PICTURE OF THE WEEK: FLEVOLAND

The Dutch government used land reclaimed from the sea 

to create a 15,000 acre park that mimics a paleolithic ecosystem

(Article in the December 24th issue of the New Yorker about this quest to engineer a world before humans. The article is called "Recall of the Wild" by Elizabeth Roberts.

Developmental Education Report

Combining Remedial Coursework With Credit Classes Helps Students Succeed, Report Says

Developmental education is a dead end for the nearly two million students who enroll in remedial courses every year, says a report  released today by Complete College America. The report, “Remediation: Higher Education’s Bridge to Nowhere,” says that less than one in 10 students enrolled at a community college graduate within three years, and just a little more than a third complete a bachelor’s degree in six years. However, the report says, the one-third to one-half of academically unprepared students could succeed in college-level courses if their remedial coursework were provided more as a “co-requisite” rather than a prerequisite to their full-credit classes. Access the report below.


Core Principles for Transforming Remeidal Education

Source: Chronicle of Higher Education December 18

Statistical Abstract Better Than Ever

EBSCO rescued the Statistical Abstract of the United States from extinction, and now it’s better than ever.

Last year, the Census Bureau announced that it would discontinue updating the Statistical Abstract of the United States in order to shift funds to other programs. Needless to say, the research community was not happy. Data users, librarians, and journalists rely on the Statistical Abstract as their go-to answer book to statistical questions and as a finding aid to other statistical sources. Published annually since 1878, the Abstract is the best-known, most-used statistical reference tool in the country, and perhaps the world. The library staff is now deciding between the online version or the hard copy. But we will have it!

Staff Favorites of 2012

Some Staff Favorites of 2012

Ella Grasso

Tracy Schulz, Library Assistant

Game of Thrones Series

Cindy Clynes, Assistant Librarian

Mockingjay

Amanda Dale, Assistant Librarian

Building Stories

Marilyn Nowlan, Library Director

 The Diva Digs Up the Dirt

Christina Deptulski, Assistant Librarian

Library Hours during Semester Break

 Hours for Semester Break

OPEN

Mondays through Thursdays

8:00AM-8:00PM

Except:

Monday December 24, 2012

Monday December 31, 2012

8:00 am to 3:00 pm

Fridays

Dec. 21& 28, 2012 and Jan. 4, 2013

Open 8:00AM-5:00PM

Saturdays

Dec. 29, 2012 and Jan. 5, 2013

8:30am to 3:00pm

CLOSED

Saturday- 12/22/12

Sundays-12/23/12, 12/30/12, and 1/6/13

Christmas- 12/25/12 and New Year’s 1/1/13

Titan Supercomputer

Titan Super Computer

Oak Ridge National Laboratry

It is the fastest computer in the world, capable of performing more than 20,000 trillion calculations per second (20 petaflops), about twice as fast as its nearest competitor. Titan is going intended to research in energy, climate change, efficient engines, and materials science. It cost only $97 million and will cost about $9 million in energy per year. We just thought you would like to know.



Picture of the Week

Picture of the Week

"I come in one piece"

A Printed robot at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design

Database of the Week

LITERARY REFERENCE CENTER

Literary Reference Center is a literature student's dream. It provides a wealth of information for students doing author or biography reports, not to mention librarians and instructors.

 It has more than:

35,000 plot summaries, synopses and work overviews

252,000 author biographies

693,000 book reviews

78,400 classic and contemporary poems

19,700 classic and contemporary short stories

6,600 author interviews

Nearly 100,000 articles/essays of literary criticism

AND 450 literary journals

This beautifully conceived and realized product, with extraordinary content and powerful navigability, is designed for literary researchers from high schoolers to postgraduates.I think you will like the new look of the page.find it in the list of Research Databases by Title on the Hoffman Family Library page.

www.goodwin.edu/library

 Can I send saved eBook pages in PDF format to my Kindle?

 YES YOU CAN!

Using Amazon's Send to Kindle options, you can send your saved EBSCOhost eBook pages in PDF format to your Kindle device or Kindle app on iPhone or Android devices, or read them using Kindle for the Chrome browser.
For more information, go to http://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle
See also:
How can I print or save eBook pages as a PDF?

 REFERENCE 2012

BEST DATABASES 

NEW YORK TIMES TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2012

 FICTION

Bring up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Building Stories by Chris Ware
A Hologram for the King by Dave Eggers
NW by Zadie Smith
The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers

NONFICTION

Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
Far From the Tree by Andrew Solomon
The Passage of Power: The Years of Lyndon Johnson by Robert A. Caro
The Patriarch: The Remarkable Life and The Turbulent Times of Joseph Kennedy by David Nasaw
Why Does the World Exist? by Jim Holt

ALL IN THE LIBRARY