The library has HUNDREDS of circulating books on the critical issues of our times. To locate books in the Springfield Township High School Library, visit our Patron Catalog.
Among the many series of books you will find in the circulating collection are: Information Aids, Current Controversies, Opposing Viewpoints, Ideas in Conflict, Contemporary Issues, At Issue, Life Issues, Overview Series Current Events Organizer: This tool will help you think about the articles you read : All of these quality resources are available in**Catalogs and Databases**
Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center: from GaleNet, you'll find viewpoint essays, reference, magazine and newspaper articles, primary sources, and Web links!
**Issues and Controversies**: from Facts.com, click on the tab on top to enter this database. Includes pro con articles, graphics, numerical snapshots, source documents, groups to contact, photos and graphics. See also Facts On File News Stories
**SIRS Leading Issues**: Collections of SIRS articles around hot topics (use Mozilla) Click on Leading Issues
ABC-CLIO Issues: Thematic analysis of today's controversial issues
**CQ Researcher**: Lengthy articles include pro/con, chronologies, and comprehensive overviews. A "complete source for in-depth analysis reporting on the most current and controversial issues of the day."
elibrary: articles from magazines and newspapers, transcripts, audio, video, and more
Gallop Organization and Social Issues and Policy http://www.gallup.com/ Articles and statistics based on polling data.
Public Agenda Online http://www.publicagenda.org/ Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization.
The library has HUNDREDS of circulating books on the critical issues of our times. To locate books in the Springfield Township High School Library, visit our Patron Catalog.
Among the many series of books you will find in the circulating collection are: Information Aids, Current Controversies, Opposing Viewpoints, Ideas in Conflict, Contemporary Issues, At Issue, Life Issues, Overview Series
Current Events Organizer: This tool will help you think about the articles you read
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All of these quality resources are available in **Catalogs and Databases**
For News sites
- Multnomah County Library Homework Center http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/sochc.html
- Internet Public Library Social Issues and Social Welfare Resources http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/soc80.00.00.html
- Debatabase http://www.idebate.org/debatabase/
- Yahoo: Full Coverage US http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/fc/us
- Gallop Organization and Social Issues and Policy http://www.gallup.com/ Articles and statistics based on polling data.
- Public Agenda Online http://www.publicagenda.org/ Public Agenda is a nonpartisan, nonprofit public opinion research and citizen education organization.
- O'Keefe Library Hot Paper Topics http://library.sau.edu/bestinfo/Hot/hotindex.htm
- About.com Society and Values http://law.about.com/newsissues/law/library/weekly/topicsubvalu.htm
- National Issues.com http://nationalissues.com/
- American Forum for Global Education http://www.globaled.org/
- Argus Clearinghouse (Select Social Issues) http://www.clearinghouse.net/
- Biomedicine and Health in the News http://library.uchc.edu/bhn/
- *CNN In-Depth Specials http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/
- Columbia Journalism Review Resource Guides http://www.cjr.org/
- Culture Shock (issues surrounding the arts) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/cultureshock/
- Death Penalty Information http://teacher.deathpenaltyinfo.msu.edu/
- Documents in the News http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/docnewsnew.html
- *Electronic Policy Network: idea Central http://www.movingideas.org/
- Fence.com http://www.thefence.com/
- 1st Headlines http://www.1stheadlines.com/
- Frontline Issues http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/
- Gallup Organization http://gallup.com/
- Google Social Issues http://directory.google.com/Top/Society/Issues/
- Hate.com: Extremists on the Internet http://www.hbo.com/hate/
- *Headline Spot http://headlinespot.com
- Hot Topics in Education http://mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=2059&pathid=2583
- Hot Topics: Terrorist Attacks on the U.S., September 11, 2001 http://www.evergreen.edu/user/library/govdocs/hotopics/index.html
- Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/
- Internet Public Library: Issues and Conflicts http://www.ipl.org/cgi-bin/teen/teen.db.out.pl?id=ic0000
- Internet Public Library Social Issues and Social Welfare http://www.ipl.org/ref/RR/static/soc80.00.00.html
- International Affairs Resources http://www.etown.edu/vl/
- Jurist Hot Topics http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/issues/indexh.htm
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory ELSI Project (science-based issues) http://www.lbl.gov/Education/ELSI/ELSI.html
- Links to the News http://poynter.org/dj/shedden/
- MagPortal.com (free magazine index) http://www.magportal.com/c/soc/
- Maps in the News http://map.lib.umn.edu/news.phtml
- *Michigan Electronic Library Social Issues http://web.mel.org/viewtopic.jsp?id=55
- National Center for Policy Analysis: Idea Place http://www.ncpa.org/hotline.html
- National Issues Forum http://www.nifi.org/
- *OneWorld http://www.oneworld.net/
- *Open Directory: Issues http://dmoz.org/Society/Issues/
- Opinion Pages http://www.opinion-pages.org/
- Opinions/Editorials Headlinespot http://headlinespot.com/opinion/oped/
- Political Resources on the Net http://www.politicalresources.net/
- *Politics1.com: Directory of Political Debates and Issues http://www.politics1.com/issues.htm
- Polling Report http://www.pollingreport.com/issues.htm
- Poynter.org http://poynter.org/dj/shedden/
- Public Agenda Online http://www.publicagenda.org/
- Public Education Network http://www.penpress.org/
- **Social Issues http://www.multnomah.lib.or.us/lib/homework/sochc.html
- Social Issues Resource Center http://www.sirc.org/
- Spinsanity http://www.spinsanity.org/
- Stem Cell Debate http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/2001/stemcell/
- Town Hall: Issues Library http://www.townhall.com/issueslibrary/
- United Nations University--Collection on Critical Global Issues http://www.nzdl.org/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=ccgi
- University of Michigan Documents Center: High School Debate 2000 http://www.lib.umich.edu/govdocs/debate00.html
- Women's Human Rights Resources http://www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/diana/
- *Yahoo: Government: Political Issues http://dir.yahoo.com/Government/U_S__Government/Politics/Political_Issues/
- *Yahoo: Society and Culture: Issues and Causes http://dir.yahoo.com/society_and_culture/issues_and_causes/
- *Yahoo: Full Coverage http://fullcoverage.yahoo.com/fc/
Youth Violence: A Report of the Surgeon General http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/youthviolence/report.html
10 X 10 http://www.tenbyten.org/now.html (100 words and pictures that define the time)Our reference area hosts a number of excellent sets: Try:
(Click on the first cartoon for more)
Also check SIRS, Facts.com, bigchalk, ABC-CLIO World Geography, EBSCOhost, GaleNet in Catalogs and Databases
- Incore Country Guides http://www.incore.ulst.ac.uk/cds/countries/index.html
- CNN Special (select World) http://www.cnn.com/SPECIALS/
- Global Issues http://www.global-issues.net/
- Globalization101.org http://www.globalization101.org/
- Global Issues on the UN Agenda http://www.un.org/partners/civil_society/agenda.htm
- UN Collection on Critical Global Issues http://www.sadl.uleth.ca/nz/cgi-bin/library?a=p&p=about&c=ccgi
- PBS FRONTLINE/World http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/
- Out There News: Megastories http://www.megastories.com
- Economist Country Briefings http://www.economist.com/countries/
- One World http://www.oneworld.net/article/frontpage/10/3
- Freedom in the World http://www.freedomhouse.org/research/
- CSIS http://www.csis.org/
- Open Directory (Regional) http://dmoz.org/Regional/
- Amnesty International Annual Report http://www.amnesty.org/ailib/aireport/
- Contemporary Conflicts http://conconflicts.ssrc.org/
- Global Witness http://www.globalwitness.org/
- Human Rights Watch http://www.hrw.org/
- Yahoo: Full Coverage World http://dailynews.yahoo.com/full_coverage/world/
Watching America (Discover what the world thinks about the U.S. Translated foreign news)
World News.com http://worldnews.com/Students: Help us grow our pathfinders. Please suggest new pathfinders and links for the existing pathfinders. Email Mrs. V!