Book of the Week: Give Some Take More

Sherell Simonet, a graduate of Goodwin College, published her first novel in April, Give Some Take More: Is Blood Thicker than Water.
Sherell, a native of Hartford, received an associate degree in Medical Assisting here. She now lives in Baton Rouge where she is completing a Master's Degree in counseling education at Southeastern Louisiana while working on her next novel.

The book is highly recommended by members of the Goodwin community. It is currently available in the Goodwin Library.

New Books in ebrary Academic Complete

This database has recently added over 16,000 multidisciplinary e-books from Ashgate Publishing Group, Brill Academic Publishers, Harvard University Press, Johns Hopkins University Press, Oxford University Press, University of Chicago Press, University of Michigan Press, and other leading publishers.Y our library has access to Academic Complete, a growing e-book collection spanning all academic subject areas.

The list of new additions includes:
Accidental Archaea: Molecular and Cellular Biology, by Ricardo Cavicchioli
Fruit, the Tree, and the Serpent: Why We See So Well, by Lynne A. Isbell
Odes of Horace,by Quintus Horatius Flaccus Horace
Oxford Bible Atlas, by Adrian Curtis
Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran, and the United States, by Trita Parsi

Required Reading: Zeitoun

Zeitoun by David Eggers is required reading for incoming freshmen at Northeastern University in Boston and Tulane University in New Orleans. It is available in the Goodwin Library.

Eggers returns to his journalistic roots with this nonfiction account of one family's surreal experiences in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Eggers spent three years researching these events and working closely with the Zeitoun family to understand what happened, and the disturbing details of story he uncovered illustrate the atmosphere of fear which pervaded the Big Easy in the wake of the disaster. He uses Zeitoun's experience to brilliantly illuminate how the most pertinent issues of our time--xenophobia, terrorism, the flawed justice system, and FEMA's abysmal response to Katrina--are mere branches protruding from a trunk of distrust between the American government and the citizens of the world. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2009.

CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics

The 92nd edition of the CRC Handbook of Chemistry and Physics: A Ready Reference Book of Chemical and Physical Data is now available in the reference section of the library. Faculty members may take it to classes. This edition, published in June this year, includes new tables, major updates, and a reorganization of several sections.

There is no search engine to help you navigate through the pages, but the index should be sufficient. "As ever in science, the serendipity of a detour by accident into a new territory", accordingto Sir William Wakeham's foreward, "is itself often fruitful when one can have confidence in what you find."

This is not a handbook to be read from cover to cover, but is to be dipped into from time to time as a source of secure information.

Library of Congress Call number
REF QD64.H3 2011

Booker Prize Long List Announced!

The long list for the 2011 Man Booker Prize for Fiction - the 'Man Booker Dozen' - is announced today, Tuesday 26 July. The 13 books on the list include: one former Man Booker Prize winner; two previously shortlisted writers and one longlisted author; four first time novelists and three Canadian writers. The list also includes three new publishers to the prize - Oneworld, Sandstone Press and Seren Books.

Julian Barnes - The Sense of an Ending (Jonathan Cape - Random House)
Sebastian Barry - On Canaan's Side (Faber)
Carol Birch - Jamrach's Menagerie (Canongate Books)
Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers (Granta)
Esi Edugyan - Half Blood Blues (Serpent's Tail - Profile)
Yvvette Edwards - A Cupboard Full of Coats (Oneworld)
Alan Hollinghurst - The Stranger's Child (Picador - Pan Macmillan)
Stephen Kelman - Pigeon English (Bloomsbury)
Patrick McGuinness - The Last Hundred Days (Seren Books)
A.D. Miller - Snowdrops (Atlantic)
Alison Pick - Far to Go (Headline Review)
Jane Rogers - The Testament of Jessie Lamb (Sandstone Press)
D.J. Taylor - Derby Day (Chatto & Windus - Random House)

The prize aims to reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. Howard Jacobson won last year with "The Finkler Question." Hilary Mantel won with "Wolf Hall" in 2009. The prize is one of the world's most important literary award and has the power to transform the fortunes of authors and even publishers.

The short list will be announced some time in early September. The prize is awarded in October.

Bottlemania: Required Reading

College Confidential is currently featuring required reading for incoming freshmen at colleges and universities across the country. In the next few days and weeks, we will be featuring more great reads from that list.

Incoming freshmen at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland are reading "Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought it" by Elizabeth Royte--available in the Goodwin Library.

Even as tap water rises to its highest levels of purity and cleanliness, the bottled-water industry has inexplicably grown into a $60 billion dollar industry. Royte pulls back the curtain on the marketing monster (masterminded by Pepsi, Coke, and Nestle) that has not only created an absolutely unnecessary product, but has generated massive amounts of waste via mountains of plastic water bottles and fleets of water bottle trucks.

iPad App for Biology

Howard Hughes Medical Institute BioInteractive launched their first iPad app – the Virtual Bacterial ID Lab http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/the-virtual-bacterial-id-lab/id443867462?mt=8 – last week, and one for the iPhone and iPad – the all-in-one Click and Learn App just today http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/click-and-learn/id443814512?mt=8!

These are both free (of course), and they would love to hear your feedback on them. More are on the way!

Jennifer Bricken
Department of Science Education
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
www.BioInteractive.org

Latest News on State Library Budget Cuts

iCONN must postpone the restoration of CINAHL Full Text and ProQuest Newsstand.The state library received a summary of the Governor’s proposed budget adjustments for the Library that represents a 23% cut from their budget that was previously approved for the next biennium. Since the Governor now has authority, it is believed that the agencies will be asked to implement the reductions. Obviously, in addition to personnel cuts, there would have to be significant cuts to library programs in order to reach the $2,670,034 reduction.

Our library has already begun negotiations to purchase CINAHL Full Text, if possible.

Filmakers Library Online Now Available

For more than 40 years, Filmakers Library has worked to offer high-quality, issue-based documentaries and independent films from around the world. Now more than 1,000 of these titles are available online in a single, easy to search, multidisciplinary collection of streaming video designed specifically to meet the needs of researchers and teaching faculty. If we wished to purchase each film individually, the collection would cost more than $250,000 to build. The library has purchased this database through Alexander Press as part of our membership in Westchesters Academic Library Directors Organization (WALDO).

Here is the access URL. Enjoy!
http://flon.alexanderstreet.com/

New Audio-Visual Resources

All from the CT Department of Environmental Protection

Expedited Site Assessment: the CD-Multimedia technicl guidance on investigating fuel releases at underground storage tank sites.
Better Birdwatching in the East: DVD Field Guide-Three hours of video and audio for 270 birds commonly found in the Eastern U.S.
An Introduction to the Threatened Turtles of Massachusetts: Why They Need Our Help-How they have survived for 200 million years and why they need our help today.
Topo USA: Terrain, Trail, and Street Maps for GPS and PCs East Region-Plan trips for maximumenjoyment and navigate with complete confidence.

Don't Do What You Love

It's common wisdom to do what you love. Management experts usually promise that happiness and fulfillment will follow. But that's not always the case. Here are three reasons you may want to avoid pursuing your passion:
It's not your strength. You may love to do something you are just not good at. Because it can be hard to self-assess, ask for frank feedback from those around you to know where your strengths are.
You're too emotionally attached. Passion may cloud your judgment. When you care deeply about something, it can be hard to be take criticism or let others get involved.
It's a hobby, not a job. Sadly, you can't be paid for everything. What you love may not be lucrative. Instead find something you like that pays.
Source: Harvard Business Review Tip of the Day, July 1