Speak your mind…opinions welcome, wanted, and appreciated

SuDocQueen@evpl — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 15:11:00 GMT

Hello out there to everyone in EVPL blogland,

I have a dilemma that I could use your help with. Every year I sit down to plan a workshop on useful government documents and websites (more websites than actual documents now-a-days) and every year I get overwhelmed with the glut of information I could offer… Do I focus on how to find useful health and nutrition information? Or on how to find those interesting statistics you always hear quoted from the Census and Labor Departments? Or what about consumer safety information? Or how to navigate Social Security’s website? Or how about following legislation? The list can go on and on. So, I’m opening the floor to all of you, the people that the government is trying to reach with all of this information. What do you most want to know about? What do you need help discovering? Let me know how best to help you.

New Electronic Books available via the Databases site

Bufkinite@evpl — Tue, 19 Aug 2008 21:28:00 GMT

Twenty new electronic books have been added to the EVPL catalog that are available through the Credo Reference database. Some of the titles include:

Concise Encyclopedia of Sociolinguistics / edited by Rajend Mesthrie ; consulting editor, R.E. Asher
Encyclopedia of Urban Legends / Jan Harold Brunvand ; artwork by Randy Hickman
Guns in American Society: An Encyclopedia of History, Politics, Culture, and the Law / edited by Gregg Lee Carter
Martial Arts of the World: an Encyclopedia / edited by Thomas A. Green
Mexico: An Encyclopedia of Contemporary Culture and History / Don M. Coerver, Suzanne B. Pasztor, and Robert M. Buffington
Propaganda and Mass Persuasion: A Historical Encyclopedia, 1500 to the Present / Nicholas J. Cull, David Culbert, David Welch
Public Opinion and Polling Around the World: A Historical Encyclopedia / John G. Geer, editor

Credo Reference is a database of fully searchable digital reference books, where search results are relevancy-ranked and displayed alongside related entries from other works in their collection. Search results include images and audio and can optionally be displayed as a concept map. Credo Reference is available on the Databases page of our Research tab.

Research Blog : public opinion, polling

Speak your mind…opinions welcome, wanted, and appreciated

New Electronic Books available via the Databases site