For your October edification, here are a few Halloween-related resources:
WEB
Halloween: The Fantasy and Folklore of All Hallows (The American Folklife Center)
Facts for Features: Halloween (The US Census Bureau)
Vintage Halloween images (NYPL Digital Collections)
BOOKS
The Book of Holidays Around the World
Horror Film Resources in the Library
Don't forget about our Edgar Allan Poe Bicentennial Events!
Art Full Text from H. W. Wilson is now available through the library web site.
This database offers full text and/or indexing for over 500 art journals and magazines going back as far as 1984. You may want to search it in conjunction with Humanities Full Text, another H. W. Wilson article database.
Find more information here: http://www.hwwilson.com/databases/artindex.htm
Find a list of journals included in Art Full Text here: http://vnweb.hwwilsonweb.com/hww/Journals/
Search or browse 100 computing books from major publishers like O'Reilly. Topics include Web Design & Programming, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Networking, Graphics and Multimedia.
NOTE: We have a limited number of concurrent users, so log out when you're done in order to allow others immediate access. If you can't get through, we probably have too many people logging on, try again in a few minutes.
Check out these new online books:
Google Apps: The Missing Manual
Now available for check out are recordings of many UNC Asheville events on DVD. These recordings were initially produced for broadcast on Asheville Educational Television and include a wide variety of events and lectures. The collection includes commencements, performances, lectures and speeches by UNC Asheville faculty as well as visitors and much more.
These DVDs are found in the back right-hand corner of the media room. Take a look at the catalog for a complete list of the materials available.
The Ramsey Library website provides access to interactive practice tests and tutorials for academic and licensing tests including the GRE, GMAT, LSAT, & MCAT and the Praxis.
The coursework can be accessed from the Ramsey Library website by clicking Research Databases, then clicking Title List. Navigate to the L listing on the alphabetical title index and select Learning Express Library. Once on the Learning Express website, click the College Students link under the heading “Learning Centers” on the left hand side of the page. From there, click the Graduate School Entrance Exam Preparation link. A second list will then appear. Select an exam preparation module. Click the Login to Add link to the right of the selection. You will be asked to create a unique username and password for accessing scores and keeping track of their progress.
Please make a note of this username/password. Ramsey Library has no access to this information and cannot help you should you lose or forget your access information.
For additional information or assistance call the Research Desk at 251-6111.
Ramsey Library has recently welcomed the transfer of the Early American Imprints collection on microfiche from Appalachian State University’s Belk Library. This collection is widely accepted as the definitive resource for primary source materials about life in 17th and 18th century America.
The collection includes books, pamphlets, presidential letters, government reports and other materials published between 1639 and 1819.
Series I is based on Charles Evans’ American Bibliography and Roger Bristol’s Supplement to Evans' American Bibliography. This series covers 1639-1800. Series II is based on Ralph B. Shaw and Richard H. Shoemaker’s American Bibliography, 1801-1819.
Early American Imprints can be found in the microforms section on the ground floor of Ramsey Library.
JSTOR, well-known to many students as the preeminent online archive of over one thousand academic journals, has announced its merger with Ithaka, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to helping institutions of higher education make productive use of information technology. This merger will come with a name change; the newly formed organization will be called Ithaka. For now, we will refer to the archive as both JSTOR and Ithaka.
Now available for check out is a growing collection of Lynda.com technology training videos on CD-ROM. Ranging from 2 to 20 hours each, and including sample files for you to work along with, these videos are like classrooms in a box. While that kind of time commitment may sound daunting, it's easy to jump around between chapters. I've already learned a lot from them, even about programs I've been using for years. Look for more (including FrontPage) in our Media Browsing Room in the weeks to come.
Ruby on rails: essential training
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional
Adobe Photoshop CS3: one-on-one
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional essential training
Microsoft PowerPoint 2007 essential training
Microsoft Outlook 2007 essential training
Microsoft Excel 2007 essential training
Microsoft Access 2007 essential training
Adobe Flash CS3 Professional: Beyond the basics
Adobe ActionScript 3.0 in Flash CS3 Professional
Adobe After Effects 7
Podcast + videocast: essential training
Dreamweaver 8 dynamic development
Effective presentations
Final Cut Pro 5
Adobe Acrobat 8 professional: beyond the basics
Adobe illustrator CS3: Essential training
Adobe illustrator CS3 one-on-one: Essential training
Home and small office networking
Adobe InDesign CS3 essential training
Microsoft Publisher 2003: Essential training
CSS site design
XML: Essential training
Apple Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard: Essential training
Microsoft Windows Vista: Essential training
CSS for designers
In light of recent news from Cuba, you may be interested in checking out the excellent PBS biographical film, Fidel Castro. Thanks to the partnership between PBS & NCLive that we announced last month, we now have access to it and many other PBS documentaries online. You can also check out the DVD from our media collection.
More new readings on Cuba and Castro:
The full text of The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Series on Digital Media and Learning is available online through the MIT Press. This series "examines the effect of digital media tools on how people learn, network, communicate, and play, and how growing up with these tools may affect a person's sense of self, how they express themselves, and their ability to learn, exercise judgment, and think systematically." Worthwhile reading for educators.
CURRENT VOLUMES:
Civic Life Online: Learning How Digital Media Can Engage Youth
Digital Media, Youth, and Credibility
The Ecology of Games: Connecting Youth, Games, and Learning
Digital Young, Innovation, and the Unexpected
Learning Race and Ethnicity: Youth and Digital Media
Youth, Identity, and Digital Media
NC Live, which provides access to online content to a statewide network of community college libraries, university/college libraries, and public libraries, is now offering online access to nearly 250 PBS programs.
UNC Asheville students, faculty and staff may access documentaries by Ken Burns as well as series like Scientific American Frontiers, American Experience, and Frontline from computers on campus or at home. (Home users please note that a high speed internet connection and Flash Media Player 9.0 or higher are required to use this resource.)
The NC Live PBS Video Collection is accessible via the Ramsey Library web site. Choose Research Databases and find the NC Live PBS Collection listed under General Indexes, Audio/Video Resources or the title list.
Appetite for change : how the counterculture took on the food industry
The New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Volume 7: Foodways
The international politics of genetically modified food : diplomacy, trade and law
Safe trip to Eden : 10 steps to save planet Earth from the global warming meltdown
Agroecology in action : extending alternative agriculture through social networks
Animal, vegetable, miracle : a year of food life
Food biotechnology in ethical perspective
Evolution of the human diet : the known, the unknown, and the unknowable
Medieval cuisine of the Islamic world : a concise history with 174 recipes
Curry : a tale of cooks and conquerors
Food in world history
Food in the ancient world
Organic, inc. : natural foods and how they grew
Two for the road : our love affair with American food
Food choice and obesity in Black America : creating a new cultural diet
Building houses out of chicken legs : Black women, food, and power
The hundred-year lie : how food and medicine are destroying your health
The end of food
Alcohol : a social and cultural history
Food, film and culture : a genre study
Crunchy Cons
Voracious children : who eats whom in children's literature
The way we eat : why our food choices matter
Food, morals and meaning : the pleasure and anxiety of eating
Encyclopedia of junk food and fast food
Food is love : food advertising and gender roles in modern America
Worlds of food : place, power, and provenance in the food chain
Eating in Eden : food and American utopias
Ethical markets : growing the green economy
The revolution will not be microwaved : inside America's underground food movements
Everyone eats : understanding food and culture
The classical cookbook
Manly meals and mom's home cooking : cookbooks and gender in modern America
Eat my words : reading women's lives through the cookbooks they wrote
Recipes for reading: community cookbooks, stories, histories
Cooking the Gullah way, morning, noon, and night
Around the Roman table : with more than 150 original recipes
Fields of plenty : a farmer's journey in search of real food and the people who grow it
A thousand years over a hot stove : a history of American women told through food, recipes, and remembrances
Recipes for reading : community cookbooks, stories, histories (online)
The American cookbook : a history
The women in God's kitchen : cooking, eating, and spiritual writing
Food in colonial and federal America
From Betty Crocker to feminist food studies : critical perspectives on women and food
Access Historical Statistics of the United States online.
This standard source for the quantitative facts of American history is now available online.
Download, manipulate and customize tables of data on a range of topics, from Asheville population stats from 1930-present to the amount of silk traded between England and the Carolinas in the 1700s.
The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation has announced their 2007 "Genius Grant" recipients, so we thought we'd direct you to some of the recipients' work:
Stuart Dybek (writer)
ONLINE TEXTS & CRITICISM
American short-story writers since World War II
The International Association of Crime Writers presents Bad behavior
The Scribner anthology of contemporary short fiction : fifty North American stories since 1970
The eleventh draft : craft and the writing life from Iowa Writers' Workshop
The Norton anthology of contemporary fiction
I sailed with Magellan (ABC)
PP/FF : an anthology (ABC)
Our working lives : short stories of people and work (ABC)
The Vintage book of contemporary American short stories (ABC)
Dawn Upshaw (vocalist)
Ainadamar (CD)
Jonathan Shay (clinical psychiatrist/classicist)
Achilles in Vietnam : combat trauma and the undoing of character
Odysseus in America : combat trauma and the trials of homecoming
Saul Griffith (Inventor)
Fab : the coming revolution on your desktop--from personal computers to personal fabrication (It discusses his work.)
Peter Cole (Translator/Poet/Publisher)
ONLINE CRITICISM
Hymns & qualms
Rift
The Dream Of The Poem : Hebrew Poetry From Muslim And Christian Spain, 950-1492
Mercedes Doretti (Forensic Anthropologist)
Following Antigone [DVD] : forensic anthropology and human rights investigations (ABC)
Michael Elowitz (Molecular Biologist)
"Synthetic Life" (online article)
"Microbes Made to Order" (online article)
Google SketchUp for dummies
Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth
Google Maps hacks
The Google story
Google's PageRank and beyond : the science of search engine rankings
Google Analytics
Google advertising tools
The search : how Google and its rivals rewrote the rules of business and transformed our culture
Google powered : productivity with online tools
Google talking
Google : the missing manual
Google's PageRank and beyond
Google Maps hacks
Beginning Google maps applications with PHP and Ajax : from novice to professional
Hacking Google Maps and Google Earth
Winning results with Google AdWords
Messages : free expression, media and the west from Gutenberg to Google
online
The Google CheatSheet
Google Book Search
Google Alerts
Google Docs
Google Reader
Starting Wednesday, September 19, The New York Times will stop charging for access to parts of its Web site.
The Times Select subscription program, which used to charge $49.95/yr to everyone except print subscribers, students & teachers, will be discontinued. The entire site will now be free as well as archival content from 1987 forward and from 1851-1922. Users will be charged for some content from 1923-1986, but current UNC Asheville students, faculty & staff have access, as always, to the NYT from 1851 to the present.
New York Times (1980-present). Searchable full text; East Coast Late Edition. Includes NYT Book Review and NYT Magazine.
New York Times (1851-2001) - Historical Newspaper Collection. Full-image articles from the last 150 years. Includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue -- cover to cover -- in downloadable pdf files.
Making sense : a student's guide to research and writing
Making sense : a student's guide to research and writing : engineering and the technical sciences
How to write a lot : a practical guide to productive academic writing
How to do a research project : a guide for undergraduate students
Writing history essays : a student's guide
Writing to teach; writing to learn in higher education
Good essay writing : a social sciences guide
Engaged writers and dynamic disciplines : research on the academic writing life
Visual research methods : image, society, and representation
The sociology student writer's manual
Researching and writing : a portable guide
See also:
EndNote Web Tutorials
Knowledge monopolies : the academisation of society
Privilege and diversity in the academy
Technology and diversity in higher education: new challenges
The American faculty : the restructuring of academic work and careers
Higher ground : ethics and leadership in the modern university
Engaging departments : moving faculty culture from private to public, individual to collective focus for the common good
Planning effective instruction : diversity responsive methods and management
Rights and wrongs in the college classroom : ethical issues in postsecondary teaching
Black women in the ivory tower, 1850-1954 : an intellectual history
Indoctrination U. : the left's war against academic freedom
Universities in the age of corporate science : the UC Berkeley-Novartis controversy
Assessing organizational performance in higher education
The art and politics of academic governance : relations among boards, presidents, and faculty
American educational history : school, society, and the common good
Searching for higher education leadership : advice for candidates and search committees
Diversity across the curriculum : a guide for faculty in higher education
To restore American democracy : political education and the modern university
Erotic mentoring : women's transformations in the university
Enhancing scholarly work on teaching and learning : professional literature that makes a difference
Creating a new kind of university : institutionalizing community-university engagement
Our underachieving colleges : a candid look at how much students learn and why they should be learning more
College girls : bluestockings, sex kittens, and coeds, then and now
The handbook of blended learning : global perspectives, local designs
Academic freedom at the dawn of a new century : how terrorism, governments, and culture wars impact free speech
The spirit of service : exploring faith, service, and social justice in higher education
Excellence without a soul : how a great university forgot education
What's happening to public higher education?
Instructing and mentoring the African American college student : strategies for success in higher education
Advancing campus efficiencies : a companion for campus leaders in the digital era
The power of privilege : Yale and America's elite colleges
See Also:
The Chronicle of Higher Education
Audio recordings of Humanities 124 lectures will now be available online via Ramsey Library's Course Reserves system. Do a course search for HUM 124, choose "Hum 124 Lectures Audio Unca Fall 2007" for a list of available lectures, and log in using your OneCard number.
 | Now available via our Research Databases section:
The Oxford African American Studies Center, a scholarly database containing primary source materials, photographs, maps, charts, tables, and 7,500 articles from core reference works. TIP: Do a full text search for "Asheville" to find references to local African American history. |
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
Search catalog for more...
online:
The Happiness Formula (BBC)
World Database of Happiness
"Pleasure" (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)
"Is Happiness All in Your Head" (Talk of the Nation)
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.
 | 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. |
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)
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)
The new Americans : a guide to immigration since 1965
Immigrant America : a portrait
Hispanic Americans
Illegal immigration : a reference handbook
Immigration and American popular culture : an introduction
Immigration and crime : race, ethnicity, and violence
Immigration and asylum : from 1900 to the present
U.S. immigration : a reference handbook
online:
DHS: Immigration Statistics
Immigration to the United States, 1789-1930
NPR: The Immigration Debate
PBS: The New Americans
PBS: Destination America
 | Held upstairs in our Special Collections department are copies of Bluets, an unusually rich student literary magazine published between 1929 and 1962 by UNC Asheville's predecessor institutions Biltmore College and Asheville-Biltmore College.
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In the penultimate episode of HBO's The Sopranos, Dr. Melfi was called out by a colleague who'd Googled Stanton Samenow and Samuel Yochelson's research on psychotherapy and criminality. You can find their book, The Criminal Personality, in the library and search JSTOR and other library databases for critiques of their work.
also in the library:
The Sopranos on the couch : analyzing television's greatest series
Reading the Sopranos : hit TV from HBO
The Sopranos and philosophy : I kill therefore I am
online:
More on the mental health community's response to the final episodes.
NEW READINGS:
Black fathers : an invisible presence in America
My father's keeper : the story of a gay son and his aging parents
Where men hide
Scripting the Black masculine body : identity, discourse, and racial politics in popular media
Exposing men
Manly arts : masculinity and nation in early American cinema
Action figures : men, action films, and contemporary adventure narratives
Country boys : masculinity and rural life
Cultures of masculinity
Islamic masculinities
Transforming masculinities : men, cultures, bodies, power, sex and love
The myth of work-life balance : the challenge of our time for men, women and societies
Young men and masculinities : global cultures and intimate lives
Online:
Fatherhood Statistics from the US Census Bureau
Google Scholar: Fatherhood
Scholarly journal articles on fatherhood in North Carolina
The TedTalks conference series is invitation-only, but the videos are available online for anyone to watch or download. Browse the hundreds of talks by discipline (technology, entertainment, design, business, science, culture, arts, & global issues) or choose from some of the most interesting linked below.
>> Hans Rosling: Debunking third-world myths with the best stats you've ever seen
>> Ken Robinson says schools kill creativity
>> Al Seckel says our brains are mis-wired
>> Dean Ornish on the world's killer diet
>> Robert Neuwirth on our "shadow cities"
>> Stewart Brand on squatter cities
>> Stefan Sagmeister on happy design
>> Richard Dawkins on militant atheism
>> Malcolm Gladwell on spaghetti sauce
>> Jeff Hawkins on how brain science will change computing
>> Al Gore on averting climate crisis
>> Nicholas Negroponte on One Laptop per Child
>> Bob Thurman on Buddha & the internet
>> Seth Godin on sliced bread
>> Michael Shermer on believing strange things
>> Richard Baraniuk on open-source learning
>> Ray Kurzweil on how technology will transform us
>> Filmmaker/Artist Gregory Colbert on "Ashes and Snow"
>> James Watson on how he discovered DNA
>> Phil Borges on endangered cultures
>> Jane Goodall on what separates us from the apes
Also in our collection:
Learning Express Library: GRE & other standardized test preparation materials online. UNCA login required.
Removing barriers : women in academic science, technology, engineering, and mathematics
50 success classics [electronic resource] : winning wisdom for life and work from 50 landmark books
Training and education in professional psychology [electronic resource]
Planning, proposing, and presenting science effectively : a guide for graduate students and researchers in the behavioral sciences and biology
Also in our collection:
The landscape of reform : civic pragmatism and environmental thought in America
Homeplace geography : essays for Appalachia
Speaking of Earth : environmental speeches that moved the world
Environmental movements in minority and majority worlds : a global perspective
Environmentalism in the Muslim world
Cultures of environmentalism : empirical studies in environmental sociology
The tangled roots of feminism, environmentalism, and Appalachian literature
On the web:
Environmental Literacy
Environment Resources (via USA.gov)
Envirofacts Data Warehouse (via EPA)
also in our collection:
Encyclopedia of women & Islamic cultures
Islam and human rights : tradition and politics
Women shaping Islam : reading the Quran in Indonesia
Basic principles of the Islamic worldview
Islam in the world
Jihad in Islamic history : doctrines and practice
Islam and the abolition of slavery
Mecca and Main Street : Muslim life in America after 9/11
Islam obscured : the rhetoric of anthropological representation
The Cultural Roots of American Islamicism
on the web:
Muslims (PBS)
Religion & Ethics -- Islam (BBC News)
The Great Divide: How Westerners and Muslims View Each Other (Pew Global Attitudes Project)
Ramsey Library is very pleased to announce the availability of the bibliographic software package EndNote Web for free use by UNCA students, faculty, and staff. EndNote Web is a Web-based reference organizer, and, as the company claims, "It is the ideal, time-saving solution for students and researchers."
To find more information about EndNote Web, check the "For More Information" block on the right of this page. There you'll find a link to follow to "Learn more via recorded presentations." The 8 minute "Introduction to EndNote Web" is very useful and provides instructions on how to set up your account.
NOTE: If signing up from off campus you must access the ISI Web of Knowledge home page by going through the library page so that the proxy server will recognize that you're an authorized user.
See Jim's Notes for step-by-step instructions.
From the book description: Space, whether physical or virtual, can have a significant impact on learning. Learning Spaces focuses on how learner expectations influence such spaces, the principles and activities that facilitate learning, and the role of technology from the perspective of those who create learning environments: faculty, learning technologists, librarians, and administrators. Information technology has brought unique capabilities to learning spaces, whether stimulating greater interaction through the use of collaborative tools, videoconferencing with international experts, or opening virtual worlds for exploration.
 | From The New Yorker: Drawing on his Ghanaian roots and on examples from philosophy and literature, he attempts to steer a course between the extremes of liberal universalism, with its tendency to impose our values on others, and cultural relativism, with its implicit conviction that gulfs in understanding cannot be bridged. Catalog link Find in another library |
Folkstreams.net is a national preserve of hard-to-find documentary films about American folk or roots cultures. Offers free, high quality streaming video.
Check out films on Appalachian or African American culture or browse films by subject.
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