Business and Government Documents Center

We welcome you to the newly created blog for the Business and Government Documents Center at NYU's Bobst Library.

This blog will keep you updated on important developments to our database collections, research guides, print collections, related-events, and the Virtual Business Library. We will also highlight the multifaceted research that takes advantage of our unique collections by featuring select FAQ's and interesting questions from students, faculty and patrons that we help to facilitate at our Reference Desk. In addition, we will feature posts on recently acquired books and documents and historically important and interesting past titles.

Most importantly, this is also a place for you to offer your feedback and comments!

The Business and Government Documents Center invites you to our new exhibit featuring documents and images from Hurricane Katrina. Spanning across various collections at Bobst Library, we have assembled a range of print, video, and online items that help put this disaster into perspective.

From US government documents to Spike Lee's poetic documentary "When The Levees Broke," this exhibit offers a glimpse at the extraordinary response to this disaster.

Here is a sample of the titles with links to either full-text or the item record.

US Government Documents:
The Federal Response to Hurricane Katrina: Lessons Learned

Hurricane Katrina : the roles of U.S. Department of Homeland Security and Federal Emergency Management Agency leadership : hearing before the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs

Lessons Learned: EPA’s Response to Hurricane Katrina

Books:
Come hell or high water : Hurricane Katrina and the color of disaster by Michael Eric Dyson:
Click here for Bobcat Record
Click here for Google Books

Films:

When the Levees Broke: a requiem in four acts
Click here for Bobcat Record

Hurricane Katrina storm that drowned a city
Click here for Bobcat record
Click here for PBS site

Images:
Select the Accunet/AP Photo Archive from our Databases A to Z list.

Journal articles:

Special issue of The Journal of American History
Special issue of Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science

Websites:

Hurricane Katrina Advisory Archive: The National Weather Service compiled this detailed archive of advisories, as well as a graphic display of the Hurricane's path.

The Hurricane Digital Memory Bank: the largest free public archive of Katrina and Rita with over 25,000 items in the collection.

From the LOC: The Law Library of Congress has digitized its collection of pre-1923 piracy trials. This historical collection of piracy trials is critical for understanding how the various nations of the world handled piracy issues before the year 1900.

According to a news release distributed by GlobeNewswire:

Dow Jones & Company is unveiling a series of innovations to Factiva over the coming weeks. These will include a new iPad app, more global content and a more intuitive user experience through its new interface, navigation and features. The Factiva iPad app and new content features will all be available in nine interface languages including Chinese, Japanese, French, German, Spanish and Russian.

Click on the following link to read more about Factiva's other new services:

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/dow-jones-unveils-new-innovations-to-factiva-2011-04-12