Tarver Library is pleased to announce a university-wide subscription to Bowker's Books in Print, a premier collection development tool. Books in Print is useful for researching information about available and forthcoming books for curricula, personal study and entertainment, building the libraries' collections, and for new academic programs. Access can be found both in the library's database listing and on the GALILEO interface.
Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Thursday, December 10, 2009
Hot Document in December
Condition of Education 2009
The Condition of Education 2009 summarizes important developments and trends in education using the latest available data. The report presents 46 indicators on the status and condition of education. The indicators represent a consensus of professional judgment on the most significant national measures of the condition and progress of education for which accurate data are available. The 2009 print edition includes 46 indicators in five main areas:
(1) participation in education;
(2) learner outcomes;
(3) student effort and educational progress;
(4) the contexts of elementary and secondary education;
(5) the contexts of postsecondary education.
Tarver Library has a print version of this document title in our collection.
Monday, December 7, 2009
ACM Digital Library
Jack Tarver Library is pleased to announce a university-wide subscription to the Association for Computing Machinery's Digital Library.
The ACM Digital Library is a collection of all ACM print and online publications. It provides bibliographic information, abstracts, reviews and full text for virtually all ACM journals, magazines, and proceedings.
Tarver Library's subscription to DL Core Package, DL Master SIG Package and the Guide includes:
- ACM DL Core Package, with 19 journals and magazines and 26 transactions.
- ACM DL Master SIG (Special Interest Group) Package, with more than 85 conference proceedings and all SIG newsletters
- The ACM Online Guide to Computing Literature ("the Guide"), a database of 850,000 bibliographic citations expanding beyond ACM's literature.
Thursday, December 3, 2009
Holiday Films On DVD
Can you believe it’s that time of year again? I have compiled a list of holiday films that are available in the Tarver Media Center. Some of these titles are holiday classics, and some just feature holiday scenes that I consider worthy of this list. Many of these DVDs are on display on the shelves just to the left of the Media Center entrance (they can still be checked out even though they are on display). While I was compiling this list I noted some omissions that I am going to add to our DVD wish list. So far I have been unable to find any Hanukkah or Kwanzaa movies. If any of you would like to suggest a holiday film, then please feel free to send me an email.
Richard Marcum
Media Center Supervisor
marcum_rg@mercer.edu
*Christmas film
**New Year’s Eve film
Amahl and the Night Visitors (Christmas Opera by Gian Carlo Menotti), PN1997.9 OPR DRA .A43 1955 *
The Apartment (Best Picture of 1961 starring Jack Lemmon & Shirley McLaine), PN1997.9 COM ROM .A6 1960 **
Bishop’s Wife (Classic starring Cary Grant, Loretta young & David Niven), PN1997.9 STAR GRT .B5 1947 *
Black X-mas (2006 remake of classic horror film set on a college campus), PN1997.9 SUS HOR .B6 2006 *
Curse of the Cat People (A sweet ghost story about childhood dreams), PN1997.9 SUS HOR .C38 1942 *
Desk Set (Classic comedy starring Spencer Tracy & Katharine Hepburn), PN1997.9 STAR HEP .D4 1957 *
Die Hard ("The greatest Christmas movie ever" - BlogCritics.org), PN1997.9 AA LEG .D54 1988 *
Elf (Will Ferrell at his best), PN1997.9 COM FAN .E4 2003 *
The Family Stone (The misadventures of a family at Christmas), PN1997.9 COM ROM .F3 2005 *
The Godfather II ("I know it was you Fredo; you broke my heart."), PN1997.9 DIR COP .G6 1972 v.2 **
Holiday (Wonderful Cary Grant & Katharine Hepburn classic), PN1997.9 STAR GRT .C3 2006 **
The Holiday (Starring Kate Winslet, Jude Law, Cameron Diaz & Jack Black), PN1997.9 COM ROM .H6 2006 *
It’s A Wonderful Life (The quintessential Christmas movie with Jimmy Stewart), PN1997.9 DIR CAP .I8 1946 *
Just Friends (Starring Ryan Reynolds & Amy Smart), PN1997.9 COM ROM .J87 2005 *
Love Actually ("The best romantic comedy set at Christmas" - Richard Marcum), PN1997.9 COM ROM .L6 2003 *
March of the Wooden Soldiers (Laurel & Hardy classic a.k.a. Babes In Toyland), PN1997.9 STAR VAR .M3 1934 *
Miracle on 34th Street (Academy Award winning Christmas classic), PN1997.9 STAR VAR .M5 1947 *
The Nightmare Before Christmas (The dark and twisted fantasy by Tim Burton), PN1997.9 DIR BUR .N5 1993 *
Penny Serenade (Classic melodrama starring Cary Grant & Irene Dunne), PN1997.9 STAR GRT .P4 1941 **
Pocketful of Miracles (Final film by It's a Wonderful Life director Frank Capra), PN1997.9 DIR CAP .P6 1961 *
Scrooged (Comedic retelling of A Christmas Carol starring Bill Murray), PN1997.9 COM PAR .S37 1988 *
Sunset Blvd. (Film noir classic starring Gloria Swanson & William Holden), PN1997.9 STAR VAR .S8 1950 **
This Christmas (A Family reunites for Christmas), PN1997.9 COM SIT .T35 2007 *
We’re No Angels (Christmas Comedy starring Humphrey Bogart), PN1997.9 STAR BOG .W4 1955 *
When Harry Met Sally (Great comedy starring Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan), PN1997.9 COM ROM .W34 1989 **
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
