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• AccessScience update

  AccessScience added new content in September. New briefings include:

  • Inheritance of social organization among spotted hyenas
  • Methods of oceanic carbon capture and storage
  • Possible observation of triangle singularity offers insights into the strong force governing particle interactions

  New and updated articles include:

  • Astrophysics
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • Heat
  • Impact
  • Impulse (mechanics)
  • Machine learning
  • Measles
  • Rotational motion
  • Software engineering
  • Thermal conduction in solids
  • Torque
  • Trajectory
  • Velocity

  New videos and animations include:

  • Microplastics Are Raining Down on Us
  • Using Seismology to Find Earth’s Diamonds

  

  October 20, 2021 • Collection Updates • Views: 2733

• Films on Demand update

  Films On Demand added 66 new videos in September. Take a look!

   

  

  October 19, 2021 • Collection Updates • Views: 680

• Free books

  Please see the latest spreadsheet of Library discards and contact Melanie if you’d like any of them for your department. These include books on psychology, business, and electrical codes.

  October 4, 2021 • Collection Updates • Views: 1018

• Opposing Viewpoints update

  Opposing Viewpoints is constantly adding and updating coverage of current events and social issues, perfect for students writing argument papers. Here are some new and recently updated topics:

   

  • Bias, Prejudice, and Discrimination
  • Arctic National Wildlife Refuge Drilling
  • Carbon Offsets
  • Cybercrime
  • Espionage and Intelligence
  • Hunting
  • Islamophobia
  • LGBTQ+ Community Equality
  • Local Food Movement
  • Media Coverage of Mass Violence
  • Medicaid

  • Medicare
  • Military Deployment
  • Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls (MMIWG)
  • Native American Rights
  • Native Hawaiian Sovereignty
  • Oil Pipelines
  • Public Transportation
  • Renewable Energy
  • US Census
  • US-Israel Relations

   

  September 24, 2021 • Collection Updates • Views: 1587

• New titles

  Take a look at the new books and movies we added to our collection last summer. You can find these and everything else in our collection through our catalog, OneSearch. Here are just a few of the new titles. Check them out!

    

  September 17, 2021 • Collection Updates • Views: 1375

• AccessScience update

  AccessScience added new content in July and August. New briefings include:

  • Artificial seed coating boosts seeds’ resilience to drought
  • Previously unknown shark extinction event occurred 19 million years ago
  • Surfaces coated with a common polymer may trap infectious respiratory droplets
  • First planetary risk index identifies probable causes of animal pollinator declines
  • Phosphate mineral from wastewater finds use as forest-fire retardant
  • Tentative fossilized evidence of oldest animal life

  New and updated articles include:

  • Engineering design
  • Mammoth
  • Salicylate
  • Synthetic biology
  • Clostridioides difficile
  • Electromagnetic field
  • Electromagnetic wave
  • Electromagnetic wave transmission
  • Inertia
  • Interference of waves
  • Macrophage
  • Spectrum
  • Waterpower
  • Weightlessness

  New videos and animations include:

  • Can We Make Opioids Less Addictive?
  • Did Lead Cause the Downfall of the Roman Empire?
  • How Does Sunscreen Work?

  

  September 14, 2021 • Collection Updates • Views: 2694

• Films on Demand update

  Films On Demand added 98 new videos in July and August. Take a look!

   

  

  September 2, 2021 • Collection Updates • Views: 630

• The Chronicle of Higher Education

  
  

  Just a reminder that the Library provides online access to The Chronicle of Higher Education, including:

  • articles from every issue since 1989
  • coverage of topics such as student success, technology, and equity & diversity
  • data, statistics, and analysis
  • newsletters, advice, virtual events, job listings, and more

  A new report, Building Diverse Campuses, explores key questions for colleges to consider as they seek to become more diverse and inclusive, and details how some institutions have done this successfully.

  

  Check out The Chronicle today!

  

  August 27, 2021 • Collection Updates • Views: 3545

• AccessScience update

  AccessScience added new content in May and June. New briefings include:

  • Dog domestication may have occurred first in Siberia
  • Equine herpesvirus outbreak spreads among horses in Europe
  • Flat pasta that morphs into 3D shapes when cooked may help the environment
  • Puzzlingly simultaneous star formation patterns across dozens of distant, isolated dwarf galaxies
  • Voyager probe detects signal that allows continuous measurement of interstellar medium
  • Whitest white paint reflects more sunlight and keeps surfaces cooler
  • Neurotoxin identified in mysterious deaths of eagles in the southeastern United States
  • Peatland carbon storage affects global climate
  • Possible explanation for the Great Dimming of Betelgeuse

  New and updated articles include:

  • Aldol addition and condensation
  • Digital image processing
  • Bioinformatics
  • Marijuana
  • Pharmaceutical chemistry

  New videos and animations include:

  • Hubble and the Bermuda Triangle of Space
  • Unweaving the Rainbow of Cosmic Light
  • Does Sugar Cause Diabetes?
  • What Are Forever Chemicals?

  

  July 13, 2021 • Collection Updates • Views: 2595

• Films on Demand update

  Films On Demand added 655 new videos in April, May, and June. Take a look!

   

  

  July 1, 2021 • Collection Updates • Views: 513