January 2014 New Books

Instead of making New Year's Resolutions, Twin Cities Library prefers to keep it simple and continue being awesome. You're also pretty awesome, so here are a whole slew of new books so you can say auld lang syne to the old ones. That doesn't even make sense.

1. A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy Programme for Problem Gambling: Therapist Manual / Raylu, Namrata
2. A Positive View of LGBTQ: Embracing Identity and Cultivating Well-Being / Ellen D.B. Riggle
3. A Manager's Guide to Virtual Teams / Zofi, Yael
4. Abuse of the Doctor-Patient Relationship / Fiona Subotsky
5. Aesthetic Leadership: Managing Fields of Flow in Art and Business / Monthoux, Pierre Guillet de
6. Art of the Western World (DSST Dantes Subject Standardized Tests) / Rudman, Jack
7. Building the Learning Organization: Achieving Strategic Advantage through a Commitment to Learning / Marquardt, Michael J.
8. Children with Disabilities (7e) / Batshaw, Mark
9. Clinical Manual for Management of PTSD / Benedek, David M.
10. Clinical Manual of Adolescent Substance Abuse Treatment / Yifrah Kaminer
11. Clinician's Guide to Posttraumatic Stress Disorder / Rosen, Gerald M.
12. Choosing Ethnicity, Negotiating Race: Korean Adoptees in America / Mia Tuan
13. Closing the Asylums: Causes and Consequences of the Deinstitutionalization Movement / George Paulson
14. Cognitive-Behavioral Interventions for Emotional and Behavioral Disorders: School-Based Practice / Mayer, Matthew
15. Coming Home to Passion: Restoring Loving Sexuality in Couples with Histories of Childhood Trauma and Neglect / Cohn, Ruth
16. Connecting Inquiry and Professional Learning in Education: International Perspectives and Practical Solutions / Campbell, Anne
17. Correctional Counseling And Treatment / Kratcoski, Peter C.
18. Couple Attachments: Theoretical and Clinical Studies / Ludlam, Molly
19. Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World / Wagner, Tony
20. Creative Family Therapy Techniques: Play, Art, and Expressive Activities to Engage Children in Family Sessions / Liana Lowenstein
21. Critical Incidents In Addictions Counseling / Gerald A. Juhnke
22. Depression and Bipolar Disorder: Stahl's Essential Psychopharmacology (3e) / Stahl, Stephen M.
23. Digital Literacy for Technical Communication: 21st Century Theory and Practice / Spilka, Rachel
24. Diversity and Inclusion on Campus: Supporting Racially and Ethnically Underrepresented Students / Winkle-Wagner, Rachelle
25. Dream Work in Therapy: Facilitating Exploration, Insight, and Action / Hill, Clara E.
26. Dying, Death, and Grief in an Online Universe: For Counselors and Educators / Sofka, Carla
27. Dynamics of Romantic Love: Attachment, Caregiving, and Sex / Mikulincer, Mario
28. Effective Teacher Evaluation: A Guide for Principals / Peterson, Kenneth D.
29. Eight Theories of Ethics / Graham, Gordon
30. Ethical Conundrums, Quandaries and Predicaments in Mental Health Practice: A Casebook from the Files of Experts / Johnson, W. Brad
31. Experience and Nature / Dewey, John
32. Experiential Activities for Teaching Multicultural Competence in Counseling / Mark Pope
33. First in the Family: Your College Years: Advice About College from First Generation Students / Cushman, Kathleen
34. Flip Your Classroom: Reach Every Student in Every Class Every Day / Jonathan Bergmann
35. Funding Higher Education in Sub-Saharan Africa / Teferra, Damtew
36. Formative Assessment and Standards-Based Grading: Classroom Strategies That Work / Robert J. Marzano
37. Guide For The New Health Care Professional / Scott, Ron W.
38. Group Play Interventions for Children: Strategies for Teaching Prosocial Skills / Reddy, Linda
39. Handbook of Counseling Military Couples / Moore, Bret A.
40. Handbook of Diagnosis and Treatment of Bipolar Disorders / Ketter, Terence
41. Handbook of Education, Training, and Supervision of School Psychologists in School and Community, Volume I: Foundations of Professional Practice / García-Vázquez, Enedina
42. Handbook of Education, Training, and Supervision of School Psychologists in School and Community, Volume II: Bridging the Training and Practice Gap / Kaufman, Judith
43. How to Help Your Spouse Heal From Your Affair: A Compact Manual for the Unfaithful / Linda J. MacDonald
44. Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook: How to Tell Your Story in a Noisy Social World / Vaynerchuk, Gary
45. Making Art Special: A Curriculum for Special Education Art (2e) / Shafton, Helen Goren
46. Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present / Washington, Harriet A.
47. Solution-Focused Therapy: Theory, Research and Practice / Macdonald, Alasdair
48. Using the Creative Arts in Therapy and Healthcare: A Practical Introduction / Warren, Bernie
49. Through the Labyrinth: The Truth About How Women Become Leaders / Eagly, Alice H.
50. Treatment of Eating Disorders: Bridging the Research-Practice Gap / Maine, Margo

You know what else is awesome? Happy New Year animated images meant for MySpace pages. Yeah, we're rockin' 'em in 2014.

New Library Website Launches

Go on, feast your eyes. Chances are you’re reading this paragraph in the blog feed embedded in our new website. Lovely isn't it?

Our new library website is easy to use, requires fewer clicks, and gives you instant access to SuperSearch.
Take a short video tour, and then blast off into awesome.

Let us know what you think of the new site - feedback is most definitely welcome. 

Roller Derby in the Library

We got new computer chairs in the library! They are beneficial for students' postures and for conducting chair races after hours. They also saved one librarian's back from having to carry weeded older editions of super-heavy nurse anesthesia texts. Come and have a seat.

Minnesota FoodShare

March is Minnesota FoodShare month and TC Library is excited to participate!

But actually, we participate year-round thanks to you and your generosity. You see, TC Library has a fun library-fine forgiveness program called Can Your Fine. This outreach program - the brainchild of Steve Swanson - is a library campaign that raises non-perishable food donations. Your donations go to the food shelf at Lutheran Social Services’ Center for Changing Lives, our next-door neighbors at 2400 Park Avenue.

How can you participate? Return an overdue book, donate three cans of food, and we will wipe the late fee off your library account. Can you be even more awesome? Return your book on time and donate non-perishable food anyway. It is Minnesota FoodShare month, after all!

Steve, Carrie, and Jane usually make the trek over to LSS about every other month with bags and boxes of non-perishable food items. Your donated food is distributed to Minnesotan families twice a month; over 150 households come to the Center for assistance. THANK YOU!!!!

Steve and Carrie gleefully dropping off some food items last summer. Hey Mother Nature. It's March 19th. Maybe you should start thinking about looking like this outside, instead of the white, wind-whipped tundra that is Minnesota today.

October 2012 New Books

Fall is here and so are some new books. 
Check them out.
That pun will never get old.

• Using assessment results for career development : career counseling : a holistic approach (2012)
• The grace of silence (2011)
• Going broke : why Americans can't hold on to their money (2008)
• Made to stick : why some ideas survive and others die (2007)

This list is a little short. Worry not, our new book blogger will add to the list as the titles trickle in. Or should I say....as the titles trick or treat in? MWAHAHAHAHAHHA.

Oh hi on 10/10. Here are more new titles.

• Innovation to the Core: A Blueprint for Transforming the Way Your Company Innovates (2008)
• Mismatch : How Affirmative Action Hurts Students It's Intended to Help, and Why Universities Won't Admit It (2012)
• Strategy Maps: Converting intangible assets into tangible outcomes (2004)
• Falling through the cracks: Psychodynamic practice with vulnerable and oppressed populations (2012)
• End-of-life care for children and adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities (2010)
• Acceptance and mindfulness-based approaches to anxiety: Conceptualization and treatment (2005)
• Contemporary issues in couples counseling : a choice theory and reality therapy approach (2012)
• The ethics of labeling in mental health (2007)
• Rationing sanity : ethical issues in managed mental health care (2003)
• Assessing Mindfulness and Acceptance Processes in Clients : Illuminating the Theory and Practice of Change (2010)

EBSCO eBooks

What a nice surprise to start a new school year off right! Twin Cities Library is excited to announce a HUGE addition to our collection--over 83,000 eBooks.

EBSCO eBooks -- click to play!

EBSCO eBooks is a collection of over 83,000 electronic books covering many topics—new titles are added each month. Subjects include art, business, education, literary criticism, biographies, history, law, psychology, medicine, and religion.

Need help? EBSCO eBooks User Guide

LibraryH3lp

TC Library has migrated to a new chat reference platform!

We are using LibraryH3lp now. You might notice a small difference visually to our chat feature, but the ease of use and anonymity are still the same. We switched platforms because our chat predecessor, Meebo, was purchased by Google a few months ago and Google chose to discontinue the service. Alas!

However, turns out this chat platform is even better--it works on PCs, Macs, tablets and most mobile devices.

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TC Library: Mobilized

Resources are within reach with Twin Cities Library's NEW mobile website! Access this mobile-friendly site using any smartphone or tablet (e.g. iPad) with Internet access. On this website, you can:

• Search for articles, ebooks, and more
• View your checked-out items
• Renew and request materials
• Watch video tutorials
• Get library hours and directions
• Ask us a question

The website was developed by Twin Cities Librarians, and its features were ordered based on student and faculty preferences as evidenced by our mobile website usability study.

For easy access on the go, bookmark the site or use the "MOBILE WEBSITE " link at www.smumn.edu/tclibrary.

Try it out, and let us know what you think.

Top Tens of 2011: What People are Reading

2011 Top Tens: Top Ten Books Read
Saint Mary’s students, faculty, and librarians are an erudite bunch. Just look at the exciting titles most checked out from our collection over the past year!

1. Learning in adulthood / Sharan B. Merriam
2. The flock / Joan Frances Casey
3. Introduction to rubrics: An assessment tool to save grading time, convey effective feedback, and promote student learning / Dannelle D. Stevens
4. Counseling the culturally diverse: Theory and practice / Derald Wing Sue
5. Clinical handbook of couple therapy
6. Textbook of neonatal resuscitation / John Kattwinkel, Ed.
7. Walk out, walk on / Margaret J. Wheatley
8. Organization development and change / Thomas G. Cummings
9. --exciting 7 way tie--
   Solution-focused therapy / Bill O'Connell
   The ghost map: The story of London's most terrifying epidemic / Steven Johnson
   Where we stand: Class matters / bell hooks
   Farewell my Subaru: An epic adventure in local living / Doug Fine
   Assessment and treatment activities for children, adolescents, and families
   Blended learning in higher education / D. Randy Garrison
   Race, class gender: An anthology

Top Tens of 2011: Searching for Us

2011 Top Tens: Searching for TC Library’s Website from the Internet
No surprises here! Although apparently our qualitative/quantitative page is a favorite of people around the nation. We got these search terms from our Google Analytics account.

1. saint mary's university of Minnesota
2. smumn blackboard
3. smumn
4. smumn library
5. smumn.edu
6. st marys university mn
7. st. mary's university of minnesota
8. qualitative research vs quantitative research
9. www.smumn.edu
10. saint mary's university

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2011 Top Tens: Top Ten States using TC Library’s Website (excluding MN and WI)
From California to New York, it seems the whole United States is finding us online. Read below to find out how many visitors we got from states around the nation.

1. Illinois (836 visitors)
2. California (591 visitors)
3. New York (553 visitors)
4. Texas (472 visitors)
5. Missouri (391 visitors)
6. Iowa (325 visitors)
7. Florida (270 visitors)
8. Pennsylvania (260 visitors)
9. Ohio (253 visitors)
10. Michigan (237 visitors)

November's New Books

TC Library's current library display is all about new books! 
Come by and check them out or, if you see one or seven in the list below that you'd like to get your hands on, message or email us and we will mail them to your home. If the item is checked out, sign into your account and place a hold on it.
Just in time for a long Thanksgiving read-a-thon whilst the rest of the world watches football. (Including one very football-fanaticy-librarian, who shan't be reading over the break. Nay, she shall be shouting GO DUCKS!!!)

• Your brain at work: Strategies for overcoming distraction, regaining focus, and working smarter all day long / David Rock. © 2009
  
• Strengths-based batterer intervention: A new paradigm in ending family violence / Peter Lehmann, Catherine A. Simmons, editors. © 2009
• Culturally diverse and underserved populations of gifted students / Alexinia Y. Baldwin, editor. © 2004
• World religions for healthcare professionals / edited by Siroj Sorajjakool, Mark F. Carr, and Julius. © 2010
• The temperamental thread: How genes, culture, time and luck make us who we are / Jerome Kagan. © 2010
• Dreaming the myth onwards: New directions in Jungian therapy and thought / by Lucy Huskinson. © 2008
• Lean six sigma demystified / Jay Arthur. © 2011
• Contemporary body psychotherapy: The Chiron approach / by Linda Hartley. © 2009
• Food politics: How the food industry influences nutrition and health / Marion Nestle. © 2007

EBSCO Criminal Justice Database

Attention law abiding citizens! We have a new database!

Starting today, you can use EBSCO Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text. This new database contains over 200 full text trade magazines and journals. Topics covered include criminology, corrections, investigations, forensic science, substance abuse, and probation/parole.

Twin Cities Librarians decided to review ProQuest and EBSCO's criminal justice databases. In our review, we found EBSCO's Criminal Justice Abstracts with Full Text database to be superior for several reasons:

• EBSCO has more full-text titles than ProQuest.
• EBSCO searches yield higher numbers of relevant results.
• Everyone prefers EBSCO's interface (scientific fact).

Starting today, you have access to EBSCO's Criminal Justice database from our Databases A-Z page and the Security Management, Police Science, and Public Safety Administration subject guide. We have discontinued our subscription to ProQuest Criminal Justice Periodicals.

New Photos @ Flickr

TC Library (the ephemeral and intellectual entity) has posted some new photos taken from our latest Art on Park exhibit. Visit our Flickr page and check them out!

Also don't forget that we're on Facebook too. If you love our services, librarians, or beta fish mascot, feel free to become a fan!

Revisions to Web site

TC Library has improved our Web site based on your constructive feedback and suggestions. Below is list outlining the main changes. Please contact us if you have any questions--and we would love additional comments and feedback!

• Homepage - Article searching: The new default on the main page searching tabs allows you to search articles first. Choose a broad topic from the dropdown menu to see a page with database recommendations. If you know the database in which you'd like to search, select the link "Databases A to Z" under the dropdown menu.
  • You can also access links to Journal Finder and our Interlibrary Loan (ILL) article from here.
• Homepage - Book & Video searching: No longer the default tab on the homepage. Click the Books & Videos tab to search for these items.
• Homepage - top-of-page dropdown menus: Articles, Books & More leads you to pages specifically designed to help you find those different types of items.
• Homepage - top-of-page dropdown menus: Research Help is the new, more intuitive name for the old tutorials tab.
• Events: The old Events dropdown menu is now a Web page located under the About Us dropdown menu.
• Articles page: Find it by mousing over Articles, Books & More. The tabs explained:
  • Find Article Databases: Lets you choose a broad topic from the dropdown menu to see a page with database recommendations.
  • Find a Specific Article: Lets you use Journal Finder.
  • Request an Article: Lets you go to our ILL form.

If you so desire, we also have a short video introduction to our Web site available here. While not as creative as a Lady Gaga video, we feel it still has a respectable amount of artistic merit.

Semester Break Hours

It is semester break time, SMU Community!!! That means the library will be on reduced hours.

• Monday, April 26 - Friday, May 05: 9:00am - 5:00 pm
• Closed Saturdays.

Normal semester hours resume Monday, May 10. Enjoy the break!

And as a bonus, here is some Spring haiku by the library staff:

• Submitted by Tech Services Librarian:
• Warm breeze blowing.
• Insects buzzing.
• Book drop full.

• Submitted by Reference/Instruction Librarian #1:
• Oh look there's some grass.
• Green green green green brown green green.
• Dandelion. Shoe.

• Submitted by Reference/Instruction Librarian #2:
• Oh, spring allergies
• from pollen infested plants,
• doth make my nose stuffed.