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Special Collections: Accessible Online Resources Via Google-Articles

Special Collections is a closed access area which houses all materials with a Bahamian orientation whether about the Bahamas or written by a Bahamian author.

Accessible Online Resources Via Google-Articles

These resources can be accessed by typing the title in the google search engine. Should you require assistance contact Special Collections staff.

Agriculture

  • Bahamian Agriculture, an overview by John Hedden (2011)
  • The state of The Bahamas’s biodiversity for food and agriculture by Kenneth V. A. Richardson 

Archaeology

  • The zoo archaeology and isotopic ecology of the Bahamian hutia (Geocapromys ingrahami): Evidence for pre-Columbian anthropogenic by Michelle J. Lefebvre, Susan D. deFrance, George D. Kamenov, William F. Keegan and John Krigbaum (2018)
  • New perspectives on Bahamian archaeology: the Lucayans and their world by Mary Jane Berman (2014)

Business

  • Doing business in The Bahamas (2018)
  • Private sector assessment of Bahamas (2014)

Education

Education Administration

  • Structure of the Bahamian education system (n.d.)
  • Teachers handbook (n.d.)
  • Education Act (2001)
  • Rules / procedures for creating safe schools (2001)
  • Education and training in The Bahamas bibliography by Lynda Quamina-Aiyejina (2006)
  • Bahamas Ministry of Education 10 Year education plan (2009)
  • Vision 2030 a shared vision for education in The Commonwealth of The Bahamas (2015)
  • Ministry of Education FAQ booklet (n.d.)
  • Vision for education in The Bahamas (2020)

Home Schooling

  • Criteria for home school students (n.d.)
  • Home schooling in The Bahamas (n.d)
  • The Bahamas Homeschool Association (2016)
  • Homeschooling in the Bahamas libGuides: https://cob-bs.libguides.com/c.php?g=561765
  • Most frequently asked questions about home schooling in The Bahamas (2020)

 Secondary Education

  • Breaking the silence of mainstream teachers’ attitude towards inclusive education in The Bahamas: high school teachers’ perspective by Janelle Cambridge, Yvonne Hunter-Johnson and Norissa G. L. Newton (2014)

 Education Social Aspects

  • New educational opportunities for The Bahamas by Scott W. Hamilton (2017)
  • Remarks by the Honorable Jerome Fitzgerald Primary Student of the Year awards by Jerome K. Fitzgerald (2016)

 Education Testing/Examinations

  • Examination development for education reform Bahamas New Secondary Examination – (BGCSE) by Leroy Sumner
  • National examination report grading system (BJC and BGCSE) (n.d.)

Folklore/Culture

  • B’ Rabby as a true-true Bahamian by Virgil Henry Storr (2009)
  • Capturing the Bahamian national identity by Xorla Ocloo (2017)
  • National identity, historical consciousness, and historical preservation by Tracey L. Thompson and Kenyetta T. Dean (2017)
  • Talkin’ ole story: a brief survey of the oral tradition of the Bahamas by Patricia Glinton-Meicholas 

History

  • Grants Town and the historical development of “Over-The-Hill” by Ruth M. L. Bowe and Patrice Williams
  • The Peoples and cultures of The Bahamas by Gail Saunders

The Contract

Language

Dialect

  • Bahamian English of Bahamian Creole? By Anne Lawlor (1988)
  • Basilectal features of Bahamian Creole English by Janet L. Donnelly
  • ICE Bahamas: Why and how? By Stephanie Hackert
  • Corpus Linguistic Studies of standard Bahamian English: a comparative study of newspaper usage Raymond A. Oenbring (2010)
  • Some non-standard features of Bahamian dialect syntax by Alison Watt Shilling (1977)
  • Southern Bahamian: transported African American Vernacular English or transported Gullah? By Stephanie Hackert and John A. Holm (2009)

Medicine

Diseases

  • Epidemiology of colon cancer in Afro Caribbean: a population by The American Journal of Gastroenterology (2012)
  • Hepatitis B in The Bahamas by The American Journal of Gastroenterology (2015)
  • The Influence of self-esteem and self-silencing on self-efficacy for negotiating safer behaviors in urban Bahamian Women by Shane L. Neely-Smith and Carol A. Patsdaughter (2004)
  • HIV / AIDS Knowledge, Attitudes, Practices and Behavior of Bahamians between the ages of 15 – 17 years(2011)
  • The Influence of Knowledge and Self-Efficacy on Bahamian Women’s adherence to a Hypertensive Medication Regime by Elizabeth Williams (2011)

COVID 19

  • ILO Monitor: COVID-19 and the world of work (2020)
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report-85 (2020)
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report-72 (2020)
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report-57 (2020)
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report-68 (2020)
  • Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) Situation Report-70 (2020)
  • Coronavirus Disease 2019 in Children – United States, February 12 – APRIL 2, 2020 (2020)
  • Emergency Powers (COVID 19) (Lockdown) (No.7) Order (2020)
  • COVID 19 FAQ Revised (2020)
  • The Bahamas COVID-19 Guidelines (2020)

 Nursing

  • Educating Nurses at the College of The Bahamas by Virginia Ballance and Yvonne McKenzie
  • Nurse-Midwifery in the Caribbean by Grace Allman Burke

Nutrition

  • Nutritional Potentials and Uses of Pawpaw (Carica papaya): A Review by A.A. Daagema P.N. Orafa and F. Z. Igbua (2020)

 Physician

  • The Bahamas physician workforce today and tomorrow: preliminary report by Cherita Moxey

 

Political Science

Elections

  • Parliamentary Registration Department results of the 2017 General Elections polling divisions data The Commonwealth of The Bahamas General Elections May 2017 Report
  • The Bahamas General Election 2017 HOA seats and popular vote report

Science

Biodiversity

  • The assessment of deep sea distribution and abundance of scavenging fauna in the Exuma Sound by Wyatt Hill et al. (20??)
  • The Bahamas National Invasive Species Strategy (2013)

 Geology

  • Biomineralization of carbonates in modern microbial sediments and its implications for CO2 sequestrian by Varun Gnanaprian Paul (2014)
  •  Bahamas coral reef report card vol.1: 2011-2013
  • Breaking of internal waves and turbulent dissipation in an anticyclonic mode water eddy by Bieito Fernandez-Castro (2020)
  • Canyon morphology on a modern carbonate slope of The Bahamas: evidence of regional tectonic tilting by Thierry Mulder et al. (2012)
  • Crustal type, tectonic origin, and petroleum potential of the Bahamas carbonate platform by Alex Jefferson Dale (2013)
  • Dissipation processes in the tongue of the ocean by James Hooper et al (2016)
  • Distribution and mapping of high-magnesium calcite vs. aragonite in stromatolites of Storr’s Lake, San Salvador, Bahamas by Qingting Wu (2018)
  • Environmental drivers of diurnal visits by by transient predatory fishes to Caribbean patch reefs by A.R. Harborne et al. (2016)
  • Fish stable isotope community structure of a Bahamian coral reef by Yiou et al. (2019)
  • Flank margin cave inventory of The Bahamas by Monica Roth et al. (2006)
  • Geomicrobial investigation of thrombolites in Green Lake, New York and Highborne Cay

Natural History

  • Constraining the last interglacial sea level in The Bahamas by Jin Li (2014)

Weather

  • Climate change and Small Island Developing States by Adell Thomas, April Baptiste, Rosanne Martyr-Koller, Patrick Pringle & Kevon Rhiney (2020).
  • A critical analysis of sustainable development and disaster management in The Caribbea through Hurricane Dorian and The Bahamas by Camille Minns (2020).
  • Assessment of the effects and impact of Hurricane Dorian in The Bahamas: executive summary by International Development Bank (IDB) (2020).
  • Emergency appeal 6-month report operations update The Bahamas: Hurricane Dorian by (IFRC). (2020).
  • Hurricane Dorian Bahamas Situation Report No.1 by Humanity Road. (2019).
  • Hurricane Dorian Bahamas Humanitarian Situation Report No. 2 by Unicef. (2019).

 Zoology

  • A new genus for Pericera septempinosa Stimpson, 1871 and Pericera heptacantha Bell, 1836 (Crustacae, Brachyura, Mjoidea), based on morphology and molecular data by Jessica Colavite, Amanda M. Windor and William Santana (2020)
  • A preliminary analysis of reef fish settlement patterns in Eleuthera, The Bahamas by S. Miller, H. Valles and H. Oxenford (2013)
  • Dispersal of bats in an island system by Kelly Anne Speer (2015)
  • Bahamas birds by Predensa Moore and Lynn Gape
  • An analysis of time trends for canine heartworm disease in Grenada and its associated risk factors based on veterinary clinical pathology laboratory data records between 2003 and 2015 by Richard M. Kabuusu, Donna F. Stroup, Rhonda Pinckney, Jennifer Chriestmon, Ruth Alexander, Carla Richards and Calum Macpherson (2020)
  • Automatic detection and classification of beaked whale acoustic signals
  • Ecological role of burrowing sea cucumbers, Holothuria Arenicola, in Abaco, Bahamas by Liberty Boyd (2018)
  • Economic and ecological implications of interactions between lobsters and invasive lionfish in the Bahamas by Evan Basil Henderson (2012)
  • Effects of island seabird subsidies and invasive species dynamics on the body size and foraging ecology of of the allen Cays Rock Iguana  by Kristen Richardson (2015)
  • The effect of casitas on lobster biology and fishery sustainability in the Bahamas by Lester George Gittens (2017)
  • Integrative approaches for conservation management of critically endangered Nassau Grouper (Epinephelus striatus) in the Bahamas
  • Insights into Blainville’s beaked whale communication by Charlotte Dunn (2014)
  • Parasitism in Pterois volitans (scorpaenidae) from coastal waters of Puerto Rico, The Cayman Islands and The Bahamas by Z. Ramos-Ascherl et al. (2015)
  • Automatic detection and classification of beaked whale acoustics signals by Odile Gerard, Caig Carthel and Stefano Coraluppi (2016)

Social Science

Crime 

  • Keeping it better in The Bahamas: a nation’s socioeconomic response to juvenile crime by Barbara J. Nowak (2001)
  • Perceptions of crime and safety in The Bahamas William Fielding (2019)
  • The criminalisation of marital rape and intimate partner sexual violence across the Commonwealth (2019)
  • Solutions to the murder problem: a strategic plan based on empirical research by Chaswell Andre Hanna (2017)

Drugs

  • Drug Survey report (2018)
  • Bahamas National Household Drug Survey (2017)
  • Bahamas Secondary School Drug Prevalence Survey (2008)
  • Bahamas Secondary School Drug Prevalence Survey (2003)
  • Bahamas Secondary School Drug Prevalence Survey (2012)
  • Substance and drug abuse in The Bahamas and the Caribbean, 1970-2017: A bibliography by Antoinette P. Pinder-Darling and Virginia C. F. Balance (2017)
  • The Bahamas and international drug control 1980-1994: a perspective by A. Missouri Sherman-Peter (2006)
  • Legalization of marijuana libGuide: https://cob-bs.libguides.com/SC/Marijuana

 Economic History and Conditions

  • Inequalities in Human Development in the 21st Century by Human Development Report (2019)

Emigration and Immigration

  • Amy Ashwood Garvey and Afro-West Indian Labor in the United States Emergency Farm and War Industries’ Programs of World War II, 1943-1945 by Fitzroy Andre Baptiste
  • Arendth’s children in the Bahamian context: the children of migrants without status by Kristy A. Belton (2010)
  • Bahamas migration profiles by UNICEF (201?)
  • Haitians in the Bahamas: chapter title for “My Soul Is in Haiti: Protestantism in the Haitian Diaspora of the Bahamas”
  • The characteristics of internal migration to and from New Providence Island (Greater Nassau), Bahamas 1960-1970 by Thomas D. Boswell (1986)           
  • Bahamian labor migration, 1901 – 1963 by Klaus de Albuquerque (1986)
  • Bahamian labor migration to Florida in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries by Howard Johnson (1988)
  • The treatment of Haitian Bahamians in Bahamian Society by Fiona Joseph (2014)
  • The Haitian Diaspora in The Bahamas: an alternative view by Bertin M. Louis Jr.
  • The stigma of being “Haitian” in The Bahamas by William J. Fielding, Virginia Ballance, Carol Scriven, Thaddeus McDonald and Pandora Johnson (2008)

Family Life

  • Mothering in The Bahamas: A student ethnography by Nicole C. Hahnlen, Mashawn S. Rosado, Kristin A. Capozzi and Raeann R. Hamon (1997)

Food Practices

  • An assessment of the household food security status and local foods grown in rural Bahamas by Jeri Kelly and Carlisle Pemberton (2016)

Race Relations

  • Coloured members of the Bahamas House of Assembly in the Nineteenth Century by Rosalyn Themistocleous (2001)
  • Race in The Bahamas: a dysfunctional narrative by Keith A. Russell (2009)

Slavery

  • Memory of the World Farquhar’s Journal (2008)
  • Striking for freedom: The 1831 uprising at Golden Grove Plantation, Cat Island by Allan D. Meyers (2015)

Statistics: National

  • Bahamas Living Conditions Survey (2004)
  • Bahamas National Household Drug Prevalence Survey report (2018)
  • Population Projections 2010 – 2040 (2015)
  • Cat Island Population by Settlement (2010)
  • South Andros Population by Settlement (2010)
  • South Eleuthera Population by Settlement (2010)
  • Spanish Wells Population by Settlement (2010)