Good News!

Now, with our handy-dandy RSS feed that you see on the right, new content will be uploaded to this blog on a much more frequent basis.

Gone are the days of of weeks (or months) passing before you see new content. The RSS feed on the right uploads the latest book reviews from EBSCO's Academic Search Premier database to your blog. All you have to do is click on a title you find interesting, and a new window or tab will open with the abstract of the book review. Simply click on the full-text link at the top of the page, and you'll be reading about the latest books to be published in your field.

I'll be setting up another RSS feed soon that links you to recently published academic journal articles as well.

Finally, I will continue to post to the blogs myself when I can, with the intent of showing you online and multimedia resources you may find interesting.

Thanks for your support of the library, and please continue to inform us of your purchase requests whenever you find something you'd like us to buy.

David

Visual Media & More

Some DVD titles, from Films for the Humanities & Sciences, that look interesting:

Birth and Death: The Life Cycle of Language

Neanderthal: The Rebirth

100 Greatest Discoveries: The Origin of Life and Evolution

Life, The Universe, and Everything...

Pre-Columbian Literature

Some recent Psychology titles, in print, from Perseus:

The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation

The First Idea: How Symbols, Language, and Intelligence Evolved...

Quirkology: How We Discover the Big Truths in Small Things

Anxiety Disorders and Phobias: A Cognitive Perspective

New Links

Hi George,

After too long a hiatus (school started, and then I got sick), I'm back posting to my collection development blogs. Here are some new links for you to look at. If you see anything you think we should add to the collection, just let me know.

And by the way, thanks for your tips on resources and organizations.

David

The Psychology of Cultural Experience
Edited by Moore & Matthews

Ancient Muses: Archaeology and the Arts
by John Jameson

The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations that Made the American People
by Oscar Handlin

Asylum: A Mid-Century Madhouse and its Lessons about Our Mentally Ill Today
by Enoch Callaway

In Search of Happiness: Understanding an Endangered State of Mind
by John F. Schumaker

Planting Hatred, Sowing Pain: The Psychology of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
by Moises F. Salinas

Rock n' Roll Wisdom: What Psychologically Astute Lyrics Teach about Life and Love
by Barry A. Farber

Inaugural Post

Hey George!

This blog is just for you. As the library's liaison for science and math, you are one of the instructors that falls under my area of collection development. With this blog, I hope to push new anthropology (and psychology) titles your way for you to evaluate. When you come across something that you'd like to see us purchase for our collection, you can simply comment on the post, or send me an email.

Additionally, if you'd like to post to the blog then please do so. I will check all of my collection development blogs regularly, with rss feeds via bloglines. If there's anything you want me to see, and you're interested in familiarizing yourself with the blogger interface at the same time, this is a perfect opportunity. I will send you the username & password in an email.

Let's get cracking!

--David

Titles list from Berg Publishers

Titles list from Sage Publications

New releases from APA

Oxford University Press Titles