Breast Cancer Awareness Month

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month.  In honor of this, the Earl K. Long Library has a display on the 2nd floor of the library (pictures below).  We also have several handouts on the 1st and 3rd floors about breast cancer, including treatment options, preventative measures, and emotional effects.  These handouts will also be posted on this blog throughout the month and tweeted periodically (http://twitter.com/feddocs)

Later in the month, on October 19th (6pm), the library will be hosting an event (with the help of Zeta Tau Alpha).  We will have guest speakers from the area Young Breast Cancer Survivor Group.  More details will follow, but the Zetas will actually be promoting this event in front of the library during their bake sale on the 19th.

Again, feel free to stop by the library for information on breast cancer, including how to examine yourself.  

Sonnet Erin Brown
Head of Federal Documents
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Subject Specialist: Legal Research, Political Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Engineering, Urban Studies

200 U.S. Hearings Digitized!

Today, the Earl K. Long Library hit 200 hearings in our new online collection of U.S. House and Senate Committee Hearings and Publications.  This collection is free and open to the public.  We have been working to digitize older hearings that are in our online catalog but are not available online...until now!  The hearings are fully indexed.  

Special thanks to Digital Initiatives Librarian, Keith Pickett, my partner in crime.  He's the gentleman who has been patiently scanning these documents for your enjoyment.  He's also the one who created the cool GPO/PDF logo that links to each document.

So, we beg of you...please take the time to peruse this collection and click, click, click to your heart's content.

Sonnet Erin Brown
Head of Federal Documents
Reference & Instruction Librarian
Subject Specialist: Legal Research, Political Science
Earth & Environmental Sciences, Philosophy