August 4, 2008 - News from Jean!

 

If you specialize in or just enjoy American and British literature, Watson Library/OhioLINK is featuring today our upgraded full-text literature collection that is searchable in several ways.  This resource is available through the OhioLINK main page/ebooks both on and off the Wilmington campus.  These resources have persistent links and can be referenced in syllabi in lieu of paper texts.

For more information, contact Patti at x441 or Jean at x346.   http://ebooks.ohiolink.edu/xtf-ch/

American and English Literature contains many works of poetry, drama, and prose, based on books and other sources originally published in print. Using this system, you can:

• look for a specific work by author or title
• search for a word or phrase across all the literature - to refresh your memory
• search for a word or phrase within one book - to save time, make discoveries, textual analysis
• browse the contents of a specific collection

Here is a list of the collections included:

Bible:  21 historic editions in English.

Poetry:

African-American Poetry 1700-1900

20th Cent. African-American Poetry

American Poetry 1600-1900

20th Cent. American Poetry

English Poetry 600-1900

20th Cent. English Poetry

Drama:

American Drama

English Prose Drama 1280-1915

English Verse Drama 13th-19th Centuries

Fiction:

Early American Fiction 1774-1850

18th Cent. Fiction 1700-1800

Also:

Bibliography of American Literature

Editions and Adaptations of Shakespeare

William Butler Yeats Collection

 

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July 28, 2008: Watson Library announces the addition of ACLS Humanities E-Books

 

ACLS Humanities E-Book is a digital collection of over 2,300 full-text titles offered by the ACLS in collaboration with twelve learned societies, nearly 95 contributing publishers, and librarians at the University of Michigan’s Scholarly Publishing Office. The result is an online, fully searchable collection of high-quality books in the Humanities, recommended and reviewed by scholars. HEB is available 24/7 to Watson's WC community on- and off-campus through OhioLINK's link.  Off-campus users will authenticate to access, http://www.ohiolink.edu

 The Humanities project E-books also are linked individually through the OPAL and OhioLINK catalogs. Off-campus users who need information on access should call 937-382-6661 x345 or x346.

Here is a link that describes the books included (browse or full-text search) and the outstanding functional features of this new project that adds even more older and newer titles every day: http://www.humanitiesebook.org/intro.html

As an example of the powerful full-text searches of the books in this ebook collection, a search of "Herbert Hoover" revealed exact citations and quotations for 105 books.  Four books mention Dorothy Day, especially in notes. 

 

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July 23, 2008: Springer scholarly publications are full-text online!

 

Watson/OhioLINK's project to load thousands of Springer scholarly books into the OhioLINK and OPAL catalogs for easy access and ebook full-text review on your computer screen.  The project continues with another 500 titles today.  Here are sample ebook titles:

Mild stress and healthy aging

Mitochondrial DNA

Modern food microbiology

Molecular biomethods handbook

Mosquito ecology

Online communities and social computing

Overexploitation and contamination of shared groundwater resources

Overload, performance incompetence, and regeneration in sport

Springer is really strong in STEM so you will be amazed by the titles related to biology, chemistry, physics, math, medicine, and computers.  As usual, if you would like to learn more about our many thousands of ebooks now available, please give me a call at x346.  

 

Jean

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July 17, 2008:  Watson's Hot Topics in Book Loans

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July 16, 2008:  Watson Library Can Assist Job Seekers

Next week I will be attending a virtual meeting organized by area librarians to discuss what services and resources we have that could be useful to those in our communities facing job loss and the need to refresh or acquire new skills. 

One resource already in place is available to all Ohioans thanks to the State Library of Ohio: Learning Express Library. Please share this information with those about to engage in job searches or new career paths.

Get ready for your next big test or job interview with LearningExpress Library. LearningExpress features online, interactive practice tests for the: ASVAB, Civil Service Careers, GED, GRE, GMAT, LSAT, MCAT, PPST Praxis I, TOEFL, U.S. Citizenship and much more. LearningExpress' online, interactive practice tests offer instant scoring, detailed answer explanations, and a personalized analysis that identifies your strengths and weaknesses in each major content area so you'll know how to prepare.

LearningExpress also includes courses, career building tools, writing aids and helpful e-books. Children K-12 will find practical skill builders and practice tests to prepare for their standardized tests. Adults may use the same resources to review.

To use LearningExpress Library, you first set up your own individual account. If you are off-campus, use the OhioLINK remote authentication proxy URL  (call Watson at x345 if you need more information about your login and password/barcode) to connect to LearningExpress offcampus, create an account, and then log into LearningExpress with your individual username and password. 

Those not affiliated with Wilmington College may use their local public library account information to access Learning Express. Public libraries have more information available about this service, no additional charge to users. 

 

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July 16, 2008:  Newest additions in streaming instructional videos at Watson

 

For those of you with an interest in instructional videos, here is the list of titles most recently added to the Watson/OhioLINK collection of streaming videos.  I can download and burn to CD a RealPlayer version of these videos based on your requests.  Some faculty use these for preview for Watson purchase, possible OhioLINK loan, or personal information and/or others use them in the classroom or recommend them to students.  Descriptions of these videos and thousands more can be found by title in the OhioLINK Central Catalog. http://www.ohiolink.edu  or the OhioLINK Digital Media Center.

Please letJean, Patti, Lee, or Adam know if you have requests or would like more information about this service.

Titles--

Series: Oil on Canvas

• Color
• Brushstroke
• Composition
• Light
• Perspective
• Portrait

Philip Johnson: Embellish the Earth

Jane Jacobs: Urban Wisdom

Messing with Heads: Marijuana and Mental Illness

It's a Mall World

Going Green: Real-World Solutions for the Environment

Growing Old

Manga World

Series: Fire & Ink: The Legacy of Latin American Literature

• Pre-Columbian Literature
• Conquest and Colony
• Politicians and Revolutionaries
• From Romanticism to Realism
• Modernismo
• Regionalism and Indigenism
• The Avant-Garde of the 1920s
• Narrating Modernity: Writers of the Mid-20th Century 
• The Latin American Boom
• After the Boom
• Brazilian Literature: The First 500 Years
• Brazilian Literature: The 20th Century
• 21st-Century Trends in Latin American Literature

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July 9, 2008:  New Books at Watson Library: 

We still have a few weeks left for summertime reading!  In addition to our very current leisure-reading selections (you know - romance, intrigue, murder, mystery, and mayhem), our "new additions" display includes the following non-fiction titles on current topics - and many more - ready for check-out now.  Everyone who works at Wilmington College is welcome to borrow items from our collections.  Please ask for Joni or Jean for more information, x345.  "If we don't have it now, we very probably can find it for you quickly."

After the baby boomers:  how twenty- and thirty-somethings are shaping the future of American religion / Robert Wuthnow.  Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.  BV 4529.2 .W88 A48 2007   Of note, the chapter “The changing life worlds of young adults” identifies 7 key trends including delayed marriage, fewer children, uncertain work and money, higher education, loosening relationships, globalization, and a culture dominated by the information explosion.

 

A world without us / Alan Weisman.  NY: St. Martin’s Press.  GF 75 .W45 W67 2007   Weisman asks us “to envision our Earth without us. In this far-reaching narrative, he explains how our massive infrastructure would collapse and finally vanish without human presence.”

 

Endless universe: Beyond the Big Bang / Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok.  NY: Doubleday.  QB 991 .C92 S74 2007   The authors put forth the “cyclic universe” theory - apparently the "Big Bang" is so old-school. 

 

Grave secrets of dinosaurs: Soft tissues and hard science / Phillip Lars Manning.  Washington, DC: National Geographic.   QE 861.4 .M36 2008    Recent excavations have uncovered dinosaur “mummies,” which permit muscle volume to be calculated for the first time and 3-D representations to be more accurate.  CSI: Dinosaur.

 

Brand NFL: Making and selling America’s favorite sport / Michael Oriard.  Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. GV 954.3 .O753 2007   Insider/historian Oriard looks closely at the development of the $6 billion sports entertainment industry giant NFL.  Is NFL football a sport or entertainment?

 

Terra: Our 100-million-year-old ecosystem – and the threats that now put it at risk / Michael Novacek.  NY: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.  QE 721.2 .E97 N68 2007.   --“A brilliant synthesis of evolutionary biology, paleontology, and modern environmental science,” Novacek argues that we can understand and prevent “today’s mass extinction event.”

 

Entrepreneurship in the social sector / Jane Wei-Skillern, et al.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.  HD 60 .E58 2007   --Case studies of social entrepreneurship that illustrate need and opportunity, the process, the “philanthropic labyrinth,” alliances, growth management, and accountability - a one-stop review of this topic of increasing interest on our own campus.  

 

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May 28, 2008:  New titles in the Watson/OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center - searchable and full-text!

 

Here is just a sample of the many titles we are adding to the OhioLINK Electronic Journal Center.  It is possible to browse articles in single issues or to search keywords in just one journal title or all titles.  Please contact Patti, Lee, or me for more information on getting the most out of your full-text journal collections.  Tip of the Day: Did you know that Watson's full-text journal articles have persistent URLs, meaning you can provide students with direct article links in lieu of handouts/paper reserves via email, your website, or your online class site?

"The links work best on the campus network.  Off campus, login to OhioLINK and then try.  Alternatively, search the EJC by journal title to browse the content of entire single issues."  http://www.ohiolink.edu

ADVANCES IN STATISTICAL ANALYSIS [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE].

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/18638171/

AMERICAN LITERARY REALISM [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE].

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/19405103/

APPALACHIAN HERITAGE [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE].

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/19405081/

BIOTECHNOLOGY FOR BIOFUELS [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE].

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/17546834/

CHURCH HISTORY AND RELIGIOUS CULTURE [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE].

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/1871241x/

GENDER IN MANAGEMENT [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE] : AN INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL.

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/17542413/

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LAW, CRIME AND JUSTICE [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE].

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/17560616/

JOURNAL OF DIVERSITY IN HIGHER EDUCATION [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE].

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/19388926/

JOURNAL OF MEDIA PSYCHOLOGY [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE].

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/18641105/

THE JOURNAL OF SPECIAL EDUCATION [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE].

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/00224669/

MEDIA, WAR & CONFLICT [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE].

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/17506352/

REMEDIAL AND SPECIAL EDUCATION [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE].

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/07419325/

STUDIES IN ETHICS, LAW, AND TECHNOLOGY [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE].

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/19416008/

TOPICS IN CURRENT CHEMISTRY [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE].

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/03401022/

TOPICS IN EARLY CHILDHOOD SPECIAL EDUCATION [ELECTRONIC RESOURCE].

http://rave.ohiolink.edu/ejournals/issn/02711214/

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