You can find current news articles at LexisNexis U.S. Politics & World News. This free service compiles news from over 4,000 U.S. and international sources, including newspapers and television transcripts. The material is grouped by subject, emphasizing current issues, recent events, press releases and people in the news. LexisNexis is well known for its subscription database services.

The library now has the 2005 addition to JK Rowling’s classic Harry Potter sieries, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince.

Family Relationships, Divorce, and Children with special needs: This search guide brings together sources in the library and on the Web on Family Relationships, Divorce, and Children with special needs. It is part of the educational resources for the Curious Incident, One Book program.

Fuel Economy.gov: This site from the Department of energy is a wealth of information on Automobile fuel efficiency. You can compare cars, figure miles per gallon estimates, find gas prices, and review new technologies that have yet to hit the market.

John Roberts Confirmation: “President Bush on Monday [September 5, 2005,] nominated John Roberts to succeed William Rehnquist as chief justice of the Supreme Court. Roberts … at one time served as Rehnquist’s clerk.” This site provides a collection of stories about the Senate confirmation process and Roberts’ prior work, a biography, and highlights of past Supreme Court nominees. Includes audio and video clips and lesson plans. From the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) Online NewsHour.
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The June 2002 New Orleans Times-Picayune series “Washing Away” is a rich source of material written three years ago, in which every issue that has arisen in the current disaster is anticipated.

Find Hurricane Katrina Survivors is a list of 56 websites and forumsthat have been set up to help people find their missing friends and family.

Here are some selected sources on Hurricane Katrina:

LII.org’s list of resources
Map of Impacted area from NPR
CNN Article on the Evacuation of New Orleans
“Katrina’s Path of Destruction” from the BBC
Photo Essay on Katrina from the CSM

Some students have stopped by the library looking to find books that have won the Caldecott award. Our library has some of these books on our shelves. You can find a list of past medal winners at the American Library Association Web site: Caldecott Medal Winners. On a related note, you can find Newbery Medal Winners at this page. If you find a title that you like, you can search the library’s Public Access Catalog by title to see if we own it. Students, staff, and faculty can check out as many books as they’d like.

Thinking Like Einstein: returning to our visual roots with the emerging revolution in computer information visualization: This is a book in the library. Here is a review from Library Journal:

“Drawing on a series of columns that he wrote for Computer Graphics magazine, West (director, Ctr. for Dyslexia & Talent, Krasnow Inst. for Advanced Study) postulates that we are on the verge of a new era of visually based thinking that will replace traditional, word- and number-based modes of teaching and learning. He is quick to point out that this world of visual imaging is quite different from ubiquitous television images comprising low information content and no interaction, citing as classic examples Albert Einstein as well as some contemporary pioneers in the forefront of visualization technologies. West explains how these individuals are working to infuse visualization technologies into education and business. This is not a how-to book like Michael Gelb’s How To Think Like Leonardo Da Vinci, another visual thinker, but instead a persuasive, provocative argument for the societal benefits of visual thinking. Recommended for all computer science collections.”