Month: January 2009

Get Friendly with CINAHL

 

Familiarize yourself with the Nursing and Allied Health database, CINAHL, and discover new teaching tools. A special section of EBSCO’s Support Site (http://support.ebscohost.com/cinahl) is dedicated to a “wide variety of support and training tools designed to help you learn how to get the most from EBSCO’s CINAHL database.”  

Some of these tools include:

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In the News: Independent Cinema

Week of January 26, 2009

News Item: The movie awards season is well underway in Hollywood with the Oscars traditionally serving as the culminating event. One day before the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences hands out its 81st Best Picture statue in February, the industry will celebrate the best in independent cinema at the 24th Annual Spirit Awards. (Traditionally, American independent – or “indie” – films were usually produced outside of the mammoth Hollywood studio system.) Listed here are books related to independent cinema.

Accidental Genius: How John Cassavetes Invented American Independent Film
By Marshall Fine. Miramax Books/Hyperion, 2005
Call Number: PN1998.3 .C384 F56 2005

Canyon Cinema: The Life and Times of an Independent Film Distributor
By Scott MacDonald. UC Press, 2008
Call Number: PN1999 .C335 M33 2008

Cinema and Culture: Independent Film in the United States, 1980-2001
By E. Deidre Pribram. Lang, 2002
Call Number: PN2993.5 .U6 P75 2002

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New Database – Tests in Print

Tests in Print (TIP) serves as a comprehensive bibliography to all known commercially available tests that are currently in print in the English language. TIP provides vital information to users including test purpose, test publisher, in-print status, price, test acronym, intended test population, administration times, publication date(s), and test author(s). This bibliography can also serve as a guide to test reviews published in Mental Measurements Yearbook.

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In the News: The White House

Week of January 20, 2009

News Item: Barack Obama will become the 44th President of the United States on January 20, at which time he and his family will take up residence in the White House. The titles listed here provide various insights into the building located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington, DC. (As an aside: The Vice President and his family will move to Number One Observatory Circle at the U.S. Naval Observatory.)

America’s First Families: An Inside View of 200 Years of Private Life in the White House
By Carl Sferrazza Anthony. Touchstone, 2000
Call Number: E176.1 .A68 2000

The Architecture of the West Wing of the White House
Published by the Executive Office of the President, 1995
Call Number: PREX 1.2:AR 2 (Government Documents)

Behind the Scenes in the Lincoln White House: Memoirs of an African-American Seamstress
By Elizabeth Keckley. Dover Publications, 2006
Call Number: E457.15 .K26 2006
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In the News: 21st Century New Deal?

Week of January 12, 2009

News Item: President-elect Barack Obama has presented his American Recovery and Reinvestment Plan which, he has said, would resuscitate the economy. This stimulus package could cost around $775 billion and would be used, in part, for tax cuts and to create 3.5 million new jobs. Could this be the makings of a modern-day New Deal? Listed here are some titles that provide some background information on President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal program of the 1930s.

American Rhetoric in the New Deal Era, 1932-1945
Edited by Thomas W. Benson. Michigan State UP, 2006
Call Number: E806 .A638 2006

Backlash: The Killing of the New Deal
By Robert Shogan. Ivan R. Dee, 2006
Call Number: E806 .S54 2006

A Commonwealth of Hope: The New Deal Response to Crisis
By Alan Lawson. Johns Hopkins UP, 2006
Call Number: E806 .L365 2006
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Classical Music Library Has a New Look

In addition to a new interface, the latest release of Classical Music Library includes new features and updates.

  • Album Browse: Browse all classical works by album and find associated recordings.
  • Updated Playlists: Individual items in a playlist can be annotated, and links to any item (whether available in Classical Music Library or on the Web) can easily be added.
  • Content Sharing: Create, name, and annotate a personal playlist. Then choose to share it with other users at your institution, or with anyone who subscribes to Classical Music Library.
  • Advanced Search: The improved Advanced Search allows you to limit results to recordings where the complete work is available. Continue reading

America’s Historical Newspapers – January Database of the Month

 

America’s Historical Newspapers allows users to search more than 1,000 U.S. historical newspapers published between 1690 and 1922, including titles from all 50 states. Created by Readex through partnerships with the American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress, Wisconsin Historical Society and others, America’s Historical Newspapers enables researchers to explore virtually every aspect of America during the 18th, 19th and early 20th centuries. Continue reading