Good News!

Now, with our handy-dandy RSS feed that you see on the right, new content will be uploaded to this blog on a much more frequent basis.

Gone are the days of of weeks (or months) passing before you see new content. The RSS feed on the right uploads the latest book reviews from EBSCO's Academic Search Premier database to your blog. All you have to do is click on a title you find interesting, and a new window or tab will open with the abstract of the book review. Simply click on the full-text link at the top of the page, and you'll be reading about the latest books to be published in your field.

I'll be setting up another RSS feed soon that links you to recently published academic journal articles as well.

Finally, I will continue to post to the blogs myself when I can, with the intent of showing you online and multimedia resources you may find interesting.

Thanks for your support of the library, and please continue to inform us of your purchase requests whenever you find something you'd like us to buy.

David

Visual Media & More

Some DVD titles, from Films for the Humanities & Sciences, that look interesting:

Touched by Genius: A Neurological Look at Creativity

Earth Time: Evolution and Human Memory

Anatomy for Beginners

The Once Good Earth: Understanding Soil

The Age of Viruses

Some Print titles, from Perseus Books, that also look interesting:

High Tech Harvest: Understanding Genetically Modified Food Plants

Signs of Life: How Complexity Pervades Biology

Ocean's End: Travels Through Endangered Seas

Inaugural Post

Hey Shawn!

This blog is just for you. In my function as the library's liaison for science and math, you are one of the instructors that falls under my area of collection development. With this blog, I hope to push new biology and science titles your way for you to evaluate. When you come across something that you'd like to see us purchase for our collection, you can simply comment on the post, or send me an email.

Additionally, if you'd like to post to the blog then please do so. I will check all of my collection development blogs regularly, with rss feeds via bloglines. If there's anything you want me to see, and you're interested in familiarizing yourself with the blogger interface at the same time, this is a perfect opportunity. I will send you the username & password in an email.

Let's get cracking!

--David

Biology & Medicine Titles @ MIT Press

Bioscience Titles @ Routledge

Science Titles @ Harvard University Press (Your Alma Mater)

University of Illinois Press (My Alma Mater)