Added to the Yocum collection

Wedding chic: the savvy bride's guide to getting more while spending
less--Nina Willdorf

Racc Library General Collection

HQ745 .W54 2005

Added to the Yocum collection

Ballroom dancing : the romance, rhythm, and style / John Lawrence Reynolds ; principal photography by Xavier Nuez and John Lawrence Reynolds.

by Reynolds, John (John Lawrence)

Racc Library General Collection GV1751 .R46 1998

Just in...

Folk erotica: celebrating centuries of erotic Americana--Milton Simpson
Racc Library General Collection N8217.E6 S54 1994

Just in...

When everything changed : the amazing journey of American women, from 1960 to the present

by Collins, Gail.

Racc Library General Collection HQ1421 .C64 2009

Photo Cover from Amazon.com

New DVD's

Law & Order:SVU s.8;9;10
Square Pegs
Amelia
New York; I love you
Suspiria
District 9
Departures
The Rivals
I can do bad all by myself
This is it
Glee
Criminal minds s.1&2
Zombieland

Open

The College and The Yocum Library
will be open on Saturday, Feb 26th.

The Library is Closed

Due to weather, the College is closed today, Friday
February, 26. All classes and activities are cancelled

Scheduled Classes for Computers

Thursday, Feb 25, 201011 a.m. - 12 p.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Ms. Reichart's SST110 (10) ProQuest database
presented by Ms. Kim Stahler.

Just in ...

Study without stress: mastering medical sciences
Euginia G. Kelman and Kathleen C. Straker

Racc Library General Collection

R737 .K45 2000

From the desk of Miriam Stone - Review

Review – "thirtysomething" by Miriam Stone

It made its debut in 1984, the year Newsweek devoted its December 31st cover story to what it called the “Year of the Yuppie.” The article was long but the word “yuppie” was never clearly defined. Even the characters of thirtysomething spent a lot of their time defining and redefining the word to allow them selves to fit into it or to shun it depending on their particular whimsy. Michael summed it up one week when he cried “I’m not a yuppie. I don’t have lots of money or great cars or a nice house. I want those things, but I don’t have them!”

Thirtysomething has been described as a cultural touchstone; a cautionary tale about marriage; a saga about communication issues between the sexes and a keen a barometer measuring the national mood.

And yet there are those who tuned in to watch the same seven people struggle through their day to day crisis’s and all they saw were these seven grown-ups who did nothing but constantly whine. And that is also true.

But thirtysomething was a show about people striving to be a little better and to have an identity separate from the ones their parents saw for them.

The women, Hope, Nancy, Ellen and Melissa were dealing with the changing role of women in society. They were multidimensional in their approach to life and their desire was not to become merely an appendage of a man, a ruthless career woman or even just stereotypically dissatisfied.
Their male counterparts were also in a state of flux. They were dealing with marriage, family life, fatherhood, sexuality, and friendship. And these roles were built not only on work and play, but on political values, inner doubts and soul searching.

Work was dealt with in ways that television series have rarely attempted. Michael and Elliot owned their own advertising agency and they often found themselves walking a balancing beam between the economic necessities of the business and the moral compromises they had to make for it. Elliot’s sense of creativity clashed with Michael’s sense of social responsibility.

If this all sounds like each week was a moral value lesson, it may have been but you would be hard pressed to find it. When this show was funny, it was incredibly funny. And it found humor every week in all the day to day struggles of these flawed, incredibly likable people. When it was sad, people cried. And when a character got mad, the audience worried.

And never, never was a story line tied up with a bow at the end of the hour. Life goes on and so did theirs. Week after week you could tune in to the continuing adventures of these very human characters as they struggled through their days just like us and at the end of the hour you could somehow feel that maybe you didn’t get it so wrong that week. After all if these people couldn’t get it right and they could still survive and laugh, we could to.

From the Desk of Patricia Nouhra, list of New DVDs

List of new DVDs for Dec. & Jan.

Coffy

Colley High
Foxy Brown
Hell up in Harlem
I'm Gonna Git You Sucka
30 Rock s.3
Angels & Demons
Battlestar Galactica - The Plan
Best of Soul Cinema:
Bruno
Campion s.1&2
Christmas Tale--French
Cove
Criminal Minds s.1&2
Cube
Defiance
Desperate House wives s.5
Dexter s.1
Dirty Dancing/Dirty Dancing Havana Nights
Downhill Racer
Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along
Edge of Love
Encounters at the End of the World
Eureka s.1,2,3
Every Little Step
Fallen
Final Season
Food, Inc.
Funny Girl
Galaxy Quest
Ghosts of Girlfriends Past
Gomorrah--Italian
Gossip Girl s.2
Grey's Anatomy s.5
Hangover
Hannah Montana: The Movie
Hawkwind: Winter Soltice
Herb & Dorothy
Hurt Locker
Inspector Allyn Mysteries s.1
Ishi: The Last Yahi
Let the right one in
Let's do it again
Little trip to heaven
Mae West: The Glamour Collection
Mental s.1
Michael Jackson: HIStory
Nanook of the North
One day you'll understand--French
Orange Thief--Italian
Persepolis
Piece of the Action
Radio City Christmas Spectacular
Second Generation
Star Wars--The Clone Wars s.1
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
The L Word s. 6
The Passion of Ayn Rand
The Polar Express
The Proposal
The Rocket
The Wizard of Oz
The Women
Tinker Bell & the lost treasure
Trantasia
Up
Vantage Point
Wallander s.1
Waltz with Bashir

Just in...

Loving through bars : children with parents in prison

by Martone, Cynthia, 1956-

Racc Library General Collection

HV8886.U5 M366 2005

Scheduled Classes for Computers

Wednesday, February 24, 2010

12 p.m. - 12:50 p.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Ms. Erika Schrothe COM 121 (20) Using Proquest Central online database

1pm - 1:50pm Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Ms. Erika Schrothe's COM 121 (20) Using Proquest Central online database

presented by Ms. Kim Stahler.

Just in ...

The cost of truth : faith stories of Mennonite and Brethren leaders and those who might have been.

Roberta Showalter Kreider, ed.

Racc Library General Collection

BR115.H6 C67 2004

Scheduled Classes for Computers

Monday February 22

11a.m. - 12 p.m.
Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Dr. Blakely's HON101 Honors Seminar (10) Using lit databases presented
by Ms. Kim Stahler.

Just In ...

Vegan fire and spice: 200 sultry and savory global recipes
by Robertson, Robin (Robin G.)

Racc Library General Collection

TX837 .R625175 2008

From the Desk of John Zukowski

“Elegy” movie review

I’m getting really tired of devoting my time to unlikable movie characters. There are just too many of them these days. And after watching “Elegy” I feel like I just wasted two hours of my life with yet another main character I cared nothing about.

Ben Kingley plays a college professor living in New York City who lives one of those elite lifestyles we see too often in movies. He lives in a swanky Manhattan apartment, has a tenured professor dream job and spends most of his time hobnobbing at parties and being interviewed by people like Charlie Rose.

He’s self-centered, self-consumed and can see things only through the lens of his own intellect. He’s also emotionally stunted and has an estranged relationship with his son. And he’s carrying on a tryst with a workaholic academic played by Patricia Clarkson.

But his life is soon changed by one of his students.

Beautiful and flirty Penelope Cruz ends up in one of his classes. Kingsley is careful to follow a policy of not making advances on his students until the class is over. So at a post-semester party he asks Cruz out on a date. She agrees. They have an affair.

And it all seems pretty icky. Kingsley never seems to make a real connection with Cruz. She just seems like a living fetish out of one of the Goya paintings he admires. So there is not a lot of emotional connection to their relationship.

There are a lot of shots in bedrooms and on beaches until Kingsley makes a fatal blunder by distancing himself from her at a moment when she really needs him. He seems to like distance. Or he’s commitment-phobic. So the affair ends.

Kingsley then goes through one of those existentialist movie immobilizations. You know the cinematic cliché. There are many lonely shots of him in dark rooms and walking alone down city streets. When he finally comes out of his intellectual cocoon we’re somehow supposed to be moved by even just a slight concern toward other people.

Well I wasn’t moved. It was too little too late for me.

There was some real potential here for a story about a middle-aged man journeying out of selfishness. And someone who is evaluating his life by seeing a glimmer of youth and promise represented by Cruz. But Kingsley and the script play it too cold and too remote for us to really care about anything going on here.

Photo is courtesy Lakeshore Entertainment

Scheduled Classes for Computers

Thursday, Feb 18, 2010
6 p.m. - 7:30 p.m. Reserved
Where: Yocum Library
Description:
Reserved 12 instruction computers without library staff instruction for
Ms. Brenda Essig's Com 061: Advanced Reading class (20)

Brenna's Quick List of New Books

Ordinary resurrections: children in the years of hope--Jonathan Kozol
Loving through bars: children with parents in prison--Cynthia Martone
Children of incarcerated parents--Katherine Gabel and Denise Johnston, eds.
Prostitution: sex work, policy and politics--Teela Sanders, Maggie
O'Neill, and Jane Pitcher
Weekends at Bellevue: nine years on the night shift at the psych
ER--Julie Holland
Moments of clarity: voices from the front lines of addiction and
recovery--Christopher Kennedy Lawford
Dead man walking--Sister Helen Prejean
Say you're one of them--Uwem Akpan
Say you're one of them--Uwem Akpan, c.2
Harp of Burma--Michio Takeyama
Waiting for God--Simone Weil
The Catholic faith handbook for youth--Brian Singer-Towns, et al
The cost of truth: faith stories of Mennonite and Brethren leaders and
those who might have been--Roberta Showalter Kreider, ed.
The Buddha's apprentice: more voices of young Buddhists--Sumi Loundon, ed.
Jesus in the Lotus: the mystical doorway between Christianity and
Yogic spirituality--Russill Paul
Mantras: words of power--Swami Sivananda Radha
With respect to sex: negotiating hijra identity in South India--Gayatri Reddy
Civil War history--periodical
Alcohol research and health: a developmental perspective on underage
alcohol abuse--periodical
The tall book: a celebration of life from on high--Arianne Cohen, 6'3"
The diamond in your pocket: discovering your true radiance--Gangaji
Not "just friends": rebuilding truts and recovering your sanity after
infidelity--Shirley P. Glass
Losing the news: the future of the news that feeds democracy--Alex S. Jones
La chulla vida: gender, migration, and the family in Andean Ecuador
and New York City--Jason Priblisky
Soldier from the war returning: the greatest generation's troubled
homecoming from World War II--Thomas Childers
Atlantic Ocean: the illustrated history of the ocean that changed the
world--Martin W. Sandler
1491: New revelations of the Americas before Columbus--Charles C. Mann
When everything changed: the amazing journey of American women from
1960 to the present--Gail Collins
Googled: the end of the world as we know it--Ken Auletta
Sams teach yourself JavaTM 1.2 in 24 hours--Rogers Cadenhead
Quilted memories: journaling, scrapbooking and creating keepsakes with
fabric--Lesley Riley
Acting in concert: music, community, and political action--Mark Mattern
The world encyclopedia of comics--Maurice Horn, ed.
Six steps to songwriting success: the comprehensive guide to writing
and marketing hit songs, red. ed.--Jason Blume
The Scarpetta factor--Patricia Cornwell
Scarpetta--Patricia Cornwell
Blue deer thaw: a mystery--Jamie Harrison
Starman omnibus, volume 2--Jamie Robinson, Tony Harris, and Wade Von Grawbadger
Strange bodies: gender and identity in the novels of Carsom
McCullers--Sarah Gleeson-White
The trials of Radclyffe Hall--Diana Souhami
Pharmacology: a nursing process approach--Kee, Hayes, McCuistion
The Harriet Lane handbook: a manual for pediatric house officers--Jason
Robertson and Nicole Shilkofski
Study without stress: mastering medical sciences--Euginia G. Kelman and
Kathleen C. Straker
Library Rx: measuring and treating library anxiety, a research
study--Martina Malvasi, Catherine Rudowsky, and Jesus M. Valencia
Community college transfer guide--Don Silver
The teacher's attention: why our kids must and can get smaller schools
and classes--Garrett Delavan
The idols of silence: stars of the cinema before the talkies--Anthony Slide
Before Hollywood: turn-of-the-century American film
The matinee idols--David Carroll
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood--Bob Furmanek and Ron Palumbo
"Image" in the art and evolution of the film: photographs and articles
from the magazine of the International Museum of Photography--Marshall
Deutelbaum, ed.
The movie musical from Vitaphone to "42nd Street": as reported in a
great fan magazine--Miles Kreuger, ed.
The silent clowns--Walter Kerr
The films of Norma Shearer--Jack Jacobs and Myron Braum
A short history of the movies, 4th ed.--Gerald Mast
Vegan fire and spice: 200 sultry and savory global recipes--Robin Robertson
A vegan taste of Eastern Europe--Linda Majzlik
The complete meat cookbook: a juicy and authoritative guide to
selecting, seasoning, and cooking today's beef, pork, lamb, and
veal--Bruce Aidells and Denis Kelly
The kind diet: a simple guide to feeling great, losing weight, and
saving the planet--Alicia Silverstone

Scheduled Classes for Computers

Wednesday, Feb 17, 2010
4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Ms. Furst ORI 102 (18) Library Intro PowerPoint
Presented by Ms. Kim Stahler.

From the desk of - Kathy Nye - Ancestry Library Online Database

Ancestry

Ancestry Library is one of the many databases found on The Yocum Library online databases. The James K. Overstreet Library Endowment Fund funds the site. The site contains U.S. & U.K. census and immigration records plus genealogy and local history sources.

The site is accessible by students, alumni, faculty and staff in The Yocum Library. The site is not accessible off campus. When you sign on to the database, the database links to Ancestry.com for you to continue your search.

If you are interested in genealogy, this is a good site to start your research. All you need to start your research is a name. If you know the date of the person’s birth and/or death, it will help speed up the search. The more you know about the person will make the search easier. Knowing the birthplace, city or county of the person is a plus for your research.

Before you start your research, you may want to ask family members about the past. The older generation is an available source of family history.

I have found the site very useful in my family genealogy search. It has helped me fill in gaps that I would not have found otherwise. Through the site, you may be able to connect with others researching the same surname. I have found a few “cousins” through my investigations.

Little glitches can mystify you. Misspelling of names is one of them. The information on the site in entered from old handwritten census forms. The person entering may not understand the handwriting, mistaking a “P” for a “B” so that the name reads Berry instead of Perry. When search a name do not click the box for “exact matches.”

One thing I found about my family history was my grandmother’s name was Estella, not Stella. The entire census, after 1920, had her listed Stella Weikel, her married name. I could not find Stella Potter, her maiden name. Searching for her past had come to a standstill. I searched father and was surprised when I saw my great grandfather’s name and listed was his daughters, Estella and Mildred. Once I found out her real name, going back into her background was easier.

If you are having problems finding a relative they can try an alternative spelling of the first name, such as, Sidney or Sydney.

If genealogy is a new hobby or if you have started before and want to continue come into the Yocum Library and use our online database for your research.

Ancestry Library is one of the many databases found on The Yocum Library online databases. The James K. Overstreet Library Endowment Fund funds the site. The site contains U.S. & U.K. census and immigration records plus genealogy and local history sources.

The site is accessible by students, faculty and staff in The Yocum Library. The site is not accessible off campus. When you sign on to the database, the database links to Ancestry.com for you to continue your search.

If you are interested in genealogy, this is a good site to start your research. All you need to start your research is a name. If you know the date of the person’s birth and/or death, it will help speed up the search. The more you know about the person will make the search easier. Knowing the birthplace, city or county of the person is a plus for your research.

Before you start your research, you may want to ask family members about the past. The older generation is an available source of family history.

I have found the site very useful in my family genealogy search. It has helped me fill in gaps that I would not have found otherwise. Through the site, you may be able to connect with others researching the same surname. I have found a few “cousins” through my investigations.

Little glitches can mystify you. Misspelling of names is one of them. The information on the site in entered from old handwritten census forms. The person entering may not understand the handwriting, mistaking a “P” for a “B” so that the name reads Berry instead of Perry. When search a name do not click the box for “exact matches.”

One thing I found about my family history was my grandmother’s name was Estella, not Stella. The entire census, after 1920, had her listed Stella Weikel, her married name. I could not find Stella Potter, her maiden name. Searching for her past had come to a standstill. I searched father and was surprised when I saw my great grandfather’s name and listed was his daughters, Estella and Mildred. Once I found out her real name, going back into her background was easier.

If you are having problems finding a relative they can try an alternative spelling of the first name, such as, Sidney or Sydney.

If genealogy is a new hobby or if you have started before and want to continue come into the Yocum Library and use our online database for your research.

The Library is OPEN Sunday Feb. 14th

The Library is open from 1p.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, February 14.
Come on in a check out a romantic book or movie for Valentine's Day.

The Library is Open

The Yocum Library is open today, Saturday, February 13,
and will be opened Sunday, February 14.

The Library is Closed

The Yocum Library and the College will remain closed on Friday, February 12.
All day & evening classes and activities are cancelled.
The men's basketball game will be rescheduled later.

The library's databases are available online 24/7 even in the worst storm.

The Yocum Library is Closed February 11

The Yocum Library and the College will remain closed on Thursday, February 11.
All day & evening classes and activities are cancelled.
The men's basketball game will be rescheduled later.

The library's databases are available online 24/7 even in the worst storm.

The Library is Closed

The Yocum Library is closed today, February 10, 2010.

Yocum will close at 5 PM today and will remain closed through Wednesday.

Due to the impending weather, the College will close at 5 PM today and will remain closed through Wednesday.

All classes and activities are cancelled for Tuesday from 5 PM- on, and all day and evening Wednesday.

Updates will be communicated through the website, E2, the weather hotline and local news outlets.

Scheduled Classes for Computers

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

11 a.m. - 12 p.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description:
Newman, Medical Office Procedures (7) Intro to Library Powerpoint
Presented by Kim Stahler.

From the desk of - Troy Bowers- Movie Review

The Royal Tenenbaums

The Royal Tenenbaums is writer/director Wes Anderson’s 3rd feature film, following his 1st project Bottlerockets and the critically acclaimed follow up Rushmore. This film is perhaps less accessible to the general movie going audience, but it’s nevertheless my personal favorite of Anderson’s.

The humor is dry to the point of dehydration, but those who appreciate the humor in The Office or David Mamet’s screenplays will likely enjoy this film’s quirky sense of comedy. As an example of just how dry the humor is, when Royal Tenenbaum meets his grandchildren (8 year old Ari and 6 year old Uzi) for the first time, he says of their recently deceased mother “ I was very sorry to hear about your mother, she was a terribly attractive woman.”

It’s also explained by the narrator during the film that Royal always introduces his adopted daughter Margo with the phrase “This is my adopted daughter, Margo.” This sort of awkward/uncomfortable interaction between the family members persists throughout the film in subtlety humorous fashions.

All of Anderson’s films employ the theme of an absent father either figuratively or literally. However in this film that theme takes center stage as the protagonist, patriarch Royal Tenenbaum, has been absent from the rest of his family for over a decade. His absence was an imposed exile for his numerous failings as a father, but those failings were mostly unintentional. Royal simply doesn’t have a clue how to interact with other people in a constructive manner, and it becomes apparent very early on in the film that he was never ready for being a father.

It’s not clear at the beginning of the film whether Royal’s attempt to make amends with his family is the result of his need for a place to stay, or a genuine ambition to redeem himself as a father. We learn early in the film after an introduction to the cast through the use of a montage featuring music by the Ramones (the musical montage is one of Anderson’s key storytelling devices throughout his film career whenever he needs to convey a large amount of information and/or emotion in a short period of time) that Royal is being evicted from the hotel room he’s been living in for years.

His financial state is in complete ruins as a result of the lawsuit his youngest son Chas brought against him for stealing money from his childhood business. The lawsuit also resulted in Royal being disbarred as a lawyer, effectively ending his career. The remainder of the film depicts Royal's attempts to worm his way back into the good graces of his family. I won't tell you how it ends, but after more than a dozen viewings of this movie I'm still not sure if he truly succeeds.

The Royal Tenenbaums is a film that I really can't recommend enough. While I understand that it won't appeal to everyone's sense of humor, this film should be given a chance by anyone who appreciates excellent cinematography, a great soundtrack as well as an incredible original score, and well acted ensemble casts.

Scheduled Classes for Computers

Monday February 8, 2010

3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Walentis COM121 (20) Using ProQuest databases
Presented by Kim Stahler.

6:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Uhrich COM121 (20) ProQuest
Presented by Patricia Nouhra.

RACC IS CLOSED SUNDAY, FEB. 7TH

The Yocum Library and

The Reading Area Community College

are closed Sunday, February 7th.

Online Make-Up Test

Beginning Sunday, February 7th the Academic Testing Center will offer online make-up tests on Sundays from 1:30 to 4:30 in The Yocum Library (Room 116).

Arrangements must be made with your professor prior to taking these tests. The Academic Testing Center rules and regulations apply to this site also.

RACC IS CLOSED SATURDAY FEBRUARY 6TH

The Yocum Library and

The Reading Area Community College

are closed Saturday, February 6th.

Scheduled Classes for Computers

Friday, February 5, 2010

10 a.m. - 11 a.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description:
Bower HMS 240, Poverty & Social Welfare Services (12) Internet
Presented by Mary Ellen Heckman

11 .a.m - 12 p.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Bower, SOC 130 (33) ProQuest
Presented by Mary Ellen Heckman

Books on Haiti & Earthquakes

Make a Smilebox slideshow

From the desk of Valerie Schaeffer - Charity Navigator

Charity Navigator

In hard economic times, it’s important to know how every penny is spent. Charitable giving is no exception. When you give to a charity, you want to know exactly how well the charity uses your money and where it goes. If you want to find out how your money is used, check out Charity Navigator (http://www.charitynavigator.org/)

According to its website, Charity Navigator “has become the nation’s largest and most-utilized evaluator of charities.” Founded in 2001, Charity Navigator is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization that rates over 5,000 charities in the United States. Charity Navigator rates charities in two areas: how the charity handles daily responsibilities and also its potential of long-term health. With these to areas assessed, Charity Navigator gives each charity a rating of zero to four stars.

When you search for a charity, you will be shown current rating with organizational efficiency and capacity for growth. In addition, revenue and expenses are listed for the previous year. You will see the contact information for the charity, including email and website information.

Also, the current executive director and his or her compensation are listed, along with what percentage of the expenses that compensation takes. This is an important factor. For example, a director’s salary of $100,000 may seem high, but if it’s it only one percent of expenses, that’s a good sign that your money will go towards charitable programs.

In contrast, if a director makes $100,000 and that salary is 30% of expenses, there’s a good chance your donation may be going towards the take-home pay of the director. That’s no necessarily a bad thing, as long as you know that possibility exists and you can make better choices in donating money.

In addition to rating charities, Charity Navigator also includes articles, tips and studies in the area of philanthropy (charitable giving). Plus, Charity Navigator includes top ten lists of various charities. Some examples of top ten lists include the top ten most requested charities, the top ten charities drowning in administrative costs, and the top ten charities regularly in debt.

Charity Navigator also maintains a blog and a list of Hot Topics, which are current issues in philanthropy, such as giving during an economic recession and a holiday gift giving guide.

You can register for free and log in to maintain a list of your own charities you are supporting or interested in supporting. You can also comment on a charity’s rating and/or performance.

In addition, you can donate money to Charitable Navigator (remember, they too are a non-profit). To keep informed, you can sign up for the site’s monthly e-newsletter and follow it on Facebook and Twitter.

To check out Charity Navigator, go to http://www.charitynavigator.org/

Scheduled Classes for Computers

Thursday, Feburary 4, 2010

9:30 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Bower PSY 234 Group Dynamics (15) ProQuest
Presented by Kim Stahler

12:30 p.m. - 1:30.p. m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Bower HMS 110 Intro to Human Services (33) Internet
Presented by Kim Stahler

2 p.m. - 3 p.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Lambert PSY230, Abnormal Psych (30) Using ProQuest
Presented by Kim Stahler

4:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description:
Bower HMS 240 Poverty & Social Welfare Resources (30) Internet
presented by Mary Ellen Heckman

Brenna's Quick List of New Books

11 issues―Civil War history―periodical
Child Welfare: Future challenges and opportunities in child welfare
Child Welfare: Serving children, youth and families with alcohol and
other drug-related problems in child welfare
Child Welfare: Family foster care in the next century
Child Welfare: Achieving excellence in special needs adoption
Child Welfare: HIV/AIDS and children, youths, and families: lessons learned
Child Welfare: Children with parents in prison
Twentieth Century Literature: Denise Levertov
Twentieth Century Literature: Athol Fugard
Ethics: symposium on Christine Korsgaard’s “Creating the Kingdom of Ends”
Ethics: symposium on physician assisted suicide
Maternal-newborn nursing: reviews and rationales, 2nd ed. ―Mary Ann
Glazebrook, et al.
Phenomenology and existentialism―Robert C. Solomon, ed.
The American film musical―Rick Altman
High concept: movies and marketing in Hollywood―Justin Wyatt
Hollywood musicals: year by year―Stanley Green
Rave culture: the alteration and decline of a Philadelphia music
scene―Tammy L. Anderson
The uncrowned king: the sensational rise of William Randolph
Hearst―Kenneth Whyte
Blue jean Buddha: voices of young Buddhists―Sumi Loundon, ed.
The coupon mom’s guide to cutting your grocery bills in half: the
strategic shopping method proven to slash food and drugstore
costs―Stephanie Nelson
Vault career guide to accounting―Jason Alba, et al.
Legends of the Chelsea Hotel: living with artists and outlaws in New
York’s rebel Mecca―Ed Hamilton
From Cuenca to Queens: an anthropological story of transnational
migration―Ann Miles
Negotiating religious faith in the composition classroom―Elizabeth
Vander Lei and Bonnie Lenore Kyburz, eds.
An illustrated encyclopedia of traditional symbols―J. C. Cooper
Falling in love: why we choose the lovers we choose―Ayala Malach Pines
The love-shy survival guide―Talmar Shockley
Cleaving: a story of marriage, meat, and obsession―Julie Powell
The draining lake―Arnaldur Indriđason
Nine dragons―Michael Connelly
The jewel of Medina: a novel―Sherry Jones
The sword of Medina: a novel―Sherry Jones

Black History Month - Internet Links

Black History Month is a time for all to remember the people and events in the history of the African diaspora.

The Internet Public Library, http://ipl.org/ has many sites related to Black History Month. Listed below are a few of the suggested links.

Black History Month
To observe Black History Month, this Information Please site features articles on black history and biographies of notable African Americans in politics, history, entertainment, arts, and sports. It also offers information and links about colleges, h ...

http://www.infoplease.com/spot/bhm1.html

Black History Month Resources
A directory of links to sites celebrating Black History Month, including biographies, articles, almanacs, associations, historical events, encyclopedias, periodicals, military and government sources, archives, research centers, and more. From the his ...

http://www.tntech.edu/history/bhmonth.html


Black History Month: A Medical Perspective
This small, illustrated exhibit looks at highlights and achievements of African Americans in medicine. It features biographies of black physicians, a timeline of blacks in medical education, and overview of the black hospital movement (1865-1960s), s ...

http://www.mclibrary.duke.edu/hom/exhibits/blkhist/


Distinguished Women of Past and Present
The site offers biographies of women throughout history. Search options include subject, name, and links to the Internet. Sections devoted to Black History Month and books about women are also available.

http://www.distinguishedwomen.com/

The Internet Public Library, http://ipl.org/ has many sites related to Black History Month. Please check for more sites on Black History Month.

Scheduled Classes for Computers

Wednesday Feburary 3, 2010
9 a.m. - 10 a.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Lightcap COM121 (20) Evaluating Internet Sources
Presented by Kim
Stahler
3:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Walentis COM121 (20) Using Print and eBooks
Presented by Kim Stahler
6 p.m. - 7 p.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Uhrich COM121 (20) Finding/evaluating print/e-books
Presented by Patricia Nouhra

From the Desk of Valerie Schaeffer

Medline Plus

Medline Plus, a service of the National Institutes of Health and the National Library of Medicine, offers free, accessible authoritative information on over 800 health topics. In addition, Medline Plus includes information on drugs and supplements, a medical dictionary and encyclopedia, current news, and interactive tutorials. The site is user-friendly with clear headings and colorful images.

Let’s say you are looking for information on bone cancer for a paper. First, you would search “bone cancer” in the search field and click on Search Medline Plus. You’ll find a plethora of information relating to bone cancer, from a basic overview of the disease to the latest news to current research and treatments available. You’ll also find current statistics on bone cancer and the effects of bone cancer on children and teenagers.

On the right side of the page, you’ll see an encyclopedia list of related terms and images. You have the option of searching for local providers that treat bone cancer, and you’ll also see what organization within the National Institutes of Health is responsible for research concerning this disease. In the case of bone cancer, it is the National Cancer Institute. You also have the option of reading the information in languages other than English.

Medline Plus also contains links to other health-related information. On the homepage, you will find a link to ClinicalTrials.gov, a government site for studies of new drugs and treatments. Another link is to the National Institutes of Health Senior Health site, which is health information for older adults.

There’s also a link to videos of surgical procedures pre-recorded from real-life operations.

To access Medline Plus from the Library’s homepage, click on Useful Internet Links, click on Health Web Sites and search for PubMed.

Scheduled Classes for Computers

Tuesday Feb 2, 2010
8 a.m. - 9.a.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Lightcap COM121 (20) Evaluating Internet Sources
presented by KimStahler
6 p.m. - 7 p.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Essig COM 061 Adv Reading (25) Intro PowerPoint
presented by PatriciaNouhra
7:30 p.m .- 8:30 p.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description:
Essig COM 021 Basics of Reading (15) Intro PowerPoint presented by
Mary Ellen Heckman

Scheduled Classes for Computers

Monday Feb 1, 2010
11a.m. - 12 p.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description: Elizabeth Paolini COM131 (25) Literature databases
Presented by Kim Stahler
2 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Reserved
Where: YL
Description:
Erika Schrothe COM 051 (20) Using Proquest Central online database
Presented by Brenna Corbit