Book Talk and Signing

Teddy's Child:  Growing Up in the Anxious Southern Gentry between the Great Wars

Virginia Hamilton

Location:  Special Collections and Archives Department, Ground Floor, Ralph Brown Draughon Library

Date and Time:  Thursday, March 25, at 3 p.m.

Sponsored by:  Auburn University Libraries, Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts, and AU Bookstore.

The April 15 income tax deadline is rapidly approaching!

Available for your convenience is the Income Tax Page.  It provides links to web sites that contain income tax information, law, forms, contacts, and more.  The Income Tax Page is located under the Subject Guides tab in the upper middle part of the Auburn University Libraries homepage .  Once you have clicked on the Subject Guides tab , click on the All Guides link located on the left hand side of the screen.

A vending machine for office supplies was recently installed on the south side (facing Comer Hall) of the Second Floor of the Ralph Brown Draughon Library.  Items for sale include exam bluebooks, pens, batteries, blank CD-R's, and even calculators.

Located under the Articles and Databases tab on the Auburn University Libraries homepage and then under the "Newspapers" heading is a link titled Newspapers at Auburn Libraries that provides a very easy way to determine the availability of newspapers in the library by geographic region.  Simply click on a map:  Alabama newspapers are arranged by county; United States newspapers by state and then city; and international newspapers by country and then city.  Brief holdings locations for each newspaper are displayed indicating dates available and format(s).

Desk Encyclopedia of Animal and Bacterial Virology

Edited by Brian W.J. Mahy and Marc H.V. Van Regenmortel and published in 2010 by Academic, this volume is located in the Charles Cary Veterinary Medical Library (Greene Hall) under call number SF 780.4 .D47 2010.

Discover Auburn Lecture

Images of Sicilian Women

Giovanna Summerfield, co-author of Remembering Sicily:  Short Stories and Poems, is associate professor in the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.  Her research interests include eighteenth-century French and Italian literature, religious and philosophical movements, and Sicily, her motherland.

Location:  Special Collections and Archives Department, Ground Floor, Ralph Brown Draughon Library

Date and Time:  Thursday, March 11, 3 p.m.

Sponsored by:  Auburn University Libraries, Caroline Marshall Draughon Center for the Arts and Humanities in the College of Liberal Arts, Auburn University Bookstore.

Lexis Nexis Statistical Insight

Formerly known as Lexis Nexis Statistical, this database has recently undergone significant changes and upgrades.  It provides abstracts and indexes of statistical information from over 100,000 U.S. government publications from 1973, state and private sources from 1980, and approximately 2000 documents from international organizations from 1983.  Incorporates ASI (American Statistics Index) subject and keyword searching.  Full text or web links provided for some citations.

Prevalence and Case Characteristics of Drug-Facilitated, Incapacitated, and Forcible Rape among College Students and Other Young Women in the United States, 2006

This study was recently added to the ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) database.  The study seeks to identify the number of women in the United States and in college settings raped or sexually assaulted during their lifetime and within the past year; to identify key case characteristics of drug-facilitated and forcible rapes; to examine factors affecting the willingness of women to report rape to law enforcement and seek help from support networks; and to make comparisons between different types of rape.

The data were derived from a national telephone household sample of 3001 American women and the college population data consisted of a sample of 2000 college women.

The ICPSR (Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research) database provides search and browsing access to abstracts and datasets in the world's largest archive of computerized social science data.  Search or browse title of study, principal investigator. words in abstracts, or study number.  It is possible to browse major research categories.