Hi all,
Check out this link for new instructional media in the Alpine library.
Check out the Chronicle of Higher Education News blog for the latest news in Academia.
Check out the EduResources Weblog for information about higher education resources online.
Do you have links to copyrighted information on your faculty page? How about on your blackboard class site? Has the library made your e-reserves available in our online catalog? If you answered yes to any of these questions, you may want to take a look at this Library Journal article about the current issues surrounding electronic reserves. If you want to talk about any concerns raised by this article, please don't hesitate to contact David in the library by stopping by, giving him a call(4451), or email.
And finally, a heads-up: Kristin, Kevin & David will be at the annual Colorado Association of Libraries conference in Denver on Thursday (11/8) and Friday (11/9) of this week. The library will be open regular hours while we're gone, thanks to our fantastic part-time staff.
11.05.2007
9.12.2007
Collection Development Blogs & Information Literacy
Howdy folks!
Just wanted to clue everyone in on the new collection development blogs we've started. Library staff will use these blogs to alert faculty to new subject specific titles and title lists in their respective areas. In turn, we hope that faculty will examine these titles and give us some recommendations on new books for the library collection. It's a win-win situation! The new blogs are linked on the right side of this page. Or, to go directly to the astronomy collection development blog, click here. We have seven blogs so far, and more will follow as we set them up.
Additionally, I just wanted to remind everyone that I would love to come to your classes and do my information literacy presentation for your students. We have an incredible wealth of online resources (most subscription databases of any Colorado community college), and my mission is to have every student use them - instead of just googling everything! Are you tired of seeing wikipedia in your students' works cited lists? Call me at 4451 or email me and we'll get them using our article databases in no time.
Just wanted to clue everyone in on the new collection development blogs we've started. Library staff will use these blogs to alert faculty to new subject specific titles and title lists in their respective areas. In turn, we hope that faculty will examine these titles and give us some recommendations on new books for the library collection. It's a win-win situation! The new blogs are linked on the right side of this page. Or, to go directly to the astronomy collection development blog, click here. We have seven blogs so far, and more will follow as we set them up.
Additionally, I just wanted to remind everyone that I would love to come to your classes and do my information literacy presentation for your students. We have an incredible wealth of online resources (most subscription databases of any Colorado community college), and my mission is to have every student use them - instead of just googling everything! Are you tired of seeing wikipedia in your students' works cited lists? Call me at 4451 or email me and we'll get them using our article databases in no time.
8.13.2007
Aggroculture
Two books on the current state of American agriculture that you might find interesting. Both are available for checkout. Email us or call (870.4445) and we'll set one or both titles aside for you.
Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case for the Independent Farm and Against Industrial Food
by George Pyle
2005
PublicAffairs Books
Can American farmers feed more of the world's hungry by growing fewer crops? Veteran journalist Pyle argues that they can—and they must, if the planet's food supply is to remain ample and safe. Growing too much food, Pyle says, actually exacerbates world hunger. Grain gluts, for example, result in dumping of crops in developing countries. Local farmers can't compete against the cheap American imports and go out of business. Large-scale industrialized agriculture threatens food safety, impoverishes American farmers and contributes to obesity and other health problems. Contrary to agribusiness's insistence that we need bigger factory farms and more genetically modified crops, Pyle claims that we can better feed the world by decreasing production (and thus heavy reliance on polluting fertilizers and pesticides), diversifying crop species, honoring local production methods and supporting small-scale independent farms. "The problems of food will not be solved with industrial solutions," he writes, "because food, no matter how hard we try to rationalize otherwise, is not an industry." His well-researched, lucid and passionate argument explains not only what is wrong with U.S. agricultural policy but why it matters. --Publishers Weekly
Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm
by Linda Faillace
2006
Chelsea Green Publishing Company
If this were a novel, you probably wouldn't believe it. But the story of a Vermont farming family driven out of business by a government agency is true--and truly frightening. When the Faillaces (author Linda and her husband, Larry) went into the sheep-farming business, they followed every USDA guideline. Then, once their operation was running, that same agency told them their sheep would have to be destroyed because they might spread "mad cow" disease. Despite the Faillaces' abundant proof that their sheep were disease free--and, moreover, posed no risk whatsoever--the USDA forcibly shut the farm down. The agency's actions ultimately had nothing to do with the health of the Faillaces' sheep but much to do with the health of the American beef industry, which could be adversely affected if people believed there was mad cow in the U.S. The author has every right to be bitter, but she maintains an even tone, presenting us with the evidence and letting us see what happened and why. But if you can read the book without getting mad, you're not reading it carefully. --Booklist
Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case for the Independent Farm and Against Industrial Food
by George Pyle
2005
PublicAffairs Books
Can American farmers feed more of the world's hungry by growing fewer crops? Veteran journalist Pyle argues that they can—and they must, if the planet's food supply is to remain ample and safe. Growing too much food, Pyle says, actually exacerbates world hunger. Grain gluts, for example, result in dumping of crops in developing countries. Local farmers can't compete against the cheap American imports and go out of business. Large-scale industrialized agriculture threatens food safety, impoverishes American farmers and contributes to obesity and other health problems. Contrary to agribusiness's insistence that we need bigger factory farms and more genetically modified crops, Pyle claims that we can better feed the world by decreasing production (and thus heavy reliance on polluting fertilizers and pesticides), diversifying crop species, honoring local production methods and supporting small-scale independent farms. "The problems of food will not be solved with industrial solutions," he writes, "because food, no matter how hard we try to rationalize otherwise, is not an industry." His well-researched, lucid and passionate argument explains not only what is wrong with U.S. agricultural policy but why it matters. --Publishers Weekly
Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm
by Linda Faillace
2006
Chelsea Green Publishing Company
If this were a novel, you probably wouldn't believe it. But the story of a Vermont farming family driven out of business by a government agency is true--and truly frightening. When the Faillaces (author Linda and her husband, Larry) went into the sheep-farming business, they followed every USDA guideline. Then, once their operation was running, that same agency told them their sheep would have to be destroyed because they might spread "mad cow" disease. Despite the Faillaces' abundant proof that their sheep were disease free--and, moreover, posed no risk whatsoever--the USDA forcibly shut the farm down. The agency's actions ultimately had nothing to do with the health of the Faillaces' sheep but much to do with the health of the American beef industry, which could be adversely affected if people believed there was mad cow in the U.S. The author has every right to be bitter, but she maintains an even tone, presenting us with the evidence and letting us see what happened and why. But if you can read the book without getting mad, you're not reading it carefully. --Booklist
7.25.2007
Harry Potter Contest Winners!!
CMC Alpine Campus Library
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Guess What Happens Contest Responses
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Guess What Happens Contest Responses
Thanks to everyone for their contest entries. We had a total of 28 entries. The Grand Prize winners were Paul Primrose and his fiancée Kathryn Garber, summer visitors to the Alpine Campus Library, who guessed for a total of 55 points. Our Runner Up was our own Pat Tomasko, Assistant Registrar at District Office, who guessed for 50 points. A special mention goes to Aspen Campus Administrative Assistant Rebecca Arlington, who impressed us with her terrific guess of Regulus Black’s middle name and gained an additional 2 points, which pulled her ahead of the pack of five whose guesses earned them 45 points each. Our third place prize is a big shout out: Rebecca Rocks!!
Once again, Rowling has proved to be the master of misleading her readers prior to publication, but that’s part of the fun. She distracts us with cleverly phrased teasers, but in doing so, manages to save a number of surprises for us. This makes formulating contest questions pretty darned speculative. After reading Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows we had to eliminate one question.
If you’re interested in how everyone responded, email us (dwillis@coloradomtn.edu or kweber@coloradomtn.edu) and we'll email you back with an attached document. We're not posting it on the blog because it's full of spoilers, and we don't want to tempt anyone who has yet to finish the book.
7.19.2007
Harry Potter Guess What Happens Contest Closes Early
Late last night the New York Times posted a review of Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows which the reviewer apparently purchased at an unnamed book store in New York. We’re concerned about this early review because Scholastic Press has confirmed that a small percentage (1 hundredth of 1 percent of the U.S. orders) of books were actually delivered early.
The New York Times is a major national publication that enjoys wide circulation and is well respected by many. While “spoilers” have been published on the Internet prior to the publication of this review, it’s probable that accurate plot details will be (and probably already are) available early.
We want our “Guess What Happens” contest to remain fair and impartial, and after careful deliberation we have decided to cut off the entry deadline for our “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Guess What Happens Contest.”
We’ve received some really fun guesses from all of our Harry Potter fans. We’re looking forward to our spoiler-free reading experience of this final book, and we wish the same for you. We’ll evaluate all of our entries early next week and announce the winners when we know. We’ll compile the entries and make them available upon request.
Thanks to everyone who has participated.
The New York Times is a major national publication that enjoys wide circulation and is well respected by many. While “spoilers” have been published on the Internet prior to the publication of this review, it’s probable that accurate plot details will be (and probably already are) available early.
We want our “Guess What Happens” contest to remain fair and impartial, and after careful deliberation we have decided to cut off the entry deadline for our “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Guess What Happens Contest.”
We’ve received some really fun guesses from all of our Harry Potter fans. We’re looking forward to our spoiler-free reading experience of this final book, and we wish the same for you. We’ll evaluate all of our entries early next week and announce the winners when we know. We’ll compile the entries and make them available upon request.
Thanks to everyone who has participated.
7.16.2007
Featured New Books
Chasing the Rising Sun: the Journey of an American Song
Ted Anthony
"The song "House of the Rising Sun," which became a chart-topping hit in 1964 by the Animals, has a murky history, said to have originated in Appalachia, maybe New Orleans and perhaps even England, as well as having a thriving universal afterlife among cover bands and karaoke singers. Anthony, an editor for the Associated Press, crisscrossed the globe in search of the twisted roots and many spreading branches of this lonesome ballad of unknown origins." -Publishers Weekly
Crazy Horse: a Lakota Life
Kingsley M. Bray
"Although Crazy Horse has been a favorite subject for decades, many key aspects of his short life have remained enigmatic. In this extensively documented account, Bray utilizes a diverse array of primary sources, including contemporary Indian agent reports, personal military diaries, annual reports of the U.S. Commissioner of Indian Affairs, and surprisingly detailed oral histories recorded in interviews with Crazy Horse's contemporaries nearly 50 years after his death... Bray's account not only traces the major steps taken by this remarkable chief, but also places them within the context of Lakota culture, past and present." -Booklist
6.19.2007
Harry Potter Guess What Happens Contest
CMC Alpine Campus LibraryHarry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Guess What happens contest
(Multiple Entries are encouraged!!)
Guess what happens in the final Harry Potter book and win the Grand Prize:
Harry Potter Years 1-4 8 Disc DVD set – Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone / Chamber of Secrets / Prisoner of Azkaban / Goblet of Fire
Runner Up Prize:
Harry and the Potters CD – Voldemort Can’t Stop the Rock
Guess what happens in the final Harry Potter book. Each correct guess is worth 5 points. The entry that earns the highest number of points wins the grand prize. Entries accepted in the Alpine Campus Library or via email: dwillis@coloradomtn.edu or kweber@coloradomtn.edu.
We will accept your guesses until 5:00 p.m. on Friday, July 20th MDT.
Be sure to include your contact information with your guesses.
1. Is Severus Snape a Death Eater or Dumbledore’s Man through and through?
2. J.K. Rowling says that two characters will die. Which two characters will die?
3. Who is R.A.B.?
4. In Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince, Dumbledore theorizes that Voldemort created 6 horcruxes. Name the six horcruxes. (Hint: JK Rowling has stated that Harry and the sorting hat are NOT horcruxes.)
5. Who will triumph, Harry or Voldemort?
6. JK Rowling has said that a character in Book 7 will manage to do magic in desperate circumstances very late in life. Who will it be? (Hint: JK Rowling says this is NOT Aunt Petunia.)
7. What did Dudley experience when he faced the Dementors in Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix?
Winners will be announced as soon as we find out what happens!!
Stumped? Check out the Harry Potter article on the Colorado Mountain College e-News page, Teaching and Learning section for access to a Power Point file of possible guesses: http://enews.coloradomtn.edu/
6.15.2007
The Pesthouse, by Jim Crace
"Crace's America lies not in the future but in our uneasy consciences. What's remarkable is the fortitude, grace and patience he grants to the wary people who must make a life there, must remember and love, against all odds." - Washington Post's Book World
Jim Crace is a writer of spectacular originality and a command of language that moves a reader effortlessly into the world of his imagination. In The Pesthouse he imagines an America of the future where a man and a woman trek across a devastated and dangerous landscape, finding strength in each other and an unexpected love.
Once the safest, most prosperous place on earth, the United States is now a lawless, scantly populated wasteland. The machines have stopped. The government has collapsed. Farmlands lie fallow and the soil is contaminated by toxins. Across the country, families have packed up their belongings to travel eastward toward the one hope left: passage on a ship to Europe.
Franklin Lopez and his brother, Jackson, are only days away from the ocean when Franklin, nearly crippled by an inflamed knee, is forced to stop. In the woods near his temporary refuge, Franklin comes upon an isolated stone building. Inside he finds Margaret, a woman with a deadly infection and confined to the Pesthouse to sweat out her fever. Tentatively, the two join forces and make their way through the ruins of old America. Confronted by bandits rounding up men for slavery, finding refuge in the Ark, a religious community that makes bizarre demands on those they shelter, Franklin and Margaret find their wariness of each other replaced by deep trust and an intimacy neither one has ever experienced before.
6.12.2007
Whoa, Dude - That's a lot of Books
Hello everyone. Well, we've been receiving many, many books and a few CD's and DVD's as a result of our year-end ordering blitz. Included in this post is a comprehensive list of everything from our main order, alphabetical by title. Over the next few weeks we'll be doing more posts where we highlight some of our favorite new books, so stay tuned!
200 Braids to Twist, Knot, Loop, or Weave/Carey, Jacqui
A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems/Ammons, A. R.
AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty/Stillwaggon, Eileen
AIDS in America/Hunter, Susan
Acolytes: Poems/Giovanni, Nikki
Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive/Meyerowitz, Joel
Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict/Grinker, Lori
Against the Day/Pynchon, Thomas
Agents of Atrocity: Leaders, Followers, and the Violation of Human Rights in Civil War/Mitchell, Neil J.
Alaska/Paulson, Dennis
The Alchemist/Coelho, Paulo
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life/Brogan, Hugh
Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry: Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in an Era of Globalizaztion/Hess, David J.
America Needs Human Rights: Fighting Hunger and Poverty in the Richest Nation on Earth/Mittal, Anuradha
America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade?/Blatt, Harvey
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives.../Cheever, Susan
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America/Hedges, Chris
American Hardcore/Rachman, Paul
The American Heritage Dictionary for Learners of English/American Heritage Dictionary
American Protest Literature/Trodd, Zoe
The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders/Needleman, Jacob
American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton/Widmer, Ted
Amy Lowell: Selected Poems/Lowell, Amy
The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction/Johnson-Davies, Denys
Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power/Gonzalez, Roberto J.
Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back/Simon, Michele
Architecture of Thailand: A Guide to Traditional and Contemporary Forms/Sthapitanonda, Nithi
The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks/Harington, Donald
Ariel Sharon: A Life/Bloom, Gadi
Army of Darkness/Raimi, Sam
The Art & Craft of Ceramics: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration/Ros I. Frigola, Maria Dolors
The Art of Ray Harryhausen/Harryhausen, Ray
Atlas of Human Anatomy/Netter, Frank H.
The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public/Igo, Sarah E.
Averno: Poems/Gluck, Louise
Babel/Not Available
Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge/Heylin, Clinton
Back on the Fire: Essays/Snyder, Gary
Barron's How to Prepare for the CLEP: College-Level Examination Program General Examinations with CDROM/Doster, William C.
Barron's How to Prepare for the MAT: Miller Analogies Test/Sternberg, Robert J.
Barron's How to Prepare for the SAT with CDROM/Green, Sharon Weiner
Basta!: Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas/Collier, George A.
The Bastard of Istanbul/Shafak, Elif
Battling HIV/AIDS: A Decisionmaker's Guide to the Procurement of Medicines and Related Supplies/Taylor, Yolanda
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature/Lear, Linda
Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800/Sypeck, Jeff
The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2006)/Eggers, Dave
The Big Book of Irony/Winokur, Jon
The Big Book of Women Saints/Gallick, Sarah
Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses/Mitchell, Stacy
Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching/Greger, Michael
Blazing Heritage: A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks/Rothman, Hal K.
Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq/Fallows, James
The Blizzard Voices/Kooser, Ted
Blogging for Business: Everything You Need to Know and Why You Should Care/Holtz, Shel
Blogging for Dummies/Hill, Brad
Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media/Tremayne, Mark
Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms/Richardson, Will
Blood Run/Hedge Coke, Allison Adelle
The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times/Stuart, Tristram
Blossoms of Fire/Not Available
Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (Deluxe)/Pennebaker, D. a.
Body Count: Fixing the Blame for the Global AIDS Catastrophe/Gill, Peter
The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients/Shah, Sonia
Bonnie and Clyde/Penn, Arthur
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952/Ginsberg, Allen
Boomsday/Buckley, Christopher
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant/Tammet, Daniel
Breakfast of Biodiversity: The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction/Vandermeer, John
Breaking Silence: The Case That Changed the Face of Human Rights/White, Richard Alan
Buddhist Goddesses of India/Shaw, Miranda E.
A Burden of Silence: My Mother's Battle with AIDS/Draper, Nancy A.
Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala/Sanford, Victoria
Butterfly Weed/Harington, Donald
The Camel Bookmobile/Hamilton, Masha
Car Cultures/Miller, Daniel
The Castle in the Forest/Mailer, Norman
The Challenge of Human Rights: Origin, Development, and Significance/Mahoney, Jack
The Choiring of the Trees/Harington, Donald
Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll! (Special)/Hackford, Taylor
Citizen Ruth/Payne, Alexander
Claes Oldenburg Coosje Van Bruggen: Sculpture by the Way/Oldenburg, Claes
Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian/Lane Fox, Robin
A Clockwork Orange/Burgess, Anthony
Collected Poems/Williams, C. K.
The Commercial Theater Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals/Vogel, Frederic B.
A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia/Keneally, Thomas
The Complete Dictionary of Real Estate Terms Explained Simply: What Smart Investors Need to Know/Haden, Jeff
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979/Bishop, Elizabeth
The Concise Guide to Global Human Rights/Fischlin, Daniel
Confucius in 90 Minutes/Strathern Paul
The Constant Gardener/Meirelles, Fernando Fiennes
Conversational German/Pimsleur
Costa Rica/Beletsky, Les D.
The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement/Laber, Jeri
Cracking the TOEFL iBT with CDROM (2007)/Pierce, Douglas
Crane Wife/Decemberists
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life/Bray, Kingsley M.
Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop: A Step-By-Step Guide/Veldof, Jerilyn
Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design/Forrest, Barbara
The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design (Expanded)/Numbers, Ronald L.
Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work/Leiter, Sharon
Critical Companion to Herman Melville: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work/Rollyson, Carl
Critical Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work/Wright, Sarah Bird
The Crochet Answer Book/Eckman, Edie
Crocheting School: A Complete Course/Sterling Publishing Company
Cross-X/Miller, Joe
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts/James, Clive
Culture Sketches: Case Studies in Anthropology/Peters-Golden, Holly
Cultures Under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma/Robben, Antonius C. G. M.
Curse of the Golden Flower/Yimou, Zhang
The Da Vinci Code (Special)/Howard, Ron
The Dalai Lama at MIT/Harrington, Anne
Dawning Answers: How the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Has Helped to Strengthen Public Health/Valdiserri, Ronald O.
Dear Ghosts,/Gallagher, Tess
Death and the Maiden/Weaver, Sigourney
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries/Tyson, Neil DeGrasse
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future/McKibben, Bill
Deep Tissue Massage Treatment: A Handbook of Neuromuscular Therapy/Fernandez, Enrique Fabian
Delights & Shadows/Kooser, Ted
Deliverance/Boorman, John
Design for Ecological Democracy/Hester, Randolph T.
The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur/Steidle, Brian
The Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit/Grescoe, Taras
Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS/Baldwin, Peter
Dissent in America: Voices That Shaped a Nation/Young, Ralph F.
The Doors/Fong-Torres, Ben
Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams/McCall Smith, Alexander
Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae/Veal, Michael
ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors/Rafoth, Ben
Easy True Stories: A Picture-Based Beginning Reader/Heyer, Sandra
Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922/Crichton, Michael
Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and Poetics/Poe, Edgar Allan
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future/Saarinen, Eero
Eight Preposterous Propositions: From the Genetics of Homose/Ehrlich, Robert
Einstein: His Life and Universe/Isaacson, Walter
Ekaterina/Harington, Donald
Emily Mason: The Fifth Element/Ebony, David
Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems: Selected Poems/Lazarus, Emma
Empire/Card, Orson Scott
The End of the Wild/Meyer, Stephen M.
English for New Americans: Everyday Life with Book(s) and Cassette(s) and Video and Workbook and CD (Audio) and DVD/Living Language
English for New Americans: Health, Home, and Community with Book(s) and Cassette(s) and Video and Workbook and CD (Audio) and DVD/Living Language
English for New Americans: Work and School with Book(s) and Cassette(s) and Video and Workbook and CD (Audio) and DVD/Living Language
The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS/Engel, Jonathan
Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion Kripal,/Jeffrey John
Essential Guitar Chords: Everything You Need to Play Basic Guitar/Hayman, Julian
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks/Brooks, Gwendolyn
The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism/McGinn, Bernard
Everything Is Illuminated/Schreiber, Liev
Evolution Vs. Creationism: An Introduction/Scott, Eugenie C.
Excuse Me, But I Was Next...:/How to Handle the Top 100 Manners Dilemmas Post, Peggy
Exile and the Kingdom/Camus, Albert
The Exonerated/Balaban, Bob
Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America/Guilbault, Rose Castillo
Fateless/Koltai, Lajos
Fear and Trembling/Kierkegaard, Soren
Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine, How to Solve the World's Food Crises/Heintzman, Andrew
Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the House of Representatives/Eilperin, Juliet
Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media/Klinenberg, Eric
Finn/Clinch, Jon
The Firefly Five Language Visual Dictionary: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian/Corbeil, Jean-Claude
A Fish Called Wanda (Deluxe)/Crichton, Charles
Flags of Our Fathers/Eastwood, Clint
Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans with HIV and AIDS/Banish, Roslyn
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution/McKenna, Terence
Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers/Regnerus, Mark
Forced to Flee: Human Rights and Human Wrongs in Refugee Homelands/Van Arsdale, Peter W.
Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food/Kent, George
Freedom on Fire C/Shattuck, John
Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind/Kramer, Peter D.
From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America/Finan, Christopher M.
Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy Is Changing Everything/Heintzman, Andrew
The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance/Bello, Walden
Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: The Myths, Environmental Risks, and Alternatives/Altieri, Miguel A.
The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement/Lytle, Mark H.
Gently Weeps/Shimabukuro, Jake
Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu/Troost, J. Maarten
Global AIDS: Myths and Facts: Tools for Fighting the AIDS Pandemic/Irwin, Alexander
Global Business Etiquette: A Guide to International Communication and Customs/Martin, Jeanette S.
A Global History of Architecture/Ching, Francis D. K.
The God Delusion/Dawkins, Richard
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything/Hitchens, Christopher
God or the Girl/Not Available
The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance/Grossman, Edith
Grand Canyon: Solving Earth's Grandest Puzzle/Powell, James Lawrence
The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited/Romer, John
Gunner Palace/Epperlein, Petra
HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology/Craddock, Susan
The Haitian Vodou Handbook: Protocols for Riding with the Lwa/Filan, Kenaz
Half Nelson/Not Available
Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad/Levitt, Matthew
A Handbook for Citizenship/Seely, Margaret
Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance with CD (Audio) Wintz, Cary D.
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle/Leiner, Danny
Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters/Crane, Hart
Heidegger in 90 Minutes/Strathern, Paul
Hell and High Water: Global Warming--The Solution and the Politics--And What We Should Do/Romm, Joseph J.
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga/Thompson, Hunter S.
The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur/Pelevin, Victor
Helping Your Teenager Beat Depression: A Problem-Solving Approach for Families/Manassis, Katharina
The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era/Ishay, Micheline
History's Great Untold Stories: The Larger Than Life Characters and Dramatic Events That Changed the World/Cummins, Joseph
The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America/Suarez, Ray
Holy Week: A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising/Andrzejewski, Jerzy
Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape/Lopez, Barry
The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence Through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower/Chiras, Dan
Hostile Takeover: How Big Money & Corruption Conquered Our Government--And How We Take It Back/Sirota, David
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest/Childs, Craig
How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace/Blanc, Paul David
How We Got to Be Human: Subjective Minds with Objective Bodies/Libaw, William H.
How to Prepare for the GRE with CDROM/Green, Sharon Weiner
How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide/Sutherland, John
The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches and Documents from the Bible to the Present/Ishay, Micheline
Human Rights Watch World Report 2007 (2007)/Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Worldwide: A Reference Handbook (Revised)/Arat, Zehra F.
Human Rights and Wrongs: Slavery, Terror, Genocide/Fein, Helen
Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives/An-Na'im, Abdullahi Ahmed
Human Rights in World Politics/Brown
Human Rights in the 'War on Terror'/Wilson, Richard A.
The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement/Glisson, Susan
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Envionmentalism/Sachs, Aaron
I Die, But My Memory Lives on: The World AIDS Crisis and the Memory Book Project/Mankell, Henning
I Know What I Know: The Music of Charles Mingus/Jenkins, Todd S.
I Shot Andy Warhol/Harron, Mary
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon/Zevon, Crystal
Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed/Trynka, Paul
Illuminated Poems/Ginsberg, Allen
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America/Wiencek, Henry
Impotence: A Cultural History/McLaren, Angus
Improving the Quality of Library Services for Students with Disabilities/Hernon, Peter
In & Out/Oz, Frank
Information Architecture for Information Professionals/Batley, Sue
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web/Morville, Peter
The Information Commons Handbook/Beagle, Donald Robert
International Human Rights (Third)/Donnelly, Jack
International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Treaties, Cases, and Analysis/Martin, Francisco Forrest
The International Story: An Anthology with Guidelines for Reading and Writing about Fiction/Spack, Ruth
Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press/Borjesson, Kristina
Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors/Nguyen, Andrea Quynhgiao
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man/Peterson, Dale
Jesus in the Talmud/Schafer, Peter
Jet Li's Fearless/Yu, Ronny
John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier/Hurtado, Albert L.
John Tyler: The Accidental President/Crapol, Edward P.
The Judges: A Penetrating Exploration of American Courts and of the New Decisions--Hard Decisions--They Must Make for a New.../Mayer, Martin
Just Enough AutoCAD 2007/Omura, George
Just a Dog: Understanding Animal Cruelty and Ourselves/Arluke, Arnold
Karl Shapiro Selected Poems/Shapiro, Karl Jay
Kenneth Koch: Selected Poems/Padgett, Ron
The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems: 1972-2007/Goldbarth, Albert
Knit Fix: Problem Solving for Knitters/Kartus, Lisa
Knitting with Balls: A Hands-On Guide to Knitting for the Modern Man/Del Vecchio, Michael
Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America/Vargas, Zaragosa
The Language of Real Estate/Reilly, John
Lassie/Sturridge, Charles
The Last King of Scotland/MacDonald, Kevin
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq/Crawford, John
Late Wife: Poems/Emerson, Claudia
LeMay/Tillman, Barrett
Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music/Shim, Eunmi
Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail/Campbell, Catherine
Lewis and Clark Road Trips: Exploring the Trail Across America/Gale, Kira
Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France/Moore, Lucy
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (Extended)/Winther, Peter
The Little Book of Plagiarism/Posner, Richard A.
Little Women/Armstrong, Gillian
The Lonely Planet Guide to the Middle of Nowhere/Bain, Andrew
The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic/McGrath, Melanie
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11/Wright, Lawrence
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed/Ehrman, Bart D.
The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian/Ewing, Heather
Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems/Zukofsky, Louis
Love/Beatles
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil/Zimbardo, Philip G.
Lucyus Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution/Jolly, Alison
Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm/Faillace, Linda
Making Globalization Work/Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Making Peace: A Reading/Writing/Thinking Text on Global Community/Brooks, Elaine
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution/Carroll, Sean B.
A Man Without a Country/Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
Man's Place in Nature/Huxley, Thomas Henry
The Many Faces of God: Science's 400-Year Quest for Images of the Divine/Campbell, Jeremy
Marc Chagall and the Lost Jewish World: The Nature of Chagall's Art and Iconography/Harshav, Benjamin
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present/Washington, Harriet A.
Mexican Modern: Masters of the 20th Century/Lozano, Luis-Martin
The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs/Albright, Madeleine
Missing/Lemmon, Jack
Modern Times/Dylan, Bob
Monty Python's Life of Brian/Jones, Terry
Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers/Allen, Brooke
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher/Applegate, Debby
Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food/McNamee, Gregory
Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS/D'Adesky, Anne-Christine
Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time/Armstrong, Karen
Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination/Smith, Daniel B.
My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again/Fried, Daisy
My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure/Decker, Shawn
My War: Killing Time in Iraq/Buzzell, Colby
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe/Cahill, Thomas
The Mystery of the Kaddish: Its Profound Influence on Judaism/Charney, Leon
Naked Angels: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs/Tytell, John
Naming Evil, Judging Evil/Grant, Ruth Weissbourd
Nancy Crow:/Crow, Nancy
Native Guard/Trethewey, Natasha
Natural Causes: Death, Lies and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry/Hurley, Dan
Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Collector's)/Demme, Jonathan
Never Despair: Sixty Years in the Service of the Jewish People and of Human Rights/Riegner, Gerhart M.
Never Give Up: Vignettes from Sub-Saharan Africa in the Age of AIDS/Winge, Kevin
The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable/Daily, Gretchen C.
New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance/Hunter-Gault, Charlayne
The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move in the Modern World/Bond, Mary
New Transport Architecture/Jones, Will
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution/Richerson, Peter J.
Notebooks/Williams, Tennessee
Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures/Orlando, Francesco
The Obwl6: Oliver Twist: Level 6: 2,500 Word Vocabulary/Rogers, Richard
Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the Great Plains/Ashworth, William
The Old Way: A Story of the First People/Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall
Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families/Carroll, Andrew
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China/Hessler, Peter
Orson Welles: Vol 2: Hello Americans/Callow, Simon
Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes/Wiggins, David K.
The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids/Robbins, Alexandra
Oxford Bookworms Library CD Packs Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Oxford Bookworms Library CD Packs Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Twain, Mark
Oxford Bookworms Library CD Packs Goodbye, Mr. Hollywood: Oxford Bookworms Library CD Packs Goodbye, Mr. Hollywood/Escott, John
Oxford Bookworms Library CD Packs Huckleberry Finn: Oxford Bookworms Library CD Packs Huckleberry Finn/Twain, Mark
Oxford Bookworms Library Level 5 Sense and Sensibility: Level 5 Sense and Sensibility/Austen, Jane
The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: 1,800 Headwords Far from the Madding Crowd/West, Clare
The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: 1,800 Headwords Wuthering Heights/West, Clare
The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: 1,800 Headwords the Garden Party and Other Stories/Kerr, Rosalie
The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 6: 2,500 Headwords Pride and Prejudice/West, Clare
The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 6: 2,500 Headwords Tess of the D'Urbervilles/West, Clare
Oxford Picture Dictionary English/Spanish/Shapiro, Norma
Painting People: Figure Painting Today/Mullins, Charlotte
Pandemic: Facing AIDS/Annan, Kofi
Pans Labyrinth/Not Available
Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World/Imhoff, Daniel
Paradox of Plenty: Hunger in a Bountiful World/Boucher, Douglas H.
A Parent's Guide to Childhood Obesity: A Roadmap to Health/Hassink, Sandra G., MD
Paris: The Secret History/Hussey, Andrew
Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Fremont, the Couple Whose Power, Politics, and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century America/Denton, Sally
The Path of Alchemy: Energetic Healing and the World of Natural Magic/Stavish, Mark
Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms/McQuaid, John
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus/Atwood, Margaret
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism/Stone, Geoffrey R.
The Pesthouse/Crace, Jim
Peterson's Study Abroad (2007)/Peterson's Guides
Peyton Place/Metalious, Grace
The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese/Conard, Mark T.
The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights/Roht-Arriaza, Naomi
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Special)/Verbinski, Gore
Podcasting Bible/Mack, Steve
Poets of World War II/Shapiro, Harvey
Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches/McCarty, Nolan
Polymer Clay Creative Traditions: Techniques and Projects Inspired by the Fine and Decorative Arts/Belcher, Judy
Poor People/Vollmann, William T.
Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919/McCaskill, Barbara
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast/Abbey, Edward
The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes/Ury, William
Pretty Poison/Black, Noel
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide/Power, Samantha
The Proposition/Hillcoat, John
Psychiatric Dimensions of HIV and AIDS/American Psychiatric Association
The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution/Bullard, Robert D.
The Qur'an: A Biography/Lawrence, Bruce
Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu/Allen, John
Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement/Doherty, Brian
Rainforest/Marent, Thomas
Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case for the Independent Farm and Against Industrial Agriculture/Pyle, George B.
Random House Webster's Easy English Dictionary Advanced/Random House
Random House Webster's Easy English Dictionary Beginner/Random House
Random House Webster's Easy English Dictionary Intermediate/Random House
Range of Light/Brosman, Catharine Savage
Raptors of North America: Natural History and Conservation/Snyder, Noel
Real Estate Handbook/Friedman, Jack P.
Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact/Power, Samantha
Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge/Mullen, Harryette
Reds/Not Available
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't/Prothero, Stephen
A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion/Albanese, Catherine
Reservoir Dogs/Not Available
Richard Estes:/Wilmerding, John
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert/Margolis, Jeff
The Riddle of the Sands/Childers, Erskine
The Road/McCarthy, Cormac
The Road to Guantanamo/Winterbottom, Michael
Robert Rauschenberg: Combines/Rauschenberg, Robert
Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling/Schwartz, David G.
Roman Catholicism and Modern Science: A History/O'Leary, Don
The Rough Guide to Climate Change: The Symptoms, the Science, the Solutions/Henson, Robert
Rousseau in 90 Minutes/Strathern, Paul
Running Within: A Guide to Mastering the Body-Mind-Spirit Connection for Ultimate Training and Racing/Lynch, Jerry
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World/Wells, Colin
Salvador (Special)/Stone, Oliver
Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems/Menashe, Samuel
The Secret Epidemic: The Story of AIDS and Black America/Levenson, Jacob
The Secret History of Al Qaeda/Atwan, Abdel Bari
The Secret of Roan Inish/Sayles, John
Selected Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier/Whittier, John Greenleaf
Selected Poems by Kenneth Fearing/Fearing, Kenneth
Selected Poems by Muriel Rukeyser/Rukeyser, Muriel
Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart/Featherstone, Liza
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler/Roberts, Jason
Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS/Farber, Celia
The Seventeen Traditions/Nader, Ralph
Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective/Adams, Vincanne
Shafted.: Free Trade and America's Working Poor/Ahn, Christine
The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice/Marcus, Greil
Sherrybaby/Collyer, Laurie
The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concert-Going Experience/Manning, Sean
Shut Up and Sing/Kopple, Barbara
The Sign of the Cross: The Gesture, the Mystery, the History/Andreopoulos, Andreas
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy/Toll, Ian W.
Six Modern Plagues: And How We Are Causing Them/Walters, Mark Jerome
The Skeptic's Guide to the Global AIDS Crisis: Tough Questions Direct Answers (Revised)/Bourke, Dale Hanson
Skin: A Natural History/Jablonski, Nina G.
Snow/Pamuk, Orhan
Some Other Place. The Right Place (To)/Harington, Donald
Some of the Dharma/Kerouac, Jack
Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation/Fisher, Marc
South Park: The Passion of the Jew/Not Available
Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World/Kennedy, Kerry
Splay Anthem:/Mackey, Nathaniel
Sports Injuries: Diagnosis and Management/Norris, Christopher M.
Start Your Own Blogging Business: Generate Income from Advertisers, Subscribers, Merchandising and More/Entrepreneur Press
Step Into Liquid/Brown, Dana
Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War/Greeley, Robin Adele
Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change/Barlett, Peggy F.
Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance/Funes, Fernando
TOEFL iBT with CDROM (2007-2008)/Kaplan
Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights/Schulz, William F.
Talk to Me: Travels in Media and Politics/Smith, Anna Deavere
Tallgrass/Dallas, Sandra
The Talmud: What It Is and What It Says/Neusner, Jacob
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56/Esquith, Rafe
Teaching ESL/Efl with the Internet: Catching the Wave/Feyten, Carine M.
Teenagers, HIV, and AIDS: Insights from Youths Living with the Virus/Lyon, Maureen E.
Teresa of Avila: The Book of My Life/Starr, Mirabai
Thelma & Louise (Special Edition/ /: 1/Fr-Sp-Po)/Scott, Ridley
There Are No Shortcuts/Esquith, Rafe
Thirst/Oliver, Mary
This Film Is Not Yet Rated/Not Available
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession/Levitin, Daniel J.
Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life/Pite, Ralph
A Thousand Splendid Suns/Hosseini, Khaled
Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu's Wisdom/Rhadopis of Nubia/Thebes at War/Mahfouz, Naguib
Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human/Walter, Chip
Timothy Leary: A Biography/Greenfield, Robert
To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil/Wright, Angus Lindsay
Too Far from Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space/Jones, Chris
The Torture Debate in America/Greenberg, Karen J.
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror/Danner, Mark
Touring the Sierra Nevada/Koehler, Cheryl Angelina
Toussaint Louverture: A Biography/Bell, Madison Smartt
Training of the American Actor/Bartow, Arthur
Trance Fusion/Zappa, Frank
The Triplets of Belleville/Chomet, Sylvain
Tsotsi:/Hood, Gavin
Turtle Island/Snyder, Gary
The U.S. Vs. John Lennon/Not Available
Unbowed/Maathai, Wangari
Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America/Markovits, Andrei S.
Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration/Shulman, Seth
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights/Hartmann, Thom
Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice/Donnelly, Jack
Views from the South: The Effects of Globalization and the WTO on Third World Countries/Anderson, Sarah
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/Wollstonecraft, Mary
Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West/Blackhawk, Ned
Virtual Job Interview/Not Available
Volver/Not Available
Voyages of the Self: Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature/Novak, Barbara
Walking to Martha's Vineyard/Wright, Franz
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination/Gabler, Neal
Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity/Blake, David
War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation's Veterans from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder/Tick, Edward
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West/Ferguson, Niall
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles/Winterson, Jeanette
What If Everything You Thought You Knew about AIDS Was Wrong? (Revised)/Maggiore, Christine
What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being/Kraut, Richard
What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest/Albert, Susan Wittig
Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta/Okonta, Ike
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good/Easterly, William
Why Aren't More Women in Science?: Top Researchers Debate the Evidence/Ceci, Stephen J.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything/Tapscott, Don
Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration/Klobas, Jane
Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy/Wuerthner, George
Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music in America/Kingsbury, Paul
Witches, Westerners, and HIV: AIDS & Cultures of Blame in Africa/Rodlach, Alexander
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change/Pearce, Fred
The Words and Music of Frank Zappa/Lowe, Kelly Fisher
Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS/Berger, Michele Tracy
The World of the Polar Bear/Rosing, Norbert
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability/Chua, Amy
Yell Fire/Franti, Michael
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles/Gayford, Martin
Yi Yi: A One and a Two/Yang, Edward
The Yiddish Policemen's Union/Chabon, Michael
You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear/Lappe, Frances Moore
Yvor Winters: Selected Poems/Winters, Yvor
200 Braids to Twist, Knot, Loop, or Weave/Carey, Jacqui
A. R. Ammons: Selected Poems/Ammons, A. R.
AIDS and the Ecology of Poverty/Stillwaggon, Eileen
AIDS in America/Hunter, Susan
Acolytes: Poems/Giovanni, Nikki
Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive/Meyerowitz, Joel
Afterwar: Veterans from a World in Conflict/Grinker, Lori
Against the Day/Pynchon, Thomas
Agents of Atrocity: Leaders, Followers, and the Violation of Human Rights in Civil War/Mitchell, Neil J.
Alaska/Paulson, Dennis
The Alchemist/Coelho, Paulo
Alexis de Tocqueville: A Life/Brogan, Hugh
Alternative Pathways in Science and Industry: Activism, Innovation, and the Environment in an Era of Globalizaztion/Hess, David J.
America Needs Human Rights: Fighting Hunger and Poverty in the Richest Nation on Earth/Mittal, Anuradha
America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade?/Blatt, Harvey
American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives.../Cheever, Susan
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America/Hedges, Chris
American Hardcore/Rachman, Paul
The American Heritage Dictionary for Learners of English/American Heritage Dictionary
American Protest Literature/Trodd, Zoe
The American Soul: Rediscovering the Wisdom of the Founders/Needleman, Jacob
American Speeches: Political Oratory from Abraham Lincoln to Bill Clinton/Widmer, Ted
Amy Lowell: Selected Poems/Lowell, Amy
The Anchor Book of Modern Arabic Fiction/Johnson-Davies, Denys
Anthropologists in the Public Sphere: Speaking Out on War, Peace, and American Power/Gonzalez, Roberto J.
Appetite for Profit: How the Food Industry Undermines Our Health and How to Fight Back/Simon, Michele
Architecture of Thailand: A Guide to Traditional and Contemporary Forms/Sthapitanonda, Nithi
The Architecture of the Arkansas Ozarks/Harington, Donald
Ariel Sharon: A Life/Bloom, Gadi
Army of Darkness/Raimi, Sam
The Art & Craft of Ceramics: Techniques, Projects, Inspiration/Ros I. Frigola, Maria Dolors
The Art of Ray Harryhausen/Harryhausen, Ray
Atlas of Human Anatomy/Netter, Frank H.
The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public/Igo, Sarah E.
Averno: Poems/Gluck, Louise
Babel/Not Available
Babylon's Burning: From Punk to Grunge/Heylin, Clinton
Back on the Fire: Essays/Snyder, Gary
Barron's How to Prepare for the CLEP: College-Level Examination Program General Examinations with CDROM/Doster, William C.
Barron's How to Prepare for the MAT: Miller Analogies Test/Sternberg, Robert J.
Barron's How to Prepare for the SAT with CDROM/Green, Sharon Weiner
Basta!: Land and the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas/Collier, George A.
The Bastard of Istanbul/Shafak, Elif
Battling HIV/AIDS: A Decisionmaker's Guide to the Procurement of Medicines and Related Supplies/Taylor, Yolanda
Beatrix Potter: A Life in Nature/Lear, Linda
Becoming Charlemagne: Europe, Baghdad, and the Empires of A.D. 800/Sypeck, Jeff
The Best American Nonrequired Reading (2006)/Eggers, Dave
The Big Book of Irony/Winokur, Jon
The Big Book of Women Saints/Gallick, Sarah
Big-Box Swindle: The True Cost of Mega-Retailers and the Fight for America's Independent Businesses/Mitchell, Stacy
Bird Flu: A Virus of Our Own Hatching/Greger, Michael
Blazing Heritage: A History of Wildland Fire in the National Parks/Rothman, Hal K.
Blind Into Baghdad: America's War in Iraq/Fallows, James
The Blizzard Voices/Kooser, Ted
Blogging for Business: Everything You Need to Know and Why You Should Care/Holtz, Shel
Blogging for Dummies/Hill, Brad
Blogging, Citizenship, and the Future of Media/Tremayne, Mark
Blogs, Wikis, Podcasts, and Other Powerful Web Tools for Classrooms/Richardson, Will
Blood Run/Hedge Coke, Allison Adelle
The Bloodless Revolution: A Cultural History of Vegetarianism from 1600 to Modern Times/Stuart, Tristram
Blossoms of Fire/Not Available
Bob Dylan: Don't Look Back (Deluxe)/Pennebaker, D. a.
Body Count: Fixing the Blame for the Global AIDS Catastrophe/Gill, Peter
The Body Hunters: Testing New Drugs on the World's Poorest Patients/Shah, Sonia
Bonnie and Clyde/Penn, Arthur
The Book of Martyrdom and Artifice: First Journals and Poems, 1937-1952/Ginsberg, Allen
Boomsday/Buckley, Christopher
Born on a Blue Day: Inside the Extraordinary Mind of an Autistic Savant/Tammet, Daniel
Breakfast of Biodiversity: The Political Ecology of Rain Forest Destruction/Vandermeer, John
Breaking Silence: The Case That Changed the Face of Human Rights/White, Richard Alan
Buddhist Goddesses of India/Shaw, Miranda E.
A Burden of Silence: My Mother's Battle with AIDS/Draper, Nancy A.
Buried Secrets: Truth and Human Rights in Guatemala/Sanford, Victoria
Butterfly Weed/Harington, Donald
The Camel Bookmobile/Hamilton, Masha
Car Cultures/Miller, Daniel
The Castle in the Forest/Mailer, Norman
The Challenge of Human Rights: Origin, Development, and Significance/Mahoney, Jack
The Choiring of the Trees/Harington, Donald
Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll! (Special)/Hackford, Taylor
Citizen Ruth/Payne, Alexander
Claes Oldenburg Coosje Van Bruggen: Sculpture by the Way/Oldenburg, Claes
Classical World: An Epic History from Homer to Hadrian/Lane Fox, Robin
A Clockwork Orange/Burgess, Anthony
Collected Poems/Williams, C. K.
The Commercial Theater Institute Guide to Producing Plays and Musicals/Vogel, Frederic B.
A Commonwealth of Thieves: The Improbable Birth of Australia/Keneally, Thomas
The Complete Dictionary of Real Estate Terms Explained Simply: What Smart Investors Need to Know/Haden, Jeff
The Complete Poems, 1927-1979/Bishop, Elizabeth
The Concise Guide to Global Human Rights/Fischlin, Daniel
Confucius in 90 Minutes/Strathern Paul
The Constant Gardener/Meirelles, Fernando Fiennes
Conversational German/Pimsleur
Costa Rica/Beletsky, Les D.
The Courage of Strangers: Coming of Age with the Human Rights Movement/Laber, Jeri
Cracking the TOEFL iBT with CDROM (2007)/Pierce, Douglas
Crane Wife/Decemberists
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life/Bray, Kingsley M.
Creating the One-Shot Library Workshop: A Step-By-Step Guide/Veldof, Jerilyn
Creationism's Trojan Horse: The Wedge of Intelligent Design/Forrest, Barbara
The Creationists: From Scientific Creationism to Intelligent Design (Expanded)/Numbers, Ronald L.
Critical Companion to Emily Dickinson: A Literary Reference to Her Life and Work/Leiter, Sharon
Critical Companion to Herman Melville: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work/Rollyson, Carl
Critical Companion to Nathaniel Hawthorne: A Literary Reference to His Life and Work/Wright, Sarah Bird
The Crochet Answer Book/Eckman, Edie
Crocheting School: A Complete Course/Sterling Publishing Company
Cross-X/Miller, Joe
Cultural Amnesia: Necessary Memories from History and the Arts/James, Clive
Culture Sketches: Case Studies in Anthropology/Peters-Golden, Holly
Cultures Under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma/Robben, Antonius C. G. M.
Curse of the Golden Flower/Yimou, Zhang
The Da Vinci Code (Special)/Howard, Ron
The Dalai Lama at MIT/Harrington, Anne
Dawning Answers: How the HIV/AIDS Epidemic Has Helped to Strengthen Public Health/Valdiserri, Ronald O.
Dear Ghosts,/Gallagher, Tess
Death and the Maiden/Weaver, Sigourney
Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries/Tyson, Neil DeGrasse
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future/McKibben, Bill
Deep Tissue Massage Treatment: A Handbook of Neuromuscular Therapy/Fernandez, Enrique Fabian
Delights & Shadows/Kooser, Ted
Deliverance/Boorman, John
Design for Ecological Democracy/Hester, Randolph T.
The Devil Came on Horseback: Bearing Witness to the Genocide in Darfur/Steidle, Brian
The Devil's Picnic: Around the World in Pursuit of Forbidden Fruit/Grescoe, Taras
Disease and Democracy: The Industrialized World Faces AIDS/Baldwin, Peter
Dissent in America: Voices That Shaped a Nation/Young, Ralph F.
The Doors/Fong-Torres, Ben
Dream Angus: The Celtic God of Dreams/McCall Smith, Alexander
Dub: Soundscapes and Shattered Songs in Jamaican Reggae/Veal, Michael
ESL Writers: A Guide for Writing Center Tutors/Rafoth, Ben
Easy True Stories: A Picture-Based Beginning Reader/Heyer, Sandra
Eaters of the Dead: The Manuscript of Ibn Fadlan, Relating His Experiences with the Northmen in A.D. 922/Crichton, Michael
Edgar Allan Poe: Poems and Poetics/Poe, Edgar Allan
Eero Saarinen: Shaping the Future/Saarinen, Eero
Eight Preposterous Propositions: From the Genetics of Homose/Ehrlich, Robert
Einstein: His Life and Universe/Isaacson, Walter
Ekaterina/Harington, Donald
Emily Mason: The Fifth Element/Ebony, David
Emma Lazarus: Selected Poems: Selected Poems/Lazarus, Emma
Empire/Card, Orson Scott
The End of the Wild/Meyer, Stephen M.
English for New Americans: Everyday Life with Book(s) and Cassette(s) and Video and Workbook and CD (Audio) and DVD/Living Language
English for New Americans: Health, Home, and Community with Book(s) and Cassette(s) and Video and Workbook and CD (Audio) and DVD/Living Language
English for New Americans: Work and School with Book(s) and Cassette(s) and Video and Workbook and CD (Audio) and DVD/Living Language
The Epidemic: A Global History of AIDS/Engel, Jonathan
Esalen: America and the Religion of No Religion Kripal,/Jeffrey John
Essential Guitar Chords: Everything You Need to Play Basic Guitar/Hayman, Julian
The Essential Gwendolyn Brooks/Brooks, Gwendolyn
The Essential Writings of Christian Mysticism/McGinn, Bernard
Everything Is Illuminated/Schreiber, Liev
Evolution Vs. Creationism: An Introduction/Scott, Eugenie C.
Excuse Me, But I Was Next...:/How to Handle the Top 100 Manners Dilemmas Post, Peggy
Exile and the Kingdom/Camus, Albert
The Exonerated/Balaban, Bob
Farmworker's Daughter: Growing Up Mexican in America/Guilbault, Rose Castillo
Fateless/Koltai, Lajos
Fear and Trembling/Kierkegaard, Soren
Feeding the Future: From Fat to Famine, How to Solve the World's Food Crises/Heintzman, Andrew
Fight Club Politics: How Partisanship Is Poisoning the House of Representatives/Eilperin, Juliet
Fighting for Air: The Battle to Control America's Media/Klinenberg, Eric
Finn/Clinch, Jon
The Firefly Five Language Visual Dictionary: English, Spanish, French, German, Italian/Corbeil, Jean-Claude
A Fish Called Wanda (Deluxe)/Crichton, Charles
Flags of Our Fathers/Eastwood, Clint
Focus on Living: Portraits of Americans with HIV and AIDS/Banish, Roslyn
Food of the Gods: The Search for the Original Tree of Knowledge a Radical History of Plants, Drugs, and Human Evolution/McKenna, Terence
Forbidden Fruit: Sex & Religion in the Lives of American Teenagers/Regnerus, Mark
Forced to Flee: Human Rights and Human Wrongs in Refugee Homelands/Van Arsdale, Peter W.
Freedom from Want: The Human Right to Adequate Food/Kent, George
Freedom on Fire C/Shattuck, John
Freud: Inventor of the Modern Mind/Kramer, Peter D.
From the Palmer Raids to the Patriot Act: A History of the Fight for Free Speech in America/Finan, Christopher M.
Fueling the Future: How the Battle Over Energy Is Changing Everything/Heintzman, Andrew
The Future in the Balance: Essays on Globalization and Resistance/Bello, Walden
Genetic Engineering in Agriculture: The Myths, Environmental Risks, and Alternatives/Altieri, Miguel A.
The Gentle Subversive: Rachel Carson, Silent Spring, and the Rise of the Environmental Movement/Lytle, Mark H.
Gently Weeps/Shimabukuro, Jake
Getting Stoned with Savages: A Trip Through the Islands of Fiji and Vanuatu/Troost, J. Maarten
Global AIDS: Myths and Facts: Tools for Fighting the AIDS Pandemic/Irwin, Alexander
Global Business Etiquette: A Guide to International Communication and Customs/Martin, Jeanette S.
A Global History of Architecture/Ching, Francis D. K.
The God Delusion/Dawkins, Richard
God Is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything/Hitchens, Christopher
God or the Girl/Not Available
The Golden Age: Poems of the Spanish Renaissance/Grossman, Edith
Grand Canyon: Solving Earth's Grandest Puzzle/Powell, James Lawrence
The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited/Romer, John
Gunner Palace/Epperlein, Petra
HIV and AIDS in Africa: Beyond Epidemiology/Craddock, Susan
The Haitian Vodou Handbook: Protocols for Riding with the Lwa/Filan, Kenaz
Half Nelson/Not Available
Hamas: Politics, Charity, and Terrorism in the Service of Jihad/Levitt, Matthew
A Handbook for Citizenship/Seely, Margaret
Harlem Speaks: A Living History of the Harlem Renaissance with CD (Audio) Wintz, Cary D.
Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle/Leiner, Danny
Hart Crane: Complete Poems and Selected Letters/Crane, Hart
Heidegger in 90 Minutes/Strathern, Paul
Hell and High Water: Global Warming--The Solution and the Politics--And What We Should Do/Romm, Joseph J.
Hell's Angels: A Strange and Terrible Saga/Thompson, Hunter S.
The Helmet of Horror: The Myth of Theseus and the Minotaur/Pelevin, Victor
Helping Your Teenager Beat Depression: A Problem-Solving Approach for Families/Manassis, Katharina
The History of Human Rights: From Ancient Times to the Globalization Era/Ishay, Micheline
History's Great Untold Stories: The Larger Than Life Characters and Dramatic Events That Changed the World/Cummins, Joseph
The Holy Vote: The Politics of Faith in America/Suarez, Ray
Holy Week: A Novel of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising/Andrzejewski, Jerzy
Home Ground: Language for an American Landscape/Lopez, Barry
The Homeowner's Guide to Renewable Energy: Achieving Energy Independence Through Solar, Wind, Biomass and Hydropower/Chiras, Dan
Hostile Takeover: How Big Money & Corruption Conquered Our Government--And How We Take It Back/Sirota, David
House of Rain: Tracking a Vanished Civilization Across the American Southwest/Childs, Craig
How Everyday Products Make People Sick: Toxins at Home and in the Workplace/Blanc, Paul David
How We Got to Be Human: Subjective Minds with Objective Bodies/Libaw, William H.
How to Prepare for the GRE with CDROM/Green, Sharon Weiner
How to Read a Novel: A User's Guide/Sutherland, John
The Human Rights Reader: Major Political Essays, Speeches and Documents from the Bible to the Present/Ishay, Micheline
Human Rights Watch World Report 2007 (2007)/Human Rights Watch
Human Rights Worldwide: A Reference Handbook (Revised)/Arat, Zehra F.
Human Rights and Wrongs: Slavery, Terror, Genocide/Fein, Helen
Human Rights in Cross-Cultural Perspectives/An-Na'im, Abdullahi Ahmed
Human Rights in World Politics/Brown
Human Rights in the 'War on Terror'/Wilson, Richard A.
The Human Tradition in the Civil Rights Movement/Glisson, Susan
The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Envionmentalism/Sachs, Aaron
I Die, But My Memory Lives on: The World AIDS Crisis and the Memory Book Project/Mankell, Henning
I Know What I Know: The Music of Charles Mingus/Jenkins, Todd S.
I Shot Andy Warhol/Harron, Mary
I'll Sleep When I'm Dead: The Dirty Life and Times of Warren Zevon/Zevon, Crystal
Iggy Pop: Open Up and Bleed/Trynka, Paul
Illuminated Poems/Ginsberg, Allen
An Imperfect God: George Washington, His Slaves, and the Creation of America/Wiencek, Henry
Impotence: A Cultural History/McLaren, Angus
Improving the Quality of Library Services for Students with Disabilities/Hernon, Peter
In & Out/Oz, Frank
Information Architecture for Information Professionals/Batley, Sue
Information Architecture for the World Wide Web/Morville, Peter
The Information Commons Handbook/Beagle, Donald Robert
International Human Rights (Third)/Donnelly, Jack
International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law: Treaties, Cases, and Analysis/Martin, Francisco Forrest
The International Story: An Anthology with Guidelines for Reading and Writing about Fiction/Spack, Ruth
Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose the Myth of a Free Press/Borjesson, Kristina
Into the Vietnamese Kitchen: Treasured Foodways, Modern Flavors/Nguyen, Andrea Quynhgiao
Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man/Peterson, Dale
Jesus in the Talmud/Schafer, Peter
Jet Li's Fearless/Yu, Ronny
John Sutter: A Life on the North American Frontier/Hurtado, Albert L.
John Tyler: The Accidental President/Crapol, Edward P.
The Judges: A Penetrating Exploration of American Courts and of the New Decisions--Hard Decisions--They Must Make for a New.../Mayer, Martin
Just Enough AutoCAD 2007/Omura, George
Just a Dog: Understanding Animal Cruelty and Ourselves/Arluke, Arnold
Karl Shapiro Selected Poems/Shapiro, Karl Jay
Kenneth Koch: Selected Poems/Padgett, Ron
The Kitchen Sink: New and Selected Poems: 1972-2007/Goldbarth, Albert
Knit Fix: Problem Solving for Knitters/Kartus, Lisa
Knitting with Balls: A Hands-On Guide to Knitting for the Modern Man/Del Vecchio, Michael
Labor Rights Are Civil Rights: Mexican American Workers in Twentieth-Century America/Vargas, Zaragosa
The Language of Real Estate/Reilly, John
Lassie/Sturridge, Charles
The Last King of Scotland/MacDonald, Kevin
The Last True Story I'll Ever Tell: An Accidental Soldier's Account of the War in Iraq/Crawford, John
Late Wife: Poems/Emerson, Claudia
LeMay/Tillman, Barrett
Lennie Tristano: His Life in Music/Shim, Eunmi
Letting Them Die: Why HIV/AIDS Prevention Programmes Fail/Campbell, Catherine
Lewis and Clark Road Trips: Exploring the Trail Across America/Gale, Kira
Liberty: The Lives and Times of Six Women in Revolutionary France/Moore, Lucy
The Librarian: Quest for the Spear (Extended)/Winther, Peter
The Little Book of Plagiarism/Posner, Richard A.
Little Women/Armstrong, Gillian
The Lonely Planet Guide to the Middle of Nowhere/Bain, Andrew
The Long Exile: A Tale of Inuit Betrayal and Survival in the High Arctic/McGrath, Melanie
The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11/Wright, Lawrence
The Lost Gospel of Judas Iscariot: A New Look at Betrayer and Betrayed/Ehrman, Bart D.
The Lost World of James Smithson: Science, Revolution, and the Birth of the Smithsonian/Ewing, Heather
Louis Zukofsky: Selected Poems/Zukofsky, Louis
Love/Beatles
The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil/Zimbardo, Philip G.
Lucyus Legacy: Sex and Intelligence in Human Evolution/Jolly, Alison
Mad Sheep: The True Story Behind the USDA's War on a Family Farm/Faillace, Linda
Making Globalization Work/Stiglitz, Joseph E.
Making Peace: A Reading/Writing/Thinking Text on Global Community/Brooks, Elaine
The Making of the Fittest: DNA and the Ultimate Forensic Record of Evolution/Carroll, Sean B.
A Man Without a Country/Vonnegut, Kurt, Jr.
Man's Place in Nature/Huxley, Thomas Henry
The Many Faces of God: Science's 400-Year Quest for Images of the Divine/Campbell, Jeremy
Marc Chagall and the Lost Jewish World: The Nature of Chagall's Art and Iconography/Harshav, Benjamin
Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present/Washington, Harriet A.
Mexican Modern: Masters of the 20th Century/Lozano, Luis-Martin
The Mighty and the Almighty: Reflections on America, God, and World Affairs/Albright, Madeleine
Missing/Lemmon, Jack
Modern Times/Dylan, Bob
Monty Python's Life of Brian/Jones, Terry
Moral Minority: Our Skeptical Founding Fathers/Allen, Brooke
The Most Famous Man in America: The Biography of Henry Ward Beecher/Applegate, Debby
Moveable Feasts: The History, Science, and Lore of Food/McNamee, Gregory
Moving Mountains: The Race to Treat Global AIDS/D'Adesky, Anne-Christine
Muhammad: A Prophet for Our Time/Armstrong, Karen
Muses, Madmen, and Prophets: Rethinking the History, Science, and Meaning of Auditory Hallucination/Smith, Daniel B.
My Brother Is Getting Arrested Again/Fried, Daisy
My Pet Virus: The True Story of a Rebel Without a Cure/Decker, Shawn
My War: Killing Time in Iraq/Buzzell, Colby
Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe/Cahill, Thomas
The Mystery of the Kaddish: Its Profound Influence on Judaism/Charney, Leon
Naked Angels: Kerouac, Ginsberg, Burroughs/Tytell, John
Naming Evil, Judging Evil/Grant, Ruth Weissbourd
Nancy Crow:/Crow, Nancy
Native Guard/Trethewey, Natasha
Natural Causes: Death, Lies and Politics in America's Vitamin and Herbal Supplement Industry/Hurley, Dan
Neil Young: Heart of Gold (Collector's)/Demme, Jonathan
Never Despair: Sixty Years in the Service of the Jewish People and of Human Rights/Riegner, Gerhart M.
Never Give Up: Vignettes from Sub-Saharan Africa in the Age of AIDS/Winge, Kevin
The New Economy of Nature: The Quest to Make Conservation Profitable/Daily, Gretchen C.
New News Out of Africa: Uncovering Africa's Renaissance/Hunter-Gault, Charlayne
The New Rules of Posture: How to Sit, Stand, and Move in the Modern World/Bond, Mary
New Transport Architecture/Jones, Will
Not by Genes Alone: How Culture Transformed Human Evolution/Richerson, Peter J.
Notebooks/Williams, Tennessee
Obsolete Objects in the Literary Imagination: Ruins, Relics, Rarities, Rubbish, Uninhabited Places, and Hidden Treasures/Orlando, Francesco
The Obwl6: Oliver Twist: Level 6: 2,500 Word Vocabulary/Rogers, Richard
Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the Great Plains/Ashworth, William
The Old Way: A Story of the First People/Thomas, Elizabeth Marshall
Operation Homecoming: Iraq, Afghanistan, and the Home Front, in the Words of U.S. Troops and Their Families/Carroll, Andrew
Oracle Bones: A Journey Through Time in China/Hessler, Peter
Orson Welles: Vol 2: Hello Americans/Callow, Simon
Out of the Shadows: A Biographical History of African American Athletes/Wiggins, David K.
The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids/Robbins, Alexandra
Oxford Bookworms Library CD Packs Adventures of Tom Sawyer: Oxford Bookworms Library CD Packs Adventures of Tom Sawyer/Twain, Mark
Oxford Bookworms Library CD Packs Goodbye, Mr. Hollywood: Oxford Bookworms Library CD Packs Goodbye, Mr. Hollywood/Escott, John
Oxford Bookworms Library CD Packs Huckleberry Finn: Oxford Bookworms Library CD Packs Huckleberry Finn/Twain, Mark
Oxford Bookworms Library Level 5 Sense and Sensibility: Level 5 Sense and Sensibility/Austen, Jane
The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: 1,800 Headwords Far from the Madding Crowd/West, Clare
The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: 1,800 Headwords Wuthering Heights/West, Clare
The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 5: 1,800 Headwords the Garden Party and Other Stories/Kerr, Rosalie
The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 6: 2,500 Headwords Pride and Prejudice/West, Clare
The Oxford Bookworms Library: Stage 6: 2,500 Headwords Tess of the D'Urbervilles/West, Clare
Oxford Picture Dictionary English/Spanish/Shapiro, Norma
Painting People: Figure Painting Today/Mullins, Charlotte
Pandemic: Facing AIDS/Annan, Kofi
Pans Labyrinth/Not Available
Paper or Plastic: Searching for Solutions to an Overpackaged World/Imhoff, Daniel
Paradox of Plenty: Hunger in a Bountiful World/Boucher, Douglas H.
A Parent's Guide to Childhood Obesity: A Roadmap to Health/Hassink, Sandra G., MD
Paris: The Secret History/Hussey, Andrew
Passion and Principle: John and Jessie Fremont, the Couple Whose Power, Politics, and Love Shaped Nineteenth-Century America/Denton, Sally
The Path of Alchemy: Energetic Healing and the World of Natural Magic/Stavish, Mark
Path of Destruction: The Devastation of New Orleans and the Coming Age of Superstorms/McQuaid, John
The Penelopiad: The Myth of Penelope and Odysseus/Atwood, Margaret
Perilous Times: Free Speech in Wartime from the Sedition Act of 1798 to the War on Terrorism/Stone, Geoffrey R.
The Pesthouse/Crace, Jim
Peterson's Study Abroad (2007)/Peterson's Guides
Peyton Place/Metalious, Grace
The Philosophy of Martin Scorsese/Conard, Mark T.
The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights/Roht-Arriaza, Naomi
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Special)/Verbinski, Gore
Podcasting Bible/Mack, Steve
Poets of World War II/Shapiro, Harvey
Polarized America: The Dance of Ideology and Unequal Riches/McCarty, Nolan
Polymer Clay Creative Traditions: Techniques and Projects Inspired by the Fine and Decorative Arts/Belcher, Judy
Poor People/Vollmann, William T.
Post-Bellum, Pre-Harlem: African American Literature and Culture, 1877-1919/McCaskill, Barbara
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast/Abbey, Edward
The Power of a Positive No: How to Say No and Still Get to Yes/Ury, William
Pretty Poison/Black, Noel
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide/Power, Samantha
The Proposition/Hillcoat, John
Psychiatric Dimensions of HIV and AIDS/American Psychiatric Association
The Quest for Environmental Justice: Human Rights and the Politics of Pollution/Bullard, Robert D.
The Qur'an: A Biography/Lawrence, Bruce
Rabble-Rouser for Peace: The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu/Allen, John
Radicals for Capitalism: A Freewheeling History of the Modern American Libertarian Movement/Doherty, Brian
Rainforest/Marent, Thomas
Raising Less Corn, More Hell: The Case for the Independent Farm and Against Industrial Agriculture/Pyle, George B.
Random House Webster's Easy English Dictionary Advanced/Random House
Random House Webster's Easy English Dictionary Beginner/Random House
Random House Webster's Easy English Dictionary Intermediate/Random House
Range of Light/Brosman, Catharine Savage
Raptors of North America: Natural History and Conservation/Snyder, Noel
Real Estate Handbook/Friedman, Jack P.
Realizing Human Rights: Moving from Inspiration to Impact/Power, Samantha
Recyclopedia: Trimmings, S*PeRM**K*T, and Muse & Drudge/Mullen, Harryette
Reds/Not Available
Religious Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know--And Doesn't/Prothero, Stephen
A Republic of Mind and Spirit: A Cultural History of American Metaphysical Religion/Albanese, Catherine
Reservoir Dogs/Not Available
Richard Estes:/Wilmerding, John
Richard Pryor: Live in Concert/Margolis, Jeff
The Riddle of the Sands/Childers, Erskine
The Road/McCarthy, Cormac
The Road to Guantanamo/Winterbottom, Michael
Robert Rauschenberg: Combines/Rauschenberg, Robert
Roll the Bones: The History of Gambling/Schwartz, David G.
Roman Catholicism and Modern Science: A History/O'Leary, Don
The Rough Guide to Climate Change: The Symptoms, the Science, the Solutions/Henson, Robert
Rousseau in 90 Minutes/Strathern, Paul
Running Within: A Guide to Mastering the Body-Mind-Spirit Connection for Ultimate Training and Racing/Lynch, Jerry
Sailing from Byzantium: How a Lost Empire Shaped the World/Wells, Colin
Salvador (Special)/Stone, Oliver
Samuel Menashe: New and Selected Poems/Menashe, Samuel
The Secret Epidemic: The Story of AIDS and Black America/Levenson, Jacob
The Secret History of Al Qaeda/Atwan, Abdel Bari
The Secret of Roan Inish/Sayles, John
Selected Poems by John Greenleaf Whittier/Whittier, John Greenleaf
Selected Poems by Kenneth Fearing/Fearing, Kenneth
Selected Poems by Muriel Rukeyser/Rukeyser, Muriel
Selling Women Short: The Landmark Battle for Workers' Rights at Wal-Mart/Featherstone, Liza
A Sense of the World: How a Blind Man Became History's Greatest Traveler/Roberts, Jason
Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS/Farber, Celia
The Seventeen Traditions/Nader, Ralph
Sex in Development: Science, Sexuality, and Morality in Global Perspective/Adams, Vincanne
Shafted.: Free Trade and America's Working Poor/Ahn, Christine
The Shape of Things to Come: Prophecy and the American Voice/Marcus, Greil
Sherrybaby/Collyer, Laurie
The Show I'll Never Forget: 50 Writers Relive Their Most Memorable Concert-Going Experience/Manning, Sean
Shut Up and Sing/Kopple, Barbara
The Sign of the Cross: The Gesture, the Mystery, the History/Andreopoulos, Andreas
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy/Toll, Ian W.
Six Modern Plagues: And How We Are Causing Them/Walters, Mark Jerome
The Skeptic's Guide to the Global AIDS Crisis: Tough Questions Direct Answers (Revised)/Bourke, Dale Hanson
Skin: A Natural History/Jablonski, Nina G.
Snow/Pamuk, Orhan
Some Other Place. The Right Place (To)/Harington, Donald
Some of the Dharma/Kerouac, Jack
Something in the Air: Radio, Rock, and the Revolution That Shaped a Generation/Fisher, Marc
South Park: The Passion of the Jew/Not Available
Speak Truth to Power: Human Rights Defenders Who Are Changing Our World/Kennedy, Kerry
Splay Anthem:/Mackey, Nathaniel
Sports Injuries: Diagnosis and Management/Norris, Christopher M.
Start Your Own Blogging Business: Generate Income from Advertisers, Subscribers, Merchandising and More/Entrepreneur Press
Step Into Liquid/Brown, Dana
Surrealism and the Spanish Civil War/Greeley, Robin Adele
Sustainability on Campus: Stories and Strategies for Change/Barlett, Peggy F.
Sustainable Agriculture and Resistance/Funes, Fernando
TOEFL iBT with CDROM (2007-2008)/Kaplan
Tainted Legacy: 9/11 and the Ruin of Human Rights/Schulz, William F.
Talk to Me: Travels in Media and Politics/Smith, Anna Deavere
Tallgrass/Dallas, Sandra
The Talmud: What It Is and What It Says/Neusner, Jacob
Teach Like Your Hair's on Fire: The Methods and Madness Inside Room 56/Esquith, Rafe
Teaching ESL/Efl with the Internet: Catching the Wave/Feyten, Carine M.
Teenagers, HIV, and AIDS: Insights from Youths Living with the Virus/Lyon, Maureen E.
Teresa of Avila: The Book of My Life/Starr, Mirabai
Thelma & Louise (Special Edition/ /: 1/Fr-Sp-Po)/Scott, Ridley
There Are No Shortcuts/Esquith, Rafe
Thirst/Oliver, Mary
This Film Is Not Yet Rated/Not Available
This Is Your Brain on Music: The Science of a Human Obsession/Levitin, Daniel J.
Thomas Hardy: The Guarded Life/Pite, Ralph
A Thousand Splendid Suns/Hosseini, Khaled
Three Novels of Ancient Egypt: Khufu's Wisdom/Rhadopis of Nubia/Thebes at War/Mahfouz, Naguib
Thumbs, Toes, and Tears: And Other Traits That Make Us Human/Walter, Chip
Timothy Leary: A Biography/Greenfield, Robert
To Inherit the Earth: The Landless Movement and the Struggle for a New Brazil/Wright, Angus Lindsay
Too Far from Home: A Story of Life and Death in Space/Jones, Chris
The Torture Debate in America/Greenberg, Karen J.
Torture and Truth: America, Abu Ghraib, and the War on Terror/Danner, Mark
Touring the Sierra Nevada/Koehler, Cheryl Angelina
Toussaint Louverture: A Biography/Bell, Madison Smartt
Training of the American Actor/Bartow, Arthur
Trance Fusion/Zappa, Frank
The Triplets of Belleville/Chomet, Sylvain
Tsotsi:/Hood, Gavin
Turtle Island/Snyder, Gary
The U.S. Vs. John Lennon/Not Available
Unbowed/Maathai, Wangari
Uncouth Nation: Why Europe Dislikes America/Markovits, Andrei S.
Undermining Science: Suppression and Distortion in the Bush Administration/Shulman, Seth
Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights/Hartmann, Thom
Universal Human Rights in Theory and Practice/Donnelly, Jack
Views from the South: The Effects of Globalization and the WTO on Third World Countries/Anderson, Sarah
A Vindication of the Rights of Woman/Wollstonecraft, Mary
Violence Over the Land: Indians and Empires in the Early American West/Blackhawk, Ned
Virtual Job Interview/Not Available
Volver/Not Available
Voyages of the Self: Pairs, Parallels, and Patterns in American Art and Literature/Novak, Barbara
Walking to Martha's Vineyard/Wright, Franz
Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American Imagination/Gabler, Neal
Walt Whitman and the Culture of American Celebrity/Blake, David
War and the Soul: Healing Our Nation's Veterans from Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder/Tick, Edward
The War of the World: Twentieth-Century Conflict and the Descent of the West/Ferguson, Niall
Weight: The Myth of Atlas and Heracles/Winterson, Jeanette
What If Everything You Thought You Knew about AIDS Was Wrong? (Revised)/Maggiore, Christine
What Is Good and Why: The Ethics of Well-Being/Kraut, Richard
What Wildness Is This: Women Write about the Southwest/Albert, Susan Wittig
Where Vultures Feast: Shell, Human Rights, and Oil in the Niger Delta/Okonta, Ike
The White Man's Burden: Why the West's Efforts to Aid the Rest Have Done So Much Ill and So Little Good/Easterly, William
Why Aren't More Women in Science?: Top Researchers Debate the Evidence/Ceci, Stephen J.
Wikinomics: How Mass Collaboration Changes Everything/Tapscott, Don
Wikis: Tools for Information Work and Collaboration/Klobas, Jane
Wildfire: A Century of Failed Forest Policy/Wuerthner, George
Will the Circle Be Unbroken: Country Music in America/Kingsbury, Paul
Witches, Westerners, and HIV: AIDS & Cultures of Blame in Africa/Rodlach, Alexander
With Speed and Violence: Why Scientists Fear Tipping Points in Climate Change/Pearce, Fred
The Words and Music of Frank Zappa/Lowe, Kelly Fisher
Workable Sisterhood: The Political Journey of Stigmatized Women with HIV/AIDS/Berger, Michele Tracy
The World of the Polar Bear/Rosing, Norbert
World on Fire: How Exporting Free Market Democracy Breeds Ethnic Hatred and Global Instability/Chua, Amy
Yell Fire/Franti, Michael
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles/Gayford, Martin
Yi Yi: A One and a Two/Yang, Edward
The Yiddish Policemen's Union/Chabon, Michael
You Have the Power: Choosing Courage in a Culture of Fear/Lappe, Frances Moore
Yvor Winters: Selected Poems/Winters, Yvor
5.29.2007
New Flicks!
Howdy folks! Here's a list of new movies, with links to their IMDB pages, that we have available in the library as of last week:
Babel
Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back (1965 Tour Deluxe Edition)
Citizen Ruth
The Constant Gardener
Death and the Maiden
Everything is Illuminated
The Exonerated
Jet Li's Fearless
Flags of Our Fathers
Gunner Palace
Harold & Kumar go to White Castle
I Shot Andy Warhol
The Librarian : the quest for the spear
Missing
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
The Proposition
Reds
Reservoir Dogs : 15th Anniversary Edition
Richard Pryor Live in Concert
The road to Guantanamo
Salvador
The Secret of Roan Inish
SherryBaby
Thelma & Louise
This Film is Not Yet Rated
The Triplets of Belleville
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Volver
Yi Yi: One and a Two
Come on up and check out some of these very cool titles.
Babel
Bob Dylan - Don't Look Back (1965 Tour Deluxe Edition)
Citizen Ruth
The Constant Gardener
Death and the Maiden
Everything is Illuminated
The Exonerated
Jet Li's Fearless
Flags of Our Fathers
Gunner Palace
Harold & Kumar go to White Castle
I Shot Andy Warhol
The Librarian : the quest for the spear
Missing
Monty Python's Life of Brian
Neil Young: Heart of Gold
The Proposition
Reds
Reservoir Dogs : 15th Anniversary Edition
Richard Pryor Live in Concert
The road to Guantanamo
Salvador
The Secret of Roan Inish
SherryBaby
Thelma & Louise
This Film is Not Yet Rated
The Triplets of Belleville
The U.S. vs. John Lennon
Volver
Yi Yi: One and a Two
Come on up and check out some of these very cool titles.
4.26.2007
And the Winners Are...
The Colorado Mountain College Alpine Campus Library 1st Annual Fish-ku Contest Entries and Results
This April the Alpine Campus Library celebrated National Poetry Month by combining a student art display with a Haiku writing contest. Art Professor Joel Allen’s Sculpture I students completed paper fish sculptures which they hung from the rafters in the library, and Alpine Campus Library patrons wrote fish-related Haiku to compete for a Trout Bum Diaries DVD. We are pleased to present our first place winner, honorable mention winners and all 36 entries below, accompanied by pictures of our student art. Please feel free to use the comments feature to give your own Fish-ku awards!
Many thanks to our creative campus for your enthusiastic participation. You guys rock!!
1st Place Fish-ku Winner - Jonathan Bowler:
Myriad Caddis
Cloud above gentle ripples
Rainbows are rising.
Special Language Skills Honor, also known as the “Charles Bukowski Too Much Information Award” for Using the Word “Taint” in a Haiku – Bruce Beckum:
I like fishing nude
The fish don’t seem to mind…much
They check out my taint.
Honorable Mention Categories
Way to Work Those Syllables – Student Honorable Mention – Jordan Mann:
Little fish, Big name
Humuhumunukunu –
Kuapua’a
Way to Work Those Syllables – Faculty/Staff Honorable Mention – Mike Brumbaugh:
Snap pause pause snap pause
Snap pause pause pause pause pause pause…
Damn! Tangled again!
Fish-ku Bravery - Student Honorable Mention – Clay Hamilton:
Un-catch that fish!
Dream hooks into your own cheek!
How hungry are you?
Fish-Ku Bravery Faculty Honorable Mention - Bob Gumbrecht:
Fishing is a cruel
And unnecessary sport
Leave ‘em alone, dude.
Fish-Ku Atttitude Honorable Mention – Warren D.:
I am a fish, bitch
You can watch me swim away
My eyes watch you try.
Fish-ku Proliferation Honorable Mention Awards – Joel Allen, Bruce Beckum, Mike Brumbaugh and Marlene Horace:
Joel Allen:
Bubbles bleeping out
My eyes bulging all about
I see you swim by.
Students and paper fish
Both just floating through life
In the library.
Oh my, something smells
Is that the odor of fish
Or are you just sad?
Hook, line and sinker
Caught in the current and flow
Upstream I struggle.
Bruce Beckum:
I live to catch fish
Even watching others fish
Touching something wild.
Flying through water
I ache for the mystery
Of the air and land.
My eyes have no lids
You’ll never catch me sleeping
Life is but a dream.
Mike Brumbaugh:
You awaiting me
I assuaging your hunger
A mere fly unites.
Tippett lashes sky
Rainbow scales beat into foam
My heart pounds with joy.
Real fishing for trout –
Not “A River Runs through it…
But “Dazed and Confused”!
Amazing Sunrise
Glowing on perfect dead drift –
Fish and man both hooked!
Marlene Horace:
My fish bait is here....
Lurking in shadowy depths
I want to catch you!
Hey there bright fishies
Looking for food all day long...
What's it gonna be?
Try Scuba Diving
Looking Face to Face at Fish
All Around the Reef
Interesting Fish Dance
Entwining Bodies Ballet
Disney's Fantasia!
And here are the rest of the awesome Fish-ku entries!!
Cutter Shea:
Life is a river
With waterfalls and rapids
Swim your way upstream.
Albert Saavedra:
Do you eat catfish?
They taste so good when baked right.
So enjoy joy it.
Weston Kessler:
I am not a fish
I’m a bird of the water
You should see me fly.
Kristin Weber:
Paper fish sculptures
Swimming through flags and rafters.
Library Fish Bowl!!
David Willis:
Mayflies hatch swarming
Then disappear in the swirl
Of a hungry trout
Kevin Williams:
A short cast upstream
Fake the natural movement
With hair and feathers.
Clay Hamilton:
Watch water flowing
Sweeping fish into stillness
Jump in and be still.
Sandy Kent:
I like to eat fish
They taste good
Especially fresh.
Bob Gumbrecht:
Fishing is peaceful?
Just catch and release my ass.
Your fun, their torture.
If a fish could talk
How would you explain yourself
As he dangled there?
David Byrne:
letting days go by
letting water hold me down
letting days go by
Unsigned Fish-ku
Shred the pow pow now
But since it’s fishing season
Go catch a big one.
Tuna fish tuna
Stinky little tuna fish
Whatcha gona do?
Trout, without a doubt,
Drink like fish – never alone
Together in schools.
And Finally – A Fish-Ku Bong Water Entry
N. McNeice:
It’s not that life sucks
It’s just you’re dead for so long
So hit this darn bong.
4.19.2007
Library Survey!
Howdy all!
Please go here, and fill out our library survey. The survey link is at the top of the page.
It's your library, and this is a chance for you to tell us how we can improve our services; and, also, a chance for you to hopefully tell us the things we're doing well.
Thanks very much to Meeta and her IR crew for getting the survey online for us this year.
If you're unable to do it online, we also have paper surveys available in the library, the open computer lab, the student services office, and the schaffrick lounge.
Thanks everyone!
Please go here, and fill out our library survey. The survey link is at the top of the page.
It's your library, and this is a chance for you to tell us how we can improve our services; and, also, a chance for you to hopefully tell us the things we're doing well.
Thanks very much to Meeta and her IR crew for getting the survey online for us this year.
If you're unable to do it online, we also have paper surveys available in the library, the open computer lab, the student services office, and the schaffrick lounge.
Thanks everyone!
4.09.2007
stepitup07
Coming to Steamboat Springs on APRIL 14, 2007! Step It Up 2007!
You may have read articles or books by Bill McKibben such as The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, or his most recent, Deep Economy. Within the past year he has stepped beyond the role of author to that of activist. In an effort to draw attention to global climate change titled STEP IT UP ’07, Mr. McKibben has initiated a nationwide campaign to gather people together within their communities on April 14, this coming Saturday: "If we're going to make the kind of change we need in the short time left us, we need something that looks like the civil rights movement, and we need it now. Changing light bulbs just isn't enough…. Every group will be saying the same thing: Step it up, Congress! Enact immediate cuts in carbon emissions, and pledge an 80% reduction by 2050. No half measures, no easy compromises-the time has come to take the real actions that can stabilize our climate.”
Step it Up is a nationwide campaign comprised of over 1000 events in 50 states rallying around the need for bold and immediate action on the issue of global warming. Events are being held in every corner of the country, from Maine to Hawaii, and Seattle to Key West. The events are taking place in major cities, iconic locations and small towns across America. The events have been organized by organizations and individuals from all walks of life who agree on one thing: the need for substantial and rapid action in order to stave off the disastrous effects of global warming. For more information, please visit stepitup2007.org.
Here's a summary of what's going to be happening in Steamboat Springs:
WHAT: Yampa Valley residents concerned about the catastrophic effects of global warming will participate in various activities (skiing, boarding, walking, biking, and kayaking) to urge Congress to put America on the path towards reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
WHERE and WHEN: Skiers and Boarders: meet at the bottom of the Gondola at 10:00 am
Walkers: meet at the Stockbridge Transit Center to walk the Core Trail at 10:00 am (return by SST bus if desired)
Kayakers: meet at Backdoor Sports at 3 pm
Bikers: meet at Orange Peel Bike Shop at 3:00 pm
Evening Potluck: 6 pm, location to be announced
Bring a potluck dish or beverages to share
Bring a candle to light our dinner
CONTACT: Becca Gentile or Linda Lewis
Step it Up Yampa Valley event organizers
Call: 879-8691
E-Mail: dinebycandlelight@gmail.com
You may have read articles or books by Bill McKibben such as The End of Nature, Enough: Staying Human in an Engineered Age, or his most recent, Deep Economy. Within the past year he has stepped beyond the role of author to that of activist. In an effort to draw attention to global climate change titled STEP IT UP ’07, Mr. McKibben has initiated a nationwide campaign to gather people together within their communities on April 14, this coming Saturday: "If we're going to make the kind of change we need in the short time left us, we need something that looks like the civil rights movement, and we need it now. Changing light bulbs just isn't enough…. Every group will be saying the same thing: Step it up, Congress! Enact immediate cuts in carbon emissions, and pledge an 80% reduction by 2050. No half measures, no easy compromises-the time has come to take the real actions that can stabilize our climate.”
Step it Up is a nationwide campaign comprised of over 1000 events in 50 states rallying around the need for bold and immediate action on the issue of global warming. Events are being held in every corner of the country, from Maine to Hawaii, and Seattle to Key West. The events are taking place in major cities, iconic locations and small towns across America. The events have been organized by organizations and individuals from all walks of life who agree on one thing: the need for substantial and rapid action in order to stave off the disastrous effects of global warming. For more information, please visit stepitup2007.org.
Here's a summary of what's going to be happening in Steamboat Springs:
WHAT: Yampa Valley residents concerned about the catastrophic effects of global warming will participate in various activities (skiing, boarding, walking, biking, and kayaking) to urge Congress to put America on the path towards reducing carbon emissions 80% by 2050.
WHERE and WHEN: Skiers and Boarders: meet at the bottom of the Gondola at 10:00 am
Walkers: meet at the Stockbridge Transit Center to walk the Core Trail at 10:00 am (return by SST bus if desired)
Kayakers: meet at Backdoor Sports at 3 pm
Bikers: meet at Orange Peel Bike Shop at 3:00 pm
Evening Potluck: 6 pm, location to be announced
Bring a potluck dish or beverages to share
Bring a candle to light our dinner
CONTACT: Becca Gentile or Linda Lewis
Step it Up Yampa Valley event organizers
Call: 879-8691
E-Mail: dinebycandlelight@gmail.com
4.03.2007
Library Liaisons And Subject Groupings
Howdy folks. I realize it's been awhile since we posted - this blog is proving more difficult to keep up with than we had originally anticipated. But we're going to redouble our efforts with the intent of making it an almost daily thing.
Months ago, the library staff decided to split up Collection Development responsibilities into 5 main divisional/subject categories. The intent was for each of the library staff to take one of these 5 main areas, thereby making the process less confusing for us, and, more importantly, less confusing for the faculty. And then...
The semester began. And we got busy. And the old backburner kicked in, and that's where this idea stayed for many months.
Well, even though we're not really any less busy now, it's about time this idea was taken off the backburner (because it's starting to smell funny). So, without further ado, here are the 5 main subject areas and the library people to whom they're assigned:
Math/Science & Vocational: David Willis (I have 2 since there are only 4 of us)
English/Humanities: Kristin Weber
Business/Computer Science: Kevin Williams
Social Science: Diane Brower
These are the people faculty should contact with subject specific questions about collection development, things you'd like to see the library buy, things you'd like to see the library do, etc. Additionally, we'll be making contact with faculty before summer to try and establish these new avenues of communication.
Thanks to everyone for your support of the library. You're our experts, and we couldn't do any of this without you. See below for contact information.
David Willis: ph 970.870.4451 email dwillis@coloradomtn.edu
Kristin Weber: ph 970.870.4449 email kweber@coloradomtn.edu
Kevin Williams: ph 970.870.4493 email kwilliams@coloradomtn.edu
Diane Brower: ph 970.870.4445 email dbrower@coloradomtn.edu
Months ago, the library staff decided to split up Collection Development responsibilities into 5 main divisional/subject categories. The intent was for each of the library staff to take one of these 5 main areas, thereby making the process less confusing for us, and, more importantly, less confusing for the faculty. And then...
The semester began. And we got busy. And the old backburner kicked in, and that's where this idea stayed for many months.
Well, even though we're not really any less busy now, it's about time this idea was taken off the backburner (because it's starting to smell funny). So, without further ado, here are the 5 main subject areas and the library people to whom they're assigned:
Math/Science & Vocational: David Willis (I have 2 since there are only 4 of us)
English/Humanities: Kristin Weber
Business/Computer Science: Kevin Williams
Social Science: Diane Brower
These are the people faculty should contact with subject specific questions about collection development, things you'd like to see the library buy, things you'd like to see the library do, etc. Additionally, we'll be making contact with faculty before summer to try and establish these new avenues of communication.
Thanks to everyone for your support of the library. You're our experts, and we couldn't do any of this without you. See below for contact information.
David Willis: ph 970.870.4451 email dwillis@coloradomtn.edu
Kristin Weber: ph 970.870.4449 email kweber@coloradomtn.edu
Kevin Williams: ph 970.870.4493 email kwilliams@coloradomtn.edu
Diane Brower: ph 970.870.4445 email dbrower@coloradomtn.edu
3.08.2007
It's been awhile...
but we're back.
With some interesting news about the library's online catalog:
1. You know in google, when you misspell something, and it asks you "did you mean:..."? Our catalog now does that. It's not quite as sophisticated as google, but it's still pretty helpful. For example, if you accidentally searched for keywords "projict fundamentals", it would ask you "did you mean: project fundamentals?" Pretty neat, eh?
2. Another cool thing about our online catalog: patrons can now rate items. Writing reviews on items is still another release away, but giving an item 1 to 5 stars is now an option. What's really cool about this is that CMC & Marmot patrons are controlling information in their own online catalog. You can see the number of stars an item has averaged on the left side of the results page.
More to come regarding library/faculty liaison relationships early next week!
With some interesting news about the library's online catalog:
1. You know in google, when you misspell something, and it asks you "did you mean:..."? Our catalog now does that. It's not quite as sophisticated as google, but it's still pretty helpful. For example, if you accidentally searched for keywords "projict fundamentals", it would ask you "did you mean: project fundamentals?" Pretty neat, eh?
2. Another cool thing about our online catalog: patrons can now rate items. Writing reviews on items is still another release away, but giving an item 1 to 5 stars is now an option. What's really cool about this is that CMC & Marmot patrons are controlling information in their own online catalog. You can see the number of stars an item has averaged on the left side of the results page.
More to come regarding library/faculty liaison relationships early next week!
2.09.2007
Alpine Campus Library Responds to Library Survey Suggestions
The Alpine Campus Library conducted a survey during the last two weeks of the Spring '06 semester and published the survey results at the beginning of the Fall '06 semester. We received great suggestions from our patrons who responded to the survey and have implemented a number of these suggestions in the library. Some of these changes include:
Suggestion: We really need a book drop right outside the door to the library! Or better, one outside.
This summer we purchased a new book drop that our terrific physical plant staff installed outside the second floor entrance to Bristol Hall. Our students are using it.
Suggestion: Wireless Internet!!!!
Thanks to the efforts of our IT personnel, there is Wireless Internet access in the library.
Suggestion: More student art on the walls.
We have discussed displaying student art in the library with our art professors and are pleased to announce our first display of student art, the Wire Shoe Project completed by the 3-D Design class. We're looking forward to displaying more student art later this semester.
Suggestion: Make Jazz CDs more accessible.
We moved the Jazz and Classical CD shelf right next to the popular CD & DVD shelves and placed signs identifying these collections.
Suggestion: More CDs and DVDs. More, More More!!! (This was a popular suggestion).
Since July 1, 2006, we have added 89 new DVDs and 64 new CDs to our collection of popular music and movies.
Comment: I like that you include student opinion on the DVDs. Thank you!
During the Fall '06 semester our "Feed the Pig" contest resulted in 69 student purchase suggestions. Library director David Willis compiled these suggestions in our most recent media order of 60 items. See previous blog entry New Media on the Way.
Suggestion: Everything is great except for many of the books. The last 3 research papers I did, I could not find current books.
This summer we ran an aging report on the collection. This report broke our collection down by Library of Congress call number range and date of publication. Our director David Willis used this report to identify the areas of the collection that should be updated. Library staff were assigned subject areas that needed more current materials and told to make selections for these areas. This collaborative collection development project resulted in the purchase of over 200 new books.
We're very pleased with the responses we received on this survey, and really appreciate our library patrons. Please feel free to add your suggestions for the library in the comment section of this or any blog on the CMC Alpine Library blog site.
Suggestion: We really need a book drop right outside the door to the library! Or better, one outside.
This summer we purchased a new book drop that our terrific physical plant staff installed outside the second floor entrance to Bristol Hall. Our students are using it.
Suggestion: Wireless Internet!!!!
Thanks to the efforts of our IT personnel, there is Wireless Internet access in the library.
Suggestion: More student art on the walls.
We have discussed displaying student art in the library with our art professors and are pleased to announce our first display of student art, the Wire Shoe Project completed by the 3-D Design class. We're looking forward to displaying more student art later this semester.
Suggestion: Make Jazz CDs more accessible.
We moved the Jazz and Classical CD shelf right next to the popular CD & DVD shelves and placed signs identifying these collections.
Suggestion: More CDs and DVDs. More, More More!!! (This was a popular suggestion).
Since July 1, 2006, we have added 89 new DVDs and 64 new CDs to our collection of popular music and movies.
Comment: I like that you include student opinion on the DVDs. Thank you!
During the Fall '06 semester our "Feed the Pig" contest resulted in 69 student purchase suggestions. Library director David Willis compiled these suggestions in our most recent media order of 60 items. See previous blog entry New Media on the Way.
Suggestion: Everything is great except for many of the books. The last 3 research papers I did, I could not find current books.
This summer we ran an aging report on the collection. This report broke our collection down by Library of Congress call number range and date of publication. Our director David Willis used this report to identify the areas of the collection that should be updated. Library staff were assigned subject areas that needed more current materials and told to make selections for these areas. This collaborative collection development project resulted in the purchase of over 200 new books.
We're very pleased with the responses we received on this survey, and really appreciate our library patrons. Please feel free to add your suggestions for the library in the comment section of this or any blog on the CMC Alpine Library blog site.
1.30.2007
New Media on the Way
Hello library users,
We just ordered some fantastic new CDs and DVDs for our circulating collection yesterday. They should arrive by the end of this week or early next, and we should have most of them processed by the end of next week. Email or call us if you see a title you simply gotta have first, and we'll be happy to set it aside for you once we've processed it. Bear in mind that a few of these titles have not been released yet. Here's the list:
DVDs
ATL
The Adventures of Indiana Jones (Trilogy Collection)
America Psycho (Uncut Version)
The Big White
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation...
Dead Man
Finding Nemo (Collector's)
First Descent
The Great Escape (Special)
An Inconvenient Truth
Jesus Camp
Kinky Boots
Led Zeppelin
Little Miss Sunshine
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Prestige
A River Runs Through It
Rockers (Anniversary)
Run Ronnie Run
Running Scared
Secret
Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America
Star Wars Trilogy
Sublime Tribute: Look at All the Love We Found Live
Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense
Thank You for Smoking
This Is Spinal Tap (Special)
V for Vendetta (Widescreen)
Weekend at Bernie's
White Squall
CDs
Animal Years/Josh Ritter
Astral Weeks/Van Morrison
Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain/Sparklehorse
Everything All the Time/Band of Horses
Everything Under the Sun/Sublime
Eyes Open/Snow Patrol
Fly Between Falls/Animal Liberation Orchestra
Food & Liquor/Lupe Fiasco
Fort Recovery/Centro-Matic
Greatest Hits/2pac
Gypsum Strings/Oakley Hall
Harpooner/Paul Brill
Heavyweight Dub-Killer Dub/Inner Circle
Hell Hath No Fury/Clipse
I Am Not Afraid of You & I Will Beat Your Ass/Yo La Tengo
It's Never Been Like That/Phoenix
Live from Mars/Ben Harper
More Fire/Capleton
Panic in Babylon/Lee "Scratch" Perry
Pink/Boris
Reggae Anthology: Anything Test Dead/Ninja Man
Reign of Fire/Capleton
Return to Cookie Mountain/TV on the Radio
Roots & Crowns/Califone
Set Yourself on Fire/Stars
Six Demon Bag/Man Man
Waterloo to Anywhere/Dirty Pretty Things
Wee Hours Revue/Roman Candle
Words Are Dead/Horse Feathers
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot/Wilco
We just ordered some fantastic new CDs and DVDs for our circulating collection yesterday. They should arrive by the end of this week or early next, and we should have most of them processed by the end of next week. Email or call us if you see a title you simply gotta have first, and we'll be happy to set it aside for you once we've processed it. Bear in mind that a few of these titles have not been released yet. Here's the list:
DVDs
ATL
The Adventures of Indiana Jones (Trilogy Collection)
America Psycho (Uncut Version)
The Big White
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation...
Dead Man
Finding Nemo (Collector's)
First Descent
The Great Escape (Special)
An Inconvenient Truth
Jesus Camp
Kinky Boots
Led Zeppelin
Little Miss Sunshine
The Outlaw Josey Wales
The Prestige
A River Runs Through It
Rockers (Anniversary)
Run Ronnie Run
Running Scared
Secret
Shaolin Ulysses: Kungfu Monks in America
Star Wars Trilogy
Sublime Tribute: Look at All the Love We Found Live
Talking Heads: Stop Making Sense
Thank You for Smoking
This Is Spinal Tap (Special)
V for Vendetta (Widescreen)
Weekend at Bernie's
White Squall
CDs
Animal Years/Josh Ritter
Astral Weeks/Van Morrison
Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain/Sparklehorse
Everything All the Time/Band of Horses
Everything Under the Sun/Sublime
Eyes Open/Snow Patrol
Fly Between Falls/Animal Liberation Orchestra
Food & Liquor/Lupe Fiasco
Fort Recovery/Centro-Matic
Greatest Hits/2pac
Gypsum Strings/Oakley Hall
Harpooner/Paul Brill
Heavyweight Dub-Killer Dub/Inner Circle
Hell Hath No Fury/Clipse
I Am Not Afraid of You & I Will Beat Your Ass/Yo La Tengo
It's Never Been Like That/Phoenix
Live from Mars/Ben Harper
More Fire/Capleton
Panic in Babylon/Lee "Scratch" Perry
Pink/Boris
Reggae Anthology: Anything Test Dead/Ninja Man
Reign of Fire/Capleton
Return to Cookie Mountain/TV on the Radio
Roots & Crowns/Califone
Set Yourself on Fire/Stars
Six Demon Bag/Man Man
Waterloo to Anywhere/Dirty Pretty Things
Wee Hours Revue/Roman Candle
Words Are Dead/Horse Feathers
Yankee Hotel Foxtrot/Wilco
1.24.2007
Knitting Resources in the Library
The Alpine Campus knitting group will begin meeting again starting Monday, January 29th from noon ‘til 2:00 in the Schaffrick Lounge on the second floor of Willett Hall. The informal group is open to needle working students, faculty, staff and community members, so bring your projects and join in the fun!
The Alpine Campus Bookstore, conveniently located right next to the Schaffrick Lounge, is offering a 20% discount on all knitting materials, including scarf kits and ribbon yarn and mohair yarn!
Some knitting books available for checkout at the Alpine Campus Library include:
The knitter's handy book of patterns : basic designs in multiple sizes and gauges / Ann Budd.
Hip knit hats : 40 fabulous designs / Cathy Carron.
Country knits : with over 30 glorious designs / Debbie Bliss and Fiona McTague.
The complete book of traditional knitting / Rae Compton.
The complete book of traditional Fair Isle knitting / Shiela McGregor.
Knitting with dog hair / Kendall Crolius and Ann Montgomery. (Before you get all excited about this one, know that knitting with dog hair requires that you card and spin dog hair into yarn before you can knit with it).
Knitters who are also fans of Harry Potter (and really, who isn’t?) will appreciate this Internet blog entry, brought to our attention by former CMC administrative aide, Karen Wallace:
http://alison.knitsmiths.us/pattern_weasley.html
The knitting pattern is for the sweater Mrs. Weasley knits every Christmas for each of her many children, including surrogate child Harry Potter. Molly Weasley is a worthy role model for any hyperactive knitter, and though her children have been known to pass her Christmas sweaters on to the house elves at Hogwarts, she deserves our respect and admiration.
If you have any questions about the knitting group or anything Harry Potter related, call or email Kristin in the library: 970-870-4449 or kweber@coloradomtn.edu
See you on Mondays at noon and BYON (Bring your own needles).
The Alpine Campus Bookstore, conveniently located right next to the Schaffrick Lounge, is offering a 20% discount on all knitting materials, including scarf kits and ribbon yarn and mohair yarn!
Some knitting books available for checkout at the Alpine Campus Library include:
The knitter's handy book of patterns : basic designs in multiple sizes and gauges / Ann Budd.
Hip knit hats : 40 fabulous designs / Cathy Carron.
Country knits : with over 30 glorious designs / Debbie Bliss and Fiona McTague.
The complete book of traditional knitting / Rae Compton.
The complete book of traditional Fair Isle knitting / Shiela McGregor.
Knitting with dog hair / Kendall Crolius and Ann Montgomery. (Before you get all excited about this one, know that knitting with dog hair requires that you card and spin dog hair into yarn before you can knit with it).
Knitters who are also fans of Harry Potter (and really, who isn’t?) will appreciate this Internet blog entry, brought to our attention by former CMC administrative aide, Karen Wallace:
http://alison.knitsmiths.us/pattern_weasley.html
The knitting pattern is for the sweater Mrs. Weasley knits every Christmas for each of her many children, including surrogate child Harry Potter. Molly Weasley is a worthy role model for any hyperactive knitter, and though her children have been known to pass her Christmas sweaters on to the house elves at Hogwarts, she deserves our respect and admiration.
If you have any questions about the knitting group or anything Harry Potter related, call or email Kristin in the library: 970-870-4449 or kweber@coloradomtn.edu
See you on Mondays at noon and BYON (Bring your own needles).
1.19.2007
something cool about item record pages
so you use our online catalog regularly. it helps you find books, dvd's, cd's, and everything else in the library.
but once you get to the item record page in our online catalog (like this one), did you know that you can link to book reviews off of that page? we subscribe to a service called content cafe, and if you click the more about this item button in the upper right hand corner of the screen, it will take you to a corresponding page that has a summary, reviews, contents, cover image, and book details.
pretty cool, don't you think?
faculty: while you may be good and tired of seeing wikipedia as a resource in your student's papers, wikipedia is not the only wiki out there, nor is it the only useful application of the wiki environment. wikis - collaborative web pages where members of that community can add and change information instantly via web-based interfaces - are growing in popularity; and they're being used effectively in educational settings.
here's a good introductory article from the seattle times.
here's a quick little rundown on wikis and educational usage.
blackboard isn't the only game in town anymore, folks. consider wikis and blogs as alternative online environments for your classes. and if you need any help setting these free resources up, that's what we're here for.
if you're interested in starting a wiki, try pbwiki. and if you're interested in starting a blog, try blogger.
but once you get to the item record page in our online catalog (like this one), did you know that you can link to book reviews off of that page? we subscribe to a service called content cafe, and if you click the more about this item button in the upper right hand corner of the screen, it will take you to a corresponding page that has a summary, reviews, contents, cover image, and book details.
pretty cool, don't you think?
faculty: while you may be good and tired of seeing wikipedia as a resource in your student's papers, wikipedia is not the only wiki out there, nor is it the only useful application of the wiki environment. wikis - collaborative web pages where members of that community can add and change information instantly via web-based interfaces - are growing in popularity; and they're being used effectively in educational settings.
here's a good introductory article from the seattle times.
here's a quick little rundown on wikis and educational usage.
blackboard isn't the only game in town anymore, folks. consider wikis and blogs as alternative online environments for your classes. and if you need any help setting these free resources up, that's what we're here for.
if you're interested in starting a wiki, try pbwiki. and if you're interested in starting a blog, try blogger.
1.15.2007
And so the Spring semester begins...
Welcome to a new semester, ladies and gentlemen! As always, the library is eager to help faculty any number of ways:
also, if you've never heard of flickr, check it out also. it's an enormous, free, member-supported database of images, some professional and some not so much. even more fun than flickr? retrievr - the "search by sketch" interface that allows you to use flickr in a really cool way.
- If it's library instruction you need for your classes, we have it! We can show your students how to use our OPAC (online public access catalog), our subscription databases, and many other resources on our website.
- If it's more general research skills you're after, we can talk with students about evaluating information, using internet search engines more effectively, proper citation techniques for papers, and anything else you can think of. Call 870.4445, email, or drop by to set up a session.
- Would you like to provide your students with a subject bibliography for a class or assignment? We can do the legwork for you and compile a list of print, database, and online resources available in the library and/or through our website.
- Interested in having a library display based on subject material in your class? Let us know. We currently have one on HIV up for Kathy Wolf.
also, if you've never heard of flickr, check it out also. it's an enormous, free, member-supported database of images, some professional and some not so much. even more fun than flickr? retrievr - the "search by sketch" interface that allows you to use flickr in a really cool way.
1.09.2007
Copyright Guidelines
Hi all!
For the past few semesters we have given a brief orientation to new adjunct faculty on fair use of copyrighted materials in education. The accompanying handout is reproduced below, and hopefully it will be useful for you when thinking about the materials you use, and how you use them.
Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials for Educational Purposes
Fair use explicitly allows use of copyrighted materials for educational purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Rather than listing exact limits of fair use, copyright law provides four standards for determination of the fair use exemption:
1. Purpose of use: Copying and using selected parts of copyrighted works for specific educational purposes qualifies as fair use, especially if the copies are made spontaneously, are used temporarily, and are not part of an anthology.
2. Nature of the work: Factual works, published works and scientific articles that are factual in nature are more likely to be considered available for fair use than are creative, imaginative, artistic, or unpublished works. Additionally certain "consumable" works, e.g. workbooks and standardized tests are not likely to be considered available for fair use.
3. Proportion/extent of the material used: Duplicating excerpts that are short in relation to the entire copyrighted work or segments that do not reflect the "essence" of the work is usually considered fair use.
4. The effect on marketability: If there will be no reduction in sales because of copying or distribution, the fair use exemption is likely to apply. This is the most important of the four tests for fair use.
This is all certainly a little vague. Consider the following statements in determining whether an educational use is “fair use.” The more statements that are true for your situation, the better case you have for a fair use claim.
· The use of copyright material must be presented by instructors or pupils enrolled in the specific course.
· A media performance (audio or visual) must occur in class, must be directly related to the curriculum being taught, and cannot be presented as a reward.
· Only individuals enrolled in the course can be present for a performance.
· Copyright material used must be a legally acquired copy of the work (this means items must have either been paid for by the instructor, the department, the library, or the college).
· Access to copyright materials will be terminated at the end of the class term.
· Copyright materials will only be used once, even if the lesson stays the same through multiple terms; different copyright materials will be utilized in teaching the same lesson over multiple terms.
For the past few semesters we have given a brief orientation to new adjunct faculty on fair use of copyrighted materials in education. The accompanying handout is reproduced below, and hopefully it will be useful for you when thinking about the materials you use, and how you use them.
Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials for Educational Purposes
Fair use explicitly allows use of copyrighted materials for educational purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Rather than listing exact limits of fair use, copyright law provides four standards for determination of the fair use exemption:
1. Purpose of use: Copying and using selected parts of copyrighted works for specific educational purposes qualifies as fair use, especially if the copies are made spontaneously, are used temporarily, and are not part of an anthology.
2. Nature of the work: Factual works, published works and scientific articles that are factual in nature are more likely to be considered available for fair use than are creative, imaginative, artistic, or unpublished works. Additionally certain "consumable" works, e.g. workbooks and standardized tests are not likely to be considered available for fair use.
3. Proportion/extent of the material used: Duplicating excerpts that are short in relation to the entire copyrighted work or segments that do not reflect the "essence" of the work is usually considered fair use.
4. The effect on marketability: If there will be no reduction in sales because of copying or distribution, the fair use exemption is likely to apply. This is the most important of the four tests for fair use.
This is all certainly a little vague. Consider the following statements in determining whether an educational use is “fair use.” The more statements that are true for your situation, the better case you have for a fair use claim.
· The use of copyright material must be presented by instructors or pupils enrolled in the specific course.
· A media performance (audio or visual) must occur in class, must be directly related to the curriculum being taught, and cannot be presented as a reward.
· Only individuals enrolled in the course can be present for a performance.
· Copyright material used must be a legally acquired copy of the work (this means items must have either been paid for by the instructor, the department, the library, or the college).
· Access to copyright materials will be terminated at the end of the class term.
· Copyright materials will only be used once, even if the lesson stays the same through multiple terms; different copyright materials will be utilized in teaching the same lesson over multiple terms.
1.08.2007
New Book Reviews
In this inaugural post for the CMC Alpine Library blog, we're going to link to some book reviews. Since it would take a whole heckuva lot of time to provide you with reviews for the more than 200 new books we've received, we are instead going to link to reviews for some of the titles that we think are pretty neat.
Please bookmark the blog or put it in your bloglines list, and check in with us as often as you can. Thanks, and welcome to the Alpine Campus Library blog!
Reviews
Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"
by Philip C. Plait
John Wiley and Sons, 2002
Plait, a science writer who works in the physics and astronomy department at Sonoma State University, is appalled that millions of Americans don't believe the moon landing really took place...
The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
by Leonard Susskind
Little Brown and Company, 2005
As modern physics has developed a better understanding of how the universe operates at its most fundamental levels, one thing has become increasingly clear: we're damned lucky to be here at all...
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
by Paul Roberts
Houghton Mifflin, 2004
All economic activity is rooted in the energy economy, which means a substantial portion of the current world economy is linked to the production and distribution of oil. But what will happen, Roberts asks, when the well starts to run dry?...
History in the Making: An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling Over the Last 300 Years
by Kyle Ward
New Press, 2006
For this fascinating history of history, author and professor Ward (History Lessons) examined scores of textbooks published between 1794 and 1999 to see how the same American historical periods, events or figures have been portrayed at different times throughout the nation's past, uncovering startling discrepancies in writers' versions of everything from slavery to Vietnam...
The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo
by Gary May
Yale University Press, 2005
Suspenseful and vigorously reported. The caution May sounds in The Informant is worth heeding, now more than ever...
Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression
by David Healy
New York University Press, 2006
An alarming book, the most disturbing part of the story Healy tells is not merely about the risks of SSRIs but about the efforts of the pharmaceutical industry to make sure those risks were not uncovered...
Powder Burn: Arson, Money, and Mystery on Vail Mountain
by Daniel Glick
PublicAffairs, 2003
On the face of it, this is the story of unsolved arson at a high-glamour resort, a mystery packed with suspects that range from crusty ski bums to radical tree huggers to the resort's own corporate honchos. But underlying this entertaining true-life plot is a greater theme that is playing out across America...
Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America
by Matthew Frye Jacobson
Harvard University Press, 2006
As critically important as it is engaging, Roots Too impressively shows how thoroughly "Ellis Island" whiteness has remade nationalism in the U.S. in the last half century. Our views are both complicated and deepened by this brilliant work of retrieval and analysis...
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
by David Carter
St. Martin's Press, 2004
Considering all that went before, the ongoing repression and corruption, and the scent of social and political liberation in the air, Carter's eloquent account makes it clear that something was bound to catch fire...
Please bookmark the blog or put it in your bloglines list, and check in with us as often as you can. Thanks, and welcome to the Alpine Campus Library blog!
Reviews
Bad Astronomy: Misconceptions and Misuses Revealed, from Astrology to the Moon Landing "Hoax"
by Philip C. Plait
John Wiley and Sons, 2002
Plait, a science writer who works in the physics and astronomy department at Sonoma State University, is appalled that millions of Americans don't believe the moon landing really took place...
The Cosmic Landscape: String Theory and the Illusion of Intelligent Design
by Leonard Susskind
Little Brown and Company, 2005
As modern physics has developed a better understanding of how the universe operates at its most fundamental levels, one thing has become increasingly clear: we're damned lucky to be here at all...
The End of Oil: On the Edge of a Perilous New World
by Paul Roberts
Houghton Mifflin, 2004
All economic activity is rooted in the energy economy, which means a substantial portion of the current world economy is linked to the production and distribution of oil. But what will happen, Roberts asks, when the well starts to run dry?...
History in the Making: An Absorbing Look at How American History Has Changed in the Telling Over the Last 300 Years
by Kyle Ward
New Press, 2006
For this fascinating history of history, author and professor Ward (History Lessons) examined scores of textbooks published between 1794 and 1999 to see how the same American historical periods, events or figures have been portrayed at different times throughout the nation's past, uncovering startling discrepancies in writers' versions of everything from slavery to Vietnam...
The Informant: The FBI, the Ku Klux Klan, and the Murder of Viola Liuzzo
by Gary May
Yale University Press, 2005
Suspenseful and vigorously reported. The caution May sounds in The Informant is worth heeding, now more than ever...
Let Them Eat Prozac: The Unhealthy Relationship Between the Pharmaceutical Industry and Depression
by David Healy
New York University Press, 2006
An alarming book, the most disturbing part of the story Healy tells is not merely about the risks of SSRIs but about the efforts of the pharmaceutical industry to make sure those risks were not uncovered...
Powder Burn: Arson, Money, and Mystery on Vail Mountain
by Daniel Glick
PublicAffairs, 2003
On the face of it, this is the story of unsolved arson at a high-glamour resort, a mystery packed with suspects that range from crusty ski bums to radical tree huggers to the resort's own corporate honchos. But underlying this entertaining true-life plot is a greater theme that is playing out across America...
Roots Too: White Ethnic Revival in Post-Civil Rights America
by Matthew Frye Jacobson
Harvard University Press, 2006
As critically important as it is engaging, Roots Too impressively shows how thoroughly "Ellis Island" whiteness has remade nationalism in the U.S. in the last half century. Our views are both complicated and deepened by this brilliant work of retrieval and analysis...
Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
by David Carter
St. Martin's Press, 2004
Considering all that went before, the ongoing repression and corruption, and the scent of social and political liberation in the air, Carter's eloquent account makes it clear that something was bound to catch fire...
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