March eBook of the Month: From the Primaries to the Polls

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March eBook of the Month
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From the Primaries to the Polls:
How to Repair America's Broken Presidential Nomination Process
by Thomas Gangale
Greenwood Publishing Group, 2008

America's presidential nominating process is inherently unfair and exclusive, yielding undue weight and privilege to the states that vote in the earliest rounds. More and more states are beating down the door to vote earlier, trying to redress the inequity on a state-by-state basis. In the ensuing free-for-all, the presidential primary schedule has become so front-loaded that the anointed "front-runner" with the biggest war chest in each of the major parties is the de facto nominee.

From the Primaries to the Polls describes the problem and proposes the solution. The American Plan is designed to begin with contests in small-population states, where candidates do not need millions of dollars to compete and a wide field of presidential hopefuls can be competitive in the early going. Keeping more candidates in the race longer to challenge the "front-runners" prevents a rush to judgment and permits more voters across the country to select from a diverse field. As the campaign proceeds, the aggregate value of contested states becomes successively larger, requiring the expenditure of larger amounts of money in order to campaign effectively. A more gradual weeding-out process occurs, allowing a clear winner to emerge only after the full spectrum of candidates has been in play nationally.

Provided through the generous support of Greenwood Publishing Group, the March eBook of the Month will be available to the Mount Aloysius College Library community March 1-31. If you have already established a NetLibrary account through Mount Aloysius College Library, visit http://www.netlibrary.org and log in. If you do not have a NetLibrary account, you can create an account from any computer.

For more information about NetLibrary or other services available through Mount Aloysius College Library, please contact your librarian or email askalibrarian@mtaloy.edu or check the Libray webpage:
http://library.mtaloy.edu

New Citculation Assistant

New Circulation Assistant

Welcome to Jamie Swank, the newest addition to the Circulation Department in the library. Jamie has a B.S. in Behavioral and Social Science from Mount Aloysius College. She used to do her work-study hours in the library and is currently employed by Interim Health Care. Jamie will work evenings and weekends. Come by and say hello to her!

E-ZBorrow Service Restored

Dear Mount Aloysius Students/Staff/Faculty:

We are pleased to announce that access to E-ZBorrow is once again available to the Mount Aloysius College community. This service can be accessed from links on both the main Library web page and from Mountlink, the online catalog.

E-ZBorrow does not replace traditional Interlibrary Loan (ILL) but complements it. We ask that you request book loans through E-ZBorrow before using ILL. Service through E-ZBorrow is generally faster than that provided through ILL.

Please note: E-ZBorrow is for books only. Requests for periodical articles must still be submitted through Interlibrary Loan. More detailed information about both E-ZBorrow and ILL is available at http://library.mtaloy.edu/services.

E-ZBorrow services are a feature of Mount Aloysius College’s membership in the Pennsylvania Academic Library Consortium, Inc. (PALCI), an organization of over 70 academic libraries in Pennsylvania, New Jersey and West Virginia. Member libraries include major research institutions (Penn State, Pitt, U. of Penn, U. of West Virginia, Rutgers) and a variety of smaller liberal arts colleges that includes Duquesne, Carnegie Mellon, Mercyhurst, Dickinson and Messiah College. A complete list of member institutions can be viewed at the PALCI website at http://palci.org/.

Please contact the Reference Librarians, Sara Loree, Shamim Rajpar or Rob Stere, if you would like a demonstration or if you have any questions. Questions can also be answered through our email reference service, askalibrarian@mtaloy.edu.

Come to the Movies at the Library!

Library Film Series

The Library Spring 2008 Film Series will present, as its second featured film, the musical CHICAGO on Monday, February 25, at 6:00 p.m., in the Library Classroom, 2nd floor. This is the second film in the series.


Winner of six Academy Awards(R) (2003) including Best Picture, and starring Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Queen Latifah, Richard Gere, and John C. Reilly – CHICAGO is a dazzling spectacle cheered by audiences and critics alike! At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly (Zeta-Jones) and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart (Zellweger) both find themselves sharing space on Chicago's famed Murderess Row! They also share Billy Flynn (Gere), the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends. But in Chicago, there's only room for one legend!

The film will be introduced by Dr. Deanne D’Emilio who will also moderate a post-viewing Q & A session.

Additional films in the series are:

Monday, March 31 – Sophie Scholl: The Final Days, moderated by Dr. Julie Smith

Monday, April 28 – Crash, moderated by Mr. Drew Tatusko

Please contact Shamim Rajpar, either at 886-6442 or srajpar@mtaloy.edu, if you need additional information.