Via the US Government Printing Office, you can download a PDF copy of President Obama's fiscal year 2010 budget overview document, A New Era of Responsibility: Renewing America’s Promise.

Have a look at our new Guide to Online Media Resources and watch a movie or catch up with your favorite TV series online.

Read the text of the "stimulus" legislation just passed by the U.S. Senate; see related bills; and track amendments and other actions taken by the House of Representatives and Senate.

Annual Reviews is an online collection of comprehensive critical reviews written by leading scientists for 33 focused disciplines within the biomedical, physical, and social sciences. Each year, the Annual Reviews non-profit organization reviews the most significant primary research literature, highlighting the principal contributions of the year in each field.

For assistance using Annual Reviews, please visit the organization's help pages or contact a reference librarian. 

As seen in this week's Carl, Gould Library now owns all ten of Fantagraphics Books' reprints of George Herriman's long-running comic strip, Krazy Kat.

Controlled vocabulary is the words and phrases used by a subject specialist when creating subject headings for an article, document, or book for a specific index or catalog. For example, the books in Carleton's library collection are assigned subject headings from the Library of Congress Subject Headings. Articles listed in JSTOR, PsycInfo, and other databases, are given subject headings by subject specialists, or indexers. These subject headings are then listed in a thesaurus designed for that database. This is meant to provide consistency and order in the chosen words and phrases.