National Urban League.
Shelved in the Reference collection: REF E 185.5.N317 2006
Annual overview of the "issues central to Black America in the current year, covering such issues as healthcare disparities, jobs, homeownership, children's issues, and the effects of Hurricane Katrina. Significant statistical data is also included. Abstracts of the articles are available online, from this page.
BowArrow Publishing Company.
Shelved in the Reference collection: REF E 93.T55 2005
Subtitled Economic Profiles of American Indian Reservations, this volume contains contemporary profiles of each of "the 562 federally recognized tribes in the United States, including population, location and geography, cultural and historical profiles, government, economic development, education, environmental concerns and much more."
Additional descriptive information is available from the publisher.
Greenwood.
Available online only.
Part of the three-part set Sex and Sexuality (Greenwood, 2006), this volume offers an overview of recent trends and developments, providing a summary of the sociocultural determinants of sexual practices and of sexual development through the lifespan. Topics include sexual orientation and sexual behavior in the U.S.
Other volumes in the series cover sexual (dys)function and sexual deviation and offenses.
Links will be maintained on several Leyburn Library Web pages, including here.
Leyburn Library subscribes to Project Muse, a database containing the complete texts of articles from over 300 scholarly journals in the social sciences, humanities, and arts. A list of the journals is here.
You now can receive automatic updates -- with complete online access to all articles -- whenever new issues of journals of your choosing are available. For example: Social Forces and Anthropological Quarterly.
These updates are delivered by RSS feeds, which you can view in your own "RSS Reader," which saves all your chosen updates in a database, completely separate from e-mail.
An RSS reader also can used to receive automatic updates from various sections of the New York Times, some government agencies, and from lots of other Web sites.
Please let me know if you have questions or if you would like me to help you set up an RSS reader.
Freedom House Europe.
Available online. Printed copy ordered.
"A comprehensive, comparative, multidimensional study measuring progress and setbacks in democratization in 27 countries from Central Europe to the Eurasian region of the Former Soviet Union."
Links will be maintained on several Leyburn Library pages, including here.
Sage/Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.
Five-volume set, published in 2006, contains about 1,000 signed entries that "focus on topics in physical/biological anthropology, archaeology, cultural/social anthropology, linguistics, and applied anthropology. Also included are relevant articles on geology, paleontology, biology, evolution, sociology, psychology, philosophy, and theology. "
Links will be maintained in Annie and on several Leyburn Library Web pages, including here.
Gale/Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.
Provides brief biographical and career details on more than 20,000 contemporary African Americans, including leaders from sports, the arts, business, religion, etc. (19th edition, 2006)
Links will be maintained in Annie and on several Leyburn Library Web site pages, including here.
Institute on Women and Criminal Justice.
Available online. Printed copy ordered for the collection.
"An in-depth look at female prison population growth patterns and regional trends, and it provides the first state-by-state analysis of female imprisonment from 1977 to 2004, with findings from all 50 states."
A link will be maintained on this Leyburn Library here.
The old "New for Journalism, Politics, and Sociology" blog, is still available from here.