit represent the comprehensive research of four College of Saint Elizabeth senior sociology majors:

Jennifer Del Pesce – “Living Longer: Social Factors Affecting Women as They Age”

Donna Bryda – “The Changing Norms of Mate Selection”

Kelly Shiraldi – “Cyber-bullying: New Generation [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

New Books on Display – Theology, History, Social Sciences & Education

21st Century Sociology Reference Handbook available online

Mahoney Library has recently subscribed to the electronic version of 21st Century Sociology Reference Handbook, from Sage Publishing. This ebook offers an introduction to the many subfields of sociology.
Access 21st Century Sociology via the Encyclopedias & Reference page, through either of the databases pages (A-Z or Subject), or via the CoolCat catalog. Once you are [...]

FRONTLINE Special: Growing Up Online

In Growing Up Online, FRONTLINE takes viewers inside the very public private worlds that kids are creating online, raising important questions about how the Internet is transforming childhood.
The first ‘chapter’ of the program – Living Their Lives Essentially Online – focuses on high school students in Morris County, NJ. Subsequent chapters address topics like cyberbullying, online predators, [...]