Music Appreciation Resources

The CBC Library has a wide range of resources available for MUSC 105 - Music Appreciation. Our online resources may be accessed either on campus or from home using your CBC Library database password. We also have books and compact discs which you can check out using your student ID card. Our print reference sources have been selected to assist with your assignments; while they cannot be checked out, you may make photocopies (5¢/pg).

Online resources:

Recorded Music:

Classical Music In Video - hundreds of classical music performance videos available for streaming to a computer with a live internet connection and Adobe Flash Player.

Naxos Music Library - Online Classical Music. This service allows you to listen to music on your computer with headphones or speakers. You must have a live internet connection. Broadband allows you to use the default near-CD quality streaming rate; if you have dial-up you should select the FM quality rate. It is not possible to download or burn to CD any music on Naxos Music Library. We currently have access for 5 users at a time; please be sure and log off when you are done (upper left).



Reference:

Oxford Music Online - Scholarly articles from the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, The New Grove Dictionary of Opera, The Oxford Dictionary of Music, 2d ed. and The Oxford Companion to Music. Extensive coverage of composers.

Baker's Biographical Dictionary of Musicians - in Gale Virtual Reference.

From Oxford Reference Online:

• The Oxford Companion to Music
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Music
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Opera

Offline resources:

Recorded Music:

Search our catalog using the name of the composer, the keywords 'compact disc' and the type of music (if desired).

Example 1: a search for compact discs with symphonies by Beethoven
beethoven symphony compact disc

Example 2: a search for compact discs with concertos by Beethoven
beethoven concerto compact disc

Compact Discs must be requested at Circulation, and you may check out for 2 weeks.

Books:

The library has a collection of books about composers on 1 week course reserve. You can find others in our catalog by searching for the composer's last name as the subject. If you don't limit to subject you will have a result list of both items about the composer and works by the composer - books, compact discs, videos, phonograph records all mixed together. Books located in our 'Main Collection' may be checked out for 2 weeks.

Reference:

General

• Harvard dictionary of music - Ref ML100 .A64 2003

History

• A history of Western music - Reserve, Ref ML160 .G87 1960
• Music in the Middle Ages -Reserve, Ref ML172 .R4 1948
• The Oxford history of western music - Ref ML160 .T18 2005
• New Oxford history of music - Ref ML160 .N44

Information about the Composer, Conductor, Orchestra, Principal Musicians

• Baker’s biographical dictionary of musicians - Ref ML105 .B16 2001 or online in Gale Virtual Reference.
  
• The New Grove dictionary of music and musicians - Ref ML100 .N48 2001 (Oxford Music Online is the preferred version)
• Symphony orchestras of the United States - Ref ML1211 .S95 1986
• Symphony orchestras of the world - Ref ML1200 .S9 1987

Interpretation and analysis

• BBC music guides (series; various individual titles)
• The complete book of classical music - Ref MT6 .E89 1965
• Guide to chamber music - Ref ML1100 .B45 1985
• Listen to the music : a self-guided tour through the orchestral repertoire - Ref MT125 .K72 1988
• The symphony : a listener’s guide - Ref MT125 .S79 1995
• The concerto : a listener's guide - Ref ML1263 .S74 1998

Other Web resources:

AllMusic - information on composers, performers, reviews of recordings. Not limited to classical music.

Classical Music Library - Mid-Columbia Library database, requires MCL library card (all CBC students are eligible) number to access.

Please send questions or comments to
library@columbiabasin.edu

5/2/2011

Income Disparities in America

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Income Inequality": Is the gap between rich and poor getting wider? A recent Census Bureau report brought a flurry of press attention to the widening gap between rich and poor. The gap in New York City is widening — and is now bigger than in India, noted the New York Daily News. Indeed, most analysts agree incomes of the very rich have been pulling away from all others in recent decades. The average pretax income for the bottom 90 percent of households is almost $900 below what it was in 1979, while the average pretax income for the top 1 percent is $700,000 higher. Having a wealthy class with very large amounts of disposable money is valuable — not harmful — to society, some argue. But others say the recent winner-take-all economy helped trigger the massive recession, leaving most people with stagnant incomes. Meanwhile, Republicans argue that Bush-era tax cuts on top earnings should be extended to stimulate the economy, while many Democrats back extensions only for lower earners. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

More Articles:

EBSCOhost Search: SU income gap and GE united states

ProQuest Search: SU (income distribution) AND GEO(united states)

Capital Punishment

Jost, Kenneth. "Death Penalty Debates." CQ Researcher 20.41 (2010): 965-988. Is the capital punishment system working? Public support for capital punishment in the United States remains strong on paper, but opponents say it is weakening in practice. The number of new death sentences fell in 2009 to its lowest point in four decades and seems likely to end even lower in 2010. The number of executions has also fallen, to at least half the number in the 1990s. Opponents of the death penalty say prosecutors may be seeking the death penalty less often because of the costs of a capital trial, sentencing and post-conviction proceedings. Jurors may also be worried about the costs of the system, the delay between sentence and execution and the risk of executing an innocent person. Supporters of capital punishment counter that the costs and delays result primarily from obstructionism by death penalty lawyers and that the risk of a wrongful execution is all but nonexistent. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

More Articles

CQ Researcher:

Jost, Kenneth. "Death Penalty Controversies." CQ Researcher 15.33 (2005): 785-808.

EBSCOhost: SU capital punishment and GE united states

Books:

Death Penalty on Trial: A Handbook with Cases, Laws, and Documents. (ABC-CLIO ebook)
Encyclopedia of Crime and Justice. (Gale Virtual Reference Library)

American Political Parties

Katel, Peter. "Democrats' Future:"Will they lose their congressional majorities? CQ Researcher. Oct. 29, 2010. Triumphant only two years ago, the Democratic Party could lose its House majority, and possibly its Senate dominance as well. To stave off defeat, it is refashioning its campaign and policy strategies in a political season marked by the rise of hardcore conservatives in Republican ranks. Along with President Obama's election, Democrats won majorities in both houses of Congress. Back then, some commentators were predicting a Democratic “realignment” on the model that Franklin D. Roosevelt built in the 1930s, and which lasted (with some interruptions) for decades. But continuing high unemployment and economic uncertainty gave an opening to the conservative Tea Party upsurge among Republicans. In a year marked by hard-fought congressional elections and the beginning of preparations for the 2012 presidential race, Democrats are debating whether their party has been too liberal in its stimulus approach to the economic crisis, or not liberal enough. And some have faulted Obama himself for poor leadership. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

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EBSCOhost Search: congress* and elect* and GE united states

ProQuest Search: congress* and major* and GEO(united states)

Books: CBC Library Catalog: political part* AND "united states"

Healthcare Careers Pathways Lab

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Learning Microsoft Office
Matthews, Marty. Microsoft Office Word 2007 : QuickSteps. Emeryville, CA, USA: McGraw-Hill Professional Publishing, 2007.

Koers, Diane. Picture Yourself Learning Microsoft Office 2007. Boston, MA, USA: Course Technolgy, 2007.

Google Docs
Video: Google Docs in plain English

updated 12/27/2010 y.y.

Parts of a Journal Article

Related post: Video: What is a peer reviewed article?.
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Parts of a Research/Scholarly Journal Article - APA Style
Adapted from Chapter 2, section 1-13 of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th Edition
Journal articles usually are reports of empirical studies, review articles, or theoretical articles. Reports of empirical studies are reports of origina/primary research. Sometimes they appear in the "Research", or "Original Articles", or "Research Articles" section of a journal. These articles typically have the following parts:
1. Title
A simple summary of the main idea of the paper. It should identify the main topic, the variables or theoretical issues under investigation and the relationship between them. (For example, the word "Outbound" would NOT be a title for a research journal article because it is not clear what the topic of the article is, but it may be a title for a magazine or newspaper article.)

2. Name of Author(s) and Institutional Affiliation
Affiliations tell you which institution(s)/organization(s) that the author(s) belong to and it is usually where the research was conducted. It is common to have multiple authors who have collaborated on the research and the writing of the paper.
3. AbstractA brief, non-evaluative, comprehensive summary of the contents of the article.
4. IntroductionUsually the introduction describes

• What is the problem and how importance it is
• What have other researchers found out about the problem before (review of the relevant literature)
• What are the hypotheses and objectives of the study
• What are the research design and how is the design influenced by the hopotheses
• what are the theoretical and practical implications of the study

5. MethodDescribes in detail how the study was conducted. Enables the reader to evaluate the appropriateness of the methods used in the study and the reliability and validity of the results. Method usually includes the following subsections:

• Participants
• Materials
• Procedure

6. ResultsSummarizes the data collected and the statistical treatment of the data. A brief statement of the main results or findings followed by a report in sufficient detail to jusfify the conclusions. It is common to find figures and tables in this section.
7. DiscussionEvaluates and interprets the implications of the results, espeically with respect to the original hypothesis. Includes a clear statement of the support or non-support for the original hypothesis.


8. References
Lists works cited in the text of the article. Intended to get credit to the work of previous researchers and document statements made about literature. (Note: This part is almost always included at the end of a research article.)

Examples of Research/Scientific Journal Articles
Example 1: Bréban, S., Chappard, C., Jaffré, C., & Benhamou, C.. (2010). Hypoleptinaemia in extreme body mass models: The case of international rugby players. Journal of Science and Medicine in Sport, 13(5), 479-84. Retrieved October 14, 2010, from Health Module. (Document ID: 2141092201). This article has the following parts:

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Obesity in America

Mantel, Barbara. "Preventing Obesity." CQ Researcher 20.34 (2010): 797-820.
Do Americans face too many obstacles to healthy eating?
The number of obese Americans has increased dramatically over the last 40 years, and in 2001 the nation's surgeon general went so far as to call obesity an epidemic. Since that landmark declaration, efforts to combat obesity have slowly grown, and although no one knows exactly why, the obesity rate among children and adolescents has leveled off. It is still, however, alarmingly high. One-third of children and two-thirds of adults are overweight or obese, posing a daunting public-health challenge. Those adults are more likely to develop serious illnesses like heart disease, diabetes and hypertension. While diet programs emphasize personal responsibility, public-health experts blame a multitude of factors — many beyond individuals' control — for the societywide epidemic. Prominent among those factors are low consumption of fruits and vegetables and America's “obesogenic” environment, which promotes increased portion size, non-healthful foods and physical inactivity. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

More Articles

CQ Researcher:

Greenblatt, Alan. "Obesity Epidemic." CQ Researcher 13.4 (2003): 73-104.

Bettelheim, Adriel. "Obesity and Health." CQ Researcher 9.2 (1999): 25-48.

EBSCOhost sample search: SU obesity and GE united states and SU prevention (limited to full text academic journal articles published after 1994)

Reference
Gale Virtual Reference search: obesity

Books
Search Library Catalog: obesity [in Subject]
Search ebrary: obesity [in Title]

updated 12/27/2010 y.y.

ENGL101-Merrill

The Movie
Frost/Nixon(IMDB Record)
The Frost/Nixon Interviews Site

Gale Virtual Reference
"Richard Nixon"
"Cambodia Bombing"
"Khmer Rouge"
(Note: Try searching Gale Virtual Reference Library with different keywords to find more results.)

Books
CBC Library Catalog searches:
(Nixon AND Richard AND Milhous AND 1913)[in Subject]

clothing fashion

ebrary Book: Richard Nixon and the Quest for a New Majority

Articles
CQ Researcher
Legacy of the Vietnam War: Did the war erode Americans' trust in government?

EBSCO Sample Search:
SU "VIETNAM War, 1961-1975" and SU "protest*" (searched these terms as subjects)

Web
The Nixon Era Times: official publication of the Nixon Era Center at Mountain State University

The World According to Frost. David Frost interviewed by Mark Corcoran of ABC News, 17/02/2009

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AFS101 & AFS201

Resources for Agricultural & Food Systems courses

Reference - use to define and narrow your topic

Oxford Reference Online - Science

Gale Virtual Reference

CQ Researcher
See below a few sample CQ Research reports:
--Slow Food Movement

--Food Safety Battle: Organic Vs. Biotech

--Biotech Foods

--Biofuels Boom

AccessScience - scholarly science and technology encyclopedia and dictionary

Books

CBC Library Catalog: Search for print and online books

ebrary: Search for online books

Articles

EBSCOhost - thousands of magazines and 3500+ peer-reviewed journals in numerous disciplines; has 'Scholarly (Peer Reviewed) Journals' search limiter

Agricola: More than 4.8 million citations of journal articles, monographs, theses, patents, software, audiovisual materials, and technical reports dates back to 1970 from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Agricultural Library. Check "Linked Full Text" and "Other Full Text" when searching.

ProQuest - thousands of magazines, newspapers and over 1000 peer-reviewed journals; has 'Scholarly journals, including peer-reviewed' limiter

Peer-Reviewed Article Checklist

Citations
CBC Library Guide to APA Style when citing library databases

12/27/2010 y.y.

Who Speaks for Islam? - PHIL 131

"A Link TV original production that explores Islam in an age when Muslim extremists are laying claim to the religion." More information and viewing options at http://www.linktv.org/programs/who_islam.

Health Care in America

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Health-Care Reform:"Is the landmark new plan a good idea? CQ Researcher. June 11, 2010. The health-care reform legislation signed into law by President Obama on March 23 marked the biggest attempt to expand access to health care since Medicare and Medicaid were launched in the 1960s. The massive legislation will help 32 million Americans get health insurance coverage and bans insurers from denying coverage to those with preexisting illnesses. It also expands Medicaid to all poor people — except illegal immigrants — and gives subsidies to low- and low-middle-income people to buy insurance. But opponents, including every Republican member of Congress, say the coverage expansion is simply too expensive, at a price tag of about $1 trillion over 10 years. They also say new fees and taxes to help pay for the coverage place too big a burden on currently insured people. Meanwhile, a group of state attorneys general is challenging the constitutionality of the law's requirement that everyone buy health insurance. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Health-Care Reform:" Is Universal Coverage too Expensive? CQ Researcher August 28, 2009.

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Universal Coverage." CQ Researcher 17.12 (2007): 265-288. CQ Press. 5 April 2007.

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Rising Health Costs:" Can costs be cut without hurting care quality? CQ Researcher April 7, 2006.

More Articles:

EBSCOhost Search: SU ( medical care or medical policy or health insurance or health care ) and united states and ( reform or universal or single payer )

ProQuest Search: (health care or health insurance) and (reform or universal) and united states

Books:

Ebrary Search: Subject (health insurance OR medical care OR uninsured) AND united states - over 100 ebooks

Websites:

United States. Census Bureau. Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2009 (or view the 9/16/10 press release with summary of key findings). Sep. 2010.

United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services. HealthReform.gov. Reports, news, weekly updates.

United States. Dept. of Health and Human Services. National Center for Health Statistics. Fastats: Health Insurance Coverage. Numbers insured/uninsured, with links to reports.

Publications from The Commonwealth Fund, a "private foundation that aims to promote a high performing health care system...by supporting independent research on health care issues."

Jobs & the American Economy

English 102 - Figueroa - Class Topic Spring 2010

Katel, Peter. "Jobs in the Future: Is a College Education Important?" CQ Researcher, 4 June 2010.
American workers — and their jobless counterparts — are still absorbing the blows of the Great Recession. The economy has finally started to grow again, but more than 8 million jobs that disappeared after the economic crisis began in late 2007 haven't returned. People who do have jobs are working harder. Increased productivity is only one of several major changes on the job front. As technology advances, the competitive environment for U.S. workers is intensifying. American employers now can hire people halfway across the globe to perform skilled tasks — interpreting downloaded X-ray pictures, for example. Experts argue over how many jobs are at risk, but no one disputes that young people are better off with advanced schooling that builds analytical capacity, allowing them to switch careers if necessary. As for lesser-educated workers, demand is rising at the low end of the market. Jobs that fall in between the two extremes may be most at risk.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Boolean/Phrase Search Techniques:

• Truncation: econom* (beginning with this) = economy, economic, etc.
• Or Statements: employ* or unemploy* = any of these, broadens
• And Statements: econom* and United States = all of these, narrows
• Phrases: United States = only this, very narrow
• Grouping: (employ* or unemploy*) and United States = do the part in parentheses first – or use ‘Advanced Search’ and put different concepts on different lines

EBSCOhost Boolean/phrase search:

( labor supply or unemployment or employment ) and (recession* or econom*) and united states - 4300+ full text articles

Research questions this attempts to answer:

• What are the impacts of current economic conditions on the labor supply in the United States?
• How has the U.S. recession changed future employment possibilities?
• When will the economic recovery reduce unemployment in the United States?

More Articles:

ProQuest: (college education or college graduates) AND (employ* or jobs or econom* or labor or workers) AND (united states) - 1700+ full text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals

Facts.com World News Digest:

"The Economic Downturn: From Credit Crunch to Global Recession." World News Digest. Facts On File News Services, Jan. 2009. Research feature offering an overview and links to articles arranged by subtopic and date.

Books

Ebrary: Subject ("labor market" OR "labor supply" OR "job creation" OR unemployment OR employment) and Subject ("United States) - 50 ebooks

2010 Gulf of Mexico Deepwater Oil Spill

Websites

Deepwater Horizon Response: Unified Command

Whitehouse site: Deepwater BP Oil Spill

Google government sites search results: "oil spill Gulf of Mexico site:.gov"

Articles

EBSCO: DE "BP oil spill, Gulf of Mexico, 2010"

Gale Virtual Reference: oil spills

CQ Researcher

Oil Spills

Cleaning Up Hazardous Wastes


Books

CBC Library Catalog: oil spill

CBC ebrary online books: Text and Key Fields: "oil spill" AND Subject:"Environmental Aspects" OR "Crisis Management"

Oil drilling

• "Prevention and Control Mechanics of Well Blowouts." in Drilling Engineering by J.J. Azar and G. Robello Samuel. PennWell Corp., 2007.
  
  
• "A Losing Proposition." in Lives per Gallon : The True Cost of Our Oil Addiction. by Terry Tamminen. Washington, DC, USA: Island Press, 2006.

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Rich Benjamin on Race, Politics, and Society

Presentations: June 7, 2010

• "The Color of Tomorrow: Race and Racial Issues in the 21st Century," - 12:30 PM, HUB Congress Room
  
  
• "ObamaNation Versus Whitopia: The Social and Political Divides Threatening America." - 6:30 PM, HUB Main Stage

Written by Rich Benjamin:

• Searching for Whitopia : an improbable journey to the heart of white America. New York : Hyperion, 2009.


• Yes, I love taxes; Call me old-fashioned, but I think it's unpatriotic to demonize the funding of our government. USA TODAY. Apr 15, 2010. p. A.11


• What Tiger could learn from Obama. USA TODAY. Dec 11, 2009. p. A.21


• 2010 Census: Barack Obama Could Check "Black" Or "2 Races." McClatchy - Tribune Business News. Washington: Oct 7, 2009.


• Refugees of Diversity. American Prospect. Oct 2009. p. 18. "This article is adaptedfrom his first book, Searching for Whitopia: An Improbable Journey to the Heart of White America, published by Hyperion © 2009."


• King stood with, not above, the people. USA TODAY. Jan 12, 2007. p. A.11


• What King Really Dreamed. Written with Jamie Carmichael. Boston Globe. Jan 15, 2006. p. K.11

On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/user/Whitopia - a 4.28 minute video in regular and HD formats.

XML, XHTML, and CSS

There are over 20 Ebrary titles covering XML, XHTML, or CSS, including:

• Duckett, Jon. Beginning Web Programming with HTML, XHTML, and CSS. 2nd Ed. Wrox, 2008.
  
  
• Eccher, Clint. Professional Web Design : Techniques and Templates (CSS and XHTML). Course Technology, 2008.
  
  
• Schmitt, Christopher. Professional CSS : Cascading Style Sheets for Web Design. 2nd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
  
  
• Members of the XML Guild. Advanced XML Applications from the Experts at the XML Guild. Course Technology, 2006.
  
  
• Keogh, James and Ken Davidson. XML Demystified. McGraw-Hill Osborne, 2005.
  
  
• Duckett, Jon. Accessible XHTML and CSS Web Sites : Problem - Design - Solution. John Wiley & Sons, 2005.
  
  
• Pfaffenberger, Bryan, Steven M. Schafer, and Chuck White. HTML, XHTML, and CSS Bible. 3rd Ed. John Wiley & Sons, 2004.

If you 'sign in' with ebrary you can take notes, highlight, bookmark, and add ebooks to your personal bookshelf for later reference. Unlike with print books you can also search the full text of a whole collection of books at once!

Sam Shepard

Roudani, Matthew. Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard. Cambridge University Press, 2002. [Ebrary]

Plays in Ebrary

• Buried Child. Knopf, 2006.
  
  
• Tooth of Crime : Second Dance. Knopf, 2006.

C# Programming

Purdum, Jack. Beginning C# 3.0 : An Introduction to Object Oriented Programming. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

Watson, Karli, Christian Nagel and Jacob Hammer Pedersen. Beginning Microsoft Visual C# 2008. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.

Nagel, Christian, Bill Evjen and Jay Glynn. Professional C# 2008. Wrox, 2008.

If you 'sign in' with ebrary you can take notes, highlight, bookmark, and add ebooks to your personal bookshelf for later reference. Unlike with print books you can also search the full text of a whole collection of books at once!

U.S. Census

Billitteri, Thomas J. Census controversy: should undocumented immigrants be counted? CQ Researcher, May 14, 2010. Now under way, the 2010 census has sparked bitter partisanship. Some conservative Republicans, for example, have criticized the census as an unconstitutional intrusion on privacy; others warn that census participation is important for maintaining GOP power, since the count is used to apportion congressional seats and allocate federal money to cities and states. Liberal Democrats have been more supportive of census procedures, which for the first time will count same-sex couples. To raise response rates, the Census Bureau sent every household the same brief 10-question form and dropped use of the “long form” — a lengthy questionnaire seeking data on housing, transportation, education and income. The long form has been replaced by a separate, ongoing monthly survey that will provide timelier data, but from a smaller sample of households. Researchers generally hail the change but say it will cause some problems, at least initially.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

More Articles


CQ Researcher

Jost, Kenneth. Census 2000: What is the best way to get an accurate count? CQ Researcher May 1, 1998.

Gavin, Jennifer. Redistricting: Are minority groups fairly represented in Congress? CQ Researcher Feb. 16, 2001.

EBSCOhost - subject term searches:

census AND immigrant*

census AND United States

demographic surveys AND United States

apportionment AND United States

ProQuest

SUB(aliens) AND(census of population)

SUB(census of population)

SUB(apportionment) AND SUB(census of population)

Ebooks

Choldin, Harvey M.Looking for the Last Percent: the Controversy Over Census Undercounts. Rutgers University Press, 1994. [NetLibrary]

Web

United States. Bureau of the Census.Census Bureau Home Page.

Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month

Books

List of Books on Display at the CBC Library

Ebooks
Search ebrary: Subject: Asian Americans (more than 20 ebooks)

NetLibrary:
The Asian Pacific American Heritage: A Companion to Literature and Arts/Garland Reference Library of the Humanities ; Vol. 2109
by Leonard, George

Online Reference
Encyclopedia Britannica Online:
Asian Americans
Spotlight: Asian Values

Gale Virtual Reference Library: Keyword (asian americans) LIMITed to ("Topic overview")

Daily Life Online : Essays about the domestic, economic, religious, and other aspects of people's daily lives, ancient to modern, around the world. You can browse by subject, time period, and region. Sample articles:
Culture and Customs of China > Food and Clothing

Music Database
Naxos Music Library: Information about a few sample music pieces were listed below. You can search for more using the keyword search box once you logged inside the database. A CBC library password is required to listen to the music.

• Chinese: The Butterfly Lovers Violin Concerto
  Shanghai Conservatory Symphony Orchestra
• Traditional Music from Korea [Booklet]
• Japanese Masterpieces for the Shakuhachi [Booklet]

CQ Researcher Report
Asian Americans 1991

Local Events

• CBC Library Display
• Asian American Awareness Month Presentations
  Richland Pulic Library: 1:50 p.m. – 4:00 p.m.

Websites Dedicated to this Heritage Month
Library of Congress Site
National Endowment for the Humanities Site
Smithsonian Institution
--Teaching Resources
National Park Service

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Computer Security

Ebrary titles covering Computer Security, Computer Crimes, and Data Protection include:

• Ye, Nong. Secure Computer and Network Systems : Modeling, Analysis and Design. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
  
  
• Ciampa, Mark. CompTIA Security+ 2008 In Depth. Course Technology, 2008.
  
  
• Stewart, James Michael, Ed Tittel and Mike Chapple. CISSP: Certified Information Systems Security Professional Study Guide. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
  
  
• Krutz, Ronald L. and Russell Dean Vines. CEH Prep Guide : The Comprehensive Guide to Certified Ethical Hacking. Wiley, 2008.
  
  
• Volonino, Linda and Reynaldo Anzaldua. Computer Forensics For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons, 2008.
  
  

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Data Structures & C++

Among the Ebrary titles covering Data Structures and C++ are:

• Lee, Mark. C++ Programming for the Absolute Beginner. Course Technology/PTR, 2009.
  
  
• Herb Schildt's C++ Programming Cookbook. McGraw-Hill, 2008.
  
  
• Keogh, Jim and Ken Davidson. Data Structures Demystified. McGraw-Hill, 2004.
  
  
• Hubbard, John. Schaum's Outline of Theory and Problems of Data Structures with C++. McGraw-Hill, 2000.

America's Veterans

Katel, Peter. Caring for Veterans: Does the VA adequately serve wounded vets? CQ Researcher, April 23, 2010. Battle-scarred veterans often spend more time waiting for decisions from the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) on their disability claims than they spent at war. At least 500,000 veterans have waited an average of six months for a decision on a disability claim and another 200,000 have waited an average of five years for a decision on an appeal. New VA Secretary Eric Shinseki — himself a disabled Vietnam vet — vows to unblock the huge claims backlog, but it may take until 2015. That's partly because the VA has expanded the number of compensation-worthy illnesses from the Vietnam War. Veterans' organizations laud Shinseki but disagree over how deeply VA changes should run. Meanwhile, lawmakers in Congress are close to passing legislation to compensate relatives and friends caring for veterans with catastrophic, lifelong disabilities such as traumatic brain injuries arising from improvised explosive devices — the devastating homemade bombs that are the hallmark of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

More Articles

CQ Researcher

Katel, Peter. "Wounded Veterans: Is America shortchanging vets on health care?" CQ Researcher August 31, 2007.

Triplett, William. "Treatment of Veterans: Is the nation keeping its promises to veterans?" CQ Researcher November 19, 2004.

EBSCOhost - subject term searches:

veterans AND medical care

veterans AND (education OR scholarships)

SU veterans and SU ( work* or employ* )

ProQuest

SU(veterans) AND SU(famil* or marriage or divorce* or child*)

SU(veterans) AND SU(benefits or disab*)

SU(veterans) AND SU(Post traumatic stress disorder or mental health or psycholog*)

Books

Glantz, Aaron. The War Comes Home: Washington's Battle Against America's Veterans. Berkely: U of California P, 2009. Print.
Call Number: UB357 .G56 2009

Search our Catalog for the subject keyword veteran

View titles from our Veterans Day 2009 Display

Ebooks

Armstrong, Keith and Suzanne Best. Courage After Fire : Coping Strategies for Troops Returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and Their Families. Ulysses Press, 2005. [ebrary]

Grzyb, Frank L. Story for All Americans : Vietnam, Victims and Veterans. Purdue University Press, 2000. [ebrary]

Hass, Kristin Ann. Carried to the wall American memory and the Vietnam Veterans Memorial Berkeley : University of California Press, c1998. [netlibrary]

Search ebrary: veterans and united states

Web

United States. White House. Veterans Day, 2009 -
By The President of the United States of America - A Proclamation. October 30, 2009.

United States. Library of Congress. "Today in History: November 11th." American Memory.

United States. Dept. of Veterans Affairs.

Veterans of Foreign Wars of the United States (VFW).

Teen Pregnancy & Sex Education

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Teen Pregnancy: Does comprehensive sex-education reduce pregnancies?" CQ Researcher. March 26, 2010. After dropping steeply for a decade-and-a-half, America's teen birth rate began edging upwards in the past few years. Analysts aren't sure whether the trend will last and say there are numerous causes. A significant factor, however, is a drop-off in contraceptive use that began in the early 2000s, as better HIV/AIDS treatments diminished fear of the disease. In 2009, the Obama administration ended the Bush administration policy of federally funding only sex-education programs with abstinence until marriage as the primary focus. Instead, most funding will now go to programs that have been demonstrated in large, randomized trials to be effective for pregnancy prevention. Critics say the plan will unfairly eliminate funding for abstinence programs, which they contend have not been adequately evaluated by researchers and are the only ones that consistently teach the value of committed relationships.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Friedman, Jane. "Teen sex: Do abstinence-only programs discourage teen sex?" CQ Researcher. 16 Sept. 2005.

More Articles:

EBSCOhost - subject term searches:

teenage pregnancy AND prevention AND sex instruction

teenage pregnancy AND prevention AND sexual abstinence

(sex instruction or sex education) and united states

ProQuest - subject term searches:

teenage pregnancy AND sex education AND prevention programs

(sex education) AND (united states)

Books

CBC Library Catalog: kw, phr=sex education or kw, phr=sex instruction

ebrary: "sex education" OR "sex instruction"

Reference

"Sex Education/Prevention." p.84-91. Sex and Sexuality. Ed. Richard McAnulty, M. Michele Burnette. Santa Barbara, CA: Praeger, 2006. ABC-CLIO eBook Collection.

Sex, Youth, and Sex Education: A Reference Handbook. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2002. ABC-CLIO eBook Collection.

Web

Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Prevention of HIV/AIDS, other STIs and Pregnancy: Group-based Abstinence Education Interventions for Adolescents. November 5, 2009.

Task Force on Community Preventive Services. Guide to Community Preventive Services. Prevention of HIV/AIDS, other STIs and Pregnancy: Group-based comprehensive risk reduction interventions for adolescents. November 5, 2009.

12/2010

U.S. Voters & Political Movements

Katel, Peter. "Tea Party Movement." CQ Researcher. March 19, 2010. The Tea Party movement seemed to come out of nowhere. Suddenly, citizens angry over the multi-billion-dollar economic stimulus and the Obama administration's health-care plan were leading rallies, confronting lawmakers and holding forth on radio and TV. Closely tied to the Republican Party — though also critical of the GOP — the movement proved essential to the surprise victory of Republican Sen. Scott Brown in Massachusetts. Tea partiers say Brown's election proves the movement runs strong outside of “red states.” But some political experts voice skepticism, arguing that the Tea Party's fiscal hawkishness won't appeal to most Democrats and many independents. Meanwhile, some dissension has appeared among tea partiers, with many preferring to sidestep social issues, such as immigration, and others emphasizing them. Still, the movement exerts strong appeal for citizens fearful of growing government debt and distrustful of the administration.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Greenblatt, Alan. "Changing U.S. Electorate: Are demographic trends reshaping U.S. politics?." CQ Researcher 30 May 2008.

More Articles:

ProQuest

(SU(DEMOGRAPHICS) OR SU(SOCIOLOGY, DEMOGRAPHY)) AND SU(VOTER BEHAVIOR)

TITLE(tea party) AND AT(cover story or feature or editorial or commentary) - 250+ articles

EBSCOhost

SU (political movements or political participation or political change or political activists) and GE united states - 3200+ full text articles

• AND Tea Party - 28 full text articles

(SU (demonstrations or protest) AND GE (united states)) - 2000+ full text articles

demograph* and SU ( vot* or election* or political part*) and GE (United States) - 200+ full text articles

Books:

CBC Library catalog - search for kw, phr=party affiliation or kw=voting and kw,phr=united states

Ebrary - Search (protest* OR demonstrations OR radicalism OR extremis*) AND united states

Reference

Woliver, Laura R. "Political Protest, U.S." New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz. Vol. 5. Detroit: Scribner's, 2005. 1835-1838. Gale Virtual Reference Library.

Haines, Michael R. "Demography and Demographic Trends." Dictionary of American History. Ed. Stanley I. Kutler. 3rd ed. Vol. 2. New York: Scribner's, 2003. 554-562. Gale Virtual Reference Library.

12/27/2010

GED Resources

Short URL of this page: http://bit.ly/cbcged

Handout: Top 10 Things GED Students Should Know About the Library

Books

• Search the CBC Library Catalog with the keyword “GED” to find relevant books. View results. 
• Browse CBC Library reference books on statistics. Browse shelf around call number HA202. 
• You can also browse the LOC/GED books on the Reserve Reference shelf near the reference desk. (Consumer Reports, which we subscribe in print, is also a good source for statistics.)
• GED books from the Mid-Columbia Library (38 items as of 5/2011)

Online Library Reference Databases
(You don't need a password to use these on CBC campus, but you can login from home with the quarterly library password)
Oxford English Dictionary (OED)
Oxford Reference Online
Encyclopedia Britannica Online
Daily Life Online Essays about the domestic, economic, religious, and other aspects of people's daily lives, ancient to modern.
CultureGrams Concise, readable information about countries and cultures.

Online Test Prep
1. Free online practice tests from Mid-Columbia Library

• Go to their Electronic Resources page;
• Scroll down to the end of the page and click on Learning Express Library;
• Click on "New User" to register for free;
• The Username should be your 14-digit mid-columbia library ID card number;
• Make up a Password for yourself;
• Once logged in, click on GED tests to practice

2. Free online practice tests from Steck-Vaughn Adult Education. It has practice tests with immediate feedback.
3. GED Practice Tests from TestPrepReview.com (Scroll down until you see the list of "Self-Assessment Modules".)

Classes

• CBC Adult Basic Education/GED Program
• CBC Learning Opportunities Center (LOC) CBC Learning Opportunities Center (LOC) offers test preparation classes and materials. LOC is located in the A building.

General Info on the Web

• Official GED tests website from American Council on Education (ACE) with Test-Taker information, Test-Taker FAQs, and sample questions.
• General information about GED from WA State Board for Community and Technical Colleges. (Use the menu on the left to jump to different parts.)

More GED Online Resources
(Based on list provided by the CBC ABE/GED department from the orientation packet, links updated Feb. 2010)

• http://vcabe.unm.edu/html/vc_abe_resources.htm
  Links to a wide variety of sites for all GED subjects.
• http://www.nwlincs.org/NWLINCSWEB/student.htm
  Student Study Page – an excellent site with 45 different activities and tutorials. Includes daily lessons in many subject categories, computer tutorials, a student help page, and links to many of the best educational sites.
• http://www.petersons.com/testprep/default.asp?id=1077&path=ug.pft.ged Peterson’s Prep Central: GED– Only the links "Get going ..." in the light orange square are free. The "Test Info, Dates, and Deadlines" includes the number of questions and time allotment on each subject that the GED covers. You can also take a free "quick quiz".
• http://www.math.com/ This is a very good website ~ it contains math lessons and practice tests on a wide range of math topics, from fractions to calculus.
• http://www.glencoe.com/catalog/contemporary/freeged.html GED Satellites Internet-based Supplemental Study Center. These McGraw Hill websites review everything covered in the Contemporary GED subject books we have in the classroom. You can choose a chapter from the table of contents, and you’ll also find Chapter Review Quizzes, Chapter Outlines, Interactive Flashcards, Web Links, GED practice tests, and more. Direct links to the five specific subjects are listed below.
• http://www.gedmath.com/
• http://www.gedreading.com/
• http://www.gedwriting.com/
• http://www.gedscience.com/
• http://www.gedsocialstudies.com/

English, Sentence Skills, Reading

• http://owl.english.purdue.edu/engagement/2/
• http://www.getitwriteonline.com/archive/tips.htm
• http://home.earthlink.net/~ruthpett/safari/index.htm (Online vocabular game)
• http://english.glendale.cc.ca.us/topic.html
• http://www.gsu.edu/~wwwrtp/instrdg.htm
• http://www.vocabulary.com/
• http://www.study.net/
• http://literacynet.org/cnnsf

Mathematics

• http://www.math.com/
• http://mathwizz.com/
• http://www.freeuniv.com/
• http://www.algebrahelp.com/
• http://www.mathgoodies.com/
• http://mathpower.com/
• http://www.funbrain.com/fract/
• http://www.mymathtest.com/
• http://www.homeschoolmath.net/
• http://pbs.org/literacy
• http://www.mathvids.com/ (Math Videos online. Note: This is a link added by librarian.)
• http://www.khanacademy.org/ (Math Videos online. Note: This is a site recommended by a CBC GED student.)

Other Useful webpages:

• ESL 
• Compass Test Prep 
• Evaluating Sources| UC Berkeley Library "Evaluating Web Pages"
• CBC's Financial Aid page 
• CBC's New Student page

updated by y.y. 5/15/2012