Month: August 2009

JSTOR – September Database of the Month

Update (09/07/10): JSTOR has undergone  a major platform change and has a new look, see JSTOR Platform Highlights for more information. Also, if you are looking for a list of FAU Libraries’ subscription databases, go directly to Indexes/Databases.

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JSTOR offers a high-quality, interdisciplinary digital archive to support scholarship and teaching. FAU has JSTOR access to almost one thousand leading academic journals across the humanities, social sciences, and sciences, and other materials valuable for academic work. The entire database is full-text searchable, offers search term highlighting, includes high-quality images (including search results from ArtStor), and is interlinked by millions of citations and references.

Journals are always included from volume 1, issue 1 and include previous and related titles, but the most recently published issues (past 3-5 years) are not generally available. However, several publishers provide links to the recent content on their own website, and you can include these article citations in your JSTOR search by checking the “Search for links to articles outside of JSTOR.” If FAU has access to these articles, you can click the “Find it at FAU” button to access the full text.

In the News: Senator Edward M. Kennedy (1932-2009)

Week of August 31, 2009

News Item: Nicknamed the “Lion of the Senate,” Edward “Ted” Kennedy, the youngest son of the famed Kennedy family, died at the age of 77 after a fifteen month battle with brain cancer. (This comes a few weeks after the death of one of his sisters, Eunice Kennedy Shriver.) He is known by many for his work on  immigration, civil rights, and public services legislation, health care reform, and in getting President George W. Bush’s No Child Left Behind Act passed by Congress. Some of the darker moments of his life include the assassinations of his two brothers, his near-death plane crash in 1964, and the Chappaquiddick Island incident. Listed here are titles on the Kennedy family.

The Bridge at Chappaquiddick
By Jack Olsen. Little, Brown, 1970
Call Number: E840.8 .K35 O4

The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Kennedys
By Steven D. Strauss. Marie Butler-Knight, 2000
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Death at Chappaquiddick
By Thomas L. Tedrow and Richard L. Tedrow. Green Hill Publishers, 1976
Call Number: E840.8 .K35 T43

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Safari: Web Design, Programming, Social Media & More

 

Looking to compute in the clouds, program like a pro, fix old photographs, design a navigable web page, find answers to questions about Microsoft Office products, or finally figure out why tweeting is a revelation (or not)? Safari Books Online is a collection of current technology and business books from publishers such as O’Reilly Media, Addison-Wesley, Adobe Press, Macromedia Press, lynda.com, Cisco Press, Wharton School Publishing, Financial Times, No Starch, Muska & Lipman, New Riders, Que, Sams, Prima, Premier, SitePoint, Alpha, Syngress, Sun Microsystems Press, Microsoft Press, IBM Press, IBM Redbooks, IBM Developer Works, MySQL Press, Thomson Course Technology, Thomson Crisp Learning, Peachpit Press, SAS Publishing and Prentice Hall – And now, John Wiley & Sons.

The library updates this collection from a selection of the latest titles added to Safari, and periodically removes unused titles. Listed below are some of the new additions, click here for the complete list.

Beautiful achitecture
Edited by Diomidis Spinellis, Georgios Gousios. O’Reilly Media, Inc., 2009

Blogging for dummies
By Susannah Gardner and Shane Birley. Wiley Pub. Co., 2008

C# 2008 for programmers
By Paul Deitel and Harvey Deitel. Prentice Hall, 2009

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In the News: Hawaii Celebrates 50 Years of Statehood

Week of August 24, 2009

News Item: August 21, 1959: Hawai`i becomes the fiftieth state of the union.
In 1893 Queen Lili`uokalani served as the last reigning monarch of the Kingdom of Hawai`i before it was overthrown by a group of American and European businessmen and eventually annexed by the United States. Today, the Islands are home to an ethnically diverse population, black and white sandy beaches, the Merrie Monarch Hula Festival (named after the “Merrie Monarch,” King David Kalākaua), and a number of U.S. military bases. Famous Island natives include President Barack Obama, singer Don Ho, golfer Michelle Wie, Philadelphia Phillies outfielder Shane Victorino, and U.S. Secretary of Veterans Affairs Eric Shinseki. Visit the official Hawai`i Statehood site at http://hawaii.gov/statehood.

American Aloha: Cultural Tourism and the Negotiation of Tradition
By Heather A. Diamond. University of Hawai`i Press, 2008
Call Number: GR110 .H38 D53 2008

Americanization, Acculturation, and Ethnic Identity: The Nisei Generation in Hawaii
By Eileen H. Tamura. University of Illinois Press, 1994
Call Number: DU624.7 .J3 T36 1994

The Apotheosis of Captain Cook: European Mythmaking in the Pacific
By Gananath Obeyesekere. Princeton University Press, Bishop Museum Press, 1997
Call Number: DU626 .O28 1997 (Also available online via NetLibrary and at Treasure Coast Campus)

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In the News: Woodstock, 1969

Week of August 17, 2009

News Item: Forty years ago more than 300,000 people swarmed to a farm in Bethel, New York to attend the Woodstock Music and Art Fair which featured performers such as Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Ravi Shankar, The Grateful Dead, Janis Joplin, and Joan Baez. Rain, mud, traffic jams, food shortages, psychedelic drugs, and marijuana were other festival highlights. Concert promoters had initially approached the towns of Woodstock and Wallkill to host the event, but suitable venues were not available. Instead, the event was held on a dairy farm belonging to Max Yasgur.

America in White, Black, and Gray: The Stormy 1960s
By Klaus P. Fischer. Continuum International Pub. Group, 2006
Call Number: E841 .F49 2006 (At Jupiter)

And a Voice to Sing With: A Memoir
By Joan Baez. Summit Books, 1987
Call Number: ML420 .B114 A3 1987

Barefoot in Babylon: The Creation of the Woodstock Music Festival, 1969
By Robert Stephen Spitz. Viking Press, 1979
Call Number: ML38 .W66 S6

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In the News: Reforming Our Health Care System

Week of August 3, 2009 – Note: “In the News” returns with a new post on August 17, 2009

News Item: One of the main topics discussed daily on blogs, in magazines and newspapers, and on television and radio news programs is health care reform. What is it? Who will benefit? Why should we care? How will it all come together? Some key terms that come to mind regarding this important issue:

managed care • Medicare • small businesses • big government • health plan • choice • costs • HMO • taxes • universal coverage • health insurance • single-payer • doctors • lobbyists • insurance corporations • pharmaceutical companies • uninsured • workers • consumers • policy • PPO • prescription drugs • physicians • patients • sickness • wellness…

At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the Health Care System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients…and What We Can Do About It
By Howard Waitzkin. Rowman & Littlefield, 2001
Call Number: RA418.3 .U6 W35 2001

Bleeding the Patient: The Consequences of Corporate Healthcare
By David Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler. Common Courage Press, 2001
Call Number: RA413 .H54 2001

Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management
Edited by Ronald M. Andersen, Thomas H. Rice, and Gerald F. Kominski. Jossey-Bass, 2007
Call Number: RA395 .A3 C478 2007 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

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