[Peace] Fwd: Left Index

[Alfred Kagan]

New electronic database available to the UIUC community.
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>The Left Index
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>This resource provides a guide to the literature of the left, with an
>emphasis on political, economic, social and culturally engaged
>scholarship. A secondary emphasis is on significant but little known
>sources of news and ideas.  Other topics covered include labor, ecology
>and environment, race and ethnicity, social and cultural theory,
>sociology, art and aesthetics, philosophy, history, education, law, and
>globalization.  Historically significant early Left publications such as
>The People (est. NY 1891), and The Class Struggle (1931-1937) along with
>classic texts by Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels and others, written in the
>formative years of the Left, also are covered. Over 98,000 citations &
>abstracts, some with full text, cover a diversity of literature including
>journal articles, books, book reviews, book chapters, theses, dissertations,
>bulletins, newsletters, internet documents and numerous other sources on
>the left from 1982 to the present.
>
>Access Restrictions:
>This resource should be available both on and off campus, but may require
>you to log in using your UIUC NetID.  A limited number of users can access
>the database at any given time, if you get a message that the available
>user access number has been exceeded, please log off and try again later.
>
>Print Holdings:
>The Left Index is available in paper format from 1983-1999 under call
>number 016.32053 L522.  Please check the library catalog for specific
>locations.
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>If you have any questions let me know.  JoAnn Jacoby is the new sociology
>specialist but she is out of town until Monday.  Thanks.
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>- Lynne
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>Lynne Rudasill                     	          rudasill at uiuc.edu
>Assistant Education and Social Science		  Voice:(217)244-1868
>	Librarian			          FAX:(217)333-2214
>University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
>100 Main Library
>1408 W. Gregory Dr.
>Urbana, IL  61801
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Al Kagan
African Studies Bibliographer and Professor of Library Administration
Africana Unit, Room 328
University of Illinois Library
1408 W. Gregory Drive
Urbana, IL 61801, USA

tel. 217-333-6519
fax. 217-333-2214
e-mail. akagan at uiuc.edu