Ferguson's Career Guidance Center

We now have a subscription to Ferguson’s Career Guidance Center, which provides detailed job and industry profiles, advice on job-hunting and career skills, résumé writing advice and samples, short videos on a wide variety of related topics, college search and job finder tools, and more.

Additional resources are outlined in our other blog: http://cbclibtopic.blogspot.com/2012/09/careeroccupation-resources.html

New Gale Virtual Reference title - Encyclopedia of Drug Policy

Encyclopedia of Drug Policy. Mark A. R. Kleiman and James E. Hawdon, eds. Sage, 2011. 2 vols. in print. Offers broad, concise and readable coverage of United States drug policy, along with some coverage of the drug policies of select other nations. From the introduction: "entries can be grouped into six broad categories: drugs, laws and policies, organizations and individuals, control strategies and their underlying theories, drugs in select countries, and drugs and other social problems." Other titles in the Gale Virtual Reference library look at drug issues from health, addiction, social problems, law enforcement, historical and scientific views.

New Gale Virtual Reference Books!

Encyclopedia of Gender in Media. This "does a remarkable job of providing an orientation to two vast topics--media (film, television, radio, music, reading material, and new media, represented by online sources), and gender (female, male, lesbian, gay, transsexual)--in slightly over 170 entries." [CHOICE, Nov. 2012] While this includes many of the topics one might expect - advertising, the Beauty Myth, television, stereotypes - it also includes blogs, MMORPGs, Reality TV Makeover shows, Facebook, Video Games, and YouTube.

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Encyclopedia of Modern China. Ed. by David Pong. Gale, 2009. Over 900 articles, 2000 pages, nearly 500 authors, hundreds of illustrations including many full-color photographs and 53 primary source documents cover China "... from 1800 to the present; topics range from the daily life of common folks to the ever-changing structure of the banking system that is part of the engine of China’s recent transformation." Rated 'outstanding' by the RUSA and CHOICE and honorable mention for the 2010 Dartmouth prize (the winner was the Encyclopedia of Human Rights, also available from CBC Library).

New in ebrary - single user titles

• Art of Storytelling : Telling Truths Through Telling Stories
• Critical Companion to J.R.R. Tolkien
• Encyclopedia of School Crime and Violence
• Ethics and Animals : An Introduction
• Europe Today (4th Edition)
• Human Trafficking
• Law of Life and Death
• New Wars and New Soldiers : Military Ethics in the Contemporary World
• Practical Ethics (3rd Edition)
• US Land and National Resource Policy (2nd Edition)

These are single user titles so please ‘release’ them when you are done (use the gray 'Release This Title' button just to the right of the blue ebrary reader button).

New Subscription Titles available in Ebrary

Ebrary added over 1000 more titles to our College Complete subscription near the end of April. Here are just a few of the wide variety of titles offered:

In The pleasures and sorrows of work [Vintage, 2009] Alain de Botton muses on whether someone with the job title ‘Brand Supervision Coordinator, Sweet Biscuits’ can find meaning in his work and visits with the founding member of the Pylon Appreciation Society as part of an idiosyncratic journey through the world of work. Includes lots of great black and white photos by Richard Baker.

Those looking for something more practical might appreciate
Microsoft Office PowerPoint 2010 by Carole Boggs Matthews, an entry in the QuickSteps series of “recipe books for computer users” from McGraw-Hill.  Step-by-step instructions are accompanied by lots of illustrations and helpful tips. Word 2010 and Excel 2010 are covered in separate titles.

Reference titles include Bud Hannings' American Revolutionary War Leaders : A Biographical Dictionary [McFarland 2010], Webster's new world medical dictionary [Wiley, 2008], and the 5^th edition of The dictionary of human geography [Blackwell, 2009].

Finally, Curtis J. Bonk’s The world is open : how Web technology is revolutionizing education; Ebooks, E-Learning, Open Source software, OpenCourseWare, Learning Object Repositories, and Electronic Collaboration are only a few of the topics covered in this wide ranging discussion of the ‘Open Learning World.’

You will need an internet connection and the quarterly library database password in order to read these.

New to Ebrary

April 2011 - 53 single-user titles:

• A companion to ancient Egypt  2010
  
• Jordan-Young, Rebecca M., Brain storm 2010
  
• Thomas, Peter, Ecology of woodlands and forests  2007
  
• Chen, Milton. Education nation  2010
  
• Reevy, Gretchen. Encyclopedia of emotion  2010
  
• Axelrod, Alan, Encyclopedia of the American armed forces  2005
  
• Evidence-based nursing care guidelines  2008
  
• Verchick, Robert R. M. Facing catastrophe  2010
  
• Makdisi, Ussama Samir, Faith misplaced  2010
  
• Vigdor, Jacob L. From immigrants to Americans  2009
  
• Clark, Neils. Game addiction  2009
  
• Markovits, Andrei S. Gaming the world  2010
  
• Black, Brian, Global warming  2010
  
• Christerson, Brad. Growing up in America  2010
  
• Guide to nutritional supplements  2009
  
• Hispanic American religious cultures  2009
  
• Bergad, Laird W., Hispanics in the United States  2010
  
• Anderson, Stuart. Immigration 2010
  
• Internet fraud casebook  2010
  
• Liu, Goodwin. Keeping faith with the Constitution  2010
  
• Latino America  2008
  
• Varcarolis, Elizabeth M. Manual of psychiatric nursing care planning  2011
  
• Memory in mind and culture  2009
  
• Mormonism 2010
  
• Mosby's comprehensive review of nursing for the NCLEX-RN examination  2009
  
• Zerwekh, JoAnn Graham. Mosby's pharmacology memory notecards  2008
  
• Curtis, Edward E., Muslims in America  2009
  
• Eisenberg, Laura Zittrain. Negotiating Arab-Israeli peace  2010
  
• Doenges, Marilynn E., Nursing diagnosis manual  2010
  
• Ngo, Christian. Our energy future  2009
  
• Drisdelle, Rosemary, Parasites 2010
  
• Nelson, Margaret K., Parenting out of control  2010
  
• Ruddiman, W. F. Plows, plagues, and petroleum  2005
  
• Religions of the world  2010
  
• Newton, David E. Same-sex marriage  2010
  
• Serving America's veterans  2009
  
• Newton, David E. Substance abuse  2010
  
• The atlas of emergency medicine  2009
  
• The Cambridge dictionary of Christianity  2010
  
• Regan, Margaret, The death of Josseline  2010
  
• Gwinnell, Esther. The encyclopedia of addictions and addictive behaviors  2006
  
• The encyclopedia of Middle East wars  2010
  
• The encyclopedia of political science  2010
  
• Siegel, Ronald D. The mindfulness solution  2010
  
• Vaughan, J. G. The new Oxford book of food plants  2009
  
• The quotable woman, revised edition  2010
  
• The Routledge companion to ethics  2010
  
• Fredriksen, John C. The United States Army  2010
  
• Gambone, Philip. Travels in a gay nation  2010
  
• Ness, Cindy D., Why girls fight  2010
  
• Women and politics around the world  2009
  
• Oermann, Marilyn H. Writing for publication in nursing  2010
  
• Quiggin, John. Zombie economics  2010
  

New Sortable/Searchable Resource List

We have created a new sortable/searchable library database list

• http://columbiabasin.edu/libresources/
• Sort the list by "subject", then by "format" if needed.
• Search the list using the search box on the right.
• To go back to the default list, click on (Reset All Filters).
• The new list was created using MIT Simile Exhibit 2.0.

Your comments and suggestions are greatly appreciated!

CBC Library Virtual New Books Shelf

In addition to our “What’s New” library web page, we have created a "Virtual New Books Shelf" for browsing book covers of CBC Library new books!

• The direct URL is : http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/ColumbiaBasinCollegeLibrary/lists/coversonly/552549
• The project was started on Feb. 19 and we had 52 new books added since then;

To see call numbers and availability for check out:
1. Click on the book cover, which will open the full citation.
2. Scroll down and enter location information. The CBC record should show up.
3. Click on the link "Columbia Basin College" to see our catalog record.

More details:
• The URL links to the “Covers Only” view, but you can switch to “Details and Notes View” or “Citations View”
• The list is updated whenever a new book is added to our collection and put on the shelf
• The list shows the most recently added books first by default, but you can sort by title or published date as well
• The list links to our catalog record so you can see if the book is available
• Additional lists will be available by month at http://www.worldcat.org/profiles/ColumbiaBasinCollegeLibrary/lists/ (Bookmark this!)