LRC newsletter ~ March 2006

1. New database added to Daily Life Online: World Cultures Today

2. Resources for UNIVERSITY CENTER Student.

3. Featured website: Net Anatomy

4. Use our FACTS.com database to help students select a research topic

5. New Books in the LRC

1. New database added to Daily Life Online: World Cultures Today

To our current database Daily Life Online, (formerly, Greenwood Daily Life), we've added a new module: World Cultures Today. Together these databases cover all cultures and all time periods, with added coverage of current cultural issues. Contains text, images, maps, timelines, lesson plans, and web links. Using the Advanced Search button is reccommended.

Especially useful for basic research related to Global Awareness Day topics and international children's issues.

Some sample topics:

· Culture and Customs of Afghanistan

· Teen Life In Africa > South Africa > SCHOOLING

· Teen Life In Africa > Kenya > RELIGIOUS PRACTICES AND CULTURAL CEREMONIES

Utilize their Teacher Resources from: dailylife.greenwood.com/teacher

On-campus Access: Click here or go to LRC Homepage / On-campus Databases / Daily Life Online

Off-campus Access: Go to LRC Homepage / Off-campus Databases / [login with library barcode and employee number] / [choose Daily Life Online] ________________________________________________________________________

2. Resources for UNIVERSITY CENTER Students

Students taking class through SC4’s University Center have access to both our library resources and their university library’s resources. Generally, they will want to use the university library’s resources first; they’ll have more materials that specifically support their course offerings.

For research help, students may contact an SC4 Librarian or a librarian at their university. Most libraries have phone, email, and live-chat reference help available. Here are library websites for just some of the universities with which SC4 partners:

SVSU Off-Campus Library Services: www.svsu.edu/library/services.cfm?doc_id=1672

U of M Flint: Frances Willson Thompson Library: lib.umflint.edu

Sienna Heights University Library: www.sienahts.edu/~libr

Wayne State University Libraries: www.lib.wayne.edu ________________________________________________________________________

3. Featured website: Net Anatomy

Authored by university professors and recommended for two-year technical program students and lower-level undergraduates, Net Anatomy has study guides and anatomy reviews accompanied by images of actual cadaver dissection: Radiographic, cross-sectional, and gross anatomy, and selected Visible Male and Visible Female Project images.

Check out this related site: The National Library of Medicine’s Visible Human Project takes you on an animated trip through cross-sections of a human body: www.nlm.nih.gov/research/visible/visible_gallery.html

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4. Use our FACTS.com database to help students select a research topic

Use the LRC’s FACTS.com database for all types of information about key events and people from the 1940s to the present. It contains tens of sub-databases, including a chronological breakdown of news topics, and a button for Need a Research Paper Topic?

(Contact an LRC Reference Librarian if you would like to regularly receive FACTS.com email updates including their communiqué on Themed Research Topics.)

On-campus Access: Click here or go to LRC Homepage / On-campus Databases / FACTS.com

Off-campus Access: Go to LRC Homepage / Off-campus Databases / [login with library barcode and employee number] / [choose FACTS.com]

Here’s a sample list of topics from this month's FACTS.com: Issues and Controversies, & an excerpt from Today’s Science:

● Think Tanks: Evolution, Dominance, Advocates & Opponents, etc. The issue: Has the growing significance of think tanks in national politics enhanced public debate? Or has it coarsened it, reducing complex debates to mere partisan soundbites?

● Reproductive Technology

● Ethics of Intelligence Gathering

● U.S. Internet Companies in China

● Teen Courts: Around the World ; Milestones in the History of Teen Courts

● Pharmacists & 'Right of Conscience' Laws: Key Events in Debate; Wal-Mart & the 'Morning-After' Pill

Nanotech: Science of the Small

Just how small is a nanometer? This graphic shows the relative size of a number of familiar objects compared to some nanoscale devices.

• The Nature of "Nano"

• Nanotechnology in Computers and Electronics

• Nano Medicine

• Energy, Space and Other Areas

• Nanotech Timeline

• Nano Worries

• Further Reading

• Internet Sites

• Keywords

5. New Books in the LRC: a select list

Action research for educators / LB1028.24 .T66

Ads, fads, and consumer culture : advertising's impact on American character and society / HF5823 .B438

Anti-Indianism in modern America : a voice from Tatekeya's Earth / E93 .C76

Artificial intelligence : a beginner's guide / Q335 .W4495

Bionanotechnology : lessons from nature / QP514.2 G658

Birth of a salesman : the transformation of selling in America / HF5438.4 .F75

Breaking out of the pink-collar ghetto : policy solutions for non-college women / HD6095 .M34

Built to win : the female athlete as cultural icon / GV709.18.U6 H49

Changing minds : the art and science of changing our own and other people's minds / BF637.C4 G37

Cheerleader! cheerleader! : an American icon / LB3635 .A33

Contemporary physics and the limits of knowledge / QC21.3 .T38

Creating new schools : how small schools are changing American education / LB2822.82 .C76

The cross and the crescent : Christianity and Islam from Muhammad to the Reformation / BP172 .F59

Delivered from distraction : getting the most out of life with attention deficit disorder / RC394.A85 H349

Do unto others : extraordinary acts of ordinary people / BJ1474 .O395

The dream of eternal life : biomedicine, aging, and immortality / QP85 .B4413

Dream work in therapy : facilitating exploration, insight, and action / RC489.D74 D723

Educating oppositional and defiant children / LC4802 .H34

Einstein defiant : genius versus genius in the quantum revolution / QC173.98 .B65

Engaging schools : fostering high school students' motivation to learn / LB1607.5 .N39

Ethics and global politics : the active learning sourcebook / JZ1306 .E8723

European integration, 1950-2003 : superstate or new market economy? / HC241.2 .G54

The failures of integration : how race and class are undermining the American dream / HN90.S6 .C37

Final solutions : mass killing and genocide in the twentieth century / HV6322.7 V35

Finding courage to speak : women's survival of child abuse / RC569.5.C55 A44

The first idea : how symbols, language, and intelligence evolved from our early primate ancestors to modern humans / BF698.95 .G73

Future conditional QH541.145 F87 2005 dvd

Gangs and society : alternative perspectives / HV6439.U5 G3597

Ghost wars : the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to Sept. 10, 2001 / DS371.2 .C63

The global politics of the environment / GE170 .E47

Grammar traps : a handbook of the 20 most common grammar mistakes and how to avoid them / PE1460 .D65

The great religions : essential questions / BL80.3 G74

The head Negro in charge syndrome : the dead end of Black politics / E185.615 .K374

The hothouse effect : intensify creativity in your organization using secrets from history's most innovative communities / HD53 .K86

Individual rights reconsidered : are the truths of the U.S. Declaration of Independence lasting? / JC571 .I4873

Instructing and mentoring the African American college student : strategies for success in HE / LC2781 .G33

Interpreting literature with children / LB1575.5.U5 W65

Japan's colonization of Korea : discourse and power / DS916.55 .D83 2005

Just intervention / KZ6369 .J87

Leaders and their followers in a dangerous world : the psychology of political behavior / JC330.3 P68

The life and work of Gunter Grass : literature, history, politics / PT2613.R338 Z774

Lifelong learning in action : transforming education in the 21st century / LC5215 .L572

Magic, mystery, and science : the occult in Western civilization / BF1411 .B885

Mexicans & Americans : cracking the cultural code / GN560.M6 C76

A mighty fortress : a new history of the German people / DD90 .O96

The moral warrior : ethics and service in the U.S. military / U22 .C597

More humane medicine : a liberal Catholic bioethics / R725.56 D7

Murder is no accident : understanding and preventing youth violence in America / HQ799.2.V56 P76

Music in childhood : from preschool through the elementary grades / MT1 .C226

The new global threat : severe acute respiratory syndrome and its impacts / RA644.S17 N49

Occidentalism : the West in the eyes of its enemies / CB245 .B875

Opportunities in biological science careers / QH314 .W525

Origins of Rwandan genocide / DT450.435 .S3613

Rescuing the emotional lives of overweight children: what our kids go through…how we can help / RJ399.C6 R54

Roots of hate : anti-semitism in Europe before the Holocaust / DS146.E8 B78

The science of good and evil : why people cheat, gossip, care, share, and follow the golden rule / BJ1311 .S48

The Second City almanac of improvisation / PN2071.I5 S43

Separate and unequal : Homer Plessy and the Supreme Court decision that legalized racism / KF223.P56 F57

Serpent in the bosom : the rise and fall of Slobodan Milosevic / DR1309 .C644

Shakespeare, Einstein and the bottom line : the marketing of higher education / LB2342.8 K57

Skilled dialogue : strategies for responding to cultural diversity in early childhood / LC1099 .B39

The State of the planet / GE140 .S73 2005 dvd

Strategic ignorance : why the Bush Administration is recklessly destroying a century of environmental progress / HC100.E5 P656

Unafraid of Virginia Woolf : the friends and enemies of Roy Campbell / PR9369.3.C35 Z743

Under the weather : how weather and climate affect our health / QC981.45 .T46

Understanding lumpectomy : a treatment guide for breast cancer / RD667.5 .B463

Weaving science inquiry and continuous assessment : using formative assessment to improve learning / LB1585 .C29

Where girls come first : the rise, fall, and surprising revival of girls' schools / LC1752 .D43

Why privacy isn't everything : feminist reflections on personal accountability / HM676 .A45

Wings : a history of aviation from kites to the space age / TL515 .C76

Working across cultures / HM1211 .H66

The worried child : recognizing anxiety in children and helping them heal / BF723.A5 F69

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