ISSUE - SPECIFIC RESOURCES:

 

 

 BLACK HISTORY MONTH BHM SELECT WEBLIOGRAPHY 2012.pdf  (updated and revised with new resources, January 17, 2012  for  the 2012 African American History Month  With many free resources, including Lesson Plans and how to do serious research on African American History topics.  Also includes Study Guides for students, new digitized collections and how to access free dissertations and theses, all in full-text. No one else has offered you this, until now!

 

 

CLIMATE CHANGE 2012.pdf  (thoroughly updated March 16, 2012) 

This bibliography includes many of the latest significant articles and scientific analyses,  select Think Tank reports, select U.S. Government Hearings,  and select U.S. Policy positions and recent Blogs and TED talks;  it does include varying points of view from many different institutions, regardless of political viewpoint, and also includes the very latest research, scientific and analytical studies from a variety of institutions and covering all areas of the globe, not just the U.S. Also includes the latest America.gov E-Journal on Climate Change and all the Internet Resources it cites in a separate Appendix, as well as brand new articles on both sides of the issue, and policy recommendations on all sides of the issue.  Now, includes a FACEBOOK page for you to express your own opinions. It now also has a new Customized Google Search Engine that just saerches the contents of Think Tanks and the specialized research studies of prominent Universities in the U.S.

 

 

ALSO SEE THE RELATED  WATER RESOURCES AND WATER ISSUES:   WR RESOURCES DEC 29 2010rev.pdf   This Bibliography deals with important international issues of Water Security and Water Safety ,and Water and Conflict issues  (updated December 29, 2010)    PLEASE NOTE:  Water Resources was originally published as an issue of the esteemed FOCUS series by the CAIRO (EGYPT) IRC, however, ALL 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 updates were done by me. This bibliography formed part of the Environment series started by the Cairo IRC, to whom, I remain, most grateful.  Includes the latest IIP free electronic publication, FOCUS ON WATER.

 

 

COUNTRY STATISTICS: RESEARCHERS GUIDE TO LOCATING STATISTICS ON COUNTRIES: COUNTRY STATISTICS April 2011.pdf  (Updated for April 2011)

 

 

 

NEW! DIGITAL LIBRARIES BIB Nov 21 2009rev.pdf   (updated November 21, 2009)

Especially helpful for students of Library and Information Science, and those interested in Libraries and Digitization, and copyright issues relating to digitization. (Now, includes the complete transcript of the WEBCHAT on November 19, 2009 with WDL's Project Director Michelle Rago from the Library of Congress.)

 

NEW!ENV WEBLIOGRAPHY 2012.pdf  

WEBLIOGRAPHY ON THE ENVIRONMENT AND EARTH DAY for 2012, EMPHASIZING LESSON PLANS AND EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES FOR PROGRAMMING IDEAS  (updated March 14, 2012)  Includes two new customized Google Search Engines; one for Lesson Plans, the other for searching Think Tanks and the specialized research studies from U.S. Universities.

 

See also the related CLIMATE CHANGE WEBLIOGRAPHY and Water Resources Webliographies on this page. Now includes new Library of Congress Resources. 

 

FOOD SECURITY: 2011 APRIL BIBLIOGRAPHY: Food Security 2011.pdf  

 

 

FRENCH LANGUAGE RESOURCES: 2011 from ARS PARIS (for FRANCOPHONE POSTS): FRENCH LANGUAGE RESOURCES FROM ARS PARIS 2011.pdf

 

 

GRANTS 2011 rev.pdf  (Updated January, 2011)

 

 

HOW TO KEEP UP WITH DEVELOPMENTS IN ANY FIELD: HOW TO KEEP UP WITH NEW DEVELOPMENTS January 14 2011.pdf

 

 

HUMAN RIGHTS WEBLIOGRAPHY 2011.pdf    (updated May 13, 2011) 

Includes new resources on Immigration and Human Rights, the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, United Nations and new resources for researchers and students and IRC/ American Spaces presentations

 

 

NEW!   INFORMATION LITERACYINFORMATION LITERACY A HIGHLY SELECTIVE BIBLIOGRAPHY OF FREE INTERNET RESOURCES NOV 2010.pdf  (revised November 10, 2010) 

 

 

 

INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT LINKS 2010: INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SITES 2010.pdf

 

 

 

KIDS PROGRAMMING RESOURCES 2011: KIDS 2011.pdf  (Updated November 6, 2011)

INCLUDES GAMES and LESSON PLANS FOR KIDS! (Updated for IRC ACCRA's current Programming Initiatives in Youth Outreach!)

 

 

NEW! LIBRARY SCIENCE SEARCH ENGINE VIA GOOGLE SEARCH CUSTOMIZATION: 176 new SOURCES INCLUDED, INCLUDING LATEST BLOGS for the most recent developments: http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=011094389090557246315%3Aqsuwd1j2thu

 

 

LIBRARY SCIENCE QUICK LINKS   (thoroughly revised and updated April 30, 2012) ;

Library Science QUICK LINKS 2012.pdf   includes extensive links on the latest free eJournals with free full text access to research articles on all aspects of Library Science today; Copyright, Library Fund Raising resources, as well as the Library of Congress, and their research services and virtual collections, distance education opportunities, among many other topics,  incl. the WORLD DIGITAL LIBRARY.)  

 

LIBRARIANS AND LIBRARY SCIENCE LIBRARIANS AND LIBRARY SCIENCE 2012.pdf (revised April 26, 2012)  To those anonymous scholars who sent me updates, corrections and additions to this webliography:  I am MOST grateful! THANK YOU!

 

 

NEW! LIBRARY SCIENCE SEARCH ENGINE VIA GOOGLE SEARCH CUSTOMIZATION: 176 new SOURCES INCLUDED, INCLUDING THE LATEST BLOGS for the most recent developments: http://www.google.com/cse/home?cx=011094389090557246315%3Aqsuwd1j2thu

 

 

LIBRARY SCIENCE: WEBLIOGRAPHY ON WEB SITE EVALUATION (THE ART OF EVALUATING WEB SITES: FOR INFORMATION LITERACY CLASSES)  FEB 2012: WEB SITE EVALUATION 2012.docx

 

 

LIBRARIAN's WORKSHOP, LILONGWE, MALAWI, APRIL, 2010: USE OF SOCIAL MEDIA TOOLS FOR LIBRARIES    LL Librarians Workshop 2010 Malawi MARCH 29 2010i.pdf   

(Concentrates on WIKIS and LIBRARY THING and how librarians can keep up with new developments via continuing education possibilities.)

 

 

FREE RESOURCES FOR IRCs and ACs and LIBRARIANS:

FREE RESOURCES FOR IRCs and ACs MAY 2010.docx

(How to teach the Internet, Lesson Plans, Science Resources, Google for Researchers, latest updates to Google, Free Web 2.0 Tools, Free Internet Resources in many subject areas. )

 

 

 NATIVE AMERICANS DEC 23 2010.pdf   (Updated December 23, 2010)

 

 

NGO CIVIL SOCIETY BIBLIOGRAPHY 2011.pdf  FREE WEBSITES for TRAINING PURPOSES  (updated November 1, 2011) (Field-tested with numerous NGOs in CAIRO, EGYPT and Upper Egypt (Assiut and Minya) with the help of the Cairo (EGYPT) IRC.  Includes numerous NGO Training manuals, including one in Arabic.

 

 

NEW SEARCH ENGINES 2011 version: NEW SEARCH ENGINES 2011.pdf

 

 

NEW! OPEN ACCESS DATABASES (NEW FOR 2012):  OPEN ACCESS DATABASES 2012.pdf  (newly revised April 30, 2012)

 

 

RESEARCHERS TOOLKIT: RESEARCHERS TOOLKIT 2011.pdf  (REVISED SEPTEMBER 28, 2011)

 

 

SLAVE NARRATIVES NOVEMBER 16 2009 rev.pdf   (thoroughly updated Nov 16, 2009)

 

 

SPEECHES and TRANSCRIPTS: HOW TO FIND FREELY ON THE OPEN INTERNET:HOW TO FIND SPEECHES AND TRANSCRIPTS Aug 3 2010.pdf  

 

 

THESES AND DISSERTATION RESEARCH: ALL NEW RESOURCES FOR 2012: Theses and Dissertation Research 2012.pdf   (revised April 17, 2012) Now includes freely available theses and dissertations from Virginia Tech and new Open Access resources! 

 

 

TRAFFICKING IN PERSONS WEBLIOGRAPHY NOV 2010 rev.pdf  Used for programming in American Embassies and Consulates. (Updated November 16, 2010)

 

 

WR RESOURCES 2011.pdf  (WATER RESOURCES AND WATER SECURITY ISSUES; WITH AN INTERNATIONAL FOCUS, updated with new resources, April 19, 2011)

 

 

WIKIPEDIAS AND GOOGLE ADVANCES AND YOUTUBE AND THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LATEST WEB SITES:  WIKIPEDIA,GOOGLE, YOUTUBE, LIBRARY OF CONGRESS SITES 2009 12 25 2009revlatest.pdf   (Updated December 25 2009)

 

 

WOMEN's MONTH MATERIALS ARE HERE: 

 

 

NEW! WHM 2012 WEBLIOGRAPHY.pdf   WOMEN's HISTORY MONTH for 2012  (updated March 14, 2012) (for WOMEN's HISTORY MONTH PROGRAMMING) Note the new customized GOOGLE CUSTOM SEARCH ENGINES on Page 2.

 

 

IRC JAKARTA WOMEN's PACKAGE for 2012 (THANKS TO IRO MYRA BROWN AND IRC JAKARTA FOR THIS SPECTACULAR IRC PACKAGE FOR WOMEN's MONTH!): 

http://photos.state.gov/libraries/indonesia/502679/irc/info_package_WHM-march2012.pdf (please add the march2012.pdf to the very end of this link in order for it to work)

 

 

EMPOWERING WOMEN and ALUMNI TO BE BETTER RESEARCHERS: AN IRO PRESENTATION AT THE BLANTYRE MALAWI AC IN 2011 BY IRO STEVE PERRY:   EMPOWERING WOMEN TO BE BETTER RESEARCHERS 2011.pptx  

(REVISED APRIL 22, 2011)

 

 

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