Sirsi (our catalog) searching tips:

Take advantage of what are called 'subdivisions' in library lingo. This is the part of a subject heading [moral & ethical aspects] that is more specific than the first part of the heading:

EXAMPLES:
Advertising -- moral & ethical aspects
Genetic engineering -- moral & ethical aspects
Animal rights -- moral & ethical aspects

There are many handy subdivisions to use in KEYWORD searches. Try these sometime:

-- psychological aspects [e.g. smoking -- psychological aspects]
-- physiological aspects [e.g. aging -- physiological aspects]
-- travel & description [e.g. Australia -- travel & description]
-- amateur's manuals [e.g. solar heating -- amateur's manuals]
-- cross cultural studies [e.g. AIDS -- cross cultural studies]
-- economic aspects [e.g. globalization -- economic aspects]

The trick is to have a fairly broad subject, then apply one of these subdivisions.

The next time you do a search for books in the catalog, start to notice the subject headings that have been applied to each book - searching by subject headings is a very efficient, targeted way to find very relevant books on a general topic.

The Librarian's Index to the Internet has a number of good sources on taxes and tax filing. Handy for that date coming up in April! "What's left in YOUR wallet?"

YOU NEED TO SEE THIS FILM!!
(ESPECIALLY IF YOU PLAN TO BE A SOCIAL SCIENCE MAJOR)

The Rio Hondo College Division of Arts & Cultural Programs
presents Cinema International’s screening of

“Das Experiment”
(The Experiment)

A film by Oliver Hirschbiegel
starring Moritz Bleibtreu (Run Lola Run)

Thursday March 9, 1 pm
Wray Theatre
Admission is Free

This fictional drama, set in present-day Berlin, takes its inspiration from the famous and controversial 1971 Stanford Prison Experimentwhere test subjects were paid $15 a day to role-play either prisoners orprison guards in a simulated prison created by university researchers. On the sixth day the lead psychologist terminated the planned two-week experiment due to escalating abuses by “prison guards” and concernsover the morality of the experiment itself. This film diverges from thereal-life experiment in several important ways, but its depiction of the initialset-up of the experiment parallels the 1971 experiment quite closely.

This film is rated R for disturbing scenes, strong language and violence.

Dear Faculty,

Those of you who read this blog are probably already aware that the library has begun an online survey about your use of library resources and services. We hope to have a majority of the full-time and part-time faculty participate. To date, we have received 34 completed surveys.

That's good -- but not great!

If you have not done so, please click on the survey link on the library web site. You'll need a password to access the survey, so check your email for it or call x4105.

THANK YOU SO MUCH if you are one of the 34 who have participated!

A very good background Q & A on the issue of the Dubai company (from the United Arab Emirates) purchasing control over 6 United States ports is available at:

Council on Foreign Relations

While you're there - take some more time to look around the web site. It's outstanding in terms of design, organization, navigation, scope and content.

The THESAURUS is right behind our favorite reference book, the DICTIONARY. We try to make it a habit to use an online dictionary and thesaurus when writing papers. See, for example, http://www.dictionary.com and http://thesaurus.reference.com/.

Go over your sentences and see if you can't find a more colorful or fresh way to say the same thing using an enlarged vocabulary.

"The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dog." [If you ever took typing, you will remember this sentence!] How about:

The nimble sepia fox leapt over the slothful mongrel -- or

The spirited sorrel fox bounded over the supine pooch -- or

The mercurial dun fox vaulted over the apathetic mutt.

See? Look for opportunities to enliven your stolid, torpid prose!