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LexisNexis Summer Web Seminars

LexisNexis is offering summer web seminars. You can register here: http://www.lexisnexis.com/academicwebseminars/

You’ll receive immediate confirmation of registration and the instructions for logging in to the seminar are emailed about 24 hours before the seminar itself. Please be sure to note the date(s) you’ve signed up for on your calendar.

Posted under Arts & Humanities, General/Multi-Subject, Government Publications, News & Current Issues, Science & Technology, Social Sciences & Education – June 9th, 2008, 2:38 pm
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Hispanic American Newspapers

The database America’s Historical Newspapers now includes full-text access to Hispanic American Newspapers, 1808-1980, a compilation of Spanish-language newspapers printed in the U.S. during the 19th and 20th centuries.

Posted under Arts & Humanities, General/Multi-Subject, News & Current Issues, Social Sciences & Education – May 21st, 2008, 12:38 pm
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Digital Exhibition on Anti-Semitism

The Oviatt Library presents In Our Own Backyard: Resisting Nazi Propaganda in Southern California 1933-1945, a virtual version of the 1989 CSUN Urban Archives Center exhibit of the same name.  The original exibition was co-sponsored by The Community Relations Committee of the Jewish Federation Council of Greater Los Angeles, the Martyrs Memorial & Museum of the Holocaust, and the CSUN Bibliographic Society. It includes materials contributed by Joseph Roos, UCLA Special Collections, and the California State Archives.

Posted under Arts & Humanities, News & Current Issues, Services, Social Sciences & Education – May 2nd, 2008, 10:51 am
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Who’s Who on the Web

Marquis Who’s Who on the Web has been added to Databases A-Z.  It contains biographies of over 1.4 million people of note in the United States and around the world, taken from 21 Marquis Who’s Who print publications such as Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, and Who’s Who in American Politics. 1985-present. Access limited to 1 user at a time.  

Posted under General/Multi-Subject, News & Current Issues – April 14th, 2008, 5:00 pm
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History Databases Added

New in Databases A-Z:

Posted under Arts & Humanities, News & Current Issues, Social Sciences & Education – June 27th, 2007, 1:40 pm
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Databases Added

The following 5 databases were added:

Posted under Arts & Humanities, Government Publications, News & Current Issues, Science & Technology, Social Sciences & Education – January 27th, 2007, 2:07 pm
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