Posted on June 17th, 2013 by Jane Strudwick
The FAU Libraries have purchased additional content for existing streaming video collections, as well as added new collections. Two new volumes have been added to the series, Counseling and Therapy in Video, enhancing the collection with emerging topics and featuring distinguished therapists. High-value archival material has been added to Ethnographic Video Online, and influential issue-based documentaries of 2009 through 2013 are included in the second volume of Filmakers Library. The Libraries now own the complete BBC Shakespeare plays in streaming video, and a collection of award-winning documentaries, interviews, archival footage, and select feature films exploring LGBT culture, history and life. Click below for more information on the these new collections, or see a complete list of the Libraries’ Streaming Video Collections.
Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume II
Counseling and Therapy in Video, Volume III
Ethnographic Video Online, Volume II
Filmakers Library, Volume II
LGBT Studies in Video
Shakespeare Plays Read more »
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Posted on June 12th, 2013 by Maris Hayashi
Week of June 10, 2013
In the News: Father’s Day is June 16.
Between Fathers and Sons: Critical Incident Narratives in the Development of Men’s Lives
Edited by Robert J. Pellegrini and Theodore R. Sarbin. Haworth Clinical Practice Press, 2002
Call Number: HQ756 .B48 2002 (Jupiter)
Daddy’s Little Girl: The Unspoken Bargain Between Fathers and Their Daughters
By William Woolfolk and Donna Woolfolk Cross. Prentice-Hall, 1982
Call Number: HQ755.85 .W66
Dad’s Coping Tips Basic Training for New Dads (Streaming Video)
By Dr. Winnie King. Aquarius Health Care Media, 2003
Call Number: Available online via Counseling and Therapy in Video Read more »
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Posted on June 6th, 2013 by Jane Strudwick
IBISWorld is a comprehensive collection of Industry Market Research. The in-depth research reports include key statistics, industry conditions, market characteristics, industry performance, external market drivers, key success factors, and 5-year revenue forecasts for each US industry. Detailed written analysis provides explanations and insights. Read more »
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Posted on May 30th, 2013 by O. Erica Cabezas-Marchese
Mango Languages is an online self-paced language learning system covering over 40 languages and including 16 ESL classes taught in the native language, and four Religious and Scholarly language courses. Each lesson combines real life situations and audio from native speakers with simple, clear instructions. Each Mango lesson is focused on practical, common conversation skills and includes instruction on vocabulary, pronunciation, grammar, AND culture. Read more »
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Posted on April 14th, 2013 by Maris Hayashi
Week of April 15, 2013
In the News: Margaret Thatcher
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, the 50th British prime minister and the first woman to hold that office, died on April 8, 2013 at the age of 87.
The Disenchanted Isle: Mrs. Thatcher’s Capitalist Revolution
By Charles Dellheim. W.W. Norton, 1995
Call Number: HC256.6 .D448 1995
The Downing Street Years
By Margaret Thatcher. HarperCollins, 1993
Call Number: DA591 .T47 T472 1993
Global Capitalism and National Decline: The Thatcher Decade in Perspective
By Henk Overbeek. Unwin Hyman, 1990
Call Number: HC256 .O94 1990 Read more »
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Posted on March 31st, 2013 by Maris Hayashi
Week of April 1, 2013
In the News: Chinua Achebe and African Literature
Award-winning Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has died at the age of 82. His works include Things Fall Apart (1958), No Longer at Ease (1960), Beware, Soul Brother: Poems (1972), and the children’s book, Chike and the River. At the time of his death, Achebe was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and a Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.
Achebe’s Things Fall Apart
By Ode Ogede. Continuum, 2007
Call Number: PR3987.9 .A3 T5366 2007
African Literature as Political Philosophy
By M.S.C. Okolo. Palgrave Macmillan, 2007
Call Number: PR9340.5 .O56 2007
Anthills of the Savannah
By Chinua Achebe. Anchor Press, 1988
Call Number: PR3987.9 .A3 A83 1988 Read more »
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Posted on March 29th, 2013 by O. Erica Cabezas-Marchese
April 2013 Database of the Month
The Birds of North America (BNA) Online provides comprehensive life histories for each of the 716+ species of birds breeding in the USA (including Hawaii) and Canada. In two centuries of American ornithology, The Birds of North America (BNA) is only the fourth comprehensive reference covering the life histories of North America’s breeding birds. Following in the footsteps of Wilson, Audubon, and Bent, BNA provides a quantum leap in information beyond what those historic figures were able to assemble. BNA Online contains image and video galleries showing plumages, behaviors, habitat, nests and eggs, and more.
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Posted on March 24th, 2013 by Maris Hayashi
Week of March 25, 2013
In the News: Women in STEM
Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies presented its 2013 Women’s Leadership Forum on March 15. This year’s event focused on Women in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and featured a keynote address by former NASA astronaut, Jan Davis, Ph.D. Women’s History Month at FAU concludes this week with a meditation workshop, a discussion on women and leadership, Pampered OWLS, and a symposium on “Boundaries, Bodies and Dissidence: Negotiating New Spaces of Feminist Knowledge.” For more information visit the Women’s History Month events page and a recent article published in the UP, FAU’s student magazine. A very thorough library guide on Women’s History Month is available here.
Athena Unbound: The Advancement of Women in Science and Technology
By Henry Etzkowitz et al. Cambridge University Press, 2000
Call Number: Q130 .E85 200 (Also available online via EBSCOhost)
Between Monsters, Goddesses, and Cyborgs: Feminist Confrontations with Science, Medicine and Cyberspace
Edited by Nina Lykke & Rosi Braidotti. Zed Books, 1996
Call Number: Q158.5 .B48 1996
Building Inclusive Science: Connecting Women’s Studies and Women in Science and Engineering
Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2000
Call Number: Q130 .B85 2000 Read more »
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Posted on March 20th, 2013 by Jane Strudwick
FAU Libraries are asking faculty to participate in reviewing the Libraries’ subscribed databases. The survey can be accessed at http://libweb.fau.edu/ec_survey/and will be available until Monday, April 8. The results will be used to help identify how the library resources are being used, what databases are important to faculty research and instruction, and what resources should be considered for purchase. We appreciate your time and effort in assisting in the development of the Libraries’ online collection. If you have any questions, please contact your College library liaison.
If you are not a member of the faculty and would like to offer your comments, please submit the Library Comments & Suggestions Form.
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Posted on March 10th, 2013 by Maris Hayashi
Week of March 11, 2013
In the News: Hugo Chávez (1954-2013)
Venezuelan president, Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías, has died. (From Encyclopædia Britannica: “Chávez styled himself as the leader of the “Bolivarian Revolution,” a socialist political program for much of Latin America, named after Simón Bolívar, the South American independence hero. Although the focus of the revolution has been subject to change depending on Chavez’s goals, its key elements include nationalism, a centralized economy, and a strong military actively engaged in public projects. His ideology became known to many as simply chavismo.”)
America’s Blind Spot: Chavez, Oil, and US Security
By Andres Cala. Continuum, 2012
On Order
Axis of Unity: Venezuela, Iran & the Threat to America
By Sean Goforth. Potomac Books, 2012
Call Number: JZ1314 .G64 2012
The Bolivarian Revolution
By Simon Bolivar. Introduction by Hugo Chávez. Verso, 2009
Call Number: F2235.3 .A25 2009 Read more »
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