Library News

College of Science Research Day and Integrative Biology Scientific Talks

Join the College of Science on Friday March 25 for Research Day from 10:00 a.m. -2:00 p.m.  on Boca Raton Campus Sanson Life Science Building (East Patio) followed by two presentations. Dr. Stephen O’Brien, chief of the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity at the National Cancer Institute, will be keynote speaker on “Tears of the Panther, Mark of the Plague-Natural History Adventure Stories in the Genomics Era.” Dr. Catherine Trivigno, 2011 Distinguished Alumni will be speaking on “Surviving Grad School:  The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly.”

  Location: PA 101 2:45-5:00 PM

  RSVP FAU.IB.Retreat@gmail.com

 

Second Annual Graduate Student Research Day 2011

Save the Date: Friday April 8, 2011!

FAU’s Graduate Student Association is hosting its Second Annual Graduate Student Research Day from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the Live Oak Pavilion on Boca Raton Campus. Graduate students engaged in various kinds of research projects from across the University will present posters for awards and prizes.  In support of student scholarship and in collaboration with the GSA, FAU’s Digital Library will preserve and provide access to abstracts and posters to be presented in a new digital collection for Student Research.

Find it @ FAU has a New Look

New Look – Still Finding Full Text

In order to improve the accuracy and delivery of full-text content, the FAU Libraries have changed the Find it @ FAU service. Find it @ FAU will still direct  you to the full-text of articles, but the menu will look different. Over the next few weeks, you will notice the new menu popping up when clicking on the button or “full text.”

Click the Citation Linker to use the new service for finding a citation.

New Menu

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Announcing FAU Libraries’ First Open Access Journal

Florida Atlantic University Libraries’ announces the launch of the University’s first open access journal published with the Open Journal System. The Florida Geographer, the official publication of the Florida Society of Geographers is now available online at http://journals.fcla.edu/flgeog. Under the Editorial direction of Dr. Russell Ivy and production editor James Clark-Gammack of FAU’s Department of Geosciences the transition from print to electronic copy was made successful with the collaboration of FAU’s Digital Library. The journal’s scope continues to include all aspects of physical, human and applied geography with a preference for topics with a focus set in Florida. National and international research conducted by geographers based in Florida is also considered as well as articles focused on geographic education.  Congratulations to FAU’s Department of Geosciences on their venture into open access publishing! For more information on the Open Journal System please contact FAU’s Digital Library lydig@fau.edu

Test Drive the New ProQuest Platform

ProQuest has completely redesigned it’s platform

Click here to check it out

The all-new, powerful, comprehensive and easy-to-navigate environment will bring together resources from ProQuest, Cambridge Scientific Abstracts (CSA) and Chadwyck-Healey.  Some of FAU’s most popular databases are now easily searchable alongside databases that were previously on other platforms, such as:

See the full list of FAU subscribed databases now available on the new platform (not all ProQuest products are included in the initial release). The new platform will be live in late January 2011.

See the links below for further information:

New Proquest Platform Demo

Quick Start Reference Overview

All-New ProQuest Platform Highlights for Faculty

Send comments and report problems to jstrudw1@fau.edu.

Latino Hispanic Heritage Month

Week of September 15, 2010

Hispanic Latino Heritage Month

In the News: FAU celebrates Hispanic Latino Heritage Month! (September 15-October 15, 2010)
These titles are on display in the lobby of the S.E. Wimberly Library on the Boca Raton Campus. The books are suggestions from the Hispanic Latino Heritage Month Committee members and FAU librarians, but this list by no means includes all of the materials we have on the subject. Thanks to Yandi, our student employee, for his assistance with this project.

Afro-Latin America, 1800-2000
By George Reid Andrews. Oxford University Press, 2004
Call Number: Available online via NetLibrary

Amigoland: A Novel
By Oscar Cesares. Little, Brown and Co., 2009
Call Number: PS3603 .A83 A59 2009

The Answer/La Respuesta
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 1994
Call Number: PQ7296 .J6 R413 1994

Best of Contemporary Mexican Fiction
Edited by Álvaro Uribe. Dalkey Archive Press, 2009
Call Number: PQ7276 .B474 2009

Black Behind the Ears: Dominican Racial Identity from Museums to Beauty Shops
By Ginetta E. B. Candelario. Duke University Press, 2007
Call Number: F1941 .B55 C36 2007

Bordering Fires: The vintage book of contemporary Mexican and Chicano/a literature
Edited by Cristina Garcia
Call number:  PQ7237.E5 B67 2006

La Breve y Maravillosa Vida de Oscar Wao
By Junot Díaz. Vintage Español, 2008
Call Number: PS3554 .I259 B7518 2008

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
By Junot Díaz. Riverhead Books, 2007
Call Number: PS3554 .I259 B75 2007

Caribbean Genesis: Jamaica Kincaid and the Writing of New Worlds
By Jana Evans Braziel. SUNY Press, 2009
Call Number: PR9275 .A583 K56433 2009

Caribbean Middlebrow: Leisure Culture and the Middle Class
By Belinda Edmondson. Cornell University Press, 2009
Call Number: PR9205.05 .E357 2009

Children of the Mire: Modern Poetry from Romanticism to the Avant-Garde
By Octavio Paz. Harvard University Press, 1991
Call Number: PN1161 .P3 1991

Cien Años de Soledad
By Gabriel García Márquez. Asociación de Academias de la Lengua Española, 2007
Call Number: PQ8180.17 .A73 C5 2007

The Collected Poems of Octavio Paz, 1957-1987
By Octavio Paz. New Directions, 1990
Call Number: PQ7297 .P285 A29 1991

Conversations with Isabel Allende
Edited by John Rodden. University of Texas Press, 2004
Call Number: PQ8098.1 .L54 Z465 2004

Cuando Era Puertorriquena
By Esmeralda Santiago. Vintage Books, 1994
Call Number: F128.9 .P85 S2718 1994

Cuban-American Literature and Art: Negotiating Identities
Edited by Isabel Alvarez Borland and Lynette M.F. Bosch. SUNY Press, 2009
Call Number: PS153 .C83 C83 2009

The Divine Narcissus/ El Divino Narciso
By Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. University of New Mexico Press, 1998
Call Number: PQ7296 .J6 D5813 1998

The Double Flame: Love and Eroticism
By Octavio Paz. Harcourt Brace, 1996
Call Number: PN56 .S5 P3913 1996

Down These Mean Streets
By Thomas Piri. Vintage Books, 1997
Call Number: F128.9 .P85 T48 1997

An Erotic Beyond: Sade
By Octavio Paz. Harcourt Brace, 1998
Call Number: PQ2063 .S3 P36513 1998

Finding Mañana: A Memoir of a Cuban Exodus – 2010 FAU Freshman Reading Program Selection
By Mirta Ojito. Penguin Press, 2005
Call Number: E184 .C97 O45 2005

Flight of the Swan
By Rosario Ferré. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001
Call Number: PS3556 .E7256 F57 2001

Global Connections & Local Receptions: New Latino Immigration to the Southeastern United States
Edited by Fran Ansley and Jon Shefner. University of Tennessee Press, 2009
Call Number: F220 .S75 G56 2009

Gringa: A Contradictory Girlhood
By Melissa Hart. Seal Press, 2009
Call Number: CT275 .H38672 A3 2009

The Haitian Revolution
By Toussaint L’Ouverture. Verso, 2008
Call Number: F1923 .T63 2008

Happy Families: Stories
By Carlos Fuentes.  Random House, 2008
Call Number:  PQ7297.F793 T5913 2008

Hispanic Families at Risk: The New Economy, Work, and the Welfare State
By Ronald J. Angel and Jacqueline L. Angel. Springer, 2009
Call Number: E1874 .S75 A54 2009

The House of Trials: A Translation of Los Empeños de una Casa
By Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz. Peter Lang, 1997
Call Number: PQ7296 .J6 E413 1997

How the García Girls Lost Their Accents
By Julia Alvarez, 1992
Call Number: PS3551 .L845 H66 1992

How the United States Racializes Latinos: White Hegemony and Its Consequences
Edited by José A. Cobas et al. Paradigm, 2009
Call Number: E184 .S75 H74 209

Imagined Transnationalism: U.S. Latino/a Literature, Culture, and Identity
Edited by Kevin Concannon et al. Palgrave, 2009
Call Number: E184 .S75 I357 2009

Ines del Alma Mia: Una Novela
By Isabel Allende. HarperCollins, 2006
Call Number: PQ8098.1 .L54 I54 2006

Inez
By Carlos Fuentes. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2002
Call Number: PQ7297 .F793 I6713 2002

Itinerary: An Intellectual Journey
By Octavio Paz. Harcourt, 2001
Call Number: F1226 .P3213 2001

El Laberinto de la Soledad
By Octavio Paz. Cátedra, 1995
Call Number: F1210 .P3 1995

Latina/o Sexualities: Probing Powers, Passions, Practices, and Policies
Edited by Marysol Asencio. Rutgers University Press, 2010
Call Number: E184 .S75 L346 2010

The Latino Body: Crisis Identities in American Literary and Cultural Memory
By Lazaro Lima. New York University Press, 2007
Call Number: PS153 .M4 L54 2007

Latino Farmworkers in the Eastern United States: Health, Safety and Justice
Edited by Thomas A. Arcury and Sara A. Quandt. Springer, 2009
Call Number: HD8039 .F32 U6 2009

Latino Immigrants and the Transformation of the U.S. South
Edited by Mary E. Odem and Elaine Lacy. University of Georgia Press, 2009
Call Number: F220 .S75 L363 2009

Latsploitation, Exploitation Cinemas, and Latin America
Edited by Victoria Ruétalo and Dolores Tierney. Routledge, 2009
Call Number: PN1995.9 .S284 L38 2009

Living to Tell the Tale
By Gabriel García Márquez. A.A. Knopf, 2003
Call Number: PQ8180.17 .A73 Z47813 2003

Memoria de Mis Putas Tristes
By Gabriel García Márquez. Libreria Universal, 2004
Call Number: PQ8180.17 .A73 M46 2004

Memories of My Melancholy Whores
By Gabriel García Márquez. Knopf, 2005
Call Number: PQ8180.17 .A73 M4613 2005

Mi Voz, Mi Vida: Latino College Students Tell Their Life Stories
Edited by Andrew Garrod, Robert Kilkenny, and Christina Gómez. Cornell University Press, 2007
Call Number: LC2670.6 .M58 2007

El Mono Gramático
By Octavio Paz. Editorial Seix Barral, 1990, 1974
Call Number: PQ7297 .P285 M6 1974

Moving Beyond Borders: Julian Samora and the Establishment of Latino Studies
Edited by Alberto López Pulido et al. University of Illinois Press, 2009
Call Number: E184 .S75 M69 2009

My Invented Country: A Nostalgic Journey through Chile
By Isabel Allende. HarperCollins, 2003
Call Number: PQ8098.1 .L54 Z467 2003

Neither Enemies Nor Friends: Latinos, Blacks, Afro-Latinos
Edited by Anani Dzidizienyo and Suzanne Oboler. Palgrave, 2005
Call Number: E29 .A1 N45 2005

Papeles de Pandora
By Rosario Ferré. Thorndike Press, 2002
Call Number: PQ7440 .F45 P3 2002

Poems, Protest, and Dream: Selected Writings
By Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz. Penguin Books, 1997
Call Number: PQ7296 .J6 A25 1997

A Puerto Rican in New York, and Other Sketches
By Jesus Colon. Mainstream Publishers, 1961
Call Number: F128.9 .P8 C6

Rethinking Chicana/o and Latina/o Popular Culture
By Daniel Enrique Pérez. Palgrave, 2009
Call Number: HQ76.25 .P47 2009

Rewriting Womanhood: Feminism, Subjectivity, and the Angel of the House in the Latin American Novel, 1887-1903
By Nancy LaGreca. Pennsylvania State University Press, 2009
Call Number: PQ7081.5 .L35 2009

Selenidad: Selena, Latinos, and the Performance of Memory
By Deborah Paredez. Duke University Press, 2009
Call Number: ML420 .S458 P36 2009

Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood
By Judith Ortiz Cofer. Arte Público Press, 1991
Call Number: PS3565 .R7737 Z477 1991

Slaveholders in Jamaica: Colonial Society and Culture During the Era of Abolition
By Christer Petley. Pickering & Chatto, 2009
Call Number: HT1096 .P48 2009

Stories from El Barrio
By Piri Thomas. Knopf, 1978
Call Number: PZ .T3693 St (Children’s Literature Collection – Boca Raton)

The Sum of Our Days
By Isabel Allende. Harper, 2008
Call Number: PQ8098.1 .L54 Z46 2008

This I Believe: an A to Z of a Life
By Carlos Fuentes.  Random House, 2005
Call Number: PQ7297.F793 E5413 2005

Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas: Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexican Literature
By Anna Marie Sandoval. University of Texas Press, 2008
Call Number: PS153 .M4 S36 2008

Vintage Cisneros
By Sandra Cisneros. Vintage Books, 1991
Call Number: PS3553 .I78 A6 2004

When I Was Puerto Rican
By Esmeralda Santiago. Vintage Books, 1994
Call Number: F128.9 .P85 S27 1994

Who Speaks for Hispanics?: Hispanic Interest Groups in Washington
By Deirdre Martinez. SUNY Press, 2009
Call Number: E184 .S75 M382 2009

The Woman I Kept to Myself: Poems
By Julia Alvarez. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2004
Call Number: PS3551 .L845 W66 2004

Woman in Front of the Sun: On Becoming a Writer
By Judith Ortiz Cofer. University of Georgia Press, 2000
Call Number: PS3565 .R7737 Z478 2000

The World of the Haitian Revolution
Edited by David Patrick Geggus and Norman Fiering, 2009
Call Number: F1923 .W67 2009

Zorro: A Novel
By Isabel Allende. HarperCollins, 2005
Call Number: PQ8098.1 .L54 Z4613 2005

One Search Box. . . Discover FAU Libraries

SearchWise Owl

Florida Atlantic University Libraries are introducing SearchWiSE, a search engine that does for the FAU Libraries’ collections what Google does for the Internet.

SearchWiSE uses a single search box to help you discover information in all formats, including print and electronic books, journals and newspapers, videos, CDs and digital collections. All of these formats are integrated into a single results list. Find what you want online, or in the case of physical materials, find where they are located in the FAU Libraries.

The SearchWiSE interface includes facets that allow library users to refine their results. For example, users can target only peer-reviewed items, show only full text articles or include/exclude items such as newspaper articles, books or journals.

Discovering what the FAU Libraries offer has been greatly simplified and amplified because of SearchWiSE.  Read more>>

Try SearchWiSE now from the libraries home page or go to www.fau.edu/library/ecollect/searchwise.php.

Generals & the Social Forum

Library titles related to the latest headlines…

Week of June 28, 2010

Generals & the Social Forum

In the News: General Stanley McChrystal was relieved of his duties as the commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan. Taking his place is General David Petraeus, Commander of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) and architect of the 2007 counterinsurgency operations in Iraq. This week we look at other U.S. generals from the 20th and 21st centuries.

Also In the News: The second U.S. Social Forum, an offshoot of the World Social Forum, was held in Detroit last week, but the event received very little news coverage by the mainstream media.

GENERALS

15 Stars: Eisenhower, MacArthur, Marshall: Three Generals Who Saved the American Century
By Stanley Weintraub. Free Press, 2007
Call Number: DS919 .P43 2008

Daniel “Chappie” James: The First African American Four Star General
By Earnest N. Bracey. McFarland & Co., 2003
Call Number: E840.5 .J36 B73 2003

Eisenhower: The Prewar Diaries and Selected Papers, 1905-1941
Edited by Daniel D. Holt. Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998
Call Number: E742.5 .W372 1998

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Good-bye 360 Search, Hello SearchWiSE!

What Happened to 360 Search?

360 Search has been replaced by the new search engine, SearchWiSE. Both are designed to search multiple resources and return results in one interface. Because 360 Search works by searching outside databases and pulling the information in,  it was sometimes slow and a little clunky. SearchWiSE is basically the next generation of searching – all of the information, from books to title level indexing of online journals, is  housed and searched in one place. So now when you conduct a search, you will uncover much of what is unique to FAU Libraries, and your results will be returned quickly in one intuitive interface.

What is SearchWiSE?

SearchWise uses a single search box — that helps you discover information in all formats from the Florida Atlantic University Libraries’ collections — including print and electronic books, journals and newspapers, videos, CDs, and digitized collections.  All of these formats are integrated into a single results list.  You see what you want, click through to the full text if available or, in the case of physical materials, find its location in the library.

To put it simply, SearchWiSE does for libraries what Google does for the Web.  SearchWise is powered by the Summon™ service which works by pre-indexing content, allowing instant and true relevancy-ranked results.

Let us know what you think of SearchWiSE by email, commenting below, or on the Libraries’ Facebook page.

ARTstor has Improved Functionality


ARTstor, a collection of hundreds and thousands of digital images, has improved the functionality of and corrected errors related to several features in the Digital Library.

• URL links to images and groups will open the image viewer consistently, whether a user clicks the link on a web page, in an email or document, or pastes the URL into a browser address bar.

• URL links to image groups will allow ARTstor users (on-campus or accessing through a user account) to open the group, regardless of the access rights on the image group’s folder.

• Changes made to the order of image groups within folders can now be saved successfully, and changes will persist in future sessions.

• Folders created and edited through the Folder Manager window can be assigned ‘Public’ access, and saved successfully without receiving an error message.

• Folders assigned ‘Private’ access with no password will no longer display as ‘Public’ in the Folder Manager window.

If you have further questions about using these features, please consult the ARTstor Help pages (http://help.artstor.org) or contact User Services at 888-278-0079 / userservices@artstor.org.