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UConn is a member institution, and therefore UConn (faculty, staff, and students) can borrow from the vast library of materials available at CRL for your research.

The collections at CRL, http://www.crl.edu/collections/ cover a wide variety of topics, regions, time periods and formats such as microfilms, monographs and digital formats. For example, you can access archival collections from United States, United Kingdom and even Cambodia. In addition, dissertations, monographs and newspapers collection covering most regions in the world (Latin America, Asia, Africa, etc…) are available for Interlibrary Loan (ILL).

CRL offers the following services to CRL institutional members:

• Hard Copy and Microform Loans (books, microfilms)
• Document Delivery through your Interlibrary Loan Department
• Digital Delivery of microfilms and other materials when available
• When available digital collections are available for immediate viewing

To learn more about all these services, visit, http://www.crl.edu/services/borrowing/member-lending

Search the CRL catalog at http://catalog.crl.edu/ and gather the appropriate bibliographic information to make your interlibrary loan request.

Open ILLiad (http://uconn.illiad.oclc.org/illiad/logon.html)

and select the form from the New Request box on the left of the screen.

For microfilm request, contact directly the DD-ILL office at udoc@uconn.edu

For more information about DD-ILL policies and guidelines, please visit the DD-ILL FAQ at: http://www.lib.uconn.edu/services/ill/AboutDDILL.htm

Marisol Ramos

When Groups Meet: The Dynamics of Intergroup Contact describes a meta-analysis of 515 research studies that examine the relationship between prejudice and intergroup interaction. The authors, Thomas Pettigrew of the University of California Santa Cruz, and Linda Tropp of University of Massachusetts Amherst, find that increased contact between groups general reduces prejudice, supporting intergroup contact theory.

Both of these books are available for checkout at Babbidge Library. Click on the links for the call numbers or to request these books.

Reprinted with permission from CHOICE http://www.cro2.org, copyright by the American Library Association.

GIS Bibliography, from ESRI. Internet Resource. Reviewed in 2011may CHOICE.

http://training.esri.com/campus/library/index.cfm

[Visited Feb'11] This site is a free, openly accessible index to over 100,000 journal and magazine articles, books and book sections, conference presentations/publications, and theses related to geographic information systems (GIS) and GIS technology. It covers materials from the earliest uses of computers to analyze geographic information in the 1940s to the present. It is based on the GIS Master Bibliography Project, which was started in 1991 by Duane Marble while he was a professor at Ohio State University. Since 1999, ESRI Inc., a leading GIS technology company, has developed, maintained, and made available for free the GIS Bibliography. This resource is not as sophisticated as commercial databases. Search capabilities are limited. Basic searches can be done for terms in the full record, as phrases or title, and using the Boolean operators AND and NOT. Advanced search options include searching for one or more terms in all fields, title, author, keywords, or abstract; phrase searches; limiting by publication type; and identifying published articles or full-text publications. Users may also browse the GIS Bibliography for books on a particular topic or articles in a specific journal issue. Those with free ESRI global accounts can mark references to save in a personal bibliography or send them to their e-mail address in Refer format.
Other indexes contain citations to GIS literature, including Elsevier’s GEOBASE (some 57,000 items) http://www.ei.org/geobase and Compendex (some 49,000 items) http://www.ei.org/compendex (CH, Nov’05, 43-1299), and Inspec (some 42,000 items) http://www.theiet.org/publishing/inspec/. These indexes include articles from foreign-language journals that are not indexed in the GIS Bibliography. Though not comprehensive, the GIS Bibliography is an important source that should be used in community college and academic libraries supporting GIS programs. Summing Up: Highly recommended. Lower- and upper-level undergraduates, two-year technical program students, graduate students, researchers, and professionals. — L. R. Zellmer, Western Illinois University

The presentation today also served as the opening event of this fall’s Latin@Educational Series, sponsored by the Puerto Rican and Latin@ Studies Project (PRLSP) and the Latin American Student Organization (LASO). The following programs will be presented: Latin@ Immigration and Migration: Realties and Myths (October 25, 2011); On Being LatinA (November 1, 2011); Health Disparities and Latin@s: Micro & Macro Perspectives (November 8, 2011); and Coming Out, The Never Ending Process: Panel Presentation by LGBT Latin@s (November 15, 2011).

The programs will be held at the School of Social Work from 6:30-8:30 p.m. on the dates noted. They are free and open to the public.

Jan Lambert, Social Work Librarian

• ExecuComp – provides compensation history for U.S. directors and current compensation for executives for companies within the S&P 1500. Includes over 80 different compensation related data items, coverage of each company’s top 5 executive officers, Over 35 measures of company financial performance, comparable data across companies & industries, and companies contained in the S&P 500, S&P 400 MidCap and S&P SmallCap 600 indexes.
• RiskMetrics - this dataset includes details on the structures and practices of boards of directors at S&P 500, S&P Midcap, and S&P Smallcap firms. WRDS keeps 1996-2006 old IRRC-methodology data in the Legacy file.
• comScore - tracks web browsing behavior. Offers web visitation and transaction behavior data based on a random sample from more than 2 million Internet users. Includes panelist-level browsing and buying behavior from tens of thousands of web users.

Still to come – CRSP/Compustat Merged Database and CRSP Indices

Access databases from http://wrds-web.wharton.upenn.edu/wrds/

According to this article on MSNBC website, countries that still have an S&P triple A rating include Australia, Austria, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. Japan lost its AAA rating in the late 1990s. It was further downgraded earlier this year. Other countries to lose their triple A rating in recent years include Ireland, Italy, and Spain.

CNNMoney points out the irony that there are currently four U.S. companies: Automatic Data Processing, Exxon Mobil, Johnson & Johnson, and Microsoft that have a better credit rating than US. All four are non-financial firms and that according to S&P, “insulates them from the impact of the U.S. downgrade, which has little effect on the companies’ ability to make good on their debts.” The article reports that, “decades ago, there was a lot more AAA to go around. In 1983, there were a record 32 non-financial companies rated AAA. But a stumbling economy, an increasingly globalized market, and lots of mergers and acquisitions have made AAA a true rarity.”

“International Justice, Transitional Justice: What Have We Learned about What ‘Works’?”
Diane Orentlicher
Deputy, Office of War Crimes Issues, U.S. Department of State
Thursday, April 21 4:00 PM
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Research Center

Diane F. Orentlicher is serving as Deputy, Office of War Crimes Issues, in the Department of State while on leave from American University’s Washington College of Law, where she is a Professor of International Law. She has served in her current position, on appointment by Secretary of State Hillary R. Clinton, since October, 2009. The Office of War Crimes Issues advises the Secretary of State and formulates U.S. policy responses to atrocities committed in areas of conflict and elsewhere throughout the world.

Described by the Washington Diplomat as “one of the world’s leading authorities on human rights law and war crimes tribunals,” Professor Orentlicher has previously served in various public positions, including Special Advisor to the High Commissioner on National Minorities of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe.

Professor Orentlicher is also co-director (on leave) of the Center for Human Rights and Humanitarian Law of American University. From 1995 to 2004, she served as founding director of the law school’s War Crimes Research Office, which provides legal assistance to international criminal tribunals and courts established jointly by the United Nations and national governments. Professor Orentlicher has presented congressional testimony on a range of issues of international criminal law, including U.S. legislation on genocide.

Lawrence Goodheart, Professor of History, University of Connecticut

In his new book*, Dr. Goodheart addresses a broad range of questions about the rationale for and application of judicial execution in Connecticut since the seventeenth century. In addition to identifying the 164 people who have been put to death for crimes during the state’s history, he analyzes their social status in terms of sex, race, class, religion, and ethnicity. He looks at the circumstances of the crimes, the weapons that were used, and the victims. He reconstructs the history of Connecticut’s capital laws, its changing rituals of execution, and the growing debate over the legitimacy of the death penalty itself. Come hear Larry Goodheart discuss his research!

Thursday, April 21
12:35-1:35
Undergraduate Building Room 216

*Copies will be available for sale.
Sponsored by Trecker Library.

Our “Portals for other Social Science Statistics” lists out 15 academic and highly trafficked sites including links to ICPSR, which holds 500,000 digital files containing social science research data, and the “Scholars’ Lab” from the University of Virginia which features geo-spatial, statistical and image resources.

See our “Data Software and Analysis at UConn: tab for information about our University resources for data, such as statistical software guides, computer labs, and help locating software for use or purchase on campus.