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Secrets, Stats, and Statecraft by Gail Golderman & Bruce Connolly (netConnect)

Global politics is one of those areas where the interests of scholars, researchers, participants, and students can often be matched in their intensity by the concerns of ordinary citizens. When we last examined resources on global politics five years ago, the emphasis was almost entirely on bibliographic databases with online full text... more.

Gerhan authors paper in College and Undergraduate Libraries

David Gerhan, Professor and Head of Public Services and of Reference, Schaffer Library, has just published an article in the journal College and Undergraduate Libraries 2007, vol. 14, no. 2, entitled "Wanted: One Principal Search Engine for Digital Images" The paper examines current approaches for retrieving digital images (specifically pictures on the Internet) in support of humanities, historical, or cultural research. Because there has been such a proliferation of online images, effective, systematic retrieval of them will remain haphazard in the absence of some form of centralized and consolidated searching. Emerging search engines come either from the commercial sector or from major academic institutions complying with the Open Access Initiative. Seven recently developed search engines are comparatively examined as contenders for "principle search engine for digital images". . Gerhan is also a specialist peer reviewer of Fulbright applications in library and information science, as well as a referee for the journal Information Technology and Development.