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Pew Research Center for the People and the Press.
Available online.
Results of a survey of "Americans between the ages of 18 and 25 years old" on four general topic areas -- Outlook and World View, Technology and Lifestyle, Politics and Policy, and Values and Social Issues.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
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.
Gale.
Available online. (W&L subscription)
A 2006 collection of about 200 documents, including "speeches, magazine and newspaper articles, memoirs, letters, interviews, novels, essays, and much more," on gender and sexuality during the last three centuries.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.
U.S. Commission on Civil Rights.
Available online.
"A panel of experts briefed members of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the putative benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in elementary and secondary education. Four experts presented written statements to the Commissioners that assessed the social science literature on this issue. They also addressed whether or not racial and ethnic diversity in public schools should be mandated by the state and whether the net benefits of state-mandated diversity are different from the benefits that this diversity may yield when achieved through purely voluntary behavior. The experts also presented a number of studies to the Commission assessing the putative educational and social benefits of racial and ethnic diversity in elementary and secondary education." Dissenting viewpoints are also presented.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.
U.S. Public Health Service / Guttmacher Institute.
Available online. Printed copy to be added to the collection.
This study "uses data from several rounds of the Federal National Survey of Family Growth to examine sexual behavior before marriage, and how it has changed over time. The vast majority of Americans have sex before marriage, including those who abstained from sex during their teenage years. Further, contrary to the public perception that premarital sex is much more common now than in the past, the study shows that even among women who were born in the 1940s, nearly nine in 10 had sex before marriage."