Election day is less than a week away, and many North Central College students and staff members have already made a decision. If you’re still not sure who to vote for, though, don’t despair! Oesterle Library has a resource that can help!

CQ Weekly includes a browseable list of topics, which allows users to discover how members of Congress, including Barack Obama and John McCain, voted on each presented in the Senate. World News Digest from Facts.com features an in-depth guide to the 2008 Presidential election. Each of these resources may be accessed from Oesterle Library’s home page.

Of course, all of the major news outlets are attempting to present the facts, too, and I invite you to add a comment below with a link to your favorite. I’ll start by suggesting National Public Radio’s coverage of the events.

Communication & Mass Media Complete (CMMC) is an impressive new addition to the selection of electronic resources available at Oesterle Library. Students and researchers in communication and media studies have previously had to look in many different areas to find the research sources they need. Fortunately, EBSCO’S Communication & Mass Media Complete now brings together a wealth of information on communication in a single database.

CMMC offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 420 journals and selected coverage of nearly 200 more. Also included: the full text of over 230 journals and over 3,000 Author Profiles, providing biographical data and bibliographic information. The communication and media titles in other EBSCO databases have also been integrated into this collection.

The database has the look and functionality of EBSCO products, including the familiar layout, basic and advanced search screens, and easily navigable results pages. Communication & Mass Media Complete can be located on the Articles page on the library website.

• Communication & Mass Media Complete