Come to the Movies

You are invited to come to the movies in the Library for the second in our series of four fine films!

The film, RABBIT-PROOF FENCE, will be shown on Tuesday, February 27, at 6:00 p.m., in the Library classroom, 2nd floor. Dr. Barbara Cook, Assistant Professor of English, will introduce the film and moderate a question and answer session afterwards.

RABBIT-PROOF FENCE is based on a true story that took place in 1931, at a time when it was Australian government policy to remove aboriginal children from their homes and place them in camps. There they would be trained as domestic workers for later employment in white Australian society. This is the story of young Molly Craig who decides to lead her little sister and cousin in a daring escape from their internment camp. Molly and the girls, part of what would become known as Australia's "Stolen Generations," must then elude the authorities on a dangerous 1,500-mile adventure across the Australian outback and along the rabbit-proof fence that bisects the continent and will lead them home.
(Film description adapted from the producer, Miramax Home Entertainment)

A reviewer on Amazon.com says that, "the film is a lesson in inspiration and courage as well as a geography and history lesson about Australia."

Additional films in the series are:

OSAMA, Tuesday, March 27

MOTORCYCLE DIARIES, Tuesday, April 24.

E-mail reminders will be sent before each of these events. We are looking forward to these opportunities to provide you with quality educational entertainment.

LIBRARY WEB SURVEY

To Better Serve You Tell Us What You Think!

Your input is essential in helping us determine your perceptions and expectations of the Library services. Please take the time to complete the web survey from February 21 to March 2, either by following the link below or by going to the Library webpage and clicking Take Survey Now.

http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.asp?u=496041703150

Thank you for your participation and honest feedback.

Library Staff
askalibrarian@mtaloy.edu

OED Online February 07 Update

The latest quarterly update to the OXFORD ENGLISH DICTIONARY is now available at www.oed.com

HAVE YOU HEARD THE LATEST GOSSIP ABOUT MR. POTATO HEAD EATING PORK SCRATCHINGS AT HIS POWER LUNCH WITH THE INVENTORS OF POWER BAR?!
NEW ENTRIES TO OED ONLINE...

The latest alphabetical range to be revised is POMANDER through PRAJNAPARAMITA (the latter a group of ancient Mahayana Buddhist texts on the perfection of wisdom), including 2658 new and revised entries. Within this range you will find definitions for POTATO HEAD, POUTINE and POP TART, and while on the subject of food, you will also find POWER LUNCH and POWER BREAKFAST, or if you?re in a hurry, POWER BAR.

For a full list of new and revised words in this range visit the following:
http://www.oed.com/help/updates/latest-additions.html

EEYORISH AND DARTITIS ENTER OED ONLINE...
New entries have also been added across the alphabet ? from EEOYORISH (deeply pessimistic, gloomy) to DARTITIS (a state of nervousness which prevents a player from releasing a dart at the right moment when throwing), as well as words that have been engrained in our vernacular such as BOOGER (which means?well... you know).

See a full list of new entries from across the alphabet here:
http://www.oed.com/help/updates/latest-additions.html#oos

February eBook of the Month: A Companion to African-American Studies

February eBook of the Month:

A Companion to African-American Studies
Edited by Lewis R. Gordon (Temple University) and Jane Anna Gordon (Temple University) Blackwell Publishing, 2006

In celebration of African-American History Month, NetLibrary has partnered with Blackwell Publishing to offer A Companion to African-American Studies as the February eBook of the Month. A groundbreaking re-appraisal of the history and future of African-American studies, the Companion includes original essays by expert scholars in the field and covers each topic with authority and clarity.

Edited by Lewis R. Gordon and Jane Anna Gordon, A Companion to African-American Studies is a definitive intervention at a critical time in the history of race relations and in the academic field of race and ethnic studies. Bringing together a dazzling array of established and emergent voices, the Companion opens with a series of reflections from those who waged pitched battles to establish African-American Studies as a bona fide academic discipline and captures the dynamic interaction of African-American Studies with other fields of inquiry.

The February eBook of the Month is provided through the generous support of Blackwell Publishing and will be available to the Mount Aloysius College community with free, unlimited access February 1-28 through the Library webpage (on Library home page click Library Databases and scroll down to OCLC NetLibrary and eBook of the Month) or by following this link:
http://www.netlibrary.com

Please take a look at this resource and share your comments and suggestions with the library staff or email askalibrarian@mtaloy.edu

Marketline Business Information Center Trial

Marketline Business Information Center

Marketline Business Information Center will be available on a free trial basis to Mount Aloysius College community until March 1, 2007, and can be accessed through the Library webpage by clicking Trial Databases or following this link:
http://www.mtaloy.edu/academics/library/trial_databases.dot

"Marketline Business Information Center is a strong international business resource with particular strength in providing statistical information, analysis, news and commentary on emerging and evolving markets like China and India. It's about to be upgraded to include a translation feature that will enable its content to be delivered in nine different languages -amongst other useful new functionality that we are adding."

Send you comments and questions to askalibrarian@mtaloy.edu

ProQuest Trials

The below two databases are available to the Mount Aloysius College community on a trial basis until March 16, 2007, and can be accessed through the Library webpage by clicking Trial Databases or following this link:
http://www.mtaloy.edu/academics/library/trial_databases.dot

ProQuest Education Journals
ProQuest® Education Journals gives users access to over 745 top educational publications, including nearly 600 of the titles in full text. Offering complete information on hundreds of educational topics, this database offers complete text and images from journals such as:
Childhood Education
College Teaching
Harvard Educational Review
Journal of Athletic Training
Educational Theory

Image articles include all the charts, tables, diagrams, and other graphical elements often used to enhance the editorial value of articles that focus on education topics. ProQuest Education Journals covers not only the literature on primary, secondary, and higher education but also special education, home schooling, adult education, and hundreds of related topics.

ProQuest Professional Education
ProQuest® Professional Education delivers more than 300 full-text K-12 professional magazines and journals that address all aspects of K-12 education, including all core and supplemental curricula subjects, information technology, library science, business and administration, guidance and careers, and much more.
Titles include: American Journal of Education, American Libraries, Computers in Libraries, Harvard Educational Review, Journal of Developmental Education, The Journal of Educational Research, Journal of Research on Technology in Education, Library Administrator’s Digest, Multicultural Education, and Technology and Learning.

Teachers and administrators alike will keep their edge with:

• Articles that model excellence in learning and teaching
• Support for professional in-service use, subject mastery, research on classroom application and efficacy, curriculum support, lesson planning, and study for advanced degrees
• Enhanced technological literacy

Researchers at any level of expertise can search by keyword, Boolean logic, topic, or publication. Power searchers can use the renowned ProQuest® indexing to construct targeted queries. Marked lists make it easy to save articles. And users can view, print, or email any article in one easy step. My Research Summary lets users build a marked list containing a record of articles, previous searches, and publications visited in one easy-to-find location. Edit it, add headings and notes, print it, or download it in a self-contained HTML file for later viewing from any Web browser or insertion into a document. It’s the perfect tool for sharing information among staff, saving research ideas, developing lesson plans, and more.

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