New Books on 9th

The 9th floor of the Houston Cole Library contains books in many science and health-related subject areas. The books we have gotten recently include these:

Eastoe, Jane, Victorian Pharmacy: Rediscovering Remedies and Recipes
RS 67.G7 E195 2010

Mednieks, Zigurd R., Programming Android: Java Programming for the New Generation of Mobile Devices
QA 76.76.A65 P7684x 2011
More information

Epstein, Paul R., Changing Planet, Changing Health: How the Climate Crisis Threatens Our Health and What We Can Do About It
RA 793 .E67 2011

Filed under: alerts, books, climate, Environment, Health, Library

More New Books

Selected 9th floor featured new books are listed below. Check them out. (A little library humor. Very little, right?)

Russell, Matthew A.
Mining the Social Web: Analyzing Data from Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other Social Media Sites
QA 76.9.D343 R87 2011

Burton, Rob
Nursing: Transition to Professional Practice
RT 86.7 .N9425 2011

Battenhausen, Leo J.
Defeating Depression: the Calm and Sense Way to Find Happiness and Satisfaction
RC 537 .B3454x 2011

National Weather Service
Weather Spotter’s Field Guide : a Guide to Being a SKYWARN Spotter
QC 941 .W433x 2011
Also in electronic book format

Have you filled out the Houston Cole Library Mobile Device Assessment Survey?  The link is available in an e-mail messages. Students can opt to enter a drawing for a $15 iTunes gift card.

This blog post doesn’t look bad in the WordPress Android App, which I used to post the first part. My smartphone typing skillz are not up to those of our students’.

Filed under: alerts, books, Library

CDC EPR | Social Media | Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse – Blog

CDC EPR | Social Media | Preparedness 101: Zombie Apocalypse – Blog.

Filed under: alerts, Health

Featured 9th Floor Book

One interesting thing about the 9th floor of the Houston Cole Library is the variety of subjects and viewpoints that are included in the science and medicine subject areas in the Library of Congress Q and R classifications housed here.

A recently arrived title is Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat:
Why It’s So Hard to Think Straight About Animals by Hal Herzog, a Western Carolina University professor of psychology.  The call number is QL 85 .H47 2010.

See more about Herzog  and the book at the author’s website, the publisher’s website, or the professor’s Facebook page.

For more information, consult books in the LC subject area of Human-animal relationships, which encompasses other subject areas such as animal rights and animal welfare. To conduct  a subject search in our online catalog, select Subject from the Search By: menu to the right of the search box.

Filed under: alerts, biology, books, science, zoology

JSU Library Thanksgiving Holiday

Just a reminder that Houston Cole Library will close at 4:30 pm on Tuesday, November 23, and will reopen Sunday, November 28, for the regular hours of 3-11 pm. Have a safe and happy holiday.

Filed under: alerts, JSU, Library

Butterflies of Alabama

Butterflies of Alabama: Glimpses into Their Lives, a book published by the University of Alabama Press, has been added to the circulating collection on  the 9th floor. More information about the book may be found here.

Ogard, Paulette Haywood
Butterflies of Alabama: Glimpses into Their Lives
QL 551 .A2 O33 2010

 

Filed under: alerts, biology, books, Library, zoology

A Number of New Books

A number of new books arrived on the 9th floor this week, including these:

Adams, Michael, Pharmacology for Nurses: a Pathophysiologic Approach
RM 301 .A32 2011

Braude, Stan, An Introduction to Methods & Models in Ecology, Evolution, & Conservation Biology
QH 541.2 .I65 2010

Lightstone, Sam, Making it Big in Software: Get the Job. Work the Org. Become Great
QA 76.25 .L54 2010

Zaphiris, Panayiotis, Social Computing and Virtual Communities
QA 76.9 .C66 S619 2010

Filed under: alerts, biology, books, Library, nursing, online social networks

Library to Begin Software Update September 13

The Houston Cole Library will be updating the software on its catalog server starting Monday, September 13. Installation will begin just after 12 a.m. Monday morning and may take as long as 3 days.

During the upgrade, Library patrons will not be able to renew books online
or request books from our Allies affiliates. Catalog searching should not be
affected, and database access will also work as usual.

To renew your books over the phone or for questions about Library operations, please call (256) 782-5758.

We apologize for any inconvenience, and appreciate your patience as we make improvements to help us better serve you.

Filed under: alerts, Library

New Electronic Books Abound

The Library is pleased to announce the availability of the following new electronic books in subject areas found on the 9th floor:

• Encyclopedia of Environmental Ethics and Philosophy
• Business Web Strategy: Design, Alignment, and Application
• Encyclopedia of Computer Science and Technology (Rev Ed)
• Handbook of Research on Socio-Technical Design and Social Networking Systems
• Handbook of Research on Web 2.0, 3.0, and X.0: Technologies, Business, and Social Applications
• Online Social Networks (Technology 360)
• Cultural Encyclopedia of the Body
• Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol, and Addictive Behavior (3rd Ed).

These electronic books, as well as many more in other subject areas,  are available through the Library’s catalog, Biology, Computer Science and Emergency Management Electronic Resources subject pages, and the Electronic Book listing.

Filed under: alerts, biology, books, Environment, Library, online social networks, science

New Books

This week’s report on new books has a new twist. A number of the recently arrived books for the 9th floor are currently displayed in the lobby. Look to the left as you enter from the parking lot to see the display. Some of the titles include:

Crist, Darlene Trew
World Ocean Census
QH 95 .C75 2009

Kojima, Hiroyuki
The Manga Guide to Calculus
QA 300 .K57513 2009

Murdin, Paul
Secrets of the Universe: How We Discovered the Cosmos
QB 982 .M87 2009

Books in the lobby will show a status of “In Lobby” in the library catalog record.

Filed under: alerts, books, Environment, Library, science