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Finding information on The Odyssey by Homer

Ask-the-librarian responded to a recent question about finding books and articles on Homer’s Odyssey:

There is much to select from in the library collection depending on the focus of your analysis of the Odyssey.

1. The library guide 'Find Literary Criticism - POETRY' <http://library.camdencc.edu/Courseassignments/PDF/CriticismPoetry2007.pdf>

will give you some guidance. This guide is on the library web site under Course Guides.  Go to English Composition 2 - Literature Topics.

2. I suggest that when you search for books in the online catalog CamCat

http://iii.camden.lib.nj.us/search~S7  you perform a 'Subject' [not a keyword] using these words: Homer Odyssey. You’ll get a more focused list of results than when you do the same search using these as keywords.

3. I noticed one book title in CamCat that caught my attention: Homer's the Odyssey / edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. Harold Bloom is a noted literary critic.

4. As for articles, try using the article databases Literary Reference Center and Literature Resources Center found in the ‘Databases by Title’ list on the website.  Again there is much to select from depending on the focus of your analysis of the Odyssey.

Finding images for human anatomy

Ask-the-Librarian recently responded to a question about where to find images related to human anatomy:

We have two databases with images and animation:

1. Access Science

2. Science Online

Look for the name of a system, such as genital or urinary.

You can get to both databases by going to our home page http://library.camdencc.edu and clicking on Facts, Overviews, and More.  Access Science is temporarily being highlighted on this page.  If you click on Science in the fourth column of the box at the bottom, you will see both Access Science and Science Online.

Another rich resource comes from the National Institutes of Health: MedlinePlus Anatomy at

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/anatomy.html

Finding Information About Current Events Like the Jena 6

Recently, Ask-a-librarian responded to a question about finding information on current events.

We have two good databases for finding information about current events like the Jena 6.  If you have a library card, you can access both databases from off-campus.  (If you do not have a library card, click on ‘Library Card’ in the left side navigation bar.)

1. LexisNexis Academic contains many newspapers that will certain report on this topic.  LexisNexis is completely full text, which means the entire article is available.

2. Academic Search Premier contains magazines and journals as well as a few newspapers.  You won't find as many magazine articles, but any articles you do find will probably be more substantive than the newspaper articles.  Academic Search Premier is partially fulltest.  The full article is available if you see HTML full text or PDF full text.  The other articles will have a link labelled "Click here to check for full text"; these articles may be in another database or may be in our physical collection.

Click on Popular Databases on the right side of our home page and choose the database you want to use.

Memorabilia Exhibit through Thanksgiving: 'Thank you' to Lenders

The 40th anniversary exhibit of college memorabilia will remain on view at the Wolverton Library on the Blackwood Campus during all hours of operation through Thanskgiving; after that, lenders may stop in to pick up their items. Clearly, an entertaining and nostalgic exhibit like this only happens because members of the community contribute to it. We'd like to thank our lenders for making this one successful:

Lorraine Baggett-Heuser, Administrative Staff

Bonnie Danch Bell, Friend

Debbie Burch, Support Staff

Cheryl Copeland, Professor

Joan Getaz, Administrative Staff

Jim Gullo, Class of 1974

Kathy Howell, Support Staff

Robert Kaczorowski, Administrative Staff

Thelma Long, former Advisory Board member

Marianne McGurk, Professor

Bill Mink, class of 1985; Administrative Staff

Miriam Mlynarski, Administrative Staff

John O’Leary, Class of 1976, Technical Staff

JoAgnes Pasquarello, Class of 1969

Glen Paynter, Class of 1970

Judith Rowlands, Class of 1972, Administrative Staff

Marilyn Sheppard, retired Administrative Staff

Roseann Simcox, Support Staff

Robert Smith, Professor

Diane Sule, Tutor

Kristen Szatney, editor, Campus Press

Jackie Tenuto, Class of 1982; Administrative Staff

Carol Winkie, former officer, Faculty Wives’ Association

Philip Winkie, retired Professor

Raymond Yannuzzi, College president

Raymond Zumoff, retired Professor

NJ Knowledge Initiative to end February 29, 2008: campaign to restore funding needs your help

One-third of the research databases listed on Libraries @ Camden County College website will go dark on March 1, 2008, if NJKI funding is not restored.

  Since the late June announcement of the $1 million shortfall that would cause all NJKI-funded resources to be discontinued as of February 28, 2008, State Librarian Norma Blake and her staff with other library supporters in Trenton have been seeking ways to continue this program. Now they need our help. They ask us to contact our legislators and to call the Governor’s office (609-292-6000) or email http://www.state.nj.us/governor/govmail.html (choose topic: Commerce) to tell them what this program means for students, faculty and administrators at Camden County College, and to businesses in the County.

   On our website we’ve identified the resources to which access by College library users is funded by NJKI (go to http://library.camdencc.edu/ and click on DATABASES BY TITLE). The following resources are at risk; college librarians consider those with asterisks vital for our community:

               For Science and Health:

                             Biomedical Reference

                             CINAHL and Pre-CINAHL*

                             MEDLINE*

                             Nature Research and Review Journals*

                             Nursing and Allied Health Literature*

                             OVID/Lippincott Williams and Wilkins

                             Wiley InterScience

               For Business and General Research:

                             Business Source Premier*

                             ReferenceUSA*

Regional Business News

                             (Academic Search Premier* is part of NJKI, but its contract expires 6/30/08.)

  Ironically, NJKI has just won the prestigious Innovation Award from the Council of State Governments (CSG) that is given to only 8 projects in the country each year. Other states want to replicate it for their academic and business communities!

  While the State Library is obtaining pricing for members of VALE (our academic library consortium) to cover the March-June shortfall – with high hopes for full funding in FY09 – this will not help Libraries @ Camden County College, as our budget for online resources is already fully committed for this year. Neither will it help the 300 small businesses that joined NJKI or the members of the public that use some of these resources through JerseyClicks using a NJ public library card.

  Since NJKI began in FY06, more than 10 million articles/records have been used by NJ researchers and entrepreneurs; colleges and university students and faculty; legislative staff and state agencies; and the more than 2500 member libraries of the NJ Library Network and the people they serve. For more information, see, “NJKI is Vital to the Needs and Goals of Higher Education”, posted at http://www.njstatelib.org/LDB/NJKI/2007_Advocacy/NJKI%20Academic%20Library%20Survey%20Points%20-%20Jan%2007.doc