Research Category: Current Events

Current Events Information

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...to your local library, starting June 4.
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There are Viva Florida 500 events and programs for all ages and interest levels on this schedule.
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Spend some time with your family and come play some games at Headquarters!
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Get a sneak peak into the upcoming play from the Acrosstown Repertory Theatre
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Get ready to roll on down to the library to celebrate National Bike Month

New Books

From the Closet to the Altar: Courts, Backlash, and the Struggle for Same Sex Ma
Michael Klarman

Bancroft Prize-winning historian and legal expert Michael Klarman here offers an illuminating and engaging account of modern litigation over same-sex marriage.

The Unfinished Revolution: Voices from the Global Fight for Women’s Rights
Minky Worden

This collection of essays by prominent women's rights activists reflects on the global struggle waged for women's rights. 

Beyond War: Reimagining American Influence in a New Middle East
David Rohde

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author and columnist for Reuters discusses how dysfunction in Washington D.C. led to billions of dollars squandered on the wars in the Middle East and asserts that true allies—Muslim moderates—were ignored in favor of violence and force.

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Al Gore

The former vice president and #1 best-selling author of An Inconvenient Truth offers a frank assessment of six critical drivers of global change in the decades to come—economic globalization, worldwide digital communications, a growing balance of global power, unsustainable population growth, scientific revolution and disruption of ecosystems.

Hacking the future
Cole Stryker

A broad analysis of how issues in anonymity and privacy are influencing politics, activism, religion, and art in America and the world poses strong arguments about free speech, Internet identity, and online piracy while profiling some of the tools and organizations that have evolved on both sides of the debate.

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Databases

Selected sections of local, regional, & national U.S. newspapers and newsmagazines all in one easy-to-search database. Text-only.

Full-text of selected Florida newspapers. Includes Florida Times-Union, Orlando Sentinel, Tampa Tribune, Ocala Star-Banner, St. Petersburg Times & more.

Full text from 3/7/1995-Current

Index of local articles from the Gainesville Sun newspaper, 1986-2007. Cited articles are available on microfilm. For articles before 1986, call Headquarters reference at (352) 334-3939 or email asref@aclib.us.

A one-stop source for magazine, journal & newspaper articles on a range of topics: current events, education, environmental issues, humanities, politics, science, sports, technology & more.

Search magazines, journals, & reference materials on a variety of subjects: business, health, education, science & much more.

Find full-text newspaper articles across the USA. Access the Gainesville Sun, Ocala Star Banner, Florida Times Union, New York Times, USA Today, & thousands more.

Zinio for Libraries is a digital newstand with a variety of popular magazines available for reading online in a browser or downloading to the Zinio Reader app.

 

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