Internet Resources: Childhood Obesity

A Google search on the topic of "childhood obesity" turns up millions of hits--one of the problesm with Google searches. Here are some websites that provide relevant information on recognizing and addressing childhood obesity.

American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP); Prevention and Treatment of Childhood Overweight and Obesity:
www.aap.org/obesity

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Adolescent and School Health: Childhood Obesity Facts
www.cdc.gov/HealthyYouth/obesity/facts.htm

Let's Move: America's Move to Raise a Healthier Generation of Kids
www.letsmove.gov

Mayo Clinic: Childhood Obesity
www.mayoclinic.com/health/childhood-obesity/DS00698

MedlinePlus: Obesity in Children
www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/obesityinchildren.html

National Initiative for Children's Healthcare Quality (NICHQ): Childhood Obesity
www.nichq.org/childhood_obesity/

Free Music Download

Every two weeks, Alexander Street and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings offer a free music download from the popular online collection Smithsonian Global Sound® for Libraries. This download is freely available. This week it is "Sao Chegados Os Trez Reis (The Three Kings Have Arrived)" by Various Artists from the album "Christmas Songs of Portugal"(FW0684)

When this album was recorded in the 1950s, Estrella Church in Lisbon celebrated Christmas with a choir, a bagpiper and an elephant. Hear some of the sacred favorites of the season, generally sung unaccompanied. (On this recording, elephant not included.)

Download the MP3.

Source: Alexander Street Press;
Illustration: Christmas Songs of Portugal FW06845

Murakami Fans: What is he Doing Next?

Haruki Murakami's latest novel, Haruki,1Q84, has been on many Best Books of 2011 lists. What is he doing next? I am a fan and am thrilled to hear that he is writing a new book, Absolutely on Music: The Conversation with Seiji Ozawa. According to the Library Journal, it will be out in Japan next October and later in the United States.

1Q84 is in the Goodwin Library. We also have other works by Murakami:
The Elephant Vanishes (1993)
Dance Dance Dance (1994)
Norwegian Wood (2000)
Kafka on the Shore (2005)
Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman: Twenty Four Stories (2005)
After Dark (2007)

Best Dataases of 2011

Best Overall: Credo Reference
Best Original Content Runner-Up CQ Researcher/CQ Global Researcher
Most Ambitious in Scope and Content: Gale's Virtual Reference Library

THE HOFFMAN LIBRARY HAS THESE!

EXTENDED LIBRARY HOURS

EXTENDED LIBRARY HOURS BEFORE FINALS!
DEC. 5-9 (7 am TO 11 pm)
DEC. 10 (9 am TO 5 pm)
DEC. 11 10 am TO 6 pm)

Tip of the Day

True perfectionists get a bad rap for being time-wasting sticklers who demoralize those around them. But it isn't all bad. In fact, being a stickler has some valuable attributes. The key is to separate healthy perfectionist behaviors, such as striving for high but achievable standards or devoting time to things you care about, from the damaging ones, such as feeling that every mistake is catastrophic. Focus on the positives of being a perfectionist while keeping an eye out for the harmful tendencies.
Source: Harvard Business Review