Janet Clarke

Latino Writing Collections

Trial access is available until October 15th to three collections of Latino Writing. The collections include poetry, short stories, folk tales, novels, memoirs, non-fiction, and plays in both Spanish and English from Latino writers around the world. They are made available in celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month by Alexander Street

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Free Workshop: You’ve Been Cited! on Sept. 21

In this workshop, learn how to: • Find who is citing your work• Calculate your H-index, a measure of scientific productivity and impact• Find journal impact factors and learn what that number represents• Set up citation alerts and find cited reference data using the Web of Science Date: Monday, September

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Check out the Melville Library on Sept. 16 @ 6 PM

Take a tour of the Melville Library’s main public service areas. Learn about our collections and services and get some freebies while you’re here. Meet us @ the Central Reading Room, Melville Library. All tours run about 30 minutes. Sign up for the tour.

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Research Skills for Non-Traditional Students Workshop

Been out of school for a while and feeling lost?Do you have students who seem anxious about the research process?Working and going to school, and pressed for the time needed to do research? The library is offering a free workshop to help! Learn how to: start researching a subject, access

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Hotter Than That: The Trumpet, Jazz & American Culture

Hotter than That: The Trumpet, Jazz, and American Culture featuring Krin Gabbard, Professor of Comparative Literature and English. Hotter Than That, the latest book by Krin Gabbard, Professor of Comparative Literature and English, is a cultural history of the trumpet from its origins in ancient Egypt to its role in

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Take a Tour of the Library!

Take a tour of the Melville Library’s main public service areas. Learn about our collections and services and get some freebies while you’re here. Meet us @ the Central Reading Room, Melville Library. All tours run about 30 minutes. Friday, September 4 @ 12 PM Thursday, September 10 @ 2

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Fall 2009 Library Workshops List Available

Featured workshops for Fall 2009 include: Library Tips for Freshmen Library Tips & Tools for Mac Users Research Resources for Graduate Students in History Empower Your Browser with Zotero SciFinder Web The Mysteries of Microfilm Revealed! Research Skills for Graduate Level Education and Teaching Research Skills for Comparative Literary &

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GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources)

GREENR focuses on the academic study of sustainability and the environment. Both interactive and current, GREENR allows users to navigate issue, organization and country portals. This resource provides news, background information, video, unique commentaries, primary source documents and statistics in the categories of energy systems, healthcare, food, climate change, population,

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GSS 1972-2008 Cumulative Data File now Available

The 1972-2008 GSS cumulative data file for the National Opinion Research Center’s General Social Surveys (GSS) is now available from the Roper Center for Public Opinion Research via RoperExpress immediate download. The newly released data file contains individual response coding for 53,043 respondents and 5,364 variables. The questionnaire contains a

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