Homelessness Counts
National Alliance to End Homelessness.
Available online.
Statistical report described as "the first effort to count homeless people nationwide in 10 years."
A printed copy is being added to the library collection.
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National Alliance to End Homelessness.
Available online.
Statistical report described as "the first effort to count homeless people nationwide in 10 years."
A printed copy is being added to the library collection.
National Alliance to End Homelessness.
Available online.
"Because homelessness is complex, it is often difficult for the media to cover the issue with the background and nuance necessary to capture the full picture, particularly for stories that are time sensitive... This guide aims to streamline this process by providing context and reliable sources for reporters to access quickly."
A printed copy is being added to the collection.
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.
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.
U.S. Conference of Mayors.
Available online.
"Highlights of the survey show that overall requests for emergency food assistance increased by an average of seven percent over the last year, with 74 percent of the survey cities registering an increase. Additionally, 100 percent of the survey cities reported that families and individuals relied on emergency food assistance facilities both in emergencies and as a steady source of food over long periods of time."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
Brookings Institution.
Available online.
Cases of civil conflict "beg an overarching question: is there a significant and demonstrable link between income poverty and the risk that a country will slide into civil war? Could U.S. foreign policy benefit from greater emphasis on promoting economic growth and alleviating poverty? The answers to these questions bear directly on several current challenges to U.S. national security from the Middle East to South Asia and Africa."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
U.S. Census Bureau.
Available online.
The Small Area and Income Poverty Estimates (SAIPE) program has released 2004 estimates of poverty in U.S. states, counties, and school districts. See the options for "State & county data" and "School district data" under "Create Tables."
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.