CINAHL Training – 11/17 & 11/18

With full text coverage dating back to 1937, CINAHL Plus is a comprehensive research tool for all areas of nursing, allied health, and complementary and alternative therapies literature.

The FAU Libraries are offering training sessions by a professional CINAHL trainer:

Boca Campus
Friday, November 18th
2:00 – 3:30
S.E. Wimberly Library Instruction Lab, Room 136
RSVP: Jane Strudwick , 561-297-0492

Treasure Coast Campus
Thursday, November 17th
2:00 – 3:30
JU 134/Library Computer Lab (TCC JU Library)
RSVP: Pam Alderman, 772.873.3311

Silvio Berlusconi

Week of November 14, 2011

Silvio Berlusconi

In the News: Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy.

Berlusconi’s Italy: Mapping Contemporary Italian Politics
Michael E. Shin and John A. Agnew. Temple University Press, 2008
Call Number: Available online via EBSCOhost

Blowing Up the Brand: Critical Perspectives on Promotional Culture
Edited by Melissa Aronczyk and Devon Powers. P. Lang, 2010
Call Number: HD69 .B7 B575 2010

The Dark Heart of Italy
By Tobias Jones. North Point Press, 2004
Call Number: DG430.2 .J66 2004 Continue reading

Homelessness / Anita Hill

Week of November 7, 2011

Homelessness / Anita Hill

In the News: The New York Times and Wall Street Journal report that scores of homeless men and women throughout the country have settled in with local Occupy demonstrators, but some involved with the Occupy movement are questioning whether the homeless are there to join in the cause or simply to seek shelter, food, and safety.

Also In the News: It has been twenty years since Anita Hill took the stand and testified during the confirmation hearings for Supreme Court Justice Nominee Clarence Thomas where she accused him of workplace sexual harassment.

HOMELESSNESS

All Our Sisters: Stories of Homeless Women in Canada
By Susan Scott. Broadview Press, 2007
Call Number: HV4509 .S36 2007

Contextualizing Homelessness: Critical Theory, Homelessness, and Federal Policy Addressing the Homeless
By Ken Kyle. Routledge, 2005
Call Number: HV4505 .K95 2005

Counting the Homeless: Unsheltered and Sheltered
Edited by Trevor D. Morgan. Nova Science Publishers, 2010
Call Number: HV4505 .C683 2010 Continue reading

Filmakers Library Online – November Database of the Month

For more than 40 years, Filmakers Library has delivered high-quality, issue-based documentaries and independent films from around the world. You can now access more than 1,000 of these titles at Filmakers Library Online, a multidisciplinary collection of streaming video designed specifically for researchers. Internationally known producers such as the National Film Board of Canada and KCTS/Seattle are represented. Also included are the works of hundreds of notable independent film makers worldwide, including Christine Choy, Roger Weisberg, Josh Aronson, David Bradbury, Judith Gleason, Jeremy Levine & Landon Van Soest, Aaron Matthews, Jeffrey O’Connor, Tana Ross, and Taggart Siegel.

Filmakers Library Online includes documentaries that are already heavily used in humanities and social science classrooms—films such as Who Killed Vincent Chin?; Aging Out: Teens Leaving Foster Care; Critical Condition; Dax’s Case: Who Should Decide?; Sound and Fury: The Communication Wars of the Deaf; and Waging a Living.

You can watch any video on your mobile device by clicking on the “send to mobile” icon. Continue reading

Hallowe’en

Week of October 31, 2011

Hallowe’en

In the News: Happy Halloween!

American Nightmares: The Haunted House Formula in American Popular Fiction
By Dale Bailey. Bowling Green State University Popular Press, 1999
Call Number: PS374 .H33 B35 1999 (At Jupiter)

Arthur Miller’s The Crucible
Edited by Harold Bloom. Bloom’s Literary Criticism, 2010
Call Number: Available online via EBSCOhost

Celluloid Vampires: Life after Death in the Modern World
By Stacey Abbott. University of Texas Press, 2007
Call Number: PN1995.9 .V3 A23 2007 Continue reading

FAU Libraries presents workshop for Open Access Week

Join us for an upcoming workshop Wednesday October 26 in Wimberly Library (LY136) as FAU Libraries promotes Open Access Week October 24-30, 2011. Discussion will center on resources and initiatives that provide immediate and unrestricted access to information. Learn about the history of the Open Access movement and what librarians and faculty can do to promote Open Access. Discover current open access trends on campus and through statewide initiatives. Explore FAU’s institutional repository collections, the possibilities of open access publishing on campus using the Florida Open Journal system, and textbooks online at the Orange Grove Repository. Can’t attend? Check out FAU Libraries Open Access LibGuide for more information.

The Amish

Week of October 24, 2011

The Amish

In the News: At least five Amish men have been charged with kidnapping and burglary after a series of attacks on other Amish citizens in the eastern Ohio area. The men have been accused of cutting their victims’ beards and hair.

The America of the Amish (DVD)
Directed by Alexandre Fronty. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2006
Call Number: E184 .M45 A447 2006 (Boca Raton Media Center)

The Amish: Not to Be Modern (Streaming Media)
Directed by Victoria Larimore & Michael Taylor. Filmakers Library, 1985
Call Number: Available online via Filmakers Library Online

Amish in Michigan
By Gertrude Enders Huntington. Michigan State University Press, 2001
Call Number: F575 .M45 H86 2001 Continue reading

Multiracialism

Week of October 17, 2011

Multiracialism

In the News: The New York Times recently featured an article on families throughout the U.S. who consider themselves mixed-race whether through marriage, adoption, or other relationships. The article also mentioned that the multiracial population of American children sits at around 4.2 million, up by at least 50 percent since 2000.

Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interracial Marriage, & American Law
By Fay Botham. University of North Carolina Press, 2009
Call Number: KF511 .B68 2009 (At Jupiter)

Beyond Black: Biracial Identity in America
By Kerry Ann Rockquemore and David Brunsma. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2008 (2^nd ed.)
Call Number: E184 .A1 R62 2008

Black Enough/White Enough: The Obama Dilemma
By Rickey Hendon. Third World Press, 2009
Call Number: E901.1 .O23 H46 2009 Continue reading

Soap Operas

Week of October 10, 2011

Soap Operas

In the News: Long-running daytime soaps All My Children and One Life to Live canceled

All My Children ended its 41 year run in September while One Life to Live will air its final television episode in January 2012. While this may signal the demise of daytime TV soaps, both series are scheduled to resurface in early 2012 via The Online Network.

The Daytime Serials of Television, 1946-1960
By Jim Cox. McFarland, 2006
Call Number: PN1992.8 .S4 C69 2006

Drugs, Thugs, and Divas: Telenovelas and Narco-Dramas in Latin America
By O. Hugo Benavides. University of Texas Press, 2008
Call Number: PN1992.8 .S4 B47 2008

The Dynasty Years: Hollywood Television and Critical Media Studies
By Jostein Gripsrud. Routledge, 1995
Call Number: PN1992.77 .D9 G75 1995 Continue reading

RefWorks Training, 11/1 & 11/2

The FAU Libraries are offering four training sessions by a professional RefWorks trainer:
November 1st and November 2nd.

RefWorks allows you to create a personal database that can be used to manage, store, and share your research. Learn how to quickly and easily import references from online databases, automatically insert references into papers and generate formatted bibliographies and manuscripts in seconds. RefMobile and the in-text citation tool Write-N-Cite will also be covered.

Boca Campus
RefWorks Best Practices (See description below)
Tuesday, November 1st
9:00 and 11:00
S.E. Wimberly Library Instruction Lab, Room 136
RSVP or contact Jane Strudwick for more information

Treasure Coast Campus
Wednesday, November 2nd
9:30 – Using RefWorks to Quickly Import Citations and Write a Paper (See description below)
11:00 – Beyond Direct Export (See description below)
JU 134/Library Computer Lab (TCC JU Library)
RSVP: Pam Alderman or Deb Fink

For ongoing RefWorks Workshops, see the FAU Libraries Workshop Schedule: http://www.library.fau.edu/depts/ref/instsrv/mainwksh.htm, or contact Instructional Services at LYILIS@fau.edu.