The Lookout

Writing an Argument Paper? Researching Public Policy?
These resources may help.

Try out the Congressional Quarterly electronic products until 3/22/05. To access the collections listed below, go to http://library.cqpress.com/trials
username: CNU
password: LIBRARY

*CQ Researcher explores a "hot" issue in the news in depth each week. The report contains background info, a pro and con section, and bibliographies.
*CQ Public Affairs Collection reports on public policy issues, with statistical and historical analyses, historic documents and primary source materials.
*Historic Documents Series - primary sources covering current events from 1972 to present.
*CQ Weekly
*CQ Supreme Court Collection
*CQ Congress Collection
*CQ Voting and Elections Collection
*CQ's Encyclopedia of American Government

Let us know what you think. Email your opinion to doyle@cnu.edu.

The Library will be open the following hours during Spring Break:
Saturday 2/26----1-5pm
Sunday 2/27------1-5pm
Monday 2/8 - Friday 3/4----8am-5pm
Saturday 3/5------1-5pm
Sunday 3/6--------1pm-midnight

We now have access to 10 different databases containing primary source and full text information from Alexander Street Press. You can get to these databases by clicking on the Alexander Street Press link in the blue Quick Links column on the library homepage.

Diaries, personal accounts, and other primary sources can be found in:
*The American Civil War: Letters and Diaries
*Black Thought and Culture (monographs, speeches, essays, interviews - up to 1975)
*British and Irish Women’s Letters and Diaries (1500-World War II)
*Early Encounters in North America: Peoples, Cultures and the Environment (1534-1850)
*North American Immigrant Letters, Diaries, and Oral Histories (1840-present)
*North American Women's Letters and Diaries (Colonical to 1950)

Full text of poems, plays, and film are in:
*American Film Scripts Online (1000 scripts)
*Asian American Drama (250 plays from 18th century-present)
*Black Drama (1200 plays from 1800s-present)
*Scottish Women Poets of the Romantic Period (1770s-1918)

If you would like more information, ask at the Reference Desk, email library@cnu.edu, or call 594-7132.

Check out the new Literature Resource Center, accessible from the Quick Link list on the Library's home page.

The Literature Resource Center (LRC) is a full-text electronic database that provides on-line access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analysis of more than 90,000 writers and their works from all time periods and literary disciplines. The LRC is searchable by Author Name, Title, Keyword, and Author by Type (genre, theme, literary movement/time period, nationality, ethnicity, and gender).

The Literature Resource Center provides electronic content from: Contemporary Authors, Contemporary Literary Criticism Select, and the Dictionary of Literary Biography, as well as selected full-text, excerpted, and commissioned critical material from works such as Nineteenth-Century Literature Criticism, Literature and Its Times, and Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism. LRC provides access to: Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literature, Gale Literary Index, and MLA International Bibliography.

If you would like more information, look at the full database description , ask at the Reference Desk, email library@cnu.edu, or call 594-7132.

The Captain John Smith Library welcomes our newest employee, Deborah Spencer, in the position of Cataloging Assistant. Deborah worked as a periodicals assistant and staffed the public service desk for several years at the University of Memphis.