SIRS Announces the Release of its 2003 Set of SIRS Enduring Issues®

BOCA RATON, FL, February 19, 2003 - SIRS Publishing, Inc. announces the release of its 2003 set of SIRS Enduring Issues®. SIRS’ well-known silver binders showcasing the best-of-the-best articles in print from the preceding year are now available.

The 8-volume, 32-topic collection, published annually, provides in-depth, thought-provoking full-text articles with many appealing color images. Each volume in SIRS Enduring Issues – Business, Human Relations, Global Issues, Health, Family, Science, Environment and Institutions – contains 80 articles, which are carefully selected for their quality and comprehensive coverage of current, relevant issues that endure over the years. The outstanding articles, chosen from thousands of domestic and international magazines, newspapers, journals, government documents and more, reflect the issues we faced during 2002.

Each volume is subdivided into four topics:

• Business: Economics, Money, Work & Consumerism
• Human Relations: Ethics, Ethnic Groups, Human Rights & Sexuality
• Global Issues: History, Government, World Affairs & Third World
• Health: Health, Mental Health, Food & Substance Abuse
• Family: Family, Youth, Aging & Death and Dying
• Science: Earth Science, Life Science, Physical Science & Applied Science
• Environment: Population, Habitat, Pollution & Energy
• Institutions: Education, Religion, Sports & Criminal Justice

SIRS Enduring Issues fosters multidisciplinary classroom discussion, promotes critical thinking on societal issues and provides an excellent tool for teaching basic research methodology. The articles are printed in a convenient loose-leaf format. The minimum-maintenance reference source is easily shelved in any library or classroom.

All SIRS Enduring Issues articles are fully indexed with Library of Congress and Reader’s Guide subject headings, providing users with easy, simple references for further exploration of topics in SIRS online databases – SIRS Researcher®, SIRS Government Reporter®, SIRS Renaissance® and SKS WebSelect^TM. SIRS’ award-winning databases continue to be recognized worldwide as a taxonomy for the study of social issues and the humanities.

For more information on SIRS Enduring Issues or any other SIRS products, please contact SIRS Customer Service at 1-800-232-7477 (press "1") or e-mail media@sirs.com.