The library has a subscription to Vanderbilt University’s Television News Archive. This is a searchable database of television news stories going back to 1968. For CNN, you can view the actual broadcasts going back to 1994 (you will need RealPlayer on your computer to do so). You can purchase videos of news broadcasts from the other networks through the Television News Archives. Although the records in the Television News Archive do not include the actual transcripts, you can in many cases find the full-text transcripts in Lexis Nexis Academic (go to “Guided News Search”, under Step 1 select “News Transcripts”, under Step 2 select to search “All Transcripts” or ones from individual networks). Use the database to track important national and international events as portrayed in the news. Use it to learn how religious issues are framed and reported. —Fred Rowland

These are new titles from the Gale Virtual Reference Library. All GVRL titles are also linked from Diamond. Encyclopedia Judaica, 2nd edition Encyclopedia of Aging Encyclopedia of Sociology Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History, 2nd edition Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice Encyclopedia of European Social History Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa Encyclopedia of World Cultures Below is the complete list of reference titles through the Gale Virtual Reference Library: Africa: An Encyclopedia for Students , 4v, 2002 African American Almanac , 9th Ed., 2003 African-American Years: Chronologies of American History and Experience , 2003 American History Through Literature 1870-1920 , 3v, 2006 Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 1, 2005 Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 2, 2005 Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 3, 2005 Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 4, 2005 Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 5, 1998 Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 6, 1999 Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 7, 2000 Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 8, 2001 Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 9, 2002 Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 11, 2006 Business Plans Handbook , Vol. 12, 2007 Business Plans Handbook, Volume 10 , Vol. 10, 2004 Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy , 2nd Ed., 1999 CDs, Super Glue, and Salsa: How Everyday Products Are Made: Series 3 , 2v, 2003 Chemistry: Foundations and Applications , 4v, 2004 Cities of the World , 6th Ed., 4v, 2002 Contemporary American Religion , 2v, 1999 Dictionary of American History , 3rd Ed., 10v, 2003 Encyclopaedia Judaica , 2nd Ed., 22v, 2007 Encyclopedia of African American Society , 2v, 2005 Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History , 2nd Ed., 6v, 2006 Encyclopedia of Aging , 4v, 2002 Encyclopedia of American Foreign Policy , 2nd Ed., 3v, 2002 Encyclopedia of American Industries , 4th Ed., 2v, 2005 Encyclopedia of American Religions , 7th Ed., 2003 Encyclopedia of Anthropology , 5v, 2006 Encyclopedia of Bioethics , 3rd Ed., 5v, 2004 Encyclopedia of Buddhism , 2v, 2004 Encyclopedia of Clothing and Fashion , 3v, 2005 Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice , 2nd Ed., 4v, 2002 Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior , 2nd Ed., 4v, 2001 Encyclopedia of Education , 2nd Ed., 8v, 2003 Encyclopedia of European Social History , 6v, 2001 Encyclopedia of Food and Culture , 3v, 2003 Encyclopedia of India , 4v, 2006 Encyclopedia of Irish History and Culture , 2v, 2004 Encyclopedia of Islam and the Muslim World , 2v, 2004 Encyclopedia of Modern Asia , 6v, 2002 Encyclopedia of Philosophy , 2nd Ed., 10v, 2006 Encyclopedia of Population , 2v, 2003 Encyclopedia of Public Health , 4v, 2002 Encyclopedia of Public Health , 4v, 2002 Encyclopedia of Recreation and Leisure in America , 2v, 2004 Encyclopedia of Religion , 2nd Ed., 15v, 2005 Encyclopedia of Russian History , 4v, 2004 Encyclopedia of Science and Religion , 2v, 2003 Encyclopedia of Sociology , 2nd Ed., 5v, 2001 Encyclopedia of the American Constitution , 2nd Ed., 6v, 2000 Encyclopedia of the Great Depression , 2v, 2004 Encyclopedia of the Modern Middle East and North Africa , 2nd Ed., 4v, 2004 Encyclopedia of World Cultures , 10v, 1996 Encyclopedia of World Cultures Supplement , 2002 Europe, 1450 to 1789: Encyclopedia of the Early Modern World , 6v, 2004 Gale Encyclopedia of Genetic Disorders , 2nd Ed., 2v, 2005 Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Disorders , 2v, 2003 Gale Encyclopedia of Multicultural America , 2nd Ed., 3v, 2000 Gale Encyclopedia of the Unusual and Unexplained , 3v, 2003 Geo-Data: The World Geographical Encyclopedia , 3rd Ed., 2003 Governments of the World: A Global Guide to Citizen’s Rights and Responsibilities , 4v, 2006 Grzimek’s Animal Life Encyclopedia , 2nd Ed., 17v, 2004 History of the American Cinema , Vol. 1, 1990 History of the American Cinema , Vol. 2, 1990 History of the American Cinema , Vol. 3, 1990 History of the American Cinema , Vol. 4, 1997 History of the American Cinema , Vol. 5, 1993 History of the American Cinema , Vol. 6, 1997 International Dictionary of Films and Filmmakers , 4th Ed., 4v, 2001 International Encyclopedia of Marriage and Family , 2nd Ed., 4v, 2003 Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying , 2v, 2003 Macmillan Encyclopedia of Energy , 3v, 2001 Major 21st-Century Writers , 5v, 2005 Major Acts of Congress , 3v, 2004 New Catholic Encyclopedia , 2nd Ed., 15v, 2003 New Dictionary of the History of Ideas , 6v, 2005 Nutrition and Well-Being A to Z , 2v, 2004 Reference Guide to Short Fiction , 2nd Ed., 1999 Reference Guide to World Literature , 3rd Ed., 2v, 2003 Science and Its Times: Understanding the Social Significance of Scientific Discovery , 8v, 2001 St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture , 5v, 2000 The People’s Chronology , 3rd Ed., 2005 Tobacco in History and Culture: An Encyclopedia , 2v, 2005 Water: Science and Issues , 4v, 2003 West’s Encyclopedia of American Law , 2nd Ed., 13v, 2005 World Education Encyclopedia , 2nd Ed., 3v, 2001 World Press Encyclopedia , 2nd Ed., 2v, 2003 Worldmark Encyclopedia of Religious Practices , 3v, 2006 Worldmark Encyclopedia of the Nations , 11th Ed., 6v, 2004 —Fred Rowland

Take a look at this new electronic resource from Brown University’s Women Writers Project: Women Writers Online, a great source of writing by women going all the way back to the Renaissance (includes Renaissance Women Online). Here’s some more information about the database. And here’s an article about Women Writers Online from the journal Pedagogy: “Learning, Reading, and the Problem of Scale: Using Women Writers Online”. Fred