Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Widget

To provide you the most up-to-date news on the oil spill, Gale is giving free access in GREENR to the newly created portal: Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill 2010. Updated daily, this portal offers:

• More than 70 annotated web links guiding you to reliable sources on the open web
  
• An in-depth expert overview
  
• Primary sources of congressional hearings
  
• More than 250 podcasts
  
• More than 1,500 news articles
  
• Case studies about disaster relief, offshore drilling and connections to other spills
  
• Direct links to BP's response
  
• More than 100 images
  
• More than 70 videos

This free widget from Gale has been added to the Library's homepage so that you all can stay up to date with the latest news regarding the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill.

Online Renewal Option is Now Functional!

Blazer Library is excited to announce that library users now have the option to renew materials online in the Library’s catalog. To access this feature they would go to the library catalog search page and click on ‘My Account’ in the header. This will take them to a screen where they will have to enter their university I.D. # (101 or 100 number) and their last name. Once they log in they can see what they have checked out, what the due date is, and renew items.


Special thanks to Blazer's Systems Librarian, Benjamin Rawlins, for enabling this convenient feature for our patrons!

Spotlight on Ethnic NewsWatch

Paul Blazer Library subscribes to multiple academic databases - so many, in fact, that it may be difficult for you to choose which one to utilize when doing your research. To help simplify matters, this blog will periodically focus on specific databases to help explain why you would want to use them. Today, our focus is on Ethnic NewsWatch, a ProQuest product.

Ethnic NewsWatch provides access to full text of Spanish-, English-language and bilingual newspapers, magazines, and journals plus other multicultural publications from the ethnic, minority, and native press through Ethnic NewsWatch (ENW). Titles include La Opinion, El Nuevo Herald, El Diario/La Prensa, Mundo Hispanico, Hispanic, The Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, and many more (none of which overlap PRISMA). Much of this content is available only in ENW. And of its one million-plus articles, nearly a quarter are in Spanish, making ENW an unmatched bilingual diversity database. To complement this wealth of untranslated titles, help options and screen assists are also available in Spanish.