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20070926

BAS Applied Management Resource Guide Now Available

The first Bachelor of Applied Science in Applied Management students are now entering the new degree program (Fall 2007) and the Library has prepared for their arrival by acquiring print and electronic resources: books, encyclopedias, e-books, business databases, etc. The Library has also prepared a BAS Applied Management Resource Guide to help students get started in their research.

The Bachelor of Applied Science in Applied Management program at Peninsula College will enable students with AAS, AAS-T, AA-Transfer, and AS-Transfer degrees to combine their lower division technical or transfer preparation with upper division credits in business administration, resulting in a practical, application-oriented program. The BAS-Applied Management Program has been developed to meet the employment needs of the Olympic Peninsula.

The Library will do all it can to help students successfully complete their academic work.

Current Subscriptions to Nursing Journals (in Paper Copy) in the Periodicals Room

While the Library has dozens of nursing journals available in electronic format in Library databases such as Academic Search Premier and ProQuest, this list is of the current print subscriptions to nursing journals. These journals are available for browsing in the Library Periodicals Room or for check-out for one week.

Journal Name & Holdings
American Journal of Critical Care 2000-
American Journal of Nursing 5 years+
Critical Care Nurse 5 years+
Journal of Emergency Nursing 1999-
Journal of Nursing Scholarship 2000-
Journal for Specialists in Pediatric Nursing 2002-
Medsurg Nursing 2000-
Nursing Research 2003-
Reflections on Nursing Leadership 2000-

Updated Sept. 26, 2007

20070925

Research Guide to Music Resources in the Peninsula College Library

During a visit of Dr. Crabb's music theory class to the library a student requested a Music Research Guide.

The new Music Research Guide is available at: http://pc.ctc.edu/biblio/PF/music.htm

20070924

New Peninsula College Library Construction On Schedule

The new Peninsula College Library building is scheduled to be completed in June 2008. Library staff recently toured "inside" with the architect. The view toward the Strait of Juan de Fuca from the Periodical Reading Area should be spectacular!

20070921

Emergency Preparedness: An Opportunity for Quality Reading

This week Peninsula College faculty and staff, in coordination with local police and fire officials, have had fruitful discussions about personal responsibility and preparation for events (such as earthquakes, tsunamis, etc.) which might lead to the Olympic Peninsula becoming isolated.

In the event of being stuck with time on our hands -- with no electricity, telephone, internet, or television -- we will have an excellent opportunity for reading by natural light.

In our emergency preparedness discussions we have cited Maslow's hierarchy of needs, from physiological and safety needs up to self-actualization. Besides self-actualization Maslow also spoke of self-transcendence, and its general availability (see Maslow quote below). The canonic and classical spiritual literature can assist us in preparation for self-transcendence.

In addition to food, water, flashlights, medical supplies, etc., I would suggest we carefully choose some literature, from both the Eastern and Western spiritual classics. In our emergency preparedness efforts each of us may select different book titles: those we consider of most importance (actual or potential) for our own spiritual well-being.

Here are a few titles from my list:

EASTERN CLASSICS
The Conference of the Birds / Farid ud-Din Attar (1177)
The Analects / Confucius (c. 400 BCE)
The Dao De Jing / Lao Tzu (c. 400 BCE)
The Lotus Sutra (290)
The Mahabharata (400? BCE)
The Book of Mencius / Mencius (c. 330 BCE)
The Masnavi / Jalaluddin Rumi (c. 1250)
The Upanishads (1600? BCE)
etc.

WESTERN CLASSICS
The Little Flowers / St. Francis of Assisi
Interior Castle / St. Teresa of Avila
Dark Night of the Soul / St. John of the Cross
Imitation of Christ / Thomas a Kempis
The Practice of the Presence of God / Brother Lawrence
Revelations of Divine Love / Julian
The Journal of John Woolman / John Woolman
etc.

MASLOW ON SELF-TRANSCENDENCE
“I have recently found it more and more useful to differentiate between two kinds of self-actualizing people, those who were clearly healthy, but with little or no experiences of transcendence, and those in whom transcendent experiencing was important and even central… It is unfortunate that I can no longer be theoretically neat at this level. I find not only self-actualizing persons who transcend, but also non-healthy people, non-self-actualizers who have important transcendent experiences. It seems to me that I have found some degree of transcendence in many people other than self-actualizing ones as I have defined this term…” --- MASLOW, A. H. (1971). The farther reaches of human nature. New York, Viking Press.

Online Resources (Library Databases) Now Arranged by Broad Subject Categories

The Peninsula College Library databases (also called "deep Web" subscription databases) are now arranged on the Online Resources page by broad subject categories, with the interdisciplinary databases at the top of the list:

ALL DISCIPLINES Peninsula College Library Catalog
ALL DISCIPLINES A-to-Z Index to Electronic Journals
ALL DISCIPLINES Academic Search Premier
ALL DISCIPLINES Ebrary Academic Complete
ALL DISCIPLINES ProQuest
ALL DISCIPLINES Reference Premium Online (Oxford)
BUSINESS ABI/INFORM Trade & Industry
BUSINESS Business & Management E-Book Collection
BUSINESS Small Business Resource Center
EDUCATION eLibrary
EDUCATION Teacher Reference Center
HISTORY History Resource Center: U.S.
HISTORY History Resource Center: World
INFORMATION STUDIES Library, Information Science, & Technology Abstracts
LITERATURE Literary Databases
LITERATURE Literary Index
LITERATURE Magill on Literature
NEWS Alt-Press Watch
NEWS Ethnic News Watch
NEWS New York Times
NEWS Wall Street Journal
SCIENCE Access Science
SCIENCE Environment Complete
SOCIAL SCIENCE CQ Researcher

20070919

Dental Hygiene Resources Available through the Peninsula College Library

A pathfinder to the Dental Hygiene collection in the Peninsula College Library is available at http://pc.ctc.edu/biblio/PF/DentalHygiene200710.htm
detailing books, print journal subscriptions, Library deep Web database subscriptions, e-journals, reserve materials, Web-based indexing and abstracting services, and open access full-text archives related to dental hygiene.

Faculty Reading Recommendations

ARANA, M. (2006). Cellophane: a novel. New York, Dial Press.
BERNSTEIN, C. (2007). A woman in charge: the life of Hillary Rodham Clinton. New York, Alfred A. Knopf.
BESCHLOSS, M. R. (2007). Presidential courage: brave leaders and how they changed America, 1789-1989. New York, Simon & Schuster.
FRIEDMAN, T. L. (2007). The world is flat: a brief history of the twenty-first century [version 3.0]. New York, Picador.
GORE, A. (2007). The assault on reason. New York, Penguin Press.
OBAMA, B. (2006). The audacity of hope: thoughts on reclaiming the American dream. New York, Crown Publishers.
RITTER, S. (2007). Waging peace: the art of war for the antiwar movement. New York, Nation Books.
WARD, P. D. (2007). Under a green sky: global warming, the mass extinctions of the past, and what they mean for our future. New York, Smithsonian Books/Collins.
WEINER, T. (2007). Legacy of ashes: the history of the CIA. New York, Doubleday.

Librarian's List: Selected Stage Conceptions

BECK, D. E., & COWAN, C. C. (2004). Spiral dynamics. Developmental management. Cambridge, Mass [etc.], Blackwell Business.
COMMONS, M. L. (1989). Adult development: comparisons and applications of developmental models. New York, Praeger.
FEUERSTEIN, G., & GEBSER, J. (1987). Structures of consciousness: the genius of Jean Gebser-- an introduction and critique. Lower Lake, Calif, Integral Pub.
GHOSE, A., & DALAL, A. S. (2001). A greater psychology: an introduction to Sri Aurobindo's psychological thought. New York, Jeremy P Tarcher/Putnam.
GILLIGAN, C. (1982). In a different voice: psychological theory and women's development. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press.
KEGAN, R. (1982). The evolving self: problem and process in human development. Cambridge, Mass, Harvard University Press.
KOHLBERG, L. (1984). The psychology of moral development: the nature and validity of moral stages. San Francisco, Harper & Row.
LOEVINGER, J., & BLASI, A. (1976). Ego development: [conceptions and theories]. San Francisco, Jossey-Bass Publishers.
MILLER, M. E., & COOK-GREUTER, S. R. (1994). Transcendence and mature thought in adulthood: the further reaches of adult development. Lanham, Md, Rowman & Littlefield.
PERRY, W. G., JR. (1999). Forms of Intellectual and Ethical Development in the College Years: A Scheme. Jossey-Bass Higher and Adult Education Series.
PIAGET, J., GRUBER, H. E., & VONÈCHE, J. J. (1977). The essential Piaget. New York, Basic Books.

Faculty Retreat Books for Discussion Groups (Fall 2007)

ANGIER, N. (2007). The canon: a whirligig tour of the beautiful basics of science. Boston, Houghton Mifflin Company. (suggested by Dan Stengel)
DUMAS, F. (2003). Funny in Farsi: a memoir of growing up Iranian in America. New York, Villard. (suggested by Dan Yezbick)
GOLEMAN, D. (2007). Social Intelligence The New Science of Human Relationships. Bantam Dell Pub Group. (suggested by Aleilah Lawson)
LEDERMAN, L. M., & TERESI, D. (2006). The god particle: if the universe is the answer, what is the question? Boston, Houghton Mifflin. (suggested by Jeff Zirul)
MACMILLAN, M. (2007). Nixon and Mao: the week that changed the world. New York, Random House. (suggested by Steven Olson)
ROSE, M. (2005). Lives on the boundary: a moving account of the struggles and achievements of America's educationally underprepared. New York, N.Y., U.S.A., Penguin Books. (suggested by Janet Lucas)
SPENGLER, O., WERNER, H., HELPS, A., & ATKINSON, C. F. (1962). The decline of the West. New York, Knopf. (suggested by Wes Cecil)

Librarian's List: Social Epistemology

LACKEY, J., & SOSA, E. (2006). The epistemology of testimony. Oxford, Clarendon Press.
MCINNIS, R. G. (2001). Discourse synthesis: studies in historical and contemporary social epistemology. Westport, Conn, Praeger.
REMEDIOS, F. (2003). Legitimizing scientific knowledge: an introduction to Steve Fuller's social epistemology. Lanham, Md, Lexington Books.
SPINDEL CONFERENCE, HENDERSON, D. K., & TOLLEFSEN, D. (2006). Spindel Conference 2005. Social epistemology. Memphis, Tenn, Dept. of Philosophy, University of Memphis.

Librarian's List: Tat Tvam Asi and Potpourri

JACOBY, S. (2004). Freethinkers: a history of American secularism. New York, Metropolitan Books.
KELLY, E. F., & KELLY, E. W. (2007). Irreducible mind: toward a psychology for the 21st century. Lanham, Md, Rowman & Littlefield.
KRIPAL, J. J. (2007). Esalen: America and the religion of no religion. Chicago, University of Chicago Press.
MAXWELL, N. K. (2006). Sacred stacks: the higher purpose of libraries and librarianship. Chicago, American Library Association.
SCHROEDER, G. L. (2001). The hidden face of God: how science reveals the ultimate truth. New York, Free Press.
WILBER, K. (2007). The integral vision: a very short introduction to the revolutionary integral approach to life, God, the universe, and everything. Boston, Shambhala Publications.

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