New books at Sullivan Library for the Spring semester

The library staff has been working hard on cataloging and processing new books to get them onto the shelf for you to read. Boxes upon boxes were sorted to get these new arrivals on their way. Here is a sampling of some of the books that have recently arrived in the library:

Math for nurses: a pocket guide to dosage calculation and drug preparation (link)

Financial management for nurse managers and executives (link)

Biochemistry for sport and exercise metabolism (link)

How deaf children learn: what parents and teachers need to know (link)

Functional movement development across the life span (link)

The guardian of all things: the epic story of human memory (link)

Android boot camp for developers using Java, introductory: a beginner’s guide to creating your first Android apps (link)

Beginning iOS 5 application development [electronic resource] (link)

Pushing the limits with iOS 5 programming [electronic resource]: advanced application development for Apple iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch (link)

Organizations don’t tweet, people do [electronic resource]: a manager’s guide to the social web (link)

New Mobile Apps available!

The Sullivan Library is proud to introduce four new mobile apps for accessing our wonderful library resources. More information (including download information) on the four apps can be found on the Library Portal Page.

The four apps are:

BookMyne – use this app to access and search our library catalog. You can also scan a book’s barcode and check BookMyne to see if we own it.

 

EBSCOhost Mobile – use this app to search for sources for your research. You will need to re-authenticate your access every 9 months.

 

 

Gale Mobile – use this app to search for sources for your research. You will need to re-authenticate your access about every 12 months.

 

Britannica Mobile – use this app to search for ready-reference information about a broad range of topics, all from your mobile device!

 

Apps for college students

Looking for some useful apps to download for the upcoming Fall semester? Then look no further!

<<== iStudiez Pro [$2.99] – This app organizes your schedule (including professor office hours, phone number, etc), summarizes your homework, tracks your grade and GPA, and even more. Apple. Also check out the free Apple version.

myHomework [free] – know what is due and when it is due. Never turn in another assignment late! Apple/Android.

EZ Read [free] – This app connects to Sparknotes and provides all of the information in an easy-to-read mobile format. Apple.

Evernote [free] – This app allows you to create text, photo, and audio notes to help you study better. You can also attach images and recordings to the notes. Apple/Android.

Share Your Board [free] – Easily capture information on a white board and share it with other students. Android.

Wolfram Alpha app [$1.99] – Wolfram Alpha is a computational search engine which not only gives you the answer (for example “GDP of Japan 2007″), but also some corresponding charts, graphs, and other information. Best of all, the search engine improves over time as more and more users search for things. Apple/Android.

See also some previous app posts on this blog:

iPhone apps for incoming freshman

I Education Apps Review (IEAR)

3 Apps for Health Services Students

Apps Spotlight: Nursing

iPhone apps for incoming freshman

It is almost that time of year again! Next week freshman will start moving in, and the campus will again be abuzz with activity.

Here are some useful iPhone apps for freshman:

 

The Elements ”It features beautiful high-resolution content optimized for the iPhone 4 screen. If you think you’ve seen the periodic table, think again. The Elements for iPhone lets you experience the beauty and fascination of the building blocks of our universe in a way you’ve never seen before…” Read more here.

“Graphing Calculator turns your phone or iPod into an intuitive high-resolution function plotter and scientific calculator. Features include: quickly plot and trace multiple equations on the same graph, custom keyboard to speed up entering in equations, pinch to zoom and drag/slide for scrolling the graph in real time, and the graph view supports portrait and landscape modes…” Read more here.

 

Friday Apps

TripJournal is hailed as the #1 Travel application by Google and is available for the iPhone/iTouch and Android devices. It allows you to document all of your travel experience and easily upload them to your friends, including full screen photos, videos, comments and blog entries. It is currently compatible with Facebook, Flicker, Picasa, YouTube, and Twitter. Read more here.

NYTimes.com apps allow you to access the latest news headlines, games, and features on many mobile devices. There are apps available for the iPad, iPhone, iTouch, Palm Pre, Android, and BlackBerry. See more at their apps page.

Alarm Clock PlusV2 This Android app requires you to solve a math problem to turn off the alarm. Other features include: unlimited alarms, 4 levels of math problems, the ability to turn snooze on and off, gentle alarm (increasing volume), and the ability to launch any app as an alarm. For instance, you could choose to wake up to the Pandora Radio app. Read and download here.

Wikipathia: The Wikipedia Path Game is a free app for iPhone/iTouch and Android devices. The goal is to connect from one article to another article using only the links on the pages, in the shortest possible steps. You are given two article titles (which you can change if they seem too easy or difficult) and a list of outgoing links for the first article. Read more about the iPhone app here and the Android app here.

I Education Apps Review (IEAR)

If you are in the Teachers of Students with Disabilities or the Teachers of Students who are Blind or Visually Impaired programs here at Dominican College, it might be worthwhile for you to take a look at the www.iear.org site, specifically this post which talks about apps for students with special needs (the platforms are iTouch, iPhone, and iPad).

 One app that was reviewed was CrazyFaceLite: “Free app by Ezone.com where a green furry monster face moves his/her lips whenever you talk; great for students with trouble speaking, encourages shy students to speak more often.”

And also, note the link at the bottom of the blog post for the work posted by Eric Sailer: iPhone, iPad and iPod touch Apps for (Special) Education (scribd.com).

3 Apps for Health Services Students

The Epocrates app can be downloaded on iPhones, Droids, Blackberries, Palms, and Windows Mobile devices. Product features include a free Rx drug guide, including pictures of pills (shown above), clinical tables, health plan coverage, and medical calculators. There is also a premium version which includes an infectious disease guide, laboratory tests, alternative therapies information, peer-reviewed disease content, and evidence-based differential diagnoses. Read more here.

Click “Continue Reading” below to see 2 more apps — Skyscape and Medscape.

 

Apps Spotlight: Nursing

PubMed for handheld devices [Point your handheld device to http://pubmedhh.nlm.nih.gov/].

PubMed MEDLINE with a handheld-friendly interface and special PICO (Patient, Intervention, Comparison, Outcome) search. It also includes askMEDLINE, a free-text natural language search, as well as the ability to search case reports for disease associations.

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Unbound MEDLINE for handheld devices [http://www.unboundmedicine.com/medline/ebm].
Access more than 18 million articles from MEDLINE and PubMed from your PC, laptop, or on-device web browser! You can search in the following areas: Diseases and Conditions, Drugs and Medications, Journals, and Medical News.

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Medline Plus for handheld devices [http://m.medlineplus.gov/]. Free patient health information from the National Library of Medicine in both English and Spanish. Easy access to Medline and Health topics, medical dictionaries, directories and publications.

Apps Spotlight: Stanza for E-books

Stanza is an app for the iPhone/iTouch/iPad products. This app has over 100,000 titles; half are classics available for free (Paradise Lost, The Iliad, Pride and Prejudice, and much more), while half are contemporary works you pay for  (Twilight, John Grisham’s “The Summons”, etc). The app itself is free to download. The paid e-books vary in price.

Some features:

User customization (font size, orientation of the page, line spacing, easy page turning features, etc)

Save Your Place: Stanza remembers where you left off if you need to shut off the device

Bookmarks: Stanza lets you bookmark the favorite parts of your book

Book Summaries: Find out more about the book before you download it

Read more and download the app here.

Apps Spotlight: WorldCat Mobile

WorldCat is an international book catalog for participating public, school, and academic libraries, and has 1.5 billion items, including books, articles, DVDs, and CDs. WorldCat Mobile is a free app which allows you to find a library nearby, search for library materials at nearby libraries (not all libraries can afford the fee to display library materials, however), call a library, and map the quickest route to the selected library.

This app is available for iPhone/iTouch, Blackberry, Palm OS, Windows Mobile 5.0, MIDP 2.0, CLDC 1.1 Java, and Nokia. As an added bonus, if you have an iPhone, you can use the camera option with the (pay) RedLaser App to do comparison shopping between Google, theFind, and local libraries.

Read more by accessing the WorldCat Mobile app page.

You can also connect to WorldCat for free via http://www.worldcat.org (on your computer) or http://www.worldcat.org/m (mobile version).