Category: Research Resources

We Need Your Help

By eyoung

We would like your feedback on our trial of the electronic resource CQ Global Researcher.  After you have given it a test run, please come back and let us know what you think.  Our feedback form is simple, and will take you less than 5 minutes to complete. Modeled after the award-winning CQ Researcher, CQ Global Researcher provides . . .Continue reading We Need Your Help

Listen to The Writer’s Almanac for your health

By eyoung

There is about a moment at 11AM on weekdays during which the speed of time is clocked slow, a second equalling a minute, so that a single piano intro to a public radio spot called The Writer’s Almanac can enter your morning via the crack between seconds. Garrison Keillor‘s voice has the effect of a soporific, teasing the duty-bound . . .Continue reading Listen to The Writer’s Almanac for your health

Things You Will Find in International Studies Compendium.

By Steve

Sponsored by the International Studies Association and subscribed to by Furman University Libraries. With a title like this you might expect to find sections on  Diplomatic Studies and International Political Economy, both of which include 10 to 20 articles that cover specific sub areas. But you might not expect to find some of the other . . .Continue reading Things You Will Find in International Studies Compendium.

Alligators, duels, and the legal weird

By eyoung

  There are some laws that seem really annoying. Come on, admit it: you secretly hope that law about using a cell phone and driving isn’t passed in South Carolina. I mean, yeah, it’s dangerous, you say, but it’s one of those necessary evils of the busy lifestyle…right? image from http://oxfambookspetergateyork.wordpress.com If you think some laws passed these . . .Continue reading Alligators, duels, and the legal weird

Newly Discovered Post-JFK Assassination Tape Recording

By eyoung

Image from AP Multimedia Today the National Archives announced that The Raab Collection, which deals in historical autographs, has donated to the National Archives an original audiotape recording described as “Radio Traffic involving AF-1 in flight from Dallas, TX, to Andrews AFB on November 22, 1963.” A digitized version of the two-hour-and-twenty-two minute recording is . . .Continue reading Newly Discovered Post-JFK Assassination Tape Recording

LION Adds Cambridge Literature Companions

By Steve

LION(Literature Online) has added 51 Volumes of the Cambridge Companions to Literature series.The Companions to Literature is a highly valued series of volumes on a whole range of literary themes, periods, writers and movements. Each volume is edited by a leading scholar in the field and presents specially-commissioned essays written by experts. Browse through the . . .Continue reading LION Adds Cambridge Literature Companions