Searching Sources in LexisNexis — Voluntary Deportation Program
Last week, during during the thunderstorm, I was driving home to my family in South Carolina. It was Saturday . I was listening to NPR and something interesting came on the radio. “Hmm,” I thought. That would make a nice topic to build a blog around.”
A week later, I can’t remember a thing about the story. Was it about children? Something about demographics? Shoot.
When I got back to the library, I realized I could look in LexisNexis to find the transcript from NPR and figure out what I was listening to. (I could have done this from my parents’ home using the VPN, but I was busy crocheting and finding furniture in junk stores.)
LexisNexis includes news sources from all over the world, including articles from newspapers, transcripts from television and radio, book and film reviews, and reports from the newswires. But on Monday morning I wanted to know what I’d been listening to on NPR, so I went to the library’s home page and clicked on databases in the first column. In the second box on the databases page, I typed in LexisNexis. There are several different parts to LexisNexis — the one that contains the news is LexisNexis Academic. (There are no scholarly works in here. I think it’s called “Academic,” because it’s marketed to academic libraries. Yeah.)
LexisNexis will open to this screen:Click on the “Sources” tab at the top. (If you want to search all sources at once, you can use this screen without going to the sources screen.)
In this case, I know exactly which news source I want — NPR — so I’m clicking on the FIND SOURCES under tab at the top and typing in NPR in the box. Then I’ll click on the search button, Find Sources, at the right side of the screen.
Notice
You have to click the box next to NPR and send it to the front page for the search:
You can also get transcripts from the Newshour with Jim Lehrer, the Official Kremlin Intnl News Broadcast, and CNBC/Dow Jones Business Video among others. If you look at all of the drop down menus from the first box and their secondary dropdown menus (i.e., the second dropdown menu changes depending on the first menu) you’ll find an amazing variety of sources. Enjoy! To find these, use the Browse Sources tab at the top.
Then, to find the report I was listening to, I realized since it was over the weekend, it would be on the “Weekend Edition.” My search looked like this (Note “all things” in the “show” field): from the previous week(end).
And the results:
There it is! An article on the low number of folks who voluntarily turned themselves into the deportation program before it ended last Friday.
However, as I look at the list of transcripts, I realize that I must have started listening after the reports on the large numbers of child abuse cases reported by juveniles in institutions in Texas and across the United States. Hmm…many interesting articles…
