What’s New at the GSU Zach S. Henderson Library

Following is an announcement from ICPSR, the Interuniversity Consortium for Political and Social Research:

ICPSR is pleased to announce the official launch of the Online Learning Center (OLC).  The site is located at: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/OLC/ and can be found under the Courses & Learning Tools tab on the ICPSR front page.

ICPSR’s Online Learning Center (OLC) supports quantitative literacy in the social sciences by providing an effective and reliable means of bringing data into the classroom. OLC tools were designed, built, and tested by teaching faculty.

Currently numbering 30 (with more added continually), our Data-Driven Learning Guides are designed for in-class presentation or as supplemental activities for students demonstrating a variety of types of data analysis and substantive concepts.  Available on-demand 24/7, DDLGs:

• Demonstrate core concepts using prepared data with missing data and weights accommodated.
• Avoid the hassles of software licensing, setup, and instruction.
• Are easily customized to your teaching approach and syllabus.
• Are appropriate as supplemental exercises or for in-class demonstrations.

Please share this with your teaching community.  We look forward to your feedback and suggestions via email, the OLC Blog, or the OLC listserv all available through the OLC website.

The link below is one example of the new and updated data sets in the ICPSR database, available via GALILEO here:

Longitudinal Data on Social Structure and Personality, Based on Interviews With a Random Sample of Men and Women Living in the Urban Areas of Ukraine in 1992-1993, and Re-interviews With a Subsample in 1996

The following announcement comes from ICPSR, which is available via GALILEO here:

The Inter-University Consortium for Political and Social Research (provided to the Georgia Southern campus by Henderson Library) is pleased to announce the development of several managed email lists that are intended to serve both a broader and a more focused community within your institutions!

Why have we developed these? For some time now, we have received requests that additional individuals beyond the designated campus representative be enabled to receive general announcements about ICPSR developments. There have also been requests for targeted announcements regarding programs/projects including the Summer Program and the emerging Online Learning Center.

More information and sign-up for all of these lists can be found here on the ICPSR website: http://www.icpsr.umich.edu/ICPSR/org/lists/index.html

OLC-Announce

This list will carry announcements from ICPSR staff specifically related to the Online Learning Center and teaching with data issues. Announcements might include notices of new DDLGs or other teaching resources and tools added to the site as well as upcoming presentations of our teaching resources at professional meetings.

This list is available to the public.

Summprog-Announce

This email list will carry announcements specifically related to ICPSR’s Summer Program in Quantitative Methods. Announcements might include updates on particular courses or information on new courses or scholarships.

This list is also available to the public.

Kind regards,

-ICPSR Staff

Linda Detterman

Marketing & Membership Director

ICPSR

University of Michigan

734.615.5494

lindamd@umich.edu

As of 18 January 2008, the Georgia Official and Statistical Register was added as a new, public resource from the Digital Library of Georgia into the GALILEO demo system.  It is available for your preview at http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/statregister/. 

The Georgia Official and Statistical Register, published from 1923-1990 by the Georgia Department of Archives and History, is commonly known as the Georgia Blue Book. Considered an important reference work for historical research, the Register covers Georgia’s executive, legislative, and judicial branches of government, providing biographical sketches of elected and other state officials. Georgia members of U.S. Congress and federal judges are included, as are county officials and regents of the university system. The Blue Books contain election returns, provide basic reference data on Georgia counties, and cover Georgia miscellany, such as the state flag, state flower, state song, rosters of Georgia governors, and legal holidays. 

The Georgia Official and Statistical Register site is a project of the Digital Library of Georgia as a part of the Georgia Government Publications program.

From http://statregister.galileo.usg.edu/statregister/