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U.S. Census Bureau.
Available online. Printed copy to be added to the library collection.
This annual statistical report "produces the income measures used to calculate the official national estimates of poverty, as well as national estimates of money income and health insurance coverage." A press release covering the highlights of the report is available here.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
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.
Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
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.”
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.
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.
American Academy of Pediatrics.
Available online.
"Although a previous longitudinal study has linked music video consumption and sexual risk behavior, no previous study has tested longitudinal associations between the content of music lyrics and subsequent changes in sexual experience, such as intercourse initiation, nor has any study explored whether exposure to different kinds of portrayals of sex has different effects."
Access will continue through this database, among others.
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.
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.