Hispanic Latino Heritage Month – Part 2

October 7, 2010 – October 17, 2010

Hispanic Latino Heritage Month – Part 2

In the News: FAU continues to celebrate Hispanic Latino Heritage Month. (September 15-October 15, 2010) Our first post for this celebration focused on book titles. Now, we feature some DVDs on this subject that are available from the Boca Raton Media Center.

El Beso que Me Diste
Directed by Sonia Fritz. Vanguard Cinema, 2002 (released 2000)
Call Number: PN1997. B44173 2002

Bitter Cane
Directed by Jacques Arcelin. Cinema Guild, 1983
Call Number: F1921 .B47 1983

Bread & Roses
Directed by Ken Loach. Lions Gate, 2001 (released 2000)
Call Number: PN1997. B73 2001

Continue reading

U.S. History in Context – October Database of the Month

U.S. History in Context (formerly History Resource Center) delivers comprehensive, contextual, media-rich search results from an extensive online collection of historical information.

Providing a complete overview of U.S. history that covers the most-studied events, issues and current information, it combines documents from Primary Source Microfilm’s™ digital archives; articles from classic Macmillan Reference USA™ and Charles Scribner’s Sons® references; as well as other Gale content such as country and era overview information, and full-text periodicals and journals. This broad collection of full-text periodicals, reference works, primary documents and scholarly analysis includes:  Continue reading

Oprah Winfrey

Week of September 27, 2010

Oprah Winfrey

In the News: It’s the 25th and final season of The Oprah Winfrey Show. Through the years the Oprah brand has grown into an empire (Harpo, Inc.) that includes a film and TV division, radio shows, a magazine, a book club, and much more. This pop culture icon is also the subject of many scholarly publications.

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

The Age of Oprah: Cultural Icon for the Neoliberal Era
By Janice Peck. Paradigm Publishers, 2008
Call Number: PN1992.4 .W56 P43 2008

Beloved (DVD)
Directed by Jonathan Demme. Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2008
Call Number: PN1997 .B441577 2008 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Continue reading

An Online Directory of Special Collections

FAU Libraries introduces the Finding Aids Repository

This repository provides access to finding aids which include extensive descriptions and inventories of collections and resources held by the Special Collections Department of the FAU Libraries. Use these Finding Aids to search the university archives, rare books & historical collections, print music collections, selected faculty archives, and university photographs collections.

Make your research unique and find the unexpected

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

Iraq War, 2003-2010

Week of September 7, 2010

Iraq War, 2003-2010

In the News: The U.S. combat mission in Iraq, according to President Barack Obama, has come to an end.

The Aftermath (DVD)
Films for the Humanities & Sciences, 2004
Call Number: DS79.76 .A384 2004 (DVD)

American Soldiers in Iraq: McSoldiers or Innovative Professionals?
By Morten G. Ender. Routledge, 2009
Call Number: DS79.76 .E526 2009

The Anatomy of a Deception: A Reconstruction and Analysis of the Decision to Invade Iraq
By Robert P. Abele. University Press of America, 2010
Call Number: DS79.76 .Q24 2010

Baghdad ER (DVD)
Directed by Jon Alpert and Matthew O’Neill. Home Box Office, 2006
Call Number: UH475 .I72 B34 2006 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Bring ‘Em On: Media and Politics in the U.S. War on Iraq
Edited by Lee Artz and Yahyu R. Kamalipour. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005
Call Number: P96 .I73 B75 2005

Control Room (DVD)
Directed by Jehane Noujaim. Lions Gate Home Entertainment, 2004
Call Number: HE8700.9 .Q22 C66 2004 (Boca Raton Media Center)

The Foreigner’s Gift: The Americans, the Arabs, and the Iraqis in Iraq
By Fouad Ajami. Free Press, 2006
Call Number: DS79.76 .A373 2006

Generation Kill (DVD)
HBO Films, 2008
Call Number: PN1992.77 .G462 2008

Ghosts of Abu Ghraib (DVD)
Directed by Rory Kennedy. HBO Video, 2007
Call Number: DS79.76 .G56 2007 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Gulliver Unbound: America’s Imperial Temptation and the War in Iraq
By Stanley Hoffmann. Rowman & Littlefield, 2004
Call Number: E902 .H64 2004

Gunner Palace (DVD)
Directed by Michael Tucker and Petra Epperlein. Palm Pictures, 2005
Call Number: DS79.76 .G866 2005 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Heavy Metal in Baghdad (DVD)
Directed by Eddy Moretti. Arts Alliance America, 2008
Call Number: ML421 .A27 H43 2008 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Hijacking Catastrophe: 9/11, Fear & the Selling of American Empire
Directed by Jeremy Earp and Sut Jhally. Media Education Foundation, 2006
Call Number: HV6432.7 .H522 2006 (Boca Raton Media Center)

The Hurt Locker (DVD)
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow. Summit Entertainment, 2010 (Released 2009)
Call Number: PN1997.2 .H8788 2010 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Independent Intervention: Breaking Silence (DVD)
Bullfrog Films, 2006
Call Number: P96 .A44 I53 2006 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Indymedia War and Peace Trilogy (DVD)
Hudson Mohawk Independent Media Center, 2003
Call Number: DS79.76 .I54 2003 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Iraq!: A Panel at the Socialist Scholars Conference, 2003 (DVD)
Z Video Productions, 2003
Call Number: E902 .I737 2003 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Iraq at a Distance: What Anthropologists Can Teach Us about the War
Edited by Antonius C. G. M. Robben. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010
Call Number: HD497 .I73 2010

Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers (DVD)
Directed by Robert Greenwald. Brave New Films, 2006
Call Number: DS79.769 .I65 2006 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Iraq in Fragments (DVD)
Directed by James Longley. Typecast Releasing, 2007
Call Number: DS79.769 .I73 2007 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War
By Matt Gallagher. Da Capo Press, 2010
Call Number: DS79.766 .G35 A3 2010

Leading to the 2003 Iraq War: The Global Media Debate
Edited by Alexander G. Nikolaev and Ernest A. Hakanen. Palgrave Macmillan, 2006
Call Number: P96 .I73 L43 2006

The Lonely Soldier: The Private War of Women Serving in Iraq
By Helen Benedict. Beacon Press, 2009
Call Number: DS79.76 .B445 2009

The Lucky Ones (DVD)
Directed by Neil Burger. Lionsgate, 2009
Call Number: PN1997.2 .L8359 2009 (Boca Raton Media Center)

No End in Sight (DVD)
Directed by Charles Ferguson. Magnolia Home Entertainment, 2007
Call Number: DS79.76 .N65 2007 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (DVD)
Directed by Richard E. Robbins. New Video, 2007
Call Number: DS79.76 .O64 2007 (Boca Raton Media Center)

The Record of the Paper: How the New York Times Misreports US Foreign Policy
By Howard Friel and Richard Falk. Verso, 2004
Call Number: PN4899 .N42 T544 2004

Standard Operating Procedure (DVD)
Directed by Errol Morris. Sony Pictures, 2008
Call Number: DS79.76 .S68 2008 (Boca Raton Media Center)

Strategy: How George W. Bush is Defeating Terrorists, Outwitting Democrats, and Confounding the Mainstream Media
By Bill Sammon. Regnery Pub., 2006
Call Number: E903.3 .S364 2006

Sunrise over Fallujah
By Walter Dean Myers. Scholastic Press, 2008
Call Number: PZ7 .M992 Su 2008 (Boca Raton Children’s Literature Collection)

Uncovered: The Whole Truth About the Iraq War (DVD)
Directed by Robert Greenwald. Carolina Productions, Inc., 2003
Call Number: DS79.76 .U53 2003 (Boca Raton Media Center)

The Unmaking of the Middle East: A History of Western Disorder in Arab Lands
By Jeremy Salt. University of California Press, 2008
Call Number: DS44 .S315 2008

War Spin (DVD)
Produced by Sandy Smith. Films for the Humanities and Sciences, 2004
Call Number: DS79.76 .W37 2004 (Boca Raton Media Center)

The War Tapes (DVD)
Directed by Deborah Scranton. Docudrama Films, 2007
Call Number: DS79.764 .U6 W37 2007 (Boca Raton Media Center)

What Kind of Liberation?: Women and the Occupation of Iraq
By Nadje Al-Ali and Nicola Pratt. University of California Press, 2009
Call Number: HQ1735 .A66 2009

Points of View Reference Center – September Database of the Month

Points of View Reference Center is a full-text database that includes a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides more than 270 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument), counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. In addition, you can find  research guides to debate, developing arguments and writing position papers. Topics covered include: affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, HIV/AIDS status disclosure, immigration, Iraq, Israel & the Palestinians, Katrina and FEMA response, nuclear proliferation, separation of church and state, standardized testing, stem cell research, tax cuts, voting machines, and many more.

Continue reading

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.

Work…

Week of August 30, 2010

“Less Work, More Life”

In the News: As Labor Day (U.S.) approaches next week, we focus on how work affects our lives. The cover story in the September 2010 issue of The Progressive highlights the need for Americans to work less. The author, John de Graaf, argues that “reducing hours and sharing available work is essential for our families, health, economic security, and the environment.”

About Time: The Revolution in Work and Family Life
By Patricia Hewitt. IPPR/Rivers Oram, 1993
Call Number: HD5106 .H48 1993

Breaking the Mold: Redesigning Work for Productive and Satisfying Lives
By Lotte Bailyn. ILR Press, 2006
Call Number: HD4904.25 .B33 2006

CEO of Me: Creating a Life That Works in the Flexible Job Age
By Ellen Ernst Kossek and Brenda A. Lautsch. Wharton School Pub., 2008
Call Number: HD4904.25 .K667 2008

Continue reading