"The quest for the greatest ever clip on YouTube is over!" reports The Guardian's film critic Peter Bradshaw.
Are you a film buff? If so, then chances are you'll agree with him. The video he is describing, titled "100 Movies, 100 Quotes, 100 Numbers", was created by Librarian Alonso Mosley from Jacksonville, Florida.
Mr. Mosley recently posted a centennial edition of "100 Movies, 100 Quotes" on his blog.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Tuesday, September 09, 2008
Top Shelf
by Patty Torres and Tony McGee, SWC Librarians
Top Shelf is a weekly column where librarians share some of their favorite resources with you -- both books and websites.
Book Selection
The Handy Science Answer Book
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Reference Q173 H24 2003
This is a collection of 1700 of the most asked, most interesting or most unusual questions and answers in subjects such as science, buildings, boats, communications just to mention a few. This is a user friendly source with appeal to children and adults alike. The answers are written in non-technical language and there is something for everyone. Some examples of questions are:
-- Why do golf balls have dimples?
-- Who made the first golf shot on the moon?
-- What was the first mass produced alternative vehicle in the United States?
-- What does the code that follows the letters ISBN mean?
-Patty
Website Selection
My website for the week is Searchme: www.searchme.com
It’s one of the latest search engines to hit the market, and it’s certain to make waves. Basically, you type in your search term and it brings up a “visual result.” Meaning, you’ll see actual webpage snapshots of the most relative sites for your search term, not just a description. You can scroll through the results just like in the album view in iTunes. Plus, the results page has a list of relative categories to help you further narrow down your search.
Once you’ve found the web site you want to go to you just click on the picture, and Searchme sends you directly to that site. Searchme lets you split the browser page into two sections. One for the visual results, and the other for your standard descriptive results.
There is also a feature that lets me roll my mouse over the visual result which pops up the descriptive result at the bottom, pretty much removing the need for the split section. You can also create "Stacks of bookmarked Web pages" to revisit later.
Next time you’re online try a visual search.
-Tony
Top Shelf is a weekly column where librarians share some of their favorite resources with you -- both books and websites.
Book SelectionThe Handy Science Answer Book
Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh
Reference Q173 H24 2003
This is a collection of 1700 of the most asked, most interesting or most unusual questions and answers in subjects such as science, buildings, boats, communications just to mention a few. This is a user friendly source with appeal to children and adults alike. The answers are written in non-technical language and there is something for everyone. Some examples of questions are:
-- Why do golf balls have dimples?
-- Who made the first golf shot on the moon?
-- What was the first mass produced alternative vehicle in the United States?
-- What does the code that follows the letters ISBN mean?
-Patty
Website SelectionMy website for the week is Searchme: www.searchme.com
It’s one of the latest search engines to hit the market, and it’s certain to make waves. Basically, you type in your search term and it brings up a “visual result.” Meaning, you’ll see actual webpage snapshots of the most relative sites for your search term, not just a description. You can scroll through the results just like in the album view in iTunes. Plus, the results page has a list of relative categories to help you further narrow down your search.
Once you’ve found the web site you want to go to you just click on the picture, and Searchme sends you directly to that site. Searchme lets you split the browser page into two sections. One for the visual results, and the other for your standard descriptive results.
There is also a feature that lets me roll my mouse over the visual result which pops up the descriptive result at the bottom, pretty much removing the need for the split section. You can also create "Stacks of bookmarked Web pages" to revisit later.
Next time you’re online try a visual search.
-Tony
Monday, September 08, 2008
September ebook of the Month
Over 19,000 electronic books are accessible from your desktop through the Southwestern College Library. For information on how you can access this electronic resource visit our NetLibrary information page .
During the month of September, The Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology, edited by Antonio Cartelli and Marco Palma is the feaured NetLibrary ebook of the month.
This comprehensive encyclopedia describes the influence of information communication technology in urban communities and in scientific knowledge construction in these communities around the world, with emphasis on the roles of communications technologies, urban technology planning, and knowledge management.
If you have already established a NetLibrary account through Southwestern College Library, visit http://www.netlibrary.com/ and log in to read "The Encyclopedia of Information Communication Technology" or any of our 19,000 electronic book titles.
If you do not have a NetLibrary account, you can create your own account from any computer on the Southwestern College campuses. Visit our NetLibrary information page .
Friday, September 05, 2008
This Month in CQ Global Researcher
Crisis in Darfur by Karen Foerstel, September 2008
Is there any hope for peace?
More than two years after government and rebel fighters signed a peace agreement in Sudan, violence is still rampant in Darfur. At least 2.4 million people have been displaced and up to 400,000 have died since 2003. And observers say the situation is getting worse.
A year after the U.N. authorized the world’s largest peacekeeping force in Darfur, only 37 percent of the authorized personnel have been deployed, and no military helicopters have been provided. The International Criminal Court is considering genocide charges against Sudanese President Omar Hassan al-Bashir, but some fear an indictment would trigger more violence than justice. Some say China, Sudan’s largest trading partner and arms supplier, should pressure Sudan to end the violence.
To read this month's coverage in CQ Global Researcher and others visit our Articles and Databases webpage and click on CQ Global Researcher. Select the Remote Access link for information on how to access this resource from off campus locations.
Thursday, September 04, 2008
Presidential Campaign '08: John McCain
Citizen McCainSince John McCain became the clear leader for the Republican presidential nomination, Citizen McCain by prize-winning journalist Elizabeth Drew, published in 2002, has been reprinted. Drew has been the author of many political books, professor, host of a PBS series, and Washington correspondent for Atlantic Monthly and The New Yorker. It is significant to note that she was a panelist in the first 1976 Presidential debate, was moderator of the debate between the Democratic candidates for the nomination in the 1984 race, and wrote Citizen McCain as an unauthorized biography, although she was given access to McCain and his staff. She is a journalist of integrity who came to admire the candidate rather than an author who set out to produce a gushing view of him.
Much of the book is devoted to McCain’s fight for campaign reform. He is quoted as saying in 2001, “They’re without shame. I’m talking about members of Congress, not the lobbyists, who are doing what they’re paid to do. It’s the system that makes good people do bad things because of the corrupting influence of money. . .” (p.166)
But McCain was at his best after September 11. Drew details his receiving more requests to speak than President Bush and gives many quotes from McCain, such as this one on the Tonight Show when Jay Leno asked, “What can normal people do to help?”:
“Live a normal life. Their goal, their object, is to destroy the American way of life. The best way to defeat that is to not let them do that. We’ll have our freedoms, we’ll have our independence, we’ll have our disagreements. If you were planning on traveling, travel. If you were planning on buying something, buy it. Young people, if you were thinking about joining the armed forces, think about it. Young people, volunteer in your community. There is a lot to be done now. Give blood. Do what we see all over, do what I saw from my car on the way here tonight, and what I see all over Arizona: Fly the flag. Fly it proudly.” (p.142)
Citizen McCain is shelved in the Stacks on the top floor of the Library, call number E840.8 M26 D74 2002
Much of the book is devoted to McCain’s fight for campaign reform. He is quoted as saying in 2001, “They’re without shame. I’m talking about members of Congress, not the lobbyists, who are doing what they’re paid to do. It’s the system that makes good people do bad things because of the corrupting influence of money. . .” (p.166)
But McCain was at his best after September 11. Drew details his receiving more requests to speak than President Bush and gives many quotes from McCain, such as this one on the Tonight Show when Jay Leno asked, “What can normal people do to help?”:
“Live a normal life. Their goal, their object, is to destroy the American way of life. The best way to defeat that is to not let them do that. We’ll have our freedoms, we’ll have our independence, we’ll have our disagreements. If you were planning on traveling, travel. If you were planning on buying something, buy it. Young people, if you were thinking about joining the armed forces, think about it. Young people, volunteer in your community. There is a lot to be done now. Give blood. Do what we see all over, do what I saw from my car on the way here tonight, and what I see all over Arizona: Fly the flag. Fly it proudly.” (p.142)
Citizen McCain is shelved in the Stacks on the top floor of the Library, call number E840.8 M26 D74 2002
A book review of Hopes and Dreams: The Story of Barack Obama was published last week.
Wednesday, September 03, 2008
Google Launches New Web Browser
Google has released it new beta web browser call Chrome. This new browser is only available for Windows users with Mac and Linus versions coming soon.One of the features of Chrome is a new approach to page rendering that isolates web applications inside each of the browser’s tabs — a crashing web app might cause a single tab to crash, but that won’t affect anything outside that tab. The rest of the browser remains stable.
For additional information about the Chrome browser visit these websites
http://www.google.com/chrome/intl/en/features.html
http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/google/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=210300297
Tuesday, September 02, 2008
Top Shelf
by John Tibbals, SWC LibrarianLatin American and Caribbean Artists of the Modern Era : A Biographical Dictionary of More than 12,700 Persons
Shipp, Steve.
McFarland & Co., 2003
McFarland & Co., 2003
Call Number: Reference N 6502.4 .S45 2003
Compiled in response to the relatively recent growth of international interest in artists of Latin America and the Caribbean, this extremely comprehensive work consists of several sections. The main body is an alphabetical listing of artist biographies. Appendix 1 lists artists by country, Appendix 2 is a chronological record of exhibitions featuring Latin American or Caribbean artists, Appendix 3 is an alphabetical listing of art museums containing works by artists in this book, and Appendix 4 is a list of galleries showing Latin American and Caribbean art. There is an extensive bibliography and two sections of reproductions.
Compiled in response to the relatively recent growth of international interest in artists of Latin America and the Caribbean, this extremely comprehensive work consists of several sections. The main body is an alphabetical listing of artist biographies. Appendix 1 lists artists by country, Appendix 2 is a chronological record of exhibitions featuring Latin American or Caribbean artists, Appendix 3 is an alphabetical listing of art museums containing works by artists in this book, and Appendix 4 is a list of galleries showing Latin American and Caribbean art. There is an extensive bibliography and two sections of reproductions.
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