American War Library is a series of vividly written, multi-volume sets that examine the most fascinating topics about each of America’s wars. Individual volumes in every set present readers with a historical perspective and a comprehensive picture of the causes of the war, crucial battles, key personalities, weaponry, daily life on the battlefield, public sentiment toward the war, and the war’s eventual outcome. Dramatic narrative enlivened by primary and secondary source accounts, offers young readers insight into the triumphs and tragedies of war. Each volume in the series includes a bibliography for further research, a thorough list of works consulted, a chronology of important events, sidebars, and numerous maps and photographs. Each set serves as an excellent resource for research projects and will also appeal to the casual reader. (From Google Books)
Have you tried NoveList yet? NoveList has information on over 150,000 works of fiction for young and old. It includes reviews from respected magazines such as BookList, Publishers Weekly, and Library Journal, among others, as well as information about authors and literary awards. It also allows individual readers to post their own reviews, and has its own “read-alike” feature that suggests books with similar subjects, story lines, genres, etc. You’ll find NoveList on the library’s A-Z List.
EBSCOhost databases have millions of magazine, newspaper, and journal articles available for you and your students. They also added tens of thousands of ebooks this year, all available on your computer. Now EBSCOhost is available on your iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad and your Android mobile devices with the new EBSCOhost app. Once you download the software, you can “check out” an online book and have it available on several of your devices at the same time!
The EBSCO app does not run through the Ivy Tech proxy server, so you’ll need a separate ID and Password to use it. Just contact the library, and we’ll be happy to provide that information to Ivy Tech faculty, staff, and students. For more information about the EBSCO app, click here. For more information about downloading books to your mobile phone, iPad, Nook, etc., click here.
The Health Insurance and Portability Administration Act (HIPAA) is federal legislation that protects the safety and privacy of all medical records and other personal health information. The new Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) law requires additional enforcement of the Privacy and Security rules.
This short, concise program is the 15 minute solution to your mandatory HIPAA training needs! This program benefits all health care workers, including the Admissions Department, Administrative Staff, Lab Workers, and Healthcare Professionals on the front line. (From Envision)
In today’s healthcare environment there are many obstacles that challenge our ability to document well: Time constraints, staff shortage, lack of standardized systems, numerous checklists and the list goes on and on.This program will sharpen your documentation skills by focusing on:
Overcoming obstacles and barriers to good documentation
Benefits of quality documentation
Professional and legal responsibilities
Characteristics of good documentation
Documentation requirements (as issued by regulatory and accreditation agencies)
Documentation techniques
Tips for improving documentation skills (From Envision)
Presented in docudrama style, Fire’s Fury! is a personal account of one family’s close call with a fire. Interviews with family members while they move into their new house reveal details of the frightening experience that starts when the teenage daughter leaves a candle burning in her bedroom. As the story unfolds, a dramatic onscreen fire recreation provides an eye-opening look at how rapidly smoke and flames can spread, reaching life-threatening proportions in just seconds.(From NFPA)
Producer/director Charles Ferguson (No End in Sight) speaks at length with journalists, politicians, and financial insiders in order to offer a clearer picture of the economic meltdown that hit America starting in 2008. Academy Award winner Matt Damon narrates this unflinching look at the deep-rooted corruption that has left millions of middle-class Americans jobless and homeless as the major corporations get bailed out while paying millions in bonuses. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
Inside the California Institution for Women, the first inmate initiated and led group in U.S. prison history, shatters the misconceptions of domestic violence.
Convicted Women Against Abuse (CWAA) was created in 1989 to help women inside prison break the silence about abuse and learn more about what they needed to do to help others stop the cycle of violence.
Instead of fighting a system that does not fully comprehend the complexities of abuse, the women of CWAA led an initiative to help educate the system. Through careful orchestration of letter writing campaigns, media coverage, and senate hearings a movement was born and laws for battered women were changed. And for the founder of CWAA, the flicker of hope begins to grow as her possible freedom, after 26 years in prison, lies moments away. (From http://www.sinbysilence.com)
We all do a variety of things. I maintain the library website, troubleshoot and work with databases, and put statistics together for reports. I promote the library and write articles for various Ivy Tech Community College-Northeast publications. I teach library information skills to students in their classes, and help them with their research when they come into the library. I’m in charge of our online Ask a Librarian service, which allows students to get help from a librarian without actually coming to the library. And sometimes I even help check out books.
Q. Where does your expertise come from?
I taught high school history and English for nine years before I became a librarian. As an undergraduate student at Indiana University, I studied a lot of history, which gives one a broad working knowledge on just about everything. I also received my Library Science master’s degree from IU Bloomington. I was there in the early days of the Internet/World Wide Web revolution, so I learned about both traditional, print resources and the emerging Web products.
Q. What is unique about you that could be of service to the Ivy Tech community?
I’ve always been interested in geography and history, the world outside the United States, and current events/news. I was a real news junkie when I was a teenager; I would watch all three major network evening news programs if they were on at different times. As an adult I’ve always subscribed to a weekly news magazine and the daily paper. And I’ve always liked science—I was a biology major when I started college. Consequently, when students need help researching a topic, I probably already know something about it.
Q. Recommend a book to us that you enjoyed.
You can’t go wrong reading Twain or Vonnegut. You know those novels and plays you had to read in high school English classes? They’re all better if you read them again as an adult. Unfortunately, I don’t read many books. But I get The Economist, Sky and Telescope, Natural History, and Traces of Indiana and Midwestern History at home, and those magazines keep me busy.
Q. What’s your favorite thing to do outside the library?
I watch way too much television. I moved to Fort Wayne almost three years ago, and bought a house a year later. Any homeowner knows how much time it takes to keep a home in order. I spend a lot of time puttering around out in the yard, mowing, working on the landscaping, cutting firewood, clearing brush, etc. At this stage it’s still fun, but eventually it will become a chore.
In this documentary produced to bring attention to various ways of life that stand on the brink of extinction due to rapid progression in the modern world, filmmakers travel to five continents to explore the values and behavior of endangered societies in an era where culture seems to take on a new meaning with each sunrise. In one such case, the influential leader of New Guinea’s Kawelka tribe spends five years amassing an abundance of valuable items including 600 pigs and a motorbike only to give them away in a festive ceremony called the moka. A key component to Kawelka culture, the moka ceremony finds those seeking to gain influence attempting to do so not by acquiring valuable objects, but by giving them away. Unfortunately, things do not go as planned and the leader of the tribe is ultimately threatened with violence as a result of his outwardly selfless act of giving. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi Watch Trailer
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