Posted on June 30th, 2009 by janestrudwick
FAU Libraries is excited to announce our first LibGuide to coincide with Blink, the
Freshman Reading Experience.
A LibGuide is like having a librarian in your back pocket with superabundant tips and suggestions to improve your research! On these pages you will find interesting tidbits about author, Malcolm Gladwell, an informative bibliography, videos, and MOST importantly [...]
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Posted on June 29th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of June 29, 2009
News Item: Mass protests have taken place in Iran since the June 12th presidential election in which incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quickly determined the winner of over 62 percent of the vote by the Interior Ministry. This came as a shock to many who believed that one of the [...]
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Posted on June 26th, 2009 by janestrudwick
New theater databases Asian American Drama, North American Women’s Drama, and Black Drama-Second Edition highlight collections of narratives from America’s minority groups; read full texts of plays, find information about playwrights and productions, and browse playbills and other related ephemera. Theatre in Video, containing more than 250 performances of the world’s leading plays, delivers the true [...]
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Posted on June 22nd, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of June 22, 2009
News Item: Forty years ago on June 28, 1969, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement was born after police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, New York. A riot ensued and, according to the New York Times, thirteen people were arrested among the [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of June 15, 2009
News Item: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has officially recognized element 112. This super-heavy element, which was first produced in 1996, is 277 times heaver than hydrogen and has been temporarily named, “ununbium.” It sits to the right of Roentgenium (Rg) and below Mercury (Hg) in the periodic [...]
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Posted on June 15th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of June 15, 2009
News Item: Annelies Marie Frank was born eighty years ago on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. At the age of 13, she was given a diary which she used to detail her life in the Netherlands where the Frank family had fled shortly after Adolf Hitler and the [...]
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Posted on June 12th, 2009 by eleanorlomax
SciFinder now available on the Web!
SciFinder provides scientists with web access to the most comprehensive scientific information available. The new web version of SciFinder has a majority of features found in today’s SciFinder Scholar product plus several brand new capabilities never before available to the academic community.
All users must first register via the FAU Libraries. [...]
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Posted on June 11th, 2009 by janestrudwick
New features have been added to the Gale products, including popular databases Academic Onefile, Business and Company Resource Center, RDS Business Reference Suite and General Reference File. For a complete list of the library’s Gale databases and descriptions see the Gale Databases page.
The most noticeable change is the new look of the PowerSearch platform, which [...]
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Posted on June 8th, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of June 8, 2009
News Item: June 4th marked the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of students and other pro-democracy demonstrators who had sought political, social, and economic reforms against the Chinese government. Although similar events had taken place throughout China, media coverage was spotlighted in Beijing with over a million people participating. [...]
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Posted on June 1st, 2009 by MarisHayashi
Week of June 1, 2009
News Item: President Barack Obama recently nominated Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice David H. Souter who is retiring in June from the Supreme Court. If approved by the Senate, Sotomayor will become the third woman and only the first Latina to serve on the nation’s highest court. Sotomayor, a self-described [...]
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