Collection News

Top 10 Titles of 2008/09

2009-10-09T14:55:00.006-04:00

Most frequently circulated titles of last year:

Push : a novel / by Sapphire
Call no: PS3569 .A63 P87 1997
Times checked out: 18

Doing grammar / Max Morenberg
Call no: PE1112 .M64 2002
Times checked out: 15

Do androids dream of electric sheep? / Philip K. Dick
Call no: PS3554 .I3 D6 1996
Times checked out: 13

Human sexuality / Roger R. Hock
Call no: HQ21 .H54 2007
Times checked out: 13

Literature : a pocket anthology / edited by R.S. Gwynn
Call no: PR1109 .G9 2002
Times checked out: 12

The brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao / Junot Diaz
Call no: PS3554 .I259 B75 2008b
Times checked out: 12

The psychology of women / Margaret W. Matlin
Call no: HQ1206 .M354 2004
Times checked out: 11

Introduction to maternity & pediatric nursing / Gloria Leifer
Call no: RG951 .L375 2003
Times checked out: 11

Bodega dreams / Ernesto Quinonez
Call no: PS3567 .U3618 L3 2000
Times checked out: 11

Without sanctuary : lynching photography in America / James Allen ... [et al.]
Call no: HV6459 .W57 2000
Times checked out: 11

Online video makes its debut at Hostos

2009-08-28T11:52:00.005-04:00

Check out American History in Video, a digital collection of over 1500 videos accompanied by searchable transcripts covering American history from the 19th century to the 1980's. This is an excellent learning tool for students of history, English language learners, or anyone studying American cultural or political events of the last century.

In this video clip four black students stage a sit-in at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, NC in 1960.

Literature in your inbox

2009-07-21T14:56:00.006-04:00

Subscribe to DailyLit and receive a daily email or RSS installment of a book of your choosing. DailyLit offers new pay-per-read books as well as hundreds of free titles in the public domain. Sign up and receive a sonnet by Shakespeare or a short story by Kate Chopin in your inbox each day. DailyLit includes user forums and discussion groups and books in various languages and genres.

New Books on Careers and Job Hunting

2009-07-01T15:28:00.006-04:00

Interested in reading up on the state of the job market and the economic crisis? The Hostos Library recently purchased the following:

The 2010 Meltdown: Solving the Impending Jobs Crisis
by Edward E. Gordon

Location: HD5724.G637 2005

The problem Chicago-based consultant Gordon sees is not a lack of jobs, but a lack of people to do them as baby boomers retire and the next generation has not been properly educated or trained for the high-skill, technology-related jobs that will be available. He describes how the US came to where it is, the current situation and its implications, and solutions for structuring renewal.
--Booknews.com

America Works: the Exceptional U.S. Labor Market
by Richard B. Freeman

Assessing the performance of the U.S. job market in light of other developed countries' recent history highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the free market model. Written with authoritative knowledge and incisive wit, America Works provides a compelling plan for how we can make markets work better for all Americans.

Location: HD5724 .F734 2007

Why Men Earn More: the Startling Truth Behind the Pay Gap--and What Women Can Do About It
by Warren Farrell

"This book--complete with far more textured, subtle arguments than a column can ever convey--will make you think twice." -- Jeanne Sahadi, senior writer, CNNMoney.com

Location: HD6061.F37 2005

Encyclopedia of Careers and Vocational Guidance (14th ed).

Location: Reference - HF5381 .E52 2008

Change Your Career: Teaching as Your New Profession
by Lauren Starkey

Making the change to the education sector can prove to be a worthwhile and rewarding move. If you are looking to make a career switch, Change Your Career: Teaching as Your New Profession is the perfect resource for you. In this take-charge guide, you will find all the vital information you need to decide if teaching is right for you, and how to make a seamless transition into this new profession.

Location: LB1775.2 .S73 2007

Career Opportunities in Conservation and the Environment
by Paul Greenland

Location: S945 .G74 2008

Career Opportunities in Forensic Science
by Susan Echaore-McDavid

Location: HV8073.E34 2008

Careers in High Tech
by Nicholas Basta

Location: TA157.B3418 2007

Opportunities in Dental Care Careers
by Bonnie L. Kendall

Location: Reference RK60.K44 2006

Mosby's Comprehensive Review of Radiography: the Complete Study Guide and Career Planner - 5th ed.

Location: Reference RC78.17 .C35 2008

New Historical Online Collections

2008-12-30T12:27:00.005-05:00

Hostos now has access through CUNY to three new electronic resources that provide primary source materials in history.

The Economist Archive (1848-2003) offers a complete facsimile edition of The Economist, the weekly paper that focuses on politics, current affairs and all aspects of business and trade worldwide. It is an excellent primary source for researching and teaching the 19th and 20th centuries.

Eighteenth Century Collections Online provides access the digital images of every page of 150,000 books published during the 18th century in the fields of history, literature, religion, law, fine arts, science and more. It includes documents in various languages including Spanish, French, and Italian.

Making of the Modern World "The Making of the Modern World: Goldsmiths'-Kress Library of Economic Literature 1450-1850" provides digital facsimile images on every page of 61,000 works of literature on economic and business published from 1450 through 1850. It includes documents in various languages including Spanish, French, and Italian.

New series to support General Education

2008-11-06T18:19:00.004-05:00

We've recently started standing orders to series of books that make connections between various disciplines written for students in late high school grades and early undergraduates. One such series is Social Issues in Literature from Greenhaven Press. The series is designed to help "students navigate the intersection between literature and sociology [and support] cross-curricular studies of the world's enduring masterworks." (publisher's website) A new title comes out every two months. So far we've received titles on The Scarlet Letter, Malcolm X, The Joy Luck Club and more.

Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change

2008-09-29T17:53:00.003-04:00

The Encyclopedia of Global Warming and Climate Change will be useful students across displines who are researching the scientific, political, and social implications of global warming. It is searchable by keyword but it also contains a browseable reader's guide that lists ideas for topics related to global warming.

“This is a useful set because of the individual country entries as well as the general-audience language . . .”— Booklist (Starred Review)

New online reference resources

2008-06-12T13:47:00.004-04:00

Check out the two newest online resources at Hostos Library:

Milestone Documents in American History provides the full text and analysis of key primary texts in American History. These documents offer historical context (1807 Act to Prohibit the Importation of Slaves ) as well as context for more recent events (U.S. Supreme Court's 2000 decsion Bush v. Gore).

Magill's Medical Guide online, a medical reference resource that Library Journal describes"authoritative and up-to-date yet highly accessible and admirably succinct. All the articles are signed, and to the left of the article text are links to the proper citation for the articles."

Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

2008-04-28T14:05:00.000-04:00

CUNY has subscribed to the Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. It is an authoritative source for students of economics with contributions by experts in the field worldwide.

April is for Poetry

2008-04-24T10:36:00.000-04:00

Hostos Library has hundreds of books of poetry -- from entire volumes by a single author to anthologies by selected authors or about specific subjects. You can also find classics and contemporary poems published in literary magazines in our licensed databases. In both Literary Reference Center and Literature Resource Center, use "advanced search,"limit to "poems" and type in a key word.

"If I feel physically as if the top of my head were taken off, I know that is poetry." -- Emily Dickinson.

Credo Reference Trial

2008-03-26T12:36:00.000-04:00

Check out Credo Reference, a platform that enables users to search 240 reference titles across disciplines. Resources like Credo reference, Gale Virtual Reference and Oxford reference provide current, basic reference titles online so we can devote more library space for students. Credo offers images, audio files, and the new interface that will be released this summer will enable users to search other databases directly (without going back out to the library web page) and choosing another title. The trial ends April 15th.

Palgrave Dictionary of Economics

2008-03-05T17:07:00.000-05:00

Check out the Palgrave Dictionary of Economics which is on trial at all CUNY libraries until the end of March. It is a standard reference tools in the field with in-depth articles by experts. It is a good resource for students new to economics, providing a browsable list of topics, keywords, and citation help.

New books on Women and Women's History

2008-03-04T09:43:00.000-05:00

Women writing Africa. The eastern region / edited by Amandina Lihamba ... [et al.] New York : The Feminist Press at the City University of New York, 2007.

Call number PL8014 .E22 W66 2007

"The third volume from the Women Writing Africa Project makes a significant contribution to the study of African literature and offers a textured portrait of women's lives in Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia. These pieces span the centuries from 1711 to 2003, address topics ranging from religion to HIV and represent prose and poetry, fiction and nonfiction, lullabies and protest songs. Marriage is a theme that runs throughout: "A Mother's Advice and Prayer" from 1858 is a nuptial manual in verse, and "I Want a Divorce," taken from a 1922 court record, gives a valuable glimpse of the power struggles between husband and wife..." From Publisher's weekly.

No seat at the table : how corporate governance and law keep women out of the boardroom / Douglas M. Branson. New York : New York University Press, c2007

Call no. HD6054.4 .U6 B73 2007

”This book should be read by anyone interested in advancing to the boardrooms in corporate America. . . . Branson provides interesting discussions on linguistic differences between males and females as well as gender differences in play, along with their implications for success in business. . . . Branson reveals how corporate governance practices hinder women’s career advancement and suggests strategies women should adopt to succeed in the corporate world….Highly recommended.” —Choice

From Black power to hip hop : racism, nationalism, and feminism / Patricia Hill Collins. Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2006.

Call no. E185.625 .H55 2006

"As the title suggests, Collins's overarching focus is on African American nationalism and feminism between the end of Black Power and the rise of hip hop culture. She offers a lively analysis of "hip hop feminism" espoused by Joan Morgan and other writers. "They see the incongruity of learning about feminism in their college classrooms, yet their response lies not in becoming academics who broker commodified knowledge within the academic marketplace." Also intriguing is her assessment of the divergence within the feminism movement, fueled in part by white feminism's failure to recognize the value of the work women of color do in their communities, resulting in a "colorblind racism" that has taken the place of active discrimination and leaves young African American women torn between an individualistic feminism and a community-oriented black nationalism." -- Publisher's weekly.

New Titles for Black History Month

2008-02-26T22:07:00.000-05:00

Encyclopedia of antislavery and abolition / edited by Peter Hinks and John McKivigan ; assistant editor, R. Owen Williams. Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2007.

"... covers the ideology and activism of the various international movements that resisted and ultimately led to the repeal of slavery. Though the focus is mainly on the Atlantic World in the 1700s and 1800s, entries trace the changing fortunes of slavery worldwide, from early beliefs in the necessity, righteousness, and divine approval of the peculiar institution to the later beliefs in the mid–nineteenth century that slavery was evidence of moral decay in a society and little short of evil incarnate. Overall, the encyclopedia outlines and explains the various antislavery movements—their origins, structures, accomplishments, seminal figures, and historic import. The consequences of manumission are covered in great detail as well, with reverberations that often reach to the present day..." Tosko, Michael--Booklist

The curse of caste, or, The slave bride : a rediscovered African American novel / by Julia C. Collins ; edited by William L. Andrews and Mitch Kachun. New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.

In 1865, The Christian Recorder, the national newspaper of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, serialized The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, a novel written by Mrs. Julia C. Collins, an African American woman living in the small town of Williamsport, Pennsylvania. The first novel ever published by a black American woman, it is set in antebellum Louisiana and Connecticut, and focuses on the lives of a beautiful mixed-race mother and daughter whose opportunities for fulfillment through love and marriage are threatened by slavery and caste prejudice. The text shares much with popular nineteenth-century women's fiction, while its dominant themes of interracial romance, hidden African ancestry, and ambiguous racial identity have parallels in the writings of both black and white authors from the period. Begun in the waning months of the Civil War, the novel was near its conclusion when Julia Collins died of tuberculosis in November of 1865. In this first-ever book publication of The Curse of Caste; or The Slave Bride, the editors have composed a hopeful and a tragic ending, reflecting two alternatives Collins almost certainly would have considered for the closing of her unprecedented novel. In their introduction, the editors offer the most complete and current research on the life and community of an author who left few traces in the historical record, and provide extensive discussion of her novel's literary and historical significance. Collins's published essays, which provide intriguing glimpses into the mind of this gifted but overlooked writer, are included in what will prove to be the definitive edition of a major new discovery in African American literature. Its publication contributes immensely to our understanding of black American literature, religion, women's history, community life, and race relations during the era of United States emancipation--Publisher's description.

Wiley Interscience Journals online

2008-02-26T19:56:00.000-05:00

Hostos Library has just licensed a new package of over 200 electronic journals from Wiley InterScience. Titles cover natural sciences, social sciences, and allied health and include:

Infant and Child Development
Journal of Basic Microbiology
Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology
New Directions for Community Colleges
Psychology in the Schools
Research in Nursing and Health
Science Education
Stress and Health