Spotlight: Historical New York Times

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

Once again, the UI&U library collection has expanded.  We hope you enjoy our newest selection of titles!

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

Early Holiday Closing

The UI&U Library will be closed for the holiday weekend beginning today, August 31, at 2pm EST.  We hope you enjoy your Labor Day weekend, and look forward to speaking with you when we re-open at 9am EST on Tuesday, September 4.

Spotlight: Academic Search Premier

The Academic Search Premier database from EBSCO is one of the most well-known and respected research databases.  It is a large, multidisciplinary database containing 4,600+ journals in the fields of psychology, education, leadership, business, arts, sciences, and more. 

The UI&U Library lists Academic Search Premier as one of our six recommended databases for beginning your research--and with good reason, as a search in this database will find articles on almost any topic.  The database also offers numerous ways to refine your search, such as limiting results by date, peer-reviewed status, document type and more.  The database toolbar includes options to print, e-mail, view citation, and create a direct link.   

To access the Academic Search Premier database, 1) go to the UI&U Library homepage, 2) click the “Articles & Databases” tab, 3) click the “databases by subject” link, and 4) open the Academic Search Premier database.

Latest E-Book Purchases

The UI&U Library collection has expanded yet again, with many of our newest titles centering on social justice and the social sciences:

• A Common Hunger: Land Rights in Canada and South Africa
• After the Dream: Black and White Southerners Since 1965
• Africare: Black American Philanthrophy in Africa
• Angel Island: Immigrant Gateway to America
• Ascent of Man: A Philosophy of Human Nature
• Atomic Frontier Days: Hanford and the American West
• Berlin Psychoanalytic: Psychoanalysis and Culture in Weimar Republic Germany and Beyond
• Broken Landscape: Indians, Indian Tribes, and the Constitution
• Colored Cosmopolitanism: The Shared Struggle for Freedom in the United States and India
• Constitutional Redemption: Political Faith in an Unjust World
• Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture
• Essential Guide to Qualitative Methods in Organizational Research
• Fair Society: The Science of Human Nature and the Pursuit of Social Justice
• Feminism is Queer: The Intimate Connection Between Queer and Feminist Theory
• Foreign Affairs and the Founding Fathers: From Confederation to Constitution, 1776-1787
• French Colonial Archaeology in the Southeast and Caribbean
• Ghosts of Revolution: Rekindled Memories of Imprisonment in Iran
• Handbook of Group Counseling and Psychotherapy
• Histories of Scientific Observation
• Insult and the Making of the Gay Self
• Islam Through Western Eyes: From the Crusades to the War on Terrorism
• Leadership and Global Justice
• Lifting Our Voices: The Journeys into Family Caregiving of Professional Social Workers
• Most Activist Supreme Court in History: The Road to Modern Judicial Conservatism
• One Hundred Years of Kibbutz Life: A Century of Crises and Reinvention
• Psychological Issues in Adoption: Research and Practice
• Queer Questions, Clear Answers: The Contemporary Debates on Sexual Orientation
• Repression and Resistance: Canadian Human Rights Activists, 1930-1960
• Size Matters: How Height Affects the Health, Happiness, and Success of Boys and the Men They Become
• So Much, So Fast, So Little Time: Coming to Terms with Rapid Change and Its Consequences
• Unvarnished Doctrine: Locke, Liberalism, and the American Revolution

Upcoming Workshops: August

Whether you're looking for a basic introduction to the UI&U Library or just a chance to brush up on your research skills, our August workshops have something for you.  Registration is now open.


Tuesday, August 14: Faculty Collection Development, 5:20-6:10 pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST

Tuesday, August 14: Library Orientation, 12:05-12:55pm EST/ 9:05-9:55am PST

Tuesday, August 21: Basic Research Skills, 12:05-12:55pm EST/ 9:05-9:55am PST

Tuesday, August 28: Advanced Research Skills, 3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST

New E-Books: Contemporary Art and More

Our ever-evolving collection has expanded yet again, and we're happy to announce our most recent round of acquisitions.  Contemporary art, postmodernism, and psychological assessment are just a few of the topics our new titles cover in depth:

• Age of the Avant-Garde, 1956-1972
• Antinomies of Art and Culture: Modernity, Postmodernity, Contemporaneity
• The Beribboned Bomb: The Image of Woman in Male Surrealist Art
• Communities of Sense
• EyeMinded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art
• From Head to Hand: Art and the Manual
• Klee
• Paul Klee and His Illness
• Photography and Philosophy: Essays on the Pencil of Nature
• Philosophers on Art from Kant to the Postmodernists: A Critical Reader
• Radical Use of Chance in 20th Century Art
• Replacing Home: From Primordial Hut to Digital Network in Contemporary Art
• Contemporary Intellectual Assessment: Theories, Tests, and Issues (3rd Edition)
• Counseling the Culturally Diverse: Theory and Practice (6th Edition)
• Handbook of Psychological Assessment (5th Edition)
• SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Research in Psychology

New: Ethnic NewsWatch Trial

Ethnic NewsWatch, described by Proquest as "a current resource of full-text newspapers, magazines, and journals of the ethnic and minority press, providing researchers access to essential, often overlooked perspectives. It may be combined with Ethnic NewsWatch: A History™ which provides historical coverage of Native American, African American, and Hispanic American periodicals from 1959-1989. Together, these resources present an unmatched, comprehensive, full-text collection of more than 2.5 million articles from over 340 publications. Perhaps the most valuable aspect of the resources is the inclusion of unique community publications not found in any other database, as well as top scholarly journals on ethnicities and ethnic studies," is currently being considered for acquisition by the UI&U Library, and we'd like your feedback before we commit to a full subscription.

In order to gain user insight and feedback, The UI&U library will be running a trial of Ethnic NewsWatch until August 16, 2012.  The trial can be accessed here.

If you feel that this database would be a valuable addition to 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.

At First Sight: The Shirl Jennings Story

"Sight is an amazing gift, and one which most of us learn from infancy, starting after birth when our eyes learn to focus. Through infancy, toddler years, and on into school years, our brains are trained to remember objects by how they look. The blind cannot do this. They use tactile sensations to identify and relate to everything.

When Shirl's sight was restored, the visual overload was almost devastating. He had no idea what he was looking at and the task of learning it all was emotionally and mentally challenging, as well as a huge physical burden.

Barbara Jennings, Shirl's wife, was determined that he could adjust to a life with sight and navigated unchartered waters to teach him everything - colors, alphabet, numerals, household objects, types of buildings and structural materials, trees and shurbs, animals, roads, railroads, airplanes, bridges, tunnels...the list was endless. There was always more for Shirl to learn."- from atfirstsighthebook.com



Shirl Jennings creating art, courtesy of Barbara Jennings

The story of Barbara Jennings, a graduate of UI&U's M.A. Psych program, and her late husband Shirl may be familiar to some of you, as their life story was given a glossy Hollywood adaptation in 1999 via the film At First Sight, starring Val Kilmer and Mira Sorvino.  But as with any life story, perhaps the best narrator is the one who has lived it; in this case, Shirl himself, who, alongside Barbara and Margery Phelps, created At First Sight, the Shirl Jennings Story: The story behind the MGM motion picture, which is now available for purchase at Amazon.com.

Aside from the book, Barbara has preserved her husband's inspiring legacy by posting his gorgeous artwork on the At First Sight website.  There is a great deal of beauty in the couple's story and in the work Shirl created, and we hope that you will take the time to experience it for yourself.



Sun and Rays by Shirl Jennings, courtesy of atfirstsighthebook.com

Spotlight: EBSCO eBooks Collection

The UI&U Library’s newest database is also this month’s spotlight feature: The eBook Academic Subscription Collection.  This e-book database contains approximately 70,000 titles from a wide variety of academic disciplines in the humanities and social sciences.  Ebooks are hosted within the familiar EBSCO interface and can be viewed by an unlimited number of simultaneous users. 

The eBook Academic Subscription Collection (EASC) database can be accessed from the Databases by Subject page.  In addition, you can search the library’s entire collection of e-books--both EASC and other databases like ebrary--from the catalog (please see the instructional video below). 

The library is always looking for ways to expand our e-book collection with high quality, scholarly content and we are excited to now be offering access to this wonderful new database.

Upcoming Online Workshops: July and August

 Whether you're interested in basic research skills, a general library introduction, or faculty collection development instruction, our upcoming online workshops have you covered and are now open for registration.

Tuesday, July 17: Basic Research Skills  3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST

Tuesday, July 24: Advanced Research Skills: 12:05- 12:55pm EST/9:05-9:55am PST

Tuesday, August 14:  Faculty Collection Development, 5:20-6:10 pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST

Tuesday, August 14: Library Orientation, 12:05-12:55pm EST/ 9:05-9:55am PST

Tuesday, August 21:  Basic Research Skills, 12:05-12:55pm EST/ 9:05-9:55am PST

Tuesday, August 28:  Advanced Research Skills, 3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST

June Spotlight: Google Scholar@UI&U

Google Scholar@UI&U is a great tool for kick-starting your research.  It allows you to simultaneously search many of the UI&U Library’s article databases as well as web-based scholarly resources such as legal opinions, online repositories, and other university websites.

Many students love Google Scholar@UI&U because it combines the search functionality and familiar interface of Google with the high quality, scholarly resources within the UI&U Library.  Google Scholar@UI&U also has many helpful tools for researchers, including cited by links, date limiters, Zotero integration, my citations, email alerts, author profiles, and other search features. 

To access Google Scholar@UI&U, go to the UI&U Library homepage and click the "Articles & Databases" tab.

June Online Workshops

Brush-up on your research skills and learn how to confidently locate the scholarly resources you need. Register for an online workshop.

Tuesday, June 5: Advanced Research Skills, 5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST

This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.

Audio: 1-866-951-1151, Room 6838390#

Library Instruction Site (Adobe Connect): http://tui.adobeconnect.com/library

Tuesday, June 12: Faculty Collection Development, 3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST

The UI&U Library believes that faculty participation is an essential component of library collection development and we invite you to help us by recommending specific e-books for purchase.  This workshop will demonstrate the various collection development resources available, including Choice Reviews Online and the ebrary Title Preview website.

Audio: 1-866-951-1151, Room 6838390#

Library Instruction Site (Adobe Connect): http://tui.adobeconnect.com/library

Tuesday, June 19: Basic Research Skills, 5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST

This workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.

Audio: 1-866-951-1151, Room 6838390#

Library Instruction Site (Adobe Connect): http://tui.adobeconnect.com/library

Tuesday, June 26: Advanced Research Skills, 3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST

This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.

Audio: 1-866-951-1151, Room 6838390#

Library Instruction Site (Adobe Connect): http://tui.adobeconnect.com/library

Get Published!

You've finished the work, and you're proud of it (as you should be!).  But then you begin to wonder: now how do I get this thing published? 

Whether you're looking to sharpen your work through revision, focus on the craft of writing, learn the ins and outs of academic publishing, or focus on online writing, the UI&U Library has you covered.  Below, a sample selection of titles to help you polish--and perhaps even publish--your work.  For further assistance in accessing similar titles, please feel free to contact us at library@myunion.edu.

Academic Publishing

The Academic Writer's Toolkit: A User's Manual by Arthur Asa Berger
Available online in the UI&U Library (Direct Link)

Becoming an Author: Advice for Academics and Other Professionals by David Canter and Gavin Fairbairn
Available online in the UI&U Library (Direct Link)

Getting It Published: A Guide for Scholars and Anyone Else Serious About Serious Books by William P. Germano
Available online in the UI&U Library (Direct Link)

Research: The Journey from Pondering to Publishing edited by Serwan M.J. Baban
Available online in the UI&U Library (Direct Link)

Writing for Academic Journals by Rowena Murray
Available online in the UI&U Library (Direct Link)

Write to the Top! How to be a Prolific Academic by W. Brad Johnson and Carol A. Mullen
Available online in the UI&U Library (Direct Link)

To access similar titles, try a subject search in the online catalog using the terms "academic writing," "academic writing--handbooks, manuals, etc." or  "scholarly publishing."

Mainstream Publishing

Book Publishing Encyclopedia: Tips & Resources for Authors and Publishers by Dan Poynter
Available online in the UI&U Library (Direct Link)

Communicating Knowledge: Publishing in the 21st Century by John Feather
Available online in the UI&U Library (Direct Link)

Indie Design: How to Design and Produce Your Own Book edited by Ellen Lupton
Available online in the UI&U Library (Direct Link)

The Making of a Bestseller: Success Stories from Authors and the Editors, Agents, and Booksellers Behind Them by Brian Hill and Dee Power
Available online in the UI&U Library (Direct Link)

Publishing Confidential: The Insider's Guide to What it Really Takes to Land a Nonfiction Book Deal by Paul B. Brown
Available online in the UI&U Library (Direct Link)

To access similar titles, try a subject search in the online catalog using the terms "authorship" or "publishers and publishing"

May Spotlight: Academic Search Premier

The Academic Search Premier database from EBSCO is one of the most well-known and respected research databases.  This large, multidisciplinary database contains 4,600+ journals in the fields of psychology, education, leadership, business, arts, sciences, and more.
 
The UI&U Library lists Academic Search Premier as one of our six recommended databases for beginning your research and with good reason: a search in this database will find articles on almost any topic.  The database also offers numerous ways to refine your search, such as limiting results by date, peer-reviewed status, and document type.  The database toolbar includes options to print, email, view citation, and create a direct link.   

You can access the Academic Search Premier database from the Databases by Subject page.


Academic Search Premier. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.ebscohost.com/academic/academic-search-premier

Change to ILLiad login

Beginning May 31, logging in to ILLiad will use the same Library Login screen and password used for all other library resources.  We hope this change will reduce confusion and streamline access.

Please note that this change will not take effect until May 31: continue to use your current ILLiad password until you see the new Library Login screen.

ILLiad is the system for requesting and renewing books and articles from other libraries.  For more information about our Interlibrary Loan service, see http://www.myunion.edu/library/interlibraryLoan.html.

If you have any questions about this change, please contact us at library@myunion.edu or 800-871-8165, extension 8747.

New: Historical Video Database Trials

The UI&U Library is currently considering the acquisition of two new video databases: American History in Video and World History in Video.  Before we commit to a yearly subscription, we're running an open trial period, and would appreciate your feedback.  The trial runs until June 29, 2012.  If, after exploring these databases, you feel that they would be valuable additions to our library, please let us know.


American History in Video  send feedback
 "People who witness notable historic moments, either in real time or on film, remember forever how they felt at the time. Who can forget the shock of seeing the helicopter pushed off the USS Blue Ridge carrier at the Fall of Saigon in 1975, or the thrill of watching Neil Armstrong taking his first step onto the moon’s surface? Now you can experience these and tens of thousands of other historical moments in the same visceral way, with American History in Video."

"As a biographical resource, American History in Video will include hundreds of profiles of great American leaders and personalities. As an encyclopedia of history, it provides footage of seminal historic events. Compare Kennedy’s rhetorical flair with Nixon’s. Examine racial stereotypes as presented in newsreels featuring African Americans prior to 1950. Consider Ed Herlihy’s use of alliteration and other tropes of propaganda in WW2 newsreels. These and thousands of other searches are easy with American History in Video".--Alexander Street Press


World History in Video  send feedback
"This online collection of streaming video will give faculty, students, and history lovers access to more than 1,750 important, critically acclaimed documentaries from filmmakers worldwide. A rich survey of human history from the earliest civilizations to the fall of the Berlin Wall, World History in Video is truly global in scope, covering Africa and the Americas, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Oceania. Its unparalleled geographical and chronological coverage delivers the sights, sounds, artifacts, and histories from around the world straight to your desktop.

Included in World History in Video are many of the documentaries most frequently used today in university-level classes teaching world history, ancient history, Western civilization, European history, regional history, and documentary film."- Alexander Street Press

New E-books: Literature

Spring has finally arrived, and so have several exciting new titles in our literature collection. 

These books can be accessed by using a browse title search in the catalog (exclude the subtitle). Should you have any trouble accessing any of these titles, please feel free to contact us at library@myunion.edu

• African American writers and classical tradition
• Age of Auden: postwar poetry and the American scene
• Apostles of modernity: American writers in the age of development
• Becoming Dickens: the invention of a novelist
• Beyond Douglass: new perspectives on early African-American literature
• Brainwashing: the fictions of mind control
• Deep distresses: William Wordsworth, John Wordsworth, Sir George Beaumont, 1800-1809
• Disseminal Chaucer: rereading the nun's priest's tale
• Emerson: a national icon for a post-national age
• English biography in the seventeenth century: a critical survey
• Jane Austen and the enlightenment
• Moral taste: aesthetics, subjectivity, and social power in the nineteenth-century novel
• My business is to create: Blake's infinite writing
• Native American literatures: an introduction
• New book of the grotesques: contemporary approaches to Sherwood Anderson's early fiction
• Our sisters' keepers: nineteenth century benevolence literature by American women
• Poem of a life: a biography of Louis Zukofsky
• Privacy: concealing the eighteenth century self
• Public life of privacy in nineteenth century American literature
• Romanticism and the rise of English
• Shaped by stories: the ethical power of narratives
• Spell of the song: letters, meaning, and English poetry
• Tragic conditions in Shakespeare: disinheriting the globe

April Online Workshops

Brush-up on your research skills and learn how to confidently locate the scholarly resources you need.  Register for an online workshop.

Basic Research Skills

Tuesday, April 10, 12:05-12:55PM EST/9:05PM-9:55AM

This workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.

Advanced Research Skills

Tuesday, April 24, 5:20-6:10PM EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST

This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.

May Online Workshops

Tuesday, May 8: Introduction to the UI&U Library & Website,  3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST

This workshop provides an introduction to the library’s resources and services, followed by a tour of the library website. Recommended for new faculty, staff, and students.

Advanced Research Skills
Tuesday, May 15, 12:05-12:55pm EST/9:05-9:55am PST

This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.

Tuesday, May 22: Faculty Collection Development, 5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST
The UI&U Library believes that faculty participation is an essential component of library collection development and we invite you to help us by recommending specific e-books for purchase. This workshop will demonstrate the various collection development resources available, including Choice Reviews Online and the ebrary Title Preview website.

Tuesday, May 29: Basic Research Skills:, 12:05-12:55pm EST/9:05-9:55am PST

This workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.

June Online Workshops
Tuesday, June 5: Advanced Research Skills, 5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST

This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.

Tuesday, June 12: Faculty Collection Development, 3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST

The UI&U Library believes that faculty participation is an essential component of library collection development and we invite you to help us by recommending specific e-books for purchase.  This workshop will demonstrate the various collection development resources available, including Choice Reviews Online and the ebrary Title Preview website.

Tuesday, June 19: Basic Research Skills, 5:20-6:10pm EST/2:20pm-3:10pm PST

This workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.

Tuesday, June 26: Advanced Research Skills, 3-4pm EST/12pm-1pm PST

This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.

New E-books: Education, Psychology & General Collections

We're excited to announce that another round of titles has been added to the ever-expanding UI&U Library catalog! Our most recent additions cover a myriad of topics, including education, psychology, research methods, and performance theory.

These books can be accessed by using a browse title search in the catalog (exclude the subtitle). Should you have any trouble accessing any of these titles, please feel free to contact us at library@myunion.edu.

Education
Classroom instruction that works: research-based strategies for increasing student achievement (2nd edition)
Courageous conversations: state of the African American male
Education of blacks in the south, 1860-1935
Elements of library research: what every student needs to know
Student guide to research in the digital age: how to locate and evaluate information sources
Self-taught: African American education in slavery and freedom
Theoretical foundations of learning environments (2nd edition)

General
Infant feeding practice: a cross-cultural perspective
Theatre and performance theory: acts of activism: human rights as radical performance
Womanist reader

Psychology
Egan's skilled helper model: developments and applications in counseling
The insanity of alcohol: social problems in Canadian first nations communities
Path of Handsome Lake: a model of recovery for native people
Recovery the native way: a therapist's manual
Social psychological foundations of clinical psychology
Transitions: making sense of life's changes (25th edition)
Youth violence: theory, prevention, and interventions

Spotlight: Creative Commons Search

The Creative Commons search allows you to locate videos, images, and other multimedia resources for use in presentations and online courses.  Each resource will have an individual Creative Commons license, which clearly lists usage rights and restrictions (nonprofit, creator attribution, etc.).   The Creative Commons search includes popular websites like YouTube, Flickr, Google Images, Europeana, Jamendo, and Wikipedia Commons.

 ©Creative Commons Aotearoa New Zealand

New E-books: History & Religion

Our collection has expanded yet again!  The following titles are our latest additions in the fields of history and religion.  We hope you find them informative and enjoyable.

These books can be accessed by using a browse title search in the catalog (exclude the subtitle). Should you have any trouble accessing any of these titles, please feel free to contact us at library@myunion.edu

                       


History

• Before Auschwitz: Irene Nemirovsky and the cultural landscape of inter-war France
• Benjamin Franklin and the American revolution
• Common law in colonial America, volume 1: The Chesapeake and New England, 1607-1660
• Description of New Netherland
• Education of blacks in the south, 1860-1935
• Freedom's journey: African-American voices of the Civil War
• Lakota ghost dance of 1890
• Learning native wisdom: what traditional cultures teach us about subsistence, sustainability, and spirituality
• Living the revolution: Italian women's resistance and radicalism in New York City, 1880-1945
• Mr. Jefferson's lost cause: land, farmers, slavery, and the Louisiana Purchase
• Mrs. Dred Scott: a life on slavery's frontier
• Self-taught: African American education in slavery and freedom
• Song for the horse nation: horses in Native American culture
• Specter of Salem: remembering the witch trials in nineteenth century America
• Stormy weather: middle class African American marriages between the two world wars
• To make our world anew, volume II: a history of African Americans since 1880
• What should we do with the Negro? Lincoln, white racism, and Civil War America
• Whites of their eyes: the Tea Party's revolution and the battle over American history

Religion

• Blackwell companion to the study of religion
• Expose of polygamy: a lady’s life among the Mormons
• God and race in American politics: a short history
• Introducing philosophy of religion
• Is the good book good enough? Evangelical perspectives on public policy
• Israel in Egypt: the evidence for the authenticity of the Exodus tradition
• Learning native wisdom: what traditional cultures teach us about subsistence, sustainability, and spirituality
• Of god and gods: Egypt, Israel, and the rise of monotheism
• Religion: the basics (2nd edition)

Journal access on Saturday, March 24

Access to most library journals will be unavailable for about an hour on Saturday, March 24, starting at 2:00 pm Eastern Time (5:00 pm Pacific Time).

This will affect the search options from the Journals tab on the library home page, "Search for Full Text" links from within various databases, and the Ulrich's Periodical Directory.  Access to library databases and e-books, and journal articles accessed through "Full Text" (or "PDF Full Text") links within library databases should not be affected.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

March Spotlight: Counseling and Therapy in Video

The UI&U Library’s Counseling and Therapy in Video database contains an extensive collection of video resources, including 403 hours of therapy sessions, lectures, and technique demonstrations.  The Counseling and Therapy in Video database can be accessed from the library's Databases by Subject page.  Once in the database, you can use the left-hand menu to browse by video type (therapy types, counseling sessions, etc.) or theme (family and relationships, substance abuse, etc.).  

Questions?
E-mail: library@myunion.edu
Phone: 888-828-8557, extension 8758

About Counseling and Therapy in Video. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://ctiv.alexanderstreet.com/help/view/about_counseling_and_therapy_in_video

March Online Workshops

Brush-up on your research skills and learn how to confidently locate the scholarly resources you need. Register for an online workshop.

Basic Research Skills
Tuesday, March 13, 5:20-6:10PM EST
This workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.

Advanced Research Skills

Tuesday, March 20, 12:05-12:55PM EST

This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.

Faculty Collection Development
Tuesday, March 27, 3-4:30PM EST
The UI&U Library believes that faculty participation is an essential component of library collection development and we invite you to help us by recommending specific e-books for purchase.  This workshop will demonstrate the various collection development resources available, including Choice Reviews Online and the ebrary Title Preview website.

Basic Research Skills
Tuesday, April 10, 12:05-12:55PM EST
This workshop for new researchers will review how to locate books, articles, dissertations, and other scholarly resources.

Advanced Research Skills
Tuesday, April 24, 5:20-6:10PM EST
This workshop for experienced researchers will explore citation tools, simultaneous database searches, reverse-citation searches, and other research strategies.

Formated APA, MLA & Chicago Citations

 The UI&U Library provides a variety of resources to help our researchers gather, store, and cite research information.  We provide free access to two citation formatting tools: Google Scholar and Zotero.  The Google Scholar Cite Tool includes preformatted APA, MLA, and Chicago citations that you can copy and paste into your bibliography.  Zotero is a more complex tool that allow you to create a personal library of citations and switch between citation styles.  In addition, the UI&U Library Help Center provides citation examples for the APA, Chicago, and MLA styles: 

•    Citation Tools (Google Scholar and Zotero)
•    APA Citation Examples
•    Chicago Citation Examples
•    MLA Citation Examples

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact us.    

Library resources unavailable February 14, 5-6 AM

Most library resources will be unavailable on Tuesday, February 14, from 5:00 to 6:00 AM, Eastern Time, due to some planned server maintenance.  The library website and catalog will be available, but links to books, journals, and databases that require logging in will not work during this time.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

New E-books in the UI&U Library

We're happy to announce that the New Year brings another round of exciting new titles to the UI&U Library. Whether you're doing research on human lactation, creative nonfiction, or daily life in Victorian England, we hope you find something both useful and enjoyable amongst these new additions.

These books can be accessed by using a browse title search in the catalog (exclude the subtitle).  Should you have any trouble accessing any of these titles, please feel free to contact us at library@myunion.edu.




Art & Literature
Kafka: Toward a minor literature
Elements of photography: Understanding and creating sophisticated images
Tell it slant: Writing and shaping creative nonfiction
Writing women's communities: The politics and poetics of contemporary multi-genre anthologies
Art therapy for groups: A handbook of themes and exercises
Mind in art: Cognitive foundations in art education
Handbook of art therapy
Learning curves: Body image and female sexuality in young adult literature
Metaphor

Biology & Conservation
Animal rights debate: Abolition or regulation?
Introduction to animal rights: Your child or your dog?
Wildlife ecology, conservation , and management
Biophilia

Breastfeeding & Lactation Studies
Breastfeeding made simple: Seven natural laws for nursing mothers
Breastfeeding rights in the United States
The Breastfeeding sourcebook: Everything you need to know
Is breast best? Taking on the breastfeeding experts and the new high stakes of motherhood
Mothers and medicine: A social history of infant feeding, 1890-1950
Breastfeeding: A guide for the medical professional
Breastfeeding and human lactation
Core curriculum for lactation consultant practice

Business
Hero and the outlaw: Building extraordinary brands through the power of archetypes
New self-directed work teams: Mastering the challenge
First hired, last fired: How to make yourself indispensable in an age of downsizing, mergers, and restructuring
Careers for sports nuts and other athletic types
How to motivate every employee
Mediation for managers: Resolving conflict and rebuilding relationships at work
Improvisational negotiation: A mediator's stories of conflict about love, money, anger - and the strategies that resolved them

Education
Organizational literacy for educators
Rethinking family-school relations: A critique of parental involvement in schooling
This fine place so far from home: Voices of academics from the working class
Ambiguity of teaching to the test: Standards, assessment, an educational reform
Contemporary intellectual assessment: Theories, tests, and issues
Promoting health in schools: A practical guide for teachers and school nurses working with children aged 3 to 11

Health, Medicine, & Wellness
Promoting health in schools: Envisioning health care 2020
Communicating health: Strategies for health promotion
Health communication in the new media landscape
Innovations in health literacy: Workshop summary
Alzheimer's disease
Promoting health in schools: A practical guide for teachers and school nurses working with children aged 3 to 11
Clinician's handbook of prescription drugs
Health information in a changing world: Practical approaches for teachers, schools, and school librarians
Recommendations for research on the health of military women: Bibliographies
Serving America's veterans: A reference handbook
Wounded warrior handbook: A resource guide for returning veterans
Why is sex fun?: The evolution of human sexuality

History
Daily life in Victorian England
Hildegard of Bingen, 1098-1179: A visionary life
Making history count: A primer in quantitative methods for historians
Mothers of invention: Women of the slaveholding south in the American civil war
Women in the United States military: An annotated bibliography

Leadership, Government, and Public Policy
Influencer: The power to change anything
Leadership: Essential selections on power, authority, and influence
Leadership secrets of Colin Powell
Leadership studies: The dialogue of disciplines
Social movements: An introduction
The New Jim Crow: Mass incarceration in the age of colorblindness
Hegemony and heteronormativity:  Revisiting 'the political' in queer politics
Doing what comes naturally: Change, rhetoric, and the practice of theory in literary and legal studies
Racial issues in criminal justice: The case of African Americans

Military
Fields of combat: Understanding PTSD among veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan
Women in the United States military: An annotated bibliography
Serving America's veterans: A reference handbook
Wounded warrior handbook: A resource guide for returning veterans

Miscellaneous
Statistics for the utterly confused
College algebra demystified
Anima mundi: The rise of the world soul theory in modern German philosophy

Psychology
Four fundamental concepts of psycho-analysis
Body image: A handbook of science, practice, and prevention
Handbook of art therapy
Psychology of stalking: Clinical and forensic perspectives
Addiction and change: How addictions develop and addicted people recover
Dialectical behavior therapy in clinical practice: Applications across disorders and settings
Mindfulness and acceptance: Expanding the cognitive-behavioral tradition
Psychological testing at work: How to use, interpret, and get the most out of the newest tests in personality, learning style, aptitudes, interests, and more!
Psychology of language: A critical introduction
Social psychological foundations of clinical psychology
Fields of combat: Understanding PTSD among veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan
Concepts: Where cognitive science went wrong
Mean girls grown up: Adult women who are still queen bees, middle bees, and afraid-to-bees
Motherless daughters: The legacy of loss
Critical thinkers: Jacques Lacan
Serving America's veterans: A reference handbook
Wounded warrior handbook: A resource guide for returning veterans

Technology
Growing up digital: The rise of the net generation
HTML: A beginner's guide
Information technology essentials for behavioral health clinicians
New insights into audiovisual translation and media accessibility
ASTD Handbook of training design and delivery

Writing & Research
Building in research and evaluation: Human inquiry for living systems
Companion to qualitative research: Paradigms, theories, methods, practice, and contexts
Doing research in the real world
Dynamic analysis in the social sciences
Emergent methods in social research
Ethical issues in community-based research with children and youth
Ethics in qualitative research
Handbook for social science field research: Essays and bibliographic sources on research design and method
Interpreting quantitative data
Introduction to quantitative research methods: An investigative approach
Making sense of social research
Measurement error and research design: A practical approach to the intangibles of research design
Methods of family research
Observation oriented modeling: Analysis of cause in the behavioral sciences
Qualitative analysis: Practice and innovation
Multilevel modeling of educational data
Real data analysis
Issues, research and teaching: Structural educational modeling
Quantitative methods in social science
Questioning qualitative inquiry: Critical essays
The research interview
Research methods and communication in the social sciences
Research methods in social studies education:  contemporary issues and perspectives
Seeing is believing?: Approaches to visual research
Short introduction to social research
Social research: Theory, methods, and techniques
Social research methods
Talk and interaction in social research methods
The case study as research method: A practical handbook
The science game: An introduction to research in the behavioral and social sciences
Using visual data in qualitative research
Walking the tightrope: Ethical issues for qualitative researchers
What counts as credible evidence in applied research and evaluation practice?
Schaum's quick guide to writing great essays
Schaum's quick guide to writing great research papers
Shortcuts for the student writer
Foundations for research: Methods of inquiry in education and the social sciences

New Year, New Library Resources

The UI&U Library has expanded its collection to include three new academic journals: Contemporary Pragmatism, Teachers College Record, and the Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing (JOGNN).  We also added additional social science journals to our Project MUSE collection.

Academic Journals 

Contemporary Pragmatism
Teachers College Record 

Journal of Obstetric, Gynecologic and Neonatal Nursing (JOGNN)
(click the links above or use the Journals tab on the library homepage to access these journals) 

Article Database

Project MUSE (with new social sciences collection)
(click the link above or use the Articles tab on the library homepage to access this database)  

We hope you will enjoy using these exciting new resources. If you have any suggestions for future collection additions, please let us know.

New Instructional Videos

The UI&U Library just produced its first four instructional videos: Find E-books on a Topic, Find a Specific E-book, Google Scholar@UI&U, and Find a Specific Article. The videos can be viewed on the library homepage (under the e-books and articles tabs).   These videos are part of the UI&U Library’s commitment to providing a comprehensive collection of in-context, multimedia help resources for the new website.

We hope you find these new instructional videos useful. If you have any feedback or suggestions for future videos, please let us know.