Peninsula College Library Biblio-Bits

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How to See What New Materials Are in the Peninsula Library Collection

Want to know what new books the Library has acquired? You can find out instantly through the Peninsula College Library catalog (this takes you to the "New Books" tab). Just click on “Search”… and a list of new Library books will be dynamically generated!

News Flash! WorldCat.org Adds 35+ Million Article-Level Records!

WorldCat.org now provides access to over 86 million unique titles from 9,000+ libraries, including newly added content: 35+ million citations to journal articles.

The database will tell you which nearby OCLC libraries have an item. You can also click on "Cite this Item" and have the citation formatted in the most popular bibliographic styles.

Library Acquires Digital Reference Collection from Oxford

The Library has acquired the Reference Premium Online collection from Oxford University Press.
This reference collection contains 160+ dictionary, language reference, and subject reference works published by Oxford University Press, including titles from the acclaimed Oxford Companions Series, plus the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations. There is an especially strong humanities emphasis with multi-volume works on literature and Western history.

Library Supports New Bachelor of Applied Management Degree Program with Deep Web e-Resources

Students, staff, and faculty of Peninsula College now have access to several new business databases:

ABI/Inform Trade & Industry
ABI/INFORM includes in-depth coverage of companies, products, executives, trends, and other topics for more than 1,210 publications, with over 1,160 in full-text, allowing study and comparison of specific trades and industries, including telecommunications, computing, transportation, construction, petrochemicals, and many others.

Business & Management e-Book Collection
NetLibrary provides access to the digital version of books, journals, and database content in the fields of Business, Management and Leadership. You can access this NetLibrary eContent 24 hours a days, seven days a week!

Small Business Resource Center
The Small Business Center provides information in all major areas of starting and operating a business including financing, management, marketing, human resources, franchising, accounting and taxes, including a "How To" menu that tackles the most-frequently asked new business questions. The SBRC also includes nearly 200 business journals -- both specialty/vertical market and general business.

Library Book Collection Size Doubles Overnight with Addition of New e-Books!

The Library has acquired Ebrary Academic Complete, a full-text database of e-books covering all subject areas. Students, staff, and faculty may access the collection, which currently includes more than 30,000 titles from more than 220 of the worlds leading academic, STM (scientific, technical, medical), and professional publishers.

Over 9,000 e-Journals Now Available for Browsing through Library

Peninsula College Library has over 9,000 e-journals. Students, staff, and faculty have access to full-text articles through the A-to-Z Index to Peninsula College Library e-Journals

Welcome to Peninsula College Library Biblio-Bits!

The purpose of this blog is to share news about Peninsula College Library... a library on the move... soon (summer 2008) to move into our new library building... with a beautiful view of the Strait of Juan de Fuca.

The Peninsula College Library is located online at: Peninsula College Library Media Center Home Page

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.