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. 

June 2012 New Books

In honor of the summer solstice this evening, here is a completely unrelated list of new books recently purchased by TC Library in June.

• Managing business ethics: Straight talk about how to do it right (2011)
• Understanding, Developing, and Writing Effective IEPs: A Step-by-Step Guide for Educators (2007)
• Minority teacher recruitment and retention strategies (2010)
• Fairness and effectiveness in policing the evidence (2004)
• Self-esteem issues and answers: A sourcebook of current perspectives (2006)
• The career counselor's handbook (2007)
• Career development and counseling : putting theory and research to work (2005)
• Overcoming trauma through yoga : reclaiming your body (2011)
• Married with special-needs children: A couples' guide to keeping connected (2007)
• Birth crisis (2006)
• Teaching with poverty in mind : what being poor does to kids' brains and what schools can do about it (2009)
• Strengthening couple relationships for optimal child development : lessons from research and intervention (2010)
• Driven by data : a practical guide to improve instruction (2010)

P.S. What is the summer solstice? How could you celebrate it? Learn about it here!

iPad-friendly tutorials

TC Library is working on creating iPad friendly tutorials. On our tutorials pages, look for the iPad icon to watch video tutorials compatible on Apple devices.

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Our usual video tutorials (indicated by the 'lil icon below) are Flash-based, so they don't work on those cool tablets seen around campus. Until now baby!

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Dying to watch a tutorial?
Check out our most recently updated tutorial on Google Scholar.

New Art on Park Artist!

Art on Park: June 2012

Saint Mary's University has the privilege of hosting the work of Jonathan McFadden, an emerging artist whose provocative work has been exhibited throughout the United States. McFadden's collection, Adversarial Collaboration, will be shown in this June's Art on Park exhibit and will highlight his use of printmaking media and digital applications to design intricate maps of the global landscape and recent environmental phenomena.

Please join us in the Library to meet the artist at our opening reception on June 13 from 4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m. We changed the format of the Art on Park receptions, so there will not be a formal talk. Simply drop-in for cake and punch anytime that works for you.