Ramsey Library News

Dancing in the streets : a history of collective joy
The architecture of happiness
A brief history of happiness
Renewing American culture : the pursuit of happiness
Happiness and public policy : theory, case studies and implications
The nature of happiness
Happiness: a history
Happiness: lessons from a new science
Happiness: the science behind your smile
Happiness : personhood, community, purpose
Journal of Happiness Studies
Plato on pleasure and the good life
The art of happiness at work
The psychology of happiness
Happiness and benevolence
The science of happiness : how our brains make us happy--and what we can do to get happier
The happiness hypothesis : finding modern truth in ancient wisdom
Stumbling on happiness
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online:
The Happiness Formula (BBC)
World Database of Happiness
"Pleasure" (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
"Is Happiness All in Your Head" (Talk of the Nation)

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New subscription databases available:

SPORTDiscus. 1800-present. Covers sport, physical fitness, exercise, sports medicine, disabled persons, facility design & management, health, health education, physical therapy, nutrition, recreation, leisure studies, tourism, allied health, occupational health & therapy, public health and more.

Wiley Interscience. Journals covering business, chemistry, computer science, earth and environment, education, engineering, law, life sciences, mathematics and statistics, medicine, physics and astronomy, polymers and materials, psychology, and social science.

See the rest of our Research Databases.

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Check out our video and text tutorials on using EndNote Web, NetLibrary Audiobooks and RSS, and look for upcoming tutorials on the library's Tutorials page.

Posted by Brandy at 01:47 PM | Permalink

LIBRARY BLOG & NEWS

If you haven’t already seen it, you’ve GOT to take a look at the library’s new blog and news section featured in the lower left corner of the library main page < http://bullpup.lib.unca.edu/library/>. Brandy Bourne, the library’s Web Services Librarian, has worked hard in perfecting this significant addition to the library page and her library colleagues are endeavoring to populate the service with new, useful, and interesting information. When you click on “NEWS” you’ll find yourself in the most recent issue of NOTES FROM RAMSEY LIBRARY and access to an archive preserving all of my mistakes (see especially my having left the sport out of Leigh Svenson’s recent BRONZE MEDAL at the NATIONAL SENIOR GAMES – badminton for those of you who may not know Leigh well). You’ll also find more exciting content such as listings of NEW READINGS posted by Brandy and complete with book jackets and hot links to the catalog record. Brandy’s recent suggestions have included New Readings on American History, American Life, Immigration, and Men & Fatherhood. You’ll also find links to other features such as UNCA student Sasha Hussey’s animated film featured on UNC-TV’s North Carolina Visions and “Bluets & Wilma Dykeman” in Special Collections.

Many thanks to Brandy for all her work and congratulations on a job very well done. We’re very proud of her achievement.

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RAMSEY’S LEIGH SVENSON CONQUERS AGAIN
Continuing his celebrated career, Ramsey Library’s own LEIGH SVENSON and his partner recently claimed the BRONZE MEDAL for their age group at the NATIONAL SENIOR GAMES in Louisville, KY. Congratulations Leigh!!

ARTSTOR EXPANDS ACCESS TO IMAGES
Looking to spruce up your manuscripts?) ARTstor and The Metropolitan Museum of Art began a new collaboration, Images for Academic Publishing (IAP) that allows scholars at ARTstor participating institutions (including UNCA) to download and use, free of charge, high-resolution digital images for academic publications. Initially, nearly 1,700 images representative of the renowned Metropolitan Museum's encyclopedic collection became available through the ARTstor interface to users at all ARTstor participating institutions. For more information and to register see:
http://www.artstor.org/info/tools/tools_iap.jsp

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE
Students of the life sciences will want to check out the remarkably ambitious ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LIFE, an amazingly ambitious web venture that the CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION has described as planning to catalog over the next 10 years all 1.8 million species of plants and animals known to reside on earth. Better start reading early or you’ll never catch up!!
An Awfully Ambitious Encyclopedia
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=2055

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America against the world : how we are different and why we are disliked
The shape of things to come : prophecy and the American voice
Windows on nature : the great habitat dioramas of the American Museum of Natural History
The arrogance of American power : what U.S. leaders are doing wrong and why it's our duty to dissent
Dark ages America : the final phase of empire
Philosophy Americana : making philosophy at home in American culture
Who are we? : the challenges to America's identity
Light and liberty : reflections on the pursuit of happiness
The European dream : how Europe's vision of the future is quietly eclipsing the American dream
Happiness and public policy : theory, case studies and implications
The old, weird America : the world of Bob Dylan's basement tapes
Americans and their land : the house built on abundance
Making America work
What matters in America : reading and writing about contemporary culture

online:
FedStats: U.S. government agency statistics portal
American FactFinder
Bureau of Labor Statistics
National Center for Health Statistics
The OECD Factbook
The World Factbook (CIA)

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Mayflower : a story of courage, community, and war
The forgotten fifth : African Americans in the age of revolution
Infamous scribblers : the founding fathers and the rowdy beginnings of American journalism
American protest literature
Thomas Jefferson's scrapbooks : poems of nation, family, & romantic love collected by America's third president
Traveling women : narrative visions of early America
Feminist interventions in early American studies

online:
America: History and Life (UNCA users only)
The American Memory Project, Documenting the American South, and The Making of America (primary resource collections)
Early American Newspapers (UNCA users only)
New York Times (1851-2001) - Historical Newspaper Collection (UNCA users only)

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