Access to Information is a part of the Universal Human Rights Declaration. You can learn more on the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) website, where they state that “Freedom of Information (FOI) can be defined as the right to access information held by public bodies. It is an integral part of the fundamental right of freedom of expression, as recognized by Resolution 59 of the UN General Assembly adopted in 1946, as well as by Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948), which states that the fundamental right of freedom of expression encompasses the freedom to “to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers”

The library’s Academic Video Online: Premium collection delivers nearly 70,000 streaming videos (films, documentaries, newsreels, performances, interviews, lectures, television). Choose titles from special collections of American History & World History; Art & Architecture; Asian Film; Counseling & Therapy; Dance; Filmakers Library; Silent Film; and more.

Whether you’re studying or relaxing, you can find content covering Anthropology, Art & Design, Business, Criminal Justice, Diversity Studies, Education, Gender & Sexuality, Health Sciences, History, Literature & Language, Music & Performing Arts, Psychology & Counseling, Science & Engineering, and Social Sciences.

The database includes 60 Minutes/CBS and specials from PBS, BBC, NBC, A&E, and hundreds of other producers and distributers. New content is added monthly. Some examples of titles/series are: Awake: A Dream from Standing Rock; Mali Blues; 10 Days that Unexpectedly Changed America; Advertising in the Digital Age; ZouZou; 50 Mindfulness Techniques; Water Wars; 60 Second Adventures in Astronomy; and La Chanson de Roland.

You can make clips, create playlists, and post to Blackboard using Adobe Flash Player.

Often considered among the most important scientists in history, Linus Carl Pauling, famous chemist and two-time Nobel prize winner, was born on February 28, 1901.  He is the only person (so far) to win two unshared Nobel prizes, for chemistry in 1954, and the peace prize, for his opposition to nuclear weapons, in 1962.

Read more about Pauling’s life and the many books and papers he published, including his peace activism efforts, in these sources available in QuickSearch.

Are you aware that you can access Alaskan themed curriculum kits with an environmental education, natural or physical science focus?

Simply come to the UAA/APU Consortium Library with your UAA/APU ID or a Municipality library card, walk into ARLIS (Alaska Resources and Library Information Services) located on the first floor and you will be able to access a variety of materials that will enhance your curriculum and provide sensory opportunities for students in K-12.

For more information click here.

Continuing on from last month, I’ll highlight a few more recent titles we’ve gotten in.  First off – striking terror into the hearts of all who have been relying on the 16^th edition – there’s a new edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, and we have a copy of it at the Reference Desk:

REF DESK Z253.U69 2017
Chicago Manual Of Style, 17th ed.

F1219.73.O94 2017
The Oxford Handbook Of The Aztecs – Nichols and Rodríguez-Alegría, eds.

GN635.N42 C66 2015
A Companion To The Anthropology Of The Middle East – Soraya Altorki, ed.

eBook
The Chessboard And The Web: Strategies Of Connection In A Networked World – Anne-Marie Slaughter
(This title concerns transitions from the borders of nations – the chess board – to the borderless maps of the global internet.)

eBook
Dethroning The Deceitful Pork Chop: Rethinking African American Foodways From Slavery To Obama – Jennifer Jensen Wallach, ed.
(The title comes from the writings of W.E.B. DuBois)

eBook
Bartolomeo Cristofori And The Invention Of The Piano – Stewart Pollens

eBook
Piano Duet Repertoire: Music Originally Written For One Piano, Four Hands, 2nd ed. – Cameron McGraw. Fisher & Fisher, eds.

ML410.S932 R5 2017
The Rite Of Spring At 100 – Neff, Carr, & Horlacher, eds.

ML457.C35 2012
Cambridge History Of Musical Performance – Lawson & Stowell, eds.

eBook
Coup d’État: A Practical Handbook, 2nd ed. Rev. – Edward N. Luttwak

eBook
Rethinking The Black Freedom Movement – Yohuru Williams

D785.O937 2013
The Bombing War: Europe 1939-1945 – Richard Overy

eBook
Modern Genocide: The Definitive Resource And Document Collection, 4 vols. – Bartrop & Jacobs, eds.

eBook
The Last Superpower Summits: Gorbachev, Reagan, And Bush: Conversations That Ended The Cold War – Savranskaya & Blanton, eds.

eBook
The Ottoman Empire: A Historical Encyclopedia, 2 vols. – Mehrdad Kia
(There are also ebooks for the Spanish and Persian empires.)

eBook
Pennsylvania Germans: An Interpretive Encyclopedia – Bronner & Brown, eds.

REF KBP144.K364 2017
Shariah Law: Questions And Answers – Mohammad Kamali

eBook
Routledge International Handbook Of Rural Criminology – Donnermeyer

eBook
Serving Those Who Served: Librarian’s Guide To Working With Veteran And Military Communities – LeMire & Mulvihill