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ARTstor to add more South Asian and Cuban art and architecture

Approximately 14,000 images of works of South Asian and Cuban art and architecture will be added to the Digital Library. Alka Patel, an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine, is contributing two collections: Art and Architecture of South Asia, and Art and Architecture of Cuba. The collections focus on the Islamic artistic and architectural history of South Asia from the 12th to 18th centuries, as well as Cuban architecture of the 18th through early 20th centuries.

The ARTstor digital image library includes nearly 1 million images art, architecture, archaeology, and other visual culture from around the globe.

For information on how you can register for an ARTstor account visit our ARTstor information website at http://www.swccd.edu/~library/Docs/artstor0507.pdf

Presidential Campaign '08: Barack Obama

Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama
by Steve Dougherty
New York : Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers, c2007

This biography of Barack Obama is an easy way to get caught up on the Democratic candidate. The 128 page, glossy, magazine-style book is full of pictures and is easy to read. While there are chapters entitled “Young Barry” and “Finding His Way”, most of the book (and the photographs) cover Obama’s adult life and his political career. Hopes and Dreams does discuss some of his struggles with being the child of a white, Kansas-born mother and a Kenyan father who was absent for most of Obama’s life. One caveat – the author was unable to interview Obama or his campaign for this book.

Hopes and Dreams is available for a 4-week check out.

A John McCain biography will be reviewed the week of the Republican Convention - watch this space.

Have you tried LexisNexis Academic?

Looking for news, business, or legal information and not sure where to begin? LexisNexis Academic provides full text access to over 7,000 business, law, tax, news and general interest publications. These publications include magazines and journals, company and organization information, administrative materials and regulations, law reviews and journals, medical and drug information, court cases, tax information and television broadcast transcripts.

To access LexisNexis Academic from the Southwestern College Library’s homepage, click on the Articles & Databases tab . Scroll down until you reach LexisNexis Academic and click on that link.

For information on how you can access LexisNexis Academic from off campus visit our Remote Access information page.

Top Shelf

by Mark Hammond and John Tibbals, SWC Librarians

Top Shelf is a weekly column where librarians share some of the top resources they've discovered -- for school, for fun, or just for curiosity's sake.

Book Selection
Derks, Scott. Working Americans 1880-1999, Millerton: Grey House Publishing, 2000.
Call #: Reference HD 8066 .D47 2000

The introduction to Working Americans 1880-1999 describes it as “the first volume of a multi-volume set that looks, decade-by-decade, into the kind of work they did, the homes they lived in, the food and clothes they bought, and the entertainment they sought, as well as the society and history that shaped the world Americans worked in from 1880 to 1999.” The set consists of three volumes, one each on the working class, the middle class, and the upper class. Within each time period each book provides one or more family profiles, historical snapshots, and economic profiles.

These are books that are useful as research sources, but are also fun to browse. It is particularly interesting to take a particular time period and compare the information provided for the three socioeconomic classes.
-Mark


Website Selection
Latin American Network Information Center (LANIC)
http://www.lanic.utexas.edu/ (can also be accessed via a link on our webpage under Internet Resources/History)

A very comprehensive directory of websites about Latin America in English, Spanish and Portuguese intended "to facilitate access to Internet-based information to, from, on Latin America." Topics cover a wide range including such areas as education, economy, government, humanities, media, science, society and culture, etc. Users can search by subject, by region or by individual country. All periods are covered from pre-history and colonial to contemporary (e.g. Malvinas War and Guatemalan death squads). "Contains over 12,000 unique URLs, one of the largest guides for Latin American content on the Internet."
-John T.

This Week in CQ Researcher

Political Conventions by Tom Price, August 8, 2008


Have they outlived their usefulness?

The Democrats and Republicans share a fundamental goal for their upcoming national conventions: to produce scripted television shows that will boost their candidates’ prospects in the general election without showcasing any intra-party squabbling. If the important decisions are made before the conventions begin, ask some politicians, political scientists and critics in the media, why bother to hold them?

Convention supporters argue that the gatherings are needed in case a nomination isn’t settled beforehand. The conventions also make decisions about party rules that can affect which candidates get nominated. And conventions are the one time every four years when the parties become truly national organizations, with delegates and activists from around the country mingling face-to-face.

Are national political conventions obsolete?

Should superdelegates be abolished?

Should an orderly primary election schedule be established?

To read this article and others visit our Articles and Databases webpage and click on CQ Researcher. Select the Remote Access link for information on how to access this resource from off campus locations.

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