Freshmen: Jump Start Your Library Experience with a LibGuide

FAU Libraries is excited to announce our first LibGuide to coincide with Blink, the

A LibGuide is like having a librarian in your back pocket with superabundant tips and suggestions to improve your research! On these pages you will find interesting tidbits about author, Malcolm Gladwell, an informative bibliography, videos, and MOST importantly a place to share your observations, ideas and revelations about Blink with your fellow freshmen classmates.

To access your Blink LibGuide, click here!

In the News – Post-Election Protests in Iran

Week of June 29, 2009

News Item: Mass protests have taken place in Iran since the June 12th presidential election in which incumbent Mahmoud Ahmadinejad was quickly determined the winner of over 62 percent of the vote by the Interior Ministry. This came as a shock to many who believed that one of the opposition candidates, Mir-Hossein Mousavi, would become the new president given his strong lead in the polls running up to election day. Supporters of Mousavi have since questioned the results and voiced concern over the possibility of vote-tampering.

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Directed by Abbas Kiarostami. Zeitgeist Video, 2004
Call Number: PN1997.2 .A122 2004 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Ahmadinejad: The Secret History of Iran’s Radical Leader
By Kasra Naji. University of California Press, 2008
Call Number: DS318.84 .A36 N35 2008

The Ayatollah Begs to Differ: The Paradox of Modern Iran
By Hooman Majd. Doubleday, 2008
Call Number: DS318.9 .M35 2008

Let the Drama Back into your Life

New theater databases Asian American Drama, North American Women’s Drama, and Black Drama-Second Edition highlight collections of narratives from America’s minority groups; read full texts of plays, find information about playwrights and productions, and browse playbills and other related ephemera. Theatre in Video, containing more than 250 performances of the world’s leading plays, delivers the true drama experience as plays are created to be performed. North American Theatre Online, gives access to comprehensive reference materials covering all aspects of the Canadian and American theater. See detailed descriptions below.

Use North American Theatre Online to research upcoming FAU Department of Theatre and Dance productions.

This edition of Asian American Drama contains 252 plays by 42 playwrights, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies and more. The database also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the play. Continue reading

In the News – Stonewall Riots of 1969

Week of June 22, 2009

News Item: Forty years ago on June 28, 1969, the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) movement was born after police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Greenwich Village, New York. A riot ensued and, according to the New York Times, thirteen people were arrested among the crowd of almost 400 people that had formed near the area to protest the harassment. The following evening, more rioting took place as hundreds of people continued to revolt against the Stonewall raid. Stonewall is commemorated each year in June during Gay Pride celebrations throughout the world. This year, a U.S. Presidential Proclamation was issued declaring June as LGBT Month.

American Gay
By Stephen O. Murray. University of Chicago Press, 1996
Call Number: HQ76.3 .N67 M87 1996

AsiaPacifiQueer: Rethinking Genders and Sexualities
Edited by Fran Martin et al. University of Illinois Press, 2008
Call Number: HQ76.3 .A78 A86 2008

Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community (VHS)
Produced by Robert Rosenberg et al. OutSpoken Productions, 1994
Call Number: VH 330 (At Boca Raton Media Center)

Bonus In the News – The Periodic Table

Week of June 15, 2009

News Item: The International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry has officially recognized element 112. This super-heavy element, which was first produced in 1996, is 277 times heaver than hydrogen and has been temporarily named, “ununbium.” It sits to the right of Roentgenium (Rg) and below Mercury (Hg) in the periodic table.

The Elements
By John Emsley. Oxford University Press (3rd ed.), 1998
Call Number: QD466 .E48 1998

The Elements: A Very Short Introduction
By Phillip Ball. Oxford University Press, 2004
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Elements and the Periodic Table: What Things Are Made Of
By Theodore S. Abbgy. Mark Twain Media, 2001
Call Number: QD467 .A23 2001x (At Treasure Coast)

In the News: Anne Frank’s 80th Birthday

Week of June 15, 2009

News Item: Annelies Marie Frank was born eighty years ago on June 12, 1929 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. At the age of 13, she was given a diary which she used to detail her life in the Netherlands where the Frank family had fled shortly after Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party came into power. The Franks lived in hiding for two years but were eventually transported to Auschwitz in 1944. Anne’s diary remained in Holland, but she would never write another entry again. Shortly after being sent to a concentration camp in Bergen-Belsen, Germany, Anne died of typhus in March 1945. Her diary, which consisted of short stories and fables along with descriptions of her thoughts and surroundings, was originally titled Het Achterhuis and published posthumously in 1947. Since then millions of copies have been sold throughout the world and translated into more than 30 languages.

Anne Frank: Reflections on her Life and Legacy
Edited by Hyman Aaron Enzer and Sandra Solotaroff-Enzer. University of Illinois Press, 2000
Call Number: DS135 .N6 F73 2000

Anne Frank and After
By Dick Van Galen Last. Amsterdam University Park, 1996
Call Number: DS135 .N6 G36 1996

Anne Frank and Etty Hillesum: Inscribing Spirituality and Sexuality
By Denise de Costa. Rutgers University Press, 1998
Call Number: DS135 .N6 F732613 1998

SciFinder now available on the Web!

UPDATE: (August 26, 2010): Due to increasing popularity and new development of the web version of SciFinder, CAS is announcing the discontinuation of the client version of SciFinder on June 30, 2011 for all U.S. and Canadian academic institutions. On this date, all seats at these institutions will access the web version only. See www.cas.org/movetoweb.

SciFinder now available on the Web!

SciFinder provides scientists with web access to the most comprehensive scientific information available. The new web version of SciFinder has a majority of features found in today’s SciFinder Scholar product plus several brand new capabilities never before available to the academic community.

All users must first register via the FAU Libraries. The easy to use registration system allows individual users to construct their own IDs (usernames) and passwords, as well as define security questions to allow for self-retrieval of forgotten IDs or password reset. FAU users can find registration information at http://ezproxy.fau.edu/loggedin/default/scifin_web.htm. You will be required to sign in to EZproxy before being sent to this page.

Please note: Register soon as the State University Libraries’ subscription to SciFinder will be moving almost exclusively to the web version by the Fall 2009 semester.

If you have any questions, please contact Jane Strudwick, Electronic Resources Librarian –jstrudw1@fau.edu (561-297-0492).

What’s New with Gale Databases

New features have been added to the Gale products, including popular databases Academic Onefile, Business and Company Resource Center, RDS Business Reference Suite and General Reference File. For a complete list of the library’s Gale databases and descriptions see the Gale Databases page.

The most noticeable change is the new look of the PowerSearch platform, which includes a more personalized workspace and a full menu of Web 2.0 features.

Other cool new features of this interface include: Continue reading

In the News: Tiananmen Square – 1989

Week of June 8, 2009

News Item: June 4th marked the 20th anniversary of the Tiananmen Square massacre of students and other pro-democracy demonstrators who had sought political, social, and economic reforms against the Chinese government. Although similar events had taken place throughout China, media coverage was spotlighted in Beijing with over a million people participating. During the evening and early morning hours of June 3 and 4, 1989, armed military troops and tanks attacked protestors in the Square killing and injuring thousands. The Chinese government has since banned public memorials of the protests with some news outlets recently reporting that social networking and email outlets, such as Twitter, Flickr, and Hotmail, have been blocked as a way of censoring access to information about the Tiananmen incidents.

Courting Justice: Gay Men and Lesbians v. the Supreme Court
By Joyce Murdoch and Deb Price. Basic Books, 2001
Call Number: HQ76.8 .U5 M97 2001

Almost a Revolution
By Tong Shen. Houghton Mifflin, 1990
Call Number: DS779.32 .S47 1990

Behind the Tiananmen Massacre: Social, Political, and Economic Ferment in China
By Chu-Yuan Cheng. Westview Press, 1990
Call Number: DS779.32 .C46 1990

In the News: SCOTUS: The Supreme Court of the United States

Week of June 1, 2009

News Item: President Barack Obama recently nominated Sonia Sotomayor to replace Justice David H. Souter who is retiring in June from the Supreme Court. If approved by the Senate, Sotomayor will become the third woman and only the first Latina to serve on the nation’s highest court. Sotomayor, a self-described Nuyorican, is a 1979 graduate of Yale Law School and currently serves as a Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals judge.