Friday, April 20, 2012

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

Sunday, April 8, 2012

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.

Monday, April 2, 2012

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.