New for Sociology and Anthropology

RAND Corporation.
Available online.
"In 2006, the New York City Police Department (NYPD) stopped a half-million pedestrians for suspected criminal involvement. Raw statistics for these encounters suggest large racial disparities — 89 percent of the stops involved nonwhites. Do these statistics point to racial bias in police officers’ decisions to stop particular pedestrians?"
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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Oxford University Press.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Multifaceted, ever-growing database contains "over 3,000 A-Z reference entries, chapters from scholarly and introductory works, Qur'anic materials, primary sources, images, and timelines." Includes Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World, the Oxford History of Islam, and other significant works.
Links will be maintained in several locations in our Web site, including here.

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National Survey of Student Engagement / Indiana University.
Available online.   Printed copy to be added to the collection.
Based on information from about 313,000 randomly selected firstyear and senior students at 610 four-year colleges and universities in the U.S. and Canada... Now in its eighth year, the survey findings annually provide comparative standards for determining how effectively colleges are contributing to learning. Five key areas of educational performance are measured: 1) level of academic challenge, 2) active and collaborative learning, 3) student-faculty interaction, 4) enriching educational experiences, and 5) supportive campus environment.

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Members of the Washington and Lee University community -- faculty, students, and staff -- now may check out Reference materials and bound periodical volumes from the Leyburn Library and Telford Library collections.

These items can be checked out through "normal" circulation procedures, with proper identification at our Circulation Desks, but for a period of no more than 24 hours.

No renewals or holds are allowed.

If you have questions about how this works, please contact a Reference librarian or Elizabeth Teaff, our Access Services Manager.

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Sage / Gale Virtual Reference Library.
Available online.   (W&L subscription)
Two-volume set (2006) provides an overview of modern sociology, including assessment of about 100 specialty fields, four distinct phases of development in the history of sociological inquiry, various traditional sub-fields (such as political sociology), and evolving new sub-fields.
A link will be maintained on this library Web page.

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