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C-Span is much more than cable television

By Biddle Law Library

This blog post was written by Christy D'Antonio, Evening Part-time Reference Librarian, Biddle Law Library 
 

Many of us have watched C-Span, a cable television station that focuses on hot topics in American political life.   Few of us, however, have visited the C-Span website, a resource that often links to reports, charts, and web resources.    C-Span is organized into various tabs which include:  programming schedules, featured topics, C-SPAN series, C-SPAN websites, and resources.    In the 'Featured Topics' tab, for instance, if you click the 111^th Congress link, you will find a voting schedule, leadership lists, interactive maps, reports, and 'Congressional Links (Gateway Page for Links to Anything Having to Do With the U.S. Congress).'     For those of us who want  more up-to-date and direct information, C-Span even provides links to Congressional twitter accounts!

If you seek a break or diversion from politics, the C-Span website also provides an extensive collection of   contemporary non-fiction author interviews.   Booknotes.org, for instance, is a permanent online archive of searchable video and written author interviews from 1989 to 2004.   The interviews consist of authors discussing their works, research, and lives.    Another C-Span resource is BookTV, which features a schedule of current and upcoming shows, recent broadcast with corresponding links, and 'News About Books,' which links to non-fiction works.

C-Span offers much much more.    Check it out!

Full post as published by Biddleblog on October 20, 2010 (boomark / email).