What’s New at Schaffer Library

ARTstor and the School of Architecture at the University of Texas at Austin have collaborated to share more than 5,700 images from the Hal Box and Logan Wagner Collection of Mexican Architecture and Urban Design. This collection richly documents outdoor communal spaces in Mexico, including Pre-Columbian sites, as well as buildings and public spaces from the 16th through 20th centuries.

Hal Box, a practicing architect, studied and documented the 16th to 17th century open air churches of Mexico under the auspices of Earthwatch, with additional funding from the Graham Foundation, the University Research Institute, and the University of Texas Institute for Latin American Studies. Logan Wagner, a native of Mexico and an architect-builder with degrees in anthropology, architecture, and a Ph.D. in Latin American Studies, led the field work for twelve summers. Box, Wagner, and volunteer groups carried out photographic documentation of open air churches and other civic spaces in the states of Morelos, Mexico, Michoacán, Yucatan, Quinatna Roo, and Hidalgo.

To view the Hal Box and Logan Wagner: Mexican Architecture and Urban Design (University of Texas at Austin) collection: go to the ARTstor Digital Library, browse by collection, and click “Hal Box and Logan Wagner: Mexican Architecture and Urban Design (University of Texas at Austin).” Or search the keywords: box wagner.

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For more detailed information about this collection, visit the Hal Box and Logan Wagner: Mexican Architecture and Urban Design (University of Texas at Austin) collection page.

Just one of several new titles from the ABC-CLIO’s “Ethnic Diversity Within Nations” series now available on CREDO reference.

From Canada’s profound racism in the 19th and early 20th centuries to its radical shift in immigration policy in the 1960s, this one-of-a-kind reference explores the past 1,000 years of ethnicity in Canada.

During World War II thousands of Japanese immigrants were incarcerated in prison camps; yet in the 1980s Asian immigrants outnumbered Europeans 6:1. What caused this turnaround in immigration policy? How did one of the most racist nations in the world become one of the most welcoming?

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HSDL Critical Releases in Homeland Security [July 2009]

Every two weeks, the Homeland Security Digital Library identifies “Critical Releases in Homeland Security,” a targeted collection of recently-released documents of particular interest or potential importance. [Login to the HSDL required to open documents.*]

AVMA Emergency Preparedness and Response
American Veterinary Medical Association

Persistence of Racial and Ethnic Profiling in the United States: A Follow-Up Report to the U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination
American Civil Liberties Union; Rights Working Group

Progress toward Security and Stability in Afghanistan: June 2009 Report to Congress in Accordance with the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act (Section 1230, Public Law 110-181)
United States. Dept. of Defense

Security at the Edge — Protecting Mobile Computing Devices
National Association of State Chief Information Officers

U.S. Immigration Policy
Council on Foreign Relations

Unclassified Report on the President’s Surveillance Program
United States. Dept. of Justice. Office of the Inspector General; United States. Central Intelligence Agency. Office of Inspector General; United States. Office of the Director of National Intelligence. Office of the Inspector General; United States. Dept. of Defense. Office of the Inspector General; United States. National Security Agency. Office of Inspector General

New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

Considered the “definitive resource for a new generation of economists,” Palgrave Macmillan published The New Palgrave
Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition in 2008; edited by Steven N. Durlauf and Lawrence E. Blume.
While some classic articles from the 1987 were retained, around 80% of the text was either entirely new or substantially rewritten to reflect the depth of change within the discipline between the editions.
“This new edition retains the inspiring tradition of bringing together the world’s most influential economists writing in their own voice on their areas of expertise, but in its online incarnation it has married this tradition with the benefits of a dynamic, updated resource serving the information needs of a new generation of economists.”
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