Sources for the General Public:

Michigan Electronic Library's Swine Flu Gateway  provides current public service information on the facts surrounding swine flu cases in Michigan and the United States - who is at risk, history of pandemics, and how to prevent the spread of this virus. This includes a link to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) website. 

DynaMed’s Swine Influenza  consolidates information from multiple sources for health care providers to stay current with recommendations for monitoring, diagnosing, and treating patients with flu-like illnesses during this outbreak.

Special Report:  Swine Flu Update from NursingCenter

GRCC's librarians answer LOTS of questions about formatting and bibliographies at this time of the semester.  If you need guidance on how to format your research paper and cite resources using commonly accepted styles, take a look at the WRITING section of the LLC's Internet Resource page.

Among great links on that page is KnightCite, an online citation generator service provided by Calvin College. "This service simplifies the often tedious task of compiling an accurate bibliography in the appropriate style by formatting the given data on a source into a reliable citation, eliminating the need to memorize minute details of style for multiple kinds of sources. The service is provided free of charge by the college, and is available to members both within and outside of the Calvin community." Many of GRCC's databases provide formatted citations along with full-text article, but if I forget to save citations while doing my research or if the database I'm using doesn't provide formatted citations, I usually choose to use KnightCite.

You'll also find great links from Purdue University - you choose the one that matches the bibliographic style you must follow.  These pages show examples and are helpful for visual learners who want to see what a page should look like.

• Citing Materials using APA Guidelines
• Citing Materials using MLA Guidelines

Oxford African American Studies Center: The most recent update presents more than 500 entries from the Encyclopedia of African American History, 1896 to the Present (February 2009). In a starred review, Library Journal declared, "No similar encyclopedia rivals the wealth and confirmation of African American history found here." Plus, there are 600 additional biographies from the African American National Biography, including names like jazz great Herbie Hancock; cofounder of the Congressional Black Caucus Louis Stokes; basketball star, business mogul and AIDS activist Earvin "Magic" Johnson, Jr.

Oxford African American Studies Center is found on the Library's Databases pages, both alphabetically and under the Multiculturism and Social Sciences sub-headings.

 
The LLC will be CLOSED April 10-12 and May 2-3.

We're open April 30 from 8am-7pm and May 1st from 8am-5pm, but with limited service. You can return books and telecourses, pay overdue fines, and use the computers. No reference desk assistance will be available.

Summer Hours begin Monday, May 4th.
Mo-Th: 8-8
Fr: 8-5
Sa-Su: CLOSED

American History in Video offers a rich collection of streaming video from important documentaries, commercial and governmental newsreels, public affairs footage, and archival videos that support  the study of American history. This first release includes over 1260 titles equaling approximately 420 hours; when complete, it will include more than 5000 titles, or 2000 hours of video. This collection features some of A&E Television Networks’ most important documentaries and series from The History Channel®, A&E Network®, and Biography®. Historical coverage ranges from the lost colony of Roanoke through the 1988 Vincennes Affair in the Persian Gulf; biographical coverage ranges from eighteenth century figures such as Benedict Arnold and Daniel Boone to modern-day figures including Thurgood Marshall and Helen Thomas.

Find American History in Video on the Library’s “Databases by Subject” webpage, in the [Social Sciences] subset http://www.grcc.edu/dbsubject/#SocialSciences as well as on the “Alphabetical List of Databases” http://www.grcc.edu/atoz.

Faculty - links to videos may be used within GRCC’s Blackboard course management system; static URLS (permanent links available during the life of the license) can be created by faculty members. http://ahiv.alexanderstreet.com/help/view/static_urls

The LLC will be open between 8am and 5pm with limited service during Winter Break, March 2-6, 2009.  We are closed on Saturday and Sunday, March 7-8.

The first floor will be getting new carpeting between Friday February 27th and Tuesday, March 3rd.  Some computers and reference books will be unavailable during this time.

Here is a partial list of new full-text titles added to our InfoTrac databases.

Academic OneFile  
Appraisal (The Society for Post-Critical and Personalist Studies) 1358-3336
Existential Analysis (Society for Existential Analysis) 1752-5616
Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association (Australian Early Medieval Association) 1449-9320
Journal of the Bromeliad Society (Bromeliad Society, Inc.) 0090-8738  
Madera Y Bosques (Instituto de Ecologia, A.C.) 1405-0471

General OneFile
Costa Rica Pocket Adventures, 2nd ed, (Hunter Publishing, Inc.)
LIVE EVENT (FOX) (ASC Partners LLC)  
Newsmax (Newsmax Media Inc.)
The Rachel Maddow Show (MSNBC) (ASC Partners LLC)

Hospitality, Tourism, and Leisure Collection
Ice Sculpting the Modern Way (Delmar Learning)
Introduction to Catering (Delmar Learning)

Gardening, Landscape and Horticulture Collection
Landscape Construction, 2nd ed. (Delmar Learning)
Landscape Surveying (Delmar Learning)
Landscaping Principles and Practices, 6th ed. (Delmar Learning)
 

A bibliography of printed and online sources about Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics, by Nan Schichtel and Dave Cope is available through the link below.

http://web.grcc.cc.mi.us/Pr/womensstudies/2009/WomeninSTEMFieldsResources.pdf