Monday, March 16, 2009

Access to Homeland Security Digital Library

As a selective Federal Depository Library, Tarver Library recently gained access to the Homeland Security Digital Library (HSDL) database. The Homeland Security Digital Library is the nation's premier collection of documents related to homeland security policy, strategy, and organizational management.

HSDL provides quick access to over 63,000 important U.S. policy documents, presidential directives, and national strategy documents as well as specialized resources from universities, organizations and local and state agencies. Please view the link of About the Homeland Security Digital Library to learn more about this database.

Due to license restrictions, this database is only available at Mercer Macon campus and off-campus access is limited to Mercer Macon undergraduates, graduates, faculty and staff. This does not include any students attending Regional Academic Center classes. Your MUID is required for off-campus access. To use this resource, click on the Database (Articles) link on the library home page to get access to the database under the Browse Titles.

Thursday, March 5, 2009

Hot Document in March

A Decade of Discovery
U.S. Department of Energy, 2008

A Decade of Discovery provides a fascinating account of some of the most significant scientific discoveries and technological innovations coming out of the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Laboratories. This remarkable book illustrates how the men and women of the National Laboratories are keeping us on the cutting edge.

Though few Americans are familiar with the scope and scale of the work conducted at these National Laboratories, their research is literally changing our lives and bettering our planet. Through highly vivid and accessible stories, this book details recent breakthroughs in three critical areas: Energy and Environment, National Security and Life and Physical Science. It describes how this government-funded research has resulted in more energy-efficient buildings; new, cleaner alternative fuels that reduce greenhouse gas emissions; safer, more efficient, nuclear power plants; improved responses to disease outbreaks; more secure and streamlined airport security; more effective treatments for cancer and other diseases; and astonishing discoveries that are altering our understanding of the universe and enabling scientific breakthroughs in fields such as nanotechnology and particle physics.

A Decade of Discovery is truly a recent history of discovery—and a fascinating look at what the next decade holds. (Source: U.S. Department of Energy website)

A print copy of this document is available in the Government Documents collection at Tarver Library.