Library News for 2005

Library Collections Expand

Under consideration:

CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries
The magazine CHOICE: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries publishes expert reviews (more than 7,000 reviews annually) of scholarly books and electronic resources. Looking for good, recent works on any academic topic? Search reviews since September 1988 with CHOICE Online. Current CIIS ID number required for access off-campus.

Send us your thoughts about CHOICE. Email askref@ciis.edu. Should we subscribe to Choice Reviews Online?

Purchased by the Library:

Child Development & Adolescent Studies
Contains references from biomedical and social sciences worldwide on the growth and development of children through the age of 21. This database includes all of the issues of Child Development Abstracts & Bibliography from 1927 – 2001 (by the Society for Research in Child Development) plus new coverage on child rights and welfare issues. Includes abstracts of articles from hundreds of journals and a bibliography of thousands of technical reports, books, book chapters, theses and dissertations. Current CIIS ID number required for access off-campus.

Accessible on the Web:

In the First Person
In the First Person provides in-depth indexing of more than 2,500 collections of oral history in English from around the world, including letters, diaries, memoirs, autobiographies, and other personal narratives. It allows for keyword searching of more than 260,000 pages of full-text written by more than 9,000 individuals from all walks of life. It also contains pointers to at least 2,500 audio and video files and 16,000 bibliographic records.

How to Format Your Dissertation : Postponed to Spring

Overview:

When -- Tuesday November 15, 6:30 - 8:30pm

Where -- room 425

Who & What -- Lise Dyckman (CIIS Library Director) covers thesis & dissertation formatting concerns and considerations. Plan ahead, to save last-minute worries and scurrying!

In Depth:

Ramp up to the advanced word processing skills that matter for a project the size of a Thesis or Dissertation. Save hours of fussy manual work and post-editing by learning to use Word's automation tools.

When -- Saturday & Sunday Nov. 19-20.

Where -- 1453 Mission St. Room 425.  Attendance is limited to 8 students (4 minimum).

How -- contact Marci Karr, Library Administrative Assistant, to reserve your spot in the class. Call 415-575-6184 or email mkarr@ciis.edu.

What -- Learn how to:

- correctly paginate and number your dissertation pages
- place the formal front matter pages correctly
- move from your outline to narrative prose titles and subtitles
- use a stylesheet, format and apply styles
- have Word automatically generate your TOC from those formatted styles
- ensure that page numbers stay correctly matched between the text and the Table of Contents
- avoid common formatting mistakes
- learn tips, tricks, and shortcuts for proper and consistent formatting
- use reference aggregating tools to track your citations and reference entries

If you have your own laptop, bring it to class to create the stylesheets you'll use. Or carry your class work away on a disk or email it to yourself. Handouts are provided both in print and as an electronic file you can practice your new skills on.

Who -- The formatting workshop has been developed and is taught by Technical Review Editor Ruth Temple, who has edited over 100 CIIS dissertations in the past four years.  The RefWorks reference tool portion of the workshop is taught by CIIS Librarian Ellen Krantz.

Take the Dissertation Formatting Workshop that's been getting rave reviews:

"I've used Word for 23 years and never did this before! Thank you!"

September, 2005

Hurricane Katrina Response Resources

PsycBooks

PsycCritiques

Index to Jewish Periodicals

Welcome Ellen Krantz, Interim Systems Librarian
Ellen Krantz, M.L.S., has joined the Library staff as Interim Systems Librarian until November. She can be contacted at syslib@ciis.edu or 575-6187.

Twelve New Online Journals Added
The following titles have been added to the Library's collection of over 1800 online journals. Use the CIIS Journals link to access these titles or to browse the complete journal collection.

Arts in Psychotherapy (2003+)
Clinical Psychology Review (current year)
Comparative Studies in Society and History (1997+)
Health Education and Behavior (1999+)
International Journal of Intercultural Relations (current year)
Journal of Academic Librarianship (current year)
Journal for Specialists in Group Work (2002+)
Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment (2004+)
Pharmacological Reviews (1997+)
Religion (2004+)
Religious Studies (1997+)
Women's Studies (1998+)

Internet Down Time, Wednesday, June 29
Library online services will be interrupted on Wednesday, June 29 while CIIS changes internet service providers. Please notify askref@ciis.edu if you experience trouble accessing any Library resources beginning Thursday, June 30.

Summer Dissertation Prep Workshop Announced
Saturday, June 18 - Sunday, June 19

Learn about critical style and formatting criteria, reference and bibliography management, and more.

To register, contact the Library Administrative Assistant at (415) 575-6184 / mkarr@ciis.edu. Registration fee is $45.

New Yahoo! Feature: Find Books in Libraries
A new search feature in Yahoo! allows you to search for books in local libraries. Type "library:queering creole traditions" (no spaces around the ":") and you will get a link that reads "Find in a Library: Queering Creole Traditions". Type in your zip code and you will be presented with a list of libraries that have this book.

What's going on is that the WorldCat database is working with Yahoo! to get library information out on the Web. When you search Yahoo! in this way, you are actually searching the WorldCat database which has the holdings of thousands of libraries across the U.S. and around the world.

The Find in a Library feature is still in beta. Soon it will be fully functional in Google as well. Give it a whirl sometime.

Monday Evening, April 15:
Reading and Book Signing with Randy P. Conner
Randy Conner is a CIIS student, and author of Queering Creole Spiritual Traditions: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Participation in African-Inspired Traditions in the Americas. He will be speaking at Minna St. at 7:00pm, free of charge. Sponsored in part by the CIIS Library. Click here for details.

Journal of Transpersonal Psychology Now Online
The Association of Transpersonal Psychology recently made the Journal of Transpersonal Psychology available online. Click here for access instructions. We continue to subscribe to the print edition in addition to the online version.

Library Spring Break Hours
The Library will be open regular hours Monday-Friday (March 21-27) during spring break. The Library will be closed on Sunday, March 27.

Daunted by Your Dissertation?
Enroll in Dissertation Prep Workshops this Spring
If you're confused or overwhelmed or just curious about the technical details of writing your CIIS dissertation or MA thesis, here's help with the nuts and bolts (and formats and fonts and copyright) of this process. Click here for details.

New Collections of Online Full-Text Journals
Psychology & Behavioral Sciences
Religion & Philosophy
The Library recently acquired two new collections with a combined total of 850 journals online. Topics include psychiatry & psychology, anthropology, observational and experimental methods, world religions, epistemology, political philosophy, philosophy of language, and moral philosophy.