Leyburn Library of Washington and Lee University is a selective Depository for U.S. Government information.
Listed below are some of the new items available through our Web site and/or on our shelves. If you have questions or comments about this blog, please contact Dick Grefe.
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U.S. State Department.
Available online. Printed copy to be added to the collection.
Annual report "describes the status of religious freedom in each foreign country, government policies violating religious belief and practices of groups, religious denominations, and individuals, and U.S. policies to promote religious freedom around the world."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
U.S. National Center for Education Statistics.
Available online.
"This report profiles current conditions and recent trends in the education of minority students. It presents a selection of indicators that illustrate the educational achievement and attainment of Hispanic, Black, American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian, and Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander students compared with each other and with White students."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
U.S. National Institute of Justice.
Available online. Printed copy to be added to the collection.
"This study identified how many women in the United States and in college settings have ever been raped or sexually assaulted during their lifetime and within the past year, key case characteristics of drug-facilitated and forcible rapes and, factors that affected women's reporting of rape to police or seeking help from a support network; and it compared different types of rape."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
U.S. Centers for Disease Control.
Available online.
This statistical report, first published in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, finds that, "from 2003 to 2004, suicide rates for three sex-age groups (i.e., females aged 10--14 years and 15--19 years and males aged 15--19 years) departed upward significantly from otherwise declining trends."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.