Closed July 4th

The Library will be closed on Monday, July 4, in observance of Independence Day. Regular hours resume Tuesday, July 5.

This Month’s CQ Global Researcher

Peacebuilding by Jina Moore, June 21, 2011

Can it stabilize countries after the fighting stops?

Peacebuilding is the international community’s newest approach to ending cycles of conflict in hot spots around the world. It recognizes that even if conflict has officially ended, the risk of violence often remains ever-present. In fact, roughly 40 percent of post-conflict countries have faced renewed violence within a decade.

Peacebuilding tries to improve the prospect for lasting peace by helping to stabilize societies, strengthen institutions and reinforce governments. Since 2005, the United Nations has spent $250 million on peacebuilding projects in 19 countries – most of them in Africa but also in Nepal, Sri Lanka, Haiti and Kyrgyzstan. But does this approach work, and can it be replicated in countries with drastically different histories and cultures? Is a democratic society a prerequisite for lasting peace?

Critics of peacebuilding say it will take more than a new philosophy to fix the world’s most fragile states. Proponents say it is the best attempt yet at dealing with the aftermath of conflict.

To read this article and others visit our Articles and Databases webpage and select CQ Global Researcher. Select the Off Campus Access link for information on how to access this resource from off campus locations.

You can also view an online tutorial that explains how to request the off campus passwords and how to access the online databases from off campus locations.

Featured Database of the Month

Annals of American History

Explore the rich and varied history of the United States. Annals of American History contains primary documents from 1493 to today -- speeches, poems, historical writings, memoirs, interviews, images, and multimedia.

Currently-enrolled students may access the library databases from off campus with the current semester's passwords. To obtain passwords, fill out the password request form.

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Access the library from off campus

Enjoy access to the library 24 hours a day and 7 days a week from home and other off-campus locations.

For off-campus access to library databases complete our Password Request Form. Currently enrolled students will receive a list of usernames and passwords within minutes, that can be used to access library resources.

Library databases contain full-text articles from newspapers, magazines, and journals, as well as reference books, literary criticism, statistics, images, and primary sources.

For more assistance, Ask-a-Librarian.

ARTstor: New Collection News

ARTstor Digital Library has collaborated with the Library of Congress to share 6,884 images from the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South collection, a record of early buildings and gardens in the American South.

These documentary photographs were taken by Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864-1952), one of the first American women to become a prominent photographer. Between 1933 and 1940, with a grant from the Carnegie Corporation, Johnston photographed buildings and gardens throughout nine Southern states, mainly in Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas, Georgia, Alabama, and Louisiana, and to a lesser extent in Florida and Mississippi. The Carnegie Survey was an attempt to document the rapidly disappearing antebellum architecture of the American South. In addition to photographing great mansions, Johnston was one of the first photographers to record the vernacular architecture of the region. Johnston’s work also captured interiors, furnishings, and architectural details, as well as neglected and endangered buildings.

View the Carnegie Survey of the Architecture of the South collection in the ARTstor Digital Library at: http://library.artstor.org/


To view ARTstor from off campus locations you need to create an ARTstor account at http://www.artstor.org/ from any computer on the Southwestern College campuses.

Check it out

Culinary careers : how to get your dream job in food with advice from top culinary professionals
by Rick Smilow and Anne E. McBride. Clarkson Potter, 2010.
New Books TX911.3.V62 S62 2010

Are you a top chef?

"Smilow, president of the Institute of Culinary Education, and McBride (coauthor, Chocolate Epiphany) offer a combination of solid advice, written in a personable style, and interviews with successful people employed in several different culinary niches, including pastry and baking, catering, management, food artisans, marketing, nutrition, and education. The book closes with listings of culinary/hospitality programs, continuing education programs, professional organizations, and scholarships. Many books for those researching careers in food focus on only one area; however, like Ken Mondschein's Food and Culinary Arts, [this book takes] a broader view. VERDICT Smilow's book is recommended for readers seeking a thorough introductory exposure to today's professional possibilities in the culinary world."—Eric Petersen, Library Journal book review.

New Literature Databases

New to the Southwestern College online Authors and Databases website is direct access to both the Scribner Writers Online and Twayne’s Authors Online databases.

Scribner Writers Online provides access to more than 2,000 original essays on the lives and works of more than 1,400 important authors from around the world and from all time periods. Content in this database also includes additional resources like World Poets, British Writers Classics, American Writers Classics, Latino and Latina Writers, and more.

The Twayne’s Authors Online database offers criticism by scholars on hundreds of years of literature. This online resource provides critical introductions to the lives and works of writers, to the history and influence of literary movements, and to the development of literary genres.

You can access both resources from our Articles and Databases website in the Arts, History & Humanities section. For off campus access to these resources you must be a currently enrolled student in a Southwestern College credit course to receive off campus access.

Students can request off campus access by using the online Password Request Form at www.swccd.edu/~library/PasswordRequest.. Currently enrolled students will receive the list of passwords for off campus access within minutes by email.

You can also view an online tutorial that explains how to request the off campus passwords and how to access the online databases from off campus locations.

Credo Reference Electronic Books

Featured Title of the Month

The Brain Book: An illustrated guide to its structure, function and disorders, Dorling Kindersley Publishing

The brain is the most complex organ in the body and is probably the most complex system known to Humankind. Our brain contains billions of neurons that are constantly sending signals to each other, and it is this signaling that creates our minds. With the help of modern scanning technology, We now know about brain structure in great detail.

The Human Brain Book is a complete guide to the one organ in the body that makes each of us what we are - unique individuals.

Want more on this topic?
Take a look at these additional titles in Medicine, all part of the Credo General Reference collection:

• Encyclopedia of the Human Brain, Elsevier Science & Technology
  
• Dictionary of Optometry and Visual Science, Elsevier Health Sciences
  
• The Human Body Book: An Illustrated Guide to Its Structure, Function and Disorders, Dorling Kindersley Publishing
  
• Black's Medical Dictionary, 42nd Edition, A&C Black
  
• Taber's Cyclopedic Medical Dictionary, F.A.Davis
  

To access this resource from off campus locations you must be a currently enrolled student or staff member at Southwestern College. You can request the username and password for Credo Reference by using our Password Request Form at http://www.swccd.edu/~library/Passwordrequest

SWC Library -- Otay Mesa and San Ysidro

Summer hours at Otay Mesa and San Ysidro begin Monday, June 20.

SWC Library, Higher Education Center at Otay Mesa - Librarian Available
June 20 through August 3, 2011
Monday: 7:30 a.m. - 1:30 p.m.
Tuesday: 10:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Wednesday: 1:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

SWC Library, Higher Education Center at San Ysidro - Librarian Available
June 21 through August 3, 2011
Tuesday 9:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.
Wednesday 2:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m.

This Week in CQ Researcher

Nuclear Power by Marcia Clemmitt, June 10, 2011

Can nuclear energy answer global power needs?

The catastrophic accident in March at Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant has sparked new debate in the United States and elsewhere over the role of nuclear energy in electric-power generation.

Spurred by concerns that the burning of coal and other carbon-based fuels is causing climate change, Democrats, including President Barack Obama, and some environmentalists have joined a long-established Republican consensus that nuclear power belongs in the nation’s energy mix. But expansion of nuclear power faces big obstacles, including the high cost of building new plants and public qualms about health and safety. Largely because of cost issues and investors’ fears of liability, expansion of nuclear power in the United States has virtually stopped since the 1970s. Meanwhile, critics charge that the Nuclear Regulatory Commission is too lax about safety.

• Is nuclear power too dangerous?
  
• Is the United States prepared for a nuclear-plant emergency?
  
• Is nuclear power needed to meet future energy needs?
  

To read this article and others visit our Articles and Databases webpage and select CQ Researcher. Select the Off Campus Access link for information on how to access this resource from off campus locations.

The Library Catalog is another good source for locating information on this issue.

Got a Question? Need an Answer?

Try our Online Reference Chat Service

Real People - Real Help - Real Fast

24 hours a day, 7 days a week

http://www.swccd.edu/~library/ask.htm

Check It Out

The Facebook effect : the inside story of the company that is connecting the world by David Kirkpatrick, Simon & Schuster, 2010
New Book Shelf HD9696.8.U64 F335 2010

In just six and a half years, the Internet social networking site Facebook has amassed half a billion users, making it what author David Kirkpatrick says is probably the fastest growing company ever in terms of customers. This book, describing how Facebook keeps evolving, the controversies it has faced, and what the future holds, and was written with Facebook's founder, Mark Zuckerberg's knowledge and is based on extensive interviews with him.

The book chronicles Facebook's surprising Ivy League beginnings in a Harvard University dormitory and how it spread to other college campuses and high school audiences to its present status as a grassroots global phenomenon with the power to shake business and government.

The Facebook effect : the inside story of the company that is connecting the world is currently available for 4-week check out. You can find it in the New Books Area (call number HD9696.8.U64 F335 2010).

Off Campus Access to the Library

For off campus access to resources on our Articles and Databases website complete our Password Request Form at www.swccd.edu/~library/PasswordRequest/.

You can also view the online tutorial on how to request the off campus passwords and how to access the online databases from off campus locations.

Currently enrolled students will receive a list of usernames and passwords within minutes, that can be used to access library resources.

Enjoy access to the library 24 hours a day and 7 days a week from home and other off campus locations. For more information visit the library's website www.swccd.edu/~library

Internet Resource: Science 360

The latest wonders of science, engineering, technology and math are now available at the Science 360.gov website. Sponsored by the National Science Foundation, Science 360 gather videos on a variety of scientific topics. Each topic includes anywhere from a handful to more than 100 videos submitted by the National Science Foundation and more. The videos are arranged by topic and can also be searched.

The site also offers a news service that has a science video of the day in addition to links to the latest science news stories from popular and peer-reviewed journals. All this and more at http://science360.gov/files

Online class? Attend a free orientation.

Today -- Monday at 5:30 -- learn the basics of navigating your online class.

You will learn how to login and use Blackboard, the online course management system. Find out how to complete your assignments, post to the discussion board, and access the information you need. At the end of class, you can practice what you learned.

Orientations last an hour and are held in the Library building (620), classroom L244. No sign-up is required, just be on time!

Don't worry, if you missed today's orientation, you can still attend one this summer:

Summer Orientations for Online Students
Thursday, June 16 at 5:30 pm
Saturday, June 18 at 11 am
Monday, June 20 at 11 am

See you there!