Get Outdoors

Highline Community College Library
Get Outdoors! Recommended Reading for July 2009
In Washington State, summer is the most popular time to get outdoors and enjoy being “in nature”. These resources will provide advice and background information to help you enjoy the season.
Maps/Navigation
Finding your way in the outdoors: compass navigation, map reading, route finding, weather forecasting, by Robert L. Mooers, Jr. 629.045 M817f
Washington accessible outdoor recreation guide. 790.196 W317 2005
Washington atlas & gazetteer 912.797 D362w 1998
Outdoor Living
The basic essentials of first aid for the outdoors / by William W. Forgey. 616.0252 F721b
Living off the country; how to stay alive in the woods./ Bradford Angier. 613.69 A588L
Wilderness living / Gregory J. Davenport. 613.69 D247 2001
Simple foods for the pack / by Vikki Kinmont & Claudia Axcell 641.5 K55s
Treasury of outdoor cooking./ James Beard 641.578 B368t
The joy of camping; the complete four-seasons, five-senses practical guide to enjoying the great outdoors (without destroying it) [by] Richard W. Langer. 796.54 L276j
Complete outdoors encyclopedia / by Vin T. Sparano. 799.19 S736c
Be Prepared
Living on the earth: celebrations, storm warnings, formulas, recipes, rumors, & country dances harvested by Alicia Bay Laurel. 301.3 L378L
Living off the country; how to stay alive in the woods / Bradford Angier 613.69 A588L
First aid handbook / Pippa Keech 616.0252 K26f 2006
Outdoor Activities
Nature for the very young : a handbook of indoor and outdoor activities / Marcia Bowden 372.357 B784n
Camera afield / Sid Latham 770.28 L352c
Beyond the basics : innovative techniques for nature photography / by George D. Lepp 778.93 L598b 1993
Make the most of your lawn / James Meyers 790 M613m
Complete handbook of indoor and outdoor games and activities for young children / Jean R. Feldman 790.1922 F312c 1994
Mountains in colour / Frank S. Smythe 796.522 S668m
Look to the wilderness ./ William Douglas Burden 799.2 B949L
The backpacker’s field manual [electronic resource] : a comprehensive guide to mastering backcountry skills / Rick Curtis
Understand What You See and Hear
The American seasons / Edwin Way Teale 500.9 T253a
Knowing the outdoors in the dark / Vinson Brown 570 B881k 1972
A Sand County almanac, and Sketches here and there / Aldo Leopold 578 L587s 1949
Journey into summer; a naturalist’s record of a 19,000-mile journey through the North American summer / Edwin Way Teale 578.0973 T253j 1960
Flora of southeastern Washington, and of adjacent Idaho / Harold St. John. 581.979 S143f
Sportsman’s guide to game animals; a field book of North American species / Leonard Lee Rue. 599 R918s
Pilgrims of the wild / Wa-Sha-Quon-Asin 599.3232 B426p 1968
Game birds of North America, by Leonard Lee Rue III. 799.24 R918g
Open horizons [electronic resource] / Sigurd F. Olson
Poetry and Stories
The pond, by Robert Murphy 813.52 M978p 1964
Tales from Jackpine Bob [electronic resource] / written and illustrated by Bob Cary
Gunflint [electronic resource] : reflections on the trail / Justine Kerfoot
Woman of the Boundary Waters [electronic resource] : canoeing, guiding, mushing, and surviving / Justine Kerfoot
Friendship fires [electronic resource] / Sam Cook
Quiet magic [electronic resource] / Sam Cook
Up North [electronic resource] / Sam Cook
Camp sights [electronic resource] / Sam Cook
Make a Living
Careers in the environment / Mike Fasulo and Paul Walker. 363.70023 F251c 2007
Career opportunities in conservation and the environment / Paul R. Greenland and AnnaMarie L. Sheldon 333.72023 G814c 2008
Careers for nature lovers & other outdoor types / Louise Miller. Career Collection 333.72023 M648c 2008
Make Our State Safe for Nature:
Planning for parks, recreation, and open space in your community / text by Susan C. Enger 353.78 E57p 2005
Washington’s biodiversity : status and threats / Washington Biodiversity Council 333.9516 W319 2007
Videorecordings
Take a walk on the wild side [videorecording] : readers theatre / Directed and scripted by Lee Buxton. 508 T136
Dersu Uzala [videorecording] / directed by Akira Kurosawa 791.4372 D4387 1994
Denise Levertov [videorecording] / the Lannan Foundation ; directed by Dan Griggs. 809 L292
Websites
Experience Washington: http://www.experiencewa.com/
Washington State Parks homepage: http://www.parks.wa.gov/
Access Washington Outdoor Activities: http://access.wa.gov/visiting/recreation_outdoor.aspx
GORP Washington State Travel: http://gorp.away.com/gorp/location/wa/wa.htm
Seattle EcoMetro Directory: http://www.ecometro.com/seattle/directory/tag/outdoor+recreation/
Outdoor Recreation in Washington State: http://gonw.about.com/od/recreationwa/Outdoor_Recreation_in_Washington_State.htm

Hot Summer Hours!

Summer Quarter has arrived…

And with it, new library hours:

June 22 – August 13

Monday – Thursday:  8am to 8pm

Friday and Saturday:  closed

Sunday:  2pm – 8pm

August 17 – 20 (Break Week)

Mon – Thurs 8am – 5pm

We will be closed:

August 21 (Friday) through September 7 (Monday).

Break Week Library Hours

The Highline Library is open Break Week!

June 15-June 19
Monday – Friday 8am to 5pm

We will be closed Saturday and Sunday, June 20 and 21.

Enjoy your hard earned week off!

The Graphic Novel: June’s Recommended Reading

 

It’s summer. It’s finals. Let your brain have what it really wants and check out a graphic novel from the Library.

Our graphic novels come in all flavors—You want something fun? We have some of The Sandman series by Neil Gaiman. Check.

Memoir? Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi is in our collection. Check.

Historical? How about Barefoot Gen: Life After the Bomb? Check.

Heartbreaking? Fun home : a family tragicomic by Alison Bechdel, Cancer Vixen by Marisa Acocella Marchetto or Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth are all weep-worthy. Check, check, triple check.

What’s that? You want to read a comic book ABOUT comic books? You’re pretty demanding! Lucky for us we have Understanding Comics : The Invisible Art by Scott McCloud here too.

What are you waiting for? You can’t reread Twilight that many times this summer, can you?

Make your way to Building 25 now.

More Graphic Novels and Comic Books

The Arrival / Shaun Tan

Pedro and me : friendship, loss, and what I learned / Judd Winick.

Watchmen / Alan Moore, writer; Dave Gibbons, illustrator/letterer; John Higgins, colorist

Flood! : a novel in pictures / by Eric Drooker

City of glass / Paul Auster ; adaptation by Paul Karasik and David Mazzucchelli ; new introduction by Art Spiegelman.

Kierkegaard for beginners / written and illustrated by Donald D. Palmer.

Jung for beginners / written by Jon Platania ; illustrated by Joe Lee.

David Boring / Daniel Clowes.

Epileptic / David B.

The four immigrants manga : a Japanese experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 / Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama ; translated with an introduction and notes by Frederik L. Schodt.
Manga yonin shosei. English

From hell : being a melodrama in sixteen parts / Alan Moore, writer ; Eddie Campbell, artist ; Pete Mullins, contributing artist.

It’s a good life, if you don’t weaken / by Seth.

The league of extraordinary gentlemen. Vol. 1 / Alan Moore & Kevin O’Neill.

Maus I : a survivor’s tale : my father bleeds history / Art Spiegelman.

Maus II : a survivor’s tale : and here my troubles began / Art Spiegelman.

Monkey food : the complete I was seven in ‘75 collection / by Ellen Forney.

The metamorphosis / [based on the story by] Franz Kafka ; adapted by Peter Kuper ; [translation by Kerstin Hasenpusch].

Pride of Baghdad : inspired by a true story / written by Brian K. Vaughan ; art by Niko Henrichon ; lettering by Todd Klein.

V for vendetta / Alan Moore, David Lloyd ; [with Steve Whitaker and Siobhan Dodds].

Whiteout / created and written by Greg Rucka ; illustrated and lettered by Steve Lieber.

Yu the Great : conquering the flood ; a Chinese legend / story by Paul D. Storrie ; pencils and inks by Sandy Carruthers.

Saga of the Swamp Thing / Alan Moore, Steve Bissette, John Totleben ; [foreword by Ramsey Campbell].

Batman : the long Halloween / Jeph Loeb, writer ; Tim Sale, artist ; Gregory Wright, colors ; Richard Starkings & Comicraft, letters.

Blankets : an illustrated novel / by Craig Thompson.

Bluesman : a twelve bar graphic narrative in the key of life and death. Book one / by Rob Vollmar & Pablo C. [i.e. G] Callejo.

Buddha. 1, Kapilavastu / Osamu Tezuka.

The cartoon history of the modern world / Larry Gonick.

McSweeney’s quarterly concern. No. 13, An assorted sampler of North American comic drawings, strips, and illustrated stories, etc. / by many of the most dignified and skilled practitioners of the cartooning art, etc. ; [editor, C. Ware].Websites

Books on Graphic Novels and Comic Books

Children of the yellow kid : the evolution of the American comic strip / Robert C. Harvey ; with contributions by Brian Walker, Richard V. West.

Alternative comics : an emerging literature / Charles Hatfield.

Comic book nation : the transformation of youth culture in America / Bradford W. Wright.

Understanding comics : the invisible art / [Scott McCloud].

The R. Crumb coffee table art book / [editor, art director, and colorist, Peter Poplaski].

Reinventing comics : [how imagination and technology are revolutionizing an art form] / Scott McCloud.

The World encyclopedia of comics / edited by Maurice Horn.

Making comics : storytelling secrets of comics, manga and graphic novels / Scott McCloud.

Comics & sequential art / by Will Eisner.

Comics, comix & graphic novels : a history of graphic novels / Roger Sabin.

Manga : sixty years of Japanese comics / Paul Gravett.

Graphic Novels on the Web

A.D. : New Orleans After the Deluge / Josh Neufeld

Prime Baby / Gene Luen Yang

Watergate Sue / Megan Kelso

Movies based on Graphic Novels

Akira [videorecording] / presented by Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. ; producers, Ryohei Suzuki, Shunzo Kato ; screenplay, Katsuhiro Otomo, Izo Hashimoto; written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo.

Crumb [videorecording] / David Lynch presents a Superior Pictures production ; produced by Lynn O’Donnell & Terry Zwigoff ; directed by Terry Zwigoff.

Websites

Finding Scholarly Literature on Graphic Novels

All-TIME Graphic Novels

Comic books and graphic novels: Digital resources for an evolving form of art and literature

Comic Art in Scholarly Writing: A Citation Guide

The New York Times’ Graphic Books Best Sellers List

Teaching Comics

Grand Comic Book Database

The Periodic Table of Comic Books

Men in Tights: NPR Looks at comic book culture

Subject Guides! Our May 2009 Recommended Reading

For this month’s Recommended Reading, we have gathered information on six events occurring in May…using our wonderful Subject Guides!

Subject Guide: May Event

• Criminal Justice: National Police Week (May 10^th – 16^th)
• Geology: Mount St. Helen’s eruption (May 18, 1980)
• Health: National Bike Month
• Nursing: Florence Nightingale’s birthday (May 12, 1820)
• Psychology: Mental Health Month
• Sociology: Asian Pacific Heritage Month

What?

Subject Guides are web pages packed with suggestions to find great information in specific disciplines or subject areas.  Taking a business class? Law class? Anthropology? We have guides in over 35 subjects! The resources are listed by source type and include selected materials that can guide you in your research.

Your guides to one-stop shopping!

Books and media – in electronic and paper format

Selected Periodicals – newspapers, journals, magazines

Reference Sources – like Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

Databases – to find articles on topics

Web Sites – selected for relevance

Statistics and Data

Campus Links – like department web sites

Organizations – such as professional or scholarly groups

Who…

selected the materials? Each subject guide was hand-tailored by your friendly and smart librarians here at the Highline Library.

Why?

Why would a busy student already overloaded with homework, want to use a subject guide?

• Because they will make your life easier!
• Great place to begin your research!
• Get ideas topic ideas!

Where?

Where can I find these information jewels? On our library web site! http://library.highline.edu/findit/subjects/intro.php

Subject Guides are so cool that we even created a tutorial about them. Subject Guides: Where are they? (1:46 min)

Below is a sampling of what you can find when using our Subject Guide.

CRIMINAL JUSTICE: NATIONAL POLICE WEEK (May 10^th – 16^th)

BOOKS

Best damn cybercrime and digital forensics book period / Kevin Cardwell [et al.]

Introduction to law enforcement [by] James R. Waters [and] Sheree A. McGrath.

Introduction to police science / John L. Sullivan.

Police behavior : a sociological perspective / [edited by] Richard J. Lundman.

COP talk : essential communication skills for community policing / Virginia Kidd, Rick Braziel.

Crime / by Virginia Adams and the editors of Time-Life Books.

Crime, correction, and society/Johnson, Elmer Hubert.Crimes and punishment : a pictorial encyclopedia of aberrant behavior.

MOVIES

Criminal justice [videorecording] / Elysian Films in association with HBO Showcase.

Racial disparity in the criminal justice system [videorecording] Larry Gossett/ Highline Community College production.

Racial disparity in the criminal justice system [videorecording] a panel discussion/ Highline Community College production.

New asylums [videorecording] / written, produced & directed by Miri Navasky & Karen O’Connor

Michigan v. Anderson [videorecording] : a right to life or death / written and produced by Richard Kroehling ; [in association with CourtTV].

Suffer the children [videorecording] : an examination of sexual exploitation / KOMO TV ; writer, producer, Ken Schram ; director, Randy Suhr.

Understanding the courts [videorecording] : anatomy of a criminal case / written by Cynthia Canary ; directed by Robert Yeomans.

ONLINE BOOKS

Security officers and policing [electronic resource] : powers, culture and control in the governance of private space / Mark Button.

PERIODICALS

American Journal of Criminal Law (electronic)
Corrections Today (electronic)
Criminal Justice Ethics (electronic)
Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology (electronic)
Law and Order (print, electronic)
Police Chief (print)

GEOLOGY: MT. ST. HELENS ERUPTION (May 18, 1980)

BOOKS

Volcanoes / Robert Decker and Barbara Decker.

Fire mountains of the west : the Cascade and Mono Lake volcanoes / Stephen L. Harris.

Ecological responses to the 1980 eruption of Mount St. Helens / Virginia H. Dale, Frederick J. Swanson, Charles M. Crisafulli, editors.

Roadside geology of Mount St. Helens National Volcanic Monument and vicinity / by Patrick T. Pringle.

Warning and response to the Mount St. Helens eruption / Thomas F. Saarinen & James L. Sell.

Mount St. Helens, 1980 : botanical consequences of the explosive eruptions / edited by David E. Bilderback.

Mount St. Helens ash–properties and possible uses / by Wayne S. Moen and Glennda B. McLucas.

Mount St. Helens : the eruption and recovery of a volcano / by Rob Carson ; with selected photographs by Geff Hinds, Cheryl Haselhorst and Gary Braasch.

Mount St. Helens, five years later / S.A.C. Keller, editor.

Mount St. Helens wildlife area plan / prepared by Brian Calkins.

Fire & ice : the Cascade volcanoes / Stephen L. Harris.

MOVIES

Blowing your top: [videorecording] the geology of Mt. St. Helens / Eric Baer.

Eruption of Mount St. Helens [videorecording] / Graphic Films Corp.

Message from the mountain [videorecording] / Northern Light Productions.

Mount St. Helens [videorecording] : out of the ash / KSPS-TV.

In the path of a killer volcano [videorecording] / a production of the Documentary Guild in association with WGBH Boston for NOVA ; written, produced and directed by Rob Whittlesey, Noel Buckner.

ONLINE BOOKS

Volcanoes [electronic resource] : an introduction / Alwyn Scarth.

PERIODICALS

Geological Society of America bulletin
Geology today
Journal of Geology
Journal of the Geological Society
South African journal of geology
Washington Geology

HEALTH: NATIONAL BIKE MONTH

BOOKS

Story of the bicycle / Woodforde, John.

Focusing on fitness : have you got what it takes to be a personal trainer? / by Lisa Thompson.

Social history of the bicycle, its early life and times in America, by Robert A. Smith.

Medical Association guide to preventing and treating heart disease : essential information you and your family need to know about having a healthy heart / Martin S. Lipsky … [et al.].

Bicycling science / Frank Rowland Whitt, David Gordon Wilson.

Bicycling the backroads around Puget Sound [by] Erin and Bill Woods. Cartoons by Dale Martin.

Bikes and riders, written and photographed by James Wagenvoord.

Bicycling; a history / Alderson, Frederick.

Fitness and exercise sourcebook / edited by Amy L. Sutton.

Lance Armstrong, cyclist / Michael Benson.

MOVIES

Bicycle thief [videorecording] = Ladri di biciclette / screenplay, Cesare Zavatinni ; director, Vittorio de Sica ; produzione P. D. S.

Bicycle safety tips for adults [videorecording]

PERIODICALS

Health
The Nation’s health : the official newspaper of the American Public Health Association
Nutrition Today
Tufts University health & nutrition letter
Yoga Journal
Good Medicine

NURSING: FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE’S BIRTHDAY (May 12, 1820)

BOOKS

Nightingales : the extraordinary upbringing and curious life of Miss Florence Nightingale / Gillian Gill.

Florence Nightingale today : healing, leadership, global action / Barbara Montgomery Dossey … [et al.].

Nursing career guide : strategies for launching your career / Judith A. Burckhardt, Barbara J. Irwin

Contemporary nursing : issues, trends, & management / [edited by] Barbara Cherry, Susan R. Jacob.

Keys to nursing success / Janet R. Katz … [et al.].

Notes on nursing: what it is, and what it is not.

MOVIES

Bedmaking skills [videorecording] / Lippincott.

Nursing– check it out [videorecording] / with Dana Delany.

Nursing, the politics of caring [videorecording] / producers, Joan & Timothy Sawyer.

Techniques of therapeutic communication [videorecording]

ONLINE BOOKS

Florence Nightingale [electronic resource] : an introduction to her life and family / Lynn McDonald, editor.

Florence Nightingale on mysticism and eastern religions [electronic resource] / Gérard Vallée, editor.

Florence Nightingale on women, medicine, midwifery and prostitution [electronic resource] / Lynn McDonald, editor.

Florence Nightingale on mysticism and eastern religions [electronic resource] / Gérard Vallée, editor.

PERIODICALS

American Journal of Nursing (print)
Critical Care Nurse (electronic)
Journal of Multicultural Nursing and Health (electronic)
Nursing (print)
Registered Nurse (electronic)

PSYCHOLOGY: MENTAL HEALTH

BOOKS

Developing person through the life span / Kathleen Berger.

Feeling good about the way you look : a program for overcoming body image problems / Sabine Wilhelm.

Last child in the woods : saving our children from nature-deficit disorder / Richard Louv.

Men are from Mars, women are from Venus : the classic guide to understanding the opposite sex / John Gray.

Playing to get smart / Elizabeth Jones, Renatta M. Cooper.

What is emotion? : history, measures, and meanings / Jerome Kagan.

Bullying is not a fact of life / U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services, Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, Center for Mental Health Services.

Healthy people 2010.

Coping with trauma : hope through understanding / Jon G. Allen.

Breaking the silence : a guide to help children with complicated grief– suicide, homicide, AIDS, violence, and abuse / Linda Goldman.

Post traumatic stress disorder : the latest assessment and treatment strategies / by Matthew J. Friedman.

MOVIES

Growing old in a new age [videorecording] / produced by the University of Hawaii, Center on Aging

Verbal interventions for violent behavior [videorecording] : words : a way from violence / produced by Regional Learning Resources Service

At the end of a gun [videorecording] : women and war / TVE International ; BBC Worldwide ; produced and directed by Emily Marlow.

New asylums [videorecording] / written, produced & directed by Miri Navasky & Karen O’Connor

Soldier’s heart [videorecording] / written, produced & directed by Raney Aronson ; a Frontline coproduction with A Little Rain Productions, Inc

Truth about suicide [videorecording] : real stories of depression in college.

Sign Enhancers. Tape 8C [videorecording].

Stop bullying now! [videorecording] : take a stand, lend a hand.

Culture of emotions [videorecording] : a cultural competence and diversity training program.

Anxiety [videorecording] / [produced by Medcom Incorporated ; writers, Shirley Johnston, Jan Recht, Ellen Krupp]

ONLINE BOOKS

Mental hospitals at work [electronic resource] / by Kathleen Jones and Roy Sidebotham.

Bedlam on the streets [electronic resource] / Caroline Knowles ; with photographs by Ludovic Dabert.

Hormones, gender, and the aging brain [electronic resource] : the endocrine basis of geriatric psychiatry / edited by Mary F. Morrison.

Emotional needs of young children and their families [electronic resource] : using psychoanalytic ideas in the community / edited by Marion Bower and Judith Trowell.

Psychiatric and cognitive disorders in Parkinson’s disease [electronic resource] / Sergio E. Starkstein, Marcelo J. Merello.

Treatment of child abuse [electronic resource] : common ground for mental health, medical, and legal practitioners / edited by Robert M. Reece.

Spirituality and mental health care [electronic resource] : rediscovering a ‘forgotten’ dimension / John Swinton.

Evidence-based counselling and psychological therapies [electronic resource] : research and applications / edited by Nancy Rowland and Stephen Goss.

Desegregation of the mentally ill [electronic resource] / by J. Hoenig and Marian W. Hamilton.

PERIODICALS

Journal of Educational Psychology
Psychotherapy Networker

SOCIOLOGY: ASIAN PACIFIC HERITAGE MONTH

Kinship networks among Hmong-American refugees [electronic resource] / Julie Keown-Bomar.

Strangers in a not-so-strange land : Indian American immigrants in the global age / Arthur W. Helweg.

Asian American : the historical experience : essays / by Roger Daniels … [et al.] ; edited by Norris Hundley, Jr. ; introd. by Akira Iriye.

Khmer American : identity and moral education in a diasporic community / Nancy J. Smith-Hefner.

Dragon ladies : Asian American feminists breathe fire / edited by Sonia Shah ; preface by Yuri Kochiyama ; foreword by Karin Aguilar-San Juan.

Turning shadows into light : art and culture of the Northwest’s early Asian/Pacific community / edited by Mayumi Tsutakawa and Alan Chong Lau.

Asian Americans : vulnerable populations, model interventions, and clarifying agendas / edited by Lin Zhan.

Cambodian community in the United States / written and edited by Cheth Ouch, Yoosun Park.

East Main Street : Asian American popular culture / edited by Shilpa Davé, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha Oren ; foreword by Robert G. Lee.

Unraveling the “model minority” stereotype : listening to Asian American youth / Stacey J. Lee.

MOVIES

Bharati Mukherjee [videorecording] : conquering America / a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc. ; produced and directed by Gail Pellett.

My America, or, Honk if you love Buddha [videorecording] / National Asian American Telecommunications Association ; produced, written & directed by Renee Tajima-Peña.

Mixed feelings [videorecording]/ a documentary by Mikko Jokela.

Ancestors in the Americas [videorecording] : coolies, sailors, settlers / a film by Loni Ding.

Stolen ground [videorecording] / produced and directed by Lee Mun Wah and Lindsey Jang.

Yellow apparel: when the coolie becomes cool [videorecording] / a getupstandup production; produced by Anmol Chaddha.

American sons [videorecording] / Farallon Documentary Films ; produced, written & directed by Steven Okazaki.

Mirrors of privilege [videorecording] : making whiteness visible / a film by Shakti Butler ; directed by Shakti Butler and Rick Butler.

Slaying the dragon [videorecording] / produced by Pacific Productions, Asian Women United in association with KQED and Deborah Gee.

Toc storee [videorecording] / by Ming-Yuen S. Ma.

Blue collar and Buddha [videorecording] : a documentary / by Taggart Siegel ; produced by Kati Johnston and Taggart Siegel.

In no one’s shadow [videorecording] : Filipinos in America / a project of Visual Communications and Philippine Arts in the Community ; producers, Naomi De Castro, Antonio E. De Castro.

Voices of challenge [videorecording] : Hmong women in transition / a production of Academic Innovation Center, California State University, Fresno ; producer, Katsuyo Howard.

ONLINE BOOKS

Becoming Asian American [electronic resource] : second-generation Chinese and Korean American identities / Nazli Kibria.

Managing multicultural lives [electronic resource] : Asian American professionals and the challenge of multiple identities / Pawan Dhingra.

Disoriented [electronic resource] : Asian Americans, law, and the nation-state / Robert S. Chang.

African Americans and Asian Americans [electronic resource] / edited by Jeffrey D. Schultz … [et al.].

Distinguished Asian Americans [electronic resource] : a biographical dictionary / edited by Hyung-chan Kim ; contributing editors, Dorothy Cordova … [et al.].

Negotiating ethnicity [electronic resource] : second-generation South Asian Americans traverse a transnational world / Bandana Purkayastha.

Ethnic routes to becoming American [electronic resource] : Indian immigrants and the cultures of citizenship / Sharmila Rudrappa.

PERIODICALS

A. magazine : the Asian American quarterly.

Amerasia journal.

Northwest Asian weekly.

Cross currents.

Google News Timeline

Google News Timeline
On April 20, Google unveiled a new experimental product called Google News Timeline that displays news and related search results on an interactive timeline. It offers interesting possibilities for exploring stories, especially older ones, that are largely hidden in newspaper and magazine archives. It is also a powerful way to view trends in culture and society or the careers of famous people. The service includes current stories gathered by Google News, as well as archival news; scanned newspapers, magazines, and books; blog posts; sports scores; and media like music and movies….
New York Times, Apr. 21

Wireless Access @ the Library

 

Why, yes — there is wireless access in the Highline Community College Library (actually, all over campus.)

CONNECT TO THIS SSID: 

“Highline Wireless Network”

[If you choose any other SSID at this time, you will be prompted for a login.]

TROUBLESHOOTING: If you don’t see an SSID to connect to, there’s a problem with your laptop wireless settings:

the wireless connection is turned off

the wireless connnection is disabled

there is a third party application managing your wireless connection

QUESTIONS? – Visit the Help Desk in the IC Computer Lab (Building 30)

Why, yes — there is wireless access in the Highline Community College Library (actually, all over campus.)

TO ACCESS WIRELESS, CONNECT TO THIS SSID: 

“Highline Wireless Network”

[If you choose any other SSID at this time, you will be prompted for a login.]

TROUBLESHOOTING: If you don’t see an SSID to connect to, there’s a problem with your laptop wireless settings:

• the wireless connection is turned off
• the wireless connnection is disabled
• there is a third party application managing your wireless connection

QUESTIONS? – Visit the Help Desk in the IC Computer Lab (Building 30)

National Library Workers Day is Today 4/14/09

First sponsored in 1958, National Library Week is a national observance sponsored by the American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country each April. It is an annual celebration of the contributions of our nation’s libraries, librarians and library workers to promote library use and support at all types of libraries – school, public, academic and special – participate.

Also, be sure to celebrate School Library Media Month, ALA-APA’s National Library Workers Day (Tuesday, April 14) and YALSA’s Support Teen Literature Day

 (Thursday, April 16.)

Spring Quarter Hours

Spring Quarter library hours are Monday – Friday 7:00 am to 10:00 pm, Saturday 9 am – 5 pm, and Sunday 2 -10 pm.

You can check this Hours link for 2009 holiday closures to plan ahead:  http://library.highline.edu/home/hours.php

Circulation staff and reference librarians are available to assist you during the library open hours.  For assistance when the library is closed, try our 24/7 Chat Service.

Online Reference Collection!

 

• Is the life expectancy in India higher or lower than that of Kenya?
• In the investment world, what does “sell short” mean?
• What is a Myxoma and how is it treated?

Answers to these and many questions can be found in our Online Reference Collection.   We’re talking Encyclopedias, Dictionaries and more for quick or introductory information.  All creditable resources to cite in your papers.  And you don’t have to be in the library to use them!

The answers to the 3 questions were found in the “ref” books below.   Take a look: