Monday, August 27, 2007

University Publishing in a Digital Age

A scholarly report on scholarly publishing in the online era . . . and it's online.

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Finding State Level Government Databases

With the help of the dozens of volunteers listed at (http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/Page_Volunteer_List), plus some anonymous yet helpful people from the 'net, the State and Local Documents Task Force of ALA's Government Documents Roundtable has succeeded in creating content for all 50 states plus the District of Columbia in our 50-State Agency Database Registry available at:
http://wikis.ala.org/godort/index.php/State_Agency_Databases.

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Thursday, August 23, 2007

Library Staff Gets Into the Eagle Spirit!


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Monday, August 20, 2007

Lease Books - July 2007

B REAGAN
The Reagan diaries / Ronald Reagan edited by Douglas Brinkley.

F LIN
The devil who tamed her / Johanna Lindsey.

F NYE
An unexpected apprentice / Jody Lynn Nye.

F ROB
High noon / Nora Roberts.

F GOU
Woman in red / by Eileen Goudge.

F PAL
Lawman / Diana Palmer.

F MCE
On Chesil Beach / Ian McEwan.

F BRA
The last summer (of you and me) / Ann Brashares.

F RIC
Touching stars / Emilie Richards.

F STE
Bungalow 2 / Danielle Steel.

F COU
Double take / Catherine Coulter.

F EVA
Lean mean thirteen / Janet Evanovich.

New Titles July 2007


658.802 An23l
The long tail : why the future of business is selling less of more / Chris Anderson.

336.73092 M489c
Mellon : an American life / David Cannadine.

571.82 J826
Journey of a single cell to a plant / editors, S.J. Murch, P.K. Saxena.

337 St52m
Making globalization work / Joseph E. Stiglitz.

519.536 T139i
Introduction to nonparametric regression / Kunio Takezawa.

510.76 R273i
v.2
Nemzetközi Matematikai Diákolimpiák. English.;"International Mathematical Olympiad / István Reiman."

808.02 G660h
How to become a famous writer before you're dead : your words in print and your name in lights / Ariel Gore.

516.0071 D492
Developing thinking in geometry / edited by Sue Johnston-Wilder and John Mason.

519.5 F814u
Understanding and using advanced statistics / Jeremy Foster, Emma Barkus, Christian Yavorsky.

028.9 Sa22r
The reading nation in the Romantic period / William St Clair.

535.846 Sm55m
Modern Raman spectroscopy : a practical approach / Ewen Smith, Geoffrey Dent.

510.92 T846l
The man who knew too much : Alan Turing and the invention of the computer / David Leavitt.

T 398.2 M636s
Signs, cures, and witchery : German Appalachian folklore / Gerald Milnes.

T 289.9 M834h
Handling serpents : Pastor Jimmy Morrow's narrative history of his Appalachian Jesus' Name tradition / Jimmy Morrow with Ralph W. Hood, Jr., editor.

070.40973 K849e
The elements of journalism : what newspeople should know and the public should expect / Bill Kovach & Tom Rosenstiel.

543.65 D345p
Practical inductively coupled plasma spectroscopy / John R. Dean.

381.1490973 F539w
The Wal-Mart effect : how the world's most powerful company really works-- and how it's transforming the American economy / Charles Fishman.

576.82092 D259e
Darwin : discovering the tree of life / Niles Eldredge.

658.4063 C197i
Innovation : the five disciplines for creating what customers want / Curtis R. Carlson and William W. Wilmot.

330.951 K997c
China shakes the world : a titan's rise and troubled future and the challenge for America / James Kynge.

658.045 P166s
Sustaining the family business : an insider's guide to managing across generations / Marshall B. Paisner.

338.436151 L412b
Big pharma : exposing the global healthcare agenda / Jacky Law.

248.88 St47d
Doing God's business : meaning and motivation for the marketplace / R. Paul Stevens.

576.83 H338g
Genesis : the scientific quest for life's origin / Robert M. Hazen.

174.4 G277i
Integrity at work : finding your ethical compass in a post-Enron world / Norman L. Geisler and Randy Douglass.

658 M582s
The Starbucks experience : 5 principles for turning ordinary into extraordinary / Joseph A. Michelli.

333.72 Sp31
Speaking of Earth : environmental speeches that moved the world / edited with commentary and biographies by Alon Tal.

570 W692n
Nature revealed : selected writings, 1949-2006 / Edward O. Wilson.

659.2 Sco15n
Naked conversations : how blogs are changing the way businesses talk with customers / Robert Scoble and Shel Israel.

338.7 M297b
Bill & Dave : how Hewlett and Packard built the world's greatest company / Michael S. Malone.

632.4 M746t
The triumph of the fungi : a rotten history / Nicholas P. Money.

R 598.097 N213c
National Geographic complete birds of North America / edited by Jonathan Alderfer.

248.88 Si39a
Anointed for business / Ed Silvoso.

816.6 L229s
The spam letters / Jonathan Land.

580 G498b
Botany illustrated : introduction to plants, major groups, flowering plant families / Janice Glimn-Lacy and Peter B. Kaufman.

579.81776 R333e
Ecology of phytoplankton / C.S. Reynolds.

809.933556 B861f
The future of environmental criticism : environmental crisis and literary imagination / Lawrence Buell.

848.914 B389be
Beckett after Beckett / edited by S.E. Gontarski and Anthony Uhlmann.

362.10425 R313
Restoring fiscal sanity 2007 : the health spending challenge / Alice M. Rivlin and Joseph R. Antos, editors.

600 F745g
The gecko's foot : bio-inspiration : engineering new materials from nature / Peter Forbes.

592.0914 At81l
Life in the undergrowth / David Attenborough.

346.73 B160c
The complete guide to Sarbanes-Oxley : understanding how Sarbanes-Oxley affects your business / Stephen M. Bainbridge.

303.482 C660g
Mondialisation et ses ennemis. English;"Globalization and its enemies / Daniel Cohen translated by Jessica B. Baker."

381.1410973 W580s
Service and style : how the American department store fashioned the middle class / Jan Whitaker.

305.486 M316g
God gave us the right : conservative Catholic, Evangelical Protestant, and Orthodox Jewish women grapple with feminism / Christel J. Manning.

200.973 Al56r
Religion in America since 1945 : a history / Patrick Allitt.

261.52 H383s
Shaking the world for Jesus : media and conservative evangelical culture / Heather Hendershot.

070.18 D659
Docufictions : essays on the intersection of documentary and fictional filmmaking / edited by Gary D. Rhodes and John Parris Springer.

302.23 M468s
Media bias : finding it, fixing it / edited by Wm. David Sloan and Jenn Burleson Mackay.

333.720681 C549f
A field guide to conservation finance / Story Clark.

629.892 L579r
Robots unlimited : life in a virtual age / David Levy.

302.23 G317p
The paper and the pew : how religion shapes media choice / Myna German.

220.6 K560h
Hebrew, Jewish, and early Christian studies : academic essays / Heerak Christian Kim.

333.956 H169c
Catch of the day : choosing seafood for healthier oceans / Brian Halweil Lisa Mastny, editor.

327.538 Si58p
The prince : the secret story of the world's most intriguing royal, prince Bandar bin Sultan / William Simpson.

378.764 B229
The Baptist and Christian character of Baylor / edited by Donald D. Schmeltekopf and Dianna M. Vitanza with Bradley J.B. Toben.

302.35 B730s
The starfish and the spider : the unstoppable power of leaderless organizations / Ori Brafman and Rod A. Beckstrom.

332.6 G914p
Pop! : why bubbles are great for the economy / Daniel Gross.

338.4 H449w
Who killed health care ? : America's $2 trillion medical problem -- and the consumer-driven cure / Regina Herzlinger.

006.5 L579p
The perfect thing : how the iPod shuffles commerce, culture, and coolness / Steven Levy.

303.34 Ia1w
Where have all the leaders gone? / Lee Iacocca with Catherine Whitney.

658.3124 L627t
Toyota talent : developing your people the Toyota way / Jeffrey K. Liker, David P. Meier.

332.6452 F172w
Way of the turtle / Curtis M. Faith.

658.046 T169w
Wikinomics : how mass collaboration changes everything / Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.

303.4833 W430e
Everything is miscellaneous : the power of the new digital disorder / David Weinberger.

658.4 So59f
Firing back : how great leaders rebound after career disasters / Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Andrew Ward.

929.2 C660s
Sweet and low : a family story / Rich Cohen.

003.54 T143b
The black swan : the impact of the highly improbable / Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

951.06 G366c
China road : a journey into the future of a rising power / Rob Gifford.

337 Al79c
Connected : 24 hours in the global economy / Daniel Altman.

303.4833 K250c
The cult of the amateur : how today's internet is killing our culture/ Andrew Keen.

277.30829 P766m
Main street mystics : the Toronto blessing and reviving Pentecostalism / Margaret M. Poloma.

286.1757915 B176h
History of the First Baptist Church of Charleston, South Carolina, 1682-2007/ by Robert A. Baker & Paul J. Craven, Jr. with an update by R. Marshall Blalock.

306.85072 H191
Handbook of measurement issues in family research / edited by Sandra L. Hofferth, Lynne M. Casper.

650.14 J135c
Careers in focus : family and consumer sciences / Lee Jackson.

PAPERBACK
The Mozart season / Virginia Euwer Wolff.

PAPERBACK
Don't look down / Jennifer Crusie, Bob Mayer.

PAPERBACK
Arundel / Kenneth Roberts.

PAPERBACK
Chasing the dime / Michael Connelly.

PAPERBACK
Mr. Dixon disappears : a mobile library mystery / Ian Sansom.

PAPERBACK
Miss Zukas and the stroke of death / Jo Dereske.

PAPERBACK
Catalogue of death : a Miss Zukas mystery / Jo Dereske.

813.6 H180ca
The camel bookmobile / Masha Hamilton.

PAPERBACK
Good As Lily.

AUDIOBOOK
Henry V;"William Shakespeare's Henry V [sound recording]."

AUDIOBOOK
Murder in Mesopotamia [sound recording] / by Agatha Christie.

967.57104 H289l
Dans le nu de la vie. English;"Life laid bare : the survivors in Rwanda speak / Jean Hatzfeld translated from the French by Linda Coverdale."

PAPERBACK
The season of love.

813.54 R532di
Divided in death / J.D. Robb.

020.9 W930g
Glut : mastering information through the ages / Alex Wright.

759.947 L846
An exhibition of works of Russian and Soviet artists : Royal Academy of Arts.

PAPERBACK
The motel life : a novel / Willy Vlautin [illustrations by Nate Beaty]

353.03 Un3
2003 Bk.2
Public papers of the presidents of the United States.

345.11 Un3u
v.119 pt.1
Laws, etc.;"United States statutes at large / compiled
and indexed by authority of Congress under the direction of the Secretary of State."

345.11 Un3u
v.119 pt.2
Laws, etc.;"United States statutes at large / compiled
and indexed by authority of Congress under the direction of the Secretary of State."

345.11 Un3u
v.119 pt.3
Laws, etc.;"United States statutes at large / compiled
and indexed by authority of Congress under the direction of the Secretary of State."

345.4 Un3
v.546 pt.2
Official reports of the Supreme Court.

327.73 Un3f
1969-76 v.14
Foreign relations of the United States / Department of State, United States of America.

327.73 Un3f
1969-76 v.2
Foreign relations of the United States / Department of State, United States of America.

PAPERBACK
Bedazzled / Christine Holden.

VIDEO
Safety around dogs [videorecording] : your safety begins with you.

VIDEO
Best friends [videorecording] / American Kennel Club.

PAPERBACK
Best friends [videorecording] / American Kennel Club.

PAPERBACK
Safety around dogs [videorecording] : your safety begins with you.

345.4 Un3
v.547 pt.1
Official reports of the Supreme Court.

PAPERBACK
The dollmaker / Harriette Arnow.

PAPERBACK
Chopping spree / Diane Mott Davidson.

Periodicals
v.25 2007
Annual review of nursing research.


JF J726s
Standing against the wind / Traci L. Jones.


R 395.52 M834k
Kiss, bow, or shake hands : the bestselling guide to doing business in more than 60 countries / Terri Morrison and Wayne A. Conaway.

R 928.082 So54
v.176
Something about the author.

R 345.21 Un3
2000 supp.4 v.6
Laws, etc. (U.S. code);"United States code / prepared and published under authority of Title 2

R 345.21 Un3
2000 supp.4 v.4
Laws, etc. (U.S. code);"United States code / prepared and published under authority of Title 2

R 345.21 Un3
2000 supp.4 v.5
Laws, etc. (U.S. code);"United States code / prepared and published under authority of Title 2

R 309.23 Un2c
2006 v.1
Catalog of federal domestic assistance.

R 309.23 Un2c
2006 v.2
Catalog of federal domestic assistance.

R 027.6 L616
2006
Library resources for the blind & physically handicapped / National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped.

R 970.1 H191
v.3
Handbook of North American Indians / William C. Sturtevant, general editor.

R 328.73 W842 2006
Women in Congress, 1917-2006 / prepared under the direction of the Committee on House Administration of the U.S. House of Representatives, by the Office of History and Preservation, Office of the Clerk, U.S. House of Representatives.

R 371.26016 B938m
#16
The ... Mental measurements yearbook.

R 328.73 Un3p
110th
Congressional pictorial directory / [compiled under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing].


T J 305.896 H529m
Martha Ann's quilt for Queen Victoria / written by Kyra E. Hicks illustrated by Lee Edward Födi.

T 566.0976897 M783b
The bone hunters : the discovery of Miocene fossils in Gray, Tennessee / Harry Moore.

BAPT 922.573 Su72d
Billy Sunday and the redemption of urban America / Lyle W. Dorsett.

T 976.9123 M420m
The magic city : footnotes to the history of Middlesborough, Kentucky, and the Yellow Creek Valley / Ann Dudley Matheny.

T 976.884 B436a
Appalachian aspirations : the geography of urbanization and development in the Upper Tennessee River Valley, 1865-1900 / John Benhart Jr.

T 976.889 C826g
The Great Smoky Mountains National Park / Steve Cotham.

T 508.768 B195n
Natural histories : stories from the Tennessee Valley / Stephen Lyn Bales with a foreword by Sam Venable.

T 920.72 K380w
Women of the frontier / Billy Kennedy.

T 810.9 Ap48
Appalachia and beyond : conversations with writers from the Mountain South / edited by John Lang.

BAPT 286 B229j
The Baptist river : essays on many tributaries of a diverse tradition / edited by W. Glenn Jonas, Jr.

T 635.951768 H918g
Gardening with the native plants of Tennessee : the spirit of place / Margie Hunter.

T 976.8946 C130l
Lest we forget-- : the Melungeon colony of Newman's Ridge / Jim Callahan.


MVC 1578a
The Glass menagerie [videorecording]

MVC 1814a
Drums along the Mohawk [videorecording] / Twentieth Century Fox.

DVD 163-164
British folk-music settings. Lincolnshire posy, band.;"Lincolnshire Posy [videorecording] / presented by The Association of Concert Bands with the permission and cooperation of Ludwig Music Publishing Co.

Friday, August 17, 2007

ArtStor Updates

New in ArtStor:

Modern and contemporary art from VAGA member artists

Manuscripts and early printed books from the Bodleian Library

Architectural history of Venice, Italy

Additional images added to the Islamic Art and Architecture collection

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Wednesday, August 15, 2007

New Tennessee Online Resources

Several online resources pertaining to Tennessee just became available to researchers via Archive-It. Some of those of interest to East Tennesseans include the National Parks Service - Tennessee, the Appalachian Regional Commission, TVA, and ORNL collections.

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