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ABC-Clio.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
This 2006 volume contains signed essays on foreign policy-related issues on each U.S. president, from Washington to George W. Bush. It also includes primary source documents and chronologies.
Links will be maintained in several locations on the library Web site, including here.
RAND Corporation.
Available online. Printed copy ordered.
“The United States has provided assistance to the security forces of a number of repressive states that do not share its political ideals. This practice raises several questions, the answers to which have significant policy implications... This study addresses these questions by examining the results of U.S. assistance to four states: El Salvador, Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, and Pakistan.”
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
Would you like to be notified each time a new book (or video or other material) on a particular subject or by a particular author is added to W&L library collections?
You now can set up Annie (the W&L library catalog) to e-mail you whenever one or more items with required characteristics are added to the catalog.
Not surprisingly, this is a multi-step process, which begins with you logging into your Annie account:
(1) Start at the main Annie menu.
(2) Choose Login to View Your Library Record.
(3) Enter your campus network ID and password.
(4) On the next page, select the "Search the Catalog" option.
(5) Execute any "successful" search in Annie -- any search in which you get the results you want.
On the results page, you should see a gray "Save as Preferred Search" button near the top of the screen (to the right of the search terms). Click on that button.
(6) Click on the blue "Your Record" near the top of the page.
(7) On the subsequent page, click on the "Preferred Searches" option.
(8) The next page will present a list of the Preferred Searches you have set up. To "activate" a search, click on the approporate "Mark for Email" box(es) and then click on the "Updated List" button.
You can save and delete searches as you wish.
As new items are added to the library collection (and Annie), you will receive an e-mail which begins "The W&L libraries have recently added material to the collection that may be of interest to you..." and includes a link to information about each item.
If you have questions about this process, please contact Dick Grefe.
The official U.S. Government Web portal -- the gateway to tens of millions of Web pages from hundreds of government agencies -- has a new name: USA.gov.
Interestingly, one of the reasons they changed the name is that they found that searchers had tried (vainly) the search term "usa.gov" over 600,000 times in one year. (Using that logic, maybe they should have changed the title to "paris hilton.")
Links are maintained in several locations in the library Web site, including here.
U.S. Congressional Research Service.
Available online.
"The main body of this report is a series of tables and an appendix that summarize and cite bill language that was intended to end or restrict U.S. military operations in Indochina between 1970 and 1973, in Somalia in 1993, and in Kosovo in 1999. The report covers enacted provisions or those where there were roll call votes but the provision was not ultimately enacted. The first table outlines proposals that restrict funding and the second table describes other types of restrictions."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
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