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LIFE Magazine

LIFE Magazine is now available free online in full PDF format including images through Google Books.  Fantastic!

Users may have “free access to share, print and post images for personal use.”

Click the subscribe button to visit LIFE.com to view images in full for sharing, emailing or printing.  Professional copies of the images may be purchased from Getty Images.

Global Voices is a website that brings together news and blog reports from around the world that you may not find in the traditional media. From the About page:

Global Voices seeks to aggregate, curate, and amplify the global conversation online – shining light on places and people other media often ignore. We work to develop tools, institutions and relationships that will help all voices, everywhere, to be heard.

Use the tabs to the top of the page to find information by country, topic, or author.  Or, use one of the many RSS feeds to keep up with news and blog reports by region, country, or topic.

Global Voices also includes special features, such as The Future of ICT for Development, which focuses the potential for communication technologies to “assist human development.”  Global Voices will also be covering a live webcast tonight (September 23) at 7pm where panelists will discuss “Communication and Human Development: The Freedom Connection?” The panel will be streamed by video and audio over the web and is open to the public.

The OU Libraries have announced their scheduled workshops for the Fall quarter.  All of the workshops will focus on RefWorks, a tool for collecting citations and building bibliographies. Pre-registration for workshops is not required.  The schedule is as follows, with all workshops held in Alden 323:

If you can’t make it to a workshop, check out the number of useful tutorials built by RefWorks or ask an OU librarian for assistance getting started.

The National Communication Association hosted a webinar analyzing the “rhetorical moment” of President Obama’s recent speech on the health care reform debate (video and transcript of Obama’s speech).

The webinar features Vanessa Beasley, Associate Professor of Communication Studies at Vanderbilt University, Denise Bostdorff, Professor of Communication at the College of Wooster, and Trevor Parry-Giles, Associate Professor of Communication at the University of Maryland.

Description of the webinar from the NCA Webinar Series site:

As the topic of health care dominates the Obama administration’s agenda, NCA brings together a group of panelists to analyze Obama’s most recent rhetoric for health care reform. These experts in presidential rhetoric will participate in an online conversation analyzing and offering insight on President Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress on Wednesday evening.

Found via the NCA Twitter feed.  Follow the NCA @NatComm.

You may have noticed that The Athens News updated their website recently, and its much improved.   One improved component  is the article archive search feature.  Users may search newspaper sections by category or by article title, author and date.  There are also several ways to construct search strategies, such as “exact phrase” and so forth.  Well done, A News!

My only complaint is that the archive claims to contain 1981-current year, however, when I tried searches for articles from 1981, 1985 and 1994 I got nothing.  So when does the online archive actually begin? 1998.  Hmmm, this librarian says more work on this feature is in order.