New Resources for April

This month, we are pleased to feature Drifting into Darien: A Personal and Natural History of the Altamaha River, written by former Commencement speaker, Janisse Ray, and published by the University of Georgia Press in 2011.  The book is more than an account of paddling its entire length to where it empties into the sea.  "The Altamaha River is wide and made of molasses," writes Ray in the Preface, "It is a root doctor.... holy scripture, on which is written a creed to live by."  Come in and check it out. 

View a list of all the new titles we added in April.

New Resources Related to Archival Materials & Digital Docs

We've linked to two new resources from NC Live: ArchiveGrid and OAIster.

ArchiveGrid is an important destination for searching through historical documents, personal papers, and family histories held in archives around the world. Thousands of libraries, museums, and archives have contributed nearly a million collection descriptions to ArchiveGrid. Researchers can discover the items in each of these collections, then contact the archives to learn how to access the materials. Provides access to primary source information, including birth and death records, ship logs, cemetery records, and more.

OAIster is a union catalog of digital resources from archive collections around the world. It represents multidisciplinary resources from more than 1,100 contributors worldwide. Records contain a digital object link allowing users access to the object. Includes items such as theses, technical reports, research papers, government documents, and images.

Enjoy, and let us know if you have any questions.

All invited to WWC faculty author celebration in the library, March 22 and 23

Publications Preview:

Thursday, 3:00-5:00 p.m. and Friday, 9:00 a.m. - noon, McGuire Room, library

Reception:

Friday, 1:00 p.m.  VPAA Dr. Paula Garrett will speak, McGuire Room, library

Faculty Presentations:

Friday, 2:00 p.m.- 3:30 p.m.,  Kessinger Room and Group Study rooms, library [Presentations will be repeated three times, so visitors can see all]

Professor Melissa Blair, History:  “Revolutionizing expectations:  Women’s organizations, feminism, and the evolution of political Culture 1965-1980.”

          

Professor Amy Boyd, Biology:  “Stinky red flowers and the insects that love them.” 

          

Professor Jen Mozolik, Psychology:  “Improving brain function in healthy older adults.”

Faculty publications will be available for viewing in the McGuire room until 4:00 p.m., Friday.  They will subsequently be displayed in the Jensen display case.

All invited!

E-Audio Books Now Available

E-audio books have returned, this time on the Recorded Books platform.  There are also links to the site on the library home page, under "Articles & Databases."  The first time you use the service, you will need to create your personal account.  Books can be listened to on your computer, or you can transfer them to most mp3 players.  Mac users will need to download Media Manager (there is a link on the site for getting that software).

There is good support in the "help" section, and we are happy to assist you as well.  Enjoy!

New Resources for February

We are pleased to announce the addition of Siti Kusujiarti's new book, Power, Change, and Gender Relations in Rural Java: A Tale of Two Villages. Co-authored with Ann Tickamyer, published by Ohio University Press (2012), and based on research during three important historical and political periods in Indonesia, the book examines the contradictory status of women.  In some ways, women have high status and broad access to resources, but other situations suggest that Javanese women lack real power and autonomy. Javanese women have major responsibilities in supporting their families and controlling household finances. They may also own and manage their own property. Yet their independence and influence are determined by a culturally prescribed, state-reinforced, patriarchal gender ideology that limits women’s autonomy. Power, Change, and Gender Relations in Rural Java examines this contradiction as well as sources of stability and change in contemporary Javanese gender relations. 

Please join us in congratulating Siti, and view a list of the other titles we added in February.

Our database feature this month is Art & Architecture Complete, which provides full-text coverage of 380 periodicals and more than 220 books. In addition, this database offers cover-to-cover indexing and abstracts for more than 780 academic journals, magazines and trade publications, as well as over 230 books. It includes an image collection of over 63,000 images. Last month we featured the Legal Information Reference Center.

New Resources for January

Titles we added in January  

For February, we would like to highlight Social Responsibility and Sustainability: Multidisciplinary Perspectives through Service Learning (378.103 S678). Part of the Service Learning for Civic Engagement series, this book contains 11 chapters divided into three sections: environmental awareness, increasing civic engagement, and sustainability concepts in business and economics. It includes an activity/methodology table and a sample syllabus. Read the publisher's description.


Our electronic resource of the month is Legal Information Reference Center. With full text for many of the top consumer legal reference books, this database contains over 310 full-text publications and thousands of legal forms. Many of the books are provided through Nolo, the nation's oldest and most-respected provider of legal information for consumers and small businesses. This database offers the everyday user the necessary tools and detailed "how-to" instructions to address a range of legal issues including business law, financial planning, family law, property and real estate, and rights and disputes.

Enjoy!

Lots of New & Updated Databases

NC LIVE has cooked up some pretty major changes in their offerings to us, effective immediately.  All of the changes involve products from EBSCO.  There are several new resources:

Art & Architecture Complete
Biography Reference Center
Entrepreneurial Studies Source
Environment Complete
Legal Information Reference Center
Points of View
Small Business Reference Center
Small Engine Repair Reference Center

There are also a couple of big upgrades.  Academic Search Premier and Business Source Premier become Academic Search Complete and Business Source Complete, respectively.  That change results in a ton more full-text journals for us.

In other news, the e-audiobooks that had to be temporarily removed earlier this semester are now about to be made available on the new platform (called OneClickDigital, from Recorded Books).  It won't go live officially until January, but PC users (sorry, Mac folks, but they are fixing a bug for you) can use it now at:

http://www.nclive.org/cgi-bin/nclsm?rsrc=264

Enjoy!

New Resources for November

Noteworthy additions in November include Annie Jonas' dissertation, Practices of Two Experiential Teachers in Secondary Public Schools in an Era of Accountability (373.110209756 J76p), and Beverly Ohler's For the Love of Animals: Stories from the Mother of a Veterinarian (636.0887 O37f). A list of the items we added last month are listed on our page of Recent Additions to Our Collection.

For December, we are pleased to feature some of our newspaper resources. Newspaper Source Plus includes the full text of The New York Times from 1985 to the present.*  It also provides cover-to-cover full text for 149 other national and international newspapers, such as The Boston Globe, San Francisco Chronicle, The Christian Science Monitor, USA Today, The Washington Post, The Washington Times, The Times (London), The Age, The Australian, The Toronto Star, The Irish Times and others; and selective full text for more than 410 U.S newspapers, including The Chicago Tribune, The Detroit Free Press, San Jose Mercury News, etc. In addition, full-text television & radio news transcripts are provided
from CBS News, CNN, CNN International, FOX News, National Public Radio (NPR), etc.

* In case you are wondering: yes, we also have the New York Times Historical, which contains full-image articles of the newspaper back to the very first issue in 1851 up through 2007.

 Our featured electronic resource last month was Credo Reference, a collection of reference works.

New Resources for September

Among the new books added in September were Remembering : Stories from My Life, by Bev Ohler (792.026092 O37r); and Their Maker's Image: New Essays on John Milton (821.4 M662Yfen.1), which includes an article by David J. Bradshaw, "Self-sacrifice and Heroic Martyrdom in the Aeneid and Paradise Lost."  Congratulations, Bev and David.  Other new items in our collection are listed on our page of Recent Additions to Our Collection.

This month, we invite you to explore the SpringerLink All-Americas Package, a collection of around 1,800 full-text and pdf-image academic journals covering the sciences, health & medicine, mathematics, and social and behavioral sciences. Most titles provide coverage from 1997 to the present. You can keyword search the entire collection, browse subject collections, or browse individual titles.

Online Audiobooks Going Away (for now)

Please see the announcement below from NC LIVE about our e-audiobooks:

"The MyiLibrary Audio Books service available through NC LIVE will soon change to a new audio book provider and platform, Recorded Books One Click service. The new service will include the same audio book titles available now, but through the new Recorded Books One Click platform. Though NC LIVE staff had originally planned to simply swap one service out for the other, the Recorded Books One Click platform will not be ready until later this fall.
Because MyiLibrary is no longer supporting their audio book platform, and due to the level of patron complaints, NC LIVE will disable the MyiLibrary Audio Books platform from use beginning Monday, September 19th. Unfortunately, this change will result in a gap in audio book service until we are able to begin service with Recorded Books One Click. You may continue to use the MyiLibrary service through September 19th, at which point you will no longer be able to download additional audio books from the MyiLibrary service.
The transition to Recorded Books One Click platform is expected to happen in late October. A specific date for the transition has not yet been announced, but we will continue to provide updates as we have more information. **When the new Recorded Books One Click service launches, all audio book users will be required to create a new personal audio book account. Your MyiLibrary user account information will not be saved or transferred. This also means that any books you have on hold at the time of the transition will not be transferred over to the new platform."

Please note that the MyiLibrary ebooks are not changing and will remain available.  We will let you know more about the new platform for the e-audiobooks when we have more info,