New Books

Don't forget to see what's on the New Book Shelf.

ScienceDirect Trial

We currently have access to ScienceDirect College edition until 4/17/09. Here is a link to use from on campus. For those of us working from a geographically remote location please call me and I can set up access for you guys. Please review this database and how it might fit in to our collection of electronic information for our students.

Thanks
Dana

http://www.sciencedirect.com/college

Soc 4 reserves

There are two folders on reserve with articles for a Soc 4 class. One folder had some missing pages that were luckily available in the other folder. The contents of the folders looked like chapters of textbook(s) and photocopied articles. In talking with Shuk, it came up that maybe we could scan the chapters and articles (articles not available on EBSCOhost) and put them on eReserve behind our proxy so students would have to use their library cards to access them. If you have any ideas on this, please feel free to chime in.

GECA Science Class

Students from a GECA science class are all writing papers on the same topic: whether or not the U.S. should continue to fund space exploration. There’s a couple of ways of searching at the reference desk. What I tried is by subject: Outer Space—Exploration including further subdivisions OR using keywords: space exploration. Many appropriate print books are already checked out. We have some that are a little old (but still good for background/historical type info). Luckily we have several eBooks (search inside the books with keywords like funding, funds, financ*, benefit*, wast*, etc.) There is a good Info Plus series book in the reference collection: REF QB 500.262 S624 2009 (use its index to find “benefits” of space exploration, etc.)

Also don’t forget to try EBSCOhost, Opposing Viewpoints and CQ Researcher.

What is Where?

As a reminder to us all, here is a listing of what programs have been loaded on our library computers for student use in the evenings and what computers they are on.

Diet Analysis (+pdf printer) -- LIB008 - LIB010
Final Draft -- LIB006
Gaspar (Spanish language program) -- LIB000-LIB002, LIB004-LIB005
Kurzweil (oral reader for online resources) -- LIB007-LIB011, LIB017
QuickBooks -- LIB010-LIB011

We will be adding the Diet Analysis program to one or two additional computers soon. I'll update this post at that time.

Dana

New Books

Hi all
Once again I updated the new book shelf, check it out.

New Books

New Books on display

electronic books

Please note that some of the ebooks in the the online catalog do not have "eb" or "eab" in the call number. It's because they are missing Year of publication, or no call number is available for the record.

Examples:

Scarecrow of Oz [electronic resource] / by L. Frank Baum.
Baum, L. Frank, (Lyman Frank), 1856-1919.
199u
Library Location: Electronic Book
Call Number:
Status: Not Checked Out

Love and the witches [electronic resource] / Mary E. Wilkins.
Freeman, Mary Eleanor Wilkins, 1852-1930.
1995
Library Location: Electronic Book
Call Number: PS1710 .L68
Status: Not Checked Out

New Books

Updated the New Book shelf again.

Cris

New Books

Just added some new books (nursing) and some sound recordings yesterday. Check it out here.

Cris

Database Trial

I got a call from a new database vendor Global Road Warrior. The price is really reasonable. Here is a link to the preview.
http://www.globalroadwarrior.com/

user name: grw
password: able

Info from Global Road Warrior:
So, hop on the site and visit any country of your choice. As you examine the country content, please note that the information for each of our 175 countries is consistent in topics covered and depth of coverage.
Please note:1. We have a food section, with 6-10 recipes for each country, finishing up in development. It will be in GRW in a few months.2. A sports section will be added in Fall 08.3. We are in the process of adding 6,500 photos and points of interest. of the countries will say "reserved" in the Photo and Points of interest sections. Please look at: Argentina, Australia,China,Belguim, or India, which have the information and pictures.

We now offer our country-based e-content for libraries, universities and secondary schools on a subscription and license basis for modest fees (includes UNLIMITED site and REMOTE access). Our "Global Road Warrior," "Best Country Reports," and "AtoZ" Series e-content products provide, according to many client librarians, the world's most comprehensive country data related to:
*Society and Culture (about 10 x the content of CultureGrams)Also,within the next few months we will have a sports and food section (which includes 6-10 recipes for each of the 175 countries)!*Communications (the world's most comprehensive)*Media (details on thousands of media outlets worldwide)*Travel (with more of a business perspective, but equally usable forpersonal travel)*Trade (our forte)*Business*Money and Banking (scans of all banknotes and coinage in worldwidecirculation)*Country Maps (9 proprietary downloadable maps per country)and more than 20 other topics.
Our experience is that students and library clients find our content to be extremely helpful in their research. Many institutions find that our content takes the place of as many as five reference books and six subscriber databases; saving a substantial amount of money.

NEW BOOKS

Have added New books, be sure to check them out. Some sound recordings and playscripts have been included.

Cris

Message from Shuk

I would like to give away the floppy disks effective immediately. The floppy disks I have been using in the past few years did not work at least 50% of the time.

We should not charge students 50cents for something that unreliable.

Once we give away our supply, DO NOT buy more. Agree? -shuk

New Books

Check out our New Book Shelf, added some new material yesterday.

Cris

Local Subject Entries

Good Morning all!

I just wanted to let you know of a few additions to our collection and in our cataloging. As you know, we have been building our collection of children's literature. Cris has added a subject heading to all the Caldecott and Newbery Medal and Honor books.

Caldecott Medal
Newbery Medal
Caldecott Honor Book
Newbery Honor Book

You can still do a keyword search for caldecott or newbery but if you want to differentiate between winners and runners up...

In addition, we now have a collection of stage play scripts. When they are all cataloged there will be more than 60 stage play scripts in the collection. Cris has added a subject tag of playscripts so we can find them in the catalog. You can find them by doing a keyword or subject search for playscripts.