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Celebrate Open Dialogue
Williams Library, in conjunction with Alexander Mitchell Library and the
Aberdeen American News is hosting
Closed Doors; Open Democracies?,
a nationwide teleconference, Monday, March 12, 2007, 12:00 - 2:30, in the Student Center,
centennial rooms B &
D. This event is part of Sunshine Week, March 11-17, which focuses on
raising awareness of the importance of open government to everyone in
the community, not just journalists.
This
year’s topic will focus on access to government information, including
the impact of government suppression and manipulation of scientific
information on public health and safety - and accountability. The
dialogue will start with a lively discussion of the issues and end with
ideas for action. This dialogue with government openness experts will
feature video segments and a question-and-answer period, followed by
a local panel
discussion at sites across the country.
 The local panel will include Mike Levsen,
Mayor of Aberdeen; Adam Altman,
Aberdeen City Attorney; Jerome Ferson, Publisher of Aberdeen
American News; Ken Blanchard, NSU Professor of Political Science;
Linda Van De Rostyne, moderator.
Instant Message Your Questions
In need of instant reference help? Williams library now has instant
messaging. Go to the Williams Library homepage and click on
Instant Message
an NSU Librarian to get a quick response to your question.
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Calling All Scientists!
Williams Library has subscribed to three new science databases.
Web of Science
indexes Science
Citation Index Expanded, Social Sciences Citation Index, and Arts &
Humanities Citation Index. Web of Science strives to bring the benefits
of quality and immediacy. A faster development schedule delivers new content and
tools continually throughout each calendar year, ensuring the most
current and innovative resources. Web of Science is a citation index
which uses SFX to search for the full text in other databases.
ScienceDirect offers more than a quarter of the world's scientific,
medical and technical information online. This full-text database has
access to over 2000 peer-reviewed journals, hundreds of book series,
handbooks and reference works. During 2007, ScienceDirect will launch
4000 books online. One search on the easy-to-use platform will show
users all the relevant literature in their subject area.
Scitation has more than one million documents from scholarly journals,
magazines, conference proceedings, and other special publications from
prestigious scientific societies and technical publishers with emphasis
placed on physics, engineering, and mathematics. Though largely made up
of abstracts, Scitation has a lot of full-text content.
New
Series Acquisition
Williams Library has acquired Harold Bloom's Modern Critical
Interpretations for our collection. This 86 volume series features
critical essays reflecting a variety of schools of criticism, notes on
the contributing critics, a chronology of the author's life, and an
introductory essay by Harold Bloom.
Modern Critical Interpretations presents a selection of the best
current criticism on the most widely read and studied poems, novels, and
dramas of the Western world, from timeless classics like Oedipus Rex
and The Iliad to such modern and contemporary works as Ernest
Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea and Gabriel García Márquez's
Love in the Time of Cholera.
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