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House Oversight and Government Reform Committee:

• Oct. 7, 2008: causes and effects of American International Group (AIG) bailout

[AIG Bailout - Causes and Effects], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Oct. 7, 2008, CIS/Index

• Oct. 6, 2008: causes and effects of Lehman Brother bankruptcy

[Lehman Brothers Bankruptcy-Causes and Effects], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Oct. 6, 2008, CIS/Index

House Education and Labor Committee

• Oct. 7, 2008: impact of financial crisis on workers retirement security

[Workers' Retirement Security-Impact of Financial Crisis], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Education and Labor. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Oct. 7, 2008, CIS/Index

House Judiciary Committee

• Sept. 26, 2008: examination of Chapter 11 bankruptcy, focusing on Lehman Brothers, Sharper Image, and Bennigan’s

[Lehman Brothers, Sharper Image, Bennigan's, and Beyond: Is Chapter 11 Bankruptcy Working?], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Judiciary. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 26, 2008, CIS/Index

House Financial Services Committee

• Sept. 25, 2008: Department of Treasury and Federal Housing Finance Agency actions regarding government–sponsored housing enterprises

[Recent Treasury and FHFA Actions Regarding the Housing GSE's], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Financial Services. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 25, 2008, CIS/Index

• Sept. 24, 2008: future of financial service industry and solutions for current market crisis

[Future of Financial Services: Exploring Solutions for the Market Crisis], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Financial Services. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 24, 2008, CIS/Index

• Sept. 18, 2008:  breakdown of auction rate securities markets and regulatory response

[Auction Rate Securities Market: A Review of Problems and Potential Resolutions], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Financial Services. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 18, 2008, CIS/Index

• Sept. 17, 2008:  implementation of FHA hope for homeowners program and mortgage industry efforts to address home foreclosure problem

[Implementation of the Hope for Homeowners Program and A Review of Foreclosure Mitigation Efforts], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Financial Services. House, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 17, 2008, CIS/Index

Senate Joint Economic Committee

• Sept. 24, 2008: U.S. economic outlook

[Economic Outlook], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Economic. Joint, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 24, 2008, CIS/Index

Senate Banking Housing and Urban Affairs Committee

• Sept. 23, 2008: turmoil in credit markets, focusing on government sponsored entities, investment banks, and other financial institutions

[Current Credit Markets], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Senate, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 23, 2008, CIS/Index

• Sept. 23, 2008: transparency in accounting rules

[Transparency in Accounting], (search here) CIS-NO: Not Yet Assigned, SOURCE: Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs. Senate, DOC-TYPE: Hearing, DATE: Sept. 18, 2008, CIS/Index

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Bloom's Literary Reference Online: How to Write about...

Blooms Literary Reference Online

Learn strategies for writing good essays on literature. Each author's section listed below includes an essay written by Harold Bloom examining the key features of the writer's work and possible topics for further expansion and research.

For example:

Emily Dickinson:

Bloom on How to Write about Emily Dickinson

How to Write a Good Essay

How to Write about Emily Dickinson

Others include:

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Toni Morrison

Edgar Allan Poe

J. D. Salinger

William Shakespeare

John Steinbeck

Mark Twain

Densho: The Japanease American Legacy Project

In 1996, a Seattle community group formed Densho to begin videotaping the life histories of Japanese Americans who were incarcerated by the U.S. government during World War II. In 1998 Densho created a digital archive of 75 interviews and 1,000 historic photos and documents. This digital archive was made available at the Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle.

For more information and to register to gain access to the archive, please click here: http://www.densho.org/archive/

FIRST-EVER DIGITAL COLLECTION OF CIVIL RIGHTS DOCUMENTS

WASHINGTON-As the Nation pauses to remember the achievements of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the U.S. Government Printing Office (GPO) teams up with the United States Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR) and the Thurgood Marshall Law Library, University of Maryland School of Law, to provide the American public a website of authentic Civil Rights historical publications.


The Thurgood Marshall Law Library, which is a GPO Federal Depository Library, has been scanning hundreds of historical Civil Rights publications to make this digital collection possible. These documents are provided by USCCR. With a couple strokes of the keyboard, Americans can access Civil Rights documents such as The Civil Rights Act. These documents are accessible at:
<http://www.law.umaryland.edu/marshall/usccr/index.asp>

Source: GPO-FDLP-L@LISTSERV.ACCESS.GPO.GOV Fri 1/12/2007

The Librarian: Return to King Solomon’s Mines

What? You missed the sequel to The Librarian: The Quest for the Spear? Not to worry; one review says it was ghastly, as most sequels tend to be. Still, if you're looking for a little post-finals mindlessness, it will be re-broadcast several times on TNT, and will be available on DVD on December 19th.
(CinemaBlend.com, 7 December 2006)
http://www.cinemablend.com/dvdnews/The-Librarian-Books-a-DVD-Appearance-1933.html

What Is "Truthiness?"

According to Merriam-Webster, it's the word of the year. As defined by Stephen Colbert, it is “truth that comes from the gut, not books.”

“We’re at a point where what constitutes truth is a question on a lot of people’s minds, and truth has become up for grabs,” said the president of Merriam-Webster. “’Truthiness’ is a playful way for us to think about a very important issue.”
(ABC News, 8 December 2006)
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2711832