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Current Events and Issues in the News

Information and Reference Sources Newspaper location sites Newspaper, Television & Radio Sites Magazines
Political Sites Miscellaneous Events Literary Awards WTC & Pentagon / War on Terrorism
 

Information and Reference Sources

THOMAS thomas.loc.gov
Ohio Capitol Connection (available in OPLIN and OhioLink Libraries) www.ohcapcon.com/olis/olin.htm
Librarians Index to the Internet www.lii.org
Internet Public Library www.ipl.org
Military Librarians Division of SLA - Websites & Links www.sla.org/division/dmil/links2.html#HOT%20ISSUES
NYT - Resource Navigator - Information Sources www.nytimes.com/learning/general/navigator/index.html
Cybertimes (NY Times) www.nytimes.com/library/tech/reference/cynavi.html
Statistical Abstract www.census.gov/statab/www/
OSU - Journalism Library links www.lib.ohio-state.edu/jouweb/jou.php
NYTimes - 2004 political trail http://www.nytimes.com/pages/politics/trail/
   

Newspaper location sites

   
Newspaper Sites:  www.newspaperlinks.com/home.cfm
The Paperboy - newspaper sites on the Internet www.thepaperboy.com.au/welcome.html
All You Can Read - links to numerous current issues of magazines and newspapers www.allyoucanread.com
Online Newspapers www.onlinenewspapers.com
   
Newspapers, Television and Radio - selected sites
   
NYT 150 year anniversary site www.nytimes.com/specials/150/index.html
The New York Times (requires free registration) www.nytimes.com
The Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com
The Times - of London www.thetimes.co.uk
Business First columbus.bizjournals.com/columbus/
The Columbus Dispatch www.columbusdispatch.com
USA Today www.usatoday.com/
   
BBC news.bbc.co.uk
NPR www.npr.org
PBS www.pbs.org
CNN www.cnn.com
CSPAN www.cspan.org
MSNBC www.msnbc.com
bloomberg - business news www.bloomberg.com/tv/
   

Magazines

   
Atlantic Monthly online www.theatlantic.com/
Time Magazine www.time.com/time
US News and World Report www.usnews.com/usnews/home.htm
   

Political Sites

   
UN www.un.org/
Foreign Affairs Magazine www.foreignaffairs.org/index.asp
CSPAN's American Politics www.cspan.org/
CSPAN's Capitol Spotlight www.c-span.org/capitolspotlight/index.asp
State News & Politics www.stateline.org
Political Graveyard:  Politicians dead and alive politicalgraveyard.com
WWW Virtual Library vlib.org/
Researching politics on the web www.lib.lfc.edu/resource/politics/pol221.html
History and Politics Out Loud www.hpol.org
White House www.whitehouse.gov
CIA Factbooks www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook/index.html
On Politics - includes polls and political articles from the Washington Post www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/polls/polls.htm
   

WTC / Pentagon Attack / War on Terrorism Sites

 
CBS News - Disaster Links - all types and versions of disasters www.disasterlinks.net
New York Times - Resource Navigator - September 11, 2001 information www.nytimes.com/2001/09/12/national/WTC-NAVIGATOR.html
Hot Topics - from Evergreen State College Washington - September 11,2001 www.evergreen.edu/library/govdocs/hotopics/sept11/enter.html
InfoLine United Way www.infoline.org/
NPR - America Responds Archives www.npr.org/news/specials/response/
PBS - America Responds Archive www.pbs.org/americaresponds
New York State Historical Records Advisory Board www.nyshrab.org/WTC/wtc.html
Librarians’ Index to the Internet - WTC / Pentagon Resources l.staff.umkc.edu/lordl/9-11-01-library
National Coalition Against Censorship – Art Exhibits 9-11-2001 www.ncac.org/projects/art_now/commemorating.html

Related & Background information sites

Middle East Forum www.meforum.org
Congressional Quarterly - Recent Terrorism Events www.cqpress.com/context/default.htm
Biographical Information on Ossam Bin Laden www.danielpipes.org/articles/20010620.shtml
More sources of info on Ossam Bin Laden users.skynet.be/terrorism/html/laden.htm
   
Miscellaneous Issues and Events in the News
Enron
Background from the Houston Chronicle www.chron.com/content/chronicle/special/01/enron/index.html
CNN - Enron’s Backruptcy www.cnn.com/2002/US/01/12/enron.qanda.focus
   

Olympics

2004 Olympics www.athens2004.com/athens2004

http://www.olympic.org/uk/games/index_uk.asp

   
   
Literary News
Literary Awards library.christchurch.org.nz/LiteraryPrizes/
J.R.R. Tolkien www.tolkiensociety.org
J.K. Rowling www.scholastic.com/harrypotter/author/

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