A Few New Titles for 9th Floor

Norton, Trevor
Smoking Ears and Screaming Teeth: A Celebration of Scientific Eccentricity and Self-Experimentation
R 853.S44 N67 2011

Stepan, Nancy
Eradication: Ridding the World of Diseases Forever?
RA 643 .S74 2011

Aczel, Amir D.
A Strange Wilderness: the Lives of the Great Mathematicians
QA 21 .A29 2011

Schwalbe, Michael
Smoke Damage: Voices From the Front Lines of America’s Tobacco Wars
RA 1242.T6 S33x 2011
More information: http://uwpress.wisc.edu/books/4966.htm

Filed under: biology, books, Health, Library, Medicine, science

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

What is This?

The “this” referred to in the title is a QR code, short for Quick Response, a 2-dimensional barcode that can be used for a variety of purposes, including e-mail, Web links, and address book information. The codes  are appearing in magazine ads, stores and libraries.

I have posted some QR codes around 9th floor, in the call number areas that correspond to the ones on the Biology 103 Lab handout, available on the Web at http://www.jsu.edu/library/pdfs/handouts/BY103.pdf. If you scan the code with your smartphone’s camera using QR code reading software, it will display a link to the  URL for the handout.

Find QR code readers in the application store for your phone (iTunes Store, Android Market, Blackberry App World, etc.) by searching for QR. You may also find QR codes for various apps.

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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’.

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Featured New Book

Parsons, Paul
The Science of Dr. Who
Baltimore, Md. : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010
Q 173 .P277 2010

According to Choice, “Parsons, a scientist and journalist, is an unabashed fan of Doctor Who and does a good job of making the convoluted plots and characters decipherable, even to non-aficionados, and of explaining the research and science, often cutting edge, that has even a change of making the plots possible… “

More information on this book  from Johns Hopkins University Press

Filed under: books, Library, science

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

Looks Like Fall

The temperature might not have shown it lately, but it is fall. The trees have looked glorious lately, including this golden one outside the library.

Filed under: 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.

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