New Books at Sullivan Library

There’s a little something for everyone!

As a reminder, to see the full list of new books which have arrived, visit the catalog page and click the “New Books” link on the right side.

Occupational Therapy

Service-learning in occupational therapy education : philosophy and practice [catalog]

Rheumatology : evidence-based practice for physiotherapists and occupational therapists [catalog]

Skills for practice in occupational therapy [catalog]

Nursing

Clinical skills manual for maternal & child nursing care [catalog]

Handbook for health care research [catalog]

Nursing theories : the base for professional nursing practice [catalog]

Nurse : past, present and future : the making of modern nursing [catalog]

Education

Suicide, self-injury, and violence in the schools : assessment, prevention, and intervention strategies [catalog]

Rethinking learning disabilities : understanding children who struggle in school [catalog]

Long-term memory problems in children and adolescents : assessment, intervention, and effective instruction [catalog]

Other

Superstrings and other things : a guide to physics [catalog]

Mathematics 1001 : absolutely everything that matters in mathematics in 1001 bite-sized explanations [catalog]

The legend of Sigurd and Gudrún (by J. R. R. Tolkein) [catalog]

 

Free Kaplan Ebooks extended through January 17

The free Kaplan Ebooks deal mentioned in the previous Veritas Blog post has been extended through Monday, January 17th.

Visit the download site or view the offered titles.

Free Ebooks from Kaplan Publishing (through Jan 10)

Kaplan Publishing is offering 130 free ebooks for download through January 10th. Ebooks can be viewed on the Nookcolor, the iPad, and the Sony E-reader. Downloaded ebooks will stay on your device permanently.

Read the press release and visit the download site.

 

Along with college prep materials, here are some examples of other titles offered:

Education

Caffeine Will Not Help You Pass That Test

Kaplan 101 Algebra Practice Questions

Kaplan 101 Biology Practice Questions

Kaplan Technical Writing

Get the Interview Every Time

Graduate

Get Into Graduate School

Kaplan 101 GMAT Verbal Practice Questions

Kaplan 101 GRE Verbal Practice Questions

Kaplan GRE Exam Verbal Workbook

MBA Fundamentals Business Writing

Medicine

Cleveland Clinic Guide to Diabetes

Kaplan MCAT Organic Chemistry Review

Kaplan MCAT Verbal Reasoning and Writing Review

Malpractice Cure

Nursing

First Year Nurse

How to Survive Clinical

Kaplan NCLEX-RN

Kaplan NCLEX-PN

Math for Nurses

 

Google adds Reading Level to advanced search options

Of special interest to Education students here at Dominican College: Google has added a new “Reading Level” option to the advanced search, which breaks down each result into three categories: basic, intermediate, and advanced. You can find the official Google reading level support document here.

 
To activate this, you must first go to advanced search on the right side of the search box. (Note: my advanced search looks a bit different as I have a blue background image.)

 

Once you are on the advanced search page, you will be presented with various reading level options (below):

 

 

 

Choose the option you want, and then type in your search terms. Click “more” below to keep reading.

Sullivan Library Workshops: EBSCOhost, Research Help, & APA/MLA

Here are the remaining workshops for the Fall 2010 semester. Is there a workshop you are interested in but cannot attend? Feel free to take a look here: https://sullivanlibrary.wordpress.com/handouts/. After each workshop is completed, a handout is uploaded with the information that was given to the students who attended in person.

All students, faculty, adjuncts and staff are invited to the following workshops. Each workshop is held in the Sullivan Library computer lab.  If you have not attended a library workshop yet this semester, you are missing out!

Research Made Easy
Thursday, November 4 from 12:45 to 1:45 PM     (tomorrow!)
Working on a research assignment? This workshop will go over everything you need to know, from when you receive the assignment to when you start writing it. Topics include where to search for sources, figuring out your research question, and designing a thesis statement.

The Perfect Head Start: Journal Articles for Arts & Sciences and Education
Tuesday, November 9 from 12:45 to 1:45 PM
Take a look at EBSCOhost databases that might be useful for your academic research by finding journal, magazine, and newspaper articles. Also useful for Psychology students. Open to all students, faculty and staff regardless of major.

Citin’ in Style: APA and MLA Explained
Tuesday, November 16 from 5:45 to 6:45 PM
This workshop goes over the differences between APA and MLA when writing citations by hand, and explains how to construct an annotated bibliography.

Citing Your Work with RefWorks
Wednesday, November 17 from 2:15 to 3:15 PM
Working on a paper or annotated bibliography? RefWorks will help you with your in-text citations and your reference list/works cited page – you fill in the information, and it creates the reference list for you.

Register by calling me at (845)848-7506 or by emailing me at Nicole (dot) Kranich (at) dc (dot) edu. 

New Books: Chemistry, Education, Nursing, and more!

Here is a list of some of the newest books to grace Sullivan Library’s shelves:

Among the white moon faces: an Asian-American memoir of homelands [catalog record]

Blood relations: Caribbean immigrants and the Harlem community, 1900-1930 [catalog record]

Bridging cultures between home and school: a guide for teachers: with a special focus on immigrant Latino families [catalog record]

Carnival music in Trinidad: experiencing music, expressing culture [catalog record]

Child development: a practitioner’s guide [catalog record]

Culture Clash in America: four plays [catalog record]

Microscale and miniscale organic chemistry laboratory experiments [catalog record]

You can access the complete list by going into the catalog at any time. Once you are in the catalog, look on the right side of the screen where it says “Library Info” and choose the “New Books” hyperlink.

New EBSCOhost databases: European Views of the Americas, Teacher Reference Center

The Sullivan Library is pleased to announce the addition of two EBSCOhost Web databases to its offerings:

European Views of the Americas: 1493 to 1750
This new bibliographic database is a valuable index for libraries, scholars and individuals interested in European works that relate to the Americas. EBSCO Publishing, in cooperation with the John Carter Brown Library, has created this resource from “European Americana: A Chronological Guide to Works Printed In Europe Relating to The Americas, 1493-1750,” the authoritative bibliography that is well-known and respected by scholars worldwide. The database contains more than 32,000 entries and is a comprehensive guide to printed records about the Americas written in Europe before 1750.

Teacher Reference Center
Teacher Reference Center provides indexing and abstracts for 280 of the most popular teacher and administrator journals and magazines to assist professional educators.

Note that both of these databases are indices; the full-text would need to be found in a different database or requested from another institution. For more information on finding or requesting the full-text, try Journal Article/Book Request and Serial Solutions Info (.doc).

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”

11 Tech Ideas for Teachers

There is an article over at FreeTech4Teachers highlighting 11 things that teachers can try to prepare for the start of the upcoming school year. From building a blog to using Google Maps to tell a story to your students, this site has some tips. It will even tell you what service you can use to help eliminate your Inbox Overload!

The article itself, entitled “11 Techy Things for Teachers to Try This Year”, can be read here.

As an unrelated bonus (and not just for teachers!) here is the 2010 Social Networking Map from Flowtown.

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).