Library will be closed Thanksgiving weekend
The Library will close at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, November 22 (there are no evening classes) and will re-open on Monday morning, November 27, at 7:30 a.m.

But don't despair! With a little planning, you can take advantage of your time off from classes to work on those research papers. Come in before November 22 and check out the books you will need. Get the passwords so you can access our databases even when the Library is closed. Create a netLibrary account so you can read e-books (books delievered to your computer electronically).

Everyone here in the Library wishes you a happy Thanksgiving.

New Book Area Debuts November 1^st!

The Library is pleased to announce the debut of our New Book Area, a place where you can enjoy all of the latest additions to our collection. Bring your SWC ID and you can take any of these fresh, piping-hot treats home for 4 weeks! Brand-new batches of books will be displayed twice a month, so come by and take a look.

A list of all of the new books will be posted twice a month on our “What’s New” Library blog.

And while you’re at the Library, don’t forget to visit the updated Leisure Reading Collection. These books are “for fun” reading -- a perfect companion to relaxing on the beach, sunglasses on and iced tea in hand.

Visit the Library and find a new favorite book (before someone else finds it first)!

New Books: November 1, 2006

Call #	Title
BF637.O94.R625 2006	The overachievers: the secret lives of driven kids.
BJ1498.L88 2006	Doing nothing: a history of loafers, loungers, slackers and bums in America.
BV601.85.O85 2006	A woman's place: house churches in earliest Christianity.
CT3203.M46 2004	The book of Latina women: 150 vidas of passion, strength, and success.
DA175.C366 2003	The struggle for mastery : Britain, 1066-1284.
E784.Z45 2006	Flapper: the notorious life and scandalous times of the first thoroughly modern woman.
F1221.Z3.D44 2006	Into the hearts of the Amazons: in search of a modern matriarchy.
GN282.G52 2006	The first human: the race to discover our earliest ancestors.
GT2850.P65 2006	The omnivore's dilemma: a natural history of four meals.
GT596.B3813 2006	Fashion: the twentieth century.
GV884.R86.N45 2005	Bill Russell: a biography.
GV943.49.C76 2006	The World Cup: the complete history.
GV943.49.F56 2006	The World Cup: the ultimate guide to the greatest sports spectacle in the world.
HB615.B675 2006	If at first you don't succeed--: the eight patterns of highly effective entrepreneurs.
HC59.7.E22 2006	The white man's burden: why the West's efforts to aid the rest have done so much ill and so little good.
HD30.28.G733 2005	Competition demystified: a radically simplified approach to business strategy.
HD45.C37 2006	Innovation: the five disciplines for creating what customers want.
HD6060.D43 2006	The declining significance of gender?
HD62.15.C26 1999	The MAC effect.
HD9502.A2.J33 2005	Sustainable fossil fuels: the unusual suspect in the quest for clean and enduring energy.
HD9502.A2.T473 2006	A thousand barrels a second: the coming oil break point and the challenges facing an energy dependent world.
HF1604.C4426 2004	China and the WTO: accession, policy reform, and poverty reduction strategies.
HF5415.1265.W53 2006	Blogwild! A guide for small business blogging.
HF5415.127.M66 2005	Global marketing and advertising: understanding cultural paradoxes.
HG178.33.U6.K37 2005	Shortchanged: life and debt in the fringe economy.
HG179.S8113 2006	Starting out.
HG179.S863 2006	Surviving divorce.
HG179.S866 2006	Surviving the loss of a spouse.
HG2040.2.W49 2004	Why the poor pay more: how to stop predatory lending.
HG4529.5.S95 2005	Unconventional success: a fundamental approach to personal investment.
HN79.C23.R336 2006	Black, brown, yellow, and left: radical activism in Los Angeles.
HQ1090.T95 2006	Where men hide.
HQ1111.F47 2004	The fire this time: young activists and the new feminism.
HQ1221.B245 2006	Tripping the prom queen: the truth about women and rivalry.
HQ734.W5787 2006	Why I'm still married: women write their hearts out on love, loss, sex, and who does the dishes.
HQ767.5.U5.H4 2005	Abortion politics in North America.
HQ767.9.W35 2006	What children need.
HQ769.L394 2006	The price of privilege: how parental pressure and material advantage are creating a generation of disconnected and unhappy kids.
HQ777.5.W652 2005	Understanding the divorce cycle: the children of divorce in their own marriages.
HQ784.I58.S24 2005	The internet playground: children's access, entertainment, and mis-education.
HV5292.A393 2004	Altering American consciousness: the history of alcohol and drug use in the United States, 1800-2000.
HV5822.L9.L73 1998	LSD: still with us after all these years.
HV875.5.R45 2006	Two little girls: a memoir of adoption.
HV875.55.F465 2006	The girls who went away: the hidden history of women who surrendered children for adoption in the decades before Roe v. Wade.
JV6035.M542 2004	Migration and immigration: a global view.
KF4757.5.M4.M49 2004	Mexican Americans & the law: el pueblo unido jamás será vencido!
KF5399.A95 2004	The rights of law enforcement officers. + CD-ROM
LB1555.H297 2005	Elementary education: a reference handbook.
ML3506.G54 1997	The history of jazz.
ML3507.M67 2004	Living with jazz.
ML3918.J39.A97 2005	Jazz consciousness: music, race, and humanity.
ML418.M45.A3 1991	Beneath the underdog: his world as composed by Mingus.
PE1128.A2.C32 2001	The Cambridge guide to teaching English to speakers of other languages.
PE1449.N377 2002	Building vocabulary skills.
PR6025.O8722.G327 2005	A gift in the sunlight : an American story.
PS3562.A4345.Z59 2004	The Cambridge companion to David Mamet.
PZ7.M4784485.I5 2006	I'm not a baby!
PZ8.K736.O5 2005	Once upon a time, the end: asleep in 60 seconds.
Q141.H264 2005	Candid science V: conversations with famous scientists.
QA11.2.U53 2005	Understanding mathematics and science matters.
QA21.S995 2006	The secret life of numbers: 50 easy pieces on how mathematicians work and think.
QA273.15.K37 2006	Chances are--: adventures in probability.
QA76.73.P224.H83 2006	PHP in a nutshell.
QA76.73.P224.U423 2005	PHP and MySQL for dynamic Web sites.
QA76.73.P224.W46 2006	PHP phrasebook: essential code and commands.
QA76.73.S67.B43 2005	Learning SQL.
QA76.73.S67.M64 2006	SQL cookbook.
QA76.76.D47.W5157 2006	More about software requirements: thorny issues and practical advice.
QA76.76.D47.W517 2003	Software requirements: practical techniques for gathering and managing requirements throughout the product development cycle.
QA76.76.T48.B553 2002	Managing the testing process: practical tool and techniques for managing hardware and software testing.
QA76.76.T48.H88 2003	Software testing fundamentals: methods and metrics.
QA76.76.T48.P38 2006	Software testing.
QA76.9.C55.R624 2005	Exchange server cookbook.
QA76.9.C55.W35 2006	Sams teach yourself Exchange Server 2003 in 10 minutes.
QA76.9.D3.M578945 2006	Fixing Access annoyances: how to fix the most annoying things about your favorite database.
QB64.L478 2005	Deep sky objects: the best and brightest from four decades of comet chasing.
QB88.Z57 2005	An acre of glass: a history and forecast of the telescope.
QB981.A44 2006	In search of reality.
QB981.P85 2006	The view from the center of the universe: discovering our extraordinary place in the cosmos.
QC16.O62.P35 2006	J. Robert Oppenheimer: a life.
QC981.8.G56.G67 2006	An inconvenient truth: the planetary emergency of global warming and what we can do about it.
QC981.D68 2005	Restless skies: the ultimate weather book.
QH105.C2.P478 2005	Perspectives of San Diego Bay: a field guide.
QK149.P25 1997	Sierra Nevada tree identifier.
QK45.2.B87 2006	Flowers: how they changed the world.
QL362.A78 2005	Life in the undergrowth.
QL463.W25 2006	A walk around the pond: insects in and over the water.
QL542.B87 2006	The life cycles of butterflies: from egg to maturity, a visual guide to 23 common garden butterflies.
QL666.C546.S24 2006	Voyage of the turtle: in pursuit of the Earth's last dinosaur.
QL737.P98.O95 2006	Secrets of the savanna: twenty-three years in the Afican wilderness unraveling the mysteries of elephants and people.
QL76.B66 2006	Sailing with Noah: stories from the world of zoos.
QL82.S73 2005	State of the wild 2006: a global portrait of wildlife, wildlands, and oceans.
QP801.C68.K369 2006	A brief history of cocaine: from Inca monarchs to Cali cartels: 500 years of cocaine dealing.
QP86.W445 2005	Healthy aging: a lifelong guide to your physical and spiritual well-being.
QV736.L28 2006	Big pharma: exposing the global healthcare agenda.
R726.C637 2006	Unplugged: reclaiming our right to die in America.
R726.R64 2004	Assisted suicide and the right to die: the interface of social science, public policy, and medical ethics.
RA418.5.P6.A58 2006	Poor families in America's health care crisis.
RA778.W53 2005	The doctor's complete college girls' health guide: from sex to drugs to the freshman fifteen.
RA781.7.C357 2006	Yoga for all of us: a modified series of traditional poses for any age and ability.
RB155.M673 2006	The genetics revolution: history, fears, and future of a life-altering science.
RC112.H3513 2006	Viruses vs. superbugs: a solution to the antibiotics crisis?
RC455.2.F35.B73 2005	The science of false memory.
RC463.E27 2006	Crazy: a father's search through America's mental health madness.
RC628.F33 2005	Fat: the anthropology of an obsession.
RD129.5.C4554 2006	Body brokers: inside America's underground trade in human remains.
RJ399.C6.I575 2005	Preventing childhood obesity: health in the balance.
SB481.6.M67.B58 2006	The last season.
T11.D33 2006	How to write and publish a scientific paper.
T21.B85 2005	Science and technology in colonial America.
T385.G69222 2006	The illustrated AutoCAD 2006 quick reference.
T385.G69279 2006	Using AutoCAD 2006; basics. + CD-ROM
T385.S7547 2006	Introducing AutoCAD 2006. + CD-ROM
T385.T5236 2006	Autocad 2006: a problem solving approach.
TC224.C2.G75 2005	Living with the changing California coast.
TD405.W272 2004	Water systems operations and maintenance: video training series. DVD - 3 vol.
TK5105.585.D69 2006	Routing TCP/IP.
TK5105.585.K69 2005	The TCP/IP guide: a comprehensive, illustrated internet protocols reference.
TK5105.8865.G68 2006	Skype me!: from single user to small enterprise and beyond.
TL789.85.A75.H36 2005	First man: the life of Neil A. Armstrong.
TN870.M339 2006	The age of oil: the mythology, history, and future of the world's most controversial resource.
TR899.A3623 2006	Adobe Premiere Pro 2.20. + DVD-ROM
TX837.K25947 2005	Salad people and more recipes : a new cookbook for preschoolers & up.

New Online Databases!

Annals of American History Online provides a year-by-year documentary of American thought and action. Read the original words of more than 1,500 authors, from 1493 through today, who made and analyzed American history through speeches, writings, and interviews including the U.S. Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, John Smith’s account of his adventure with Pocahontas and Richard Nixon’s resignation from the presidency.

To access the Annals of American History Online from on and off campus visit the library’s Articles and Databases webpage click here


Britannica Online is the award-winning World Wide Web information service provided by Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc. Britannica Online includes the complete encyclopedia, as well as Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary and the Britannica Book of the Year. It can also be used to search an Internet directory that includes more than 130,000 links to Web sites selected, rated, and reviewed by Britannica editors.
The World Data Analyst is a feature within Britannica Online that provides, country profiles, current and historical statistics on 217 countries of the world and allows historical and cross-national comparisons.

To access Britannica Online from on and off campus visit the library’s Articles and Databases webpage click here

Enciclopedia Universal en Español is a Spanish language encyclopedia with over 47,000 articles plus over 9,000 images, maps and tables. This extensive reference tool covers art, geography, history, people, religions, science, and much more.
Also included is the Enciclopedia Juvenil a Spanish Elementary Encyclopedia, with images, Spanish-language videos, and Spanish Learning Materials designed to help students sharpen their language skills.

To access the Enciclopedia Universal en Espanol from on and off campus visit the library’s Articles and Databases webpage click here

The College Book for spring 2007 is . . . .
The book chosen in a campus-wide vote is Enrique's Journey, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning series from the L.A. Times about a 17-year old Honduran who enters the U.S. illegally to seek his mother who left home twelve years earlier.

The book received 60 of the 157 votes cast. Second place went to Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (40 votes), followed by Longitude (33 votes), and Frankenstein (24 votes).

Gary Creason, Vanesa Herrera, Gloria Pangelinan, Sandra Romero, and Damian Stevenson will each receive a copy of Enrique's Journey because they were winners of a drawing among all those who voted, no matter which book they voted for. They will be notified when the books have been ordered and received.

College Book finalists
It's time for the entire campus to vote for the ninth College Book, a book that can be used for extra credit activities and discussions in many disciplines during spring semester.

This year the finalists are:
Enrique's Journey, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning series from the L.A. Times about a 17-year old Honduran who enters the U.S. illegally to seek his mother who left home twelve years earlier. (non-fiction)

Frankenstein We all know the story . . . or do we? Did you know that this timeless classic was first published in 1818? (fiction)

Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time A clockmaker came up with a solution to save lives of countless sailors. (non-fiction)

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan In nineteenth-century China, selection of a lifelong best friend was done by a matchmaker and was as important as the selection of a husband. (fiction)

Copies of all the finalists are available at the Reserve Desk in the Library for one-hour, in-building use only. Come and peruse these and make your choice. Staff and faculty can vote through their Outlook mail. Students will be able to submit votes on paper at the Bookstore, Library, Academic Success Center, HEC, and San Ysidro Education Center.

Five people who vote, no matter which book they vote for, will be selected at random to win a copy of the College Book.

Changes coming
We are making changes to the area between the main entrance and the elevators. We have added many new titles to our EZ collection, which has books of interest to adults but in language suitable for those learning English. You can now easily find a book not only on a specific topic but also by reading level of difficulty.

Those books that had MCN on the spine are gone. For many years, we had belonged to a rental plan which provided bestseller-type titles. However, the rental was often much more than what we would pay for the book through Amazon, and then if we wanted to buy the book, we would be charged an additional fee. We are going to be ordering lesiure reading through Amazon, and some titles are already on order.

All recently-received books will now be sent to the New Book Shelf for a yet-to-be-determined period of time. Some of you may remember that we used to do this in the old library and that it was popular.

We hope you like the changes we are making to this area.