by Naomi Trapp Davis and Patty Torres, SWC Librarians
Top Shelf is our weekly column where we highlight interesting reference books and websites. This week's website selection contains valuable information about last week's fires - be sure and take a look!
Book Selection
Photographic Atlas of the Body (Firefly Books, 2004)
Reference QM 25 P46 2004
Most of us don’t necessarily spend our free time pondering our hair follicles, or how food looks going through our small intestine. This book will fix that.
After browsing through the full color pictures of cells, tissues, body systems, and the brain, you will never look at your eyelashes or fingernails the same way again. The pictures were taken using a variety of special imaging technologies including magnetic resonance imaging (MRI), tomography, thermograms, X-rays, microscopes, angiograms, and ultrasound. The results are educational, but mainly they are beautiful, enlightening, or just unusual. Each picture on its own is a miniature work of art.
-Naomi.
Website Selection
California Wildfires
http://sis.nlm.nih.gov/enviro/californiafires.html
The California Wildfires web page includes information on the health effects from fires and exposure to smoke; links to air quality resources, environmental clean-up following fires, and animals in disasters.
This web page is designed to help emergency responders, health care providers, public health workers, and the general public find authoritative and timely information about key health concerns from wildfires. Links to other federal government web sites, including USA.gov, FEMA, and the Department of Health and Human Services are included.
In addition, resources for emergency responders and information in Spanish are also included. Searches of NLM databases, such as MedlinePlus, PubMed, TOXLINE, Tox Town, and Haz-Map (occupational health) are provided for additional health information. It also provides the locations of facilities reporting to the EPA Toxics Release Inventory and Superfund sites in and around San Diego (TOXMAP).
-Patty
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Tuesday, October 30, 2007
Air Quality Forecast - San Diego County
Concerned about air quality after the fires? The San Diego Pollution Control District has a current forecast for all regions of San Diego County.
http://www.sdapcd.org/air/forecasts/otoday.html
This site gives daily reports about particulate matter in the air, including the level of health concern.
The San Diego Pollution Control District warns:
http://www.sdapcd.org/air/forecasts/otoday.html
This site gives daily reports about particulate matter in the air, including the level of health concern.
The San Diego Pollution Control District warns:
"Due to the numerous wild fires burning throughout San Diego County, localized areas of smoke and ash have occurred in many areas. As a result elevated particulate matter concentrations, including fine particulates, or PM2.5 concentrations, may reach unhealthful to hazardous levels in some heavily smoke impacted areas."
The California Environmental Protection Agency has an excellent website with quick facts about the 2007 fires, information on state and federal assistance, and how to clean up ash safely: http://www.calepa.ca.gov/Disaster/Fire/default.htm
Additional useful San Diego air quality information can be found at: http://www.sdapcd.org/air/air_quality.html
Monday, October 29, 2007
Orientation to Blackboard - Tues at 5:30 PM
for new online students:
one-hour optional orientation to Blackboard
Tuesday, October 30, 5:30 -6:30 PM
Room L-244 (Library building, main floor)
No signup necessary. Please be on time.
one-hour optional orientation to Blackboard
Tuesday, October 30, 5:30 -6:30 PM
Room L-244 (Library building, main floor)
No signup necessary. Please be on time.
Top Shelf
by Laura Galván-Estrada and Mark Hammond
This week's top reference resources were selected by SWC Librarians Laura and Mark.
Book Selection
Latinas in the United States: a Historical Encyclopedia
Eds. Vicki L. Ruiz & Virginia Sanchez Korrol
3 vols.
Reference E184.S75 L35 2006 and as e-book via NetLibrary.
These recent encyclopedia (2006) contains a wealth of information and it is one of a kind. In three volumes, about 600 hundred women are covered. The set starts with a five historical overviews of Latinas in the different regions of the United States. Each biographical entry is supported by a list of sources, and, most of the time, a photograph. There is a List of Biographical Entries, where you can find out entries by subject area. Besides entries on individuals, the encyclopedia also contains entries on important topics as they relate to Latinas in the U.S., such as "Health: current issues and trends" and "Telenovelas". Though the set contains entries on some contemporary women (you'll find entries for Cristina Saralegui and Gloria Estefan), the entries are mostly historical, as the title implies.
-Laura
Website Selection
My picks for websites this week are not selected for their usefulness to most people, but rather to illustrate how the web makes it economically feasible to make relatively obscure information available to researchers around the world. These are both sources that I have used recently in my own research.
The first is Fordham University's Internet Medieval Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
This site collects and makes available a large collection of medieval documents ranging from the renowned to the truly obscure. When I needed to see examples of medieval promissory notes and other commercial documents, this site was just the ticket.
The second is a more limited site that I used just the other day. I needed to read the Assizes of Ariano, the laws issued by King Roger of Sicily in the 12th century. There are only two surviving copies of the Assizes, both in Latin and both in libraries in Europe. I was able to find a recent translation into English on the Medieval Texts in Translation page of the School of History at the University of Leeds: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/weblearning/MedievalHistoryTextCentre/medievalTexts.htm
-Mark
This week's top reference resources were selected by SWC Librarians Laura and Mark.
Book Selection
Latinas in the United States: a Historical Encyclopedia
Eds. Vicki L. Ruiz & Virginia Sanchez Korrol
3 vols.
Reference E184.S75 L35 2006 and as e-book via NetLibrary.
These recent encyclopedia (2006) contains a wealth of information and it is one of a kind. In three volumes, about 600 hundred women are covered. The set starts with a five historical overviews of Latinas in the different regions of the United States. Each biographical entry is supported by a list of sources, and, most of the time, a photograph. There is a List of Biographical Entries, where you can find out entries by subject area. Besides entries on individuals, the encyclopedia also contains entries on important topics as they relate to Latinas in the U.S., such as "Health: current issues and trends" and "Telenovelas". Though the set contains entries on some contemporary women (you'll find entries for Cristina Saralegui and Gloria Estefan), the entries are mostly historical, as the title implies.
-Laura
Website Selection
My picks for websites this week are not selected for their usefulness to most people, but rather to illustrate how the web makes it economically feasible to make relatively obscure information available to researchers around the world. These are both sources that I have used recently in my own research.
The first is Fordham University's Internet Medieval Sourcebook: http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/sbook.html
This site collects and makes available a large collection of medieval documents ranging from the renowned to the truly obscure. When I needed to see examples of medieval promissory notes and other commercial documents, this site was just the ticket.
The second is a more limited site that I used just the other day. I needed to read the Assizes of Ariano, the laws issued by King Roger of Sicily in the 12th century. There are only two surviving copies of the Assizes, both in Latin and both in libraries in Europe. I was able to find a recent translation into English on the Medieval Texts in Translation page of the School of History at the University of Leeds: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/history/weblearning/MedievalHistoryTextCentre/medievalTexts.htm
-Mark
Tuesday, October 23, 2007
LIBRARY TO REOPEN OCT 29
Due to the fire emergencies in the San Diego County, and with due consideration to the health and well being of our students and staff, all of our college locations will remain closed Wednesday, October 24 through Saturday October 27, 2007. (Note: This includes all extension site and online/hybrid courses).
Students and college employees are advised to remain off campus, with the exception of emergency and authorized personnel.
The college will reopen and classes will resume on Monday, October, 29, 2007. The Library will be open Monday at 7:30 a.m.
For further information, please check our web site at www.swccd.edu or local media.
Students and college employees are advised to remain off campus, with the exception of emergency and authorized personnel.
The college will reopen and classes will resume on Monday, October, 29, 2007. The Library will be open Monday at 7:30 a.m.
For further information, please check our web site at www.swccd.edu or local media.
Monday, October 22, 2007
LIBRARY CLOSED - MON & TUES
The Library is closed as of noon Monday, October 22, 2007. It will be closed all day Tuesday, October 23, 2007.
Due to the fire emergency, and with due consideration to the health and well being of our students and staff, classes have been cancelled at all of our campuses effective Monday, October 22, 2007, at 12:00 p.m. The College will remain closed tomorrow, Tuesday, October 23, 2007.
For further information, please check our web site at www.swccd.edu or local media.
Due to the fire emergency, and with due consideration to the health and well being of our students and staff, classes have been cancelled at all of our campuses effective Monday, October 22, 2007, at 12:00 p.m. The College will remain closed tomorrow, Tuesday, October 23, 2007.
For further information, please check our web site at www.swccd.edu or local media.
Fire update!
The Library is closed as of noon Monday, October 22, 2007. It will be closed all day Tuesday, October 23, 2007.
The SWC homepage is being updated with all of the current information on the fires and how the situation is affecting Southwestern College. Go to http://www.swccd.edu/
The SWC homepage is being updated with all of the current information on the fires and how the situation is affecting Southwestern College. Go to http://www.swccd.edu/
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