Thursday, August 20, 2009

How have they grown up?

Frame of reference in popular culture of our new first year students.

Beloit College Mind List

Beloit’s list, published for the past 12 years by two professors, attempts to provide "observations that help to identify the experiences that have shaped the lives–and formed the mindset—of students starting their post-secondary education this fall."

ACT /SAT Conversion chart


http://www.act.org/aap/index.html

Monday, August 3, 2009

June Acquisitions

Acquisitions List
Chadwick Library
Iowa Wesleyan College
June 2009
*---Gifts
#---Free Gov’t Doc.

GENERAL INTEREST
*Burns, George. Gracie: a love story. G.P. Putnam, 1988. (PN2287 .A485 B87 1988)

NURSING
*Home care of the hospice patient: an information/ instructional booklet for caregivers in the home. 1986. (R726.8 .H65 1986)
*Halverson-Bender, Kimberly. Excelling in the externship: a preparation guide for medical assisting and allied health. Prentice Hall, 2010. (R847 .H35 2010)
*Magee, Mike. Home-centered health care: the populist transformation of the American health care system. Spencer Books, 2007. (RA645.35 .H66 2007)
*Corbett, Jane Vincent. Laboratory tests and diagnostic procedures: with nursing diagnoses. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2008. (RT48.5 .C67 2008)

PSYCHOLOGY
*McCutcheon, Lynn E. Celebrity worshippers: inside the minds of stargazers. PublishAmerica, 2004. (BJ1470.5 .C 2004)

BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION
ACCOUNTING & ECONOMICS
*McCormack, Mark H. Staying street smart in the Internet age: what hasn’t changed about the way we do business. Viking/ Penguin, 2000. (HD30.37 .M388 2000)
*Potter-Efron, Ronald T. Work rage: preventing anger and resolving conflict on the job. Barnes & Noble, 2000. (HD42 .P67 2000)

COMMUNICATION
*Stettner, Morey. The art of winning conversation: proven communication techniques for personal and professional success. MJF Books, 1995. (PN6162 .S74 1995)

ENGLISH & LITERATURE
*Andrian, Gustave W. (ed.). Modern Spanish prose: with a selection of poetry. Pearson Prentice Hall, 2007. (PC4117 .A735 2007)
*Whitney, John O. Power plays: Shakespeare’s lessons in leadership and management. Simon & Schuster, 2000. (PR3069 .M27 W47 2000)
*Wordsworth, William. Selected poems. Gramercy Books, 1993. (PR5852 1993)

FICTION
*Stoker, Bram. Dracula. Barnes & Noble, 1992. (PR6037 .T617 D7 1992)

HISTORY & POLITICAL SCIENCE
*Robertson, Pat. The new world order. Word Publishing, 1991. (D860 .R64 1991)
*Coufoudakis, Van. International aggression and violations of human rights: the case of Turkey in Cyprus. Univ. of Minnesota, 2008. (DS54.9 .C683 2008)
YOUTH LITERATURE
*Martin, Ann M. A dog’s life: the autobiography of a stray. Scholastic, 2005. (Youth Lit AN M36do)
*Carman, Patrick. The dark hills divide. Scholastic, 2005. (Youth Lit FAN C21da)
*Johnson, Angela. Lily Brown’s paintings. Orchard/ Scholastic, 2008. (Youth Lit FAN J63li)
*Long, Melinda. Pirates don’t change diapers. Scholastic, 2008. (Youth Lit FAN L85pi)
*Joy, N. The secret Olivia told me. Scholastic, 2009. (Youth Lit FR J84se)
*Kadohata, Cynthia. Cracker! : the best dog in Vietnam. Aladdin Paperbacks, 2008. (Youth Lit HF K11cr)
*Brashares, Ann. The sisterhood of the traveling pants. Delacorte Press, 2004. (Youth Lit HS B73si)
*Hautman, Pete. Invisible. Simon Pulse, 2006. (Youth Lit HS H29in)
*Wolfson, Jill. What I call life. Square Fish, 2008. (Youth Lit HS W83wh)
*Friend, Catherine. The perfect nest. Scholastic, 2009. (Youth Lit Hum F91pe)
*Larson, Kirby. Hattie Big Sky. Delacorte Press, 2007. (Youth Lit NEW L32ha 2007)
*A day on the prairie. Scholastic, 2008. (Youth Lit SCI L62da)

ART
Saab, A. Joan. For the millions: American art and culture between the wars. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004. (N6512 .S213 2004)

A/V
*Ehrlich, Ann. Medical terminology for health professions. Delmar Cenage Learning, 2009. (A-V CD Ref R123 .E47 2009)
*Deglin, Judith Hopper. Davis’s drug guide for nurses. F.A. Davis, 2009. (A-V CD Ref RM301.12 .D44 2009)
*Springhouse nurse’s drug guide 2008. Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, 2008. (A-V CD RM301.12 .S737 2008)