Library Instruction workshops

Introduction to Sociology (LaRocca)
September 16 8:30 a.m.

Introduction to Psychology (Leone)
September 16 10 a.m.

English 101 (Simpson)
September 18 11:40 a.m.

Introduction to Sociology (LaRocca)
September 19 8:30 a.m.

Cardiopulmonary A & P (Alfieri)
September 19 6 p.m.

Youth Development Practice (Ward)
September 19 6:45 p.m.

Introduction to Science (Rajaniemi)
September 21 8 a.m.

Introduction to Homeland Security (Lee)
September 26 11:40 a.m & 6 p.m.

Book Club Members Event

The Goodwin Book Club members have been reading Drinking Coffee Elsewhere by ZZ Packer. Ms. Packer will discuss this book of short stories at the Hartford Public Library Friday evening, September 22. The talk begins at 7 p.m. to be followed by book signings and reception. The book club will meet next week to share our reactions to this book and be introduced to our October selection.

Childhood Immunizations

If anyone is researching childhood immunizations, MedlinePlus has links to many reliable sources.
Source: Childhood Immunizations at MedlinePlus

Pub Med Statistics

PubMed, which reached 16 million citations in December 2005 (including the 1.7 million OLDMEDLINE citations), is searched at a rate of more than 76 million searches per month. It is updated with in-process and MeSH-indexed citations 5 times per week. More than 82% of data entry now comes from electronic submissions. The National Library of Medicine reached the all time annual high of adding about 606,000 indexed citations from 4,928 journals at the close of Fiscal Year 2005. MEDLINE is leased by more than 400 organizations (the majority of which are mining the data for research purposes). PubMed is a service of the National Library of Medicine that includes citations from MEDLINE and other life science journals for biomedical articles back to the 1950s. PubMed includes links to full text articles and other related resources.
Source: National Library of Medicine

September 11 Digital Archive

The September 11 Digital Archive uses electronic media to collect, preserve, and present the history of the September 11, 2001 attacks. For the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks, the September 11 Digital Archive has overlaid a select group of photographs and stories from Ground Zero in New York on an interactive map. Clicking on blue markers (photos) or red markers (stories) shows details from the September 11 Digital Archive.

Featured Collection -- Ground One: Voices from Post-911 Chinatown aims to provide an in-depth portrait of the ways in which the identity of a community, largely neglected by national media following 9/11, has been indelibly shaped by that day.
Source: September 11 Digital Archive

Purple Math: Help with Alegbra

How do you really do this? -- Purplemath's algebra lessons are written with the student in mind. These lessons emphasize the practicalities rather than the technicalities, demonstrating dependable techniques, warning of likely "trick" questions, and pointing out common mistakes. The lessons are cross-referenced to help you find related material."
http://www.purplemath.com/index.htm

Welcome to New Students

We're thrilled that you're here, and we want to help you get used to finding information and conducting research in an academic library. Don't assume that locating and using library materials in a sophisticated manner is quick or easy.

Do assume that library staff is always available to help you! Watch postings to the blog that will help you navigate our periodical indexes.

New Books Just In!

Youth Leadershp (VanLinden & Fertman)
HQ769.V278 1998

Urban Sanctuaries: Neighborhood Organizations in the Lives and Futures of Inner-City Youth (McLaughlin & Langman)
HQ769.M385 1994

Raising Children in a Socially Toxic Environment (Garbarino)
HQ769.G258 1995

Full-Service Schools: A Revolution in Health & Social Services for Chldren, Youth, and Families (Dryfoos)
LB 3409.U5 D79 1994

Ready-to-Use Activities for Before and After School Programs (Stassevitch et al.)
GV1203.R37 1989

Building a Full-Service School: A Step-by-Step Guide (Calfee et al.)
LC221.2.F6 1998

Children and Danger: Coping With the Consequences of Community Violence
(Garbarino et al.)
HQ784.V55045 1992

All Kids are Our Kids (Benson)
HQ769.B51177 1997

Putting Families First: America’s Family Support Movement & the Challenge of Change
(Kagan et al.)
HV 699.)88 1994

Student Cellphones

"This fall college students across the country will use their cellphones to send each other text messages. But at 15 institutions, the phones will do a whole lot more. Those 15 colleges have signed up to use Rave Wireless -- a service that aims to turn every student's cellphone into a social and academic jack-of-all-trades. Students can use the service to view their grades, check the availability of study rooms, and see transportation and event schedules, according to USA Today. Rave Wireless, which can be used with any phone carrier, doubles as a campus-safety tool. A student on a late-night wa lk home from the library can set his or her cellphone to contact campus police if he or she doesn't arrive by a certain time. A built-in GPS system then tracks the phone, and the student's medical information and emergency contacts are automatically sent to the police."
Source: Wired Campus

Featured Database: Informe!

Full text Spanish language and bilingual periodicals, Informe provides indexing, images and full-text access to general interest Hispanic magazines. Most articles are in Spanish; however, some are from English language Hispanic magazines. While the interface and instructions are in English, Spanish word searches produce many more results than English word searches. There is no English-Spanish dictionary on this database. This database could be useful for instructors and students in Spanish classes. For more information contact the library staff.
access: www.iconn.org

New Books in the Library

The library staff is now cataloging and shelving 35 new books for the collection. A complete list is available in the library. For the faculty community of learning center in the library we have added

1. Teaching Language in Context is the essential methods text for anyone teaching or learning to teach a foreign language.
2. What the Best College Teachers Do is an inspirational summary of what teachers do to make a difference in students' lives.
3. Teaching as Community Property: Essays on Higher Education is Lee Shulman's vision for improving the quality of teaching in higher education.

Communities of Learning

As stated in the National Council of Teachers of English (NCTE) Principles of Adolescent Literacy Reform, "teachers who belong to a study group, a learning community, or some other collaborative enterprise are most likely to remain in the profession as highly successful instructors" (p. 10).
Read the Principles policy research brief athttp://www.ncte.org/library/files/About_NCTE/Overview/Adol-Lit-Brief.pdf

Melting Pot Overflows

This fall 55 million students are enrolling in schools across the country. This is the largest public school student enrollment ever, and in terms of ethnic diversity, it is the most diverse student population since the immigration boom 100 years ago.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/education/27education.html
(free registration required)

Spelling Report on Higher Education

After almost a year of discussion and debate, the federal Commission on the Future of Higher Education has issued its proposals, but the work of divining their effects is just beginning. The commission made proposals on accountability and aid. Many observers say it would be foolish for institutions to ignore the report, which warns of the perils of complacency and calls for sweeping changes in American higher education. Read the extensive article in The Chronicle of Higher Education.
http://chronicle.com/free/v53/i02/02a00101.htm?cch

Make Your Searches Private

As disturbing, funny, and nutty some searches are one thing is pretty clear — people ran them in private. Or thought they did anyway. More disturbing is that the entire web is now reading about them, blogging them, doing news stories on them. So much for privacy.
Luckily, you can go a long way to keeping your secret searches safe. Here’s a few tools that will help:

Lost In The CrowdThis site allows you to search your favorite engines while automatically mixing your searches with a large number of other searches essentially creating “search noise”. The idea is that that your sexy/sneaky/sick searches will be harder to find and appear less prominent if they are found. Nice that it works with any browser and all major engines.
TrackMeNot FireFox ExtentionThis extention does pretty much the same thing as Lost In The Crowd. One bit that TrackMeNot has over Lost In The Crowd is that you can add your own list of keywords for the autogenerated searches to be created from which should add a little more safety.
TorCreates a network of onion proxies allowing all data (not just searches) to flow through what is essentially an anonymous peer to peer network. I’m not the most techy guy in the world so if that description doesn’t do it for you here’s a great overview of how Tor works (scroll down a bit to the pics). Appears to be the most robust solution, but a bit complicated for people like me.
FoxyProxy FireFox ExtentionThis extention can be configured to use a multiple proxies to help keep everything you do online (including your searches) do anonymous. Works with Tor out of the box.
Don’t Leave Traces FireFox/Greasemonkey ExtentionThis new one is similar to FoxyProxy although a little more simplistic since it uses only one proxy and works for searches only. Easy add though if you already use Greasemonkey.
Use a Web-Based ProxyThere are 100s of free proxies out there that you can use to surf the web. Most should give you some level of anonymity and work in any browser, but be careful since you never know who is running the proxy!

Featured Journal: Nature

Nature is a weekly international journal publishing the finest peer-reviewed research in all fields of science and technology on the basis of its originality, importance, interdisciplinary interest, timeliness, accessibility, elegance and surprising conclusions. Nature also provides rapid, authoritative, insightful and arresting news and interpretation of topical and coming trends affecting science, scientists and the wider public.

The library subscribes to Nature. Check out the current issue's table of contents!

College Student Mindset

"A rite of autumn is under way with the arrival of first-year students at thousands of colleges and universities for registration. Most 18-year-old students entering the class of 2010 this fall were born in 1988. They grew up with a mouse in one hand and a computer screen as part of their worldview. They learned to surf the internet as they learned to read. While they were still in their cribs, the 20th century started to close as the Berlin Wall came down, the Soviet bloc disintegrated, and frequent traditional wars in Latin America gave way to the uncontrolled terrors of the Middle East.

Each August since 1998, as faculty prepare for the academic year, Beloit College in Wisconsin has released the Beloit College Mindset List. A creation of Beloit’s Keefer Professor of the Humanities Tom McBride and Public Affairs Director Ron Nief, it looks at the cultural touchstones that have shaped the lives of today’s first-year students. " Read the rest of the article-
http://www.beloit.edu/~pubaff/mindset/

Patterns of Global Terrorism Reports

Patterns of Global Terrorism Reports
As a public service, Berkshire Publishing is posting here large sections from its Patterns of Global Terrorism 1985-2005: U.S. Department of State Reports with Supplementary Documents and Statistics for free pdf download. Also provided in html format will be a document of particular current relevance from each section of the volumes.
Of special note is the Chronology of Significant Terrorist Incidents from 1964-2005.134 pages; PDF.

Children and Environmental Health

Several New Papers on Children and Environmental Health Issues (PDFs)
+ Trials and Tribulations of Protecting Children from Environmental Hazards
+ An Exploration of Ethical Issues in Research in Children’s Health and the Environment
+ The Politics of Risk: A Human Rights Paradigm for Children’s Environmental Health Research
+ Privacy and Ethics in Pediatric Environmental Health Research Part I: Genetic and Prenatal Testing
+ Privacy and Ethics in Pediatric Environmental Health Research Part II: Protecting Families and Communities
Source: Environmental Health Perspectives

Archive for Homeland Security

New Online From the Federal Research Division/Library of Congress
U.S. Army Field Manuals, War Department/Department of the Army Pamphlets

The full text of selected U.S. Army Field Manuals (FMs), War Department Pamphlets (WD PAMs), and Department of the Army Pamphlets (DA PAMs), which particularly address some of the current research needs and interests of The Judge Advocate General’s Legal Center & School Library will be added regularly to this site.
Source: Docuticker