LRC newsletter ~ May 2006

1. LRC display case: Books on Teaching College Students

2. EDUCAUSE: H.E. Info Technology: research, news, and multimedia presentations

3. Featured NetLibrary ebook:Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine

4. National Archives historical films digitized & viewable thru Google

5. Federal Resources for Excellence in Education

Some new books in the LRC

1. LRC Display: Books on Teaching College Students

In honor of our valued teachers, we’ve placed a few interesting titles in the LRC display case. Let an LRC staff member know if you’d like to check-out any of these books - they’re there for your use.

2. EDUCAUSE: educational research reports, periodicals, and multimedia presentations

This website and their online magazine, EDUCAUSE Review , are a great resource for learning about H.E. Information Technologies including: online course development , digital game-based learning, teaching using PowerPoint, networking & emerging technologies, virtual meetings , podcast s, and all issues related to educating the next generation.

(EDUCAUSE is a nonprofit association whose mission is to advance higher education by promoting the intelligent use of information technology.) www.educause.edu

3. Need a book? Search the LRC catalog, and NetLibrary.

Available to Michigan residents, NetLibrary is a collection of nearly 15,000 e-books which are fully readable online.

Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine 16th ed., 2005 (full-color ebook) Synonymous with internal medicine, Harrison 's continues to be the most authoritative and #1 selling medical textbook throughout the world.

NetLibrary On-campus Access: Click here or go to LRC Homepage / NetLibrary

NetLibrary Off-campus Access: Initially, you must create a free account at any Michigan Library (like the LRC). Thereafter, use NetLibrary from anywhere with the username and password you create.

4. National Archives historical filmsviewable using Google

250 full-length films from the National Archives fully viewable on the web - excellent!

Click on the links below or search in Google Video using search string like: “national archives” AND bomb

Google’s Digitized National Archives footage: video.google.com/nara.html

• Great Smoky Mountains National Park 1936
• White Sands 1938
• Ranger 6 Moon Mission Rocket Launch Newsreel and Stock Footage
• Albert Einstein Meets Ben Gurion Newsreel and Stock Footage
• Hindenburg Disaster Newsreel and Stock Footage
• Stratojet Bomber Newsreel and Stock Footage
• Marines Raise Flag Over Iwo Jima

Article about the Google / National Archives Project: www.eschoolnews.com/news/showStory.cfm?ArticleID=6137

Related site: hundreds more historical films: www.archive.org/

5. Federal Resources for Excellence in Education has added the following H.E. appropriate learning resources to its website . www.ed.gov/free/index.html

• Ancient World Mapping Center offers free digital maps of the ancient world for educational use. For most maps, a blank version suitable for quizzes and customization is provided.

• Moldenhauer Archives 130 music manuscripts, letters, essays by musicologists, etc. from a 3,500-item collection documenting the history of Western music: medieval period through the modern era.

• Mathematics: Research Overview looks at topics of major research in mathematics: image creation, statistics, inverse problems, CPU testing, materials and nanotechnology, etc.

• Earth and Environmental Science: Research Overview examines questions that scientists are pursuing: What part do we play in earth's changing climate?

• Physics Education Technology ( PhET) More than 35 simulations: circuits, string tension, kinetic and potential energy, radio waves and electromagnetic fields, etc.

• Water on the Web offers water science units and tools that help students understand and solve real environmental problems using advanced technology.

• The Emergence of Modern America (1890-1930) (National Archives and Records Administration) Features the 1897 petition against the annexation of Hawaii, political cartoons on progressivism and the 1912 election, woman suffrage and the 19th Amendment, etc.

(List of sites abridged from summary by Meghan Maxwell, a member of the Instructional Technology Council)

Some new books in the LRC

Art & Literature

The best poems of the English language: from Chaucer through Frost / PR 1175 .B4566 2004

The invention of the western film: a cultural history of the genre's first half-century / PN 1995.9.W4 S53 2003

Business

The blackboard and the bottom line : why schools can't be businesses / LC1085.2 .C83 2004

Bridging the culture gap : a practical guide to international business communication / HF5389 .C36 2004

Delmar's skills and procedures for medical assistants / R728.8 .D935 2005 dvd

Federal resume guidebook: write a winning federal resume to get in, get promoted, & survive in a gov’t job / JK 716 .T73 2004

Managers, not MBAs : a hard look at the soft practice of managing and management development / HD30.4 .M56 2004

The mystery of capital: why capitalism triumphs in the West and fails everywhere else / HB 501 .S778

Persuasive business proposals : writing to win more customers, clients, and contracts /

HF 5718.5 S26 2004

Proving the value of HR : how and why to measure ROI / HF5549 .P4595 2005

Spies, Inc . : business innovation from Israel's masters of espionage / HC415.25.Z9 T47 2005

Understanding Wall Street / by Little, Jeffrey B /HG 4910 .L54 2004

What matters most : how a small group of pioneers is teaching social responsibility to big business, and why big business is listening / HD60 .H65 2004

Healthcare & Special Education

Critical condition: how health care in America became big business-- and bad medicine / RA 410.53 .B37 2004

Delivered from distraction: getting the most out of life with attention deficit disorder / RC 394.A85 H349 2005

A history of nonprescription product regulation / KF 3894.P3 P73 2003

How I became a human being : a disabled man's quest for independence / RM930.5.U6 O24 2003

A mind apart: understanding children with autism and Asperger syndrome / RJ 506.A9 S99 2004

Science & Technology

The big bang: a view from the 21st century / QB 991.B54 H37 2003

Bush versus the environment / GE 180 .D48 2004

Fundamental genetics / QH 430 .R55 2004

Magic, mystery, and science : the occult in Western civilization / BF 1411 .B885 2004

Math through the ages: a gentle history for teachers and others / QA 21 .B47 2004

The edge of infinity: supermassive black holes in the universe / QB 843.B55 M455 2003

Infinity: the quest to think the unthinkable / BD 411 .C544 2003x

Remarkable mathematicians: from Euler to von Neumann / QA 28 .J36 2002

Social Science

Bush versus the environment / GE 180 .D48 2004

Christina Rossetti's feminist theology / PR 5238 .P35 2002

Command of office: how war, secrecy, & deception transformed the presidency…T. Roosevelt to George W. Bush / E176.1 .G815 2004

Eyewitness to power: the essence of leadership : Nixon to Clinton / JK 516 .G493 2000

Islamic humanism / BP 190.5.T78 G66 2002

Jane Addams and the dream of American democracy: a life / HV 28.A35 E57 2001b

Last dance in Havana : the final days of Fidel and the start of the new Cuban Revolution / F1765.3 .R63 2004

Leaders and their followers in a dangerous world : the psychology of political behavior / JC330.3 P68 2004

The life and times of Mexico / F 1210 .S543 2004

Mexicans & Americans: cracking the cultural code / GN 560.M6 C76 2004

Polling to govern : public opinion and presidential leadership / JK516 .H3663 2004

Thoreau on freedom: attending to man : selected writings by Henry David Thoreau / HM 1266 .T46 2003

War and the American presidency / JZ1480 .S35 2004

When presidents lie : a history of official deception and its consequences / JK468.E7 A63 2004

The values of volunteering: cross-cultural perspectives / HN 49.V64 V35 2003

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