Message in a bottle… and other communication resources

Did you hear about the message in a bottle [Yahoo! Buzz] that made a trip across the Atlantic Ocean over 16 months, spanning from Florida to the Emerald Isle in Ireland? “Last year, a high school student named Corey Swearingen put a letter in a bottle, sealed it up, and dropped it in the Atlantic Ocean, off the Florida coast. It was kind of an experiment for school. In the letter, he appealed to whomever came across the bottle to contact him and let him know where in the world it showed up.” That is a pretty cool form of communication!

In honor of this news story, here are some books that relate to communication here at the Sullivan Library:

• Survival writing: (how to write letters, resumés, pitches, invoices, emails, articles, reports, and everything else you need to know how to write) [catalog record]
• Putting the public back in public relations: how social media is reinventing the aging business of PR [catalog record]
• Alphabet to Internet: mediated communication in our lives [catalog record]
• Portable communities : the social dynamics of online and mobile connectedness [catalog record]
• The human right to language: communication access for deaf children [catalog record]
• 24/7 : how cell phones and the Internet change the way we live, work, and play [catalog record]

Announcing the Fall 2010 Sullivan Library Workshops

Emails have recently been sent to students, faculty, staff and adjuncts here at Dominican College regarding the Fall 2010 workshops to be held at Sullivan Library.

The full schedule of workshops (and their descriptions) has been included on the Library Portal Page Calendar. It is recommended that you switch to the “month” view. Workshops will be held in September, October, and November.

Registration opens 2 weeks in advance of the workshop. Each workshop is open to all students, faculty, and staff. Please call (845) 848-7506 to register, or email Nicole (dot) Kranich (at) dc (dot) edu. Registration is limited to 17 participants.

A short list of the workshops available and their date and time can be found by clicking “More”

Subject Guides @ The Sullivan Library

Did you know that The Sullivan Library has researched the fields that you are interested in here at Dominican College? Each of the pages includes information tailored to your field, including: useful subscription databases to search for journal articles and reference information, Open Access (viewable by all) electronic journals, Government and Non-Government Organization (NGO) Resources on the free web, associations that you can be a part of, and printed reference resources that can be consulted when you are visiting the physical library!

Here is a list of current subject guides that we have already designed:

Accounting, Athletic Training, Biology, Business, Chemistry, Communication, Criminal Justice, Education, English and Literature, History, Nursing, Occupational Therapy, Physical Therapy, and Social Work, with more in the planning stages!

You can also access the subject guides by going to http://my.dc.edu (known as the “Portal” pages), clicking on the “Library” tab near the top of the screen, and looking on the left side navigation bar for the link that says “SUBJECT GUIDES”. Feel free to bookmark the main Subject Guides page or one of the subject guide links above so you can always find it easily.