What’s New at Schaffer Library

New Survey from Pew: War in Gaza Quickly Shifts News

From the Survey:

A bloody new chapter in the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians dramatically shifted the news agenda from domestic to foreign crises, dominating media attention in an otherwise crowded week of news.

The Gaza fighting between Israel and Hamas, which escalated from aerial warfare to fierce ground fighting, accounted for 21% of the newshole from Dec. 29-Jan. 4, according to the weekly News Coverage Index from the Pew Research Center’s Project for Excellence in Journalism.

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Lion now offers more than 65 volumes of poetry from Faber and Faber Ltd.

In addition to the Faber titles already covered in Literature Online
(including notable works by T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Sylvia
Plath, Ted Hughes, and Paul Muldoon), this extended agreement
includes the poetry of W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin, previously
unavailable in electronic form. Also added are Nobel prize-winner
Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf, T. S. Eliot’s early poetry,
and more recently published material.

The Latest News

Check out the historic headlines from around the world:http://obama2008.s3.amazonaws.com/headlines.html . It takes a few moments to fully load.

Also try the libray’s subscription to LibraryPressDisplay.com. Browse by country, language, date.

1960: Kennedy elected

Senator John F. Kennedy was elected the 35th President of the United States today, the youngest president to be elected in the nation’s history. At the age of 43, the Democratic candidate received 56.5 percent of the electoral votes, defeating Republican nominee and Vice President Richard M. Nixon. Kennedy was also the first and only Roman Catholic to be elected to the nation’s presidential office. More from the Daily Perspective

The library is currently trialing two databases from EBSCOhost:

LGBT Life with Full Text

Gender Studies Database

More info on all trials and new products