Scary Stories @ your library

Image reproduced from Project Gutenberg: The Raven and other Selections

The library has all the scary stories you could wish for! Please search our Book Catalog for books and e-books that will haunt you.

Classics:

• The Raven and other Selections by Edgar Allan Poe
• The legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
• The strange case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
• Dracula by Bram Stoker

Other "scary" treats:

• Be afraid, be very afraid : the book of scary urban legends by Jan Harold Brunvand
• Fear : a cultural history by Joanna Bourke
• The essential Stephen King a ranking of the greatest novels, short stories, movies, and other creations of the world's most popular writer by Spignesi
• Evil : inside human violence and cruelty by Roy F. Baumeister
• Good and evil: an absolute conception by Raimond Gaita

And MORE!

Happy Halloween!

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Book Spotlight: Richfield Collection

Review of Flesh Wounds: The Culture of Cosmetic Surgery by Virginia Blum.
Why do 16 year olds think they need breast enlargement or a nose job? Is erasing the bump on our nose erasing our heritage? The answer may be here. This book is an intriguing look into the world of cosmetic surgery and how it became such a prominent part of our culture. We look at celebrity magazines and wonder who has had surgery to make them look the way they do, and many of us want to look that way too, regardless of the costs. The author moves from personal stories of her own cosmetic surgery and interviews with doctors and patients, to research into personal identity and the obsession with celebrity. This is an eye-opening book that looks at the issue of cosmetic surgery from many different angles and without judgment. It will make you think twice about how you view cosmetic surgery and yourself.

This book can be found in the Richfield Circulating Collection 617.95 BLU.--Read and reviewed by Erica Nutzman

New Small Business Videos Added

Gale Small Business Resource Center database has recently added new video content. You can find the video content in the "websites" tab of your search results.

To browse through over 100 videos, search for "SBTV.com".
Here's an example: If you click on the image below, the link will take you to the databases page, where you can select Gale, scroll all the way down and select Small Busines Resource Center. Then, you can search for this or other videos such as:

• women in small business
• marketing
• money
• management
• legal issues
• and more!!!

  

New GU/MSB Library Website Design

You may have noticed that the GU/MSB student site has changed. This means that the GU/MSB library website has changed as well!

(Don't worry, UCC and IPR students, you're library website is still the same. :) )

One of the new features of the GU/MSB library site is the ability to Instant Message a librarian. If you see that we're not online, please leave a message that includes your email address so we can email you back. The GU/MSB librarians are taking turns maning the IM feature. We're trying to make it available as often as possible.

If you have any feedback about the IM feature or the library site in general, we'd be happy to hear it! You can leave a comment here or email your local librarian.

Please contact your librarian if you get lost in the new site or would like to make a suggestion!
-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

LexisNexis Academic Library Database Errors

LexisNexis Academic is continuing to have some errors when you try to access it from off campus. I'm working with them to try to fix the problem.

In the meantime, try this solution:

Go back to the library databases page (using the back button in the same browser window) and click on the LexisNexis link again.

I hope this problem was not too frustrating for you. I know it's not working correctly, but I hope to have it working well soon.
Thank you for your patience.

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Books 24x7 Celebrates 20,000 titles!

Books 24x7 now has over 20,000 e-books!

Books 24x7 offers business and information technology e-books. Additional e-books can be found in the GU/MSB library catalog. There are over 7,000 e-books available in the library catalog!

-Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian

Survey to help you select a presidential candidate

Are you undecided on who to vote for in the upcoming presidential election? You can use this survey to help you select a candidate who's beliefs will match your own.

Health Information Online

I came across this article today. It has a wonderful summary of useful websites for free health information. The categories are: General interest sites, Medical research sites, Patient sites, Disease specific sites, and Web tools.

I'd like to add to that list. The GU/MSB library offers additional online health information to you for free (the library buys it for you). Here are some highlights:

• Interactive Functional Anatomy - Images and animations of the human muscular system in motion.


• Health Reference Center - online encyclopedia of disease, wellness, body systems and more


• EBSCO's AltHealth Watch - Alternative medicine information


• Gale's Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine Collection - articles about treatment techniques


• EBSCO's CINAHL - definitive index for nurses/ nursing students


• ProQuest Nursing and Allied Health - scholarly and trade articles for health professionals


• Gale's Health Reference Center Academic - reference books and articles for health professionals


• Gale's Nursing and Allied Health Collection - articles about specialized care, treatment and management.

Click here to search these database collections!

Please contact your librarian with any quesions about these databases.

- Elaine Settergren, Online Librarian