Entrepreneurship takes center stage at Marymount Library

"The best way to predict the future is to create it." 

- Peter Drucker

This month Marymount Library is emphasizing all things entrepreneurial. This includes showcasing library resources for entrepreneurs available both electronically and in print.  Here are a few of the resources we have on this exciting topic:

 Books:  We have several entrepreneur books, including: Bill Gates Business @ the Speed of Thought, The Search for Social Entrepreneurship, and The Entrepreneur Next Door. These titles represent just a small sample of the more than hundreds  available resources on this subject in our catalog.

eBooks:  We have several about entrepreneurship that are available electronically through the library. Titles include: In The Name of Entrepreneurship, Linking Entrepreneurship Education to Graduate Education, and Making Ecopreneurs: Developing Sustainable Entrepreneurship. The library has access to over 1,200 eBooks related to entrepreneurship available through ebrary.

We also have access to over 300 audio/visual items on the subject of entrepreneurship available through streaming via Films on Demand. Film titles like Eco-preneurs: business goes green, Capitalize on your Investment: Veterans in Business, still serving America, and Collaborative Entrepreneurship, represent just a few to choose from. All of these great resources can be found via the library catalog.

e-Resources:  You have access to multiple databases for finding business related information, including company profiles (e.g. Hoover's, First Research, Lexis Nexis); industry data and statistics; (e.g. Statistica, Statistical Insight); and databases for business reference and news (e.g. Business Source Elite, Credo Reference, ProQuest Library: Business).                    

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This library's recognition of Entrepreneurship also coincides with Marymount California's partnership with the San Pedro Chamber of Commerce in bringing you the Munch & Learn lecture: Five Qualities of Successful Entrepreneurs. This lecture is on Thursday, November 14, 2013 - 11:45 am to 1:00 pm. Information on the event can be found at here.

Marymount Freshman, T.J. Richards, Publishes Book

We are happy to report that we have an author in Marymount's Freshman Class!

T.J. Richards has written a book titled Michael Divine: The Fallen.  T.J. has written and published the first in a fictional, action adventure series. 

According to the book's description, Michael is an Archangel that fell from Heaven.  Gabriel, one of Heaven's most fearsome angels, has been searching for Michael for a long period of time. Michael believes to have finally spotted him; that's when Michael's world is about to turn upside-down.

As far as Michael is concerned, he is your average high school senior, soon to graduate.  Michael's world starts to change dramatically when a series of strange occurrences start to happen and he receives an encounter with a mysterious visitor.  Michael comes to find out that he is not who he thought he was.

What happens to Michael?  Luckily, T.J. has graciously donated a copy of his book to the Marymount library.  You can come by and check out Michael Divine: The Fallen to find out for yourself.  Also, his book is available for purchase on Barnes & Noble's website.


We are looking forward to seeing more of T.J.'s work in the near future!

Banned Books Week 2013

Marymount Library is celebrating Banned Books Week (September 22−28) which is the national book community's annual celebration of the freedom to read.

The purpose of this event, which is typically held during the last week of September, is to highlight the value of free and open access to information in shared support of the freedom to seek and express ideas, including those that may be considered unorthodox or unpopular. The American Library Association (ALA) and libraries across the country stress the importance of ensuring the availability of those unorthodox or unpopular viewpoints to all whom wish to read them, and to keep banned or challenged materials publicly available so that people can develop their own conclusions and opinions.

So for this week (and for the next month), talk to your students, colleagues, and fellow educators about a banned or censored book. Bring awareness to the problem of censorship and celebrate our freedom to read!

For more information about Banned Books Week or a list of banned and challenged books, visit bannedbooksweek.org and/or ALA's informational website.

Visit the library for the next month to view our list of banned books on our display board, or borrow a banned book today!

'One Book One Peninsula' Featured in PV News

Alan Wang, the "Gar-Ball" designer.
(Photo by Annie Lubinsky, Peninsula News)

With more One Book One Peninsula (OBOP) program activities coming up, including the Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle Festival to be held at Marymount California University on September 27, the community-wide common reading program has been featured on Palos Verdes Peninsula News! In collaboration with Palos Verdes Library District, Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy, and Palos Verdes Art Center, we have truly united our community to discuss and take action in regards to this year's book selection and overall theme: Garbology.

Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash, by Edward Humes, provides an eye-opening account of just how much our society wastes, the cost of it, and how some families, communities, and nations are finding a way back from waste so that our legacy to the future won't be buried in our landfills.

The Reduce, Reuse, & Recycle Festival will take place on September 27 from 12 PM to 1:30 PM and will feature interactive games and demos. The festival will also feature the "Gar-Ball," an art piece created by Palos Verdes Art Center intern Alan Wang, that is designed to collect empty plastic water bottles. In addition, Garbology Author, Edward Humes will be on campus from 12 to 1pm! Attendance is free.

To read the OBOP feature article, visit Palo Verdes Peninsula News: www.pvnews.com/news/one-book-event-shows-local-residents-are-driven-to-reduce/article_32bb9df0-213c-11e3-8116-0019bb2963f4.html

For more information on other OBOP events, visit the One Book One Peninsula Facebook page: www.facebook.com/onebookonepeninsula

Pick up a copy of Garbology today in the Marymount Bookstore or check it out from our library.

Fall 2013 Weekend Hours

Looking for a productive weekend?  With the fall semester well underway, Marymount Library is happy to announce our weekend hours!  The library will be open both Saturdays and Sundays from 11 AM to 5 PM, so come on in if you need books, research help, or just a place to study.

Can't get to the library?  You can still get assistance through our online chat service or call us at (310) 303-7260.

Marymount Library is Talkin’ Trash

The Marymount Library is excited to announce an expansion of its annual One Campus One Book program with new community partnerships.  We have joined forces with the Palos Verdes Library District, Palos Verdes Art Center and the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy in sponsoring a community-wide common reading program now called One Book One Peninsula.

For 2013, we have selected a sustainability-themed book since it is a topic of great interest to all of our institutions and to our coastal community as a whole.  After much consideration, the book selected for this year is Garbology: Our Dirty Love Affair with Trash by Pulitzer-prize winning author Edward Humes.

This is a fascinating book that journeys inside the secret world of our biggest export, our most prodigious product, and our greatest legacy:  our trash.  Did you know that each average American produces a whopping 102 tons of garbage in a lifetime, more than any other people in the world?   The author leads readers along the trail of that trash – what’s in it; the hidden costs of it; and how some families, communities, and nations are finding a way back from waste to discover a new kind of prosperity.  Get ready to be surprised!

Why a Common Read?

First launched at Marymount in 2005, our common reading program involves members of our campus – students and employees – reading the same book.  Readers are encouraged to engage in an analysis of the book from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.  This has become a common program at many universities, and within many cities, as a way to help members of a community connect – to have something in common – to engage with each other in talking about their perspectives of a book and to engage in a lively and intellectual manner through a variety of events offered around the book’s themes.   

After all, this is what a college education is designed to do – to broaden one’s perspectives and ways of looking at the world.  

Recent books in our common read program include Rebecca Skloot’s “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks,” and Father Gregory Boyle’s “Tattoos on the Heart .”

 

Join the Community Fun!

Marymount community members are encouraged to read the book and take part in some of the planned events supporting our One Book program — including a campus visit by Edward Humes on 9/27 followed by a speaking engagement with the author on Saturday 9/28 at the Palos Verdes Peninsula Library.

Stay informed on our many community-wide events related to the book by liking our One Book One Peninsula Facebook page:  www.facebook.com/onebookonepeninsula

Pick up a copy of the book today in the Marymount bookstore or check it out from the library.

Problem with Google Scholar Links to Full Text Articles

UPDATE (7/18/13):  The problem reported about Google Scholar links to full-text content available from Marymount Library has been fixed.  If you continue to experience any complications, please email dhall@marymountpv.edu.

If you use Google Scholar to discover what is available full-text from Marymount Library as well as content on the free web, please note that the links to full-text that appear in the right hand column of your search results page are currently not working properly.

Right-hand column links to full text in Google Scholar

However, there is a workaround.  If you click on the link with a right-mouse and select to open the link in a new tab, you will be directed to the full-text (see screenshot).

Use right mouse click to open links in a new tab.

For more on how to configure Google Scholar to discover articles available from Marymount Library, see this video.

Marymount Library Celebrates Our Scholars

The Marymount Library welcomed faculty, staff and a group of student scholars and their family on Tuesday evening for the third annual Scholars Celebration.  Guests assembled to learn about the wide range of scholarship being conducted at Marymount in a collegial atmosphere and to honor the eleven students nominated for this year’s Student Scholar Awards.

The festive evening included a series of brief talks by a number of faculty and staff discussing recent scholarship activities, ranging from the completion of doctoral dissertations to conference presentations to updates to long-range projects.  In his presentation, Andrew Ogilvie (adjunct professor, English) noted approvingly a recurring theme throughout the evening – an emphasis on improving teaching and learning, which echoes Marymount’s tradition as a student-centric institution.  In between the “lightening round” presentations, guests mingled over light snacks to talk about their work and to view the displays highlighting their intellectual pursuits. 

The evening ended with the presentation of the Student Scholar Awards, which acknowledges a high level of achievement in research and scholarship by undergraduate students.  Melanie Sellar (Education Services Librarian) spoke to the strengths of each of the eleven nominees: Lauren Bufano, Jacqueline Cootes, Kendra Kastelan, Chelsea Kirk, Karla Korson, Kaitlin Lopez, Megan Margeson, Brent Roeder, Jovana Smith, Maxine Vasquez, and Adonis Williams.  Sellar noted that the crowded field of excellent candidates made it difficult for the judges to select the two winners and congratulated all the nominees on their work.  The winners of this year’s awards went to Kendra Kastelan and Chelsea Kirk.

Check out the event photos and slideshow of select Marymount scholarship accomplishments this year.

Trial Access to Music Online

The Library is currently running a trial of Music Online, a streaming audio collection that supports the teaching and research of music. It currently provides streaming access to over 900,000 tracks across all genres of music. In addition, Music Online contains a wealth of textual material for the study of music, including reference works, scores and lyric sheets, and primary sources such as oral histories and interviews with musicians.  Trial access to Music Online is available through May 23, 2013.

After reviewing Music Online, please let us know what you think by filling in this feedback form.  Your response will help us determine whether to subscribe to this resource in the future.



By Paulo Philippidis (Flickr: Jukebox - 1947 Wurlitzer model 1080)
[CC-BY-2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons

Marymount Library Adds Over 3,800 New E-Books

Marymount Library has recently added over 3,8000 scholarly titles to its growing collection of e-books.  The new titles are available on the ebrary platform and are from over 150 publishers including University of Oxford University Press, North Carolina Press, De Grutyer, University of Pennsylvania Press, and many more.

With the recent addition, Marymount Library now provides access to over 85,000 e-books available to students, faculty and staff 24/7.  In addition to round the clock, anywhere access, this growing collection of e-books enables the Library to provide access to far more titles than is possible with physical books.  If the newly added e-books were acquired as physical books, the Library would need at least another 110 shelves to house them all.


Some of the new titles include:

  
Lessons from the Identity Trail, by Ian Kerr, Carole Lucock, and Valerie Steeves (Oxford UP, 2009).

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/marymountpv/docDetail.action?docID=10476908







America's Four Gods, by Paul Froese and Christopher Bader (Oxford UP, 2010).

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/marymountpv/docDetail.action?docID=10416912

The American West at Risk, by Howard G. Wilson, Jane E. Nielson, Richard W. Hazlett (Oxford UP, 2008).

http://site.ebrary.com/lib/marymountpv/docDetail.action?docID=10229917

Resources on Popes and the Vatican on Display

The election of Pope Francis (formerly known as Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio) as the first South American Pope has sparked interest in the Papacy and the Vatican in general. The Library has created a display that provides an introduction to the new Pope.  Also, you will find a selection of books that we have in our collection, devoted to Popes of the past, Catholicism and the Vatican in general.

To learn more, we encourage you to check out some of the resources the Library has, including articles and eBooks on this topic. 

Trial Resource Summarizes Medical Research Results

The Library is currently running a trial of the Cochrane Library, an online source of evidence on the effectiveness of a wide range of health care interventions.  Its content comprises full text Cochrane systematic reviews published online which summarize and interpret the results of medical research, abstracts of other systematic reviews published in medical and health journals, and a register of controlled clinical trials. Among the comprehensive medical topics covered, researchers will find information on issues dealing with mental health, public health, and the treatment of substance abuse. Trial access to the Cochrane Library is available through April 6, 2013. 

To access the trial, please visit the Library's Trial Resources page.  After reviewing the Cochrane Library, please let us know what you think by filling in this feedback form.  Your response will help us determine whether to subscribe to this resource in the future.

GIS Resources on Display in the Library

The Library welcomes Dr. Diana Sinton as Marymount College's 2013 Meid Visiting Mentor.  If you heard Dr. Sinton's presentation on Geospatial Thinking to Learn and Communicate on Monday or any of her classroom presentations, you know that Geographic Information Systems (GIS) is an exciting new area of study that has implications for many disciplines.

To learn more, come check out the Library's new display of resources available in the area of Geographic Information Systems, including Dr. Sinton's 2006 book, Understanding Place: GIS and Mapping Across the Curriculum.

Students: Apply to Win the Scholar Award!

Students, apply for the Library Student Scholar Award. Applications are due by the end of the day on Feb 15, 2013. Winners will each receive a $200 prize, and all nominees will be invited to the Annual Scholars Reception and receive a certificate of accomplishment.

Do you feel proud of a project or paper that you (or your group) submitted for a course last Fall, Summer, or Spring? If so, consider applying! Read more about the award and download the application instructions here.

NPR honors Marymount Adjunct's Book Best of 2012 Historical Fiction

Congratulations to Regina O'Melveny, a Marymount English Adjunct Professor, whose work "The Book of Madness and Cures" was honored by NPR, along with five others, as being the best historical fiction of 2012! What an incredible acknowledgement of her work.

From an NPR reviewer: "I was enthralled by this strikingly original and gorgeously written quest story. In Venice, anno 1590, we meet Gabriella Mondini, a physician trained by her father, who sponsored her entry in the otherwise all-male Physicians' Guild. As the novel opens, he's been missing for 10 years, having left on a journey and never returned. His letters home, meanwhile, reflect an increasingly troubled mind. Without his patronage, Gabriella can no longer remain in the guild or practice medicine. Following the clues in his letters, she embarks on an epic journey to find her lost father, an odyssey that takes her through the dark forests of Germany all the way to Edinburgh." 

Good news: the Library has a copy of Regina's book for your reading pleasure. View details here. 

New Statistics Resource Available

Last semester, the Library tested out a new statistics portal called Statista.  Feedback from students and faculty was very positive, and we're happy to announce that the we now offer access to this impressive resource.  The database provides statistics on over 85,000 diverse topics of data and facts from over 18,000 sources. Categorized into over 20 market sectors, Statista provides access to quantitative facts on technology, finance, politics, and many more areas of interest. Sources of information include North American, European, and Asian market researchers, trade publications, scientific journals, and government databases.  You'll find a link to Statista under the Business & Economics and Social Sciences tabs of the e-Resources page.  If you need help using Statista, just ask a librarian!

Welcome to Spring 2013

The Library would like to welcome everyone to the start of a new semester.  To get the most out of your classes, remember to visit the Library early and often throughout the semester.  The Library's the place to:

• Get individual research assistance from librarians
• Borrow a book from course reserves (books your professors require you to read for class)
• Find books in print and electronically that will help you in writing great papers
• Discover articles from scholarly sources on your topics
• Watch informative films about the subjects you are researching
• Keep up to date with the latest news locally, nationally and globally
• Find a quiet place to study (for group study, we encourage you to check out the great new Commons area located in what used to be known as the auditorium)
• Check out something fun to read from our recreational reading collection

We're open:
M-Thurs, 8am-8pm
Fri, 8am-4pm
Sun, 12-6pm
Online 24/7

See you in the library!