ScienceDirect – October Database of the Month

Elsevier’s ScienceDirect is a leading full-text scientific database offering high impact journals in the fields of Science, Engineering, Humanities and the Social Sciences. Florida Atlantic University has access to over 1,000 of these titles, including archival collections in Business and Management, Biochemistry and Genetics, Economics, and the complete Cell Press backfiles.

The platform offers sophisticated search and retrieval functionality and new tools that allow efficient downloading of content that can be shared, stored and passed to colleagues. One can search by authors, titles, topics and utilize all your favorite boolean operators, or search on one or more disciplines. This system also produces alerts for new articles online and when a new journal issue hits the “stands.”

Features that allow for a customizable research experience, include: Continue reading

In the News: Muammar el-Qaddafi

Week of September 28, 2009

News Item: De facto Libyan leader Colonel Muammar el-Quaddafi (sometimes spelled “Muammar al-Gadaffi”) recently made headlines when he spoke during a United Nations General Assembly session for 90 minutes, at least 75 minutes longer than his allotted time. The speech covered a wide variety of topics including swine flu (H1N1 Flu), the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Taliban. Quaddafi has been in power for 40 years and, according to Western intelligence, was involved in the 1988 bombing of Pan Am Flight 103 over Lockerbie, Scotland.

The American Bombing of Libya: A study of the Force of Miscalculation in Reagan Foreign Policy
By Nicholas Laham. McFarland & Co., 2008
Call Number: E183.8 .L75 L34 2008

The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky: A True Story
By Ken Dornstein. Random House, 2006
Call Number: HV6431 .D665 2006

El Dorado Canyon: Reagan’s Undeclared War with Qaddafi
By Joseph T. Stanik. Naval Institute Press, 2003
Call Number: E183.8 .L75 S726 2003

In the News: Fashion

Week of September 21, 2009

Fashion, Fashion Everywhere

News Items:

The September Issue, a documentary released in late-August, highlights the work of editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her staff at Vogue as they prepare for the largest-ever 2007 fall issue (which eventually weighed over four pounds.)
Despite the bleak economy, buyers, celebrities, and the press recently came out for New York Fashion Week, a time when fashion designers, hair stylists, and make-up artists showcased the latest runway trends.

60 Civil War-Era Fashion Patterns
By Kristina Seleshanko. Dover, 2007
Call Number: GT610 .S39 2007

Appearance and Identity: Fashioning the Body in Postmodernity
By Llewellyn Negrin. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Call Number: GT521 .N44 2008

Art Deco Fashion
By Suzanne Lussier. Bulfinch Press, 2003
Call Number: N6494 .A7 L87 2003

Classical Scores & Music References Online

Classical Scores Library contains hundreds of thousands of pages of the most important classical music scores, manuscripts, and previously unpublished material, allowing for the study and analysis of more than 8,000 musical scores. Many items have associated audio tracks in Classical Music Library, so that subscribers to both collections can listen to a recording online while following along with the full score.

Classical Scores Library allows users to access multiple types of scores across various composers, genres, and time periods. Within seconds, beginning music students can explore Beethoven’s entire compositional output, or music experts can compare different musical settings of the Magnificat from the 15th century to the 21st century-without the need to find and carry heavy scores and multiple CDs. Click here for a full description. Continue reading

In the News: Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month

Week of September 14, 2009

News Item: September 15 through October 15 is Hispanic/Latino Heritage Month. This week In the News looks at titles published since 2000 that relate to Latino, Chicano, and Hispanic cultures.

Atlas of Hispanic-American History
By George Ochoa and Carter Smith. Facts on File, 2009
Call Number: E184 .S75 O287 2009 (Boca Raton Reference – Non-Circulating)

Building the Latino Future: Success Stories for the Next Generation
By Frank Carbajal and Humberto Medina. Wiley, 2008
Call Number: E184 .S75 C367 2008

Changing Race: Latinos, The Census, and the History of Ethnicity in the United States
By Clara E. Rodriguez. New York University Press, 2000
Call Number: E1884 .S75 R64 2000 (Also available online via NetLibrary)

FAU Collections of the American Civil War

FAU Libraries and Special Collections are pleased to announce the launch of a new webpage dedicated to the American Civil War, FAU Collections of the American Civil War.

The new site will facilitate student and faculty research by describing collections and providing item-level lists of our materials relating to the American Civil War and the period 1850 to 1890. Many of these primary documents have not been previously researched and include diaries, photographs, letters, political pamphlets and cartoons, rare books, maps, illustrations and broadsides. A small sampling of topics includes state rights, abolition, presidential elections, women’s roles, Confederacy and Union generals’ field letters, Jefferson Davis and Confederacy financing, army medical care and post-war amendment debates.

Students, faculty and other researchers are encouraged to make an appointment so that items can be paged in advance of their visit. Tours, workshops and staff assistance are also available. To make arrangements, please contact the Special Collections Department at LYSCA@fau.edu, or call 561-297-3787.

See upcoming library events and new resources related to the Civil War: Continue reading

In the News: After 9/11

Week of September 8, 2009

News Item: This week, we list titles that focus specifically on the September 11, 2001 attacks on the United States. Some of the subject areas include literature, commerce, sociology, political science, music, history, and criminology.