May 8, 2008

May is Asian Pacific American Month

Books

 

American knees / Shawn Wong.  813.54 W872a 1996

 

The Cambodian community in the United States / written and edited by Cheth Ouch, Yoosun Park.  305.89596 O93c  1999

 

China men / Maxine Hong Kingston. 973.04951 K55c 1989

 

The crane wife / Sharon Hashimoto.  811.54 H348c 2003

 

East Main Street : Asian American popular culture / edited by Shilpa Davé, LeiLani Nishime, and Tasha Oren

305.895 E13 2005

 

Filipinos, forgotten Asian Americans : a pictorial essay, 1763-circa 1963 / Fred Cordova ;  973.0499 C796f

 

The four immigrants manga : a Japanese experience in San Francisco, 1904-1924 / Henry (Yoshitaka) Kiyama

979.461092 K62k 1999

 

Free food for millionaires / Min Jin Lee.  813.6 L479f   2007

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April 30, 2008

“MindMashup”: Call for Entries

SPARC (the Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition) announces the Second Annual Sparky Awards, a contest that recognizes the best new short videos on the value of information sharing and aims to broaden the discussion of access to scholarly research by inviting students to express their views creatively.

The 2008 contest theme is “MindMashup: The Value of Information Sharing.” The Sparky Awards invite contestants to submit videos of two minutes or less that imaginatively portray the benefits of the open, legal exchange of information. Mashup is an expression referring to a song, video, Web site, or software application that combines content from more than one source.  Full information here.

April 23, 2008

Living Libraries - a new take on learning

A new library allows readers to borrow people for a 30-minute chat.  Here is the experience of one man who offered himself as a human book…troubling the waters of prejudice with face to face conversation.

April 18, 2008

Free Science & Illustrated Words

The Open Science Directory is attempting to bridge the scientific “digital divide” by providing access to a wide range of journals to researchers in both developing and developed countries. On a smaller scale, the Biology Corner offers online labs, worksheets, and “webquests” oriented towards upper level high school students and their teachers. The Visual Dictionary offers annotated images that identify and define the various parts of numerous objects, ranging from skulls to guitars.  Other resources are available through the Faculty Toolkit.


March 31, 2008

Recommended Reading for April: Earth and People

This month’s Recommended Reading selections describe and analyze various social problems connected with the environment. Most of these involve the concept of “Environmental Justice” but many other topics arise as well. Please take special note of the web links at the end.

Books:

The environment: a human crisis / [by] Michael D. Piburn.

301.31 P584e

Only one world : our own to make and to keep / Gerard Piel.

304.2 P613o

The Gaia atlas of first peoples : a future for the indigenous world / Julian Burger with campaigning groups and native peoples worldwide ; foreword by Maurice F. Strong.

305.8 B954g 1990

Ark II; social response to environmental imperatives / [by] Dennis C. Pirages [and] Paul R. Ehrlich.

309.173 P667a

The new atlas of planet management / general editors, Norman Myers & Jennifer Kent ; foreword by Edward O. Wilson.

333.7 N532 2005

Two cheers for the Affluent Society : a spirited defense of economic growth / Wilfred Beckerman.

338.9 B395t

Global spin : the corporate assault on environmentalism / Sharon Beder.

363.7 B411g 1998

Meadowlark economics : perspectives on ecology, work, and learning / James Eggert.

363.7 E29m

It’s a matter of survival / Anita Gordon, David Suzuki.

363.7 G662i

Earth in the balance : ecology and the human spirit / Al Gore.

363.7 G666e

Green rage : radical environmentalism and the unmaking of civilization / Christopher Manes.

363.7 M274g

Our common future / World Commission on Environment and Development.

363.7 O93

The green alternative : creating an ecological future / Brian Tokar.

363.7 T646g

Pollution / James Haley, book editor.

363.73 P777 2003

Environmental overkill : whatever happened to common sense? / Dixy Lee Ray with Lou Guzzo.

363.73 R263e

Climate affairs : a primer / Michael H. Glantz.

551.6 G545c 2003

Opportunities in environmental careers / Odom Fanning

Career Collection 363.70023 F213o 2002

E-Books

Agency, democracy, and nature [electronic resource] : the U.S. environmental movement from a critical theory perspective / Robert J. Brulle.

Conservative environmentalism [electronic resource] : reassessing the means, redefining the ends / James R. Dunn and John E. Kinney.

Controversies in environmental sociology [electronic resource] / edited by Rob White.

Dam! [electronic resource] : water, power, politics, and preservation in Hetch Hetchy and Yosemite National Park / John Warfield Simpson.

Earth First! and the anti-roads movement [electronic resource] : radical environmentalism and comparative social movements / Derek Wall.

The Earthscan reader in environmental values [electronic resource] / Linda Kalof, Terre Satterfield.

Ecological feminism [electronic resource] / edited by Karen J. Warren ; with the assistance of Barbara Wells-Howe.

Environment and human well-being [electronic resource] : a practical strategy / Lead authors: Don Melnick (Coordinator) … [et al.].

Environmental movements in minority and majority worlds [electronic resource] : a global perspective / Timothy Doyle.

Feminism and ecological communities [electronic resource] : an ethic of flourishing / Chris J. Cuomo.

A fierce green fire [electronic resource] : the American environmental movement / Philip Shabecoff.

From the ground up [electronic resource] : environmental racism and the rise of the environmental justice movement / Luke W. Cole and Sheila R. Foster.

The global commons [electronic resource] : an introduction / Susan J. Buck

Just sustainabilities [electronic resource] : development in an unequal world / edited by Julian Agyeman, Robert D. Bullard, and Bob Evans.

Nature’s experts [electronic resource] : science, politics, and the environment / Stephen Bocking.

Reducing poverty and sustaining the environment [electronic resource] : the politics of local engagement / edited by Stephen Bass … [et al.].

The Silicon Valley of dreams [electronic resource] : environmental injustice, immigrant workers, and the high-tech global economy / David Naguib Pellow and Lisa Sun-Hee Park.

Sustainable capitalism [electronic resource] : a matter of common sense / John E. Ikerd.

The tangled roots of feminism, environmentalism, and Appalachian literature [electronic resource] / Elizabeth S. D. Engelhardt.

Media

Ecopsychology [videorecording] : restoring the earth, healing the self / a Baylands Productions release.

155.9 E19 1995

Is God green? [videorecording] / a production of Public Affairs Television, Inc. ; a presentation of Thirteen/WNET ; producer, director, Tom Casciato ; writers, Bill Moyers, Tom Casciato.

241.691 I73 2006

Network Earth [videorecording] : Personal effects / CNN News Network ; Turner Multimedia ; produced by Phil Frank.

363.7 N476

Race to save the planet. Now or never [videorecording] / produced by the WGBH Science Unit in association with Chedd-Angier … [et al.] ; written, produced and directed by Linda Harrar.

363.7 R118

Future conditional [videorecording] / NIEHS, NSF ; producer, Marilyn Weiner ; director-writer, Hal Weiner ; a Screenscope production in association with South Carolina ETV.

363.70526 F996 2005

Journey to planet Earth. Season one [videorecording] / produced by Marilyn Weiner ; director/writer, Hal Weiner ; a production of Screenscope Inc. in association with South Carolina Educational Television.

363.70526 J86

On the brink [videorecording] / a Screenscope production in association with South Carolina Educational Television ; producer, Marilyn Weiner ; director/writer, Hal Weiner.

363.70526 O58 2003

The State of the planet [videorecording] / Producer, Marilyn Weiner ; director-writer, Hal Weiner ; a Screenscope production in association with South Carolina ETV.

363.70526 S797 2005

Websites:

Appropedia. A Wikipedia-style presentation of information on sustainability and related issues. “Appropedia is the site for collaborative solutions in sustainability, poverty reduction and international development. Appropedia helps us sustain our world.”

Ecofeminism, the Environment, and Social Movements A dated but still relevant paper on ecofeminism.

Environmental Justice The Environmental Protection Agency’s page for environmental justice, “the fair treatment and meaningful involvement of all people regardless of race, color, national origin, or income with respect to the development, implementation, and enforcement of environmental laws, regulations, and policies.”

 

Environmental Justice/Environmental Racism A set of links for more information on environmental justice (as defined above) and its flip-side, environmental racism.

Environmental Movement. An excellent outline history by David Walls, a professor at Sonoma State University.

Movement as Network An analysis from ONE Northwest, a major player in the environmental movement in the Pacific Northwest, analyzing how environmentalists could collaborate more effectively.

To Remake the World. An article published in Orion, one of the leading popular journals of environmental opinions and ideas.

March 31, 2008

Welcome to Spring Quarter 2008!

Come by and visit anytime we’re open:Sunday: 2pm-10pm
Monday-Friday: 7am-10pm
Saturday: 9am-5pm

If we’re not open, you may place library materials in the Book Drop, just outside the front doors.

March 28, 2008

3/29/08: Save 5% on Textbooks!

The Highline Community College bookstore is having an excellent sale tomorrow (March 29th) from 9am-2pm. Save 5% on textbooks and 10% on supplies. What a deal! Check it out!

March 11, 2008

Running the Numbers - Stunning Visual Literacy

Chris Jordan’s Running the Numbers: An American Portrait offers astonishing visual representations of statistics charting American consumerism.  This and other examples of and information about visual literacy are available through the Information Literacy Faculty Toolkit.

March 7, 2008

Break Week Hours

Beginning Saturday, March 22nd the library will be closed on evenings and weekends for the quarter break!

During Spring break (March 24-28, 2008), the library will be open Monday - Friday from 8 am - 5 pm.

We will return to our regular hours on March 31st and we look forward to seeing you in the library. http://library.highline.edu/home/hours.php

March 4, 2008

March is Women’s History Month

Books:

All girls : single-sex education and why it matters / Stabiner.
371.822 S775a 2003

Black feminist thought : knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment / Collins.
305.4201 C712b 2000

Built to win : the female athlete as cultural icon / Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin ; foreword by Julie Foudy.
796.082 H662b 2003

Failure is impossible : Susan B. Anthony in her own words / Lynn Sherr.
324.623092 A628s 1995

Failure is impossible : the story of Susan B. Anthony / Bohannon.
New Readers Collection 324.623092 A628b 2002

Feminism and visual culture reader / edited by Amelia Jones.
305.42 F329 2003

Feminist philosophy / Herta Nagl-Docekal ; translated by Vester.
305.4201 N149f 2004

Founding sisters and the Nineteenth Amendment / Eleanor Clift.
324.623 C639f 2003

Globalizing feminist bioethics : crosscultural perspectives.
174.957 G562 2001

Goddesses, whores, wives, and slaves : women in classical antiquity / Pomeroy.
301.412 P785g 1975

Guerrilla Girls’ bedside companion to the history of Western art.
704.042 G935 1998

Gyn/ecology : the metaethics of radical feminism / Mary Daly.
301.412 D153g 1978

In her own image, women working in the arts / Hedges and Wendt.
700 I35 1980

Listen up : voices from the next feminist generation / edited by Findlen.
305.42 L773 2001

Looking for the other : feminism, film, and the imperial gaze / Kaplan.
305.42 K17L 1997

Middle Eastern Muslim women speak / edited by Fernea and Bezirgan.
301.4120956 M627 1997

Never a dull moment : teaching, and the art of performance : feminism takes center stage / Felman.
378.199 F322n 2001

Ophelia speaks : adolescent girls write about their search for self / Sara Shandler.
305.235 S528o 1999

Overcoming violence against women and girls : the international campaign to eradicate a worldwide problem.
362.88 P412o 2003

Preserving and providing access to Washington women’s history / Pennucci, Foulk, and Kavanaugh.
323.34 P415p 2004
Linked Resource: View online version

Reconceiving pregnancy and childcare : ethics, experience, and reproductive labor / Amy Mullin.
176 M959r 2005

Roman women: their history and habits.
301.41037 B196r 1962

The second sex. Simone de Beauvoir. Translated and edited by H. M. Parshley.
301.412 D286s 1968

Stories of family caregiving : reconsiderations of theory, literature, and life / Poirier and Ayres.
649.8 P753s 2002

Teaching guide to accompany In her own image : women working in the arts.
700 I35 1981

Teaching to transgress : education as the practice of freedom / Bell Hooks.
370.115 H784t 1994

Theorizing feminism : parallel trends in the humanities and social sciences / edited by Anne C. Herrmann and Abigail J. Stewart.
305.4201 T396 2001

Tilting the playing field : schools, sports, sex, and Title IX / Jessica Gavora.
796.082 G283t 2002

Unequal sisters : a multicultural reader in U.S. women’s history / edited by Vicki L. Ruiz and Ellen Carol DuBois.
305.4 U56 1994

Vietnamese feminist poems from antiquity to the present : a bilingual anthology.
895.9221 V666 2007

Women artists, 1550-1950 / Ann Sutherland Harris, Linda Nochlin.
709.03 H313w

Women in Congress, 1917-2006.
328.73082 W872 2006

Women in Greece and Rome.
301.41209 Z78w 1973

Women of England : from Anglo-Saxon times to the present :
301.41 W872 1979

Women who knew too much : Hitchcock and feminist theory / Tania Modleski.
791.430233092 M692w 2005

Working for change : the struggle for women’s right to vote / Leni Donlan.
New Readers Collection [Call Number] 2008

E-Books:

Black feminist thought : knowledge, consciousness, and the politics of empowerment / Patricia Hill Collins.
Electronic Book 305.42/01 2000

Built to win : the female athlete as cultural icon / Leslie Heywood and Shari L. Dworkin ; foreword Foudy.
Electronic Book 796/.082 2003

The curious feminist : searching for women in a new age of empire / Cynthia Enloe.
Electronic Book 305.42 2004

Dress of women : a critical introduction to the symbolism and sociology of clothing / Charlotte Perkins Gilman;
Electronic Book 2002

Feminism and the politics of working women : the Women’s Co-operative Guild,…. / Gillian Scott.
Electronic Book

Feminist international relations : an unfinished journey / Christine Sylvester.
Electronic Book 327.1/01 2002

Fire this time : young activists and the new feminism / edited by Vivien Labaton and Dawn Lundy Martin.
Electronic Book 305.42 2004

Gender, planning, and human rights / edited by Tovi Fenster.
Electronic Book 1999

On female body experience : “Throwing like a girl” and other essays / Iris Marion Young.
Electronic Book 305.42/01 2005

Philosophy, feminism, and faith / edited by Ruth E. Groenhout and Marya Bower.
Electronic Book 200/.82 2003

Taking the field : women, men, and sports / Michael A. Messner.
Electronic Book 2002

Teaching introduction to women’s studies : expectations and strategies / Winkler and DiPalma.
Electronic Book 305.4/07 1999

Violence and the body : race, gender, and the state / edited by Arturo J. Aldama ; foreword by Alfred Arteaga.
Electronic Book 303.6 2002

Women and citizenship / edited by Marilyn Friedman.
Electronic Book 2005

Women, health and nation : Canada and the United States since 1945 / edited by Georgina Feldberg.
Electronic Book 2003

Women’s studies : an interdisciplinary anthology / Roberta Rosenberg, editor.
Electronic Book 2001

Women’s studies encyclopedia / edited by Helen Tierney.
Electronic Book 1999

Working for change : the struggle for women’s right to vote / Leni Donlan.
Electronic Book 2008

Writing the feminine : women in Arab sources / edited by Manuela Marâin and Randi Deguilhem.
Electronic Book 2002

Reference Books:

Encyclopedia of American social movements / edited by Immanuel Ness.
973.03 E56 2004

Handbook of American women’s history / edited by Angela Howard Zophy.
305.409 H236 1990

Milestones : a chronology of American women’s history / Doris Weatherford.
305.4 W362m 1997

Reader’s companion to U.S. women’s history / editors, Wilma Mankiller
… [et al.]
305.4097 R286 1998

Women’s history sources : a guide to archives and manuscript collections in the United States.
301.412016 W872 1979

Journals:

Azizah : for the contemporary Muslim woman.

Frontiers.

Journal of women’s history.

Ms.

E-Journals:

On Campus With Women

Movies:

During the war women went to work– [videorecording]
940.53082 D962 2007 DVD
Linked Resource: View links to access Quicktime versions of documentary

Einstein’s wife [videorecording] : the life of Mileva Einstein-Marić
530.092 E35e 2003 DVD

The National Museum of Women in the Arts [videorecording]: a woman’s touch / Echo Pictures production.
704.042 N277 2005 DVD

The speeches of famous women [videorecording]
815 S742 1995 VHS

Strength to resist [videorecording] : media’s impact on women & girls
659.1042 S915 2005 DVD

Women and creativity [videorecording] / Corp for Entertainment and Learning
700.82 W872 VHS

Microfilm:

101 wonderful ways to celebrate women’s history [microform]
ED 1.310/2:393768 1993

Myself and women heroes in my world Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Queen…
ED 1.310/2:402226

National Women’s History Museum Act of 2003 [microform]
Y 1.1/5:108-204
Linked Resource: Text Version

Linked Resource: PDF Version

National Women’s History Week [microform] : a multi-cultural infusion model
ED 1.310/2:267001

Conferences:

Women’s Conference – Personal & Cultural Identities in the 21st Century
March 14th and 15th at Edmonds Community College.

Websites:

American Memory: Women’s History Collections
Gateway to Library of Congress Resources for the Study of Women’s History and Culture in the United States.

American Women through Time
Timelines that links specific events with highly relevant online sources, followed by a guide to research sources (e.g., census, newspapers, secondary sources) that are appropriate for the specified time period. Middle Tennessee State University.

American Women’s History: A Research Guide
Citations to print and Internet reference sources, as well as to selected large primary source collections. The guide also provides information about the tools researchers can use to find additional books, articles, dissertations, and primary sources. Middle Tennessee State University.

International Women’s Day: United Nations
International Women’s Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women to participate in society on an equal footing with men. (E.g.) In ancient Greece, Lysistrata initiated a sexual strike against men in order to end war; during the French Revolution, Parisian women calling for “liberty, equality, fraternity” marched on Versailles to demand women’s suffrage.

National Women’s History Museum
Founded in 1996, (NWHM) is a nonpartisan, nonprofit educational institution dedicated to preserving, interpreting, and celebrating the diverse historic contributions of women, and integrating this rich heritage fully into our nation’s history.

WomenWatch: UNITED NATIONS
Central gateway to information and resources on the promotion of gender equality and the empowerment of women. United Nations.

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