Hunter College Libraries Blog

Arranged by call number:

Feagin, Joe R.:
Systemic racism : a theory of oppression /
New York : Routledge, 2006. E184 .A1 F385 2006

Boyatzis, Richard E.:
Transforming qualitative information : thematic analysis and code development /
Thousand Oaks, CA : Sage Publications, c1998. H62 .B628 1998

Louie, Miriam Ching Yoon.:
Sweatshop warriors : immigrant women workers take on the global factory /
Cambridge, Mass. : South End Press, c2001. HD6057.5.U5 L68 2001

Schwartz, Alex F., 1957-:
Housing policy in the United States : an introduction /
New York : Routledge, 2006. HD7293 .S373 2006

Futterman, Susan.:
When you work for a bully : assessing your options and taking action /
Montvale, NJ : Croce Pub. Group ; Chicago, Il. : distributed by Independent Publishers Group, 2004. HF5549.5 .E43 F88 2004

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Did you see the article in Tuesday’s (May 20^th) Science Times that talked about digitizing rare documents from Timbuktu? The group that is responsible for this is ALUKA, a Mellon Foundation funded organization designated to make all kinds of information about Africa available to a wide audience. While the Timbuktu documents won’t be ready for a while, you can see what is available through ALUKA by linking to it from the Hunter College Library’s list of databases. Right now, there is a wealth of information on African plants, documents concerning the end of Apartheid in South Africa, and a miscellaneous section called Cultural Heritage that contains information about historic sites, and documents like those from Timbuktu.

Take a look at this and let us know what you think. At the present time, we have a trial subscription, but would like the input from the Hunter community on how useful this will be.

The goal of this competition is to stimulate the creative use of library resources, including those of the Hunter Libraries Archives & Special Collections and the research facilities of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Winning papers should be thoroughly researched, well written, and properly documented.

Prizes will be awarded for papers judged to be the best of 2008. Papers written in the winter, spring, summer, and fall semesters of 2008 qualify.

Barnes & Noble Gift Certificates of $100.00 and $50.00 each will be given in separate categories for (1) 100 level, (2) 200 level and above undergraduate, and (3) graduate research papers. All departments and special programs in the college may participate. No more than three papers may be submitted for one course. Theses are excluded.

The deadline for submission is Monday, January 12, 2009. Only papers submitted by course instructors will be eligible for awards. Papers should be sent to Prof. Tony Doyle at the Hunter College Libraries with a note giving the course name, number and semester (Winter, Spring, Summer, or Fall 2008). Submissions should also include students’ phone numbers and email addresses. There is no special format, and submitting the papers is sufficient statement of recommendation. A faculty panel will select the winners. Awards will be presented at the college-wide Hunter Library Day reception in the spring of 2009.

Faculty sponsors of winning candidates will also be formally recognized for their support in this common effort to promote the research and writing skills of Hunter students.

For more information please contact Tony Doyle at 772-4181or tdoyle@hunter.cuny.edu.

Trying to steer clear of getting into the boredom of cataloging rules, initially I was planning to entertain my fellow restaurant frequenters with “Chinese cuisine in Chinatowns around the world” for this writing. However, later I decided, after having attended a conference, to share equally delicious “food”, but it is for thought, instead. The following is sketchy information about electronic portfolios that I, a computer idiot, acquired from the Conference.

The conference, titled Making connections, eportfolios, integrative learning and assessment, was held on April 11-12, 2008 (plus afternoon of April 10 for pre-conference workshops) in LaGuardia Community College, which has played a leading role in promoting this cutting-age learning tool in New York City (For more information: http://eportfolio.lagcc.cuny.edu/). Meanwhile, on a national platform of eportfolio development, Minnesota State Colleges and Universities, in partnership with state education and workforce organizations, launched the first statewide electronic portfolio management system in the United States in 2002 (For more information: http://www.efoliominnesota.com/)

What are e-portfolios? To simply put, e-portfolios are computerized version of portfolios. A personal e-portfolio is a digital documentation of collection, selection, reflection, and projection throughout an individual’s lifelong activities, artifacts, and memorabilia. Since an e-portfolios can also include a compilation of written assignments, exams, presentations, learning process, and achievements, a student portfolio could speak volumes when seeking employment during career pursuits.

Another perspective for e-portfolios is from the angle of classroom faculty and librarians. E-portfolios may provide a venue for educators to access the outcomes of student classwork and perform assessment or evaluation. Successful evidences about using eportfolios along with rubrics to teach various subjects or evaluate information literacy programs have been widely reported.

Though there are many free web 2.0 tools, such as: Wordpress, Wikispaces, GoogleDocs, Googlepage, and Epsilen, etc, available to create and develop personal web-based eportfolios (For more information: http://electronicportfolios.org), to support e-portfolios in an institution, on the other side of fence, is not a cost-free decision. As a matter of fact, this is known as a difficult, time-consuming, expensive, and bound to fail crusade if it is NOT a well-funded and planned initiative.

My regret of attending this Conference is that I missed so many concurrent valuable seminars and lectures to further my knowledge. Nevertheless, I am grateful for being awakened to many possibilities of this educational resource and excited to know about the opportunities this tool can provide for personal growth and institutional development.

I am pleased to announce that Brian Lym is returning to the Hunter College Libraries as Science Reference Librarian. He is rejoining the staff on Monday, May 12th, after a short stint at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Medical Library. Welcome back, Brian!