Author: Kitty

October 30, 2007

Have the Chronicle of Higher Education Delivered to Your Desktop

Keep up-to-date with the latest news in higher education by setting up an alert to the Chronicle of Higher Education. With Chronicle Alerts, you can get a digest of events...

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October 7, 2007

Checking Political Facts with FactCheck.org

FactCheck.org, a non-profit, non-partisan website sponsored by the Annenberg Institute, is setting the standard for exposing deception and documenting the facts behind political speeches, ads, debates, interviews, and press releases....

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June 7, 2007

June NetLibrary e-book of the Month

“Check out” this e-book, available through NetLibrary until the end of June.

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May 30, 2007

LexisNexis is now available!

Cannell Library now has access to LexisNexis, a powerful database that provides access to a wide range of authoritative sources, including world-wide news, business, financial, and legal research tools (such...

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May 18, 2007

Welcome CLAMS!

On May 17 and 18th Cannell Library hosted the annual conference for CLAMS, College Library and Media Specialists of Washington. The Librarians held an information session on serving distance learners,...

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May 14, 2007

May NetLibrary e-Book of the Month

“Check out” this e-book, available through NetLibrary until the end of May.

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May 7, 2007

Grokking in EBSCOhost

    Next time you need an article, try the Visual Search feature available in the EBSCOhost databases. Instead of a list of articles, you’ll get a “grokked” set, like...

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April 18, 2007

Polling the Nations

Looking for opinion polls? This database has it 14,ooo, from 1986 to the present. From AARP to Global Warming to Zyuganov, Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, Harris Polls, Pew, ABC, CBN and...

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April 17, 2007

New IT e-books added

The library just added 33 new full-text e-books to the library’s IT-Pro (information technology) Collection. These books, and hundreds of others, appear in the library’s book catalog, or you can...

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April 16, 2007

Trial Databases

Cannell Librarians are always testing new databases, and you can too. The Trial Databases page lists database titles that are currently available for testing, usually for two weeks to a...

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