Qaddafi and Libya / Triangle Factory Fire

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March 28, 2011

Qaddafi and Libya / Triangle Factory Fire

In the News: This week we take a look at the North African country of Libya as well as its leader, Colonel Muammar el-Qaddafi, who has been in power since 1969.

Also In the News: March 25^th was the 100^th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that claimed the lives of 146 immigrant workers. According to the ILR School at Cornell University, this incident continues to have great significance because “it highlights the inhumane working conditions to which industrial workers can be subjected. To many, its horrors epitomize the extremes of industrialism.” Visit the ILR School Kheel Center’s site for more resources on the fire.

QADDAFI AND LIBYA

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

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

Gadaffi: The Desert Mystic
By George Tremlett. Carroll & Graf, 1993
Call Number: DT236 .T74 1993 Continue reading

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

Nuclear Energy

March 21, 2011

Nuclear Energy

In the News: The 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan on March 11^th triggered a tsunami that swept over the country’s Pacific coast line. The death toll will likely exceed 10,000. Three nuclear reactors suffered partial meltdowns while another saw the release of radioactive material into the atmosphere. These devastating events have brought the debate over the pros and cons of nuclear energy to the forefront.

20 Years After the Chernobyl Accident: Past, Present and Future
Edited by Elena B. Burlakova and Valeria I. Naidich. Nova Science Publishers, 2006
Call Number: QH652 .A12 2006

At the Nuclear Precipice: Catastrophe or Transformation?
Edited by Richard Falk and David Krieger. Palgrave Macmillan, 2008
Call Number: JZ5675 .A89 2008

Atomic Culture: How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Edited by Scott C. Zeman and Michael A. Amundson. University Press of Colorado, 2004
Call Number: E169.12 .Z46 2004

Atoms for Peace: A Future after Fifty Years?
Edited by Joseph F. Pilat. Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007
Call Number: HD9698 .A2 A837 2007 Continue reading

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.

Women in Business

March 14, 2011

Women in Business

In the News: FAU’s Center for Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies, the Adams Center for Entrepreneurship, and the President’s Diversity Committee present the Third Annual Women’s Leadership Forum on Friday, March 16, 2011. This year’s theme is Women, Business, and Power.

Ad Women: How They Impact What We Need, Want, and Buy
By Juliann Sivulka. Prometheus Books, 2009
Call Number: HF5813 .U6 S54 2009

Beauty Shop Politics: African American Women’s Activism in the Beauty Industry
By Tiffany m. Gill. University of Illinois Press, 2010
Call Number: E185.86 .G494 2010

The Best-Kept Secret: Women, Corporate Lobbyists, Policy, and Power in the United States
By Denise Benoit. Rutger University Press, 2007
Call Number: HD6095 .B46 2007 (Also available online via NetLibrary) Continue reading

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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Labor Unions and Collective Bargaining (Part 2) / Dr. Seuss

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Labor Unions and Collective Bargaining (Part 2) / Dr. Seuss

In the News: Anti-union measures have been proposed in some state legislatures throughout the Midwest. This week we once again share some resources on
labor unions and collective bargaining. (Be sure to take a look at our post on unions from 2009.)

Also In the News: Happy Birthday to Dr. Seuss! The National Education Association’s Read Across America event took place on March 2, 2011, Dr. Seuss’s birthday. Here are some books about the author himself, a.k.a. Theodor Geisel.

LABOR UNIONS AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

Academic Collective Bargaining
Edited by Ernst Benjamin and Michael Mauer. American Association of University Professors, 2006
Call Number: LB2335.885 .U6 A233 2006

Black Americans and Organized Labor: A New History
By Paul D. Moreno. Louisiana State University Press, 2006
Call Number: HD6490 .R22 U649 2005

Black and Blue: African Americans, the Labor Movement, and the Decline of the Democratic Party
By Paul Frymer. Princeton University Press, 2008
Call Number: HD8072 .F86 2008

Classical Scores Library – March Database of the Month

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 24,000 musical scores.

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. To include audio files and reference materials in your search, you can access Classical Scores Library through the Music Online database. Continue reading

Black History

February 28, 2011

Black History Month

In the News: Although Black History Month is coming to an end, it doesn’t mean that we cannot continue to commemorate the achievements of Blacks and celebrate their rich history. So this week we share some of the library’s newest titles on Black history and culture.

Acting White: The Curious History of a Racial Slur
By Ron Christie. St. Martin’s Press, 2010
Call Number: E185.625 .C495 2010

African American Actresses: The Struggle for Visibility, 1900-1960
By Charlene Regester. Indiana University Press, 2010
Call Number: PN1995.9 .N4 R42 2010

The African American Entrepreneur: Then and Now
By W. Sherman Rogers. Praeger, 2010
Call Number: HD2358.5 .U6 R65 2010 Continue reading

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