DCCC Library Books and Bytes

A Google search on baseball yields 130,000,000 sites. A search on baseball history brings up a mere 90,900,000. Let a librarian do the work and try one of these recommended sites:
Society for American Baseball Research offers additional links and the SABR-ZINE — read up on the “Lasordapalooza”
Historic Baseball — search this site by player’s name, team or league. Especially good for biographies.
Baseball Cards 1887-1914 displays 2100 cards featuring baseball great like Ty Cobb, Connie Mack and Cy Young.
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The library has some unique books on job searching, published in 2009 and 2010. Here are some examples: Over 40 & You’re Hired; 150 Best-Recession Proof Jobs; Career Chronicles: An Insider’s Guide to What Jobs are Really Like; Best Jobs for Ex-Offenders; How’d you Score that Gig: A Guide to the Coolest Jobs and How to Get Them; Get Hired in a Tough Market; Gallery of Best Resumes for People without a Four Year Degree. To get the call number for the book go to the library catalog or see a librarian. Be sure the book says “available” and not “checked out” before you drive over to get it! (mg)

DCCC students and faculty have a chance to use the Gale Literature Criticism Online database between now and May 2nd, 2010. The database contains the same material as most of the series in the DCCC Library print “Gale” collection of reference books–and some additional series! Access to Gale’s Short Story Criticism, Poetry Criticism, Drama Criticism, Shakespeare Criticism and others can be accessed from this database. This product is available on a temporary free trial for DCCC students only. To access it, sign on to DelaGate and click on the LIBRARY tab at the top of the page. You will see the link to Gale Literature Criticism Online Trial in the center frame. Please send any comments about this product to our virtual librarian mailbox at library@dccc.edu Remember that Librarians are available to assist you with your research in person, email, phone or IM via the Library Homepage or via DelaGate / LIBRARY tab. Look for “Contact a Librarian” or “Ask Here PA.” (mg)

The Phillies home opener is Monday April 12th at 3:00 p.m. against the Washington Nationals. Read about trades, statistics, the players, the injuries, and the predictions in Sports Illustrated and the Philadelphia Inquirer. The Library subscribes to both publications in print and online. From the Library homepage at http://library.dccc.edu, select Find Articles. Select Master File. Enter Sports Illustrated in the first box. The most recent articles appear first. Or select Newspapers (again, under Find Articles) and select Philadelphia Inquirer. Change the pull down menu from all text to “Section.” Enter Sports and today’s articles will appear first. Note: not every article in print is online. The grand old newspaper is not dead yet.
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http://www.livingroomcandidate.org/

This online archive presents the video advertising for the Democratic and Republican (and significant third parties, when applicable) presidential candidates of the television era from 1952 to the present. (ed)

Need something to do around Philly during Spring Break? Finding things to do in the Philadelphia area is not hard to do! Here are some great web resources that might give you some ideas. The Phillyfunguide http://www.phillyfunguide.com/ is a great web resource to find all sorts of events in the local area. Philly.com also has a wonderful calendar of daily events at this site: http://www.philly.com/philly/calendar/. If you want to see a movie, the Yahoo! Movies site http://movies.yahoo.com/ will allow you to search for movie listings and schedules by your local zip code. Of course, if you need to study a good place is the DCCC Library open the week of Spring break from 8 am-4 pm. (esd)

Income Tax Returns are due April 15th, 2010. Federal forms, publications and instructions can be downloaded from http://irs.gov
Pennsylvania state forms, publications, and instructions can be found at http://revenue.state.pa.us
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