Highlights in U.S. Women's History

January Highlights in US Women's History so far this month:
Jan 3, 1949 - Margaret Chase Smith (R-Maine) starts her tenure in the Senate, where she stays in office until 1973; the first woman to serve in both the House and Senate as she previously served in the House (R-Maine, 1940-1949)
Jan 5, 1925 - Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor in U.S. history (governor of Wyoming)
Jan 7, 1896 - Fanny Farmer's first cookbook is published in which she standardized cooking measurements
Jan 7, 1955 - Marian Anderson is the first African American woman to sing at the Metrop olitan Opera
Jan 8, 1977 - Pauli Murray, the first female African American Episcopal priest, is ordained
Jan 11, 1935 - Amelia Earhart makes the first solo flight from Hawaii to North America
Jan 12, 1932 - Hattie Wyatt Caraway (D-Arkansas) is the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate. She was the first woman to chair a Senate Committee and the first to serve as the Senate's presiding officer as well

January Birthdays
Jan 3, 1793 (1880 ) - Lucretia Mott, women's rights pioneer, Quaker minister, pacifist; NWHP co-founder Molly MacGregor is honored to share her birth day
Jan 7, 1891 (1960) - Zora Neale Hurston, pioneering scholar of African American folklore
Jan 8, 1867 (1961) - Emily Greene Balch, economist and sociologist; co-founder of the Women's International League for Peace with Jane Addams (1919); won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1946, shared with John Mott
Jan. 9, 1859 Carrie Chapman Catt, woman's suffrage leader and president of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA)
Jan. 9, 1941 - Joan Baez, award winning singer and songwriter; human, civil, and peace activist; founder of Humanitas International Human Rights Committee (1979)
Jan 11, 1885 (1977) - Alice Paul, suffragist leader, founder of National Women's Party (1916); her strategies helped pass the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote (1920); initiated the Equal Rights Amendment (1923)
Jan 12, 1820 (1914) - Caroline Severance, early suffragist, social reformer; co-founded the American Woman Suffrage Association (1869); first woman to register to vote in California (1911)
Jan 13, 1850 (1911) - Charlotte Ray, fi rst African-American woman lawyer and first woman admitted to the bar in D.C.
Jan. 13, 1917 Edna Hibel the first woman to win the Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts.
Jan 19, 1905 (1995) - Oveta Culp Hobby, second women in the U.S. Cabinet (20 years after Frances Perkins), first Secretary of the Dept of Health, Education, and Welfare (1953); awarded the Distinguished Medal of Service for her work as Director of the Women's Army Corps (1945)

Zenyatta: Horse of the Year 2010

The charismatic mare, who captivated a nation with her pre-race antics, was named the 2010 Horse of the Year on Monday night at the 40th annual Eclipse Awards in Miami. Zenyatta lost the Breeders' Cup Classic, but she still won horse racing's biggest prize.

Zenyatta ended her career with 19 wins in 20 starts, but the last race was the toughest.The 6-year-old mare was defeated in the Breeders' Cup Classic by Blame, who was also one of the three finalists for Horse of the Year. After Zenyatta won the Breeders' Cup Classic a year ago, she was defeated for Horse of the Year by another mare--Rachel Alexandra.

Source: Albany Times Union

Free Chemistry Peer-reviewed Articles

Chemistry Central publishes peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry. Chemistry Central is part of the BioMed Central group.

Chemistry Central publishes a range of online open access journals, and provides links to other online open access journals of interest published by BioMed Central.

On of the most frequently accessed article in the last 30 days?
Chemistry in Second Life
Andrew SID Lang, Jean-Claude Bradley
Chemistry Central Journal 2009, 3:14 (23 October 2009)
(The image above is from Second Life.)

National Library of Medicine Site has New Look

The National Library of Medicine has just updated thousands of pages within its site. They now include site-wide navigation in the header so many of our favorite links should be just a click away. There is also a new “Share” feature so you can send content to your friends, colleagues or yourself via social bookmarking and networking. Plus, they have added links to make it easier to connect on Facebook and Twitter.

The National Library of Medicine, a component of the National Institutes of Health, is the world’s largest medical library. Don't overlook this great resource when you are doing research.

Libraries & Librarians Re-defined

Libraries are defined more by what they do than what they look like. While new technologies might be replacing print collections, they are not replacing librarians — whose roles as research guides have become more even important as available resources have multiplied. it’s important to look at the type of reference question that are asked. The number of directional and simple questions has dropped, because we’ve provided the tools to make answering those questions easier. “If you look at the number of more difficult, research-oriented questions, we find it has grown as the complexity of the tools to provide answers to those questions has become more intense. You still need us.

while the functions and appearance of libraries has changed, nobody is about to tear them down just because they have fewer books and more social spaces.Maybe the whole idea of is the library, as a place, dead or not is a red herring. Should the question be who knows what the library means anymore? That is what we are still trying to answer.

Blackboard expands

Blackboard, known for its course-management software, is moving into a whole new sector. Yesterday the company announced that it bought Presidium Inc., which provides outsourced call centers and consulting services for admissions, financial aid, and other student services, and also runs IT help desks for many colleges.

Blackboard paid $53-million to acquire the company. lackboard already held about 10 percent of the company, which was founded by former Blackboard employees. Presidium is based in Reston, Va., and has 160 full-time employees.

WELCOME TO NEW STUDENTS

Welcome to the Goodwin College Library.

Please consult the library page to help you become familiar with our library and identify key services and personal contacts you may find helpful in your first weeks here. www.goodwin.edu/library

The library supports the college's educational and service goals by ensuring that all students, faculty, and staff receive the best possible service, information, resources, and equipment in an environment conducive to learning. We look forward to meeting you and helping you become successful college students, college graduates, and employed members of the your chosen field of study.

Build a Tower Challenge

Tom Wujec presents some surprisingly deep research into the "marshmallow problem" -- a simple team-building exercise that involves dry spaghetti, one yard of tape and a marshmallow. Who can build the tallest tower with these ingredients? And why does a surprising group always beat the average?

Watch the video.

MLA Format Hint

MLA Cover Page is not numbered. Here are directions for removing the number from the first page so that the second page will be number 1.

On the Insert tab, in the Headers & Footers group, click Page Number, and then click Format Page Numbers.
2. In the Start at box, type 0.

Embed YouTube in PowerPoint 2007

To embed a YouTube video in PowerPoint 2007 follow these simmple steps:

1. First turn on the Developer Tab on the Ribbon by clicking on the Microsoft logo at the top left of the window and selecting PowerPoint Options all the way at the bottom of the menu. Next put a check next to the unchecked item to show the developer Tab.
2. Go to YouTube and select a video to embed
3. Copy the URL
4. On the Developer menu choose "More Controls"
5. Select Shockwave Flash Object
6. Click and drag on the PowerPoint slide to add the Flash object
7. Right Click the object placeholder and select properties
8. Set the Movie property to the URL you copied
9. In the URL delete "watch?" and change the "=" sign to a ⁄
10. Adjust the options for Looping or AutoPlay if desired
Make sure to test the presentation and keep in mind that the video is streaming from YouTube, so an Internet connection is required at the time of presentation.

Good luck!

Solstice, Full Moon, and Lunar Eclipse

How great is this? The Winter Solstice, December 21st, the longest night of the year, coincides with a full moon and full lunar eclipse.

According to NASA, the total eclipse of the moon will occur on this schedule, EST
• Moonrise Monday, Dec 20 3:55 pm
• Moon enters penumbra Tuesday, Dec 21, 12:28 am
• Partial Eclipse Begins(moon enters umbra) 1:32am
• Total Eclipse Begins (moon fully within umbra) 02:40 am
• Middle of Total Eclipse 3:16 am
• Moon Leaves Totality (begins re-entry into penumbra) 3:53 am
• Partial Eclipse Ends (moon leaves umbra) 5:01 am
• Partial Eclipse Ends (moon leaves penumbra) 6:04 am
• Moonset 7:29 am

EXTENDED LIBRARY HOURS

EXTENDED HOURS WEEK BEFORE AND DURING FINAL EXAMS

Weekend Dec. 4, 5, 11, 12, 18-9 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Weekdays Dec. 6-17-7 a.m. to 10 p.m.

NOTE: You must be out of the building by 5 p.m. on weekends and 10 p.m. during the week.

Free Music Download

Every two weeks, from Alexander Street and Smithsonian Folkways Recordings, the Goodwin Library is offering a free music download from Smithsonian Global Sound for Libraries.

Currently available for download is:
"Tetigo" from Discover Indonesia, performed by M. Sarif and Kondang


Indonesia is a huge country, spread over hundreds of islands, encompassing peoples of many different languages, religions, and musical cultures. Fifteen tracks from the widely acclaimed 20-CD series Music of Indonesia have been selected to provide an exciting and varied introduction to musical styles from different parts of the country. This is a xylophone duet performed by Petalangan musicians of mainland Riau, Sumatra.

All tracks are owned by Smithsonian Folkways Recordings and are available, free of charge, for a limited time only.

Download the mp3.

Library Advocacy Committee Event tomorrow

Friday, November 19 in the auditorium 10:30-11:30

Crossfire Clash
Conservatives vs. Liberals discuss the 2010 midterm election and where we go from here.
Participants:
Mike Rotondo
Dan Noonan
Janet Jefford
Howard Satinsky
Alex Nye
Seymoure Oliviera
Paul LaRocca will moderate.

GOODWIN COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION WELCOME!

Credo Reference Databases User Statistics

In October, library users consulted 94 titles from the Credo Reference database.
133 sessions
324 searches
129 entries views
970 pages viewed

Top Entries Viewed:
Gender socialization and gender stereotypes
Attention Deficit Disorder
Rape and rape prevention
Alcohol and alcoholism
Euthanasia
Pregnancy
Kashmir
Art, religious
Hartnup disease
Latora disease
Breast cancer
Prisons and punishment

Thank you, library users, for appreciating this great database!

National Book Award Winners announced

The National Book Award winners were announced last night at the 61st National Book Awards Benefit Dinner and Ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street in New York City.

Fiction Lord of Misrule by Jaimy Gordon
Nonfiction Just Kids by Patti Smith
Poetry Lighthead by Terence Hayes
Young People's Literature Mockingbird by Kathryn Erskine
Lifetime Achievement Award Tom Wolfe

The winners get $10,000,a statue, and probably increased sales.

1100 more books in ebrary Academic Complete

New in Academic Complete
Ebrary recently added over 1,100 multidisciplinary titles from National Academies Press, New Age International, World Trade Press, University of Chicago Press, and other leading publishers. Some of the titles include:
Accidental Billionaires: The Founding of Facebook: A Tale of Sex, Money, Genius and Betrayal, by Ben Mezrich (Anchor, 2010)

Brain Sense: The Science of the Senses and How We Process the World Around Us,
by Faith Hickman Brynie (AMACOM, 2009)

Discrete Mathematics, by B.S. Vasta and Suchi Vasta (New Age International, 2009)

Innocent Bystanders: Developing Countries and the War on Drugs, by Philip Keefer and Norman Loayza (World Bank, 2010)

Spirituality and Aging, by Robert C. Atchley (The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009)

Wild Justice: The Moral Lives of Animals,by Marc Bekoff and Jessica Pierce
(University of Chicago Press, 2009)

African American Experience Database

Even with the best of intentions, most librarians can't find the materials or the funding to satisfy students investigating the historical impact of African Americans on today's world. However, we now have a new resource offering students and teachers a wealth of cultural materials specifically designed for classroom research and personal inquiry.

The widest ranging and easiest-to-use online collection on African American life ever assembled, The African American Experience is the definitive electronic research tool for African American history and culture from one of the most respected publishers in the field. It provides rock-solid information from authorities in the field and to allows African Americans to speak for themselves through a wealth of primary sources. Drawing on over 450 titles, and designed under the guidance of leading librarians, this database gives voice to the black experience from its African origins to the present day.

-New material from print reference titles and multivolume sets, such as Barack Obama, the New Face of American Politics; The Martin Luther King, Jr. Encyclopedia; Encyclopedia of the Middle Passage; Encyclopedia of African American Women Writers [2 Volumes]; and Icons of Hip Hop [2 Volumes].
-A deep backlist of reference books and monographs, many now available in electronic format for the first time
-Over 5,000 primary documents: manuscripts, speeches, court cases, quotations, -advertisements, statistics, and other papers
-Over 3,500 interviews with former slaves-the WPA slave narratives-from the acclaimed The American Slave: A Composite Autobiography, now re-indexed and for the first time fully searchable
-Sixty-seven University Press texts from the early 1800s to the early 1970s—classics in black scholarship.

Try it here.

Ebrary Academic Complete

Ebrary Academic Complete is a highly interactive eBook database that covers all academic subject areas. The collection currently includes more than 50,000 titles from more than 220 of the world’s leading academic publishers.




Each individual eBook in Academic Complete integrates with information in ourlibrary and on the web through the ebrary Reader™ and InfoTools™ software. Just by highlighting any word of interest in Academic Complete, you can instantly search against our OPAC or other online resources in the library, and information
on the Internet, without leaving the current document.

New Environmental Database

GREENR (Global Reference on the Environment, Energy, and Natural Resources) is a new online resource that offers authoritative content on the development of emerging green technologies and discusses issues on the environment, sustainability and more. GREENR is an important part of a new generation of solutions from Gale designed with users in mind.

GREENR is interactive and current, allowing users to navigate issue, organization and country portals. It's a one-stop site dedicated to studying sustainability and the environment.

This database will be available for Goodwin Students beginning Monday, November 15.