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We are pleased to announce the winners of the 2010Woodruff Library Undergraduate Research Award:

David Elkind, “Information Warfare: Missile or Missive?”

Patrick Jamieson, “Foreign Criticisms of the 1871 Paris Commune: The role of British and American newspapers and periodicals”

Shiva Kooragayala, “American Transportation”

Each winning entry will receive a $500 prize, funded by the Elizabeth Long Atwood Fund.

By Courtney Chartier, Project Archivist, Voter Education Project Collection

On March 29-30 the Council on Library and Information Resources held a Hidden Collections Program Symposium in Washington, DC. Representatives from all of the institutions involved in the “Working for Freedom” project attended.

Emory University Libraries is pleased to announce that the Library’s Electronic Data Center (EDC) now provides access to AutoCAD Map 3D. The version that we have installed includes support for 3D and Geographic Information Systems (GIS). Core GIS technology is rapidly evolving to better integrate field collected data (i.e. GPS/Total Station), remote sensing (i.e. aerial/satellite imagery), and 3D data and graphics.

This volume of Encyclopaedia Islamica is the first of a projected 16-volume publication, consisting of an abridged and edited translation of the Persian Da'irat al-Ma'arif-i Buzurg-i Islami, one of the most comprehensive sources on Islam and the Muslim world. One unique feature of this work of reference lies in the attention it gives to Shi'i Islam and its rich and diverse heritage, which makes it complementary to other encyclopaedias.

e-Eros is the online version of the Encyclopedia of Reagents for Organic Synthesis contains 70,000 reactions and 4,000 of the most frequently consulted reagents used in organic synthesis. It is fully searchable by structure and substructure, reagent, reaction type, experimental conditions, etc. and allows full text searches. The database includes properties, preparations, example reactions, and key literature references.

http://libcat1.cc.emory.edu:32888/DB=eeros