Inaugural Words: 1789 to the Present

The New York Times presents "Inaugural Words: 1789 to the Present," an interactive chart that looks at the "most-used words" in each inaugural address. The words appear in the chart, sized by number of uses.

Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Communication

Online access is now available to the Blackwell International Encyclopedia of Communication. A special thanks goes to the librarians at the UW Tacoma Library for purchasing the e-encyclopedia for researchers at all three UW campuses. Thanks to librarians in OUGL and Suzzallo Reference for paying the annual access fee.

*Be sure to use the Off-campus proxy bookmarklet before using this database from home.

12 titles added to Oxford Digital Reference Shelf

12 encyclopedias were added to our subscription to Oxford Digital Reference Shelf. Some titles may be of interest to students and faculty in Communication:

Oxford encyclopedia of rhetoric
Oxford encyclopedia of women in world history
Oxford encyclopedia of the modern world
Black women in America
Grove encyclopedia of materials and technology in art

Access will be available over the next few months. Until then, most of these are available in paper in a UW Library.

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Spotlight: ProQuest Dissertations

ProQuest dissertations & theses full text (formerly Dissertation Abstracts, ProQuest Dissertations) provides citations to 2.4 million dissertations and theses written at U.S. universities from 1861 to the present. More than 1 million full text dissertations are NOW available to download in PDF format.

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Media Re:public, News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age

Berkman Publication Series presents Media Re:public News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age, a series of papers exploring the potential and the challenges of the emerging networked digital media environment.

Download these papers in pdf form:

- News and Information as Digital Media Come of Age
- International News: Bringing about the Golden Age
- Principles for a New Media Literacy
- Public Broadcasting and Public Affairs: Opportunities and challenges for public broadcasting's role in provisioning the public with news and public affair
- Digital Media, Democracy and Diversity: an Imperfect Discourse
- Pride of Place: Mainstream Media and the Networked Public Sphere
- Editors - the best is yet to come?
- A Typology for Media Organizations
- iReport: Participatory Media Joins a Global News Brand
- The Gothamist Network: Gateway to Local News?
- The Forum, Deerfield, NH: Seeking Sustainability in Hyperlocal Journalism
- The Chi-Town Daily News: Creating a New Supply of Local News

UW EMC consolidated with the Media Center

To better serve the University of Washington community, the Educational Media
Collection is being consolidated with the University Libraries Media Center
collection. Starting January 1, 2009, please forward all requests for titles to
the Libraries Media Center (ULMC) at medialib@u.washington.edu or via phone at
206-543-6051. Due to the fragility of 16mm films these formats will no longer be
available for viewing. Please contact the ULMC at the above email/phone for
other options for viewing 16mm film content.

The Educational Media Collection (EMC) web site will remain active as the EMC titles
are consolidated into the ULMC. If the title you are seeking is no longer
found at this site, please check the ULMC catalog at:
http://www.lib.washington.edu/media/
The ULMC is located on the mezzanine level of the Odegaard Undergraduate Library.

Hours of operation for Winter Quarter 2009 (January 5-March 20, 2009) excluding
holidays* are:
    Monday-Thursday: 8 am-Midnight 
    Friday 8 am-9 pm 
    Saturday 11 am-9 pm
    Sunday 1 pm-Midnight

*See the ULMC website for holiday hours:
(http://www.lib.washington.edu/about/hours/media.html)

LIFE photo archive hosted by Google

Search millions of photos in the LIFE Photo Archive from the 1750s to today through Google. Add "source:life" to any Google image search and search only the LIFE photo archive. For example: television source:life