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Reynolds National Center for Business Journalism / BusinessJournalism.org.
Available online.
A study of 1,400 daily newspapers reveals that "two-thirds of the nation’s 1,400 daily newspapers still print stock market tables in some form, but virtually none offers a complete listing of stock market results." Here is a summary of the report.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press.
Available online.
A "special report" containing discussions of various issues relating to the privatization of public functions and public information. Includes articles, court cases, and a state-by-state guide to laws.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
Pew Research Center.
Available online.
" Pew Research Center consultant Michael Robinson analyzes data from 165 surveys on audience news preferences to examine news interest across decades and describe how the public's news interests have changed -- or not changed -- over different news eras."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
Asian American Journalists Association.
Available online.
"Most members of the Asian American Journalists Association have positive feelings about the work they do, but they worry that media consolidation and newsroom cutbacks will weaken the profession’s commitment to diversity."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page
If you very recently searched Annie, the Washington and Lee University catalog, you may have noticed colorful pictures in your search results.
The “colorful pictures,” such as these, are images of book jackets and video packaging and they are only the most conspicuous of several new features in Annie, available beginning 22 August 2007.
Most of these features are intended to provide you with additional information about the item you are viewing in Annie.
For example, if you click on a book cover or a DVD cover, you may see (depending upon their availability) links to a summary of the book or movie, a larger image of the cover, and sources of reviews. Here is an example.
These summaries and reviews behind the images are not intended as scholarly research resources, but simply as supplementary information for readers and viewers.
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More substantive information may be available through the WebBridge button which accompanies each item in Annie.
Clicking on that button will lead you to several additional services, including:
• Recommended W&L resources – sources for finding additional (and, perhaps, more scholarly) reviews of an item
• More Like This in Annie – one or more recommended Library of Congress Subject Headings for finding additional items within the subject area
• Citation Services – an option to save the item’s citation to your own RefWorks account
• Book Information – possibilities for finding the text of an item online and/or locating another copy in a nearby library
• Faculty Only – an option to place an item on reserve for a course
Other features:
• If an item is already checked out, you will see a Request Item button, which enables you to request that the item be returned for your use, within our circulation policies.
• When you are looking at a particular citation, please feel free to use the Get Help via Email and Get Help via Instant Messaging links on the right side of the screen. We don’t guarantee an immediate response, but we will get back to you as quickly as we can.
• You can use the Save to List button to copy an item’s citation to a list of items in which you are interested. Once you have clicked on this button at least once, you then will be able to see and use a View List option near the top of the Annie screen. (Note: This list will disappear once your Annie session is concluded.)
If you have questions or problems, you can contact David Badertscher (x8657), Head of Technical Services.
The W&L University Library and Law Library are working together to purchase an online collection of all U.S. Congressional hearings dating from 1824 to 1979.
The LexisNexis Congressional Hearings Digital Collection is a work-in-progress, with over 10,000 titles available thus far. The publisher is scanning and indexing documents, working backwards in time from 1979. The project is now entering the early 1970's and, thus, recently added quite a few Watergate-related materials.
Every item in this Digital Collection of hearings will include "official" forms of all hearing documents in PDF format. The full collection should be completed in 2009.
Here is our gateway page for this collection.
You should note that this link includes access not only to the 1824-1979 collection, but also to the more current, but less complete, collection of hearings dated 1980-to-date available through our LexisNexis Congressional subscription.
Congressional Quarterly Press.
Available online. W&L subscription.
Profiles of hundreds of PAC's (political action committees) -- history, membership and listings of all other affiliate PAC's, contact information, and detailed financial data. This online subscription replaces the standing order we have had for the printed volumes.
Links will be maintained in various locations in our Web site, including here.
Here are some of the online reference books the W&L University Library recently added to its collection:
Encyclopedia of American Indian History
Historical Dictionary of the Arab-Israeli Conflict
Historical Dictionary of Pakistan (3rd ed.)
African Biographical Dictionary (2nd ed.)
These books are listed in Annie and on various pages in the library's Web site, including course research pages. W&L students and faculty can use them from any location where they can log into to the computing network, whether on campus or elsewhere.
Greenwood.
Available only in printed form in our collection.
You can read more about this set in the publisher's Web site.
The University Library continues to develop its online collection of reference electronic books ("e-books"). These books are listed in Annie and in various pages in the library's Web site. W&L students and faculty can use them from any location where they can log into to the computing network, whether on campus or elsewhere.
The following are examples of recently-acquired titles which might be of interest:
America's Founding Charters: Primary Documents of Colonial and Revolutionary Era Governance (3 volumes)
Joan Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy, Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.
Available online. Printed copy to be added to the collection.
"Based on a national sample survey of 1800 Americans that included teens (ages 12-17), young adults (ages 18-30), and older adults. The sample is noteworthy for its inclusion of teenage respondents, who’ve seldom been polled nationally on their news habits. Although some observers claim that 9/11 and the Iraq conflict have sparked unusually high levels of interest in current affairs among the upcoming generation of citizens, the survey does not support the claim, at least in the context of attention to daily news coverage..."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
We recently added some biographical databases of elected officials to the Leyburn Library Web site.
The National Governors Association has created a database of current and former U.S. governors. (A link is available on several of our pages, including here.)
And the U.S. Conference Mayors has a similar database of current U.S. mayors. (One of our links is on this page.)
In addition, the official Biographical Directory of the U.S. Congress has been updated to include the most recent arrivals. (We have a link to that directory on this page, among others.)
Committee of Concerned Journalists.
Available online.
Database of "ideas, strategies and techniques" for practicing journalists and students. Use the "View by Topic" drop-down menu on the right side of the page to see recommendations for "Interviewing," "Statistics and Numbers," and more. From the Committee of Concerned Journalists.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.