Election 2008, libraries, interviews, Africa, and reference

These highlights from the first two weeks of January include a very nice video resource for the 2008 presidential election, a library locator, interviews, and some reference resources. The INFOMINE What's New RSS feed will let you see all new or newly discovered resources as they are added.

C-SPAN's Campaign Network
Videos related to the 2008 presidential campaign and candidates: campaign ads, speeches, events, news coverage and a library of more than 1,000 videos searchable and organized by candidate and date.

Libraries411 : Public Library Directory, Locator, and Maps
Search by name, location, or zip code to find locations (and directions to) 20,000 public libraries in Canada and the United States.

AccessInterviews
Directory of interviews with celebrities, politicians, writers, scientists and more published by media sources online. Organized by topic and searchable.

Bloomsbury Research Centre
Searchable reference collection with 17,000 entries, from Bloomsbury Publishing. Includes quotations, dictionaries, guide to English literature, and other humanities reference materials.

Aluka : Digital Library of Scholarly Resources from and about Africa
Digital library offering more than 75 collections on Africa, containing more than 300,000 materials; books, images, documents and more.

A Student's Guide to the Medical Literature
Tutorial and resource guide to the medical literature, including search strategies, guide to critical evaluation, resource links and glossary.

And another resource on Africa, added today:
African Timelines
Created for a college course, this site has detailed timelines with copious external links on Africa from prehistory to the present.