Currently 24 states, American Samoa and Democrats Abroad are scheduled to hold caucuses or primary elections on Super Tuesday, 2008. Blue denotes Democratic-only caucuses, Red denotes Republican-only state conventions, and Purple represents states holding elections for both parties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Duper_Tuesday

“Super Tuesday” is the national primary election that marks a key turning point in the 2008 presidential campaign. On February 5th, voters in 22 diverse states from New York to California will finally have the chance to indicate which presidential candidate they support. To win the Republican presidential nomination, a candidate must nail down the votes of 1,191 delegates by the time the party’s national convention opens in St. Paul, Minnesota on September 1st. To win the Democratic presidential nomination, a candidate must have the support of 2,025 delegates by the opening of the national party convention in Denver, Colorado on August 25th. Super Tuesday matters because 52% of all pledged Democratic delegates and 41% of all pledged Republican delegates will be at stake on February 5th. Super Tuesday is the single richest prize of the primary season.

Super Tuesday has reflected different political needs and goals over the years. In 1988, Democrats in the South were upset by the party’s tendency to nominate liberal candidates from the North or Midwest who had little appeal to conservative voters in Georgia or Tennessee. The Southerners responded by organizing a regional primary designed to boost the chances of a moderate candidate. As so often happens in politics, things did not turn out as the experts expected. Three of the strongest candidates, Al Gore, Jesse Jackson and Michael Dukakis each won some of the Super Tuesday primaries and Dukakis became the Democratic nominee. In the fall general election, the Governor of Massachusetts failed to carry a single state south of West Virginia. However, this Democratic “Southern Strategy” did work in 1992, when Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton became the leading candidate for the party’s nomination by winning primary contests in several southern states on Super Tuesday.

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The Libraries are excited to announce that trial access to the CSA’s newly integrated Community of Scholars products is now live, and will continue until February 22nd. Please send feedback on these to Jane Bryan at jgb34@drexel.edu.

COS Funding Opportunities
A compiled database of available opportunities for grants, fellowships, prizes and other type of funding. It is an extensive database with opportunities for recipients anywhere in the world, working in any discipline. Opportunity sponsors come from the public and private sector, including local, state and national governments, foundations and societies, and corporations.

COS Papers Invited
The database consists of detailed information and deadlines about calls for papers for forthcoming conferences and special issues of scholarly journals. These calls for papers are issued by professional bodies, journal editors and other conference organizers in all disciplines and from all over the world. Thus, the database serves as an alerting service for researchers, scholars and students that are seeking opportunities to present and publish their research. Approximately 10,000 conferences are listed each year along with 1,200-1,500 special issues.

COS Scholar Universe
Provides authoritative information about more than 1 million scholars and organizations around the world, together with verified affiliation and publication information. The database comprises international faculty at 4-year universities and their departments. Also searchable from within any of Drexel’s CSA databases. A complement to COS Expertise.

From the libraries’ funding databases page (http://www.library.drexel.edu/resources/dbsubjects/funding.html) choose any of the three COS trials (Funding Opportunities, Papers Invited, Scholar Universe). All will lead you to the basic search page and your results will include tabs for available funding, scholars, calls for papers, as well as published articles, web sites, conference papers, books. (Note: this bibliography does not necessarily include all publications by a scholar or on a topic.)

Coffee, snacks, beverages, sandwiches, salads and more!

The Coffee/Snack bar in Hagerty Library’s Bookmark Café is now open for business. Operated by Sodexho, the café will be open 11 am to 9 pm Monday through Friday, and 4 to 9 pm on Sundays. “Turbo oven” facilities allow fast heating of pizza slices and other tummy-warming goodies.

Vending machines will be available to meet snacking needs when the Café snack bar is closed.

All Night Hours also Begin

Also beginning tonight, the Bookmark Café will remain open all night, every night, providing 24/7 study space throughout the term. After the Library closes (2:00 am Sunday-Thursday), night owls looking for a safe, cozy place to study will be able to enter the Bookmark Café directly by swiping their Dragon Cards at the card reader right next to the door.

Public Safety staff will be on duty in the Café when the Library is closed. Walking escorts are to all locations within the Department of Public Safety patrol area for students leaving the Library at any time.

Browse the December New Book Lists for recent additions to the Hagerty and Health Sciences Library Collections. For your convenience, the lists are grouped by broad subject areas — set a bookmark for your area of interest ; although the lists are updated each month, the page address for each subject area will always stay the same.

For a more personalized or specialized announcement of additions to the library collections, set up an email alert using the “Preferred Searches” feature of our catalog.

The third floor of Hagerty Library is now closed to library users due to a large moving and renovation project. Library users who need access to the bound journal collection should ask at Hagerty’s circulation desk. Available materials will be paged from the 3rd floor by library staff. Please address any questions or comments to Jane Bryan, Director of Libraries, at jgb34@drexel.edu or 215-895-2750. Thank you.