Another Award: The Man Booker Prize

Hilary Mantel  won the 2012 Man Booker Prize with her novel, Bring Up The Bodies , becoming the first British author to win twice. She picked up the prestigious award - and £50,000 ($80,500) in prize money at the London ceremony this week.

Bring Up The Bodies, Mantel's 13th novel, is the sequel to 2009's Wolf Hall, for which she also won the Booker. Set in 1535, it traces the efforts of Thomas Cromwell, chief Minister to Henry VIII, to keep the peace during the the final days of Anne Boleyn. If you like historical fiction, these two books are terrific.

The prize, launched in 1969, aims to promote the finest in fiction by rewarding the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the United Kingdom, the Commonwealth or the Republic of Ireland. Last year's winner was Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes.

The Oxygen Barons by Greg Feeley

Greg Feeley is an English instructor at Goodwin College. His first novel, The  Oxygen Barons,  was nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award and is now available in the library.If you like great futuristic/space adventure, this is for you. Meet the characters Galvanix, a man of science, and Taggart, a woman of war. You may want to read all of Feeley's novels. 

The Philip K. Dick Award is presented annually with the support of the Philip K. Dick Trust for distinguished science fiction published in paperback original form in the United States.(The Philip K. Dick Award for 2011 went to Simon Morden for The Samuil Petrovitch Trilogy, which is not in our library. We can borrow it for you through Interlibrary Loan.)

Cender for Medical Consumers Update

 Their website stopped posting new material on October 19, 2012. Feel free to use their archives accessible on the webpage. The policy work of the Center continues. 

The last post was "Should you get a flu shot?"

The Center for Medical Consumers is an independent,nonprofit organization. Their website took a critical look at the evidence supporting common treatment decisions.  The recurring themes include over diagnosis and its consequences, how to recognize unnecessary treatment, how to understand inflated claims for screening tests and preventive drug therapy.  The website still has important information, but will not be updated.
www.medicalconsumers.org

EXTENDED LIBRARY HOURS

YOU ASKED FOR IT AND HERE IT IS.

BEGINNING MONDAY, OCTOBER 22, THE LIBRARY WILL BE OPEN UNTIL 9:30 P.M. MONDAY THROUGH THURSDAY.  ALL OTHER TIME REMAIN THE SAME.

VAST Academic Video Online

VAST is now bigger and better, with the addition this month of approximately 75 videos in disciplines never before in VAST—covering subjects such as cinema studies, including silent and feature films; rehabilitation therapy; and sports medicine and exercise science. VAST now offers more than 16,000 titles.

They have also listened to what you said about the interface and have made a few changes to make it more streamlined for users. So now you can limit your search to VAST content if you want to. Access the database from the library page "Databases." The URL for the product VAST: Academic Video Online is http://vast.alexanderstreet.com.


SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS: This product is optimized to operate with Internet Explorer 7.0 or higher and Firefox 3.0 or higher. Audio and video resources are accessible with Adobe Flash Player 9 or higher.

Obamacare Survival Guide in the Library October 18

Already President Obama s Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act also known as ObamaCare is becoming a reality with major provisions set to start soon. ObamaCare will affect every single American but few know precisely what the 2,700-page law says or how it will impact their lives.Now, the ObamaCare Survival Guide, written in plain, easy-to-read language, makes the law simple to understand. The ObamaCare Survival Guide reveals:

How currently insured people will be affected, including rising premium costs
Medicare shocker: cuts in benefits, new rules
New protections for the uninsured
Hidden fees and levies
New taxes for the affluent
Small businesses: new requirements, tax credits
Prescription drug users: new fees
A timetable for each part of the healthcare plan
Essential benefits insurance companies must provide
ObamaCare s impact on long-term care
Your responsibilities and penalties under the new laws
How to maximize your future healthcare dollars
The cost to you as a consumer

And more!

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Help the Phlebotomy Students!

Really--it doesn't hurt! 

The phlebotomy students are getting ready to go out on their internships, and they need your arms and fingers one more time.  Please visit room 507 tomorrow, Thursday, October 18, from 9 to noon to help them practice their sticks and wish them well on their internships. 

Voter Registration Deadline

Voter Registration Deadline: October 23

The deadline for all mail-in voter registration applications is Oct 23, 2012.  Completed forms can be dropped off at the library.

Download the form

http://www.ct.gov/sots/LIB/sots/ElectionServices/ElectForms/electforms/ed671.pdf

EBSCOhost Mobile 2.0 Support Resources Available

EBSCO/Host Mobile can be accessed by going to http://search.ebscohost.com in your device's web browser. EBSCOhost automatically recognizes you as a mobile user and displays the Mobile interface. I loaded it on my iphone 4 this morning and it worked immediately! Pick up a help sheet in the library or find it online at the above URL.

Homeowners Information

The federal program designed to help unemployed homeowners avoid foreclosure has been expanded. The Making Home Affordable Modification Program  now allows unemployed homeowners to postpone payments for up to 12 months, a change from the previous limit of three months. Unemployed homeowners should contact their mortgage loan officer to see if they qualify.

For more information visit http://www.makinghomeaffordable.gov/pages/default.aspx.

M o Yan Wins Nobel Prize in Literature

Chinese writer Mo Yan won the Nobel Prize in literature on Thursday, an unexpected choice by a prize committee that has favored European authors in recent years.

The Swedish Academy, which selects the winners of the prestigious award, praised Mr. Mo's "hallucinatoric realism," saying it "merges folk tales, history and the contemporary."His breakthrough came with novel Red Sorghum published in 1987. Set in a small village, like much of his fiction, Red Sorghum is an earthy tale of love and peasant struggles set against the backdrop of the anti-Japanese war. It was turned into a film that won the top prize at the Berlin International Film Festival in 1988, marked the directing debut of Zhang Yimou and boosted Mr. Mo's popularity. One of his recent books, The Garlic Ballads, has been ordered for the Hoffman Family Library.

Source: Swedish Academy and Wall Street Journal

STUDENTS: EBSCO ACCESS PROBLEMS

If you have been having difficulty accessing EBSCO databases from off campus or even in the library, it is not us. EBSCO is experience issues with their EIT Web Service. Their technical team is focusing on this issue as a high priority. I will post an update here as soon as I hear all is well. Ebsco Customer service and the library staff apologize for the inconvenience.

Nobel Prize in Literature

 Tomorrow, October 11, the Nobel Prize in literature will be announced.  Will it be China's Mo Yan or Japan's Haruki Murakami or someone else? The library has eight books by Murakami and none by Mo Yan.

2011 winner    

Tomas Tranströmer (Swedish poet)

2010 winner

Mario Vargas Llosa  (Peruvian novelist)

The last American winner was Doris Lessing in 2007. Over the years, the Nobel Prize in Literature has distinguished the works of authors from many different languages and cultural backgrounds.  The Nobel Prize in Literature is awarded by the Swedish Academy, Stockholm, Sweden. In December the award will be presented at the building pictured above,Börssalen, Swedish Academy.

Copyright Webinar Tomorrow afternoon 2 p.m.

 Don't Forget: Copyright Webinar!

From course management systems to e-reserves to distance learning, technology has made it easier than ever for everyone on your campus to use and share copyrighted content. With this technology comes numerous benefits, but it also brings a potential downside — ensuring your faculty and staff are getting the necessary copyright permissions.

Attend an informational session on the Annual Copyright License and get insight into the license and how it can improve and streamline your copyright permissions process campus-wide.

Let us know if you will be attending. 

Marilyn Nowlan