Library News

Trouble with APA, Chicago, or MLA?

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:39:19 GMT

Do you struggle with the APA, Chicago, or MLA styles? The UI&U Library provides resources to help you to create, format, and manage bibliographies, citations, footnotes, and endnotes. One of our newest resources is the Google Scholar@UI&U Citation Tool. If you enter the title of a book or article you want to cite, Google Scholar will format it into an APA, Chicago, or MLA citation that you can copy and paste into your paper’s bibliography. Please watch the short video below for a demonstration on how this exciting new tool works.

New E-Books: Poetry

Thu, 13 Dec 2012 16:38:51 GMT

Enduring legacy: rhetoric and ritual of the lost cause
Dramatherapy with children, young people, and schools: enabling creativity, sociability, communication and learning
Heritage: care-preservation-management: museum basics
Jossey-Bass reader on contemporary issues in adult education
Poetry and story therapy: the healing power of creative expression
Oral tradition of the Baganda or Uganda: a study and anthology of legends, myths, epigrams, and folk tales
Blackwell companion to social movements
Complexity and social movements: multitudes at the edge of chaos
Effective public manager: achieving success in a changing government
Handbook of social movements across disciplines
Mothering a bodied curriculum: emplacement, desire, affect
Patterns in social entrepreneurship research
Research methods: the basics
Social movements and organization theory
Confronting the obstacles to inclusion: international responses to developing inclusive education
Critical perspectives on bell hooks
Handbook of attachment: theory, research, and clinical applications
Vonnegut and Hemingway: writers at war
Imagining gay paradise: Bali, Bangkok, and cyber-Singapore

Stranger magic: charmed states and the Arabian nights

Exploring the theory, pedagogy, and practice of networked learning

Collaborating online: learning together in the community

Married women who love women (2nd edition)

Sexual fluidity: understanding women's love and desire

Video Database Trial

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:39:23 GMT

The UI&U Library is considering a subscription to a video database called Films on Demand. If you feel that this database would be a valuable addition to the UI&U's collection, please let us know. We appreciate your feedback and want to provide the best resources available for all of our patrons.

Films on Demand

Trial runs until 12/4/2012

Send Feedback

Films On Demand is an educational streaming video resource. This one-stop portal provides access to more than 12,000 quality, curriculum-focused programs from more than 700 acclaimed producers, including BBC, PBS, NBC News, ABC News, National Geographic, A&E, and Films for the Humanities & Sciences.

Put the power of digital media into your courses with Films On Demand. Instantly view thousands of outstanding documentaries, award-winning educational films, and helpful instructional videos--viewable in the classroom, library, and home, or from any location with Internet access, anytime.

The Films on Demand database allows you to:

Generate interest and reinforce concepts with video clips.

Embed video clips in CampusWeb.

Search and browse nearly 11,500 videos and 90,000 clips.

Create personalized playlists using segments from multiple video titles and share playlists with students for off-hours viewing and distance learning.

Stream video clips in class without worry--copyright clearances and public performance rights included.

Locate helpful citations in multiple formats.

-Description from Films on Demand website

Spotlight: Historical New York Times

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:39:01 GMT

The inauguration of a world leader. A breakthrough medical discovery. A declaration of war. The social event of the season. The rock concert of a generation. A technological wonder. A death in the family. The birth of freedom.

For centuries, newspapers have been at the scene capturing not only the facts about momentous occasions, but also the sights and sounds of everyday life. ProQuest Historical Newspapers lets casual explorers and serious researchers alike travel digitally back through centuries to become eyewitnesses to history. -ProQuest Brochure

Issues of the New York Times from 1851-2008 are hosted in UI&U's Historical New York Times database (the latest newspaper issues can be found in other UI&U Library databases). The Historical New York Times database can be accessed from the UI&U Library’s Databases by Subject page (Library Home>Articles & Databases tab>Select "Primary Sources (Newspapers)" from the drop-down box). Once you are in the database, enter keywords in the search box to locate scanned copies of newspaper articles. For help designing your search query, please view these training videos or contact the UI&U Library.

We hope you enjoy using this rich collection of primary resources.

ProQuest. (n.d.). Centuries of Discovery Online: ProQuest Historical Newspapers [Brochure]. Retrieved from http://www.proquest.com/assets/literature/products/databases/HNP.pdf

New E-Books

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 10:38:13 GMT

Beyond the DSM Story: Ethical Quandaries, Challenges, and Best Practices

Enlisting Masculinity: The Construction of Gender in U.S. Military Recruiting Advertising During the All-Volunteer Force

Extraordinary Spirit of Green Chimneys: Connecting Children and Animals to Create Hope

Motivational Interviewing: Preparing People for Change (2nd Edition)

Reading, Writing, Mathematics and the Developing Brain: Listening to Many Voices

Therapeutic Community: Theory, Model and Method

Treating Substance Abuse: Theory and Technique (3rd Edition)

Treatment Planning for Person-Centered Care: The Road to Mental Health and Addiction Recovery