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We have republished many of these guides here due to changes in our login method and some databases.  This blog will remain accessible until such time as all relevant content has been republished. If you have any difficulties or questions please contact us.

Alcohol Abuse

Price, Tom. "Alcohol Abuse: Can underage drinking be curbed?" CQ Researcher 8 June 2012. Americans are abusing alcohol less than in the past with one exception: college students, who drink more and binge drink more often than nonstudents of similar age. And alcohol continues to extract a high toll from those who abuse it at any age, killing 80,000 Americans a year and draining more than $220 billion from the economy. Although high school students drink and binge less, bingeing accounts for 90 percent of the alcohol consumed by teens who drink. Health experts also worry about the effects of new products, especially flavored alcoholic drinks, which seem to encourage young women and girls to drink and drink more. To combat alcohol abuse, many educational institutions, community organizations and government agencies are stepping up efforts to promote abstinence among the young and responsible drinking by adults who do imbibe. From the CQ Researcher. Reprinted with permission from CQ Press.

Books: We added several books recently on this topic, including Getting wasted : why college students drink too much and party so hard by Thomas Vander Ven (click linked title to check availability).

Compass Test Prep

CBC Placement Test Web Page

• CBC Math Resources page
• www.khanacademy.org
• www.compasstestquestions.com  

CBC Library Books

• Answers explained : arriving at the answers to the COMPASS math placement test sample questions / by Jill Hacker, 2009
• COMPASS exam secrets study guide : your key to exam success / by Mometrix Media LLC., 2010
• Basic math and pre-algebra / by Jerry Bobrow
• Cliffs math review for standardized tests/ by Jerry Bobrow
• Barron's SAT 1 : how to prepare for the SAT 1

Online Practice Tests

• Sample questions on the official COMPASS website.
• Practice Tests from DeKalb Technical College
• COMPASS Writing & Reading practice tests from Gainesville State College
• COMPASS/ESL Sample Test Questions: Reading (From ACT's website, 2004)
• COMPASS/ESL Sample Test Questions: Math (From ACT's website, 2004)
• COMPASS/ESL Sample Test Questions: Writing (From ACT's website, 2004)
• The online test prep database called Learning Express Library available through the Mid-Columbia Library does NOT have a COMPASS practice test, but it has high school review courses and tests on Math, Reading, Vocabulary, and Writing. It also has a College Preparation section that includes tests such as "ACT", "SAT", "TOEFL", etc.
• As a CBC student, you can get a Mid-Columbia Library card for free;
• When you sign up, choose a password for your library account;
• Then go to the database Learning Express Library;
• To login, the username should be your 14-digit mid-columbia library ID card number and the password should be the one you chose for your account
• Once logged in, click on either the "High School" section or the "College Preparation" section to practice. 

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Moon - Exploration & Habitation

EBSCOhost Articles: SUBJECT (moon and (research or exploration)) AND (habitat* or fuel or life support or water or air or hydroponic* or food or station or base) - 450+ full text articles

ProQuest Articles: SU(moon) AND (habitat* or fuel or life support or water or air or hydroponic* or food or station or base or colon*) - 2800 full text articles

CS 101 - Computers in Society

Topic Suggestions - CQ Researcher

Blog Explosion
Combating Plagiarism - Is the Internet causing more students to copy?
Computer Hacking
Computers and Medicine
Controlling the Internet
Cyberbullying
Cyber-Crime
Cyberpolitics
Cyber-Predators
Cybersecurity February 26, 2010 - Are U.S. military and civilian computer systems safe?
Cybersecurity September 26, 2003 - How vulnerable is the U.S. to cyberwarfare?
Cyber Socializing - Are Internet sites like MySpace potentially dangerous? (2006)
Distance Learning
Future of Journalism - Can the Internet fill the reporting gaps caused by the decline of newspapers?
Google's Dominance
Identity Theft
Impact of the Internet on Thinking
Internet Accuracy - Is information on the Web reliable?
Internet Regulation - Are stiffer rules needed to protect web content?
Libraries and the Internet - Are filters needed to block pornography?
Online Privacy - do Americans need better protection?
Privacy in Peril
Future of Recycling (e-waste)
Regulating the New Economy (digital economy)
Social Networking - Are online social networks eroding privacy? (Sept. 2010)
Television's Future (broadcast vs. podcast)
Video Games - Do they have educational value?
Voting Controversies (electronic voting machines)

Other resources:
Books in ebrary

FOLDOC free on-line dictionary of computing

Oxford Reference Online - Computing

Sample Search for Books
"su:Computer OR su:Technology AND su:social" - 192 results as of 4/25/2012
“su:Computers and civilization ” returned 35 results as of 4/25/2012

Google in China

ENGL 102 / Lambert - 10 sources

• More Topic Sources
• Book Source:  Libary Catalog
• General Reference Source: Encyclopedia Britannica Online | Oxford Reference Online
• Specialized Reference Source: Gale Virtual Reference |  All Reference Sources(Click on the Format filter "Reference" on the lower right corner to view only the reference databases.)
• EBSCOhost Academic Search Premier
• ProQuest
• All library resources

Citation Tools & Guide Pages:

• EasyBib (It is free to use this tool to generate MLA citations. Click on the "Book" tab for books.)
  
• NoodleBib Express: MLA
  
• How to cite CBC Library databases using MLA style.
  
• The Purdue OWL MLA Guide page.
  

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Sample Topic Question: Should Google have stopped censoring its web search results in China when it moved its search engine to Hong Kong on March 23, 2010? Book - Library >> Resources >> Books (Click on the Format filter "Books" on the lower right corner to view only the Books databases.)

• CBC Library Catalog search: kw=internet or kw=web and kw=china
  
• Ebrary Search: internet censorship china

Print book - MLA 7th ed. citation

• Goldsmith, Jack L. Who Controls the Internet? : Illusions of a Borderless World. New York : Oxford UP, 2006. Print.

Ebook - MLA 7th ed. citation

• Deibert, Ronald J., John Palfrey, Rafal Rohozinski, and Jonathan Zittrain, eds. Access Denied : The Practice and Policy of Global Internet Filtering. Cambridge: MIT, 2007. Ebrary. Web. 19 Apr. 2010.

Reference - Library » Resources » Reference General Reference Book

• “Censorship." Encyclopædia Britannica Online. Encyclopædia Britannica, 2010. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

Specialized Reference Book

• Laursen, John Christian. "Censorship." New Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Ed. Maryanne Cline Horowitz. Vol. 1. Detroit: Scribner's, 2005. Gale Virtual Reference Library. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

Articles - Library » Resources » Articles

• Search EBSCOhost: Subject(internet or web or search*) and censor* and china - 125+ full text
  
• ProQuest Search: (internet or web or search) AND Censorship AND GEO(China) AND CO(Google Inc) - 200+ full text

EBSCOhost - Journal/Peer-reviewed - MLA 7th ed. citation

• Israel, Brian R. “'Make Money Without Doing Evil?' Caught between Authoritarian Regulations in Emereging Markets and a Global Law of Human Rights, U.S. ICTS Face a Twofold Quandry." Berkeley Technology Law Journal 24.1 (2009): 617-655. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

EBSCOhost - Magazine/Not Peer-reviewed - MLA 7th ed. citation

• "Does China Have the Right to Censor Google's Internet Search Results?" International Debates Apr. 2010: 2-10. Academic Search Premier. EBSCO. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

ProQuest - Newspaper/Not Peer-reviewed - MLA 7th ed. citation

• Wines, Michael, Sharon LaFraniere and Jonathan Ansfield. "China's Censors Tackle and Trip Over the Internet." New York Times 8 Apr. 2010, late ed.: A1. ProQuest. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

Web - try a Google Advanced Search

• Drummond, David. “A New Approach to China: an Update.” The Official Google Blog. Google, 22 Mar. 2010. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.

Non-Print - try Google Image Search, Video Search, or visit the site of a known provider of non-print content like NPR.

• Montagne, Renee, and Louisa Lim . “Google Feels China Exit Fallout.” Morning Edition. Natl. Public Radio, 25 Mar. 2010. Web. 17 Apr. 2010.
• Photograph. "Google's China Office Unveiled-1." People's Daily Online. People's Daily Online, 8 Sept. 2006. Web. 20 Apr. 2010.

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Modern Middle East - Biography

Ebooks:

A prophet from amongst you: the life of Yigael Yadin : soldier, scholar, and mythmaker of modern Israel, Silberman, Neil Asher

World I Loved : The Story of an Arab Woman  
Author: Cortas, Wadad Makdisi  

Next Founders : Voices of Democracy in the Middle East
Muravchik, Joshua

Ariel Sharon : An Intimate Portrait
Dan, Uri

Man Who Pushed America to War : The Extraordinary Life, Adventures, and Obsessions of Ahmad Chalabi
Roston, Aram

Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
by Nafisi, Azar

Son of the Cypresses : Memories, Reflections, and Regrets from a Political Life
Benvenisti, Meron

Israel's Years of Bogus Grandeur : From the Six-Day War to the First Intifada
Rejwan, Nissim

Print Books (click link to check status in CBC Library's Catalog):

Arafat : from defender to dictator
by Aburish, Saïd K .
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection  - DS119.7 .A68A28 1998

Atatürk
by Mango, Andrew.
CBC Library, Pasco - On Order

The Ayatollah begs to differ : the paradox of modern Iran
by Majd, Hooman.
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DS318.9 .M35 2008

House of stone : a memoir of home, family, and a lost Middle East
by Shadid, Anthony.
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - HQ663.9 .S53 2012

Lipstick Jihad : a memoir of growing up Iranian in American and American in Iran
by Moaveni, Azadeh
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - E184 .I5M63 2006

Man of defiance : a political biography of Anwar Sadat
by Israeli, Raphael .
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DT107.828 .S23I84 1985

Mayada, daughter of Iraq : one woman's survival under Saddam Hussein
by Sasson, Jean P .
CBC Library, Pasco - HQ1735.Z75A56 2004

Nasser
by Nutting, Anthony .
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DT107.83 .N79 1972b

The oil kings : how the U.S., Iran, and Saudi Arabia changed the balance of power in the Middle East by Cooper, Andrew Scott
CBC Library, Pasco - E183.8 .I55C66 2011

The prince : the secret story of the world's most intriguing royal, prince Bandar bin Sultan
by Simpson, William
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - DS244.526 .B55S56 2006

Reading Lolita in Tehran : a memoir in books
by Nafisi, Azar.
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - HQ1746.5 .N34 2004

The Shah
by Milani, Abbas
CBC Library, Pasco - DS318 .M494 2011

Things I've been silent about : memories
by Nafisi, Azar
CBC Library, Pasco Main Collection - HQ1746.5 .N345 2008

Introduction to Theatre

Actors

To determine which actors have won awards, here are the official databases from the associations:
Academy Awards Database
Emmy Awards Database
Tony Awards Database

The CBC Library does not routinely purchase book length biographies of actors; these may be found in the public libraries. Numerous biography reference articles may be found in print at the CBC Library, as well as in some of our online databases such as the ebrary title New Biographical Dictionary of Film by David Thomson (Knopf, 2004), and the Encyclopedia Britannica Online. Also try searching ebrary by keyword (name) or using a subject search such as Motion picture* AND Biography.
ProQuest holds many newspaper and magazine articles on actors; you may find you get better results by changing the search to 'person' and either searching last name first or using the 'look up' feature.

Stage Directors

On Reference Reserve for Drama

• From Belasco to Brook : representative directors of the English-speaking stage / Samuel L. Leiter.
  PN2597 .L45 1991
  
• From Stanislavsky to Barrault : representative directors of the European stage / Samuel L. Leiter.
  PN2570 .L45 1991
  
• Great stage directors : 100 distinguished careers of the theater / Samuel L. Leiter
  PN2205 .L44 1994

Reference

• Fifty key theatre directors / edited by Shomit Mitter and Maria Shevtsova
  PN2053 .F54 2005
  
• Theatrical directors : a biographical dictionary / edited by John W. Frick & Stephen M. Vallillo.
  PN2205 .T54 1994

Online - our Oxford Reference Online database holds several useful titles, including the Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance; try searching it together with the other Performing Arts titles.

Playwrights The CBC Library's general biography resources mentioned above will also be useful for information about playwrights. In addition, playwrights are literary authors and are covered in literature reference sources. One database that we offer that contains many playwrights is ProQuest Learning: Literature.  We also have substantial print reference in literature; for instance, you will find reference articles about Tennessee Williams in:

• American National Biography, volume 23 - Reference CT213 .A68 1999
  
• Dictionary of Literary Biography, volume 7 part 2 - Reference PN451 .D52 1981
  
• Critical Survey of Drama, volume 5 - Reference PR623 .C75 1985

These are just a few of the titles from our print reference collection (consult a reference librarian for more), but you may also find the Oxford Encyclopedia of American Literature and Oxford Encyclopedia of British Literature useful, searched simultaneously with the Literature titles in Oxford Reference Online. Many of the playwrights listed are included in books in our Main collection - their writings, and scholarly analysis of their lives and writings; try a keyword or subject search of our Library Catalog. Articles may be found in EBSCOhost and ProQuest.  

The Richland Public Library includes the Biography Resource Center and the Literature Resource Center among their databases; the first may be useful for all three assignments, the last for the playwright presentation. All CBC Students may gain access, and even non-residents will have the fee waived if they show proof that they are a current student.

Art 111- Pierce

To find out more about art periods and/or artists:

Reference

1. 34 Volumn Print Set
The dictionary of art /Publisher: Grove's Dictionaries
Call Number: N31 .D5 1996
Location: Reference
(This set is very comprehensive, including biographies and subject entries. The last volumn is the index.)

2. Oxford Reference Online Art & Architecture Set
(Search 14 art reference books online at once with Oxford Reference Online. You need the quarterly password to access this database from home.)

• The Oxford Dictionary of American Art and Artists
• The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art
• A Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture
• The Oxford Dictionary of Art and Artists
• The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Art Terms
• The Oxford Dictionary of Art
• A Dictionary of Modern Design      
• The Grove Encyclopedia of Classical Art and Architecture
• The Grove Encyclopedia of Decorative Arts
• A Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Art
• The Oxford Companion to the Garden
• The Oxford Companion to the Photograph
• The Oxford Dictionary of the Renaissance
• The Oxford Companion to Western Art

3. Use CBC Library Catalog to find more books

• Do a quick keyword search in the catalog, e.g. dadaism
• Look through the results, note the Location and Call Number of the books
• e.g. Inner Visions: German Prints from the age of expressionism Location: Main Collection Call Number: N6868.5 .E9P7 1992
• To find more, you can click on a relevant title to view its Subject(s)
• Then click on the Subject links to find more books on the subject. For example,
• Subject(s): Dadaism
• There are two books on reserve for this class
• Title 1: Foundations of Art & Design (Ask circulation staff)

Title 2: History of modern design /Raizman, David Seth.
Call Number:NK1175 .R35 2004
Temporarily Shelved at Reserve, Reference (Ask reference librarian)

4. Use EBSCOhost to find articles

1. Do a quick keyword search, e.g. constructivism AND art (limited to Full Text and CBC Title Collection). You can also search by artists' names and find articles about them and/or their works.
2. You can then further "Narrow Results by Subject" using links (e.g. "CONSTRUCTIVISM (Art)", "Art Movements", etc.) shown to the left of the Result List
3. How to save Citations in MLA Style - EBSCOhost

Web Resource

ArtLex online dictionary("more than 3,600 terms used in discussing art / visual culture, along with thousands of supporting images...")

Smithsonian American Art Museum: Search Collection and Biographies (Artist Search Tips)

Use Interlibrary Loan for books & articles that CBC Library does not own

1. Talk to a reference librarian in person or over the phone (509-542-4890)
2. Fill out an online form to Request a book/book chapter
3. Fill out an online form to Request a journal/magazine article
4. Allow at least one to two weeks
   

To browse specific journals/magazines:

1. Use CBC Journal Finder
2. Use the second box to "Browse e-journals by subject": "Art, Arthitecture & Applied Arts"
3. Or search for a specific title such as "Woman's art journal"
4. Follow the links to browse periodicals online or request at circulation for those that says "CBC Pasco Paper Copies"
   

To find images:

• CAMIO : Digital art from world museums.
• Google Image Search
• Ask.com (Click on the Image tab)
  
• You can scan images found in the books using the color scanner in the library and print them out using the library's color printer (25 cent/pg)
  

updated by y.y. 2/2/2012