New Animal Behavior Journal

The Journal of Veterinary Behavior: Clinical Applications and Research is now available online through ScienceDirect.  Browse current issues of the journal here:

www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/15587878

New Books Added for Dedication

Congratulations to Steve Dixon (Resnick Library), Julee Miller (Hospitality) and Cheryl Peletz (Veterinary Science) — all of whom received continuing or permanent appointment this year.  A reception was held in the Resnick Reading Room to unveil new books each person selected in recognition of this milestone.   These books are on display in the Library on the main floor through October, and will be added to the library permanent collection.

Here are this year’s selections:

• What the Best College Teachers Do (Ken Bain)
• Baseball: A History of America’s Favorite Game (George Vecsey)
• The Death of Free Speech (John Ziegler)
• All the President’s Pastries: Twenty-Five Years in the White House (Roland Mesnier with Christian Mallard)
• How She Does It: How Women Entrepreneurs are Changing the Rules of Business Success (Margaret Heffernan)
• Wherever You Go There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Jon Kabat-Zinn)
• Veterinary Medicine: An Illustrated History (Dunlop and Williams)

-Pam

Emma Goldman, Golf, and Chiggers

Emma Goldman, Golf Course Design, Parasitology, Agriculture, Leadership, HIV/AIDS, Adolescence, and the Reformation….These subjects are the focus of new books and films recently added to the Resnick Library in honor of faculty and staff who recently received permanent or continuing appointment.  The eight faculty and staff were honored and the books were unveiled at a ceremony in the Library Cafe on October 4th.  Stop by to view the new acquisitions, along with comments from the faculty and staff about why they chose these titles, on display in the library through the end of the semester.

Enjoy!  Pam

New Reference Book Review

Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution

REF DS 146 .E8 A58 2005

Antisemitism can be defined as “thinking and behavior intended to do harm to the reputation, rights, and/or physical well-being of Jews.”  Antisemitism: A Historical Encyclopedia of Prejudice and Persecution attempts to combine “scholarly rigor and an emotional subject matter,” and is successful in doing so. It is a two-volume work containing 612 alphabetically arranged articles written by historians that are focused on “the search for truth.”  Entries deal with Jewish issues as they exist outside a homeland and a separate state, with the majority of articles dealing with those occurring within the last 200 years. 

While most entries are short and precise, essays for the more popular figures and events are longer.  The entry on Adolph Hitler, for example, is 2 pages long, but there are several additional entries attributed to his documents and actions, including “Hitler’s Prophecy,” Hitler’s Speeches,” and “Mein Kampf.”  Each entry concludes by giving a bibliography of scholarly, objective materials for further information, with preference given to more recently published materials.  Additionally, the index, at the end of the second volume, contains a helpful comprehensive list of historical terms related to Antisemitism.   

Antisemitism is an excellent new tool for researchers, teachers, and students of history, but is also a very interesting read for even the casual reader.  - Steve

New Books - Science and Nature

What's new in science and nature? The following books/DVDs are now available in the library:

Biodiesel: Growing a New Energy Economy
Coral Reef Adventure DVD (on reserve)
Evolution DVD Box Set (on reserve)
Evolution of American Ecology, 1890-2000
Ice: The Nature, History, and Uses of this Surprising Substance
Intelligence in Nature
NOVA: World in the Balance - the Population Paradox DVD (on reserve)
Rising Tide: Great Mississippi Flood of 1927, and How it Changed America
Secret Weapons: Defenses of Insects, Spiders, Scorpions, and other Many-Legged Creatures
Under Ground: How Creatures of Mud and Dirt Shape our World
World Population DVD (on reserve)

new Peterson's Field Guides:

• Atlantic Coast Fishes, North America
• Birds' Nests, U.S. East of the Mississippi River
• Eastern Forests, North America
• Ferns and their Related Famillies, New England and Central North America
• Hummingbirds of North America
• Medicinal Plants and Herbs of Eastern and Central North America
• Western Medicinal Plants and Herbs

…More coming soon…
-Amy
 

Food in World Mythology: Nectar and Ambrosia

What did Italians wear to ward off the evil eye? Any idea what the ancient Romans thought was a great cureall for all kinds of ailments? Or what food was worshipped by Native American tribes but feared by Hindus? The answers are, in order, garlic, cabbage, and beans.

For questions about the history of various foods or the cultural traditions and values that surround them, find answers in Nectar and Ambrosia: An Encyclopedia of Food in World Mythology. Covering just about any food you could think of, as well as many that you may not have thought of as food, i.e. insects, turtles and guinea pigs, this encyclopedia is a great resource for multicultural assignments in culinary arts, business, hospitality, and nursing.

Find it in the reference section: REF GR 498 .A53 2000. You also may wish to try the 3-vol. Encyclopedia of Food and Culture (REF GT 2850 .E53 2003) and the 2-vol. Cambridge World History of Food (REF TX 353 .C255 2000).
-Amy

New Books: History - Government - Economics

What’s new in history, government, and economics? Here’s a list of our latest purchases in these areas:

America’s Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, and Heroines
Balkans: A Short History
Darfur: The Ambiguous Genocide
End of Poverty: Economic Possibilities for our Time
European Imperialism, 1830-1930: Climax and Contradiction
First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea
Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything
Freedom From Fear: The American People in Depression and War, 1929-1945
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Night Draws Near: Iraq’s People in the Shadow of America’s War
Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare
Postwar: A History of Europe Since 1945
Prisoner in the Garden: Opening Nelson Mandela’s Prison Archive
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
Shades of Glory: The Negro Leagues and the Story of African American Baseball
Shining Thread of Hope: The History of Black Women in America
What We Knew: Terror, Mass Murder, and Everyday Life in Nazi Germany
World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century

All these books have been received and should be on the shelves soon, if they aren’t there already.
-Amy

Job Hunting?

Whether you’re about to graduate and you’re looking for that first professional job in your field, or whether you’re just looking to line up a summer job or internship, you may want to take a look at some of the following resources.

A couple of new books, just in:
201 Best Questions to Ask on Your Interview
Elements of Resume Style: Essential Rules and Eye-Opening Advice
Resume Handbook: How to Write Outstanding Resumes and Cover Letters

A couple of newer job search engines that you may not have heard about yet:
SimplyHired
Indeed

You also may want to keep an eye on the Career Services website for announcements of job fairs, campus recruitment visits, etc. If you want more personalized help, go straight to the expert. Come in to the Resnick Learning Center and make an appointment to see Lou Shields, Director of Career, Transfer and Veterans Services.
-Amy

Searching SUNY

SUNY libraries are working together towards the goal of opening up our collections across campuses. The first step in this process is the SUNY Union Catalog, which enables you to search all SUNY campuses at once, narrow them down regionally or by type of college, or select an individual college to search. You can also view a list of recently purchased books across all SUNY campuses.

The next step in the process will be enabling you to request to borrow a book from any campus directly from the union catalog. Since we are not there yet, if you find a book you’d like to borrow from another campus, you will need to go into WorldCat and submit an ILL request there.

Another recent development is the SUNY Digital Repository in DSpace. Several campuses have already published materials in DSpace, including faculty publications, electronic journals, student theses, image collections, and college history materials. SUNY Press has made a collection of e-books available here as well.
-Amy

New Books - Religion

A few books we’ve recently purchased on the topic of religion…These are on the shelves and ready to be checked out.

• Religious Traditions of Africa: A History
• Secrets of Voodoo
• Hoodoo Herb and Root Magic
• Santeria: The Beliefs and Rituals of a Growing Religion in America

Also coming soon: Slave Religion: The Invisible Institution in the Antebellum South
-Amy