Newbery & Caldecott Medal Winners

The American Library Association announced the winners of their annual prizes for achievement in childrens and young adult literature.

The John Newbery Medal for the most outstanding contribution to children's literature: “Good Masters! Sweet Ladies! Voices from a Medieval Village,” written by Laura Amy Schlitz.

Three Newbery Honor Books were named:

“Elijah of Buxton,” by Christopher Paul Curtis

“The Wednesday Wars,” by Gary D. Schmidt

“Feathers,” by Jacqueline Woodson

Randolph Caldecott Medal for the most distinguished American picture book for children: “The Invention of Hugo Cabret,” illustrated by Brian Selznick.

Four Caldecott Honor Books were named:

“Henry's Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad,” illustrated by Kadir Nelson, written by Ellen Levine.

“First the Egg,” illustrated and written by Laura Vaccaro Seeger.

“The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain,” illustrated and written by Peter Sís.

“Knuffle Bunny Too: A Case of Mistaken Identity,” illustrated and written by Mo Willems.

A full list of other winners can be viewed on the ALA website.

Database of the week- -

CINAHL or Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature®.

CINAHL "provides indexing for over 2,931 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981. Offering complete coverage of English-language nursing journals and publications from the National League for Nursing and the American Nurses’ Association, CINAHL covers nursing, biomedicine, health sciences librarianship, alternative/complementary medicine, consumer health and 17 allied health disciplines."

CINAHL is available for Sullivan students via the EBSCO databases. To use off campus use this login.

Tutoring Schedule, Winter 2008

What if you need assistance in a subject that is not listed? Please see your instructor, the department chair, or other full-time instructor in the department during their office hours or during Plus Friday. Office hours and Plus Friday hours are posted on the bulletin board in the faculty office suit near Rm. 146.

Plus Friday Room Assignments, Winter 2008

Library Hours for Winter Quarter 2008

New books this week:

New books processed this week in the Library. These are just a few items, if you'd like to see more new items OR need a particular title, stop by the Reference Desk and the staff will be happy to help you!

• Business ethics in focus / Laura A. Parrish (editor). 174.4 B979
• Celebration of fools : an inside look at the rise and fall of JCPenney / Bill Hare. 381.141 H275c
• Easy daily plans : over 250 plans for preschool teachers / Sue Fleischmann ; illustrations by Marie Ferrante-Doyle. 372.13 F596e
• In spite of the gods : the strange rise of modern India / Edward Luce. 954.053 L935i
• Knife skills illustrated : a user's manual / Peter Hertzmann ; original art by Alan Witschonke. 642.6 H576k
• Marco Polo : from Venice to Xanadu / by Laurence Bergreen. 910.4 B499m
• Reaching the goal : how managers improve a services business using Goldratt's theory of constraints / John Arthur Ricketts. 658.812 R539r
• Service included : four-star secrets of an eavesdropping waiter / Phoebe Damrosch. 647.95 D166s
• Subprime mortgages : America's latest boom and bust / Edward M. Gramlich. 332.722 G745s
• To cork or not to cork : tradition, romance, science, and the battle for the wine bottle / Goerge M. Taber. 641.22 T113t

More information on each title can be found in the catalog.

Starbucks

Interested in how Starbucks went from one store to the world's most ubiquitous coffee shop?

Take a look at these recently received books in the library about the phenomenon:

1. Grande expectations : a year in the life of Starbucks' stock / Karen Blumenthal. 332.63 B658g. USA Today review.
2. Pour your heart into it : how Starbucks built a company one cup at a time / Howard Schultz and Dori Jones Yang. 647.4573092 S387p
3. Starbucked : a double tall tale of caffeine, commerce, and culture / Taylor Clark. 338 C595s. NYTimes review by P.J. O'Rourke
4. Starbucks experience : 5 principles for turning ordinary into extraordinary / Joseph Michelli. 658 M623s

Still curious? Check out the Starbucksgossip blog, which claims to have no connection to the company and chronicles the trials & tribulations of being a barista in the chain.

And on the lighter side: 171 Startbucks is the account of a filmmaker who visited all 171 Starbucks coffee shops in Manhattan in one day and made a purchase in each one. According to the website, that is one store for every 7 minutes for 24 hours.

New books- -

New books processed this week in the Library. These are just a few items, if you'd like to see more new items OR need a particular title, stop by the Reference Desk and the staff will be happy to help you!

• Art of innovation : lessons in creativity from IDEO, America's leading design firm / Tom Kelley, with Jonathan Littman. 658.4 K29a
• Design and layout of foodservice facilities / John C. Birchfield. 647.95 B617d
• Design of future things / Donald A. Norman. 745.2 N842d
• Direct from Dell : strategies that revolutionized an industry / Michael Dell with Catherine Fredman. 338.7 D357d
• Judgment : how winning leaders make great calls / Noel Tichy and Warren Bennis. 658.4 T555j
• Something really new : three simple steps to creating truly innovative products / Denis J. Hauptly. 658.575 H374s
• SPSS demystified : a step-by-step guide to successful data analysis / Ronald D. Yockey. 300.285 Y54s
• Vineyard in Tuscany : a wine lover's dream : [memoir] / Ferenc Máté. 641.22 M425v
• Weekly curriculum : 52 complete preschool themes / Barbara Backer ; illustrations by Joan Waites. 372.19 B126w
• Year of eating dangerously : a global adventure in search of culinary extremes / Tom Parker Bowles. 641 P238y

More information on each title can be found in the catalog.

Google Zeitgeist

How many times a day do you use a Google website? The just-released Google Zeitgeist ranks searches done during the 2007, classifying the most popular topics and people. In their words:

To get a glimpse of what's been on our collective consciousness, we mined billions of search queries to discover what sorts of things rose to the top. We encourage you to check out our findings to see if you, too, reflect the zeitgeist — the spirit of the times.

Webster's Open Dictionary

Have you seen any robotainment lately? Met anyone that calls themselves a concoctionist?

Are these really words? Yep. According to a new Merriam-Webster online dictionary anyway.

In addition to their online dictionary and thesaurus - the Merriam-Webster web page also contains a dictionary that classifies unusual words created from popular usage, colloquialisms and current slang. Terms found in the Open Dictionary are submitted by readers and are REALLY different from typical entries in the regular dictionary. Some recently submitted definitions include:

• Gastronaut (noun) : An out of this world chef. Derived from latin 'Gastro-' meaning stomach, belly. Usage: Such a meal could only be cooked by the finest Gastronaut in the galaxy.


• Informatia (noun) : a collection of individuals or groups that form a collective online or electronic-based identity. Usage: Informatias are beginning to serve as the foundation of online interaction.


• polkadotical (adjective) : Having a lot of polka-dots. Usage: The shirt Caroline was wearing was very polkadotical.


• Starbuckian (noun) : The lingo used by Starbucks employees to converse with each other. Can also be altered to refer to other coffee shops and their lingo. Usage: She isn't fluent enough in Starbuckian to understand what was said.

New Books---

New books processed this week in the Library. These are just a few items, if you'd like to see more new items OR need a particular title, stop by the Reference Desk and the staff will be happy to help you!

• Age of fallibility : the consequences of the war on terror / George Soros. 973.931 S714a
• The art of innovation : lessons in creativity from IDEO, America's leading design firm [compact disc/unabridged] / Tom Kelley, with Jonathan Littman. CD 658.4 K29a
• Field guide to office technology / Ed Sobey. R 651.2 S677f
• Food safety : old habits, new perspectives / by Phyllis Entis. 647.95 E612f
• Happy hour at the Two Keys Tavern : poems / Jeff Worley. 811.54 W927h
• Quest for global dominance : transforming global presence into global competitive advantage / Vijay Govindarajan, Anil K. Gupta. 658.049 G721q
• Scams & swindles : phishing, spoofing, ID theft, Nigerian Advance Schemes, investment frauds, false sweethearts ; how to recognize and avoid financial rip-offs in the Internet age. 364.163 S283
• Understanding Moore's law : four decades of innovation / edited by David C. Brock. 621.3815 U55
• Voices of the American past : documents in U.S. history, / [edited by] Raymond M. Hyser, J. Chris Arndt. 973 V889
• What the bleep do we know!? : discovering the endless possibilities for altering your everyday reality / William Arntz, Betsy Chasse, Mark Vicente. 530 A767w

More information on each title can be found in the catalog.

Best of Books - 2007 Lists

Still trying to find the perfect holiday gift? Ask a librarian -- books make great gifts and if you need some ideas, take a look at these Best Of... lists.

• American Library Association - notable children's books
• New York Times - 100 notable books of the year
• Publisher's Weekly - 150 books, separated by category
• Amazon Editors - best 100 of 2007
• Guardian Unlimited - best of the year
• Times Online - best of the year in cookbooks
• Miami Herald - another best of list for children's books
• Kansas City Star - top 100
• Washington Post - best of in fiction, non-fiction and critic's picks
• Food & Wine Magazine - top 25 cookbooks
• Epicurious - top cookbooks, by category

What did we miss? Remind us in the comments.

This week's new books~

New books processed this week in the Library. These are just a few items, if you'd like to see more new items OR need a particular title, stop by the Reference Desk and the staff will be happy to help you!

• Accidental connoisseur : an irreverent journey though the wine world / Lawrence Osborne. 641.22 O81a
• Almanac of business and industrial financial ratios / by Leo Troy. R 338.74 A445 2008
• Basic manual for the lawyer's assistant / prepared by NALS and edited by Textbook Development Committee. R 349.73 B311
• Conflict of laws in a globalized world / edited by Eckart Gottschalk. 340.9 C748
• Expert resumes for people returning to work / Wendy S. Enelow and Louise M. Kursmark. R 650.142 E566e
• Food snob's dictionary : an essential lexicon of gastronomical knowledge. R 641.503 K15f
• Muslims, Christians, and the challenge of interfaith dialogue / Jane Idleman Smith. 261.2 S651m
• Social atlas of the United States / William H. Frey ; with Amy Beth Anspach, John Paul DeWitt, and staff members of the Social Science Data Analysis Network. R 912.13 F893a
• Tourism and gastronomy / edited by Anne-Mette Hjalager and Greg Richards. 910.83 T727
• Web application hacker's handbook : discovering and exploiting security flaws / Dafydd Stuttard, Marcus Pinto. 005.8 S937w

More information on each title can be found in the catalog.

Word of the Year

Oxford University Press, the august group that authors the largest dictionary in the world, has announced their choice for Word of the Year for 2007. This year's word: locavore. What is it?

The “locavore” movement encourages consumers to buy from farmers’ markets or even to grow or pick their own food, arguing that fresh, local products are more nutritious and taste better. Locavores also shun supermarket offerings as an environmentally friendly measure, since shipping food over long distances often requires more fuel for transportation.

The blogsphere is buzzing about the choice -- see discussions at Britannica Blog as well as debates at New York Times and Boston Globe regarding the merits of the runner up choices.

Previous winners include podcast for 2005 and carbon neutral for 2006.