Happy semester break from the Stoxen Library staff : "Chill out. Read"

Happy semester break from the Stoxen Library staff

Bearded seal poster on display at Stoxen Library
courtesy of Highsmith c2001.

Where do I find quiet spaces in Stoxen Library?

Quiet Spaces @your Library

Quiet spaces throughout the library can be located as follows:

Study rooms. These are located on the lower level, along the east and south walls and marked as --
Study Rooms 1, 5, 6, and 8
Roosevelt Room (as available)
Viewing Rooms 1 and 2

Individual study carrels -- These are located on the balcony and main levels, behind the book stacks.

Need something fun to read over break?

For those who like biographies, pick one of these:
Media Man: Ted Turner's Improbable Empire by Ken Auletta (HC102.5.T86A95 2004)

Luckiest Man: the Life and Death of Lou Gehrig by Jonathan Eig (GV865.G4E54 2005)

Sandra Day O'Connor: How the First Woman on the Supreme Court Became Its Most Influential Justice by Joan Biskupic (KF8745.O25B57 2005)

Sinatra: the Life by Anthony Summers and Robbyn Swan (ML420.S565S86 2005)

If you like the collections of "the best of," we have several of these, but here are three:
The Best American Sports Writing 2005 (PN4784.S6B47)

The Year's Best Science Fiction (PS648.S3Y43)

The Best American Short Stories (PS648.S5B446)

And here are three new fiction works:
Saving Fish from Drowning by Amy Tan (PS3570.A48S23 2005)

The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (PS3611.I44M47 2005)

The Game of Silence by Louise Erdrich (PZ7.E72554Gam 2005)

You will find all of these titles and more in the New Book section (the shelving you see as you walk into the library). Check it out today!

New Library Purchases

Ever wonder what's new in the library's holdings? Check out the New Library Purchases page at http://www.dickinsonstate.com/lib_coldev.asp. Updated monthly, this listing shows newly added books, reference, periodicals, videos, dvds and music. You can find it from the library's home page under Library Information, Services & Forms.

Announcing: Wall Street Journal Historical Database

Check out Stoxen Library's newest database offering! The Wall Street Journal Historical database contains the full content of every edition of the paper from 1889-1988. This database offers full-text and full-image articles. The collection includes digital reproductions of every page from every issue--cover to cover--in downloadable PDF® files so you can see each page as it was originally published.

That means you can use the database to find not only news, editorials, and letters to the editor, but also historical photos, stock and bond prices, and advertisements. And the date range searching tool allows you to search for a specific date as well as before, or between two dates.

You can link to this tool via the library's Business Resources subject page http://www.dickinsonstate.com/lib_business.asp.

Afraid of birds yet?

The avian influenza (bird flu) is in the news a lot these days and has health officials worried about a possible pandemic flu outbreak. The following are some websites that may answer some of questions about what it is and how real is the danger.

PandemicFlu.gov

- This is the official US Government web site for information about pandemic flu and avian influenza.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Avian Flu

- Provides general information for the public as well as specific information for special populations like health care workers. Also provides some links to full-text science articles.

Medline Plus: Bird Flu

- Offers the latest news about the bird flu, information about clinical trials and public policy.

National Public Radio (NPR) Q&A What is Bird Flu and Who’s at Risk

- A 2 part story from All Things Considered on National Public Radio that ran on Oct. 19 & 21, 2005.

Birder’s World: Answers to Your Questions about AvianFlu

- An article from Birder's World Magazine titled Answers to Your Questions about Avian Flu.

Announcing Stoxen Library's Common Grounds

Welcome to the Stoxen Library's Common Grounds blog. As a service to patrons of Dickinson State University's Stoxen Library, this blog will provide a forum for various announcements of interest.

Here's something new: links to specific Oxford online dictionaries under the various subjects. You'll find these on the Research Tools by Subject pull down menus. One example is The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists. The complete listing of Oxford sources can also be viewed by going to Online Reference Resources/Oxford Reference Online.

These resources enriching the Learning Spaces at Dickinson State University.

For information and access to these and other resources and services of Stoxen Library go to the Stoxen Library web site.