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Urban Institute.
Available online.
"The number of U.S. immigrants has more than tripled over the past 35 years, as has the number of children with immigrant parents... This report assesses how the changing demographics of the low-income child population are affecting child and family policies in the United States."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
World Bank.
Available online. Printed copy on order.
This latest annual edition focuses on youth, aged 12 to 24, emphasizing five "phases" -- learning, starting to work, developing a healthful lifestyle, beginning a family, and exercising citizenship.
Scan down the opening page to access individual chapters, including the final one, "Selected Indicators," an annual compilation which is an invaluable source of social and economic data on the world's countries. (Leyburn Library also will receive a more comprehensive form of these indicators in CD-ROM and printed forms.)
Leyburn Library.
Available online.
This is a list of new books on poverty (published since 2005) which are available in Leyburn Library.
By necessity, this list is not comprehensive -- not every recent book which deals with poverty-related issues is included -- but it does include those books which are basically focused on poverty.
We will maintain a link to this list on this library Web page.
Intelligence Research, Ltd.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
News and analysis on contemporary Latin America, published since 1967. The database, which appears to be updated on Tuesdays, is pretty simple to navigate and use. The one possible stumbling block might be the fact that our account allows only one W& user at a time to be logged in to the database -- other logins will be blocked. To avoid this becoming a problem, please remember to log out when you have finished a session.
Links will be maintained in Annie and in several places in the library Web site, such as here.
Cambridge University Press.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
Published in 2006 as a five-volume set, HSUS is a database of over 37,000 data series (statistical categories) from U.S. and Colonial history. The database also contains extensive essays on the measurements of U.S. history. Data are available as published tables, spreadsheet files (Excel), PDF documents, and custom graphs or charts. This is the first update -- and major expansion -- of a two-volume set published by the U.S. Census Bureau in 1976.
The search and display functions of this database take a while to get used to, so if you have any questions, please let me know.
Links will be maintained in several location in our Web site, including here.
This is a reminder that Leyburn Library maintains a subscription to the online Oxford English Dictionary, almost certainly the most important modern English-language dictionary.
Unlike the set-in-stone printed OED, the online form is updated several times a year and Oxford University Press always releases lists of new (newly-acceptable) words and new meanings. The latest additions include, among others:
bling
Lollywood
bada-bing
drive-by
offshoring
liposculpture
If you should want to check on any of these, or other terms, here is our link to the Oxford English Dictionary.
You might notice that the opening screen includes a link to New Words.
University of California Press / NetLibrary.
Available online.
Leyburn Library has purchased access to the electronic book (e-book) form of the second edition of John Iceland's valuable overview of poverty in the United States. The library also has a printed copy of the first edition.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
Career Education Institutes.
Available online.
Online access to internship opportunities through over 2,500 organizations, divided into a dozen or more topical guides, such as Community and Social Service Agencies and "Green" organizations.
Links are maintained on several library Web site pages, including here.