20071031

HIV and Dental Care Bibliography


HIV and Dental Care Bibliography contains citations for selected journal articles published in the ten year period from 1997 to 2006. The entries are arranged in reverse chronological order and come from Stanford's Highwire Press database at: http://highwire.stanford.edu The full-text of all the articles is available free of charge from Highwire.

Other open access archives with dental journals, such as PubMedCentral (PMC) and the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), are also listed.

20071024

What Can An Excellent Library Do For Student Learning?


What Can An Excellent Library Do For Student Learning? notes key research findings from the DEEP (Documenting Effective Educational Practice) Project and NSSE (National Survey of Student Engagement) research.

Some ways to promote academic challenge and greater student engagement are also noted. Critical terminology relating to the Peninsula College Library Mission statement is defined (definitions are from ODLIS-Online Dictionary for Library and Information Science), and the Library mission is compared to that of museums and archives, in light of Ranganathan's Fifth Law of Library Science: "A Library is a growing organism."

20071023

Olympic Peninsula Local Research in the Peninsula College Library


The Olympic Peninsula Local Research guide focuses on Clallam and Jefferson Counties and points to Web indexes, public libraries, and local government sources in the region. The guide suggests starting with the development of a search vocabulary which can be used to search catalogs and indexes.

20071022

Guide to Fisheries Resources in the Peninsula College Library


The Fisheries Resources guide contains selected titles providing examples of several different publication formats related to fisheries: bibliography, biography, manuals, encyclopedias, writing style guides, databases which index fisheries journals, etc.

Library Publishes Elwha River Dam Selected Bibliography


Be patient as loading the link may take some time.
This bibliography on the Elwha River Dam removal does not pretend to be comprehensive or exhaustive. It includes selected citations to publications about the Elwha River. Scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles, government publications, books, popular magazine articles, unpublished works, theses, and audiovisual materials are included. A few works of history and poetry inspired by the Elwha River are included.

Web sites on the surface Web are mostly excluded, with a few local exceptions, such as the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe Elwha River Restoration Project Web site and the Olympic National Park Elwha River Restoration Web site. Newspaper articles are also not included.

20071019

Libraries, Archives, Museums, Ranganathan, and Me


Reading the book, Five Laws of Library Science (1931), by the father of Indian Library Science, S. R. Ranganathan, inspired me to become a librarian. Today, while thinking about the difference between libraries, museums, and archives, I recalled Ranganathan's Fifth Law of Library Science: A Library is a growing organism.

As we know, living organisms ingest, digest, and excrete. So do libraries. Acquisitions is ingestion, while information competency instruction is all about promoting good digestion. To remain responsive to curricular necessities a community college library is also constantly excreting, sanitarily called "deselection" (which used to be called "weeding"). Libraries are growing organisms.

Archives and museums ingest and digest but are less prone to excretion. According to ODLIS, the Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science, archives are about preservation. Archives preserve noncurrent records, usually in a repository like the photo of the Toronto archives above, in this post, for "their permanent historical, informational, evidential, legal, administrative, or monetary value." Museums are about "the preservation and display of collections of physical artifacts and specimens."

Archives and museums are needed and useful cultural institutions, but their emphasis on permanent preservation, as opposed to the Library's instrumental preservation, indicates they are serving an important purpose, but one different from the Library. Archives are not about circulating their collections to the public, to take home to further learning. Museums are not systematically organized to meet the information needs of a specific user population, the way academic libraries are.

The Peninsula College Library mission indicates a purpose more focused on intellectual digestion of information to promote student learning: "To serve the information needs of the students, faculty, staff and community in an environment that nurtures learning and fosters freedom of intellectual activity."

2007-2008 LMC Faculty Handbook Now Available


The 2007-2008 Library Media Center Faculty Handbook includes information on Information Competencies, Resource-Based Learning, Resource-Based Instruction, Electronic Database descriptions, and procedures related to collection development and circulation. An added bonus, absolutely free of charge, is the floor plan of the new Library which should be completed in June 2008.

20071017

Education Resources in the Peninsula College Library


The Education Resources guide provides links to external public domain Web sources, such as the National Center for Educational Statistics, but also points to sources not available to PC students on the Web, such as the 3-volume Encyclopedia of American Education available in the Library Reference section.

Botany Resources in Peninsula College Library


The new Botany Resources page includes sample titles related to botany in these formats:

ENCYCLOPEDIAS AND DICTIONARIES
BOTANY MANUALS AND GUIDES
E-JOURNALS

as well as links to these resources:

LIBRARY CATALOGS
PUBLIC LIBRARY RESOURCES
SELECTED WEBSITES
INTERLIBRARY LOAN REQUEST FORMS
CRITICAL EVALUATION OF INFORMATION
WRITING STYLEBOOKS
SOURCE DOCUMENTATION IN THE SCIENCES

20071015

NLM Adds "Citing Medicine" to NCBI Bookshelf


In the 21st century, technological advances have created a whole new world of medical citations. To give authors, editors, medical librarians and others a guidebook for navigating that world, the National Library of Medicine is pleased to announce the publication of Citing Medicine: the NLM Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers, available free of charge on the NCBI Bookshelf.

Citing Medicine provides guidance for citing 26 types of published and unpublished material, ranging from print books and journal articles to blogs and wikis.

--from the NLM announcement of the 2nd edition, 2007.

20071011

Qualities of a Peninsula College Graduate


The Peninsula College Graduate will:

· utilize the processes, knowledge and values of scholarship.

· apply and connect knowledge in order to think critically and creatively.

· demonstrate bilingual proficiency in social and academic contexts.

· exemplify positive personal values.

· demonstrate the moral conscience and social responsibility of a proactive citizen.

· interact with the world recognizing and respecting multiple perspectives.

October 2007

Chemical Dependency Research Guide Now Available


The Chemical Dependency Research Guide provides broader, narrower, and related Library of Congress "Substance Abuse" search terms which can be used in searching the Online Catalog, WorldCat, and Library databases.

The Chemical Dependency Research Guide also lists a sample of 20 books (published between 2002 and 2007) in the Peninsula College Library collection and a selected list of full-text e-journals related to chemical dependency in Library databases.

20071003

Philosophy Resources in the Peninsula College Library


Peninsula College Library has an ample collection of materials related to philosophy. The Philosophy Resources guide at http://pc.ctc.edu/biblio/PF/philosophy.htm includes the following:

SELECTED BIOGRAPHIES
ENCYCLOPEDIAS
DICTIONARIES
GREEK PHILOSOPHY BOOKS
PHILOSOPHY E-BOOKS (A sample of aesthetics titles)
PHILOSOPHY E-JOURNALS (A sample of e-journal titles)
LIBRARY CATALOGS
INTERLIBRARY LOAN REQUEST FORMS
ONLINE RESOURCES IN THE PENINSULA COLLEGE LIBRARY
PUBLIC LIBRARY RESOURCES
QUALITY SURFACE WEB INDEXES
CRITICAL EVALUATION OF INFORMATION
SOURCE DOCUMENTATION: MLA, APA, AND CSE