CS 101 - Computers in Society

Topic Suggestions - CQ Researcher

Blog Explosion
Combating Plagiarism - Is the Internet causing more students to copy?
Computer Hacking
Computers and Medicine
Controlling the Internet
Cyberbullying
Cyber-Crime
Cyberpolitics
Cyber-Predators
Cybersecurity February 26, 2010 - Are U.S. military and civilian computer systems safe?
Cybersecurity September 26, 2003 - How vulnerable is the U.S. to cyberwarfare?
Cyber Socializing - Are Internet sites like MySpace potentially dangerous? (2006)
Distance Learning
Future of Journalism - Can the Internet fill the reporting gaps caused by the decline of newspapers?
Google's Dominance
Identity Theft
Impact of the Internet on Thinking
Internet Accuracy - Is information on the Web reliable?
Internet Regulation - Are stiffer rules needed to protect web content?
Libraries and the Internet - Are filters needed to block pornography?
Online Privacy - do Americans need better protection?
Privacy in Peril
Future of Recycling (e-waste)
Regulating the New Economy (digital economy)
Social Networking - Are online social networks eroding privacy? (Sept. 2010)
Television's Future (broadcast vs. podcast)
Video Games - Do they have educational value?
Voting Controversies (electronic voting machines)

Other resources:
Books in ebrary

FOLDOC free on-line dictionary of computing

Oxford Reference Online - Computing

Sample Search for Books
"su:Computer OR su:Technology AND su:social" - 192 results as of 4/25/2012
“su:Computers and civilization ” returned 35 results as of 4/25/2012

Google in China

ENGL 102 / Lambert - 10 sources

• More Topic Sources
• Book Source:  Libary Catalog
• General Reference Source: Encyclopedia Britannica Online | Oxford Reference Online
• Specialized Reference Source: Gale Virtual Reference |  All Reference Sources(Click on the Format filter "Reference" on the lower right corner to view only the reference databases.)
• EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier
• ProQuest
• All library resources

Citation Tools & Guide Pages:

• EasyBib (It is free to use this tool to generate MLA citations. Click on the "Book" tab for books.)
  
• NoodleBib Express: MLA
  
• How to cite CBC Library databases using MLA style.
  
• The Purdue OWL MLA Guide page.
  

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Sample Topic Question: Should Google have stopped censoring its web search results in China when it moved its search engine to Hong Kong on March 23, 2010? Book - Library >> Resources >> Books (Click on the Format filter "Books" on the lower right corner to view only the Books databases.)

• CBC Library Catalog search: kw=internet or kw=web and kw=china
  
• Ebrary Search: internet censorship china

Print book - MLA 7th ed. citation

• Goldsmith, Jack L. Who Controls the Internet? : Illusions of a Borderless World. New York : Oxford UP, 2006. Print.

Ebook - MLA 7th ed. citation

• Deibert, Ronald J., John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain, eds. Access Denied : The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering. Cambridge: MIT, 2007. Ebrary. Web. 19 Apr. 2010.

Reference - Library » Resources » Reference General Reference Book

• “Censorship." Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

Specialized Reference Book

• Laursen, John Christian. "Censorship." New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz. Vol. 1. Detroit: Scribner's, 2005. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

Articles - Library » Resources » Articles

• Search EBSCOhost: Subject(internet or web or search*) and censor* and china - 125+ full text
  
• ProQuest Search: (internet or web or search) AND Censorship AND GEO(China) AND CO(Google Inc) - 200+ full text

EBSCOhost - Journal/Peer-reviewed - MLA 7th ed. citation

• Israel, Brian R. “'Make Money Without Doing Evil?' Caught between Authoritarian Regulations in Emereging Markets and a Global Law of Human Rights, U.S. ICTS Face a Twofold Quandry." Berkeley Technology Law Journal 24.1 (2009): 617-655. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

EBSCOhost - Magazine/Not Peer-reviewed - MLA 7th ed. citation

• "Does China Have the Right to Censor Google's Internet Search Results?" International Debates Apr. 2010: 2-10. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

ProQuest - Newspaper/Not Peer-reviewed - MLA 7th ed. citation

• Wines, Michael, Sharon LaFraniere and Jonathan Ansfield. "China's Censors Tackle and Trip Over the Internet." New York Times 8 Apr. 2010, late ed.: A1. ProQuest. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

Web - try a Google Advanced Search

• Drummond, David. “A New Approach to China: an Update.” The Official Google Blog. Google, 22 Mar. 2010. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

Non-Print - try Google Image Search, Video Search, or visit the site of a known provider of non-print content like NPR.

• Montagne, Renee, and Louisa Lim . “Google Feels China Exit Fallout.” Morning Edition. Natl. Public Radio, 25 Mar. 2010. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.
• Photograph. "Google's China Office Unveiled-1." People's Daily Online. People's Daily Online, 8 Sept. 2006. Web. 20 Apr. 2010.

4/2012

Modern Middle East - Biography

Ebooks:

A prophet from amongst you: the life of Yigael Yadin : soldier, scholar, and mythmaker of modern Israel, Silberman, Neil Asher

World I Loved : The Story of an Arab Woman  
Author: Cortas, Wadad Makdisi  

Next Founders : Voices of Democracy in the Middle East
Muravchik, Joshua

Ariel Sharon : An Intimate Portrait
Dan, Uri

Man Who Pushed America to War : The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi
Roston, Aram

Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
by Nafisi, Azar

Son of the Cypresses : Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Political Life
Benvenisti, Meron

Israel's Years of Bogus Grandeur : From the Six-Day War to the First Intifada
Rejwan, Nissim

Print Books (click link to check status in CBC Library's Catalog):

Arafat : from defender to dictator
by Aburish, Saïd K .
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection  - DS119.7 .A68A28 1998

Atatürk
by Mango, Andrew.
CBC Library, Pasco - On Order

The Ayatollah begs to differ : the paradox of modern Iran
by Majd, Hooman.
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DS318.9 .M35 2008

House of stone : a memoir of home, family, and a lost Middle East
by Shadid, Anthony.
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - HQ663.9 .S53 2012

Lipstick Jihad : a memoir of growing up Iranian in American and American in Iran
by Moaveni, Azadeh
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - E184 .I5M63 2006

Man of defiance : a political biography of Anwar Sadat
by Israeli, Raphael .
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DT107.828 .S23I84 1985

Mayada, daughter of Iraq : one woman's survival under Saddam Hussein
by Sasson, Jean P .
CBC Library, Pasco - HQ1735.Z75A56 2004

Nasser
by Nutting, Anthony .
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DT107.83 .N79 1972b

The oil kings : how the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia changed the balance of power in the Middle East by Cooper, Andrew Scott
CBC Library, Pasco - E183.8 .I55C66 2011

The prince : the secret story of the world's most intriguing royal, prince Bandar bin Sultan
by Simpson, William
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DS244.526 .B55S56 2006

Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
by Nafisi, Azar.
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - HQ1746.5 .N34 2004

The Shah
by Milani, Abbas
CBC Library, Pasco - DS318 .M494 2011

Things I've been silent about : memories
by Nafisi, Azar
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - HQ1746.5 .N345 2008

Introduction to Theatre

Actors

To determine which actors have won awards, here are the official databases from the associations:
Academy Awards Database
Emmy Awards Database
Tony Awards Database

The CBC Library does not routinely purchase book length biographies of actors; these may be found in the public libraries. Numerous biography reference articles may be found in print at the CBC Library, as well as in some of our online databases such as the ebrary title New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson (Knopf, 2004), and the Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Also try searching ebrary by keyword (name) or using a subject search such as Motion picture* AND Biography.
ProQuest holds many newspaper and magazine articles on actors; you may find you get better results by changing the search to 'person' and either searching last name first or using the 'look up' feature.

Stage Directors

On Reference Reserve for Drama

• From Belasco to Brook : representative directors of the English-speaking stage / Samuel L. Leiter.
  PN2597 .L45 1991
  
• From Stanislavsky to Barrault : representative directors of the European stage / Samuel L. Leiter.
  PN2570 .L45 1991
  
• Great stage directors : 100 distinguished careers of the theater / Samuel L. Leiter
  PN2205 .L44 1994

Reference

• Fifty key theatre directors / edited by Shomit Mitter and Maria Shevtsova
  PN2053 .F54 2005
  
• Theatrical directors : a biographical dictionary / edited by John W. Frick & Stephen M. Vallillo.
  PN2205 .T54 1994

Online - our Oxford Reference Online database holds several useful titles, including the Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance; try searching it together with the other Performing Arts titles.

Playwrights The CBC Library's general biography resources mentioned above will also be useful for information about playwrights. In addition, playwrights are literary authors and are covered in literature reference sources. One database that we offer that contains many playwrights is ProQuest Learning: Literature.  We also have substantial print reference in literature; for instance, you will find reference articles about Tennessee Williams in:

• American National Biography, volume 23 - Reference CT213 .A68 1999
  
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 7 part 2 - Reference PN451 .D52 1981
  
• Critical Survey of Drama, volume 5 - Reference PR623 .C75 1985

These are just a few of the titles from our print reference collection (consult a reference librarian for more), but you may also find the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature useful, searched simultaneously with the Literature titles in Oxford Reference Online. Many of the playwrights listed are included in books in our Main collection - their writings, and scholarly analysis of their lives and writings; try a keyword or subject search of our Library Catalog. Articles may be found in EBSCOhost and ProQuest.  

The Richland Public Library includes the Biography Resource Center and the Literature Resource Center among their databases; the first may be useful for all three assignments, the last for the playwright presentation. All CBC Students may gain access, and even non-residents will have the fee waived if they show proof that they are a current student.