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 **
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
Dissertations and Theses Full Text
Tarver Library is pleased to announce that our Dissertations Abstracts database has just been upgraded to the Dissertations and Theses – Full Text database.
ProQuest Dissertations and Theses — Full text is the world's most comprehensive collection of dissertations and theses and is the official digital dissertations archive for the Library of Congress and the database of record for graduate research. PQDT — Full Text includes 2.4 million searchable citations to dissertation and theses from around the world from 1861 to the present day together with 1.2 million full text dissertations that are available for download in PDF format. The database offers full text for most of the dissertations added since 1997 and strong retrospective full text coverage for older graduate works.
More than 60,000 new full text dissertations and theses are added to the database each year through dissertations publishing partnerships with 700 leading academic institutions worldwide and collaborative retrospective digitization of dissertations through UMI's Digital Archiving and Access Program. Full Text dissertations are archived as submitted by the degree-granting institution. Some will be native PDF, some PDF image.
Each dissertation published since July 1980 includes a 350-word abstract written by the author. Master's theses published since 1988 include 150-word abstracts. Simple bibliographic citations are available for dissertations dating from 1637. Where available, PQDT — Full Text provides 24-page previews of dissertations and theses.
You can access PQDT – Full Text from the Tarver Library database listing or from GALILEO.
Friday, November 13, 2009
Workshop of the Month: RefWorks
The second round of the iPod Nano contest is about to begin!
Throughout the week of November 16-19, Tarver Library is offering four opportunities to participate in our next Workshop of the Month. This time, it's on RefWorks, a citation management program that allows you to organize your citations quickly and efficiently as you are getting ready to wrap things up in the Fall semester.
It is not too late to join the race for the grand prize of an iPod Nano!
Learn more at the Workshops page
Monday, November 9, 2009
Hot Document in November
The United States Government Manual 2009-2010
The United States Government Manual 2009-2010 provides comprehensive information on the agencies of the legislative, judicial, and executive branches. It also includes information on quasi-official agencies; international organizations in which the United States participates; and boards, commissions, and committees.
A typical agency description includes a list of principal officials, a summary statement of the agency's purpose and role in the Federal Government, a brief history of the agency, including its legislative or executive authority, a description of its programs and activities, and a "Sources of Information'' section. This last section provides information on consumer activities, contracts and grants, employment, publications, and many other areas of public interest.
The current edition of the U. S. Government Manual 2009-2010 is available at the Tarver Library Reference desk. The electronic publication is available both as ASCII text and PDF files.
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