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McGraw-Hill Upgrades Harrison’s Online Resource Targeting Medical Professionals

McGraw-Hill Upgrades Harrison’s Online Resource Targeting Medical Professionals NEW YORKMcGraw-Hill Medical Publishing, a unit of McGraw-Hill Professional, has unveiled the new Harrison’s Online version 3.0, providing clinicians, students and information managers the immediate and important answers they need in their daily work. Building on the preeminent industry standard with the content of the new 16th […]

December 29, 2004

Community Colleges

Riley House Receives Collection of Abolitionist Papers

Riley House Receives Collection of Abolitionist PapersTALLAHASSEE, Fla. The John G. Riley Center/ Museum of African American History and Culture formally received a nationally significant collection of Black abolitionist papers last month at Tallahassee Community College Library. The collection, which will be housed at Tallahassee Community College (TCC), contains documents including editorials, sermons, speeches, letters […]

October 6, 2004

University of Kansas Doctoral Student Researches ‘Dean Of African American Painters’

University of Kansas Doctoral Student Researches ‘Dean Of African American Painters’LAWRENCE, Kan.A University of Kansas doctoral student is unraveling the story of Aaron Douglas, the Kansas-born artist who was known as “the dean of African-American painters” in the 1920s and 1930s. Douglas died at age 79 in 1979 in Nashville, Tenn., where he had taught […]

September 22, 2004

Xavier Buildings Added to National Register of Historic Places

Xavier Buildings Added to National Register of Historic PlacesNEW ORLEANSXavier University of Louisiana’s Landmark Administration Building and the original library (now the music department building) have been added to the National Register of Historic Places.Established by Congress in 1966, the National Register is the nation’s official list of significant historic properties, buildings, structures, objects and […]

July 28, 2004

Academic Coalition Opposes Move to Extend Wiretap Law

Academic Coalition Opposes Move to Extend Wiretap Law WASHINGTONA coalition of higher education and library associations last month filed a comment with the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) declaring opposition to a U.S. Department of Justice attempt to bring all broadband access to the Internet within the scope of the Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act […]

May 5, 2004

Events

EventsAPRILApril 25-27Symposium for the Recruitment and Retention of Students of Color7th Annual Symposium“Connecting the Circle: Recruitment, Retention and Graduation”Embassy Suites KCI HotelKansas City, Mo. Contact: Robert N. Page Jr.Phone: (785) 864-4351Web: www.ku.edu/~oma/symposiumApril 29-May 2National Multicultural Institute Annual National Conference“Diversity and Coalition Building in Times of Crisis: At Home and Abroad”Hyatt Regency BethesdaBethesda, Md.Web: www.nmci.orgMAYMay 4NACME […]

April 21, 2004

When it Pays to Pay for Research

When it Pays to Pay for ResearchThere comes a time when one asks even of Yahoo, even of Google, “Is this all?” Yahoo and Google do an admirable job of categorizing the Internet and making its contents more accessible. But ultimately they’re search tools, not research tools. There’s a great deal of information not on […]

April 21, 2004

Technology-Based Collaboration to Aid Iraqi Libraries

Technology-Based Collaboration to Aid Iraqi LibrariesBOSTON Responding to the devastating effects of war on Iraqi libraries, the Simmons College Graduate School of Library and Information Science and the Harvard University library system are collaborating to provide training for Iraqi librarians and archivists. The program will aid in modernizing Iraqi libraries and help to address Iraq’s […]

April 7, 2004

Emory University Acquires Carter G. Woodson Archives

Emory University Acquires Carter G. Woodson ArchivesATLANTAScholars and researchers interested in the life and works of Carter G. Woodson will now have direct access to his archives via Emory University’s Special Collections and Archives Division. Woodson’s library and that of the Association for the Study of African American Life and History (ASALH), which he founded […]

April 7, 2004

‘Dean’ of Hispanic Writers Donates Papers to University of New Mexico

‘Dean’ of Hispanic Writers Donates Papers to University of New MexicoALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Albuquerque author Rudolfo Anaya, known as the “dean” of Hispanic writers, has decided to donate his papers to the University of New Mexico. “I’m a UNM grad. I taught there. I just think that’s where they belong,” said Anaya, professor emeritus in the […]

April 7, 2004

Leveraging the Internet’s Marketplace of Ideas

Leveraging the Internet’s Marketplace of IdeasHas this ever happened to you? You’re looking for information about a product, Google to its Web site, and e-mail off your question. Then you hear nothing back. This has happened many times to me, too.It’s almost better for a company to refrain from having an Internet presence if it’s […]

February 11, 2004

Library of Congress Announces Online Release of Hurston Plays

Library of Congress Announces Online Release of Hurston PlaysWASHINGTONThe Library of Congress announced the online release of the Zora Neale Hurston plays available on the American Memory Web site at: .The Zora Neale Huston Plays collection at the Library of Congress presents a selection of 10 plays written by Hurston, an author, anthropologist and folklorist. […]

February 11, 2004

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