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ABC-Clio.
Available online.
First published as a three-volume set in 2005, this e-book contains about 200 entries on concepts, terms, personalities, and issues associated with the surge of immigration from the beginning of the 20th century to the present.
Links will be maintained in Annie and in several locations on the library Web site, including here.
New Strategist / NetLibrary.
Available online only.
The fifth edition (2006) of this volume contains detailed estimates and projections of the U.S. population by race and Hispanic origin, the latest socioeconomic data on blacks, Hispanics, and Asian Americans, plus updated information on American Indians. Most data come from U.S. Government sources. This updated edition is an "electronic book" form of a title we previously purchased in paper form.
Links will be maintained in Annie and on several Leyburn Library Web pages, including here.
Southern Political Science Association.
Available online. Printed copy shelved in the Leyburn Library Current Periodicals section.
This article in the August 2006 issue of the Journal of Politics addresses the question "To what degree has the use of television contributed to the increasing importance/value of incumbency in U.S. House of Representatives elections?"
A link will be maintained in Annie.
Please note that W&L students and faculty can opt to have the tables of contents (and complete articles) of new issues of the Journal of Politics automatically delivered to them by RSS feed. If you are interested, please contact Dick Grefe.
Columbia University.
Available online.
The latest updates to the CIAO database (to which W&L has subscribed for several years) include the revised edition of Bruce Hoffman's Inside Terrorism, a working paper on the 50th anniversary of Japan's Liberal Democratic Party, and a number of papers and articles on recent developments in the Middle East.
Links to CIAO are available in several locations in our Web site, including here.
Council of State Governments.
Shelved at the Reference Desk: REF JK 2403.B72 2006
The 2006 edition of this respected annually-published volume provides an overview of issues and events affecting U.S. state governments, including state-by-state data tables, as well as essays on such topics as "State Business Incentives" and "Women in State Governments: Trends and Issues."
Annie has a new procedure for monitoring the books and videos you checked out from Washington and Lee University libraries.
You also can use this list to renew any or all of the checked-out items (with some limitations).
Annie's main menu includes a link to Login to View Your Library Record.
Click on that link and you will be presented with two choices, one of which is "W&L Students, Faculty, and Staff."
To view the list of materials you have checked out:
* Enter your Novell (campus network) username and password. (Please note that this is the recent change in procedure.)
* Click on Login.
* The following screen will include several options in a small blue box, including one headed "[x] Items Currently Checked Out." Click on that link and you can see the list of items we believe you have checked out.
Please note that you can arrange this list by due-date (particularly useful for videos) and to renew materials.
If you have questions, you can contact Dick Grefe.
Religion Newswriters Association.
Available online.
While designed to help print and broadcast journalists, this site is valuable for anyone reseaching the issues relating to religion in government, politics, education, social services, science and other areas of U.S. public life.
A link will be maintained on this University Library page.
New Strategist / NetLibrary.
Available online. Older editions are available in printed form in the library collection.
This e-book is the newest edition of a compilation of data derived from U.S. Government agencies and other sources, with information on U.S. women's education, health, income, and other categories.
A link will be maintained on several library Web pages, including here.
Mexico Institute.
Available online. Printed copy has been ordered.
These "essays explore the social foundations of migrants’ mass entrance into the U.S. public sphere in the spring of 2006... Some Mexican migrants are working to become full members of both U.S. and Mexican societies at the same time, constructing practices of what we could call ‘civic binationality’ that have a great deal to teach us about new forms of immigrant integration into the United States.”
Almost certainly, the most frequently-asked question for our Reference staff is "Do we have this journal?"
If you want to know if you have access to online and/or printed forms of articles in a particular periodical (journal, magazine, newspaper), start with the Periodical Finder on the library home page.
The Periodical Finder will tell you if we have printed volumes (via Annie) and/or if we have access to online issues through one or more subscription databases, as well as letting you know what years/volumes are available.
For more details, see this page.
If you have questions, please contact Dick Grefe.
This page contains all entries posted to New for Politics in August 2006. They are listed from oldest to newest.
July 2006 is the previous archive.
September 2006 is the next archive.
Many more can be found on the main index page or by looking through the archives.