http://blogs.centre.edu/library Grace Doherty Library News and Information Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:23:08 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Grace Doherty Library has added new Religion titles to the Reference section. The Encyclopedia of Islam, (Series-Encyclopedia of World Religions) by Juan E.Campo. CALL# REF. DS 35.53. C36 2009. The Encyclopedia of World Religions is a new series from Facts on File that explores the major religions of the world, ... http://blogs.centre.edu/library/2009/11/19/new-religion-sources-in-reference/ Yale University hosts a wonderful site for researchers interested in the history of Christianity. The site, titled Ad Hoc: Resources for Teaching and Research Relating to the History of Christianity, includes links and references to primary documents, images and texts, and covers Early Christianity, Medieval Christianity, the Renaissance and ... http://blogs.centre.edu/library/2009/11/18/ad-hoc-resources-for-teaching-and-research-relating-to-the-history-of-christianity/ The National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) created the Talking Glossary of Genetic Terms to help everyone understand the terms and concepts used in genetic research. In addition to definitions, specialists in the field of genetics share their descriptions of terms, and many terms include images, animation and links to ... http://blogs.centre.edu/library/2009/11/11/talking-glossary-of-genetic-terms/ Supported by Rice Universty, The Ken Kennedy Institute for Information Technology and The Institute of Museum and Library Services TIMEA includes a collection of images, texts and maps documenting European and American travels to Egypt in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This collection is a good source of primary ... http://blogs.centre.edu/library/2009/11/04/travelers-in-the-middle-east-archive-timea/ The American Rhetoric website is a perfect source for a student researching a specific historical speech, or for an orator looking for a speech to present during a competitive performance. Holding more than 5000 speeches, this resource provides access to all types of documented formal speech including: public and ... http://blogs.centre.edu/library/2009/11/03/american-rhetoric/ According to the Library of Congress American Folklife Center, Halloween began as an ancient, pre-Christian Celtic festival of the dead. The Celtic peoples divided the year by four major holidays. According to their calendar, the year began on a day corresponding to November 1st on our present calendar. This date ... http://blogs.centre.edu/library/2009/10/31/happy-halloween/ Northern Kentucky University film students have collaborated with the school’s W. Frank Steely Library to unveil Creative Thinking, an educational copyright and plagiarism website for junior high through freshman college students. The Creative Thinking website provides both original film stories and factual expert speaker films to teach students about the complexities of ... http://blogs.centre.edu/library/2009/10/30/copyright-and-plagiarism-video-tutorials/ The Great Issues Forum is sponsored by the Graduate Center of the City University of New York; the CUNY Chancellor's Office and the Carnegie Coroporation of New York. This is a FREE! online lecture series and blog for the academic community. One reviewer states that taken as a whole, this ... http://blogs.centre.edu/library/2009/10/27/great-issues-forum/ History students and scholars take note! The Vanderbilt Television News Archive encompasses the world's most extensive and complete television news archive. Dating back to 1968, the archive spans the presidential administrations of Lyndon Baines Johnson, Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter, Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, ... http://blogs.centre.edu/library/2009/10/21/vanderbilt-television-news-archive/ The Encyclopedia of Life is presented as: "an unprecedented global partnership between the scientific community and the general public." The goal of this resource is to make freely available to anyone knowledge about all the world’s organisms. Anybody can register as an EOL member and add text, images, videos, comments ... http://blogs.centre.edu/library/2009/10/20/new-encyclopedia-of-life/