Thanks to iCONN's arrangement with Cengage Gale for the addition of e-reference book titles based on statewide sales of other e-reference titles, I am pleased to announce that iCONN has added the following e-reference titles to its collection at no additional charge:
American Civil War Reference Library
Colonial America Reference Library
Environmental Issues
Essential Primary Sources Family in Society
Essential Primary Sources Gender Issues and Sexuality
Essential Primary Sources Great Depression and the New Deal Reference Library Immigration and Multiculturalism
Essential Primary Sources Reconstruction Era Reference Library
All of the above appear in the list of e-reference books that you see after clicking on our E-Reference Books link.
Monday, March 28, 2011
Japan's Killer Quake
NOVA: Japan’s Killer Quake - Wednesday, 3/30 at 9pm
Don’t miss an eyewitness account of the human drama behind the quake, tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan in this special NOVA.
Why You Should Watch:
Exclusive and chilling new footage and a scientific investigation that wonders: Will science and technology ever be able to stop the power of nature?
Source: NOVA
Don’t miss an eyewitness account of the human drama behind the quake, tsunami and nuclear crisis in Japan in this special NOVA.
Why You Should Watch:
Exclusive and chilling new footage and a scientific investigation that wonders: Will science and technology ever be able to stop the power of nature?
Source: NOVA
Thursday, March 17, 2011
New Books in Today
1.Black Business Secrets: 500 Tips,Strategies, and Resources for the African American Entrepreneur by Dante Lee
2.The Choir Director, a novel by Carl Weber
3.Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters from Barack Obama
4.Savion Sequence by D.Jackson
5.True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself by Janet Jackson
6.Reality is Broken: How Games Make us Better and How They can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
7.Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem by the Kaplans
8. A Professor, A President,and a Meteor: The Birthplace of American Science by Cathryn Prince (It happened in Connecticut!)
9. Modern Critical Interpretations: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom
2.The Choir Director, a novel by Carl Weber
3.Of Thee I Sing: A Letter to My Daughters from Barack Obama
4.Savion Sequence by D.Jackson
5.True You: A Journey to Finding and Loving Yourself by Janet Jackson
6.Reality is Broken: How Games Make us Better and How They can Change the World by Jane McGonigal
7.Hidden Harmonies: The Lives and Times of the Pythagorean Theorem by the Kaplans
8. A Professor, A President,and a Meteor: The Birthplace of American Science by Cathryn Prince (It happened in Connecticut!)
9. Modern Critical Interpretations: Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God edited with an introduction by Harold Bloom
Happy Green St. Patrick's Day
Happy St. Patrick's Day! On this very green-oriented holiday, there are many ways that you can make your holidays truly green and environmentally friendly as well.
Fifteen things to never buy again: Styrofoam cups, paper towels, bleached coffee filters, overpackaged food and products, teak and mahogany,chemical pesticides and herbicides, conventional housecleaners, higher octane gas than you need, toys made with PVC plastic, plastic forks and spoons, farm raised salmon, rayon, beauty and bdy care prducts made with Phthalates and Parabens, plastic wrap, high VOC paints and finishes.
Have a very green St. Patrick's Day and ffor the rest of the year.
Source: Green America Come Together
Fifteen things to never buy again: Styrofoam cups, paper towels, bleached coffee filters, overpackaged food and products, teak and mahogany,chemical pesticides and herbicides, conventional housecleaners, higher octane gas than you need, toys made with PVC plastic, plastic forks and spoons, farm raised salmon, rayon, beauty and bdy care prducts made with Phthalates and Parabens, plastic wrap, high VOC paints and finishes.
Have a very green St. Patrick's Day and ffor the rest of the year.
Source: Green America Come Together
Thursday, March 10, 2011
LIBRARY CLOSING EARLY FRIDAY
BECAUSE OF STAFF ILLNESS, THE LIBRARY IS CLOSING AT 5 P.M. FRIDAY,MARCH 11.
Wednesday, March 09, 2011
Library Rights are at Stake
Does Congress have the right to restore copyright protection to foreign works that have fallen into the public domain?
That issue is at the heart of a major copyright case that the Supreme Court agreed to hear Monday. Its resolution could have implications for libraries’ ability to share works online, advocates say.
Read more about this case here.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education March 8
That issue is at the heart of a major copyright case that the Supreme Court agreed to hear Monday. Its resolution could have implications for libraries’ ability to share works online, advocates say.
Read more about this case here.
Source: Chronicle of Higher Education March 8
Tuesday, March 08, 2011
Fast Facts: Foreign Language Enrollment
Undergraduate enrollments in foreign language courses at American colleges and universities rose 6.6 percent between 2006 and 2009. Spanish, French, German, and American Sign Language are the four most popular languages. Arabic is now the eighth most popular.
Source: C&RL News February
Source: C&RL News February
Featured Library Magazine This Week: Granta
Granta, the magazine of new writing, has published many of the world’s finest writers tackling some of the world’s most important subjects, from intimate human experiences to the large public and political events that have shaped our lives. Every issue since 1979 is still in print. In the pages of Granta, readers met for the first time the narrative prose of writers such as Bill Bryson, Romesh Gunesekera, Blake Morrison, Arundhati Roy and Zadie Smith; and have encountered events and topics as diverse as the fall of Saigon, the mythology of the Titanic, adultery, psychotherapy and Chinese cricket fighting. The latest issue, Aliens, explores the idea of what it is to be an outsider. Writing in this issue are Roberto Bolano, Robert Macfarlane, Juan Felipe Herrera, Ann Patchett, and Paul Theroux. The issue also includes "Here is What You Do", the first published story by Chris Dennis. Beacon writers, take notice!
Source: Granta Magazine
Celebrate International Women's Day
So make a difference, think globally and act locally !! Make everyday International Women's Day. Do your bit to ensure that the future for girls is bright, equal, safe and rewarding.
Wednesday, March 02, 2011
Literacy Funding in Jeopardy
Congress appears on track to deal a heavy blow to federal aid for literacy.
The Republican-led House yesterday delivered a bipartisan vote of 335-91 on a stopgap spending measure that would abolish federal funding for several literacy programs at the U.S. Department of Education, part of a planned government-wide reduction of $4 billion.
The proposed cuts include funding for the $250 million Striving Readers program, the $66 million Even Start family-literacy program, the $25 million Reading Is Fundamental program, and the $26 million National Writing Project.
The Democratic-controlled Senate is widely expected to go along with the package, which is intended to keep the government running for two more weeks while lawmakers and the White House continue to negotiate a budget plan. A vote is scheduled there today.
Source: Education Week March 2
The Republican-led House yesterday delivered a bipartisan vote of 335-91 on a stopgap spending measure that would abolish federal funding for several literacy programs at the U.S. Department of Education, part of a planned government-wide reduction of $4 billion.
The proposed cuts include funding for the $250 million Striving Readers program, the $66 million Even Start family-literacy program, the $25 million Reading Is Fundamental program, and the $26 million National Writing Project.
The Democratic-controlled Senate is widely expected to go along with the package, which is intended to keep the government running for two more weeks while lawmakers and the White House continue to negotiate a budget plan. A vote is scheduled there today.
Source: Education Week March 2
Smart Phones Make Book Citations a Snap
A new smartphone application helps you cite books in scholarly papers.
Quick Cite, which costs 99 cents and is available for both iPhones and Android-based phones, uses the camera on a smartphone to scan the bar code on the back of a book. It then e-mails you a bibliography-ready citation in one of four popular styles—APA, MLA, Chicago, or IEEE.
Point the phone at the bar code on the book and Quick Cite will send you the citations in APA style or in MLA style.
Source: Wired Campus February 14
March is National Women's History Month
The theme for National History Month this year is "Our HISTORY is Our Strength."
The stories of women’s achievements are integral to the fabric of our history. Learning about women’s tenacity, courage, and creativity throughout the centuries is a tremendous source of strength. Until relatively recently, this sphere of women’s history was overlooked and undervalued. Women’s achievements were often distorted, disdained, and denied. But, knowing women’s stories provides essential role models for everyone. And role models are genuinely needed to face the extraordinary changes and unrelenting challenges of the 21st century.
Source: National Women's History Project
The stories of women’s achievements are integral to the fabric of our history. Learning about women’s tenacity, courage, and creativity throughout the centuries is a tremendous source of strength. Until relatively recently, this sphere of women’s history was overlooked and undervalued. Women’s achievements were often distorted, disdained, and denied. But, knowing women’s stories provides essential role models for everyone. And role models are genuinely needed to face the extraordinary changes and unrelenting challenges of the 21st century.
Source: National Women's History Project
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Free Resource for Teachers
Academic Earth offers video lectures from elite universities, and it allows viewers to grade the professors. Academic Earth also offers a “Playlists” feature based around themes such as “Laws of Nature,” “Wars Throughout History,” or “You Are What You Eat.”
Tuesday, February 15, 2011
Free Access to Music Online!
Alexander Street's Music Online: Listening collection has tripled in size!
All the classical, jazz, American, and world music content you need—in every format. Cross-search all of our recordings, scores, reference, and video content from a single interface. Listen to the best recordings from the best record labels—while you follow along with the score and read the composer's biography.
Access the complete Music Online suite of recordings, scores, reference, and video content, now through March 15th by registering at:
http://alexanderstreet.com/MUSICtrial2011.htm
All the classical, jazz, American, and world music content you need—in every format. Cross-search all of our recordings, scores, reference, and video content from a single interface. Listen to the best recordings from the best record labels—while you follow along with the score and read the composer's biography.
Access the complete Music Online suite of recordings, scores, reference, and video content, now through March 15th by registering at:
http://alexanderstreet.com/MUSICtrial2011.htm
Thursday, February 10, 2011
Using SQL Webcast February 17
Using SQL to Explore Any Data on Hadoop in the Cloud
- February 17 Webcast at 11 am PT/ 2 pm ET
This webcast will cover how to explore big data in the cloud from within a graphical SQL environment in five minutes, with virtually no learning curve. Attendees will see how to discover or create schema from existing data, whether structured or unstructured and then explore and visualize the results with SQL from your desktop. The webcast will also showcase customer implementations and how this solution delivers value to enterprises challenged with large, complex and quickly growing data.
Let the library staff know if you are interested in this.
- February 17 Webcast at 11 am PT/ 2 pm ET
This webcast will cover how to explore big data in the cloud from within a graphical SQL environment in five minutes, with virtually no learning curve. Attendees will see how to discover or create schema from existing data, whether structured or unstructured and then explore and visualize the results with SQL from your desktop. The webcast will also showcase customer implementations and how this solution delivers value to enterprises challenged with large, complex and quickly growing data.
Let the library staff know if you are interested in this.
Streaming Videos
Alexander Street Press (ASP) has been rapidly growing streaming media collections and is releasing three major new video products for libraries in early 2011. Some of these may work for us.
ASP has just acquired Filmakers Library, the highly regarded New York-based distributor of documentary films. For 40 years, Filmmakers Library has distributed high-quality, issue-based documentaries to the academic market. ASP plans to launch the complete Filmakers Library as a subscription-based online streaming database, Filmakers Library Online, in early 2011. The publisher will also make it possible for libraries and educational institutions to order individual films via the ASP streaming platform.
Education in Video is the first online collection of streaming video developed specifically for the training and development of teachers. More than 1,000 video titles totaling 750+ hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
World History in Video is an online collection of 1,750 global documentaries covering everything from early civilizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Many of the critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide are the most used today in university-level classes.
Access to information about the Collections:
Filmakers Library
Education in Video
World History in Video
Let me here from you.
ASP has just acquired Filmakers Library, the highly regarded New York-based distributor of documentary films. For 40 years, Filmmakers Library has distributed high-quality, issue-based documentaries to the academic market. ASP plans to launch the complete Filmakers Library as a subscription-based online streaming database, Filmakers Library Online, in early 2011. The publisher will also make it possible for libraries and educational institutions to order individual films via the ASP streaming platform.
Education in Video is the first online collection of streaming video developed specifically for the training and development of teachers. More than 1,000 video titles totaling 750+ hours of teaching demonstrations, lectures, documentaries, and primary-source footage of students and teachers in actual classrooms.
World History in Video is an online collection of 1,750 global documentaries covering everything from early civilizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Many of the critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide are the most used today in university-level classes.
Access to information about the Collections:
Filmakers Library
Education in Video
World History in Video
Let me here from you.
Free Access to Visual Arts Journals!
Taylor & Francis Offers Free Access to Visual Arts Journals Throughout February
February 9, 2011
Taylor & Francis is offering us free online access to their complete range of visual arts journals throughout the month of February. Read articles from each journal’s online archive, including the most recent issues.
Complete access to 19 Routledge visual arts journals is provided via Art Acess. The journals in this promotion cover art history, photography, art therapy, visual anthropology, visual culture and more. These visual arts journals are included in the T&F Arts & Humanities Online Collection and Arts & Humanities Online Archive.
Start your free access here:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/artaccess
February 9, 2011
Taylor & Francis is offering us free online access to their complete range of visual arts journals throughout the month of February. Read articles from each journal’s online archive, including the most recent issues.
Complete access to 19 Routledge visual arts journals is provided via Art Acess. The journals in this promotion cover art history, photography, art therapy, visual anthropology, visual culture and more. These visual arts journals are included in the T&F Arts & Humanities Online Collection and Arts & Humanities Online Archive.
Start your free access here:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/artaccess
Monday, February 07, 2011
Black History Month Resources
These resources will be freely available in the month of February, courtesy of ICONN.
EBSCO-African American Archives
The African American Archives provides over a million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience over several centuries, the earliest coming from the collection of Essential Records Concerning Slavery and Emancipation from the Danish West Indies (1672-1917). There are several other slavery-related collections, including letters, account books, annual reports, news clippings, and related manuscripts from the American Colonization Society. The African American Archives also includes Records of the Southern Claims Commission, government records, original muster and hospital rolls, descriptive books, lists of deserters, returns, notational cards, enlistment papers, casualty sheets, death reports, prisoner of war papers, and correspondence.
The African American Archives also includes Records of the Southern Claims Commission, government records, original muster and hospital rolls, descriptive books, lists of deserters, returns, notational cards, enlistment papers, casualty sheets, death reports, prisoner of war papers, and correspondence.
Gale Cengage
this resource includes biographical and historical resources.
ProQuest Black Historical Newspapers
ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Examine major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights, and explore everyday life as written in the Chicago Defender, The Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Los Angeles Sentinel, Atlanta Daily World, The Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Philadelphia Tribune, and Cleveland Call and Post.
EBSCO-African American Archives
The African American Archives provides over a million pages of original historical documents pertaining to the African American experience over several centuries, the earliest coming from the collection of Essential Records Concerning Slavery and Emancipation from the Danish West Indies (1672-1917). There are several other slavery-related collections, including letters, account books, annual reports, news clippings, and related manuscripts from the American Colonization Society. The African American Archives also includes Records of the Southern Claims Commission, government records, original muster and hospital rolls, descriptive books, lists of deserters, returns, notational cards, enlistment papers, casualty sheets, death reports, prisoner of war papers, and correspondence.
The African American Archives also includes Records of the Southern Claims Commission, government records, original muster and hospital rolls, descriptive books, lists of deserters, returns, notational cards, enlistment papers, casualty sheets, death reports, prisoner of war papers, and correspondence.
Gale Cengage
this resource includes biographical and historical resources.
ProQuest Black Historical Newspapers
ProQuest Historical Newspapers-Black Newspapers offers primary source material essential to the study of American history and African-American culture, history, politics, and the arts. Examine major movements from the Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights, and explore everyday life as written in the Chicago Defender, The Baltimore Afro-American, New York Amsterdam News, Pittsburgh Courier, Los Angeles Sentinel, Atlanta Daily World, The Norfolk Journal and Guide, The Philadelphia Tribune, and Cleveland Call and Post.
Friday, February 04, 2011
Collection: American Environmental Leaders
American Environmental Leaders: From Colonial Times to the Present
A comprehensive and diverse, award-winning collection of biographies of the most important figures in American environmentalism. As our environment changes, and environmental concerns become more and more prevalent, this encyclopedia provides much-needed information on the key players in the environmental movement.
The biographies are arranged alphabetically, from Edward Abbey to David Zwick. This is a full text reference book in the Credo Reference database accessible on and off campus.
Thursday, February 03, 2011
Happy New Year
Happy Chinese New Year
Years 1915, 1927, 1939, 1951, 1963, 1975, 1987, 1999, 2011, 2023
If you were born in any of those years, the rabbit is your Chinese zodiac sign.
Rabbit personality traits
Although generally calm, gentle and loving, Rabbit people can be very ambitious and intuitively know how to get ahead in the world.
They are good listeners, kind and sweet by nature, and are therefore often sought out as popular and trusted friends. Generally noted for their physical beauty, Rabbits like to surround themselves with beautiful things. They have a good eye for art, design and fashion, and are usually at the top of anyone's Best Dressed list.
Others may call the Rabbit timid, but those born under this sign rightly view themselves as wise and cautious.
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