Friday, September 27, 2013

Looking for survey stats? Try Polling the Nations

WHAT IS POLLING THE NATIONS?
Polling the Nations is an online database of public opinion polls containing the full text of 600,000+ questions and responses, from 18,000+ surveys and 1,700+ polling organizations, conducted from 1986 through the present in the United States and more than 100 other countries around the world.


Add credibility to your speech or paper with statistics from reliable polls and surveys.


Find it under the Articles and More... tab.  Choose Databases by Title then scroll down the alphabetical list to POLLING THE NATIONS.

Wednesday, September 25, 2013

ANTHROPOLOGY ONLINE - ONE MONTH TRIAL

Goddard Library has a one month trial of Anthropology Online from Alexander Street Press!

Here is how Alexander Street Press describes it:

Essential for study in the areas of politics, economics, history, psychology, environmental studies, religion, area studies, linguistics, and geography, the database will contain more than 100,000 pages of material at completion, including tens of thousands of pages of previously unpublished material from major archives.

Key names to be represented in the collection include Franz Boas (The Mind of Primitive Man), Ruth Benedict (Tales of the Cochiti Indians), Margaret Mead (Coming of Age in Samoa), Claude Levi-Strauss (Structural Anthropology), Clifford Geertz (The Interpretation of Cultures), A. R. Radcliffe-Brown (Structure and Function in Primitive Society), David MacDougall (Transcultural Cinema), Paul Rabinow (Essays on the Anthropology of Reason), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (Nuer Religion) and Bronislaw Malinowski (Argonauts of the Western Pacific). Other targeted names include James Clifford, Marshall Sahlins, Karl Heider, Napoleon Chagnon, and many more.

All aspects of human behavior are thoroughly covered in the collection, including kinship, family, race, material culture, marriage, gender, prehistory, evolution, kinesthetics, food and foraging, cooking, economic systems, social stratification and status, male and female roles, political organization, conflict and conflict resolution, religion and magic, music and the arts, and much more. Alexander Street’s indexing allows the content to be searchable by geographical region, cultural or kinship group, anthropological subjects, and more.

Here's what one review source has to say about it:

 Anthropology Online is like an explorer’s attic, bursting with written ethnographies, field notes, memoirs, and contemporary studies about the peoples of the world." –Library Journal

Find it under the Articles and More... tab.  Then choose Trial Databases.  On-campus use only.

The trial ends October 20th.  Check it out and let us know what you think!

Friday, September 20, 2013

MINNESOTA AUTHOR LONNIE DUPRE TO SPEAK AT UCR!

Minnesota author Lonnie Dupre will speak on Wed., Sept. 25 (Student Success Day) at 7:00 p.m. in CF 206-208.  Dupre's book Life on Ice is an incredible adventure read that recounts Dupre's life with the Inuit people and his travels by dog sled, ski, and kayak.  Dupre reveals the secret of survival in a world with quickly shifting weather patterns:  respecting nature in all its elements, and living in sync with the world we inhabit.  This event is free and open to the public.  Please join us!

This event is funded with money from the Minnesota Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund.

Monday, September 16, 2013

Last Week of Library Tours

Monday, Sept. 16 through Sat. Sept. 21 are the last days library tours will be offered for the fall semester.  Make sure you commit to a tour before it's too late.  See the schedule on this blog.http://goddardlibrarynews.blogspot.com/2013/08/goddard-library-orientation-tours-fall.html


Tuesday, September 10, 2013

What do Taylor Swift, Oprah Winfrey and Henry Ford have in common?

Find out by searching Goddard Library’s Biography in Context article database!


Biography in Context contains biographical information from reference sources, as well as full text periodical articles. Look for your favorite occupation, person, executive, legislator, composer, celebrity from ancient times to the present.

If you need further research assistance, contact a reference librarian in Goddard Library.