Library Connection

Library Connection February 2012

Research Help @ Your Library By Chris Springer, Librarian

Hours Monday –Thursday 7am-12pm Friday 7am-5pm Saturday 8:30am-4pm Sunday 2pm-12am

The library will be open during Spring Break. March 17th-18th: Closed March 19th-23rd: 8am-5pm March 24th: Closed March 25th: 2pm-Midnight All online services will be available.

We have access to information like no time in history, but finding the right information can be a challenging and timeconsuming process. LibGuides provides a solution to this problem. LibGuides allows librarians to deliver the best content we have to offer for each discipline. Our LibGuides are organized by subject, and through each LibGuide we are able to make you aware of the resources that are available for your research needs. LibGuides is most useful in that it allows us to highlight resources that are difficult to find. There are true gems buried in the depths of our collection, and LibGuides gives us a place to show you some of these items and to make the time you spend doing research easier and more productive. A LibGuide is nothing more than a customizable webpage that offers several options for providing content. Each LibGuide we create provides access to books and other materials from our catalog, to databases and other

e-content from our website, and to valuable resources from around the internet. From the catalog we provide access to reference books, books from our main collection, materials from the Archives and other physical items that can only be found at Torreyson Library. We also select and provide access to electronic journals, streaming videos and other appropriate electronic content that is only available through our website. From around the internet we can provide access to websites, YouTube videos, rss feeds and social media content that links you to a community of internet users that are interested in the same subject area. Libguides are not just for the library. If you are teaching a class at UCA and would like to use a LibGuide in your course please contact Chris Springer at [email protected] or Carol Hanan at [email protected].

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Faculty Author Presentations David Welky By Susan Burks, Public Services Librarian

University of Chicago Press Books said of David Welky’s new book, The Thousand-Year Flood: The Ohio-Mississippi Disaster of 1937, “A striking narrative of danger and adventureand the mix of heroism and generosity, greed and pettiness that always accompany disasterThe Thousand-Year Flood breathes new life into a fascinating yet little remembered American story.” Dr. Welky has written an account of the 1937 flood of the Ohio River to coincide with its seventy-fifth anniversary. A reader of the book wrote on Amazon.com that it “is an excellent account of a major environmental catastrophe that few beyond those with ties to the Ohio River Valley understand or even remember.”

History Department and he specializes in Twentieth Century United States history. As a part of the Torreyson Library Faculty Author Presentation Series, he will discuss his work on Tuesday, February 14th during x-period (1:40 p.m.2:30 p.m.) in Torreyson Library room 215.

Dr. Welky is an associate professor in the UCA

Clayton Crockett By Carol Hanan, Government Information Librarian

The UCA Library is excited to host a presentation by Dr. Clayton Crockett who will be speaking about his new book Radical Political Theology: Religion and Politics After Liberalism. The book discusses the beginning of the break down of the opposition between the religious and the secular in the 1960’s, and how this break down

affected modern liberalism, politics, religion and philosophy. One reviewer praised Crockett’s work by writing: “Clayton Crockett, one of the leading lights in the younger generation of radical theologians, applies his considerable theoretical skills and impressive erudition to the political question: what comes after the collapse of secularism, liberalism, and free market euphoria? In a superbly crafted argument, he draws the dark lines of an imminent catastrophe, at once economic, ecological, and political, and imagines the possibility of a radical democracy animated by a radically rethought theology. An urgently needed and important book. -- John D. Caputo, Syracuse University, coauther of After the Death of God”

Please join us on March 14th at 2:00 pm in Torreyson Library room 215 to enjoy Dr. Crockett’s presentation.

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What’s New Databases:

Counseling and Therapy in Video, Part 1. This database from Alexander Street Press provides an online collection of videos for the study of counseling, social work, psychotherapy, psychology, and psychiatric counseling. Students can view videos of counseling sessions, consultations, lectures, presentations and interviews.

Services:

Make a Suggestion. The UCA library would like to know what we can do to help our faculty and students have a better library experience. We have created an online link so that you can share with us your suggestions, questions, or comments. We also have paper copies of the form at the library’s Reference Desk. DVDs: The Adjustment Bureau: starring Matt Damon and Emily Blunt. A man glimpses the future fate has planned for him and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under, and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.

Contagion A thriller centered on the threat posed by a deadly disease and an international team of doctors contracted by the CDC to deal with the outbreak.

Cowboys & Aliens: starring Daniel Craig and Harrison Ford A spaceship arrives in Arizona, 1873, to take over the Earth, starting with the Wild West region. A posse of cowboys and natives are all that stand in their way.

Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows. Part 1: starring Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, and Emma Watson The beginning of the end of the Harry Potter films.

The Help: starring Emma Stone, Viola Davis, Bryce Dallas Howard, and Octavia Spencer In 1960s Mississippi, Skeeter, a southern society girl, returns from college determined to become a writer, but turns her friends' lives,and a small Mississippi town upside down when she decides to interview the black women who have spent their lives taking care of prominent southern families. Aibileen, Skeeter's best friend's housekeeper, is the first to open up, to the dismay of her friends in the tight-knit black community.

Moneyball: starring Brad Pitt and Jonah Hill The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

The Time Traveler's Wife: starring Rachel McAdams and Eric Bana Clare has been in love with Henry her entire life. She believes they are destined to be together, even though she never knows when they will be separated: Henry is a time traveler, cursed with a rare genetic anomaly that causes him to live his life on a shifting timeline, skipping back and forth through his lifespan with no control. Despite the fact that Henry's travels force them apart with no warning, Clare desperately tries to build a life with her one true love.

Books: Non-Fiction

-33 revolutions per minute : a history of protest songs, from Billie Holiday to Green Day / Dorian Lynskey. -97 things every programmer should know : collective wisdom from the experts / edited by Kevlin Henney. -366 days in Abraham Lincoln's presidency : the private, political, and military decisions of America's greatest president / Stephen A. Wynalda. -The advanced genius theory : are they out of their minds or ahead of their time? / Jason Hartley -The anthology of rap / edited by Adam Bradley, Andrew DuBois. -Betty & friends : my life at the zoo / Betty White. -The black banners : the inside story of 9/11 and the war against Al-Qaeda / Ali H. Soufan with Daniel Freedman. -Censored 2012 : sourcebook for the media revolution : the top censored stories and media analysis of 20102011 / [edited by] Mickey Huff and Project Censored ; introduction by Peter Phillips ; cartoons by Khalil Bendib. -Dreams and nightmares : Martin Luther King, Jr., Malcolm X, and the struggle for Black equality in America / Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson. -Every man in this village is a liar : an education in war / Megan K. Stack. -The Garner files / James Garner and Jon Winokur ; introduction by Julie Andrews. -A guide to better teaching : skills, advice, and evaluation for college and university professors / Leila Jahangiri and Tom Mucciolo. -I've never met an idiot on the river : reflections on family, photography and fly-fishing / by Henry Winkler ; introduction by Stacey Winkler. -Known and unknown : a memoir / Donald Rumsfeld. -Mayo Clinic healthy heart for life! : the Mayo Clinic plan for preventing and conquering heart disease / [edited by] Kevin Kauffman. -Mitt Romney : an inside look at the man and his politics / R. B. Scott. -A positive view of LGBTQ : embracing identity and cultivating well-being / Ellen D.B. Riggle and Sharon S. Rostosky. -The presidential difference : leadership style from FDR to Barack Obama / Fred I. Greenstein. -Reshaping the work-family debate : why men and class matter / Joan C. Williams. -Rock and roll always forgets : a quarter century of music criticism / Chuck Eddy -The thousand-year flood : the Ohio-Mississippi disaster of 1937 / David Welky. -The time of our lives / Tom Brokaw. -Tomatoland : how modern industrial agriculture destroyed our most alluring fruit / Barry Estabrook. -The unforgiving minute : a soldier's education / Craig M. Mullaney. -Varsity green : a behind the scenes look at culture and corruption in college athletics / Mark Yost. -When gadgets betray us : the dark side of our infatuation with new technologies / Robert Vamosi. -Why the West rules-- for now : the patterns of history, and what they reveal about the future / Ian Morris. Fiction

-Awakened : a house of night novel / P.C. Cast and Kristin Cast. -The confession / Charles Todd. -D.C. dead / Stuart Woods. -Djibouti / Elmore Leonard. -Feast day of fools : a novel / James Lee Burke. -Gideon's corpse / Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child. -Hot water : a novel / Erin Brockovich with CJ Lyons. -The jaguar : a Charlie Hood novel / T. Jefferson Parker. -The litigators / John Grisham. -Love in a nutshell / Janet Evanovich & Dorien Kelly -Need you now : a novel / James Grippando. -Raylan / Elmore Leonard. -"V" is for vengeance / Sue Grafton.