Researching the Iranian Revolution of 1979?

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Researching the Iranian Revolution of 1979 in conjunction with Persepolis? The top three Library sources, recommended for this assignment are: Gale Virtual Reference Collection – For background information, including who, what and why. Biography in Context – For short biographies on key … Continued

Newsbank Updates

The library’s fleet of global newspapers from vendor, Newsbank, just got an upgrade, including: More limiters (over on the left) Adapt/tweak search after pressing the search button and eyeing the results The ‘cite’ now button is more prominent   Newsbank … Continued

World Newsreels (4 countries) – Trial

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Motivation Third form Hum. Student: “This NBC newsreel about Sputnik is from the U.S. Doesn’t the library have one from Russia that I could watch?” Me: “uhhhhhhhhh”   And while not Russian, library vendor Alexander Street Press, did recently release … Continued

Updates! – Introduction to Islam – Research Guide

What new things will you find?  Access World News – a library purchased collection of international news sources Access to the NewYorkTimes.com SPS site license Access to a trial to library-vendor, Ebsco’s, new offering: Arab World Research Source Questions?  Comments? … Continued