Interlibrary Loan Restored

In order to make improvements to our catalog, holds and Interlibrary Loan services were down from September 22, 2012 2:00 a.m. to September 24, 2012 9:00 a.m. The catalog upgrades are complete, and holds and interlibrary loan services have been restored. Thanks for your patience!!

September 2012 New Books

Were you a little miffed with your textbook bill this fall semester?
We understand; we spent a bunch on new books, too.
It's a great investment! :-)

1. Coping with trauma-related dissociation : skills training for patients and their therapists
2. Traumatic stress : the effects of overwhelming experience on mind, body, and society
3. Crucial elements of police firearms training
4. Recovering sanity : a compassionate approach to understanding and treating psychosis
5. Anxiety in childbearing women : diagnosis and treatment
6. Hindsight : the promise and peril of looking backward
7. Narrative matters : the power of the personal essay in health policy
8. Liberating scholarly writing : the power of personal narrative
9. Social enterprise : a global comparison
10. The art of being : reflections on the beauty and the risk of embracing who we are
11. Life inside the "thin" cage : a personal look into the hidden world of the chronic dieter
12. Families, professionals, and exceptionality : positive outcomes through partnerships and trust
13. Medical team training : strategies for improving patient care and communication
14. From menarche to menopause : the female body in feminist therapy
15. School reform from the inside out : policy, practice, and performance
16. The psychospiritual clinician's handbook : alternative methods for understanding and treating mental disorders
17. Reproductive trauma : psychotherapy with infertility and pregnancy loss clients
18. Worth it-- not worth it? : simple & profitable answers to life's tough financial questions
19. The motivation to work
20. The 5 elements of effective thinking
21. Grounded theory : the philosophy, method, and work of Barney Glaser
22. Kiss, bow, or shake hands Latin America : how to do business in 18 Latin American countries
23. Collapse : how societies choose to fail or succeed

EBSCO Down Off Campus

When you attempt to access an EBSCO database from off campus, you are unable to. You get a white screen with a bunch of text. The "sign in" link does not work; the search box does not work. None of the links work, hooray!

EBSCO is aware of the issue. We will update you as soon as this is resolved.

Reality TV in Academic Scholarship

Why is Snooki duck-facing it up in our September book display? 
Guess you'll have to come to the Library to find out. 

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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July 2012 New Books

New months, new books. To stay out of the heat, we spent early July sequestered in the air-conditioned library buying new books off of Amazon.
More will be added to the list as the month goes on, and as it stays hot.

• Handbook of addictive disorders : A practical guide to diagnosis and treatment / 2004.
• Harm reduction: Pragmatic strategies for managing high-risk behaviors / 2012.
• Post traumatic slave syndrome: America's legacy of enduring injury and healing / 2005. 
• Improving formative assessment practice to empower student learning / 2012.
• Ethical issues in rural health care / 2008.
• The professional counselor's desk reference / 2009.
• The case against homework: How homework is hurting our children and what we can do about it / 2006.
• The homework myth: Why our kids get too much of a bad thing / 2006.
• Anxiety and its disorders: The nature and treatment of anxiety and panic / 2004.