College finals humor

Finals are only two weeks away! Here are some websites to help you laugh about it.

College Finals From Hell ”MEDICINE: You have been provided with a razor blade, a piece of gauze, and a bottle of Scotch. Remove your appendix. Do not suture until your work has been inspected. You have 15 minutes.”

‘Twas the Night Before Finals

Fifty Fun Things To Do During A Final That You Know You Are Going To Fail

Good page-turners

Confessions of a pagan nun: a novel [catalog]

The curious incident of the dog in the night-time [catalog]

Fahrenheit 451 : Fahrenheit 451 — the temperature at which book paper catches fire, and burns– [catalog]

The fellowship of the ring : being the first part of The Lord of the rings [catalog]

Graphic novels and comic books [catalog]

To kill a mockingbird [catalog]

Maltese falcon [catalog]

The professor and the madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English dictionary [catalog]

Starship troopers [catalog]

Stranger in a strange land [catalog]

The war of the worlds [catalog]

Sullivan Library’s hours for Thanksgiving

Sullivan Library will be closed from Wednesday, November 24th through Sunday, November 28th in celebration of the Thanksgiving holiday. We will resume our normal hours on Monday the 29th, opening at 8AM.

For those of you who are travelling home, the Sullivan Library wishes that your travels are safe! Have a joyous Thanksgiving, all!

Thanksgiving images from the CAMIO database

Happy holidays, all! Here are some Thanksgiving images from the CAMIO database.

Macy’s Parade: 1980
http://camio.oclc.org/u?/MAV,1458

Thanksgiving Ghost
http://camio.oclc.org/u?/LCC,16559

(There is a ghost bird on the right side of the branch)

Washington Market, New York, Thanksgiving Time
http://camio.oclc.org/u?/CLART,4353





Enjoy your holiday! Don’t forget to check the “leisure reading” tag on the right side of the blog screen to see all blog posts that contain interesting books to check out during your downtime!

Workshops for Spring 2011 Topics [POLL]

What workshops do YOU want to see in Spring 2011?

You can check multiple answers. See also the poll below (the previous blog post) about good dates & times. Comments are appreciated, especially if you would think a different topic would also be useful to hold as a workshop!

Workshops for Spring 2011 Days & Times [POLL]

Feel free to include your major/program here at Dominican College by leaving a comment. You can check multiple answers. Thank you!

NOTE: late morning/afternoon = 11:15AM-12:15PM, 12:45-1:45PM,
or 2:15-3:15PM.
NOTE: night = 5:45 – 6:45PM

Top 10 Words of 2010

From the Global Language Monitor:

1. Spillcam

2. Vuvuzela

3. The Narrative
4. Refudiate
5. Guido and Guidette
6. Deficit
7. Snowmaggedden
8. 3-D
9. Shellacking
10. Simplexity

Introducing MEDLINE Images

The free MEDLINE Images database is made up of over 3 million images from biomedical literature which has been deposited at the National Center for Biotechology Information (NCBI), and is maintained by the National Library of Medicine. You can connect to MEDLINE Images at this link.

Again — this resource is free to you! In terms of copyright, please see NCBI Copyright Notice and PubMed Central Copyright Notice. There is also a MEDLINE Images Help page.

When you are browsing an image, you should see a link to the article that it came from. Remember that if you are looking for medical articles instead, you should first try PubMed Central (which has full-text articles), and then try PubMed (which is a mix of links to full-text articles and citation only).

The above image was taken from: PGC-1 coactivators: inducible regulators of energy metabolism in health and disease; J Clin Invest. 2006 March 1; 116(3): 615–622. DOI: 10.1172/JCI27794.

New York Heritage Digital Collections

One of the resources that we put up on our Library Portal Page this semester was NewYorkHeritage.org. This is a research portal designed for students, educators, historians, and genealogists — or anyone else who wants to learn more about New York State. This website includes digital collections about people, places, and institutions, with information coming from local libraries, museums, and archives. This website is a project of the NY 3Rs Association.

The picture in this post is from Blauvelt, NY in 1949. In the lower right, you can see Western Highway where it joins Blauvelt Road. This image was taken from the Hudson River Valley Heritage Collection, which is part of New York Heritage.

New fiction titles

The moon is a harsh mistress by Robert A. Heinlein [catalog]: “A one-armed computer technician, a radical blonde bombshell, an aging academic, and a sentient all-knowing computer lead the lunar population in a revolution against Earth’s colonial rule. “

Go ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks [catalog]: “A fifteen-year-old drug user chronicles her daily struggle to escape the pull of the drug world.”

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez [catalog]: “One Hundred Years of Solitude (1967) is the story of seven generations of the Buendía Family in the town of Macondo. The founding patriarch of Macondo, José Arcadio Buendía, and Úrsula, his wife, leave Riohacha, Colombia, to find a better life and a new home. One night of their emigration journey, whilst camping on a riverbank, José Arcadio Buendía dreams of “Macondo”, a city of mirrors that reflected the world in and about it. Upon awakening, he decides to found Macondo at the river side.”

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco [catalog]:  ”The Name of the Rose is an historical murder mystery set in an Italian monastery in the year 1327.”

Dune by Frank Herbert [catalog]: “Set in the far future amidst a sprawling feudal interstellar empire where planetary fiefdoms are controlled by noble houses that owe an allegiance to the Imperial House Corrino, Dune tells the story of young Paul Atreides (the heir apparent to Duke Leto Atreides and the heir of House Atreides) as he and his family accept control of the desert planet Arrakis, the only source of the “spice” melange, the most important and valuable substance in the universe.”

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller [catalog]: “Captain Yossarian is an American bombardier stationed off the Italian coast during the final months of World War II. Paranoid and odd, Yossarian believes that everyone around him is trying to kill him. All Yossarian wants is to complete his tour of duty and be sent home. However, because the glory-seeking Colonel Cathcart continually raises the number of required missions, the men of the “fighting 256th squadron” must keep right on fighting.”