Scientific Sharing of Information - 1949

Under the terms of the contract for the publication of The Chemistry of Penicillin the publisher has agreed to waive its rights under the copyright after five years from the date of publication. Thereafter this volume will be in the public domain and dedicated to the public.

2010 Faculty Book Launch Titles

Congratulations to the following Nipissing University Faculty who have had books published in the last year and were celebrated at the 2010 Faculty Book Launch on Saturday!

Bavington, Dean. Managed annihilation: An unnatural history of the Newfoundland cod collapse. Vancouver: UBC Press, 2010.

Booth, David and Larry Swartz. Learning to read with graphic power. Toronto, ON: Oxford University Press, 2010.

Peterson, Shelley, David Booth and Carol Jupiter. Books, media and the Internet. Winnipeg, Manitoba: Portage and Main Press, 2009.

Booth, David. Whatever happened to Language Arts? Markham, ON: Pembroke Publishers, 2009.

Erikson, Bruce and Catriona Mortimer-Sandilands (eds). Queer ecologies: sex, nature, politics, desire. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.

Geden, Dennis. Dennis Geden narratives 17 May to 5 June 2010: A catalogue.
London: Redfern Gallery, 2010.

Graff, Ann-Barbara. Eugene Aram by Edward Bulwer Lytton. Kansas City: Valancourt Books, 2010.

Hackett, David (with Miller, G. Tyler). Living in the environment, second Canadian edition. Toronto: Nelson Education, 2010.

Maynes, Nancy and Jennifer Straub. Social Studies: innovative approaches for teachers. Toronto: Pearson Prentice Hall, 2011. [forthcoming - January]

Ricci, Carlo and Jerry Mintz (eds). Turning points: 27 educational visionaries in education tell their own stories. New York N.Y: AERO, 2010.

Ricci, Carlo and Jerry Mintz (eds). Turning points: 35 educational visionaries in education tell their own stories. New York N.Y.: AERO, 2010.

Richardson, Carole and Warnie Richardson (eds). The international experiences of first year teachers. Youngstown, New York: Teneo Press, 2009.

Stange, Ken. Travellers in Europa. North Bay: Two Cultures Press, 2009.

Stange, Ken. More than ample. North Bay: Two Cultures Press, 2009.

Stange, Ken. The sad science of love. North Bay: Two Cultures Press, 2010.

Summer Orientations

The Summer is a busy time for many reasons. One of those is the student orientations that we participate in at many of our campuses. For some we set up a booth that shows the different resources in the Library and answer questions about the Library that students or parents might have. For other orientations, we provide organized tours of the Library. This has been useful to orient the students to the Library and let them know that we are friendly people who they can come and chat to if they have questions. Here are some photos of the displays that were up during the orientations - put together by Gail G.!

Giant Microbes

The Library has been collecting and lending out Giant Microbes for a while now. For those of you who haven't heard of them, they are stuffed microbes of diseases such as the common cold, black death, HIV and now they have critters, such as the book worm and maggot. These have proved to be extremely popular and have been used in all sorts of creative and innovative way by students and faculty alike. The Library staff also particularly like to use them in our orientation sessions. The phrase "The Library has Ebola" always being a sure way to capture the attention of the crowd! This summer we have added the following:

Cavity
Yogurt
Bird flu
Swine flu
Nerve cell
Platelet
Amoeba
West Nile
Maggot
Acidophilus
Copecode
HPV
Listeria
Measles
Rubella
Waterbear
Leishmania

I heard a great story about the rabies giantmicrobe being used in a class presentation on rabies. The student asked the prof how hard it was to catch rabies and when the prof said it was very hard, the student tossed the rabies giantmicrobe at the prof who then caught it! If you have any stories like that, please share!

Introduction to RefWorks

Digitization and Libraries: newsy bits

Popular Science has put its entire archive online
http://www.popsci.com/archives

Apparently it works well on the iPhone, which probably means the iTouch. I haven't had time to investigate mobile technology as much as I would have liked but it is moving up the priority list.

Casanova's uncensored diaries have been purchased and then donated to the French National Library. The are plans to digitize them and make them available online.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/18/casanova-uncensored-diaries-sold

http://www.bnf.fr/fr/la_bnf/anx_actu_bib/a.bnf_manuscrits_casanova.html

If you like libraries (and who doesn't?), you'll like these photos of libraries around the world from the Huffington Post

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/22/the-most-amazing-librarie_n_432126.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/02/22/the-most-amazing-librarie_n_469484.html

And if you are interested in reading, check out this new resource:

http://ocp.hul.harvard.edu/reading/

The Royal Society has also been doing a lot of interesting digitization. Recently posted was the William Stukeley's 1752 biography, Memoirs of Sir Isaac Newton's Life which contains a recounting of the story of Newton and the apple inspiration.

The digitization project: http://royalsociety.org/turning-the-pages/

The story on BBC: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8461591.stm

Lastly, and people say things about Wikipedia...

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/48192

Freedom to Read Week

Taking so long to get around to posting this has meant that I've ended up with a good topic for Freedom to Read Week. In January it was reported that there had been objections raised to having a certain dictionary in a middle school because it provided a definition of oral sex. The dictionary in question the Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary!

They have reached a compromise to this concern by adding another dictionary to the classroom and allowing parents to choose which dictionary they want their children to read. Although this is an American example, there are plenty of challenges to books in Canada. Check out the Freedom to Read Week website for more information.