Resources for the Study of French

CBC Library Catalog

List of videos with French as the spoken language:
(Note: Some videos are available for a 7-day check out, they are near the reference desk. Others maybe on reserve and maybe in library viewing only. Request at Circulation.)

List of videos in French and in English with French subtitles.

List of Books, CDs, and DVDs On Reserve for French at the Library.

Articles - search the World News Network for articles in French from publishers including Le Monde and the Canada Newswire.

Reference

Oxford Reference Online

• The Oxford Business French Dictionary (English-French)
• The Oxford Business French Dictionary (French-English)
• The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (English-French)
• The Concise Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary (French-English)

Ebrary - search 'french language' - includes:

• Beginning French for the Utterly Confused
• French Verbs Made Simple(r)
• Student Grammar of French

Blog
http://frenchcbc.blogspot.com/: a blog by Isabelle Corneaux, who taught French at CBC till 2011

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Human Trafficking

Human Trafficking Seminar, Columbia Basin College, 28 Oct. 2011. 10:30 AM - Noon.

• Video part 1 (~20 mins.)
• Video Part 2 (Remainder)

Articles

Masci, David. "Human Trafficking and Slavery." CQ Researcher 26 Mar. 2004.

EBSCOhost Search: human trafficking AND united states - 300+ full text articles

ProQuest Washington Newsstand Search: human trafficking - 100+ full text articles from Washington State newspapers

Books

Ebrary Search: human trafficking; includes titles such as:

• Newman, Edward. Trafficking in Humans : Social, Cultural and Political Dimensions. United Nations UP, 2008.
  
  
• Bales, Kevin. Understanding Global Slavery : A Reader. University of California Press, 2005.

Web

United States. Senate. Judiciary Committee. “The Trafficking Victims Protection Reauthorization Act: Renewing the Commitment to Victims of Human Trafficking.” 14 Sep 2011. 10:00 AM. NOTE: Includes webcast of testimoney.

Google Search: human trafficking site:wa.gov (limited to past year) - Washington State government sites

State Higher Education Funding

Washington State.

Office of Financial Management.
• Washington State Budget Process. Aug. 2011.
  
  
• Office of the Governor. Budget Reduction Alternatives. Oct. 2011.
  
  
• fiscal.wa.gov - Washington State Fiscal Information. A collaboration with the Legislative Evaluation and Accountability Program (LEAP) Committee with the "intent that state revenue and expenditure data be made as open, transparent, and publicly accessible as is feasible."


Legislative Evaluation and Accountability Program (LEAP)


• Washington State Operating Budget: Briefing Book. Jan. 2011.
  
  
• A Citizen’s Guide to the Washington State Budget. 2011.

State Board for Community & Technical Colleges
• Operating Budget.
  
  
• Capital Budget.
  
  
• Legislative Session.

National Council of State Governors:

• The Critical Link Between Higher Education and Economic Development. NCSL Legislative Summit: Aug. 10, 2011. Video requires Microsoft Silverlight, a free web-browser plug-in.
  
  
• Higher Education Legislation in 2011. State by State compilation of significant legislative initiatives related to higher education.

Eyewitness Testimony & Wrongful Convictions

Jost, Kenneth. Eyewitness Testimony: Could new safeguards prevent misidentifications?. CQ Researcher October 14, 2011. Eyewitness testimony is often essential to criminal prosecutions, but witnesses sometimes misidentify an innocent person. Misidentifications played a part in three-fourths of the 273 wrongful convictions confirmed over the past two decades by DNA exonerations. Eyewitness scientists have long known of the unreliability of witness identifications, as confirmed through experiments dating back to the early 20th century, but police have been slow in changing ID procedures. The Supreme Court established limited safeguards against unreliable identifications in the 1960s and '70s, but experts say the rulings have had little impact and may actually mislead jurors in determining the accuracy of an identification. Now, the New Jersey Supreme Court has ordered stricter standards on identification testimony in the state's courts, including special instructions on the risk of misidentification even by witnesses who are absolutely certain. And the U.S. Supreme Court will hear arguments in November in a case that could allow the justices to revisit the issues. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

More Articles:

EBSCOhost

• Academic Search Premier: eyewitness* and (misidentif* or wrongful or mistak* or fals* or reliab* or memory) - 400+ articles
  
  
• Legal Collection: SUBJECT (Child*) AND (eyewitness* or witness*) AND (recollect* or psychol* or truth* or decept* or memor* or honest*) - over 50 articles, primarily from law reviews and criminology journals, dealing with the subject of children as witnesses
  
  
• Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection: (eyewitness* or witness*) and (police or evidence or criminal) - 590+ full text peer-reviewed articles, mostly from psychology journals

ProQuest - (witness* or eyewitness*) and (false or wrongful or memory or mistak*) - 600+ full text articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals

Albany Law Review, Volume 74 Issue 3 (2011). Special issue on innocence, includes several relevant articles such as:

• Clark, Steven E. "Blackstone and the Balance of Eyewitness Identification Evidence." 74 Alb. L. Rev. 1105 (2011)
  
  
• Norris, Robert J., et al. "'Than That One Innocent Suffer': Evaluating State Safeguards Against Wrongful Convictions." 74 Alb. L. Rev. 1301 (2011)
  

Books

Ebrary: eyewitness and (false OR error OR wrongful) - Ebooks, many from scholarly/University presses, arranged in relevance order (the most occurences of the keywords at the top)

Web

Known Sites: If I perform a general internet search I am obliged to further research the publisher and authors of each webpage I want to use in order to evaluate their credibility. The CQ Researcher issue listed above provides specific websites to search, such as that of the Innocence Project, which publishes a page:
"Understand the Causes: Eyewitness Misidentification."

Specific Domains: Since it is government agencies that seek eyewitness testimony I can also target a web search to just government sites - the .gov domain. Here is a Google Advanced Search limited to government websites with the word 'eyewitness' in the page title: allintitle: eyewitness site:.gov. This provides webpages such as

United States. Dept. of Justice. Natl. Institute of Justice.Eyewitness Identification. 30 Sep. 2011

Video: Finding Peer Reviewed Articles in EBSCOhost

Purpose:This demo shows you how to search for peer reviewed articles in EBSCOhost's Academic Search Premier database.
Length: 5 minutes
File format: Video (mp4) -13.5MB (Needs Adobe Flash Player)
Required: Headphones or speakers to hear the audio
Related post: Video: What is a peer reviewed article?.
Related Post: Parts of a Journal Article

Start the video below and click the button in the lower right corner to view in full size.




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Video: What is a peer reviewed article?

Click on the following link to view a narrated PowerPoint presentation on what "peer review" is, what a peer-reviewed journal might include in its content, and what a peer-reviewed article looks like.

Tutorial Link: http://www.screencast.com/t/E9zqSVBqtOd (Click on the "Play" arrow to start the video.)

You need headphones to hear the audio or click on the "cc" button to view the closed captions. You can also click on the forward arrow to skip to the next slide when necessary. Adobe Flash player is required.

Related post: Video: Finding Peer Reviewed Articles in EBSCOhost.
Related Post: Parts of a Journal Article

ECE 127 - Benefits of Music & Movement to Young Children’s Brain Development

EBSCOhost article databases - Academic Search Premier, Professional Development Collection, Psychology and Behavioral Sciences Collection

Search: SU child* AND SU music* AND SU ( brain or cognit* or intellect or psychol* or physiolog* or development ) - 204 articles

Sample articles:


• "…music lessons may enhance cognitive development.Brown University Child & Adolescent Behavior Letter 22.11 (2006): 2. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Kenney, Susan. "Brain-Compatible Music Teaching." General Music Today 23.1 (2009): 24-26. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Zander, Autumn L. "Creating A musical foundation: The Value of Early Childhood Music Class in the Transition to Private Lessons." American Music Teacher 60.1 (2010): 25-27. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Love, Angela, and M. Susan Burns. ""It's a Hurricane! It's a Hurricane!": Can Music Facilitate Social Constructive and Sociodramatic Play in a Preschool Classroom?" Journal of Genetic Psychology 167.4 (2006): 383-391. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Custodero, Lori A. "Living Jazz, Learning Jazz." General Music Today 22.1 (2008): 24-29. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Nyland, Berenice, Jill Ferris, and Lesley Dunn. "Mindful hands, gestures as language: listening to children." Early Years: Journal of International Research & Development 28.1 (2008): 73-80. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Hui, Ken. "Mozart effect in preschool children?" Early Child Development & Care 176.3/4 (2006): 411-419. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Schellenberg, E. Glenn. "Music and Cognitive Abilities." Current Directions in Psychological Science (Wiley-Blackwell) 14.6 (2005): 317-320. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• De Vries, Peter. "Music at home with the under fives: what is happening?" Early Child Development & Care 179.4 (2009): 395-405. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Garner, Alison Maerker. "music for the Very Young." Teaching Music 16.2 (2008): 28-31. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Ilari, Beatriz, and Megha Sundara. "Music Listening Preferences in Early Life." Journal of Research in Music Education 56.4 (2009): 357-369. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Nardo, Rachel. "Music Technology in the Preschool? Absolutely!" General Music Today 22.1 (2008): 38-39. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Hefer, Michal, Zalman Weintraub, and Veronika Cohen. "Musical cognition at birth: a qualitative study." Early Child Development & Care 179.6 (2009): 769-783. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• "Musical kids more likely to hear sweet sound of success." Education (14637073) 239 (2006): 5. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Bower, Bruce. "Newborns don't miss the beat." Science News 175.4 (2009): 14. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Črnčec, Rudi, Sarah Wilson, and Margot Prior. "The Cognitive and Academic Benefits of Music to Children: Facts and fiction." Educational Psychology 26.4 (2006): 579-594. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.

Articles from Music Educators Journal (although some of these are a bit older than 10 years they have been approved by Carolyn Fazzari)


• Turner, Mark E. "Child-centered learning and music programs." Music Educators Journal 86.1 (1999): 30. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Scott-Kassner, Carol. "Developing teachers for early childhood programs." Music Educators Journal 86.1 (1999): 19. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Flohr, John W., Daniel C. Miller, and Roger Debeus. "EEG STUDIES WITH YOUNG CHILDREN." Music Educators Journal 87.2 (2000): 28. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Fox, Donna Brink. "MUSIC AND THE BABY'S BRAIN." Music Educators Journal 87.2 (2000): 23. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Tarnowski, Susan M. "Musical play and young children." Music Educators Journal 86.1 (1999): 26. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.
  
  
• Campbell, Patricia Shehan. "What music really means to children." Music Educators Journal 86.5 (2000): 29. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 21 Sept. 2011.

Note: Many of these are lengthy research articles, but it is not necessary to read the entire article in order to prepare a 1 paragraph summary. Each of the studies begins with an abstract that in itself summarizes the whole article. They also have discussion sections near the end that generally are only a couple of pages and cover what the authors feel is significant.

ENGL& 235 - Commeree - Periodical Analysis

Types of Periodicals

• Parts of a Research/Scholarly Journal Article - APA Style
• Gaston, M.A. (2005). Become a critical reader. Journal of Dental Hygiene, 79(3), 1. Retrieved from IngentaConnect database.
• This article articulates the benefits of reading peer-reviewed articles, compares them with articles published on trade magazines, and provides tips on critical reading. (Note: it takes some time to load, then you click on "PDF" to read the full text of the article.)
• ProQuest Handout: Scholarly Journals, Trade Publications, and Popular Magazines
• This handout compares the three different types of periodicals in a nice table format with details.
• Video: What is a Peer-Reviewed Article?
• Video: Finding Peer-Reviewed Articles in EBSCOhost
• Peer-Reviewed Article Checklist

Finding Periodical/Source Information
Example 1:

• If the title is available through EBSCO, look at the publication

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ENGL& 235 - Commeree - Resources Memo Guide

Question 1.In the CBC Library, you can find out the availability of the major REFERENCE SOURCES in the field that you have chosen by
1. Searching the online Library Catalog. Click on the blue "Advanced Search" link and then limit your search to "Book, Not For Loan“, which are Reference books. Type in a broad subject term such as "biology", "nursing", "engineering" in the search box and hit "enter" key or the "search" button at the bottom of the screen.

2. Look through the search results and click on a title that looks relevant, then click on "Browse Shelf" to see other books next to it. Watch a 1.5-minute Tutorial.

3. You can also walk to the Reference Collection shelves located in the center of the Library, and with the Librarian’s help, find and browse the relevant section(s).

4. Besides print reference sources, there are also online reference sources such as Oxford Reference Online, Gale Virtual Reference, Oxford English Dictionary, and Encyclopedia Britannica Online. You can find these on the library Resources web page.

Question 2.To find CBC’s scholarly and professional semi-technical (trade publications) PERIODICALS

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National Debt

FACTS.com

• Key Issue: Budget and the National Debt. World News Digest. Facts On File News Services. Last updated June 2011.
• Focus On: The U.S. Federal Budget and National Debt (Research Feature)." World News Digest. Facts On File News Services, May 2011.
• Reuters News (Today). Reuters. World News Digest. Facts On File News Services.

CQ Researcher

• Clemmitt, Marcia. "National Debt: Are higher taxes needed to reduce the debt?" CQ Researcher 18 Mar. 2011.
  Washington is wracked this year by intense budget politics. Spurred by the conservative Tea Party movement, Republican lawmakers point to the federal government's $14 trillion debt as an emergency that demands big cuts in domestic programs, including Social Security, plus tax cuts they say will spur economic growth. But Democrats say government spending is needed to sustain the economy while the private sector struggles back to health. They call for government investment in infrastructure and education, plus tax increases to strengthen programs such as Social Security for future generations. A decade ago the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicted that the federal government would run a $796 billion surplus in 2010, but that rosy future never materialized. Over the past 10 years, a severe recession, tax cuts and spending on two wars put the federal government, and also the states, deeply in the red. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.
  
  
• Clemmitt, Marcia. "The National Debt: Has it gotten too big?" CQ Researcher 14 Nov. 2008.
  With the national debt now more than $10 trillion — twice what it was eight years ago — the country faces a dire financial future, some analysts argue. Over the past eight years, the Bush administration has run larger and larger annual deficits, adding to the national debt and restricting the government's ability to respond to a new crisis. Now, with the U.S. and global financial meltdown ushering in a potentially catastrophic economic slowdown, the next president — newly elected Sen. Barack Obama — will be under pressure to use government fiscal policy, such as tax cuts and government spending, to bolster the economy, even though those actions will raise the debt further. Besides wrestling with that dilemma, the new president also must face the question of how to pay for spiraling Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid benefits for the nation's 77 million baby boomers.
  From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Articles

EBSCOhost
SU ( debt* or budget deficit* ) and ( federal or national or public ) and GE united states

ProQuest
SU(National debt or budget deficits) AND SU(federal budget) AND GEO(united states)

Reference

Gale Virtual Reference Library: Entries related to national debt or budget deficits from several scholarly encyclopedias covering law, social sciences and history.

Ebrary

Figgie, Harry E. & Gerald J. Swanson. America the Broke : How the Reckless Spending of the White House and Congress Are Bankrupting Our Country and Destroying Our Children's Future. Doubleday Publishing, 2004.

Rivlin, Alice M. & Isabel V. Sawhill. Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2005 : Meeting the Long-Run Challenge. Brookings Institution Press, 2005.

Rivlin, Alice M. & Isabel V. Sawhill. Restoring Fiscal Sanity: How to Balance the Budget. Brookings Institution Press, 2004.

Rivlin, Alice M. & Joseph R. Antos. Restoring Fiscal Sanity 2007 : The Health Spending Challenge. Brookings Institution Press, 2007.

Shaviro, Daniel N. Do Deficits Matter? Univ. of Chicago, 1997.

Wright, Robert E. One Nation Under Debt : Hamilton, Jefferson, and the History of What We Owe. McGraw-Hill, 2008.

Yarrow, Andrew L. Forgive Us Our Debts : The Intergenerational Dangers of Fiscal Irresponsibility. Yale UP, 2008.

Search Ebrary directly for more titles on national debt or budget deficits.

Web

United States. House of Representatives. Committee on Rules. Budget Control Act (Amended version reflecting announcement of July 31, 2011).

United States. Congressional Budget Office. "CBO Analysis of August 1 Budget Control Act." Summary. 1 Aug. 2011. Links to entire document and blog post.

United States. House of Representatives. Committee on Rules. "Section-by-Section Analysis of the Budget Control Act of 2011 as Announced on July 31, 2011."

Higher Education - Economic Aspects

Billitteri, Thomas J. "The Value of a College Education: Is a four-year degree the only path to a secure future?" CQ Researcher 20 Nov. 2009. CQ Researcher. Web. 19 Nov. 2009.
President Obama's $12 billion American Graduation Initiative — announced in July — aims to help millions more Americans earn degrees and certificates from community colleges. The president wants the United States to have, once again, the highest proportion of college graduates in the world. Along with the administration, economists and many students and parents embrace the notion that higher education offers the most promising ticket to financial security and upward mobility. However, some argue that many young people are ill-prepared or unmotivated to get a four-year degree and should pursue apprenticeships or job-related technical training instead. The debate is casting a spotlight on trends in high-school career and technical education — long known as vocational education — and raising questions about the ability of the nation's 1,200 community colleges to meet exploding enrollment demand. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Articles

EBSCOhost

Subject Search:

• Community Colleges AND United States
  • Subtopics: Enrollment, Tuition OR Costs OR Finance
• Student Loans AND Debt*
  
• SU college graduates and SU ( wage* or employ* or economic ) and united states

ProQuest

("Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act" or "american graduation initiative")

Books

Romano, Richard M. and Hirschel Kasper. Occupational outlook for community college students. New directions for community colleges, no. 146. Jossey-Bass, 2009. Print. Main Collection. LB2328 .N472 2009 no.146

Kamenetz, Anya. Generation debt : why now is a terrible time to be young. Penguin, 2006. Print. Main Collection. HQ799.7 .K36 2006

Draut, Tamara. Strapped: why America's 20- and 30-somethings can't get ahead. Doubleday, 2005. Ebrary. Also Print Main Collection HQ799.7 .D73 2007.

Mooney, Nan. "College Promises: Real Debt and False Expectations." in Not Keeping up with Our Parents : The Decline of the Professional Middle Class. Beacon, 2008.

ebrary Search: Subject "community colleges"

Web

Carnevale, Anthony P., Jeff Strohl and Michelle Melton. What's it Worth? The Economic Value of College Majors. Center on Education and the Workforce. Georgetown University. 24 May 2011. "The report finds that different undergraduate majors result in very different earnings."

United States. White House. "Investing in Education: The American Graduation Initiative." by Katherine Brandon. White House Blog, 14 July 2009.

United States. Library of Congress. Student Aid and Fiscal Responsibility Act of 2009 (H.R.3221).

Washington State. Board for Community & Technical Colleges. Academic Year Report. A "snapshot of funding, facilities, staffing, and enrollments . . . expenditures, personnel and students."

Writing Resources

Ebrary - Writing and Grammar ebooks, includes:

• Webster's New World Student Writing Handbook by Sharon Sorenson. Wiley, 2010. Need to write a comparison/contrast paper? Outline for a persuasive speech? This book and the accompanying downloadable samples show you how - plus book reports, email, letters, application essays, resumes, essay tests and much more.
• Schaum's Quick Guide to Writing Great Research Papers by Laurie Rozakis, McGraw-Hill, 2007. Focusing just on the research paper, from choosing a topic through to proofreading the finished product.
• The Cambridge Guide to English Usage by Pam Peters. Cambridge UP, 2004. Choosing your words carefully? This will help. Also grammar and punctuation, organized alphabetically by topic.
• Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus in Dictionary Form edited by Barbara Ann Kipfer, Delta, 2005.
  

Oxford Reference Online features several English language dictionaries and thesauruses of English as well as references specific to grammar and usage.

Shakespeare - Online Reference Resources

Ebrary: Subject - Shakespeare - over 70 ebooks, including:

• Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Comedy
• Plays of Shakespeare : A Thematic Guide
• Shakespeare : The Basics
• Shakespeare Book of Lists : "List, List, on List!" (Hamlet 1.5.22) the Ultimate Guide to the Bard, His Plays & How They've Been Interpreted (& Misinterpreted) Through the Ages
• Shakespearean Language : A Guide for Actors & Students
• Shakespeare's Legal Language
• Shakespeare's Non-Standard English : A Dictionary

Oxford Reference Online:

• A Dictionary of Shakespeare
• Oxford Companion to Shakespeare

NetLibrary:

• Shakespeare's Comedies: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide
  
• Shakespeare's Romances: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide
• Shakespeare: the seven major tragedies

Web:

• Mr. William Shakespeare and the Internet - "an annotated guide to the scholarly Shakespeare resources available on the Internet."

Other: the web guide listed above indexes several good, free internet sites hosting Shakespeare's works. Our catalog includes many ebook versions of scholarly editions that provide substantial supplementary materials - analyses of scenes, characters, historical notes, etc.

Artificial Intelligence

This post will help you find resources about the impact of artificial intelligence on society.

Find Topic Overviews
Marshall, Patrick. "Artificial Intelligence." CQ Researcher 22 Apr. 2011: 361-84. Web. 14 May 2011. Can “smart” machines replace humans? From battlefields and factory floors to hospital operating rooms and retail call centers, artificial intelligence is rapidly changing how the world thinks and works. IBM's powerful new computer, Watson, recently beat two “Jeopardy!” game-show champions. Drone aircraft are deployed on dangerous reconnaissance and assault missions, reducing soldiers' exposure to harm. Computers diagnose disease, and robotic devices perform delicate surgical procedures. And “smart” machines are bringing new efficiencies to a variety of professions and industries, such as law offices, banks and manufacturing plants. But analysts warn that artificial intelligence may have devastating downsides. Some argue that if battles are fought with machines instead of humans, wars might be easier to start. And economists worry that as robots and other forms of artificial intelligence replace more and more workers, catastrophic levels of unemployment will be the result. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Whitney, Stewart B. "Artificial Intelligence." Encyclopedia of Anthropology. Ed. H. James Birx. Vol. 1. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Reference, 2006. 281-282. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 14 May 2011.

Find Books 
Print books in the CBC Library
ebooks available through the CBC Library
--Artificial life: an overview (a NetLibrary ebook)

Find Articles
EBSCOhost ASP sample search:
artificial intelligence (in Subject Terms) AND (unemploy* or employ* or job*) (full text results)

Find Websites
Myers, Courtney Boyd ed. (2009). The AI Report. Forbes June 2009
Christian, Brian , “Mind vs. Machine,” The Atlantic, March 2011.

Early Childhood Education Resources

Short URL for this post:
http://bit.ly/ececbc

Library Databases

• EBSCOhost: Academic Search Premier

             Sample search:  toddler* AND subject:Television (fulltext)

• Professional Development Collection

             Sample search: music AND learn* AND (toddler* or infant*) (fulltext)

• ERIC-EBSCOhost (Educational Resource Information Center) 

              Sample search: subject: behavior problem* AND subject: (toddler* or infant*) (fulltext published after 1990)

Early Childhood Education Program at CBC

• ECE Homepage
• Associate Degree of Applied Science in Early Childhood Education (AAS) - 92 credits
• Early Childhood Education Certificate - 47 credits
• Early Childhood Education Child Care Certificate of Completion - 15 credits
• Child Development Associate (CDA) - Certificate of Completion - 10 credits
• State Training and Registry System (STARS) - Certificate of Completion - variable credits

Websites

The National Association for the Education of Young Children http://www.naeyc.org

National Association for Music Education http://www.menc.org/

www.earlychildhoodnews.com

Teaching Our Youngest: A Guide for Preschool Teachers and Child Care and Family Providers
http://www2.ed.gov/teachers/how/early/teachingouryoungest/index.html

Washington State Department of Early Learning. Resources for Providers & Educators.
http://www.del.wa.gov/providers-educators/

• You Have a Choice! A Guide to Finding Quality Child Care 
• Choosing child care checklist -English
• Choosing child care checklist - Spanish
• Washington State Child and Adult Care Food Program (CACFP)

CHILD Profile

Parents Magazine

Parents.com: Toddler Development

Parents.com: Potty Training

Washington State Child Care Resource and Referral Network
http://www.childcarenet.org/

Websites for kids

Starfall's Learn to Read with phonics
http://www.starfall.com/

Tumblebooks: e-books for e-kids. From local Public Library (Mid-Columbia Library).

PBS Kids: http://pbskids.org/

Learner.org Interactives: Spelling Bee

Learner.org Storytelling: Cinderella

Crayola Coloring Pages
http://www.crayola.com/free-coloring-pages/

Activity Village
http://www.activityvillage.co.uk/index.htm

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School Reform

Clemmitt, Marcia. "School Reform: Should evaluations of teachers rest on students' test scores?" CQ Researcher April 29, 2011. With international tests showing that the United States no longer leads in school achievement, a bipartisan coalition of reformers is advocating the creation of more charter schools and a system of basing pay and firing decisions for teachers on students' standardized test scores. Conservatives have long recommended such businesslike approaches for schools, and Republican lawmakers and politicians are pushing for laws to weaken unions' ability to defend teachers against charges of incompetency. Teachers' unions remain opposed to market-oriented reforms, but the philosophy has new adherents among education-reform groups and centrist Democrats such as President Obama, whose administration is providing funding to states to develop data-driven teacher assessments. Meanwhile, some education scholars point out that poorly performing students are concentrated in low-income districts, where funding shortfalls, bad teaching conditions and poverty make educating students more difficult. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Clemmitt, Marcia. "Fixing Urban Schools: Has No Child Left Behind helped minority students?" CQ Researcher 17.16 (2007): 361-384.

More Articles:

EBSCOhost:

View Results for search illustrated below:


(school or education or academic) AND (improvement or reform or achievement or innovation* or change)

ProQuest

SU(urban school* or city school*) AND ("Quality of education")

SU(education or school*) AND SU(reform*) AND (united states)

Books:

Search CBC Library Catalog: educational accountability or school choice or educational change and united states

Ebrary: "School Improvement Programs" OR "Education, Urban" OR "Educational Change" OR "Educational Accountability" OR "School vouchers" OR "school choice" AND "United States" - 50+ ebooks

netLibrary books:

Cuban, Larry, and Michael D. Usdan. Powerful Reforms With Shallow Roots: Improving America's Urban Schools. New York : Teachers College Press, 2003.

McAdams, Donald R. Fighting to save our urban schools-- and winning! lessons from Houston. New York : Teachers College Press, 2000.

Freedman, Sarah Warshauer. Inside city schools investigating literacy in multicultural classrooms. New York : Teachers College Press, 1999.

Medal of Honor & U.S. Military

ENGL 101/Hostetler
Books
CBC Library Catalog List: U.S. Military: ebooks, reference titles, and print books on reserve.

Ebrary: (soldiers or army or marines or air or coast or navy or veterans) and (biography or narratives or history) and "united states" AND NOT "civil war"

Articles
EBSCOhost Sample Searches: SUBJECT medal of honor, Limited to full text - 500+ articles in 3 databases

united states and (army or air force or coast guard or marines or navy) and (profile* or interview* or narrative*)
- 2400+ full text articles

ProQuest - ("medal of honor") AND (army or air or nav* or marine*) - 7000+ full text articles from newspapers, magazines and journals

Facts On File:
"Notable African Americans in the Military (sidebar)." Issues & Controversies in American History. Facts On File News Services, 26 Feb. 2008. Web. 23 Apr. 2010. .


Websites
http://www.cmohs.org/
Congressional Medal of Honor Society

http://www.history.army.mil/moh.html
U.S. ARMY CENTER OF MILITARY HISTORY: Medal of Honor Citations

United States. Air Force. "Medal of Honor: U.S. Air Force Recipients."

http://www.army.mil/medalofhonor/
The United States Army Medal of Honor

United States. Marine Corps. History Division. "Marine Corps Medal of Honor."

United States. Navy. "Medal of Honor, USN Recipients."

United States. Dept. of Defense. Medal of Honor: Heroes of Iraq and Afghanistan.

http://www.homeofheroes.com/photos/index_2.html
Medal of Honor Photo Albums (Use the menu on the left to navigate.)
"Of the 961 men who have received Medals of Honor since the beginning of World War I, we now have photos of all but 2 of these heroes..."

http://www.arlingtoncemetery.net/medalofh.htm
Medal of Honor Recipients Buried In Arlington National Cemetery (Some photos)

Organ Donations

Mantel, Barbara. "Organ donations: can the growing demand for organs be met?" CQ Researcher 15 Apr. 2011: 337-360.  More than 110,000 Americans are on organ-transplant waiting lists, and demand for kidneys, lungs, hearts and other donated organs far exceeds the supply. Eighty percent of those waiting for organs need kidneys, in part because of rising incidences of obesity, hypertension and diabetes. States have made it easier for people to register as donors, either online or when obtaining or renewing a driver's license. Also, hospitals have been working to increase the number of families that allow a loved one's organs to be donated at death. But some transplant advocates are proposing more controversial measures, such as rewarding donors with financial compensation. Advances in bioengineering may eventually shrink the organ gap, allowing surgeons to transplant organs engineered from a patient's own stem cells. But for complex organs such as lungs and kidneys, that goal is probably decades away.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

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First Crusade

Paine, Mike. "The First And Second Crusades." Crusades. Harpenden, GBR: Pocket Essentials, 2001. Ebrary. Web

Williams, Paul L. "The First Crusade." Complete Idiot's Guide to the Crusades. Indianapolis, IN: Alpha, 2002. Ebrary. Web.

Erdmann, Carl. "BYZANTIUM AND JERUSALEM: THE MOTIVE AND THE OBJECTIVE OF THE FIRST CRUSADE." p.355-371. The origin of the idea of crusade. Princeton UP, 1977. ACLS Humanities E-Book Collection. Web.

Morrisson, Cécile. "Crusades." Encyclopedia of the Middle Ages. Ed. André Vauchez. 2001. Osford Reference Online. Oxford University Press. Web.

"The First Crusade" - Internet Medieval Sourcebook. Ed. Paul Halsall. includes Urban II: Speech at Clermont: Five Versions. Web.

Knox, Ellis L. "The First Crusade." 1999. The ORB: On-line Reference Book for Medieval Studies. Web. "The ORB is an academic site, written and maintained by medieval scholars for the benefit of their fellow instructors and serious students. All articles have been judged by at least two peer reviewers. Authors are held to high standards of accuracy, currency, and relevance to the field of medieval studies."

Identity Theft, Phishing and Consumer Scams

Books
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Subject - Internet Fraud

Articles

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Subject: Phishing

Selected articles:

Helft, Miguel. "Firms Warn of E-Mail Fraud After a Breach." New York Times 5 Apr. 2011, Late Ed. ProQuest. "While e-mail addresses may not seem particularly vulnerable, experts say that if criminals can associate addresses with names and a business like a bank, they can devise highly customized attacks to trick people into disclosing more confidential information, a technique known as 'spear phishing.'"

Cohn, Laura. "What to Toss, What to Keep." Kiplinger's Personal Finance; Feb2010, p69-70.
The article presents information on the amount of time financial documents must be kept before throwing them away.

Cohn, Laura. "What You Need to Know About Identity Theft." Kiplinger's Personal Finance; Jul2009, Vol. 63 Issue 7, p79-79, 1p.
This article offers information on identity (ID) theft and provides tips on preventing it.

Albanesius, Chloe. Consumers Haven't Learned Not to Divulge Private Info Online. PC Magazine; Jun2010, Vol. 29 Issue 6, p1-1, 1p.
The article presents the study from Consumer Reports regarding the behavior of consumer in divulging private information online in the U.S. The study reveals that 52 percent of adult Internet users still engage in risking personal information including date of birth, home addresses, and information about their children, despite warnings from privacy advocates.

Biggs, Ohn. "Stop Hack Attacks." Popular Mechanics Aug. 2010: 98-101. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. "The easiest and most common method for bad guys to get your data is currently the phishing attack, wherein hackers create a Web page that looks trustworthy but is actually a collection point for passwords and credit card information. Many scams involve e-mails about fake charges to your credit cards or online payment accounts."

Sarrel, Matthew D. Thwarting Identity Theft. PC Magazine; Nov2008, Vol. 27 Issue 12, p96-96, 1p

Kiviat, Barbara. "WHO'S GOT YOUR NUMBER?" Time; 7/17/2006, Vol. 168 Issue 3, p68.
The article discusses the risk of identity theft and recommends that individuals not give out their social security numbers.

CQ Researcher

Katel, Peter. "Identity Theft." CQ Researcher 10 June 2005: 517-40.

Web

United States. Federal Trade Commission. Fighting Back Against Identity Theft.
This website is a one-stop national resource to learn about the crime of identity theft. It provides detailed information to help you deter, detect, and defend against identity theft.

United States. Federal Trade Commission. "Phishing." OnGuardOnline.gov. Feb. 2008. Facts, advice, and how to report suspicious emails.

Anti-Phishing Working Group. "Consumer Advice: How to Avoid Phishing Scams."

Black Death

Ebooks

Martin, Sean. Black Death. Pocket Essentials, 2001.

Scott, Susan and Christopher J. Duncan. "The Great Pestilence." Chapter 4 of Biology of Plagues : Evidence from Historical Populations. Cambridge University Press, 2001.

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Gale Virtual Reference Library
"Bubonic plague." The Gale Encyclopedia of Science. Ed. K. Lee Lerner and Brenda Wilmoth Lerner. 4th ed. Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 2008. 678-680.

Vickery, R.C. "Bubonic Plague." Van Nostrand's Scientific Encyclopedia. Ed. Glenn D. Considine. 10th ed. Vol. 1. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Interscience, 2008. 821-822.

Creative Writing

Books
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• Subject: Creative Writing - Ebook titles include:
  
  • Rozakis, Laurie. The complete idiot's guide to creative writing. Netlibrary. Alpha, 1997.
    
  • Dean, Michael W. $30 writing school. Ebrary. Thompson, 2004.
    
  • Gunnars, Kristjana. Stranger at the door: writers and the act of writing. Ebrary. Wilfrid Laurier UP, 2004.
    
  • McNally, John. The creative writer's survival guide. Ebrary. University of Iowa Press, 2010.
• Subject: (poetry or fiction) and authorship - Ebook titles include:
  • Sedgwick, Fred. How to write poetry and get it published. Ebrary. Continuum, 2002.
    
  • Koch, Stephen. The modern library writer's workshop: a guide to the craft of fiction. Ebrary. Modern Library, 2003.
    
  • Brooks, Terry. Sometimes the magic works: lessons from a writing life. Ebrary. Del Rey, 2003.
    
  • Bell, James Scott. Plot & structure: techniques and exercises for crafting a plot that grips readers from start to finish. Ebrary. Writer's Digest Books, c2004.
    
  • Mailer, Norman. The spooky art. Ebrary. Random House, 2004.
    
  • Bauer, Douglas. The stuff of fiction: advice on craft. Ebrary. University of Michigan Press, c2006.
• Subject: (poetry or fiction) and technique - Ebook titles include:
  • Kress, Nancy. Dynamic Characters: How to Create Personalities that Keep Readers Captivated. Ebrary. F+W Media, 2004.
  • Rozelle, Ron. Write great fiction: description & setting : techniques and exercises for crafting a believable world of people, places, and events. Ebrary. Writer's Digest, 2005.
    
  • Kempton, Gloria. Dialogue: techniques and exercises for crafting effective dialogue. Ebrary. Writer's Digest, 2004.

Periodicals

• Internet Writing Journal. Free website.
• Poetry Magazine. Free website.
  
• Poets & Writers. ProQuest.
  
• Writer. EBSCOhost.
  
• Writer's Digest. ProQuest.

Child Cognitive Development and Education

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• Subject: Educational Psychology
  
• Subject:Cognition in children
  
• Subject: Piaget OR Author: Piaget
  
• Subject: Child development OR keyword: Vygotsky

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Redistricting Debates

Jost, Kenneth. "Redistricting Debates: Will new reforms limit gerrymandering?" CQ Researcher 25 Feb. 2011: 169-192. The once-every-decade process of redrawing legislative and congressional districts is getting under way in state capitals around the country. To start, Sun Belt states will gain and Rust Belt states will lose seats in the U.S. House of Representatives. But win or lose, states have to redraw lines to make sure that legislative and congressional districts have equal populations and give fair opportunities to minority groups. The process is intensely political, with parties maneuvering for advantage and incumbents seeking to hold on to friendly territory. Republicans are in a good position after gaining control of legislatures in a majority of states last November. But demographic trends, especially the growth of Latino populations in some states, may limit the GOP's opportunities. In addition, California and Florida will be operating under new rules pushed by good-government groups that seek to limit “gerrymandering,” line-drawing for purely partisan reasons. After redistricting plans are completed, many will be challenged in court, where outcomes are difficult to predict.
From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

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