Access vital issues from 1923 to the present!

CQ Researcher Plus Archive

Within hours we shall have access to the complete archive of Editorial Research Reports—the venerable precursor to CQ Researcher—dating back to 1923. CQ Researcher Plus Archive expands the utility of the CQ Researcher making it a rich resource for historical research by offering the Goodwin community:

• ·         3,000 additional in-depth reports, expanding coverage from 1923 to the present
• ·         Powerful search and browse functions, including a linkable cumulative index
• ·         User profile features that save searches and documents for later use
• ·         Robust advanced-search functionality that allows users to search the full text of all reports and limit their search by date range or topic categories
• ·         New search features including the “Issue Tracker,”which lets users trace vital issues over time
• ·         CiteNow!™, a unique CQEL feature that enables users to automatically generate citations in APA, Bluebook, Chicago, or MLA styles
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CQ Researcher Plus Archive allows access to reports of the past that pertain to our nation’s welfare today. Coverage includes reports on historical events such as passage of the Social Security Act of 1935, as well as reports that give background on issues of current debate such as abortion, health insurance, and responses to global terrorism. CQ Researcher Plus Archive offers a special way to understand American policy at home and abroad with over eighty years of reports at your fingertips.We also subscribe to CQ Global Researcher that comes out once a month. CQ Researcher reports are weekly.

LEGAL TRAC NEW FEATURES

LegalTrac, a database collection of major legal publications, has new features:

• On-demand language translation includes three newly added languages: Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.
• Technology delivers audio versions of articles and downloadable MP3 files.
• Easy-to-use citation tools facilitate research results.
• Sear Assist provides web-search functionality and recommendations similar to Yahoo and Google.

Access LegalTrac from the Goodwin Library page
www.goodwin.edu/library

Cracking the New Job Market: The 7 Rules for Getting Hired in Any Economy

Safe jobs and lifelong careers are things of the past. People today may change jobs as often as nine times during a career and even change careers three or four times. It is not about you. The rules for finding professional work have changed and this book by R. William Holland delivers new job-hunting strategies. It is a must-read for all job seekers whatever their age. Be the first to reserve this book. It will be here next week.

Distracted Drivers CQ Researcher May 4 Report

Should driver texting and cellphone use be banned? "Drivers have long tried to manage any number of distractions ranging from eating a snack and reading a map to dealing with unruly children in the backseat and putting on makeup. But with the increasing popularity of cellphones and texting, distracted driving has emerged as a central concern of safety experts. Studies indicate that distractions are involved in more than 5,000 traffic fatalities every year. Most states have enacted laws to restrict texting or talking on handheld cellphones, and policymakers face calls for a near-total ban even on hands-free communications devices — including those that are built into the dashboards of new cars and heavily marketed by automakers. But even if more restrictive laws were passed, many motorists would find it hard to set aside the devices they have come to rely upon to make business and personal calls and also to check websites or update their Facebook pages." Full report is available from the library page (password required). Source: CQ Researcher May 4, 2012

Fiction Books most Borrowed in U.S. Libraries

1. The Hunger Games
2. Private: #1 Suspect
3. Explosive Eighteen: A  Stephanie Plum Novel
4. Kill Alex Cross
5. Catching Fire
6. V is for Vengeance
7. The Drop
8. Love in a Nutshell
9. The Affair: A Reacher Novel
10. The Help

Let us know if you want to read any of these!

Friday is Arbor Day

National Arbor Day is Friday, April 27. It's a time to celebrate the wonders of nature, and to plan for an even greener future by planting and caring for trees.

Turn Off Your Lights at 8:30 tonight for Earth Hour!

Tonight, the largest voluntary action for the environment is reaching further than ever before. Earth Hour is being celebrated in a record 150 countries and territories and 6494 towns and cities to send the message that our combined efforts are needed to change our future to one that is sustainable.

Hundreds of millions of people, businesses and governments around the world unite each year to support the largest environmental event in history – Earth Hour.
More than 5,200 cities and towns in 135 countries worldwide switched off their lights for Earth Hour 2011 alone, sending a powerful message for action on climate change. It also ushered in a new era with members going Beyond the Hour to commit to lasting action for the planet. Without a doubt, it’s shown how great things can be achieved when people come together for a common cause.

This year Earth hour has launched “I Will If You Will” on YouTube to showcase how everyone has the power to change the world we live in, bringing together the world’s biggest social video platform with the ‘world’s largest action for the environment’. The ask is simple, head to YouTube to tell us what you are willing to do to save the planet or accept one the challenges we’ve already received from our supporters.

Earth Hour is organised by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF).

INFORMATION LITERACY & HEALTH

"What has traditionally been understood as literacy has been disrupted, like so much else, by the advent of the Internet. No longer is it regarded as simply the ability to read and write. In the Information Age, information literacy is a concept that recognises skills in judging trustworthiness and quality as critical. The flood of information unleashed by the Internet has exposed the many area of life to which a literacy of some sort applies, and thus how many more people need to ecome information literate.

Information literay of various kinds has become a growing issue, and perhaps no more so than in the field of health. Health is a universal yet personal concern, where to be literate ranges from knowing the correct dosage of medication to take to the implications of new researhc, and can be literally vital."

Information literacy is a major focus of the Hoffman Family Library this and every year.

Source: Information from a report by Adrian Janes

Most Students don't use social media for research

Some 59 percent of students are not using social media for research or study, according to ebrary’s 2011 Global Student E-book Survey – Social Media Addendum.

Lynn Brainard, ebrary’s media relations sales coordinator, told the Library Journal, “The survey was taken by undergraduate and post-graduate students. We also pushed this out to community colleges, so it could be first year, second years there too. Over 6,600 students participated in the survey.”

The students seemed receptive to the idea of using social media to connect with fellow students: 69 percent said they are likely or very likely to use social media to connect with students with similar academic interests, and 58 percent said they would use social media to share research with peers.

However when authority figures enter the picture, the numbers drop to a minority. Only 45 percent said they would usual social media to pose a question to faculty, and even fewer, at 35 percent, would use social media to pose a question to a librarian.

Are you surprized?

Wednesday, 29th February 2012

Springer added six new quarterly clinical review journals to its existing medicine portfolio this month. These new journals will expand the publisher’s medical specialty coverage, focusing on dermatology, geriatrics/gerontology, nutrition, obesity, obstetrics/gynecology and respiratory care.

Gale Public Library Announcement

March 14, 2012
Gale, part of Cengage Learning and a leading publisher of research and reference resources for libraries, schools and businesses, today announced Gale Gateways, an innovative program for public libraries. Designed to represent the unique way in which a community interacts with its public library, Gale Gateways bring together thematic products and services to provide an organized approach to help patrons find and use information. Unlike anything else on the market, Gale Gateways will help libraries demonstrate their value and worth to their community.

Resource of the Week: Yahoo Search Clues

Yahoo! now has a "trends" service. OK, so they're a little late to the party on this one -- Google, after all, launched Google Trends back in 2006 -- but now you can see what's trending on Yahoo!

Yahoo! Clues can be accessed directly, via http://clues.yahoo.com/, or from a link on the search results page. Type a search term of interest into the "Find Trends" text box or click on the link from one of the "popular searches" you'll see on the lefthand side. Then click "Discover." (You also have the option of comparing trends for two search terms, side by side.)

The Corporate Professor: The Hedgehog Review

"A specter of determinism seems to be hanging over every aspect of our lives. We are constantly told that we are being shaped by inexorable forces--biological, economic, technological, historical--against which resistance is more or less futile, so we should quit worrying and get on board." (from the editors)

In thie current issue of The hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture, each essay responds to some form of determinism. In the thematic section on corporate professor, the authors contend with the corporatization of higher education and scholarship. This is a very important issue with many thought-provoking essays:
Pressured and Measured: Professors at Wannabe U
Do College Teachers Have to Be Scholars?
Under the Sign of Satan: William Blake in the corporate University
Why Google isn't Making us Supid...or Smart
Family Income and Student Achievement
Blue Tube, Red Tube
Capitalism, Modernity, and the Politics of Place

This issue is available in the Hoffman Family Library
The Hedgehog Review: Critical Refelctions on Contemporary Culture (published by the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia)
Spring 2012

Best Recent Articles

On January 30, Adam Gopnik addressed the scandal of our prison system in "The Caging of America" in the New Yorker beginning on pge 72. That issue of the New yorker is available in the library.

Internet Resources: Hepatitis C

1)American Liver Foundation: Hepatitis C
2)Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Hepatitis C & Information for the public
3)C. Everett Koop Institute, Dartmouth Medical School: Hepatitis C: An Epidemic for Anyone
4)Hep C Connection
5) National LIbrary of Medicine: Medline Plus: Hepatitis C Interactive Tutorial
6) World Health Organization Media Centre: Heaptitis C, Fact Sheet No. 164
7) US Department of Health and Human Services: NationalDigestive Diseases Information Clearinghouse (NDDIC): What I Need to Know About Hepatitis C

Source: Mary Spalding, Western Maryland Area Health Eeduation Center-Cumberland
MLA News February 2012

Women's History Month

Congressional Resolution Designating the Month of March as "Women's History Month

"be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, that March is designated as "Women's History Month. The President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation each March, calling upon the people of the United States to observe March as Women’s History Month with appropriate programs, ceremonies, and activities."

~ This resolution was passed by Congress in 1987 and successive years since then.

Free Trial of eHRAF World Cultures and Archaeology

I have arranged a free 30 day trial for eHRAF World Cultures & Archaeology databases. HRAF produces two major full-text databases (eHRAF World Cultures and eHRAF Archaeology), encyclopedias, and other resources for teaching and research.

The Human Relations Area Files, Inc. (HRAF) is an internationally recognized organization in the field of cultural anthropology. The mission of HRAF is to encourage and facilitate worldwide comparative studies of human behavior, society, and culture. Founded in 1949 at Yale University, HRAF is a financially autonomous research agency of Yale.

The trial will be available this week.

2011 Best Overall Database: Credo Reference

The Library Journal staff polled a group of librarians and Library Journal reviewers to choose the “best” of 2011

Best Overall Database
Credo Reference
Credo; www.credoreference.com
Looking for material from the Library of Congress? Elsevier? Edinburgh University Press? Credo Reference hosts more than 550 reference titles from those and other respected houses. Some librarians say the best are the database’s “Topic Pages” gathering materials by subject, which adds accessibility options to a resource that the considered awesome to begin with. Others nominated the collection for “Best Integration of Media” and “Best Integration of External Content.”
They also praised Credo’s Mind Map feature for narrowing and broadening topics, helping students to visualize their topic and identify keywords. The upcoming Credo ­literati is an information literacy add-on that includes subject-specific tutorials and videos, customization that reflects the language an institution uses for information literacy instruction, pre- and postassessment surveys, and library marketing programs.

Go to the library page section, "Research Databases" to use Credo Reference and any of our other databases.

Source: Library Journal