New to Gale Virtual Reference

• Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians
  Covers all musical genres, with new entries written by a distinguished group of area specialists as well as the original articles by Nicolas Slonimsky. This work continues the tradition of offering the most comprehensive and authoritative information on musicians, along with interesting and insightful evaluations of their contributions to the musical world.


• Encyclopedia of Bioethics
  Covering a wealth of topics on the ethics of health professions, animal research, population control and the environment, the set helps researchers to consider the impact of new scientific knowledge and its potential to harm or benefit present and future generations.


• Encyclopedia of Gender and Society
  Covers the major theories, research, people, and issues in contemporary gender studies. Offers a cross-national/cross-cultural perspective that provides comparative analyses of the life experiences of men and women around the world.


• Encyclopedia of Race and Crime
  Covers issues in both historical and contemporary context, with information on race and ethnicity and their impact on crime and the administration of justice. Explores the similar historical experiences of varied racial and ethnic groups and illustrates how race and ethnicity has mattered and continues to matter in the administration of American criminal justice.


• Encyclopedia of Science and Religion
  A multidisciplinary approach that addresses all aspects of the dialogue between the sciences and the world's religions, reaching into the humanities as well as into the physical sciences and technology. Examines controversial issues such as human cloning and stem cell research long with more traditional questions such as the origins of life, the nature of sin, and the philosophy of science and religion.


• Encyclopedia of Science, Technology, and Ethics
  This Encyclopedia considers both the professional ethics of science and technology, and the ethical and political issues raised by science and technology in an increasingly complex and global society. This broad coverage supports the numerous courses in applied and professional ethics and policy related to the practice of science and technology in education.


• Encyclopedia of Scientific Principles, Laws, and Theories
  Provides descriptions of the most famous scientific concepts, principles, laws, and theories that are known in the areas of astronomy, biology, chemistry, geology, mathematics, medicine, meteorology, and physics.


• Encyclopedia of Sex and Gender
  Addresses issues of sex and gender at the personal and the social level; examines issues of identity, status, class, ethnicity, race, and nation; of sexuality and the body; of social institutions and the structures of representation. Topics include changing conceptions of "the feminine," the family and masculinity, religion, morality, cultural images, medical practice, public health, economy and society and many more.


• Encyclopedia of Social Problems
  Provides as comprehensive an approach as possible to this multifaceted field, utilizing experts from numerous disciplines. These subject areas include anthropology, biology, business, chemistry, communications, criminal justice, demography, economics, education, environmental studies, geography, health, history, languages, political science, psychology, social work, sociology, and women's studies.


• The Gale Encyclopedia of Mental Health
  Provides detailed information on mental disorders and conditions. Also features entries for prescription, alternative and over-the-counter drugs, as well as the various therapies used to treat mental disorders.


• The Gale Encyclopedia of Science
  Covers all major areas of science, engineering, technology, as well as mathematics and the medical and health sciences, while providing a comprehensive overview of current scientific knowledge and technology. Entries typically describe scientific concepts, provide overviews of scientific areas and, in some cases, define terms.


• Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia
  Covers emerging technologies affecting genetics, global warming, communications, informatics and nanotechnology.

Qwidgets Everywhere!

We have deployed the Qwidget version of our "Ask a Librarian" service in our reference webpage, our Topic of the Week blog, the Library Research sections of WebCT and Angel, and on the results page of every EBSCOhost search. These use OCLC's QuestionPoint software to provide you live 24/7 web-based text chat with librarians from Washington state and beyond. Qwidgets are great for quick questions, but the full window versions, either frames or no frames, would be better for more involved research help.

Of course, we still hope that you will come in to our libraries and let our reference librarians assist you, live and in person. But if you're at home struggling with your research paper late at night when the library is closed, isn't it nice to know you can still Ask A Librarian?

LitFest 2010 Authors

Mid-Columbia Literary Festival Homepage

CBC Library LitFest Display

Upcoming Presentations

Jack Hamann - Thursday May 20th, 7 PM

• Search for Books by Jack Hamann in the CBC Library Catalog
• "When Justice Became a Casualty of War." American History 1 Apr. 2008. EBSCOhost
• Homepage - Jack Hamann - blogs, video clips, links to articles, information about the author/reporter.

Past Presentations

Chris Crutcher - May 5th

• Search for Books by Chris Crutcher in the CBC Library Catalog (also the movie Angus, adapted from his short story)
• Articles - ProQuest - Most are commentary from the NCTE journal Voices from the Middle about various issues related to education and adolescence.
• Author website - links to excerpts from several novels

Jess Walter - March 4

• Search for Books by Jess Walter in the CBC Library Catalog
• Newspaper articles (ProQuest)
• Magazine Articles (EBSCOhost) - includes excerpts from In Contempt and Every Knee Shall Bow.
  

Pete Fromm - March 4

• Search for Books by Pete Fromm in the CBC Library Catalog
• "Wordscapes." Includes the Fromm essay "Spring Runoff" (pages 67-69). Sierra 1 Nov. 1991. ProQuest.
• "Indian Creek chronicles. " Field & Stream 1 Feb. 1996. ProQuest.
• "Raising Robert." (short story) Good Housekeeping, Jan98, Vol. 226 Issue 1, p140, 3 pages. EBSCOhost.
• "Keeping watch." (short story) Good Housekeeping, Feb97, p159, 2pages. EBSCOhost.
  

Tod Marshall - April 20

• Search for Books by Tod Marshall in the CBC Library Catalog
• Poem and 3 Poet Interviews - EBSCOhost
• Essays, Poetry & Poet Interviews - ProQuest

MLA Format for Research Papers in MS Word 2007

Posted to YouTube March 31, 2009. Video created by Dr. Tonya-Marie Howe, assistant professor, Literature and Languages, Marymount University. Covers formatting margins, line spacing, headers, hanging indent for works cited, and more. Audio is music-only. Some instructions are specific to her classes, such as the requirement to use a serifed font - MLA only requires "an easily readable typeface (e.g., Times New Roman)." MLA 7th, 4.2.

Oxford Reference Online - new content!

Oxford Reference Online is routinely updated. Here are the latest:

New Titles
· The Oxford Dictionary of Word Origins
· The Oxford Dictionary of Modern Slang
· A Dictionary of Sports Studies

New editions
· A Dictionary of the Bible (includes 4 historical maps)
· A Dictionary of Popes
· The Oxford Dictionary of Idioms

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!

Expanded Green Zone

Welcome back and Happy New Year!

During last fall quarter, we noticed that students are really great about following the rules for the library zones, especially in the red Silent Zone. Thank you! :) The green Collaborative Zone was very popular too and we realized that we need more tables in the Green Zone where you can talk normally and collaborate with others. That became one of our projects for the winter break and we really like the new look and we hope you do too!

1. The reference collection was weeded and some volumes were moved to Archives;
2. The reference shelves in the middle of the library were shifted to the west;
3. Four large tables were added to the Green Zone outside of the Epicenter;
4. “Reserve Ref shelf”: All reserve reference books (those books that your professors pulled for specific classes and have different loan periods) are on a standalone “Reserve Ref shelf” behind the reference desk and the new books shelf now.
5. “Oversized shelf”: All oversized books (art books, etc.) are on the “Oversized shelf” at the end of the main collection now.