Tax Assistance @ HCC

Student volunteers, who have studied and received income tax preparation certification from AARP and IRS, are providing free help to anyone needing assistance preparing certain non complex 2009 income tax returns.

Bring your patience and plan for at least one hour.

•    Days:  Fridays only

•    Dates: First day February 19 ~ Last day April 9
(Closed March 26; spring break for students and faculty)

•    Time: 1:00pm – 7:00pm; last client at 6:15pm

•    Place:  Building 29, rooms 308

•   Cost:  Free, including electronic filing

•    What to Bring :
o    Copy of previous year tax return. If necessary, contact the IRSfor a copy of last year’s return.
o    W-2 forms from each employer
o    All 1099 forms (1099-INT, 1099-DIV, 1099-misc., etc.) showing interest and/or dividends as well as documentation showing the original purchase price of your sold assets
o    If you received a pension or annuity, bring your 1099R
o    If you were paid Social Security benefits, bring your SSA-1099
o    If applicable, unemployment compensation statements
o    Child care provider information (name, employer ID, SSN)
o    If itemizing deductions, bring all receipts or canceled checks for items such as medical expenses, taxes paid, mortgage interest paid, and charitable contributions
o    Social Security numbers for all dependents
o    Any other documents that may have income tax consequences

If you bought a brand new car in 2009, please bring your sales receipt.

February Recommended Reading: Love Stories

According to Encyclopedia Britannica, more than one Christian martyr was named Valentine, but a priest killed about 270 AD by the emperor Claudius II Gothicus probably gave the day its name. As legend has it, the priest fell in love with his jailer’s daughter and signed a letter to her, “from your Valentine.”

Celebrating the coming of spring, the Roman festival of Lupercalia, held in mid-February, also contributed to the day’s origins. The festivities included fertility rites and a lottery to match women and men.

In the 5th century, a pope changed the name from Lupercalia to St. Valentine’s Day and by the 14th century, the day became associated with love. Formal Valentine cards made their appearance in the 16^th century, and became commercially printed in the United States in the mid-1800s; these often depicted Cupid, the winged Roman god of love.

And so, in celebration for the month of love, some love stories:

Fiction

The garden of Eden / Ernest Hemingway.

813.52 H488g 1986

The mistress of spices / Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni.

813.54 D618m 1998

Cold mountain / Charles Frazier.

813.54 F848c 1997

Pigs in heaven : a novel / by Barbara Kingsolver

813.54 K55p 1994

How Stella got her groove back / Terry McMillan.

813.54 M167h 1996

Close range : Wyoming stories / Annie Proulx.

813.54 P968c 2003

The bridges of Madison County / Robert James Waller

813.54 W198b 1992

American knees / Shawn Wong.

813.54 W872a 1996

Persuasion / by Jane Austen ; edited by William Galperin.

823.7 A933p 2008

Pride and prejudice / Jane Austen ; with an afterword by Joann Morse.

823.7 A933p 1980

Jane Eyre, an authoritative text, backgrounds, criticism, edited by Richard J. Dunn.

823.8 B869cjzd 1971

Wuthering Heights : complete, authoritative text with biographical and historical contexts, critical history, and essays from five contemporary critical perspectives / edited by Linda H. Peterson.

823.8 B869ewzp 1992

Wives and daughters / Elizabeth Gaskell.

823.8 G248w 2001

The end of the affair / Graham Greene

823.912 G799e 1961

The remains of the day / Kazuo Ishiguro.

823.914 I79r 1990

The reader / Bernhard Schlink ; translated from the German by Carol Brown Janeway.
Vorleser. English

833.92 S344r 1998

Enemies, a love story / Isaac Bashevis Singer.

839.093 S617e

A very long engagement / Sébastien Japrisot ; translated by Linda Coverdale.
Long dimanche de fiançailles. English

843.914 J35v 2004

Like water for chocolate : a novel in monthly installments, with recipes, romances, and home remedies / Laura Esquivel ; translated by Carol Christensen and Thomas Christensen.
Como agua para chocolate. English

863 E77L 1992

Love in the time of cholera / Gabriel García Márquez ; translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman ; with an introduction by Nicholas Shakespeare.
Amor en los tiempos del cólera. English

863.64 G216Lo 1997

Movies

Double happiness [videorecording] / Fine Line Features ; First Generation Films and New Views ; produced by Stephen Hegyes, Rose Lam Waddell ; written and directed by Mina Shum.

791.4372 D7271 1995

Eat drink man woman [videorecording] / Metro Goldwyn Mayer ; the Samuel Goldwyn Company ; [presented by] Central Motion Pictures in association with Ang Lee Productions and Good Machine ; screenplay by Hui-Ling Wang, James Schamus, Ang Lee ; produced by Li-Kong Hsu ; directed by Ang Lee.

791.4372 E14 1998

Emma [videorecording] / Miramax Films ; Matchmaker Films ; Haft Entertainment ; produced by Steven Haft and Patrick Cassavetti ; written for the screen and directed by Douglas McGrath.

791.4372 E541 1998

Mississippi masala [videorecording] / SCS Films Inc. presents, in association with Odyssey/Cinecom International and Film Four International ; a Mirabai Films Production, in association with MovieWorks and Black River Productions ; produced by Michael Nozik, Mira Nair ; directed by Mira Nair ; written by Sooni Taraporevala.

791.4372 M67863 1992

Pride and prejudice [videorecording] / a co-production of BBC Television and BBC Worldwide Americas, Inc. in association with A & E Network.

791.4372 P9476 2005

William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet [videorecording] / [presented by] Twentieth Century ; produced by Gabriella Martinelli and Baz Luhrman ; screenplay by Craig Pearce & Baz Luhrman ; directed by Baz Luhrman.
Romeo and Juliet.

791.4372 R7633 1997

Shakespeare in love [videorecording] / Miramax Films/Universal Pictures/the Bedford Falls Company ; produced by David Parfitt, Donna Gigliotti, Harvey Weinstein, Edward Zwick, Marc Norman ; written by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard ; directed by John Madden.

791.4372 S527 1998

Singin’ in the rain [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; produced by Loew’s Incorporated ; produced by Arthur Freed ; story and screenplay by Adolph Green and Betty Comden ; directed by Gene Kelly and Stanley Donen.
Singin’ in the rain (Motion picture)

791.4372 S617 2002

Slumdog millionaire [videorecording] / Fox Searchlight Pictures ; Warner Bros. Pictures ; Celador Films ; Film4 ; directed by Danny Boyle ; co-director, Loveleen Tandan ; screenplay by Simon Beaufoy ; produced by Christian Colson ; executive producers, Paul Smith, Tessa Ross ; director of photography, Anthony Dod Mantle.

791.4372 S6349 2009

History & Criticism

Seventeenth-century English romance [electronic resource] : allegory, ethics, and politics / Amelia A. Zurcher.

No call number available

Women and romance [electronic resource] : a reader / edited by Susan Ostrov Weisser.

305.4

The first love stories : from Isis and Osiris to Tristan and Iseult / Diane Wolkstein.

808.803 W862f

Love in a green shade [electronic resource] : idyllic romances ancient to modern / Richard F. Hardin.

809/.93321734

Twentieth-century romance and gothic writers / preface, Kay Mussell ; editor, James Vinson ; associate editor, D.L. Kirkpatrick.

823.009 T969

Websites

A Thousand Kisses: Love Letters From the Archives of American Art

“This selection of affectionate communiqués to and from American artists [such as Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner, Joan Mitchell, and Michael Goldberg] gives us insight into the lives of painters, sculptors, illustrators, and others — their r …

American Love Stories

“Can love overcome any obstacle?” Read the stories of interracial couples, lesbian couples, differently-abled couples, and more, in this look at love in America.

The Romance Reader

A searchable collection of thousands of reviews for the different romantic novel subgenres. The Address Book contains addresses for many of the authors. Features contains all types of miscellaneous information including top ten, fifty, and one hundre …

Dear Bess: Love Letters From the President

Digital versions of letters from Harry to Bess Truman sent between 1910 and 1957. The letters “not only [show] the personal loving relationship between Harry and Bess, but the President’s efforts to use his wife as a sounding board for the issue …

Romance Novel Database

“Contains bibliographic information, subject access information, images, and readers’ ratings for a variety of novels in different romantic fiction subgenres. The database is designed to function as both a reader’s advisory tool and a source of gener …

Poets.org: Love Poems

“A very small sample of both new and classic love poems” from poets such as William Shakespeare, W.B. Yeats, and Robert Penn Warren. Includes a list of poems, links to selected poems, biographical information about poets, and links to relat …

Interlibrary Loan Service!

Affectionately known as ILL, we bring the books to you!

If we don’t have what you are looking for… we may be able to get the material from another library through an Interlibrary Loan. We provide this service to HCC students, faculty and staff, to support your studies or work for the college.

A word from an ILL enthusiast:

“The Interlibrary Loan service is a great way to lengthen my reach for research material beyond the walls of Highline’s library.   I found the service easy to use and the response time from participating libraries has been very good.”

Larry T. Yok
Vice President for Administration
Highline Community College

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr and the American Civil Rights Movement

Dr Martin Luther King, Jr. and the American Civil Rights Movement from the Fifties to Today

Suggested Reading for January, 2010

Books:

April 4, 1968 : Martin Luther King, Jr’s death and how it changed America / Michael Eric Dyson.

323.092 K53a 2008

The autobiography of Martin Luther King, Jr. / edited by Clayborne Carson.

323.0973 A939 1998

Cesar Chavez : autobiography of La Causa / Jacques E. Levy.

331.8813092 C512L 1975

The civil rights movement / Kevin Supples.

New Readers Collection 323.0973 S959c 2003

Frame-up; the Martin Luther King/James Earl Ray case containing suppressed evidence.

345.73 W426f

Freedom riders : 1961 and the struggle for racial justice / Raymond Arsenault

323.0973 A781f 2006

How race is lived in America : pulling together, pulling apart / correspondents of the New York Times ; introduction by Joseph Lelyveld.

305.800973 H847 2002

King: a comic book biography. / [Ho Che Anderson ; introduction by Stanley Crouch ; edited by Gary Groth].

323.092 K53a 2005

Marching to freedom; the life of Martin Luther King, Jr.

323.4092 K646b

Martin Luther King, Jr. and the foundations of nonviolence / James P. Hanigan.

323.092 K53h 1984

Martin Luther King Jr. / Jean Darby.

New Readers Collection 323.092 K53d 2006

Martin Luther King, Jr. / Marshall Frady.

323.0973 K53f 2002

Martin Luther King, Jr. : minister and civil rights leader activist / Brendan January.

New Readers Collection 323.092 K53j 2000

My life with Martin Luther King, Jr. / Coretta Scott King.

323.4092 K53m

Parting the waters : America in the King years, 1954-63 / Taylor Branch

973.0496 B816p 1989

The preacher King : Martin Luther King, Jr. and the word that moved America / Richard Lischer.

323.092 K53L 1997

When will I get in? / Sean Price.

New Readers Collection 305.896073 P946w 2007

The words of Martin Luther King, Jr. / selected by Coretta Scott King.

323.1196073 K53w 1996

E-Books

After whiteness [electronic resource] : unmaking an American majority / Mike Hill.

America reborn [electronic resource] : a twentieth-century narrative in twenty-six lives / Martin Walker.

Chicano politics and society in the late twentieth century [electronic resource] / edited by David Montejano.

Colored White [electronic resource] : transcending the racial past / David R. Roediger.

Disarming manhood : roots of ethical resistance [electronic resource]/ David A.J. Richards

The ethics of human rights [electronic resource] : contested doctrinal and moral issues / Esther D. Reed.

If it takes all summer [electronic resource] : Martin Luther King, the KKK, and states’ rights in St. Augustine, 1964 / Dan R. Warren.

An interracial movement of the poor [electronic resource] : community organizing and the New Left in the 1960s / Jennifer Frost.

Martin Luther King, Jr. [electronic resource] / Marshall Frady.

Revealing whiteness [electronic resource] : the unconscious habits of racial privilege / Shannon Sullivan.

Ring out freedom! the voice of Martin Luther King, Jr. and the making of the civil rights movement / Fredrik Sunnemark.

Voices in our blood [electronic resource] : America’s best on the civil rights movement / edited by Jon Meacham.

Media

At the River I Stand

323.0973 A861 1993

Boycott

791.45 B789 2001

Chicano!

323.116872 C532

Color of Fear

305.8 C719 1994

Elders panel : retrospection on Dr. King’s vision / filmed and produced by Highline Community College.

323.4 K53e 2009

Eyes on the prize : America’s civil rights years.

323.4 E97 1986

The fateful decade : from Little Rock to the Civil Rights Bill.

323.4 F252 2005

The fight in the fields [videorecording] : Cesar Chavez and the farmworkers’ struggle.

331.8813 F471 1997

A force more powerful : a century of nonviolent conflict. Nashville, we were warriors

303.61 F697 2000 v. 1

From Dr. King to President Obama [videorecording] : racial vision, racial blindness, and racial politics in Obamerica / Eduardo Bonilla-Silva ; filmed and produced by Highline Community College.

323.4 K53f 2009

King as social scientist [videorecording] : the revolution of values towards creative maladjustment / Mark A. Bolden ; filmed and produced by Highline Community College.

323.4 K53k 2009

Martin Luther King, Jr. a personal portrait

323.4092 K53m

Martin Luther King, Jr: Leading America to the promised land.

323.092 K53m 2003

Martin Luther King week: opening ceremony [Highline Community College]

323.4092 K53 2003

Race, the power of an illusion. Episode three, The house we live in [videorecording]

305.8 R118p 2003

Race and sex [videorecording] : what we think (but can’t say)

303.385 R118 2006

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

363.232 R121g 2005

Skin deep.

305.8 S628

The Speeches of Martin Luther King

323.1196 S742

White privilege [videorecording] a lecture by Dr. Peggy McIntosh [Highline Community College production]

305.8 M499w 2004

The Wrath of grapes [videorecording] / United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO.

363.7384 W942 1986

Websites:

Remembering Coretta and Martin Luther King, Jr. Provides “links to resources about Coretta Scott King and Martin Luther King, Jr.” including biographical information, chronologies, educational sites, popular documents (such as the “I Have a Dream” speech), and media pages. From the Poynter Institute, a  “non-profit school for journalists.”

The Seattle Times Archive on Martin Luther King, Jr. Information on Martin Luther King Jr., including a biography, text of speeches and writings, some audio features, photographs, and a timeline of Dr. King’s life and the civil rights movement. Also provides study guides, a quiz, and resource links, as well as reflections from others and an article about the holiday.

Citizen King Companion website to a PBS film on the life of Dr. King. It “explores the last five years in King’s life by drawing on the personal recollections and eyewitness accounts of friends, movement associates, journalists, law enforcement officers, and historians, to illuminate this little-known chapter in the story of America’s most important and influential moral leader.” Includes interview, an opinion poll, links to timelines, maps, and a teacher’s guide.

Washington DC Martin Luther King Jr National Memorial . Official website for this Martin Luther King, Jr. memorial that will be located on a “four-acre plot on the north east corner of the Tidal Basin within the precinct of the Jefferson Memorial and north of the memorial to President Roosevelt” in Washington, D.C. Features maps, a description of landscape elements, news, brief background about Dr. King, and photos from the commemorative groundbreaking held on November 13, 2006.

United Farm Workers in Washington State. The site contains an overview of the United Farm Workers (UFW) in Washington state, a gallery of photographs from the 1960s through the 1990s, and transcripts of interviews with people active in the movement. From the Harry Bridges Center for Labor Studies, University of Washington.

Campus Activism This interactive website presents many tools for progressive activists, including many interesting essays, calendars of events, campaigns to join (so you don’t have to invent your own), email lists, and a discussion forum.

Why Read A Book?

Check out this cool  stop-motion ad from the New Zealand Book Council.  Quite a creative way to entice you to read books. Make sure you turn up the volume!

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December Recommended Reading: Science Fiction

Maybe you think because we’re an academic library we can only collect boring books (Oh, I know you wouldn’t think this of us)(we’re talking about him, over there) *vaguely point in the direction of no one*. We know you’re the type of person who loved every single one of the very tiny words on every single one of the 783 pages of Ulysses. You would never think academic texts could be boring, we know. We really do.

But as it turns out when we librarians aren’t busy tightening our hair buns (it’s a fine art that needs a steady hand, trust us), we also find time to build a collection with some pretty entertaining science fiction literature and criticism, for those very few who may have used Ulysses as a door stop, to keep Infinite Jest some company. *point vaguely again, possibly to self*.

Or maybe you’re just the type of person who can enjoy both. Of course you are!

Here are a few looks into December’s very not-boring but not really Ulysses kind of fun (sorry, you) Recommended Reading: Science Fiction.

Neuromancer / William Gibson: You really can’t go wrong with a book about dystopian societies, computer hackers, Rastafarians, a space station and someone named Lady 3Jane Marie-France Tessier-Ashpool.

Welcome to the Monkey House : a collection of short works / by Kurt Vonnegut: But maybe you want to read a short story about a computer who falls in love?

2001, A Space Odyssey [videorecording] : Better than a computer that wants to kill you!

Futureland / Walter Mosley: Everyone is watching you!

Where’s My Jetpack? : a guide to the amazing science fiction future that never arrived / Daniel H. Wilson: Oh, don’t be paranoid. It’s just fiction.

The Science in Science Fiction : 83 SF predictions that became scientific reality / Robert Bly: Or is it?!

Starship Troopers / Robert A. Heinlein: It’s alright, you just need to read about some giant bugs that are attacking you to calm your nerves.

And every library collection wouldn’t be complete without a centerpiece like Mutant 59 : the Plastic-Eaters, right?

Below is the whole list for December. Enjoy!

Science Fiction Novels and Stories

Akira. Book One / Katsuhiro Otomo. 808.838762 O88a 2000

All-star Superman / written by Grant Morrison ; pencilled by Frank Quitely. 741.5973 M879a

The Alteration / Kingsley Amis. 823.914 A517a 1977

Atlas Shrugged / Ayn Rand. 813.52 R186a 1999

The Birthday of the World and other stories / Ursula K. Le Guin. 813.54 L521b 2003

Bradbury Stories : 100 of his most celebrated tales / [Ray Bradbury]. 813.54 B798b 2005

Brave New World / Aldous Huxley. 823.912 H986b 1998

Breakfast of Champions, or, Goodbye Blue Monday! / by Kurt Vonnegut ; with drawings by the author. 813.54 V947b 2006

Cat’s Cradle / Kurt Vonnegut. 813.54 V947c 2006

Dune / Frank Herbert. 813.54 H536d 1990

The Door in the Wall, and other stories [electronic resource] / H. G. Wells

Ender’s Game / Orson Scott Card. 813.54 C266e 1994

Endless Nights / [all stories written by Neil Gaiman ; all stories lettered by Todd Klein ; illustrated by Glenn Fabry ... [et al.]] 823.914 G141e 2003

Fahrenheit 451 / Ray Bradbury. 813.54 B798f 1993

Futureland / Walter Mosley. 813.54 M912f 2002

Gravity’s Rainbow / Thomas Pynchon. 813.54 P997g 1973

Job, a Comedy of Justice / Robert A. Heinlein. 813.52 H468j 1984

The Lathe of Heaven : a novel / Ursula K. Le Guin. 813.54 L521La 2008

The Martian Chronicles / Ray Bradbury. 813.54 B798m 1997

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress / Robert A. Heinlein. 813.52 H468m 1997

More Than Human / by Theodore Sturgeon. 813.54 S935m 1975

Mutant 59 : the Plastic-Eaters / Kit Pedler and Gerry Davis. 823.914 P371m 1972

Neuromancer / William Gibson ; with an afterword by Jack Womack. 813.54 G451n 2000

The Pool of Fire / John Christopher. 823.914 C556p 1970

Starship Troopers / Robert A. Heinlein. 808.838762 H468s 1987

The Sirens of Titan / Kurt Vonnegut. 813.54 V947si 2006

Shadow & Claw / Gene Wolfe. 813.54 W855sh 1994

So Long, and Thanks for All the Fish / Douglas Adams. 823.914 A211s 1985

The Time Machine [electronic resource] / H. G. Wells

The War of the Worlds / H.G. Wells ; illustrated by Edward Gorey. 823.912 W454w 2005

Welcome to the Monkey House : a collection of short works / by Kurt Vonnegut. 813.54 V947w 2006

Science Fiction Movies

12 Monkeys [videorecording] / Universal Pictures and Atlas/Classico present an Atlas Entertainment production ; produced by Charles Roven ; screenplay by David Peoples & Janet Peoples ; directed by Terry Gilliam. 791.4372 T9713 2005

2001, A Space Odyssey [videorecording] / Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer ; Polaris ; Stanley Kubrick Productions ; produced by Stanley Kubrick ; screenplay by Arthur C. Clarke & Stanley Kubrick ; directed by Stanley Kubrick.

Akira [videorecording] / presented by Geneon Entertainment (USA) Inc. ; producers, Ryohei Suzuki, Shunzo Kato ; screenplay, Katsuhiro Otomo, Izo Hashimoto ; written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. 791.4372 A3154 2001

Alphaville [videorecording] : une étrange aventure de Lemmy Caution / UGC/D.A. International ; distribué par Athos Film ; André Michelin, Filmstudio présentent le neuvième filme de Jean Luc Godard.
791.4372 A456 1998

Blade Runner [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures ; the Ladd Company ; produced by Michael Deeley ; screenplay by Hampton Fancher and David Peoples ; directed by Ridley Scott. 791.4372 B632 1999

Children of Men [videorecording] / Universal Pictures ; Strike Entertainment ; Hit & Run Productions ; Quietus Productions, Ltd. ; produced by Marc Abraham … [et al.] ; screenplay by Alfonso Cuarón … [et al.] ; directed by Alfonso Cuarón. 791.4372 C5367 2007

A Clockwork Orange [videorecording] / Warner Bros. Pictures presents a Stanley Kubrick production ; produced and directed by Stanley Kubrick ; screenplay by Stanley Kubrick. 791.4372 C643 2001

The history, appreciation and criticism of science fiction

Science Fiction : the Illustrated Encyclopedia / John Clute. R 809.38762 C649s 1995

The Rough Guide to Sci-fi Movies / by John Scalzi. R 791.43615 S282r 2005

Handbook of American Popular Culture / edited by M. Thomas Inge. R 301.21 H236

Alien Constructions [electronic resource] : science fiction and feminist thought / Patricia Melzer. 813/.08762099287

Alternate Worlds : the Illustrated History of Science Fiction / by James Gunn. 809.3 G976a 1975

American Science Fiction TV [electronic resource] : Star Trek, Stargate and Beyond / Jan Johnson-Smith. 791.45656

Anatomy of wonder : a critical guide to science fiction / edited by Neil Barron ; contributors, Thomas D. Clareson … [et al.]. 808.838762 A535 1981

Before the Golden Age; a Science Fiction Anthology of the 1930s / Isaac Asimov. 813.008 A832b

Black Space [electronic resource] : Imagining Race in Science Fiction Film / Adilifu Nama. 791.43/615

Bodies of Tomorrow [electronic resource] : Technology, Subjectivity, Science Fiction / Sherryl Vint. 823/.08762090914

British Science Fiction Television [electronic resource] : a Hitchhiker’s Guide / edited by John R. Cook and Peter Wright. 791.45/615

The Cambridge Companion to Science Fiction / edited by Edward James and Farah Mendlesohn. 809.38762 C178 2003

Cosmos Latinos : an anthology of science fiction from Latin America and Spain / translated, edited, & with an introduction & notes by Andrea L. Bell & Yolanda Molina-Gavilán. 863 C834 2004

Cyberpunk and Cyberculture [electronic resource] : science fiction and the work of William Gibson / by Dani Cavallaro. 813/.54

Ray Bradbury [electronic resource] : a critical companion / Robin Anne Reid. 813/.54

Structural Fabulation : an essay on fiction of the future / Robert Scholes. 823.009 S368s

The Science of Michael Crichton [electronic resource] : an unauthorized exploration into the real science behind the fictional worlds of Michael Crichton / edited by Kevin R. Grazier. 813/.54

Science Fiction Audiences [electronic resource] : watching Doctor Who and Star Trek / John Tulloch and Henry Jenkins.

American Government Through Science Fiction / Joseph D. Olander, Martin H. Greenberg, Patricia Warrick ; foreword by Frederik Pohl. 813.0876 O42a 1974

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame : Volume Two A / edited by Ben Bova.

The Science Fiction Hall of Fame, Volume Two B : the greatest science fiction novellas of all time / chosen by the members of the Science Fiction Writers of America ; edited by Ben Bova.

Where’s My Jetpack? : a guide to the amazing science fiction future that never arrived / Daniel H. Wilson; illustarted by Richard Horne. 600 W747w 2007

The Science in Science Fiction : 83 SF predictions that became scientific reality / Robert Bly. 501 B661s 2005

Liquid Metal : the science fiction film reader / edited by Sean Redmond. 791.43615 L767 2004

Websites:

Index to Science Fiction Anthologies and Collections, Combined Edition

Science fiction hall of fame

Science fiction and fantasy research database

The science fiction and fantasy book list site

Science Fiction and Fantasy World

Is Science Fiction science?

Lablit.com: The culture of Science Fiction & Fact

UPDATE: HCC_PUBLIC wireless network: UP

As of 3:52pm on 11/13/09:

A fix to the HCC_PUBLIC wireless network has been applied and it is functioning properly again. (It’s working!)

Bandwidth has been restricted on this network and it is only available from 7:00am to 11:00pm

If you cannot logon to HCC_PUBLIC successfully,  please use one of these SSID instead: HCC_WEB_PORTAL or HCC_SECURE_CONNECT.

From our students…

“Growing up I never thought I  would call librarians cool, but the ones at Highline are!”

“I’ve never been to college where all the librarians are so wonderful, energetic and caring, on top of being so helpful. When I started here at Highline, I felt a little out of place, with no friends or familiar faces, so the library became the spot for me. Slowly I got to know all the librarians by name (…and I’m horrible with remembering names),  and to my surprise, they were all cool – which helped make coming to school easy. I can honestly say the library was an ice breaker.”

~Abeba,
Human Services and CDP

Music, Mind and Culture ~ Recommended Reading for November 2009

“…it is a principle of music to repeat the theme.  Repeat and repeat again, as the pace mounts.  The theme is difficult but no more difficult than the facts to be resolved.”  -from The Orchestra by William Carlos Williams (1954)

It is an interesting exercise trying to define “music.”  To say that life is better with music is misleading, for a life utterly void of it is difficult to imagine.  So much more than entertainment, music informs and expands every aspect of human life – from the rites we observe to mark significant passages to the subliminal sonic cues we’re bombarded with as we shop.  Though we’re all born into a world of familiar music, life can get considerably more interesting if we decide to explore the musically unfamiliar!

Our Recommended Reading shelf for November invites you to do just that.  A musical miscellany, the list is comprised of works from social, cultural, psychological, historic, philosophical, technical and artistic perspectives.  Also included are electronic books, websites, and a small sample of DVDs and CDs from the Media Collection.

So come to your Highline Library this month and get a groove on; or, as James Brown advised, “get up, step up; there it is baby…”

Books

Music / Mind:

Musicophilia: Tales of Music and the Brain by Oliver Sachs 781.115121m 2007

The Singing Neanderthals: the Origins of Music, Language, Mind, and Body by Steven Mithen 781.11M684s 2007

Music in Everyday Life by Tia DeNora 781.11D413m 2000

Music and Trance: a Theory of the Relations between Music and Possession by Gilbert Rouget 781.11R856m 1985

Emblems of Mind: The Inner Life of Music and Mathematics by Edward Rothstein 780.1R847e

Formalized Music: Thought and Mathematics in Composition by Iannis Xenakis 781.61X5f

The Acoustical Foundations of Music by John Backus 7681.1B126a

Music / Culture:

Global Noise: Rap and Hip-Hop outside the USA by Tony Mitchell 782.421649 G562 2001

Cuba and its Music: from the First Drums to the Mambo by Ned Sublette 780.97291S941c 2004

Jamaican Warriors: Reggae, Roots and Culture by Stephen Foehr 781.646F654j 2000

Barrio Rhythm: Mexican American Music in Los Angeles by Steven Loza 781.7L925b

African Rhythm and African Sensibility: Aesthetics and Social Action in African Musical Idioms by John Chernoff 780.96C521a

African Music: a People’s Art by Francis Bebey 780.96B387a

The Music of the Arabs by Habib Hassan Touma 781.62927T725m 1996

The Ragas of North India by Walter Kaufmann 781.754K21r

The Life of Music in North India: the Organization of an Artistic Tradition by Daniel Neuman 781.754N489L

The Traditional Music of Japan by Shigeo Kishibe 781.752K61t

A Guide to the Gamelan by Neil Sorrell 780.9598S714g

A History of Norwegian Music by Nils Grinde 780.9481G866h

Testimony: The Memoirs of Dmitri Shostakovich by Solomon Volkov (Ed.) 785.092s559t

The Beatles Anthology by the Beatles 782.1660922B369 2000

Ethnomusicology and Modern Music History by Stephen Blum, Philip V. Bohlman, Daniel M. Neuman (Eds.) 781.72E74

Native Americans:

War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance by William Powers 781.6297301554P888w 1990

The Indians’ Book: Songs and Legends of the American Indians by Natalie Curtis (Ed.) 781.6297073C978 1968

Americana:

America’s Musical Life: a History by Richard Crawford 780.973C899a 2005

The Land Where Blues Began by Alan Lomax 784.53L839L

Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919 by Tim Brooks 781.49 B873L 2005

Race Music: Black Cultures from Bebop to Hip-Hop by Guthrey Ramsey 781.64R183r 2003

The Rough Guide to Hip-Hop by Peter Shapiro 782.421649 S529r 2005

Doo Wop: The Forgotten Third of Rock n’ Roll by Anthony Gribin 784.54G846d

“The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing” and Other Songs Cowboys Sing by Guy Logsdon 782.42164W628 1989

In the Country of Country by Nicholas Dawidoff 781.642D268i 1998

Creating Country Music: Fabricating Authenticity by Richard Peterson 781.642P485c

Hole in Our Soul: the Loss of Beauty and Meaning in American Popular Music by Martha Bayles 780.42B358H

Jazz:

A New History of Jazz by Alyn Shipton 781.6509S557n 2007

Lush Life: a Biography of Billy Strayhorn by David Hajdu 781.65092S913h 1997

Thinking in Jazz: the Infinite Art of Improvisation by Paul Berliner 781.B515t 1994

Opera:

The Complete Annotated Gilbert and Sullivan by Ian Bradley (Ed.) 782.12S949c 1996

Opera: A Pictorial Guide by Quaintance Eaton 782.E14o

The Standard Operaglass; containing the detailed plots of one hundred forty-one celebrated operas, with critical and biographical remarks, dates, etc. by Charles Annesley 782.13A614s 1905

Unique Instruments:

The Musical Arts of Ancient China – Exhibition Catalog 784.1907431M987 2001

Genesis of a Music: an Account of a Creative Work, its Roots and Fulfillments by Harry Partch 780.92P273S

Simple Folk Instruments to Make and to Play by Ilene Hunter and Marilyn Judson 781.91H945s

Notes on the page:

Complete Preludes, Books 1 and 2 by Claude Debussy 784.18928D289c 1989

Complete Preludes and Etudes by Frederick Chopin 784.18928C549c 1998

Electronic Books

Recording Engineer’s Handbook by Bobby Owsinski

2005 – Online – Electronic Book

Small Tech: the Culture of Digital Tools by Byron Hawk, David M. Rieder, and Ollie Oviedo (Eds.)

2008 – Online – Electronic Book

The Music Tech Dictionary: a Glossary of Audio-related Terms and Technologies by Mitch Gallagher

2009 – 786.703 Online – Electronic Book

Composition for Computer Musicians by Michael Hewitt

2009 – Online – Electronic Book

It All Begins with the Music: Developing Successful Artists and Careers for the New Music Business by Don Grierson and Dan Kimpel

2009 – Online – Electronic Book

Rocking Your Music Business: Run Your Music Business at Home and on the Road by Simon Cann

2009 – 780.23 Online – Electronic Book

Righting Wrongs in Writing Songs by Danny Cope

2009 – Online – Electronic Book

Art of Teaching Music by Estelle R. Jorgensen

2008 – 780.71 Online – Electronic Book

Music, Informal Learning and the School: a New Classroom Pedagogy by Lucy Green

2008 – 780.712 Online – Electronic Book

Film Music by Paul Tonks

2001 – 781.542 Online – Electronic Book

Global Bollywood: Travels of Hindi Song and Dance by Sangita Gopal and Sujata Moorti (Eds.)

2008 – Online – Electronic Book

Music in the Life of the African Church by Roberta R. King with Jean Ngoya Kidula, James R. Krabill, and Thomas Oduro

2008 – 264/.2096 Online – Electronic Book

Blues Traveling: the Holy Sites of Delta Blues by Steve Cheseborough

2009 – 781.64309762 Online – Electronic Book

78 Blues: Folksongs and Phonographs in the American South by John Minton

2008 – 781.640975 Online – Electronic Book

Subversive sounds: Race and the Birth of Jazz in New Orleans by Charles Hersch

2007 – 781.65/20976335 Online – Electronic Book

Power stronger than itself: the AACM and American Experimental Music by George E. Lewis

2008 – 781.6506/077311 Online – Electronic Book

Music Therapy and Traumatic Brain Injury: a Light on a Dark Night by Simon Gilbertson and David Aldridge

2008 – Online – Electronic Book

Sounding Out the City: Personal Stereos and the Management of Everyday Life by Michael Bull

2000 – 303.483 Online – Electronic Book

The Defense of Tradition in Brazilian Popular Music: Politics, Culture and the Creation of Música Popular Brasileira by Sean Stroud

2008 – 781.640981 Online – Electronic Book

Dance of Life: Popular Music and Politics in Southeast Asia by Craig A. Lockard

1998 – 306.4/84 Online – Electronic Book

Flamenco: Passion, Politics, and Popular Culture by William Washabaugh

1996 – 781.62/610468 Online – Electronic Book

Music, Body, and Desire in Medieval Culture: Hildegard of Bingen to Chaucer by Bruce W. Holsinger

2001 – 780/.9/02 Online – Electronic Book

Websites

Native American Music: http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/indices/NAmusic.html

Infography of Native American Music: http://www.infography.com/content/806604398790.html

Omaha Indian Music: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/omhhtml/

Inuit Throat Singing: http://www.mustrad.org.uk/articles/inuit.htm

The Phonograph Turntable and Performance Practice in Hip Hop Music: http://www.umbc.edu/eol/2/white/

Ernesto’s Tango Page: http://www.ernesto.cc/

Arab Music (in 4 parts): http://trumpet.sdsu.edu/M345/Arab_Music1.html

Music in the Afghan North 1967-1972: http://afghanistan.wesleyan.edu/

Traditional Iranian Dastgâh Music: http://fp.arizona.edu/mesassoc/Bulletin/caton.htm

Turkish Music: http://www.turkishmusic.org/

West African Djembe Drums: http://www.djembefola.com/

Mbira (Shona music of Zimbabwe): http://www.mbira.org/

The Traditional Music and Cultures of Kenya:  http://www.bluegecko.org/kenya/

Afropop Worldwide: http://www.afropop.org/

Traditional Music of the Ethnic Minorities on the Philippine Islands: http://user.cs.tu-berlin.de/~brandeis/phil_music.html

University of Washington Libraries Ethnomusicology / World Music Subject Guide: http://guides.lib.washington.edu/content.php?pid=58638&sid=429665

DVDs

The Worlds of Mei Lanfang – 782.10951092 L268 2000

Raga – a Deben Bhattacharya Production – 781.264 R141 2004

Make It Funky! – 781.65 M235 2005

Voices of Forgotten Worlds – 781.62 V889

CDs

The Art of Persian Music – Jean During, Zia Mirabdolbaghi – 780.955 A784 CD

Ragas – Ustad Ali Akbar Khan – 781.69 K45

Ghana: Ancient Ceremonies, Songs & Dance Music – 781.69667 G411

Shakuhachi: The Japanese Flute – 781.6961 M685s

Korean Court Music – 781.69095 K95k

Tibet: Buddhist Chant – 781.7 T553

Star Time – James Brown – 781.644 B878s 1991

Miles Davis & John Coltrane: the Complete Columbia Recordings 1955-1961 – 781.65 D263m 2004