Government Documents

Check out the display in the library's Government Documents section.

While a number of reports may be picked up on participants' blogs from time to time, the Government Printing Office has released first hand accounts from the Middle East war zones that really bring the experience home. Laura Baines highlights these publications in a new library display. Come by and look'em over.







About Battleground Iraq:This gripping journal of a company commander from 2003 to early 2004 in some of the most dangerous areas of post-Hussein Iraq discusses tactics, techniques, and procedures as they evolved in the struggle to maintain order and rebuild the country. The journal tells of the dichotomy of combat operations versus nation building. It vividly captures the stresses of combat and corresponding emotions as they accumulate over time in a combat outfit. It reinforces the ideal of camaraderie among soldiers and deals with the emotional impact of losing friends in battle. Understanding these could prove invaluable to those who courageously serve our nation and will continue to endure them in this and future conflicts.

Digital Collections

Low Country Digital Library

The College of Charleston announces the launch of the Lowcountry Digital Library (LCDL), a collaborative effort to build a digital (online) library with more than 50,000 items drawn from public and private archives in the Lowcountry region of South Carolina. The LCDL will make unique and often rare items more broadly available for free to anyone in the world. Other partners on this project are the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), The Citadel, the Gibbes Museum of Art, the Historic Charleston Foundation, Beaufort County Library and the Charleston County Public Library.
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New Digital Resources

Encyclopedias

International Encyclopedia of Communications. This digital version of the new 12 volume print edition encompasses 1,339 A-Z entries, divided into 29 editorial areas representing major fields of inquiry. Spans the breadth of communication studies, including coverage of theories, media and communication phenomena, research methods, problems, concepts, and geographical areas. Entries range from extended explorations of major
topics to short descriptions of key concepts.

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for occurences of the words "India" and "media" within 7 words of each other in the entire encyclopedia.

Video Feature - Now thru April 30

American History


American History in Video brings you over 400 hours of video with keyword-searchable, synchronized transcripts. As the video plays, the transcript scrolls, and what’s being spoken is highlighted. You can easily make custom clips, name them, and annotate them—then place your clips into personal playlists, include them in course folders to share and post online, cite them in papers, and embed them on your Web site.
I'd really like to hear your opinion about the potential of this resource. The few I've sampled and the searching and capture feature impresses me to this point.

Trial E-Books

ebrary

This is a comprehensive subscription database of digital books and other authoritative materials all derived from academic publishers. Rather than "checking out" a book for exclusive use, any number of students may use it at the same time. Check out the Infotools that are available. Unlike netLibrary you can print multiple pages.

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making the best use of this collection.

New Resource

Humanities E-Book

American Council of Learned Society(ACLS) Humanities E-Books

Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of 2,200 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with fourteen learned societies, nearly 100 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars and featuring unlimited multi-user access.
Scholarly reviews are immediately available for most titles.

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Trial Resource

This resource is a package of fulltext historical titles in which the parts are possibly greater than the whole.

Follow the links to check out the coverage here:


19th century African -American Newspapers-7 titles ranging from 1827 to 1902 including John Russmen's Freedom's Journal and The National Era

The Liberator-1831-1865 William Lloyd Garrison, editor and civil rights crusader

The Pennsylvania Gazette-1728-1800 The New York Times of the 18th century.

The South Carolina Gazette- 1732-1780 A window to the nation's most prosperous colony at the time

Godey's Lady's Book-1830-1889 Earliest publication expressly intended for the entertainment and education of women

All of these in addition to other selective newspaper resources.

Trial runs through Mar. 19, 2009.