Thursday, August 23, 2007

Google Scholar and HCC Libraries

Google and HCC libraries have recently partnered to make HCC's database holdings show up in Google Scholar.


What does this mean?

When you search Google Scholar for magazine or journal articles, you will see if HCC has access to the article (free for you as a student, staff or faculty).

When you click on the link you will still need to login with your library card number and pin.

How do you set it up?
Go to http://scholar.google.com/
  • Click on "Scholar Preferences"

  • Scroll down to "Library Links"

  • Type in "Hillsborough Community College"

  • Click on "Find Library"

  • Select "Hillsborough Community College

Now you're all set up and can begin searching!






















Tuesday, August 21, 2007

More New Books

General Interest
Maxed out: hard times, easy credit, and the era of predatory lenders
Diamonds
Chew on this: everything you don't want to know about fast food
From Satan's crown to the Holy Grail: emeralds in myth, magic, and history
One at a time: a week in an American animal shelter

Military/Weaponry/War
The bomb: a life
American women in World War I: they also served

The Arts
Faith Ringgold
Christo and Jeanne-Claude
Betye Saar
Basquiat
Titian
Drawing in 10 steps: learn all the techniques you need in just one drawing
Gothic
Conceptual art

Issues and Controversies
The faith factor: how religion influences American elections
Illegal immigration
Teen drug abuse
Sexually transmitted diseases
Fast Food
Hurricane Katrina
The prostitution of women and girls

Cultural Studies
Gaming as culture: essays on reality, identity and experience in fantasy games
British culture: an introduction
One Shaker life: Isaac Newton Youngs, 1793-1865
The artifice of beauty: a history and practical guide to perfumes and cosmetics

Psychology
Born gay: the psychobiology of sex orientation
Mental health in America

Health and Medicine
Hepatitis
Immune system disorders sourcebook
Diagnostic tests
Nurse-midwifery: the birth of a new American profession

Diseases and Disorders Series
Brain Tumors
Flu
Lou Gehrig’s disease
Meningitis
Strokes
The Ebola Virus
Toxic Shock Syndrome
Tuberculosis

Drug Education Library
Caffeine
Club Drugs
Marijuana
Steroids

Science and Technology
Technology matters: questions to live with
Digital nation: toward an inclusive information society
Sirius: brightest diamond in the night sky
Planetary ring systems
Electricity and magnetism: a historical perspective
Earth cycles: a historical perspective
A prehistory of South Florida

Literary and Language Studies
Dying planet: Mars in science and the imagination
James Baldwin: Bloom’s modern critical views
Gabriel Garcia Marquez: Bloom’s modern critical views
Kate Chopin: Bloom’s modern critical views
The evolution of American investigative journalism

Fiction
The complete collected poems of Maya Angelou
The collected works of Langston Hughes: the poems 1941-1950
Vintage Hughes / Langston Hughes
Henry IV, part one / William Shakespeare
The comedy of errors / William Shakespeare
Titus Andronicus / William Shakespeare
We have always lived in the castle / Shirley Jackson

Floridiana
The Florida night sky: a guide to observing from dusk till dawn
How to make a Florida will
Florida's army: militia, state troops, National Guard, 1565-1985

Graphic Novels
Palomar: the heartbreak soup stories
Courtney Crumrin and the night things
Courtney Crumrin and coven of mystics
Fortune and glory: a true Hollywood comic book story
Bone: Out from Boneville
Bone: Eyes of the storm
Frank Miller's Sin City: Hell and back

People
Condoleezza Rice
Cesar Chavez
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Jane Goodall

Religious and Philosophical Studies
From Garvey to Marley: Rastafari theology
God is not great: how religion poisons everything
Mary Magdalen: myth and metaphor
Nanzan guide to Japanese religions
The monotheists: Jews, Christians, and Muslims in conflict and competition
Free will: a very short introduction
Islam in America
The Latter-day Saint experience in America

Education
Chronology of education in the United States

History
Decade of nightmares: the end of the sixties and the making of eighties America
The Ku Klux Klan: history, organization, language, influence and activities of America's most notorious secret society

Women’s Studies
The Peabody sisters: three women who ignited American romanticism
College girls: bluestockings, sex kittens, and coeds, then and now
American women in World War I: they also served

Criminal Justice
Back from the Dead: one woman's search for the men who walked off America's death row

Sports and Hobbies
Kobe Bryant: the game of his life
Scents & sensibilities: creating solid perfumes for well-being

Monday, August 6, 2007

New Books

The Arts
A century of African American art
Internet art
The ultimate field guide to photography
A history of the American theatre from its origins to 1832
Michelangelo

Issues and Controversies
In a new land: a comparative view of immigration
Violence in America's schools: understanding, prevention, and responses
America's war on sex: the attack on law, lust and liberty

Pop Culture
The animated man: a life of Walt Disney

Psychology
Bleeding to ease the pain: cutting, self-injury, and the adolescent search for self
Happiness: the science behind your smile
Memory: the key to consciousness
The last normal child: essays on the intersection of kids, culture, and psychiatric drugs

Health and Medicine
Diet drugs
Understanding Parkinson's disease: a personal and professional view
Stain-resistant, nonstick, waterproof, and lethal: the hidden dangers of C8
Pesticides: a toxic time bomb in our midst
Preemie parents: recovering from baby's premature birth

Science and Mathematics
The equation that couldn't be solved: how mathematical genius discovered the language of symmetry
The physics of superheroes
Astrobiology: a brief introduction
Large carnivores and the conservation of biodiversity
City of light: the story of fiber optics

Literary and Language Studies
The republic: the comprehensive student edition
King Arthur (Bloom’s Major literary characters)
The Oxford guide to Arthurian literature and legend
The haunting of Hill House / Shirley Jackson (fiction)
Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre: a casebook
Jean-Jacques Rousseau: restless genius
Killing the messenger: journalists at risk in modern warfare

Floridiana
Bats of Florida
The Florida manatee: biology and conservation
Florida bounty: a celebration of Florida cuisine and culture
Cracker: the Cracker culture in Florida history
America's fortress: a history of Fort Jefferson, Dry Tortugas, Florida

Sports and Games
Ringside: a history of professional wrestling in America

People
The animated man: a life of Walt Disney

Religious Studies
Understanding Jihad
SanterĂ­a: correcting the myths and uncovering the realities of a growing religion
Native North American religious traditions: dancing for life

Education
Teaching first-year college students

History
The Rosetta Stone
Women's radical reconstruction: the freedmen's aid movement
The Holocaust
The Cold War
Pompeii: history, life & afterlife
Comandante Che: guerrilla soldier, commander, and strategist, 1956-1967
Savage kingdom: the true story of Jamestown, 1607, and the settlement of America

Women’s Studies
The invisible sex: uncovering the true roles of women in prehistory
Blue-collar women at work with men: negotiating the hostile environment
Mommy wars: stay-at-home and career moms face off on their choices, their lives, their families

Thursday, August 2, 2007

Important Student Services Information

Student Services closed from 12pm, today until 8:30am, Monday.
Admissions, Records, and Registration will remain open 8:30am-4:30pm, today and 8:30am-11am, tomorrow.

Student Services will be relocating into its newly renovated building Thursday and Friday, August 2-3, 2007.

Due to the move, Student Services, which includes Advising, Counseling, Financial Aid, Bursar, Office for Students with Disabilities, and the Office of the Dean of Student Services, will close today at noon. Student Services will remain closed until 8:30am Monday, August 6, 2007.

The Student Information Center (located in PSCI 108) and Admissions, Records, and Registration (AR&R) will remain operational for normal hours until 11:00am, Friday.

Students requiring Advising or Financial Aid support will be given appointments for timeframes between 8:30 - 10:00 am and 5:00 – 7:00 pm Monday and Tuesday of next week.