New Reference Books in Holman Library

One of the newest additions to Holman Library’s reference collection is a five volume set designed to help court reporters and transcriptionists transcribe testimony precisely. The other is a two volume set on one of the more controversial issues in the United States today, the history of immigration to the U.S.

Benoit, M. Monette, and Emmett J. Donnelly. The sports, Olympics, security and terrorism handbook for reporters and captioners. San Antonio, Tex. : Court Reporter Reference Books, 1997. R347.7316 B473s 1997

Benoit, M. Monette, and Emmett J. Donnelly. The universal religions, ethics and philosophy handbook for reporters and captioners. San Antonio, Tex. : Court Reporter Reference Books, 1997. R347.7316 B473u 1997

Benoit, M. Monette, and Emmett J. Donnelly. The A.D.A., civil rights, affirmative action, business and convention handbook for reporters and captioners. San Antonio, Tex. : Court Reporter Reference Books, 1995. R347.7316 B473a 1995

Benoit, M. Monette, and Emmett J. Donnelly. The politics, elections, government, military and criminal handbook for reporters and captioners. San Antonio, Tex. : Court Reporter Reference Books, 1995. R347.7316 B473p 1995

Benoit, M. Monette, and Emmett J. Donnelly. The environment, weather, sciences and geology handbook for reporters and captioners. San Antonio, Tex. : Court Reporter Reference Books, 1997. R347.7316 B473e 1997

The “handbook for reporters and captioners” titles are designed to assist court reporters and transcriptionists understand and transcribe correctly unfamiliar, specialized language. The books do not contain definitions, simply listings of terms commonly used in that discipline. For example, The environment, weather, sciences and geology handbook has a list of insects, but tells you nothing else about the insect.

Immigration in U.S. history / edited by Carl L. Bankston, III, and Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo. 2 volumes. Pasadena, CA : Salem Press, 2006. R304.873 I335 2006

We are indeed a nation of immigrants. We, or our ancestors, all came from somewhere else. The Native Americans may have immigrated here first, but they too came from somewhere else. The Yakama people believe they have lived along the Columbia River for 10,000 years, and the evidence of Kennewick Man supports that tradition, but the cover article in a recent issue of Time states that there is evidence people have been in the New World for much longer, perhaps even 30,000 years (Lemonick, Michael D. and Andrea Dorfman. “Who were the first Americans?” Time. March 13, 2006). Immigration in U.S. history discusses much more recent immigration to the United States, beginning with the Jamestown Colony, to the Homeland Security Department. Immigration has always been an issue in the United States, and this resource covers the many issues of immigration with articles on the Ku Klux Klan, the Alien and Sedition Act, and Japanese Internment. Articles are signed and followed by recommended further readings.

Wendy L. Graham