DCCC Library Books and Bytes

College library collections normally contain books that support the courses. But as a courtesy to our patrons , DCCC Library subscribes to  a small rotating collection of best-selling fiction (and a few best-selling non-fiction titles as well.) If you have time for some recreational reading on that burnt out Friday night, or that last weekend of beach time, come see the McNaughton collection: here you will find Evanovich, McCall-Smith, Clancy, Leonard, Parker, Higgins Clark, etc. The books are actually rented (not purchased) from a subscription service so that we can continually trade them in for the latest hot titles!

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Good news from MLA. Beginning April, 2009, the MLA does not require the URL (that is the actual web address) for database citations. Also eliminated from the new standards for database citations are the Library Name, City , State. The inclusion of URL for “free” web sites appears to be optional and up to each instructor. The Library has multiple copies of the 2009 MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers and has posted the new citation help sheets at <http://www.dccc.edu/library/research/mla.html>.

A nice overview of the changes appears at <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/747/01/>. Flexibility will be required as the transition takes place in the Fall semester.Be sure your instructor is aware of the 2009 chnages before turning in your updated works cited pages this semester. (mg)

Three reliable sites to consider when looking for information on swine flu, also known as the H1N1 flu, are:

http://www.cdc.gov/h1n1flu/ from the Center for Disease Control

http://science.thomsonreuters.com/pharma/h1n1/ Daily briefings from publishing company Thomson Reuters

http://www.wiley.com/go/influenza Free articles from journals and books from Wiley Blackwell Publishing Company

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