Free Web Seminar

On February 17th, New York Times bestselling author Walter Dean Myers presented a National Council of Teachers of America (NCTE) Web seminar, "Teaching Dope Sick in the Classroom," as part of the National African American Read-In. This book, one of Myers's most recent, is available for free viewing from the Adlit.org website until February 24, 2009. In the Web seminar, Myers talks openly about growing up in Harlem, the origin of his book ideas, the significance of Dope Sick, ways to bridge the gap with inner city youth, and ideas for writing about literature. View the recording of the Web seminar as part of your National African American Read-In celebration during the month of February!
Source: NCTE Inbox February 18 2009

Management Tip of the Week

Schedule Regular Meetings . . . With Yourself
As we continue venturing into uncharted economic waters, how can you keep your job on track and continue delivering your best? Schedule a weekly meeting with yourself. That's right: no matter how busy you are, this is not a luxury. It's essential.

Every week, take a quiet hour to reflect on recent critical events -- conflicts, failures, opportunities you exploited, observations of others' behavior, feedback from others. Consider how you responded, what went well, what didn't, and what might be more effective in the future.

Never cancel this meeting -- it's crucial
Today's Management Tip was adapted from "A New Year's Resolution: Schedule Regular Meetings with Yourself," posted on January 5, 2009, by Gill Corkindale on "Letter from London."
Source for the blog: Direct quote from Harvard Publishing

Life of Zora Neal Hurston

Paul LaRocca has given the library a signed copy of Speak, SoYou Can Speak Again: The Life of Zora Neale Hurston written by her grand-niece, Lucy Anne Hurston. It is a documented journey with an interactive collection of photographs, poetry, articles, cards, handwritten notes, and a CD. Thank you, Paul. This gift is greatly appreciated.
Image: book cover

Global Warming Animated

“Climate change is an enormously complex issue. Some scientists have dedicated their entire lives to researching it. Lately, we've been coming across lots of great animations that can help us understand and discuss these complex issues through their entertainment and educational value, or through political and social commentary. Here are some of the best I found. They range from satirical to musical, public service to comedy:” (Sarah Kuck)

This article last month, Global Warming Animated, by Sarah Kuck in World Changing is not to be missed. She gives you a chance to sample some of these entertaining and education animations. Try “Wake up, Freak Out—Then Get a Grip” first.
Source: World Changing December 18, 2008
Image: www.careglobalwarming.com/global-warming.jpg

Closing the Gap

Closing the Gap Between Education and Technology
"According to Apple curriculum evangelist Mark Benno, we live in a time when "our kids are being pushed harder, faster, and in ways we never would have imagined." And that, he insisted, is creating a variety of challenges for today's educators." You must read this.

Source: The JOURNAL February 2009

Blackboard 9.0 Release

Blackboard has released an all-new version of Blackboard Learn, formerly known as the Blackboard Academic Suite. The new 9.0 release adds social learning and Web 2.0 tools, as well as capabilities for integrating the software with open source systems like Moodle and Sakai.

Blackboard Learn 9.0 focuses heavily on Web 2.0 and social and collaborative learning tools. These include a variety of enhancements to existing features, as well as some completely new capabilities, in the areas blogs, group tools, journals, notifications, and the UI itself, which has undergone a redesign and is now built on Web 2.0 technologies.

Some of the other new features include:

1) Facebook integration, including access to course information and alerts within Facebook;
2) SafeAssign for plagiarism detection and prevention;
New navigation capabilities, including enhanced keyboard navigation;
3) "Standards based design for ease of use with assistive technologies such as screen readers"; and
4) New integration capabilities for using Blackboard in conjunction with open source and home-grown learning management systems.

America's Favorite Movie Star

I know you have all been waiting for this information. For the third year in a row, Denzel Washington comes in on top as America’s favorite movie star. Returning to the list this year at number two, after a one year absence, is Clint Eastwood. The perennial favorite, John Wayne, who died 30 years ago, is tied with Will Smith at number three. These are the some of the results of The Harris Poll, a new nationwide survey of 2,388 U.S. adults surveyed online by Harris Interactive between December 9 and 15, 2008.
Source: Harris Poll

American History:American Presidency Project

The American Presidency Project is an impressive resource for the study of the Presidency, complete with a searchable database of more than 84,000 records. This project of the University of California-Santa Barbara offers a rich combination of both current and historical information on American Presidents from 1789 to 2008. Researchers and students will find themselves exploring these primary documents for just one more piece of history. The information is presented through an attractive and highly functional web site.
Source: College and Research Libraries News January 2009

Stimulus Plan Aids for Education

The economic stimulus plan that The House of Representatives passed yesterday will shower the nation’s school districts, child care centers and university campuses with $150 billion in new federal spending, a vast two-year investment that would more than double the Department of Education’s current budget. Read the article in the New York Times.

Source: New York Times January 28

Working with Students with Autism

Working With Students With Autism
When: Wednesday, January 28, 4 to 5 p.m. EST
Where: http://www.edweek-chat.org

Children are currently being diagnosed with autism spectrum disorders at the staggering rate of 1 in 150. Many of these children are being mainstreamed, but how can general education teachers support them in an inclusive setting? How can teachers transform a challenging classroom situation into a growth experience for all students? Chat guests will discuss teaching strategies and behavior-management techniques for the general and special education classroom. If you are unable to attend the Edweek chat, transcripts are available after the chat.

American Library Association Book Awards

Neil Gaiman's novel The Graveyard Book, won the American Library Association's Newberry Medal while the Caldecott Medal for children's book illustration went to Beth Krommes for The House in the Night, written by Susan Marie Swanson. The Coretta Scott King Award for best author was given to Kadir Nelson, for We Are the Ship: The Story of Negro League Baseball. The illustrator award went to Floyd Cooper for The Blacker the Berry. The King prizes were founded 40 years ago to honor the works of black Americans. They will be in the Goodwin library soon!

CQ Researcher: REgulating Toxic Chemicals

Chemicals are integral to many everyday products, from electronics and toys to building materials and household goods. But environmental, health and consumer advocates say the agencies responsible for protecting Americans from exposure to harmful chemicals are allowing too many dangerous substances into the market without testing them for toxicity. Some goods, such as medicines, are tested for safety before they can be sold, but many common products do not go through premarket safety screening. Many concerns focus on infants and young children, who are especially sensitive to toxic hazards. Chemical manufacturers say the existing regulatory system works effectively and can be tightened to address new concerns, but critics argue that a precautionary approach — which would require producers to show that materials are safe before they can be marketed — would protect consumers more fully.
This report is available online for the Goodwin community (password protected).

LaRocca's Intro to Sociology Course Resources

Here is the list of resources recommended by the Goodwin LIbrary for Introduction to Sociology. Please contact the library staff for additional information.

SiCKO by Michael Moore

The library has fulfilled a faculty member's request and now has SiCKO, Michael Moore's scathing 2007 film indictment of America's failing health system. It includes over 80 minutes of all-new material. If you haven't already seen it, it might be a good follow-up to today's meeting with Senator Dodd.

Does fMRI See the Future?

For decades, scientists have used an imaging technique called functional magnetic resonance imaging, or fMRI, to chronicle the brain in action. But a study in the January 22nd issue of Nature suggests that fMRI might show more than what the brain is doing—it might reveal what the brain’s about to do.

FMRI studies assume that blood flow in the brain correlates with neuronal activity. Active brain cells need nutrients, which are brought to the cells by freshly oxygenated blood. But in the new study, scientists found that fMRI also detects increased blood flow in brain regions that aren’t active—but that may be in the near future.

The researchers trained monkeys to perform a specific visual task. And they found that, even when the animals were sitting in the dark waiting for the test to begin, fMRI nevertheless revealed an increased blood flow to the monkeys’ visual cortex.

The study suggests that fMRI data may be a lot more interesting than we thought. Scientists may be looking at their imaging data in a way that’s too simplistic. And fMRI may not be measuring exactly what we thought it did. What will they think of next? Maybe fMRI can tell.
(This is an exact transcript of Scientific American's 60-second podcast. Subscribe to 60-Second Science podcasts--great for stimulating discussions in classes.)

Follow this Blog

You can now actively follow this blog. Just follow the directions and do as you wish.

Text Messaging

I am sure you will now be surprised by this information The Nielsen Company estimates that 57 percent of all mobile phone subscribers ages 13 and older use text messaging on a regular basis. U.S. mobile subscribers now send and receive more text messages in a month than they make phone calls. In 2008, mobile phone subscribers sent or received an average of 357 text messages per month, compared with placing 204 phone calls. Among 13 to 17 year-olds, the average is 1,742text messages per month.
Source: Short Code Marketing Opportunity December 2008

Autism Speaks Adopts Open Access

Autism Speaks, the nation's largest autism advocacy organization, has announced that all researchers who receive an Autism Speaks grant will be required to deposit any resulting peer-reviewed research papers in the PubMed Central online archive, making the articles available to the public within 12 months of journal publication. This policy makes the result of their research freely and easily accessible to individuals with autism, families and other advocates, as well as interested researchers. Autism Speaks is the first U.S.-based nonprofit advocacy organization to institute this public access requirement.
Source: Association of College and Research Libraries January 2009

Women in Science

"With the inauguration of an administration avowedly committed to Science as the grand elixir for the nation’s economic, environmental and psycho-reputational woes, a number of scientists say that now is the time to tackle a chronic conundrum of their beloved enterprise: how to attract more women into the fold, and keep them once they are there."
Source: In ‘Geek Chic’ and Obama, New Hope for Lifting Women in Science" in the New York Times

Students Avoid Remedial Courses

Community colleges are increasingly concerned about the large number of students who require remedial education and never make it into college-level classes. And a new study confirms what some have long suspected: Many students don’t even attempt to take remedial classes.

According to the study, 36 percent of those referred to remedial mathematics did not complete their precollege work because they did not enroll in a required course. Likewise, 27 percent of those who required remedial English failed to enroll in a required course.

Source: Report based on the study: "Referral, Enrollment, and Completion in Developmental Education Sequences in Community Colletes"

CHANGE OF HOURS ON SUNDAY

Starting Sunday, February 1, the library will be open from 10 a.m. to 2:30 p.m.

The library will be closed Sunday, January 25.

Guide to Inauguration Day

From the New York Times, here is an interactive map of the swearing-in and parade, with schedule and transportation information.

Free Healthcare & Nursing Job Fair

FREE HEALTHCARE & NURSING JOB FAIR
HARTFORD, CT
Wednesday, March 4
The Connecticut Convention Center
100 Columbus Blvd, Hartford, CT 06103

FREE Job Fair: 9:30am - 2:30pm / FREE Classes: 8:00am - 3:30pm
Join us for a FREE healthcare Job Fair in Hartford, CT. Enjoy up to 5 hours of FREE CE and an exhibit hall packed with top recruiters, awesome prize drawings,
on-site shopping and more.

New Book of Interest

Opening Up Education: The Collective Advancement of Education through Open Technology, Open Content, and Open Knowledge by Iiyoshi and Kumar

Given the abundance of open education initiatives that aim to make educational assets freely available online, the time seems ripe to explore the potential of open education to transform the economics and ecology of education. The essays in this book by leaders in open education describe successes, challenges, and opportunities they have found in a range of open education initiatives. An electronic version of this book is openly available under Creative Commons license at the MIT Press Web site. A copy of the book is also available in the library.

LIBRARY CLASSES AND MORE

So far the library staff has scheduled 13 classes and meetings in the library for January and some in February as well. You may contact us directly or use the form on the library page to request a session. All of the activities are on the calendar on the library page.

50 State Report Card

"Quality Counts 2009" is the 13th edition of Education Week’s series of annual report cards tracking state education policies and outcomes. Drawing heavily on data from the Editorial Projects in Education Research Center’s annual state policy survey, the report once again offers a comprehensive state-by-state analysis of key indicators of student success. With English-language learners as the special focus of this year’s report, it also, for the first time, provides 50-state information on this diverse and growing student subgroup, complemented by explanatory articles from Education Week reporters.
Source: Education Week

Best Careers 2009: LIBRARIAN

Forget about that image of librarians as a mousy bookworms. More and more of today's librarians must be clever interrogators, helping the patron to reframe their question more usefully. Librarians then become high-tech information sleuths, helping patrons plumb the oceans of information available in books and digital records. Librarianship is definitely an underrated career! If I do say so myself, librarians are among our society's most empowering people.
Source: U.S. News & World Report

Peeking Inside a Singular Mind: Autistic Savant

This is the title of an article in the current issue of the New Scientist.
"Autistic savant Daniel Tammet shot to fame when he set a European record for the number of digits of pi he recited from memory (22,514). For afters, he learned Icelandic in a week. But unlike many savants, he's able to tell us how he does it. We could all unleqash extraordinary mental abilities by getting inside the savant mind." He tells Celeste Biever how he does it--definitely worth reading!
Source: New Scientist January 3 2009

Making a Science of Education

In 2006, the Science magazine began a monthly Education Forum. They now plan to build on this strong beginning by recruiting high-quality articles on education from the world's best experts for every section of the magazine. They will be publishing important work in education as Perspectives, Policy Forums, Reviews, or as original Research Reports and Articles, while continuing to cover education in the News section. The first issue of 2009, with its focus on Education and Technology includes:
1) Making a Science of Education (editorial by Bruce Alberts)
2) Computers as Writing Instructors
3) NSF Rethinks Its Digital LIbrary
4) Online Education Today
5) Opening Education (open educational resources)

This issue is in the library and highly recommended.

The Hobbit Name Generator

I,Esmerelda Brandybuck and Inwë of Dorthonion in Elfish, offer this site so you, too, can find your Hobbit name and Elf name. It isn't necessary to be serious all the time.

Site: Hobbit Name Generator
Sourc: Mary Laine

Can You Identify this?

WHO WILL BE THE FIRST TO IDENTIFY THIS SECTION OF THE CONNECTICUT RIVER? PUT YOUR GUESS IN THE COMMENTS.

New Web Site: Humanities Indicators

The American Academy of Arts and Sciences yesterday unveiled the Humanities Indicators, a prototype set of statistical data about the humanities in the United States. The new on-line resource is available at www.HumanitiesIndicators.org.

The Academy project collected and analyzed data from existing sources to compile a prototype set of 74 indicators and more than 200 tables and charts, accompanied by interpretive essays covering five broad subject areas. The Indicators will be updated as new information becomes available, including data from a survey administered last year to approximately 1,500 college and university humanities departments. The Academy views the Indicators as a prototype for a much-needed national system of humanities data collection.

Source: American Academy of Arts and Sciences

New Books in the New Library

Stop by to see the wonderful new library! They are hanging bird feeders outside the library today to attract more birds. We also have a few new books:

A Mercy by Toni Morrison--The fate of a slave child abandoned by her mother animates this novel about orphaned women who form an eccentric household in late-17th-century America. Read the first chapter.

The Forever War by Dexter Filkins--The New York Times correspondent let us witness the rise of the Taliban, the attacks of 9/11, and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. This book is hailed as one of the best books about America's wars and the nature of war itself. Read the first chapter.

These two were chosen in the ten best books of 2008 by the New York Times. The first chapters provided here come to us from the New York Times book section. Other new books include:
Nothing to be Frightened of by Julian Barnes*
The Hour I First Believed by Wally Lamb
Snake Oil Science by R. Barker Bausell
2666 by Roberto Bolano*
The Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War by Drew G. Faust*
The World is What it is by Patrick French*
Born Digital: Understanding the First Generation of Digital Natives by Palfrey & Gasser
Wikipatterns by Stewart Mader
Four Skills of Cultural Diversity Competence by Mikel Hogan

(*These books were also on the Times Best Boooks of 2008 list.)

Library Moves to New Campus Thursday

The Goodwin Library is moving to the new campus at One Riverside Drive on Thursday, December 18. There will be no acess to the library catalog or databases on or off campus from December 19 to December 23. (The picture was taken before the building was finished.)

CQ Researcher New Blog

The mission of the CQ REsearcher blog is to open the CQ Researcher up to be more participatory. What topics should they cover in the coming months? What’s your opinion on the latest pro/con question? What ideas do you have for making the Researcher better? They will share some of the behind-the-scenes, sausage-making that goes into the CQ Researcher. And we will blog about how a current news story or an issue in library land. But most importantly we will play and experiment.
Source: CQ Researcher news

Second Life for Nursing Students

In Second Life,the wildly popular virtual world now inhabited by more than eight million residents, Elsevier has conducted a large prototype project and built a small simulated environment to train nurses in how to use the communication protocol SBAR (Situation, Background, Assessment and Recommendation). As it allows multiple, geographically dispersed colleagues to meet and collaborate online in real time, using text chat and voice communication, Second Life was a natural choice for this project. Elsevier is a leading publisher and database vendor in the field of nursing and health science fields.

The clinical environment in SL features simulated patients which respond to visitors via simple chat bots and react following a basic model of human vital signs that can be tailored for different scenarios. Nurses can interact with the environment and use instruments to assess patients and then, following the SBAR protocol, talk to the assessor doctor in-world.
Source: Elsevier Library Connect Newsletter December

New Web 2.0 Platform for Education

The Social Media Classroom (SMC) is a new project started by Howard Rheingold which offers an open-source Drupal-based web service to teachers and students for the purpose of introducing social media into the classroom. The service includes tools like forums, blogs, wikis, chat, social bookmarking, RSS, microblogging, widgets, video conferencing, and more. The SMC is more than just a collection of new media tools repurposed for educational use, though. The end goal of the service is to move education away from being a unidirectional delivery of knowledge to become a more collaborative learning process.
Source: National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE)

New ACCUPLACER Platform Coming Soon

I am pleased to remind you that beginning in 2009, the ACCUPLACER program will be supported by a new platform, ACCUPLACER i3, created by Pearson Education. Really, this is good news. ACCUPLACER i3, ACCUPLACER's third Internet-based platform, will maintain the same general functionality of the current system, while offering more features and flexibility.

The move will begin in early 2009 and conclude by June 30, 2009. ACCUPLACER i3 will have a look and feel very similar to the current system, and we anticipate only a minor learning curve. To ensure a smooth transfer, Person Education will provide ample training and assistance. Several Goodwin representatives will attend a training session in January. If you want to know more, just ask us.

Majors Making a Difference

For our students looking for a career in which they can make a difference in the world, this series from WorldChanging will be of interest. The fact that several of these seem to be careers of the future makes them even more appealing. Worldchanging is a media organization that comprises a global network of independent journalists, designers and thinkers covering the world's most intelligent solutions to today's problems.
Source: Worldchanging

E-patients

About 80% of internet users go online for health information. Surprisingly, E-patients who feel they have serious health problems are more likely to go online in search of health information. For example, 75% of e-patients with chronic conditions reported their last health-related search affected a decision about how to treat an illnes or condition.
Source: Pew Internet & American Life Project

What happened in Bhopal?

On the night of Dec. 2nd and 3rd, 1984, a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, began leaking 27 tons of the deadly gas methyl isocyanate. None of the six safety systems designed to contain such a leak were operational, allowing the gas to spread throughout the city of Bhopal.[1] Half a million people were exposed to the gas and 20,000 have died to date as a result of their exposure. More than 120,000 people still suffer from ailments caused by the accident and the subsequent pollution at the plant site. There are extensive links from the parent page of Bhopal.org at:
http://www.bhopal.org/

30,000 ebooks in Project Gutenberg

Project Gutenberg this month has officially passed 30,000 original eBooks, bringing the the original Project Gutenberg editions to as many titles as the average U.S. public library. Another major landmark is that the number of books in the Chinese language has now passed Dutch to become the newest member of Project Gutenberg’s “Top 5 Languages”, with a total of over 375 books in the Gutenberg archives.

There are still around 300 Chinese titles being held on the PrePrint site so we really need help in cataloging these. If you can work in Chinese you are encouraged to look into the directory called /china over at PrePrints, or get the .zip file (one directory above) to downloaded all the files in one go.

Project Gutenberg encourages the creation and distribution of digital books. They have provided copyright free eBooks for downloading since 1971.
Source: Project Gutenberg

Read The Federal Register

Federal Register announces launch of new Electronic Public Inspection Desk.The Office of the Federal Register has created an Electronic Public Inspection Desk to provide free worldwide electronic access to public documents. For the first time in the 72-year existence of the daily Federal Register, the documents on file are available for viewing anytime, anywhere. Every Federal business day, anyone with access to a computer now can read critical documents governing Federal regulations relating to business, health, and safety as soon as the documents are placed on file.
Source: Peter Scott's Library Blog

National Book Awards 2008

Here are the winners of the National Book Awards for 2008 announced this week:


Young People's Literature

Judy Blundell
What I Saw and How I Lied
(Scholastic)

Poetry

Mark Doty
Fire to Fire: New and Collected Poems
(HarperCollins)

Nonfiction

Annette Gordon-Reed
The Hemingses of Monticello: An American Family
(W.W. Norton & Company)

Fiction

Peter Matthiessen
Shadow Country
(Modern Library)

Source: National Book Foundation

Seven Titles Added to Credo Reference Today

Today Credo Referenc, online reference library, integrated seven Edward Elgar titles into the Credo General Reference collection. Elgar is recognized as a leading publisher in the fields of economics, business and finance, as well as publishing other cutting-edge titles in law and public policy. The seven titles will provide Credo researchers with key content in the area of economics:

A Biographical Dictionary of Dissenting Economists
A Biographical Dictionary of Women Economists
Elgar Companion to Feminist Economics (Choice Outstanding Academic Title)
An Encyclopedia of Macroeconomics (Choice Outstanding Academic Title)
An Encyclopedia of Keynesian Economics (Choice Outstanding Academic Title)
Nobel Memorial Laureates in Economics
Who's Who in Economics, 4th edition

The Credo Reference Library is available to the Goodwin Community. This is always a good place to start research.

Equal Opportunity Day

At the dedication of the Gettysburg National Cemetery in southern Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863, President Abraham LINCOLN delivered the GETTYSBURG Address, a 270-word speech that is considered one of the greatest in American history, though it didn’t receive much attention at the time. Equal Opportunity Day is observed at Gettysburg National Cemetery each year, where ceremonies commemorating Lincoln’s address are held under the sponsorship of the Sons of Union Veterans and the Lincoln Fellowship of Pennsylvania. Sometimes this day is referred to as Gettysburg Address Day.

Source: From Holidays, Festivals, and Celebrations of the World Dictionary in the Credo Reference database at Goodwin Library. The painting is by Franz Marc called "The Fox."

Biodiversity Heritage Library

Ten major natural history museum libraries, botanical libraries, and research institutions have joined to form the Biodiversity Heritage Library Project. The group is developing a strategy and operational plan to digitize the published literature of biodiversity held in their respective collections. This literature will be available through a global “biodiversity commons.” Most of the literature is in the developed world, in the Northern Hemisphere, but most of the biodiversity is in the developing world and the Southern Hemisphere. One ofthe most desirable outcomes of the project is to repatriate literature to the originating countries of
publication by making it accessible to anyone with an Internet connection.
Source: WORLD LIBRARY AND INFORMATION CONGRESS INTERNATIONAL FEDERATION OF LIBRARIES AND ASSOCIATIONS

World Wide Science Resource

WorldWideScience.org is a global science gateway connecting you to national and international scientific databases and portals. WorldWideScience.org accelerates scientific discovery and progress by providing one-stop searching of global science sources. The WorldWideScience Alliance, a multilateral partnership, consists of participating member countries and provides the governance structure for WorldWideScience.org. This site enables anyone with Internet access to launch a single-query search of 32 national scientific databases and portals from 44 countries, covering six continents and nearly half of the world’s population. Users of WorldWideScience.org can search more than 200 million pages of science and technology information not typically accessible through popular search engines.

CA Researcher: National Debt: Too Big?

With the national debt now more than $10 trillion — twice what it was eight years ago — the country faces a dire financial future, some analysts argue. Over the past eight years, the Bush administration has run larger and larger annual deficits, adding to the national debt and restricting the government's ability to respond to a new crisis. Now, with the U.S. and global financial meltdown. . . .

Source: CQ Researcher
Read the Full Report online. (Ask the library staff for password.)

Medical Image Search Engine

OmniMedicalSearch.com - Medical Image Search Engine
http://www.omnimedicalsearch.com/images.html

For students looking for medical imatges, this is a great site. It also includes
1. Web: The Web search option finds authoritative, consumer-oriented health and medical information.

2. News: the news search option reports the latest health & medical news from around the world.

3. Forums: Here one can discover what other patients, caregivers and health professionals are discussing about the conditions, diseases and treatments. Communicating with others about the progress and mutual support may be one of the most underestimated aspects of recovery.
Source: Omni Medical Search

Freshmen Success Studies

Three new studies of college freshmen suggest that even the most promising can run into academic difficulties as a long-term consequence of experiences like attending a violent or run-down high school or being raised by parents who never went to college.

Two of the studies call into question a large body of research on the educational benefits of racial and ethnic diversity on campuses, concluding that most first-year students do not reap any gains from diversity that can be measured objectively.Taken together, the studies not only challenge many of the assumptions colleges make in admitting and educating freshmen but could also influence discussions of how to improve the nation’s high schools to promote college preparation.

Source: "Studies Focus on Factors That Influence Freshmen's Success" in The Chronicle of Higher Education November 13

New York Public Library Treasures Online

The New York Public Library quietly rolled out a new video series last month. Titled "Treasures," it showcases 11 gems of the library's vast collection of more than 50 million items. And since then it has joined Facebook, broadening an online reach that already included YouTube and iTunes pages to gain more of an audience.
The library has made the videos available on its site, nypl.org, as well as on YouTube— where its photography piece is by far its most popular with more than 13,000views. (Picture: Harlem Renaissance)
Source: USA Today

LeWitt Retrospective Opening

Sol LeWitt American minimalist conceptual artist 1928-2007
Something really great is happening in New England Sunday. Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective, a collaboration between the Yale University Art Gallery, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCa) , and the Williams College Museum of Art. opens Sunday, November 16, , at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts. The retrospective is housed in a three-story 27,000 square foot historic mill building. The exhibition will consist of more than 100 works –-nearly one acre of wall surface -- that LeWitt created over 40 years. Sol LeWitt was born in Hartford and later lived in New York City.

The opening at noon is free and about a two hour drive from the Hartford area. Of course, there is no hurry. The exhibit will be on view for 25 years!

Seatle Public Library

The Seattle Public Library is the first in a new series here about libraries in the United States. Twenty-nine major national, international and local firms sought the opportunity to design the new Seattle Library. The surprise winner was Rem Koolhaas and his Office for Metropolitan Architecture in Rotterdam, in partnership with the Seattle firm of LMN Architects. The iconoclastic Dutch architect had no major buildings built in America when the Library Board selected him. His 11-floor, 362,987-square-foot library, a dazzling avant-garde symphony of glass and form, has many innovative features, including: A "Books Spiral" that displays the entire nonfiction collection in a continuous run; A towering "living room" along Fifth Avenue that reaches 50 feet in height; A distinctive diamond-shaped exterior skin of glass and steel. The new Central Library opened May 23, 2004, and immediately prompted international interest.

Veteran's Day Message

"Ninety years ago today, the guns fell silent in Europe. World War I – the “war to end all wars” – was over. Almost five million Americans served during that first modern, mechanized war. Our last living link with them, 107-year-old Army veteran Frank Buckles, observes this Veterans Day at his farm in West Virginia. It is important, on Veterans Day, for all Americans to reflect on the service and sacrifice of our veterans."
Source: VA Secretary Dr. James B. Peake

Military Photographers on the Frontlines

"The assignment… simple. The objective… illusive. The cost… immeasurable. We are the men and women who go through great risks to get the shot. We extraordinary videographers and photojournalists train with the best, operate in the worst and get noticed the least. Our mission is to be there when history happens. Ever notice that photo or video clip in the news, book, or documentary? Well, someone had to be there. Someone had to get the shot. Someone had to tell the story. We are that someone.” This is a nice collection of slideshows.
Source: Department of Defense

Unde Obama, Web Would Be the Way

Armed with millions of e-mail addresses and a political operation that harnessed the Internet like no campaign before it, Barack Obama will enter the White House with the opportunity to create the first truly “wired” presidency.

Obama aides and allies are preparing a major expansion of the White House communications operation, enabling them to reach out directly to the supporters they have collected over 21 months without having to go through the mainstream media.

Source: Washington Post

Measuring Skills for the 21st Century

When ninth-graders at St. Andrew’s School, a private boarding school in Middletown, Delaware, sat down last year to take the school’s College Work and Readiness Assessment (CWRA), they faced the sort of problems that often stump city officials and administrators, but rarely show up on standardized tests, such as how to manage traffic congestion caused by population growth.

Students were given research reports, budgets, and other documents to help draft their answers, and they were expected to demonstrate proficiency in subjects like reading and math as well as mastery of broader and more sophisticated skills like evaluating and analyzing information and thinking creatively about how to apply information to real-world problems. Ninth Graders? Do we do this in Connecticut?
Source: Educator Sector

New Book: Politics in Music

Politics in Music: Music and Political Transformation From Beethoven to Hip-Hop by Courtney Brown
ML3916.B76 2007

"This book is a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of the growing role of political activism in music. Starting with Beethoven's politics and the political battles in Germany to exploit Beethoven's legacy, Brown explores the growing understanding of the political power of music as shown in the nationalist fervor of Verdi, the philosophical and political goals of Wagner and Bob Marley, the legacy of the union struggles of Joe Hill, the 60's era of protest music embodied by Bob Dylan, and on to the modern juggernaut of hip-hop. There are so many interesting facets of music history presented here that are never discussed in traditional music study programs. An easy and engaging read, the book shows clearly the theme of political awareness that has developed in modern music. This book is essential reading for those interested in understanding where music is today and where it will be heading in the future."
— Albert Ahlstrom, D.M.A. (from The Juilliard School), Director of Music, Holy Spirit Catholic Church, Atlanta, Georgia.

The book is in the Goodwin Library now.

Sample APA Research Paper

Click here for a copy of a research paper in APA format titled "Can Medication Cure Obesity in Children?" This is a research paper written by Luisa Mirano, a student in a psychology class. The assignment was to write a review of the literature paper documented with APA style citations and references. This sample research paper was published in The Bedford Handbook by Diana Hacker. The library staff is prepared to help you with research and the APA format.

American Diabetes Month

November is American Diabetes Month®, a time to bring even greater awareness and attention to the seriousness of diabetes, its deadly complications, and the importance of proper diabetes control. This year, the American Diabetes Association is asking the American public, "Why should you care about diabetes?"

Throughout the month, the American Diabetes Association will conduct activities – and encourage others across the country – to get involved in efforts to raise awareness about diabetes and its serious complications such as heart disease, stroke, kidney disease, and blindness.

Source: American Diabetes Association

Blog Readers Get New Books First

Some New Books in the Library

Hot, Flat, and Crowded by Thomas L. Friedman
Film as Social Practice by Graeme Turner
Short Guide to Writing About Psychology by Dana Dunn
Birthday Party & The Room: Plays by Harold Pinter
The Widow of Eastwick by John Updike
Cultural Resistance Reader edited by Stephne Duncombe
Joe Orton Complete Plays
DIY The Rise of LO-FI Culture by Amy Spencer
Politics in Music by Courtney Brown
Amerioa on Film Benshoff and Griffin
Saved by Edward Bond
Death with Interruptions by Jose Saramago

Ccoming soon: The Post-Modern American World by Fareed Zakaria

The Lancet has Relaunched

Welcome to your new online resource for The Lancet, The Lancet Infectious Diseases, The Lancet Oncology, and The Lancet Neurology. In addition to the Lancet journals' medical news, research, review, and opinion, the new site, The Lancet Global Health Network, offers more functionality and features and will continue to expand in the coming months. The Lancet is the British medical journal available in full text on several of our subscription databases.

Listen to Richard Horton and Harriet Bell introducing the new website in the launch podcast. (mp3, 10:27 mins, 9.57Mb) The directions are on the Lancet page.
Source: The Lancet

Taking Notes: Evernote

Here is a look at a new (to me) Web 2.0 tool that has the potential to help students do better in school, collaborate with their fellow students, and save them time

Evernote is a great note taking application, but that only scratches the surface of what it can do. If you are in a lecture, for example, you can also take a picture of the blackboard with your phone, upload it to the Evernote server, and thanks to Evernote's clever OCR algorithms, even pictures of handwritten notes become instantly searchable.

You can also use it to bookmark web pages and write down your own lecture notes. Best of all, you can use a web app, a Windows or Mac desktop app, or a Windows Mobile and iPhone app, all of which seamlessly synch with each other, so that your notes are always up to date.

Source: Evernote

Google's RSS Feed

Google’s been the lone hold out among major search engines on RSS but the company quietly enabled feeds for web search results this week. The offering is pretty limited and frustrating, you have to go through Google Alerts to get an obscure RSS URL, but ReadWriteWeb offers a tutorial and some strategic advice in this post.

Web search RSS is useful for being alerted whenever search results for your keywords or link have changed; subscribing to at least a few searches will let you know when Google users are seeing something new in the first few pages of search results for Goodwin College, for example.
Source: ReadWriteWeb

USA.gov--Presidential Election 2008

USA.gov now offers a new page on the presidential election. You’ll find information about President-elect Barack Obama, inauguration day (January 20, 2009), and the 2008election. It also has biographies of President- and Vice President-Elect Obama and Biden, and their wives.

Source: USA.gov

New Dog for the White House

Sasha and Malia," Obama said in his victory speech at Chicago's Grant Park, "I love you both so much, and you have earned the new puppy that's coming with us to the White House."

Harry Truman once said, “If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog.” But presidents have kept an unusual assortment of animals other than dogs and cats, according to CNN this morning. Thomas Jefferson kept two grizzly bears in a cage on the White House lawn, while John Quincy Adams is said to have let his alligator use a bathtub inside. Calvin Coolidge walked his raccoons on a leash. Theodore Roosevelt's sons escorted their pet pony onto the White House elevator to cheer up a sick sibling. And perhaps the strangest of all: Martin Van Buren briefly owned two tiger cubs, a gift from the Sultan of Oman. Some of us remember Nixon’s Checkers speech and Lyndon Johnson lifting his beagles by their ears. I wonder what kind of dog the Obama girls will have--a Bichon maybe?

New Directions for Youth Development

The fall issue of this journal, New Directions for Youth Development, is just in at the library. The topic for the articles in this issue is "Youth, Violence, and Social Disintegration." This volume examines violent behavior and addresses these questions in an international context. The theoretical framework for all of the articles is the theory of disintegration.

Reminder: Reference Help Any Time

InfoAnyTime is a real-time, web-based reference service that provides live librarians to assist Goodwin students and faculty in finding information to support research. When the library is closed or you cannot get here, InfoAnyTime connects to a professional librarian 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Sessions are conducted via online chat, using pushing and co-browsing technology to display information found on the web and in the iCONN databases. Anyone with a web browser can access the service - there is no special software required. You can access InfoAnyTime from the library page.

Nursing 210 Students: Critical Thinking Study Guide

The library does have the Critical Thinking Study Guide to accompany Medical-Surgical Nursing by Ignatavicius & Workman. The book is on reserve to be used in the library.

Wharton Experience Online for Business Students

The Wharton School of Pennsylvania gives us free access to knowledge@Wharton, the school's online business journal that includes:
--analysis of current business trends
--interviews with industry leaders and Wharton faculty
--articles based on the most recent business research
--conference overviews, book reviews, and links to relevant content
--searchable database of over 1,500 articles and research abstracts

Assessing 21st Century Skills

Finding ways to assess 21st century learning skills should top the list of education technology priorities for the next Administration and Congress, according to the more than 500 school leaders that responded to a survey issued yesterday by the National School Boards Association at the organization’s annual technology and learning conference, T+L.

More than 50 percent of the district leaders surveyed agreed that their top education technology priority for the new Administration and Congress should be assessing 21st century skills. An additional 43 percent called for supporting increased professional development around educational technology, while 38 percent wanted an increased focus on S.T.E. M. subject areas (science, technology, engineering, and math).

Read the survey.

Round and Round

"Athletics tracks are always run anticlockwise. Does this favour particular runners? Races could surely be run either way, so why never clockwise?" Please comment!!

Source: Peter Hallberg, Stockholm, Sweden from The Last Word
Image: Image: dlritter, stock.xchng

Psychology Articles

The library subscribes to PsycARTICLES, a database of full-text articles from journals published by the American Psychological Association, the APA Educational Publishing Foundation, the Canadian Psychological Association, and Hogrefe Publishing Group. It doesn't get any better than that for psychology students! Here is the list of journals in the database.

A Poem for Election Day

Here is Langston Hughes poem, "Let America be America Again"

This poem was online today in Worldchanging,a solutions-based online magazine that works from a simple premise: that the tools, models and ideas for building a better future lie all around us. The editors say plenty of people are working on tools for change, but the fields in which they work remain unconnected. The motive, means and opportunity for profound positive change are already present. Another world is not just possible, it's here. We only need to put the pieces together.
Source: Worldchanging

New E-Book of Essays

Content: Selected Essays on Technology, Creativity, Copyright, and the Future of the Future by Cory Doctorow

"The Internet’s favorite high-tech culture maven is celebrated with the first collection of his infamous articles, essays, and polemics. He leads off with a mutinous talk given at Microsoft on digital rights management, insisting that they stop treating their customers as criminals. Readers will discover how America chose Happy Meal toys over copyright, why Facebook is taking a faceplant, how the Internet is basically just a giant Xerox machine, why Wikipedia is a poor cousin of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, and how to enjoy free e-books.

Practicing what he preaches, all of the author’s books, including this one, are simultaneously released in print and on the Internet under Creative Commons licenses that encourage their reuse and sharing."

Source: Regina Schroeder in Booklist

Resource of the Week

United National Audiovisual Library of International Law

The Audiovisual Library is a unique, multimedia resource which provides the United Nations with the unprecedented capacity to provide high quality international law training and research materials to an unlimited number of recipients on a global level. The Audiovisual Library consists of three pillars: (1) the Historic Archives containing documents and audiovisual materials relating to the negotiation and adoption of significant legal instruments under the auspices of the United Nations and related agencies since 1945; (2) the Lecture Series featuring a permanent collection of lectures on virtually every subject of international law given by leading international law scholars and practitioners from different countries and legal systems; and (3) the Research Library providing an on-line international law library with links to treaties, jurisprudence, publications and documents, scholarly writings and research guides. The Audiovisual Library is available to all individuals and institutions around the world for free via the Internet.

This is a very rich resource, but there is plenty of helpful information on how to access the content — for example, this detailed page on what is in the Historical Archives and how to navigate this section of the site. Topics included here: Criminal Law, Decolonization, Diplomatic and Consular Relations, Disarmament, Education / Science / Culture, Environmental Law, Health, Human Rights, International Economic Law, International Organizations, Law of Outer Space, Law of the Sea, Law of Treaties, Peace and Security, Refugees and Stateless Persons, Succession of States.

Source: United Nations Blog

What to do if You Have Problems Voting

Some of the numerous voting problems already seen in early voting include machines flipping votes from your candidate to another, other kinds of machine failures, discovering that your name has been purged from the voter registration database, too few machines leading to waits as long as 6 hours, etc. Print this advice out and take it with you so that if you encounter problems, you'll know how to insist that your vote be counted.

Seeing Race and Seeming Racist?

White people—including children as young as 10—may avoid talking about race so as not to appear prejudiced, according to new research. But that approach often backfires as blacks tend to view this “colorblind” approach as evidence of prejudice, especially when race is clearly relevant.

These results are from two separate sets of experiments led by researchers from Tufts University and Harvard Business School. Their findings are reported in the October issue of the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology and the September issue of Developmental Psychology. Both journals are published by the American Psychological Association and available in the library.

"Seeing Race and Seeming Racist? Evaluating Strategic Colorblindness in Social Interaction" Journal of Personality and Social Psychology

"Learning (No,t) to Talk About Race: When Older Children Underperform in Social Categorization" Developmental Psychology

Source: American Psychological Association

Blackboard unites with Moodle

Blackboard has taken another step toward making the next version of its course-management system work alongside open-source competitors. The company announced today that it is working with Iowa State University to create a software plug-in for the company’s course-management system so that it can integrate with Moodle, a popular open-source alternative. The move comes just three months after the company announced the creation of a similar connection tool for Sakai, another open-source course-management system.

The new software tool, called the Learning Environment Connector for Moodle, will let students access course Web sites created with Moodle from within the Blackboard software interface. The goal is to let students see all of their course information in one space, regardless of which software was used to produce the Web pages.

Source: Chronicle of Higher Education Wired Campus October 28 2008

Focus on Native American Heritage

National American Indian Heritage Month is recognized each November as a time to learn more about the history and heritage of Native American peoples. Resources on the library web pge provide strategies for exploring Native American literature and heritage in your own classroom.

What is Happening To State Universities?

"State universities have been established as bold testament to the democratic belief that, regardless of students' race, status, or economic condition, the doors of learning and promise will be opened equally to all with the wit and will to master the challenge. But the universities don't always operate that way." (Gene Nichol)

Christopher Newfield, in his new book, Unmaking the Public University: The Forty-Year Assault on the Middle Class, writes about how certain myths exacerbate the financial plight of those institutions. Newfield, a professor of English at the University of California at Santa Barbara, talks about his book in an article in the current Chronicle of Higher Education. He claims that the crises threatening public universities are not primarily the result of economic downturns or altered cost structures. They stem, according to Newfield, from a conservative-led campaign to end higher education's democratizing influence on the nation.

Source: Gene Nichol's and Christopher Newfield's articles in The Chronicle of Higher Education

Last Day to Register!

IN CONNECTICUT, YOU HAVE UNTIL 8 P.M. TONIGHT TO REGISTER TO VOTE IN NEXT TUESDAY'S ELECTION.

Small Business Savings

Here are some tips, actually 78 tips, for Small Businesses To Save Money in This Economy. It includes technology that helps reduce utility and travel costs, and methods for reducing overhead, office expenses, insurance, and advertising costs.

New Titles in Academic OneFile

All of the titles below have been added to the Academic OneFile database and can be found on product using Basic or Advanced Search forms. Titles can be found via Publication Search within the next two weeks.

American Journal of Health Behavior
Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science
European Law Reports
Hebrew Studies Journal
Indian Journal of Industrial Relations
Journal of Australian Political Economy
Journal of Centrum Cathedra
Journal of Information, Law and Technology
Journal of Services Research
Law, Social Justice and Global Development Journal
PT: Magazine of Physical Therapy
Southwestern Naturalist (
The King's Law Journal
Revista Iberoamericana de Ciencia, Tecnología y Sociedad

Higher Educaton Assessment Resources

Colleges and universities are grappling with a need for new forms of assessment, often designed by faculty, that can address multiple types of learning and evaluate nuanced capacities, such as critical thinking and analytical ability.

This list of Internet resources includes some excellent comprehensive sites on all facets of assessment in higher education. Potentially even more valuable to faculty, however, are the selected links to university sites, which provide practical methods for creating a variety of alternative assessments and integrating them into college course work. Serving less as final measurements than as vital components of the classroom dynamic, these alternative or authentic assessments can inform ongoing course development and invigorate teaching and learning.

Source: Bonnie Chauncey, Northeastern Illinois University Education Librarian from
Association of College and Research Libraries (ACRL)

Early Childhood Education Databases

Two popular iCONN databases will have a new feature soon. Kids InfoBits and the Discovering Collection will have ReadSpeaker added on about November 1st. ReadSpeaker is a simple to use audio text reader that will “speak” the text of items retrieved in searches.

The ReadSpeaker player will appear when a file has been selected for
viewing, printing, e-mailing, or listening. Users with questions about how ReadSpeaker works can click on the ReadSpeaker Help button.

ReadSpeaker comes with the ability to play or download the audio text as an MP3 file. To download the file, the user must first agree that the use will be for educational, noncommercial use only.

The White Tiger Wins Booker Literary Prize

Aravind Adiga, one of the two debut novelists on the 2008 shortlist, won the Man Booker prize this week for The White Tiger, a bracingly modern novel about the dark side of the new India. The White Tiger takes a sharp and unblinking look at the reality of India's economic miracle. Its antihero and narrator, Balram Halwai, is a cocksure, uneducated young man, the son of an impoverished rickshaw driver. By lying, betraying and using his sharp intelligence, Balram makes his ascent into the heady heights of Bangalore's big business.

The Man Booker Prize for Fiction is a literary prize awarded each year for the best original full-length novel written in the English language by a citizen of either the Commonwealth of Nations or Irleand. The White Tiger and other novels on the short list are available in the library.

Webcasts from the Library of Congress

Everyone can pick and choose from among the many, many webcasts available online from the Library of Congress. Browse by general topic (biography/history, culture/performing arts, education, government, poetry/literature, religion, science/technology), choose from among the current top ten (listed at the upper right), or check out what was recently added — such as playwright and screenwriter Mark Stein discussing How the States Got Their Shapes. You’ll even find webcasts and podcasts from the 2008 National Book Festival. Access Library of Congress Webcasts here.

Health Care and Presidential Candidates

The editors of the New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) asked both candidates to describe their plans for reforming the U.S. Health System. Their statements are published in the October 9th issue of NEJM. The Journal and the Harvard School of Public Health cosponsored a roundtable last month on health care in the next administration. A video of the symposium can be seen at www. nejm.org--could be used for class discussions. Be informed.

Source: NEJM

NLM's Haz-Map Updated

Haz-Map, from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), has been updated. The latest update includes 180 new chemical profiles, submitted by the United States Department of Labor. Haz-Map is an occupational health database designed for health and safety professionals and for consumers seeking information about the health effects of exposure to chemicals and biologicals at work. Haz-Map links jobs and hazardous tasks with occupational diseases and their symptoms. It covers 2030 agents, and 225 occupational diseases.

Source: National Library of Medicine

2008 Great Places in America

American Planning Association's flagship program celebrates places of exemplary character, quality, and planning. Places are selected annually and represent the gold standard in terms of having a true sense of place, cultural and historical interest, community involvement, and a vision for tomorrow.The 2008 designees are not ranked, but listed alphabetically. They are located in 21 states and the District of Columbia. My favorite, pictured here, is Summit Avenue in St. Paul, Minnesota. Check it out at 2008 Great Places in America.

Source: American Planning Association

Educational Data at Your Fingertips

DataLab, a new website from the Institute of Education Sciences’ National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), puts a wide range of survey data collected by NCES at your fingertips. Whether you want a quick number or an in-depth look at education data, the tools in the DataLab are designed to do both.

QuickStats, available now, is a guided table generator that allows users to produce a table with ease. Designed for those who are new to NCES data, or those who wish to answer basic questions — what percent of college students are from low-income families? what percent of adults are taking coursework outside of the traditional college setting? what are the teaching challenges most often cited by public school teachers? — QuickStats provides easy access to frequently used variables in many NCES studies of students, teachers, schools, and postsecondary institutions.

PowerStats, available in the spring of 2009, will permit users to produce complex tables and to run regressions, and to draw upon thousands of variables from many NCES studies. Powerstats will allow for many kinds of regression analyses, including weighted least squares and logistic regression. To view the site, please go to NCES.

Source: National Center for Education Statistics

French Writer Wins Nobel Prize

The Swedish Academy today awarded the 2008 Nobel Prize for literature to Jean-Marie Gustave lL Clézio, a French novelist, children’s author and essayist regarded by some French readers as one of the country’s greatest living writers. For more information, read this article.

Source: New York Times

Featured Goodwin Library ebook

Encyclopedia of Small Business, 3rd ed., 2007
Contains articles and overviews of all the key information needs of small business owners, including financing, financial planning, business plan creation, market analysis, sales strategy, tax planning, and human resource issues.

Music from the 1940's

For students in Paul LaRocca's class, you can find free music from the early 1940's online. You can listen to it and you can share it. It includes lots of artists--Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Bing Crosby, and many others that you have never heard before. HERE IS THE PLACE You can download Rhapsody Music software at the site.

Source: Play List Central

No Nobel Prizes for U.S>

October 1st, 2008

Bad news for American writers hoping for a Nobel Prize next week: the top member of the award jury believes the United States is too insular and ignorant to compete with Europe when it comes to great writing.

Counters the head of the U.S. National Book Foundation: “Put him in touch with me, and I’ll send him a reading list.” As the Swedish Academy enters final deliberations for this year’s award, permanent secretary Horace Engdahl said it’s no coincidence that most winners are European. “Of course there is powerful literature in all big cultures, but you can’t get away from the fact that Europe still is the center of the literary world … not the United States,” he told The Associated Press in an exclusive interview Tuesday.
Source: AP News

EPA LibrariesOpen Doors--At Last

Shuttered EPA Libraries Open Doors…After Two Years

Under orders from Congress, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency tomorrow will again provide access to library services in 15 states and its own headquarters to agency employees and the public. This ends a 30-month campaign by the Bush administration to restrict availability of technical materials within EPA but leaves in its wake scattered and incomplete collections under new political controls of library operations.

Source: Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).

Free Access to All SAGE Journals Online

Free Online Access to all SAGE Journals until October 31, 2008

Simply register HERE and you will have free online access to over 500 SAGE journals with content available from 1999-date. SAGE’s prestigious and highly cited journals are available electronically on the award winning SAGE Journals Online. Search more than 500 journals in Business, Humanities, Social Sciences, and Science, Technology and Medicine.

Source: Sage Journals Online

Banned Books Week--Day Five

Stop at our Banned Books Week exhibit in the education building today from 11-12. In the United States, the free expression of ideas is generally unlimited. But that doesn't prevent well-meaning people from trying to suppress information. As a college, we need to stand up and say we do not believe in censorship.