Archive for March, 2008

IBIS World now available @ your library

Monday, March 10th, 2008

IBIS World contains in-depth, regularly updated industry reports for over 700 United States industries. Each report contains:

  • Key statistics,
  • Segmentation,
  • Market characteristics,
  • Industry conditions,
  • Key factors,
  • Key competitors,
  • Industry performance,
  • and Outlook.

Zanesville Campus Library only subscribes to the Industry Market Research and Company Research components. All other components of the database are not included in the library’s subscription. http://www.zanesville.ohiou.edu/zcl/index.htm

Free video download of Horton Hears a Who

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

To celebrate Dr. Seuss’s 104th birthday, the National Education Association is offering a free download of the animated digital version of Horton Hears a Who. This offer is good during March.

For more information and a link to the download site. Scroll down the page until you see Horton against a yellow background.

2007 Agatha Christie Award nominees announced

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

Agatha Christie Awards or Agatha’s are awarded to mystery and crime writers who write traditional mystery novels following the model of Agatha Christie. These mysteries typically involve an amateur sleuth and do not contain explicit sex or excessive gore and violence. They’re just good mysteries.

Awards are presented at the annual Malice Convention in 5 areas: Best Novel, Best First Mystery, Best Short Story, Best Non-Fiction, and Best Children’s/Young Adult Mystery.

For lists of past winners visit Wikipedia.

New book titles –03/03/08

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008

A brief history of rock, off the record

  • Robins, Wayne
  • ML 3534 R574 2008z

A great godly adventure: the Pilgrims & the myth of the first Thanksgiving

  • Hodgon, Godfrey
  • F 68 H69 2006z

Change your career: nursing as your new profession

  • Arnoldussen, Barbara
  • RT 82 A75 2007z

Cinderella in America: a book of fold and fairy tales

  • McCarthy, William
  • GR 105 C45 2007z

Cornplanter: chief warrior of the Allegany Senecas

  • Abler, Thomas
  • E 99 S3 C673 2007z

David’s guide to clinical nursing

  • Rhoads, Jacqueline
  • RT 41 R485 2008z

Decision-making in nursing: thoughtful approaches for practice

  • Lewenson, Sandra
  • RT 42 D433 2008z

Dr. Susan Love’s breast book

  • Love, Susan M
  • RG 491 L68 2005z

Elder advocacy: essential knowledge and skills across settings

  • Huber, Ruth
  • HQ 1064 U5 E395 2008z

Forbidden fruit: sex & religion in the lives of American teenagers

  • Regnerus, Mark
  • BL 625.47 R43 2007z

Great jobs for history majors

  • Lambert, Stephen
  • D 16.9 D34 2008z

Healing presence: the essence of nursing

  • Koerner, JoEllen Goertz
  • RT 86 K626 2007z

Inside Alzheimer’s: how to hear and honor connections with a person who has dementia

  • Pearce, Nancy D.
  • RC 523 P413 2007z

Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice

  • Bloom, Harold
  • PR 4034 P72 J36 2007z

Leviathan: the history of whaling in America

  • Dolin, Eric Jay
  • SH 383.2 D65 2007z

Living with grief:before and after the death

  • Doka, Kenneth
  • BF 575 G7 L595 2007z

Manual of neonatal care

  • Cloherty, John
  • RJ 251 M26 2008z

Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberrey Finn

  • Bloom, Harold
  • PS 1305 M28 2007z

Movies and the modern psyche

  • Packer, Sharon
  • PN 1995 .P215 2007z

NCLEX-RN questions & answers made incredibly easy

  • RT 55 N44 2008z

Shakespear for Two: a comprehensive collection of two person scenes

  • William Shakespear
  • PR 2768 N48 2006z

Teaching resources for end-of-life and palliative care courses

  • Csikai, Ellen
  • HV 687 T43 2007z

The “I” of the beholder: a guided journey to the essence of a child

  • Roeper, Annemarie
  • HQ 773.5 R64 2007z

The blue valleys: a collection of stories

  • Morgan, Robert
  • PS 3563 .O87147 B57 2000z

The essentials of global politics

  • Langhorne, Richard
  • D 860 L3545 2006z

The family in global perspective: a gendered journey

  • Leeder, Elaine
  • HQ 519 L44 2004z

The Jesus family tomb: the discovery, the investigation, the evidence that could change history

  • Jacobovici, Simcha
  • BT 40 J25 2007z

The omnivore’s dilemma: a natural history of four meals

  • Pollan, Micheal
  • GT 2850 P65 2007z

The Preager handbook on stress and coping

  • Monat, Alan
  • BF 575 S75 P73 2007z V1

Theory and methods in sociology: an introductions to sociological thinking

  • Hughes, J. A,
  • HM 511 H84 2007z

Virgin: the untouched history

  • Blank, Hanne
  • GN 484.47 B53 2007z

What’s your story?: storytelling to move markets, audiences, people and brands

  • Mathews, Ryan
  • HF 5415 M3365 2008z

Women over 50: psychological perspectives

  • Muhlbauer, Varda
  • HQ 1059.4 W66 2007z