CCCC Library News

2007-09-10T13:04:00.000-07:00

New Books - August 2007

The myth of evil: demonizing the enemy, by Phillip Cole. Praeger, 2006. 170 C675

The trouble with Islam today: a Muslim's call for reform in her faith, by Irshad Manji. St. Martin's Griffin, 2003. 297 M314

From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: a history of the fight for free speech in America, by Christpher M. Finan. Beacon Press, 2007. 323.443 F490

Income and wealth, by Alan Reynolds. Greenwood Press, 2006. 339.2 R333

The age of oil: the mythology, history, and future of the world's most controversial resource, by Leonardo Maugeri. Praeger, 2006. 553.28 M442

The complexities of care: nursing reconsidered, edited by Sioban Nelson and Suzanne Gordon. ILR Press, 2006. 610.73 C738

The horse: a miscellany of equine knowledge, by Julie Whitaker. Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, 2007. 636.1 W580

College cooking: feed yourself and your friends, by Megan & Jill Carle. Ten Speed Press, 2007. 641.5 C192

Guerrilla marketing: easy and inexpensive strategies for making big profits from your small business, by Jay Conrad Levinson. Houghton Mifflin, 2007. 658.8 L578

Digital photography quicksteps, by Doug Sahlin. McGraw-Hill, 2007. 775 Sa19

Babylon's burning: from punk to grunge, by Clinton Heylin. Canongate, 2007. 781.66 H515

Civilization: a new history of the Western world, by Roger Osborne. Pegasus Books, 2006. 909 Os1

2007-05-08T10:34:00.000-07:00

New Books in the Library

The following books were received in March and April. They are located on the New Books display shelves. Enjoy!

Inequality and American democracy: what we know and what we need to learn. Russell Sage, 2005. 323.42 In3

Wind energy basics: a guide to small and micro wind systems, by Paul Gipe. Chelsea Green, 1999. 621.45 G440w

Adams' lameness in horses. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2002. 636.1 Ad17

Say it plain: a century of great African American speeches. New Press, 2005. 815 Sa99

We must have certainty: four essays on the detective story, by J. Kenneth Van Dover. Susquehanna University Press, 2005. 823.009 V287

We were there: voices of African American veterans from World War II to the war in Iraq. Amistad, 2005. 940.5403 L357

Inés of my soul, by Isabel Allende. HarperCollins, 2006. Fic AL54i

The memory keeper's daughter, by Kim Edwards. Penguin, 2006. Fic Ed96

2007-03-02T11:21:00.000-08:00

New Books for February

The following titles were added to our library collections in the last month.

Concordia Campus Library

African American music: an introduction, edited by Mellonee V. Burnim and Portia K. Maultsby. Routledge, 2006. 780.89 Af83

All about public relations: how to build business success on good communications, by Roger Haywood. McGraw-Hill, 1991. 659.2 H336

American protest literature, edited by Zoe Trodd. Belknap Press, 2006. 810 Am35

The bastard of Istanbul, by Elif Shafak. Viking, 2007. Fic Sh13

The classical Greek reader, edited by Kenneth J. Atchity. Oxford University Press, 1998. 880.9 C569

The classical Roman reader: new encounters with Ancient Rome, edited by Kenneth J. Atchity. Oxford University Press, 1998. 870.9 C569

Decade of nightmares: the end of the sixties and the making of eighties America, by Philip Jenkins. Oxford University Press, 2006. 973.92 J418

Happiness: a history, by Darrin M. McMahon. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2006. 170 M227

In the game: race, identity, and sports in the twentieth century, edited by Amy Bass. Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. 796.08 B293

Mass media and American politics, by Doris A. Graber. CQ Press, 2006. 302.23 G751

Munchies: cook what you want, eat what you like, by Kevin Telles Roberts. Storey Pub., 2004. 641.5 R542

Plains bound: fragile cargo: revealing orphan train reality, by Charlotte M. Endorf. Outskirts Press, 2005. 362.73 En25

The Prentice Hall anthology of African American women's literature, edited by Valerie Lee. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2006. 810.8 P918

Roll the bones: the history of gambling, by David G. Schwartz. Gotham Books, 2006. 795 Sch95

The sea, by John Banville. Vintage Books, 2006. Fic B228

Shattered consensus: the true state of global warming, edited by Patrick J. Michaels. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. 363.738 Sh25

Snow, by Orhan Pamuk. Vintage International, 2005. Fic P191

Something happened: a political and cultural overview of the seventies, by Edward D. Berkowitz. Columbia University Press, 2006. 973.92 B455

Violence and mental health in everyday life: prevention and intervention strategies for children and adolescents, by Daniel J. Flannery. AltaMira Press, 2006. 618.92 F614v

The weather makers: how man is changing the climate and what it means for life on Earth, by Tim Flannery. Atlantic Monthly Press, 2005. 363.738 F614

White oleander: a novel, by Janet Fitch. Little, Brown, 1999. Fic F553

Wind energy: fundamentals, resource analysis and economics, by Sathyajith Mathew. Springer, 2006. 621.45 Sa82

Year of wonders: a novel of the plague, by Geraldine Brooks. Penguin Books, 2002. Fic B791y

Geary County Campus Library

The Art of Terry Redlin: master of memories, text by Keith G. Olson. Hadley House, 1997. 759.174 R248

Criminal law, by Wayne R. LaFave. West Group, 2000. 345.73 C868

The thunder of angels: the Montgomery bus boycott and the people who broke the back of Jim Crow, by Donnie Williams and Wayne Greenhaw. Lawrence Hill Books, 2006. 323.1761 W671

Introduction to criminal justice, by Robert M. Bohm and Keith N. Haley. McGraw-Hill, 2005. 364.973 B634

The law of domestic relations in the United States, by Homer H. Clark, Jr. West Pub., 1988. 346.7301 L410

Lincoln's melancholy: how depression challenged a president and fueled his greatness, by Joshua Wolf Shenk. Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 92 L638sh

The spirit of America, by Thomas Kinkade with Calvin Miller. T. Nelson, 1998. Fic K620

2007-02-02T11:27:00.000-08:00

New books for January

Here's a list of books we put on the shelf during January. Enjoy!

Concordia Campus

After Dolly: the uses and misuses of human cloning, by Ian Wilmut and Roger Highfield. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. 176 W689

Beyond the orphan train: a true adventure, by Donna Nordmark Aviles. Louisville, KY: Wasteland Press, 2004. Fic Av55b

Death's door: modern dying and the ways we grieve, by Sandra M. Gilbert. New York: W.W. Norton, 2006. 155.937 G376

The dorm room diet: the 8-step program for creating a healthy lifestyle plan that really works, by Daphne Oz. New York: Newmarket Press, 2006. 613.04 Oz1

The fall of Rome: and the end of civilization, by Bryan Ward-Perkins. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 937 W210

Family life now: a conversation about marriages, families, and relationships, by Kelly J. Welch. Boston, MA: Pearson Allyn and Bacon, 2007. 306.8 W444

Fly little bird, fly!: the true story of Oliver Nordmark & America's orphan trains, by Donna Nordmark Aviles. Louisville, KY: Wasteland Press, 2004. Fic Av55

History in the making: an absorbing look at how American history has changed in the telling over the last 200 years, by Kyle Ward. New York: New Press, 2006. 973 W213

It's not the media: the truth about pop culture's influence on children, by Karen Sternheimer. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 2003. 302.23 St45

The Oxford anthology of African-American poetry, edited by Arnold Rampersad. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006. 811 R147

Romancing God: evangelical women and inspirational fiction, by Lynn S. Neal. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2006. 810 N253

Geary County Campus

Eragon, by Christopher Paolini. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2003. Fic P196

The hours, by Michael Cunningham. New York: Picador USA, 2002. Fic C917

The importance of being earnest: a reader's companion, by Peter Raby. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. 822.009 W644ra

Last letters home: voices of Americans from the battlefields of Iraq, foreword by John McCain. New York: CDS, 2004. 956.7044 L339

Voices from the front: letters home from America's military family, foreword by Frank Schaeffer. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2004. 956.7044 Sch13

2007-01-09T07:02:00.000-08:00

New Books for December

Here are the books we put on the New Books shelf in December. A little something for everyone!

Don't forget to check out our McNaughton lease books; new fiction is coming in all the time.

Augustus: the life of Rome's first emperor, by Anthony Everitt. New York: Random House, 2006. 937.07 Ev27

Beyond oil and gas: the methanol economy, by George A. Olah, Alain Goeppert and G.K. Surya Prakash. Weinheim: Wiley-VCH, 2006. 665.7 OL1

Black markets: the supply and demand of body parts, by Michele Goodwin. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. 174.25 G635

The elephant in the living room: make television work for your kids, by Dimitri A. Christakis and Frederick J. Zimmerman. Emmaus, PA: Rodale, 2006. 302.23 C461

The faith club: a Muslim, Christian, Jew -- three women search for understanding, by Ranya Idliby, Suzanne Oliver, Priscilla Warner. New York: Free Press, 2006. 291.172 Id4

Food in the ancient world, by John M. Wilkins and Shaun Hill. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub., 2006. 394.1 W656

Good day, bad day: teaching as a high-wire act, by Ken Winograd. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Education, 2005. 371.1 W731

The holy vote: the politics of faith in America, by Ray Suarez. New York: Rayo, 2006. 322.10973 S939h

Reading the Beatles: cultural studies, literary criticism, and the Fab Four, edited by Kenneth Womack and Todd F. Davis. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2006. 782.421 R227

Skin: a natural history, by Nina G. Jablonski. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. 612.79 J114

The smart student's guide to healthy living: how to survive stress, late nights, & the college cafeteria, by M.J. Smith and Fred Smith. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 2006. 613.04 Sm62

The Starbucks experience: 5 principles for turning ordinary into extraordinary, by Joseph A. Michelli. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2007. 658 M582

U.S. News & World Report ultimate guide to becoming a teacher, by Ben Wildavsky and the staff of U.S. News & World Report. Naperville, IL: Sourcebooks, 2004. 371.1 W643

2006-11-07T12:10:00.000-08:00

New Books

Oops! We were so busy in October that I didn't get out a list of our September acquisitions, so they're posted together here with our October new books.

Concordia Campus

News flash: journalism, infotainment, and the bottom-line business of broadcast news, by Bonnie M. Anderson. Jossey-Bass, 2004. 070.43 An23

Bad news: the decline of reporting, the business of news, and the danger to us all, by Tom Fenton. Regan Books, 2005. 070.43 F367

The news about the news: American journalism in peril, by Leonard Downie, Jr. and Robert G. Kaiser. Vintage Books, 2002. 071.3 D759

Influence: the psychology of persuasion, by Robert B. Cialdini. Morrow, 1993. 153.852 C480

Ethics in media communications: cases and controversies, by Louis Alvin Day. Thomson, Wadsworth, 2006. 175 D332

Tuned out: why Americans under 40 don't follow the news, by David T. Z. Mindich. Oxford University Press, 2005. 302.23 M661

The death of media and the fight to save democracy, by Danny Schechter. Melville House, 2005. 302.23 Sch21

American mythos: why our best efforts to be a better nation fall short, by Robert Wuthnow. Princeton University Press, 2006. 303.372 W969

Commodify your dissent: salvos from The Baffler, edited by Thomas Frank and Matt Weiland. Norton, 1997. 306.3 F851

One market under God: extreme capitalism, market populism, and the end of economic democracy, by Thomas Frank. Anchor Books, 2001. 330.12 F851

The conquest of cool: business culture, counterculture, and the rise of hip consumerism, by Thomas Frank. University of Chicago Press, 1998. 381.3 F85

The age of broadcasting: Radio, edited and introduced by Wim Coleman and Pat Perrin. Discovery Enterprises, 1997. 384.540973 Ag31

Soil fertility and fertilizers: an introduction to nutrient management, by John L. Havlin, et al. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2005. 631.8 H299

Applied animal reproduction, by H. Joe Bearden, John W. Fuquay, Scott T. Willard. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2004. 636.082 B380

The new Moosewood cookbook, by Mollie Katzen. Ten Speed Press, 2000. 641.5636 K159

Simple maintenance for archery: easy things you can do to maintain your equipment, by Ruth Rowe, Alan Anderson. Quintessential Productions, 2003. 688.79 R793

Design anarchy, by Kalle Lasn. Adbusters Media Foundation, 2006. 760 L335

Words that shook the world: 100 years of unforgettable speeches and events, by Richard Greene with Florie Brizel. Prentice Hall, 2002. 808.85 G835

Geary County Campus

Mythologies of the world: the illustrated guide to mythological beliefs & customs, by Michael McKenzie, et al. Checkmark Books, 2001. 291.13 M196

The trial: a history, from Socrates to O.J. Simpson, by Sadakat Kadri. Random House, 2005. 345.07 K116

The complete history of Jack the Ripper, by Philip Sugden. Robinson, 2002. 364.1523 Su33

Hellenistic civilization, by François Chamoux. Blackwell, 2003. 938.08 C357

Auschwitz: a history, by Sybille Steinbacher. Harper Perennial, 2006. 940.5318 St34

Gettysburg: a testing of courage, by Noah Andre Trudeau. HarperCollins, 2002. 973.7 T765

2006-10-24T18:07:00.000-07:00

Halloween is just one week away! For those of you who enjoy this holiday, you might want to check out this Press Release by the U.S. Census Bureau:
http://www.census.gov/Press-Release/www/releases/archives/facts_for_features_special_editions/005606.html
This Press Release provides interesting Halloween facts and resources.

Have a Safe and Happy Halloween!

2006-10-17T13:26:00.000-07:00

It was a dark and stormy night -- The Monsters: Mary Shelley and the Curse of Frankenstein -- recommended reading

The perpetual lead-off for Snoopy's novels in the "Peanuts" comic strip was all-so-true on the night the first international celebrity, Lord Byron, challenged his friends, poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, his wife Mary Shelley, and two other friends to come up with unique scary stories. Mary certainly lived up to that challenge with her story of a man so arrogant of his abilities that he ultimately destroys everyone he loves with his creation, his "monster," in Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus. In the end, hers was the only story from this group that became an instant success and an enduring classic.

This non-fiction account -- by Dorothy and Thomas Hoobler -- of the lives of these five people and their entanglements provides a telling background to the creation of one of the most recognizable characters of modern times. Mary Shelley certainly had a number of characters to draw on from her own life to bring her story to fruition. The Hooblers do a wonderful job blending them into this story of great love and ever greater loss, with a little scandal thrown in for good measure!

And, if you haven't read it already, make sure to add Frankenstein to your must-read list. It's a classic for all times. Just try to forget the movies you've seen about the subject and enjoy!

2006-09-01T10:56:00.000-07:00

These are the books we received in August. Enjoy!

Concordia Campus

Book by book: notes on reading and life, by Michael Dirda. New York: Henry Holt, 2006, 2005. 028.9 D627

The elements of journalism: what speople should know and the public should expect, by Bill Kovach & Tom Rosenstiel. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2001. 174.9 K849

A social history of the media: from Gutenberg to the Internet, by Asa Briggs and Peter Burke. Malden, MA: Polity, 2005. 302.23 B769

Taking sides: clashing views in mass media and society. Guilford, CT: Dushkin. 302.23 T139

Law without justice: why criminal law doesn't give people what they deserve, by Paul H. Robinson and Michael T. Cahil. New York: Oxford University Press, 2006. 345.73 R565

The Wal-Mart effect: how the world's most powerful company really works, by Charles Fishman. New York: Penguin Press, 2006. 381.149 F539

Drinking cultures: alcohol and identity, edited by Thomas M. Wilson. New York: Berg, 2005. 394.13 D832

Animals in translation: using the mysteries of autism to decode animal behavior, by Temple Grandin and Catherine Johnson. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2006. 591.5 G763

Made to break: technology and obsolescence in America, by Giles Slade. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006. 609.73 SL12

All about joints: a maintenance guide, by Irwin M. Siegel. New York: DEMOS, 2002. 616.72 Si15

Good to great: why some companies make the leap--and others don't, by Jim Collins. New York: HarperBusiness, 2001. 658 C694

Body piercing saved my life: inside the phenomenon of Christian rock, by Andrew Beaujon. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 2006. 781.66 B383

The poem that changed America: "Howl" fifty years later, edited by Jason Shinder. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2006. 811.009 P752

Howl, and other poems, by Allen Ginsberg. San Francisco: City Lights Books, 1996. 811.54 G435

Collected poems, by Jane Kenyon. St. Paul, MN: Graywolf Press, 2005. 811.54 K426

Flying at night: poems 1965-1985, by Ted Kooser. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2005. 811.54 K837

Me talk pretty one day, by David Sedaris. Boston: Back Bay Books, 2001. 814 Se27

Reduced Shakespeare: the complete reader's guide for the attention-impaired [abridged], by Reed Martin & Austin Tichenor. New York: Hyperion, 2006. 822.33 M365

The monsters: Mary Shelley and the curse of Frankenstein, by Dorothy & Thomas Hoobler. New York: Little, Brown, 2006. 823.009 Sh44h

As the Romans did: a sourcebook in Roman social history, by Jo-Ann Shelton. New York: Oxford University Press, 1998. 937 Sh44

102 minutes: the untold story of the fight to survive inside the Twin Towers, by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn. New York: Times Books, 2006. 974.7 D978

The Da Vinci code, special illustrated ed., by Dan Brown. New York: Broadway Books, 2004. Fic B812da

Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson. NewYork: Picador, 2006. Fic R564

Geary County Campus

Freakonomics: a rogue economist explores the hidden side of ever, by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner. New York: HarperLargePrint, 2005. 330 L579

Tutankhamun, by T.G.H. James. Vercelli, Italy: Friedman/Fairfax Publishers, 2000. 932 J236

Downfall: the end of the Imperial Japanese Empire, by Richard B. Frank. New York: Penguin, 2001. 940.54 F851

The rape of Nanking: the forgotten holocaust of World War II, by Iris Chang. New York: Penguin Books, 1998. 951.042 C362

Eye of the storm: a Civil War odyssey, by Robert Knox Sneden. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2000. 973.7 Sn22

Behind the facade of Fort Riley's hometown: the inside story of Junction City, Kansas, by Susan Lloyd Franzen. Ames, IA: Pivot Press, 1998. 978.1 F858

Garden of Eden, by John B. and Irene Jeffries. Junction City, KS: Geary County Historical Society, 1978. 978.1 G167

Our town on the Plains: J.J. Pennell's photographs of Junction City, Kansas, by James R. Shortridge. Lawrence, KS: University Press of Kansas, 2000. 978.1 Sh81

Capote: a biography, by Gerald Clarke. New York: Carroll & Graf, 2005. 92 C173

2006-08-01T13:19:00.000-07:00

New Books in July

We received and processed a few books in July. Many more will be added in August as we gear up for another year.

Encyclopedia of American prisons, by Carl Sifakis. Facts on File, 2003. REF 365.973 Si21

Evolution of American investigative journalism, by James Aucoin. University of Missouri Press, 2005. 070.43 Au21

Knowledge deficit: closing the shocking education gap for American children, by E.D. Hirsch, Jr. Houghton Mifflin, 2006. 428.4 H615

Peripheral nerve injures in the athlete, edited by Joseph Feinberg and Neil Spielholz. Human Kinetics, 2003. 617.483 P417

2006-07-19T13:16:00.000-07:00

New books for June

WOW! Has summer flown by or what?! In less than 4 weeks we'll be back in school. I hope your summer has lived up to your expectations.

Here is a list of the many books we put on the shelf in June. The second half of the list is for the Geary County campus.

CONCORDIA CAMPUS --

Angels and demons in art, by Rosa Giorgi. J. Paul Getty Museum, 2005. NEW 704.948 G438

Business for beginners: from research and business plans to money, marketing and the law, by Frances McGuckin. Sourcebooks, 2005. NEW 658.11 M179

Categories--on the beauty of physics: essential physics concepts and their companions in art and literature, by Emiliano Sefusatti. Vernacular Press, 2005. NEW 530 C281

A companion to twentieth-century American drama, edited by David Krasner. Blackwell, 2005. NEW 812.00 9C738

The contemporary African American novel: its folk roots and modern literary branches, by Bernard W. Bell. University of Massachusetts Press, 2004. NEW 813.009 B413

Does God belong in public schools?, by Kent Greenawalt. Princeton University Press, 2005. NEW 379.28 G828

Execution: the guillotine, the pendulum, the thousand cuts, the Spanish donkey, and 66 other ways of putting someone to death, by Geoffrey Abbott. St. Martin's Press, 2006. NEW 364.66 Ab26

Forgive and forget: healing the hurts we don't deserve, by Lewis B. Smedes. HarperSanFrancisco, 1996. NEW 234.5 Sm32

The how of WOW: a guide to giving a speech that will positively blow 'em away, by Tony Carlson. American Management Association, 2005. NEW 808.51 C197

Inhuman bondage: the rise and fall of slavery in the New World, by David Brion Davis. Oxford University Press, 2006. NEW 306.36 2D291

Led Zeppelin: the story of a band and their music, 1968-80, by Keith Shadwick. Backbeat, 2005. NEW 782.42 Sh12

More secure, less free?: antiterrorism policy & civil liberties after September 11, by Mark Sidel. University of Michigan Press, 2004. NEW 363.32 Si13

The power of critical theory: liberating adult learning and teaching, by Stephen D. Brookfield. Jossey-Bass, 2005. NEW 374 B791

Principle-centered leadership, by Stephen R. Covey. Simon & Schuster, 1992. NEW 158.4 C838

The search: the inside story of how Google and its rivals changed everything, by John Battelle. Portfolio, 2005. NEW 338.761 B321

Searching & researching on the Internet & the World Wide Web, by Karen Hartman, Ernest Ackermann. Franklin, Beedle, 2005. NEW 025.04 H255

Secret weapons: defenses of insects, spiders, scorpions, and other many-legged creatures, by Thomas Eisner, Maria Eisner, & Melody V.S. Siegler. Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2005. NEW 595.7 Ei87

Student development in the first college year: a primer for college educators, by Tracy L. Skipper. National Resource Center for the First-Year Experience and Students in Transition, 2005. NEW 378.194 Sk36

Supremely American: popular song in the 20th century: styles and singers and what they said about America, by Nicholas Tawa. Scarecrow Press, 2005. NEW 782.42 T199

Terrors of the table: the curious history of nutrition, by Walter Gratzer. Oxford University Press, 2005. NEW 613.2 G775

Type & typography, by Phil Baines & Andrew Haslam. Watson-Guptill, 2005. NEW 686.22 B161

Wind and solar power systems: design, analysis, and operation, by Mukund R. Patel. Taylor & Francis, 2006. NEW 621.31 P272

GEARY COUNTY CAMPUS --

Alexander the conqueror: the epic story of the warrior king, by Laura Foreman. Da Capo Press, 2004. 938.07 F748

Ancient Rome, by Timothy R. Roberts. Metro Books, 2000. 937 R548

At Canaan's edge: America in the King years, 1965-68, by Taylor Branch. Simon & Schuster, 2006. 973.04 B732t

The beak of the finch: a story of evolution in our time, by Jonathan Weiner. Vintage Books, 1995. 598.88 W431

Beloved: a novel, by Toni Morrison. Plume, 1988. Fic M834b

Carry me home: Birmingham, Alabama: the climactic battle of the civil rights revolution, by Diane McWhorter. Simon & Schuster, 2002. 976.1 M258

Ghost wars: the secret history of the CIA, Afghanistan, and bin Laden, from the Soviet invasion to September 10, 2001, by Steve Coll. Penguin Books, 2005. 958.104 C683

The great mortality: an intimate history of the Black Death, the most devastating plague of all time, by John Kelly. Harper Perennial, 2006. 940.17 K297

The Holocaust encyclopedia, edited by Walter Laqueur. Yale University Press, 2001. REF 940.5318 H741

The making of the atomic bomb, by Richard Rhodes. Simon & Schuster, 1988. 623.451 R346

Military intelligence blunders and cover-ups, by John Hughes-Wilson. Carroll & Graf, 2004. 355.3432 H874

Oceans of Kansas: a natural history of the western interior sea, by Michael J. Everhart. Indiana University Press, 2005. 560.45 Ev27

A problem from hell: America and the age of genocide, by Samantha Power. Perennial, 2003. 304.663 P871

Public enemies, by Bryan Burrough. Penguin Press, 2005. 364.973 B945

The seven habits of highly effective people: restoring the character ethic, by Stephen R. Covey. Free Press, 2003. 158 C838s

Summer for the gods: the Scopes trial and America's continuing debate over science and religion, by Edward J. Larson. Harvard University Press, 1998. 345.73 L329

What's the matter with Kansas?: how conservatives won the heart of America, by Thomas Frank. Metropolitan/Owl Book, 2005. 978.1 F851

2006-06-01T06:31:00.000-07:00

Early summer report / New books

It's been a while since my last post. We've been busy with final exams and papers, then we were closed for a week to get the inventory done. I'm glad to say that we have had very few materials "disappear" from the shelves in the last two years, though it looks like we need to do some weeding of out-of-date books.

Summer Session I has just begun and Jennifer is already visiting classes to help students navigate the information world. Remember, both current students and instructors can access all of our databases on and off campus. If you need any help gaining access just let us know at library@cloud.edu or 800-729-5101 ext. 224.

The list of new books is short this month, but nonetheless quality! Here's what we put on the "New Books" shelf in May:

The butterfly hunter: adventures of people who found their true calling way off the beaten path, by Chris Ballard. Broadway Books, 2006. NEW 650.1 B212

Consuming kids: the hostile takeover of childhood, by Susan Linn. New Press, 2004. NEW 658.8 L649

An evolutionary psychology of sleep and dreams, by Patrick McNamara. Praeger, 2004. NEW 154.6 N232

Good growing: why organic farming works, by Leslie A. Duram. University of Nebraska Press, 2005. NEW 631.584 D931

Larousse French-English, English-French dictionary. Larousse, 2002. NEW 443.2 L328

Understanding August Wilson, by Mary L. Bogumil. University of South Carolina Press, 1999. NEW 812.009 W691b

2006-05-07T18:31:00.000-07:00

Here's a list of the new books we received in April. All are in the Concordia campus library; new books at the Geary County campus will be listed in a separate message about the Norman Johnson Memorial.

Social Sciences
Hershey: Milton S. Hershey's extraordinary life of wealth, empire and utopian dreams, by Michael D'Antonio. Simon & Schuster, 2006. NEW 338.76 D236

The Supreme Court in the intimate lives of Americans: birth, sex, marriage, childbearing and death, by Howard Ball. New York Univ. Press, 2004. NEW 347.7326 B210

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
The Ig Nobel prizes 2: an all-new collection of the world's unlikeliest research, by Marc Abrahams. Dutton, 2005. NEW 502 Ab82

The physics of superheroes, by James Kakalios. Gotham Books, 2005. NEW 530 K123

Arts & Recreation
African American art and artists, by Samella Lewis. 3rd ed. Univ. of California Press, 2003. NEW 704.0396 L588s

Can't stop, won't stop: a history of the hip-hop generation, by Jeff Chang. Picador, 2006. NEW 782.42 C362

2006-04-28T11:20:00.000-07:00

Need a book & the Library's closed?

If you're at home working on your English Composition paper, your persuasive speech -- whatever research you're doing -- don't forget that almost one-third of the Library's book collection is available to you electronically. You can search for the ebooks either through the online catalog (CCCC Library Catalog/Athena -- look for the "globe" icon), or search only the online books through the netLibrary link listed below the catalog link. If you want to look up something in an encyclopedia just click on the Encyclopedias, Almanacs, etc. link on the right side of the Library's Webpage to see which encyclopedias we have available for you.

The semester's almost over, but research is just heating up! Good luck!

2006-04-13T14:46:00.000-07:00

Tri-Conference at Wichita, Kansas
April 6th-7th

Amazing Spaces Presentation

This presentation dealt with how to make your library space more functional and how to important it is to have an architect look over your plans before making any changes. There are so many codes and accessibility issues to consider that you need a professional to help you create the best design for your library. My interest in attending this session was to see if there were any grant opportunities mentioned to help us in a future renovation that would include more functional space, better air movement through the library that would help control the heat, and a better arrangement of the library to serve our students. This was a great presentation, but ultimately funding is the key factor!

K-State K-12 Outreach Presentation

This presentation was about how to reach out to K-12 schools in your area and promote information literacy. K-State has started a program where their librarians collaborate with school librarians to bring elementary and middle school students onto K-State Hale Library for a short presentation and tour. Hale library uses this as an opportunity to “give back to the community” and also to make children aware of how amazing a library can be. This sets the students on the right track towards their future and understanding that the library is a place they can go for help, a place to study, or just a place to read a good book!
In addition, K-State offers tours and programs to junior high and high school students to help them find resources for research papers and projects. This opportunity is great PR for K-State and starts students thinking about college and what opportunities await them. Although CCCC is much smaller than K-State, I think we have opportunities to reach out to the community as well as to our children right here on campus (across the street at the children’s center). Finding space for programs/tours is an issue, where would we put these students when they come for a tour without disrupting our college students learning? But it is something to think about and keep in mind for the future!

2006-04-13T07:33:00.001-07:00

Librarians gone wild!

I know you all don't believe it's even possible for librarians to let down their hair, kick off their sensible shoes and dance on the table, but just get a group of us together and you never know what might happen! Well, okay, I am exaggerating a little to get your attention. I just wanted to share with you a liitle about the Kansas Library Conference that Jennifer and I attended last week in Wichita.

Since the conference was for all types of libraries and librarians, we were able to attend sessions for public and K-12 schools to see what were the hot issues for them and how we can use their ideas to better serve our patrons in the community college setting. I attended sessions on new resource sharing initiatives in Kansas, copyright updates, redesigning library space, and technology planning.

Resource Sharing in Kansas
The State Library of Kansas has made it possible for EVERY Kansas citizen to gain access to a variety of online resources through the Kansas Library Card. Although you have access to these resources through the LRC's Web page as students and staff of CCCC, you may want to tell your friends and family about this opportunity. All they have to do is go to www.kslc.org and register for a temporary card. Then they have 30 days to use the databases and electronic books before they need to go to a library to make their card valid.

The State Library is also promoting several digitization projects such as the Kansas Digital Library which is attempting to digitize all materials that are unique to Kansas, and the Western Trails Project that five state museums have started to digitize their collections dealing with western migration through Kansas.

Copyright Updates
Dr. Rosemary Talab, copyright guru at K-State, provided some information where copyright issues are heating up: "orphan works" (materials whose author(s) cannot be determined), individuals with disabilities (specifically offering textbooks in another format), the Family Entertainment Act (altering movies with objectionable language for family viewing), etc. What surprised me the most was that this copyright expert bowed to the expertise of librarians who deal with copyright issues everyday! I'm also interested in trying out the online copyright quiz she mentioned. If you want to check your knowledge of copyright and fair use let me know and I'll get you the URL.

See Jennifer's posting for information on the sessions she attended. Have a great weekend!

2006-04-12T13:03:00.000-07:00

New Books!
Here’s a list of the new books we received in March. They are all located at the Concordia campus library. Anyone may check them out for two weeks:

Computer Science & Generalities
Degunking Windows, by Joli Ballew. Paraglyph Press, 2004. NEW 005.446 B212
Degunking your Mac, by Joli Ballew. Paraglyph Press, 2004. NEW 005.446 B212m

Religion
The evolution-creation struggle, by Michael Ruse. Harvard University Press, 2005. NEW 231.7652 R894
No god but God: the origins, evolution, and future of Islam, by Reza Aslan. Random House Trade Paperbacks, 2006. NEW 297 As51

Social Sciences
Courtroom 302: a year behind the scenes in an American criminal courthouse, by Steve Bogira. Vintage Books, 2006. NEW 345.773 B634
Freedom vs. intervention: six tough cases, by Daniel E. Lee. Rowman & Littlefield, 2005. NEW 342.73 L511
Powering up: learning to teach well with technology, by Eileen M. Coppola. Teachers College Press, 2004. NEW 371.334 C796
See Jane hit: why girls are growing more violent and what can be done about it, by James Garbarino. Penguin Press, 2006. NEW 303.6 G136
Student success in college: creating conditions that matter. Jossey-Bass, 2005. NEW 378.198 K954
To the flag: the unlikely history of the Pledge of Allegiance, by Richard Ellis. University Press of Kansas, 2005. NEW 323.65 EL59
What we know about childcare, by Alison Clarke-Stewart. Harvard University Press, 2005. NEW 362.712 C550
When in Rome or Rio or Riyadh-- cultural Q&As for successful business behavior around the world, by Gwyneth Olofsson. Intercultural Press, 2004. NEW 395.52 OL7

Languages
Larousse student dictionary, Spanish-English, English-Spanish. Larousse, 2003. NEW 463.2 L328

Natural Sciences & Mathematics
Out of Eden: an odyssey of ecological invasion, by Alan Burdick. Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2005. NEW 577 B897

Technology & Applied Sciences
The poison paradox: chemicals as friends and foes, by John A Timbrell. Oxford University Press, 2005. NEW 615.9 T735

Arts & Recreation
Art & physics: parallel visions in space, time, and light, by Leonard Shlain. Quill/W. Morrow, 1993. NEW 701 Sh69
Jean-Michel Basquiat, by Jean Michel Basquiat. Skira, 2005. NEW 759.13 B293
The show: the inside story of the spectacular Los Angeles Lakers in the words of those who lived it, by Roland Lazenby. McGraw-Hill, 2006. NEW 796.323 L458

Literature
Melville: his world and work, by Andrew Delbanco. Knopf, 2005. NEW 813.009 M497d