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January 20, 2009

Library Event Room Now Open

The Library Event Room (420-North) is now available for reservations by members of the UHD community. The room seats about 50 people in theater-style chairs. The room is fully outfitted with computer and display technology. There is also an adjacent kitchen for serving small snacks.

To make reservations, contact Wanda Antoine at antoinew@uhd.edu or extension 8183.

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses

ProQuest Dissertations and Theses is now available at UHD. With its coverage of 2.4 million doctoral dissertations and master's theses, this database is an essential repository of scholarship in almost every field of study. For older documents, ProQuest Dissertations and Theses provides a short absract. For more than 930,000 documents from 1997 to present, it offers access to the full text in PDF format.

Dallas Morning News Historical

The Dallas Morning News Historical Archive from NewsBank is now available in News Databases. A  complete cover-to-cover archive of the newspaper from 1885 to 1977, this database offers a wealth of primary source information on Texas history. The content is presented in a way that makes it easy to search the entire collection by keywords, or to browse a particular issue of the newspaper by date. The search screen also offer quick links to important stories from each decade between 1890 and 1970.  

Global Road Warrior

Global Road Warrior is the online version of the classic book on international business travel. It offers detailed profiles of business conditions and cultures in dozens of countries worldwide. Each country report includes information about business culture, demographics, money and banking, security issues, transportation and communication infrastructure, and business services, as well as information about the status of businesswomen. This resource will be a useful supplement to research for Business Cornerstone classes. Look for Global Road Warrior in Find Articles (Databases).