Homeland Security
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- Department of Homeland Security
This department is charged with "coordinating national strategy to strengthen protections against terrorist threats or attacks in the United States." This site provides information on the four divisions (Border and Transportation Security, Infrastructure Protection, Emergency Preparedness, and Response and Bioterrorism Countermeasures) as well as speeches, white papers, and related supporting materials. - DTIC - Defense Technical Reports
This database contains the technical reports dealing with defense issues. Many of these reports are available full-text, but those that are not should be available in the government publications library, please bring the title to the reference desk for help. - Federal Emergency Management Agency
FEMA provides information on how to prepare for emergency. - GAO Special Collections - Homeland Security
Selected GAO reports on homeland security issues. - National Security Council
This is a division of the White House that brings together all the administrative leaders to work with the President to discuss issues of national security and foreign policy. - HHS - Emergencies and Disasters
This site offers plans for disasters and emergencies. - Homeland Security Digital Library CU
This database provides access to collected government or government-sponsored research on Homeland Security. - Ready.gov
This site is developed by the Department of Homeland Security. It is to help the public better prepared for the threat of a terrorists' attack. - House Committee on Homeland Security
This is the house committee that discusses homeland security issues. For more complete indexing of the hearings and reports of this committee check out Congressional CU - Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
This is the house committee that discusses homeland security issues. For more complete indexing of the hearings and reports of this committee check out Congressional CU - Threat Advisory Level
Nongovernmental Sources
- CQ Electronic Library CU
This database has articles, data, and information on American politics, history and current affairs. - FAS-Strategic Security Program
This is a collection of resources from the Federation of American Scientists on strategic security program with resources on arm sales, biosecurity, government secrecy, and much more. - LexisNexis Academic CU
This database contains the full-text of numerous regional, national, and foreign newspapers.
Resources in the Catalog
- The Library Catalog, Chinook
There are numerous secondary, federal, and international sources of information on homeland security available in the collection.
Try these searches to see some of the resources in Chinook , the library catalog:Electronic Resources Print and Electronic Resources disaster* and statistics disaster* and statistics civil defense and trends civil defense and trends terrorism and histor* terrorism and histor* (government publications only)
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