tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-72371512026-04-14T01:28:07.160-06:00Current information regarding the UofC Library Collection, as well as general resource and industry updates.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger851125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7237151.post-29701179712848462002011-05-06T08:58:00.003-06:002011-05-06T09:00:09.478-06:00

The second installment of the largest and richest online collection of video available for the study of social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. The collection's wealth of video and multiplicity of perspectives allow students and scholars to see, experience, and study counseling in ways never before possible.

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This collection brings to life the teeming streets of Victorian London, inviting students and scholars to explore the gin palaces, brothels and East End slums of the nineteenth century’s greatest city.From salacious ‘swell’s guides’ to scandalous broadsides and subversive posters, the material sold and exchanged on London’s bustling thoroughfares offers an unparalleled insight into the dark

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17th and 18th century poetry from the Brotherton Library, University of LeedsThis path-breaking project offers literary scholars the opportunity to examine complete facsimile images of 190 manuscripts of 17th and 18th century verse held in the celebrated Brotherton Collection at the University of Leeds. These manuscripts can be read and explored in conjunction with the powerful BCMSV database,

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The Moving Picture World, an early trade publication covering American cinema set a standard for the broadest possible coverage, reviewed current releases and published news, features, and interviews relating to all aspects of the industry. It featured the most detailed news items, the best reviews and feature articles, particularly by Louis Reeves Harrison, W. Stephen Bush and George Blaisdell.

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With 58,555 letters and documents and 7,113 correspondents as of October 2010, EE is the most wide-ranging online collection of edited correspondence of the early modern period, linking people across Europe, the Americas and Asia from the early 17th to the mid-19th century

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The complete version in its latest edition: 86 000 articles, 100 000 words, 350 000 meanings, 410 000 use examples# All the conjugations of all the verbs, feminine and plural forms: 800 000 inflected forms# 325 000 quotations: a veritable anthology# 2 000 notes from Le Petit Robert regarding names of authors of quotations# An index for easily finding 25 000 expressions, idioms and proverbs# 5

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The video content offered here is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Upon completion, the collection will contain 1,000 hours of streaming video that offers access to more than 1,750 important, critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide

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Tell Me More (registration required) Online learning for English (ESL), Spanish, French, German, Dutch and Italian. Includes reading, writing, speaking and listening activities. It incorporates speech recognition with playback and a spoken error tracking system.Resources include grammar, vocabulary, conjugation as well as culture specific content.Tell Me More serves as a supplement for serious

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Learn how to correctly perform nursing procedures with these interactive, engaging videos. Clear, step-by-step demonstrations of over 125 key nursing procedures present the skills you need for confident performance in labs and clinicals. For each skill, you can also test your understanding with NCLEX examination-style review questions with rationales.Mosby's nursing video skills. Basic

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Comprehensive summaries of education specific topics help students grasp the broad outlines of a subject, realize its real world applications, critically engage it, and locate sources for advanced research. Articles average 3,000 words, providing concise yet more in-depth content than most textbook or encyclopedia entries.To find these summary articles I did a keyword search "reading", and the

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Free audiobooks. Books in the public domain recorded by volunteers into digital audio (eg. mp3), making audio files available to the world, for free.Some titles Persuasion, From the Earth to the Moon, Hamlet...

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In addition to the Advanced version, we now have links to editions for high-school, kids, Spanish and French readers.

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Included are many rare and fragile manuscripts containing eyewitness accounts and court records of the trials of witches, including harrowing original manuscript depositions taken from the victims in the torture chamber. These documents, in both original manuscript and in print, reveal the harsh outcome of the more remote doctrinal disputes. Perhaps the most significant of all manuscripts in the

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This collection covers c. 1839 to 1969, taking in the countries of the Arabian peninsula, the Levant, Iraq, Turkey and many of the former Ottoman lands in Europe, Iran, Afghanistan, Egypt and SudanCovering such events as the Egyptian reforms of Muhammad Ali Pasha in the nineteenth century, the Middle East Conference of 1921, the Mandates for Palestine and Mesopotamia and the Suez Crisis in 1956,

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Canada’s foremost strategic fraud prevention and management guide, designed to help manage the risk of fraud, deal with suspected fraud, and protect against liability exposure.

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Adult comic books and graphic novels. At completion, this collection will include more than 100,000 pages of materials, including 75,000 pages of primary materials (the comics themselves), and more than 25,000 pages of materials about comics—interviews, commentary, theory, and criticism—from The Comics Journal and other secondary sources. You are currently viewing the first release of the

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Formerly known as North American Indian biographical database, at: http://alexanderstreet6.com/ibio/ and is now known asNorth American Indian Thought and Culture at: http://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/ibio/? To learn more go tohttp://asp6new.alexanderstreet.com/ibio/ibio.about.html

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Important decorative and fine arts journals published in Europe and the USA during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.The initial offering consists of The Studio, Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration and Art et Decoration

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This publication provides a wealth of unique correspondence, reports and analyses, memos of conversations, and personal interviews exploring such themes U.S.-Vatican relations, Vatican’s role in World War II, Jewish refugees, Italian anti-Jewish laws during the papacy of Pius XII, and the pope’s personal knowledge of the treatment of European Jews.

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...hundreds of the most frequently assigned films in anthropology, ethnography, and social psychology courses. Targeted for inclusion are works by world-famous pioneers in the field, including Edward Curtis (In the Land of the War Canoes); Robert Flaherty (Nanook of the North together with his article, “How I Filmed Nanook of the North”); John Marshall (The Hunters, the entire !Kung Bushman

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A daily information service that tracks parliamentary business in both the House of Commons and the Senate. PubliNet monitors legislative and committee activity, and provides a summary of news releases from the federal government, political parties, and numerous non-governmental agencies.

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Weekly newspaper covering Canadian foreign policy and international issues.

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A Canadian weekly newspaper that covers the federal government and politics.

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In-depth content covering conditions and diseases, patient education resources, drug information, continuing education, lab & diagnosis detail, best practice guidelines, and much more.(paid for by Calgary Campus and Qatar Faculties of Nursing)

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Reproduces the original historical manuscripts in facsimile linking each manuscript to its corresponding fully-searchable Calendar entry.By overcoming the challenge of matching an individual Calendar entry to the original Paper, State Papers Online 1509-1714 marks an enormous advance in historical research.

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