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Outstanding Academic Titles in 2009

The Mundt Library has or provides access to a number of sources recently recognized as outstanding. Significant print and electronic titles are selected for recognition by Choice subject editors from the titles reviewed in the previous year in the journal Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries. The most recent annual list was published in the January 2010. Some of the titles recognized by Choice and owned or subscribed-to by the Mundt Library are:

AP Images. A database, provided by AccuWeather, that provides photographs and other graphics of the the AP News Service that may be used in student presentations and papers. Get to the database by finding AP Images in the "Database Quicklinks" drop-down menu in the upper right corner of the Library's home page.

CareerOneStop. A job-hunting website sponsored by the U. S. Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. You can find the Internet link for this by searching for "CareerOneStop" in the Library Catalog or go direct to http://www.careeronestop.org/

MLA handbook for writers of research papers (New York : Modern Language Association of America, 2009). This is THE guide for the MLA style of writing and citation. Located in print on the first floor of the library at REFERENCE LB2369 .G53 2009.

Prairies and plains : the reference literature of a region (by Robert Balay, general editor. Chicago : KWS Publishers, 2009). An analysis of the reference sources—encyclopedias, bibliographies, biographies, almanacs, dictionaries—for investigating questions regarding the history and culture of the Prairies and Plains region. Located in print on the first floor of the library at REFERENCE Z1251.W5 P73 2009

The Princeton companion to mathematics (editor, Timothy Gowers. Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2008). "Imagine taking an overview of elementary and advanced mathematics, a history of mathematics and mathematicians, and a mathematical encyclopedia and combining them all into one comprehensive reference book" (quote from review in Mathematics Teacher). "It has something for nearly everyone, from beginning students of mathematics who would like to get some sense of what the subject is all about, all the way to professional mathematicians who would like to get a better idea of what their colleagues are doing (quote from review in American Scientist). Located in print on the first floor of the library at REFERENCE QA11.2 .P745 2008

We'll provide more of the outstanding titles in future blog entries...

South Dakota newspapers online

Use the Newsbank database to read South Dakota newspapers from Pierre, Mitchell, Aberdeen, and Rapid City and to read AP news stories from the Sioux Falls area. A link to Newsbank may be found in the "Database Quicklinks" drop down menu in the upper right corner of the Library's home page. Click on "South Dakota News Package" to search on all the newspapers at one time. Or click on the individual newspapers to search one at a time. Newsbank also includes a database of historical Aberdeen newspaper articles from the 1880's to the 1920's (for example, since L. Frank Baum, the author of The Wizard of Oz, once lived in Aberdeen, search the historical papers for "oz").

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