1 Business & 4 Music Databases to Try Out

Greetings!
King Library is offering access to five trial databases for a limited time:

Through June 2009:

• Research Starters – Business

Through April 20, 2009

• Index to Print Music
• RILM Abstracts of Music Literature
• RIPM – Retrospective Index to Music Periodicals
• RISM – Series A/II: Music Manuscripts after 1600

For access, see our Electronic Resources page found at http://library.king.edu/database.asp

For help logging on from off campus, call the library at 423-652-4716 or send an e-mail message to library@king.edu

Please let us know what you think about these resources!

Congratulations, Westley Ketron!!

Westley was the winner of a 200 count copy card from the E.W. King Library because he completed the Library Survey and entered the drawing!

Check Out New Books in the Library

Something for everyone to enjoy!

New Books at E.W. King Library

• ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND A NEW BIRTH OF FREEDOM : THE UNION AND SLAVERY IN THE DIPLOMACY OF THE CIVIL WAR / HOWARD JONES.
• ADVANCES IN CHILD DEVELOPMENT AND BEHAVIOR.
• AHEAD OF THE CURVE : TWO YEARS AT HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL / PHILIP DELVES BROUGHTON.
• ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT / ERICH MARIA REMARQUE. JOB (ABRIDGED) / JOSEPH ROTH ; EDITED BY HELMUTH KIESEL.
• AMERICAN FASCISTS : THE CHRISTIAN RIGHT AND THE WAR ON AMERICA / CHRIS HEDGES.
• THE ANCIENT ENGINEERS / L. SPRAGUE DE CAMP.
• ARTHURIAN ROMANCES / CHR{226}ETIEN DE TROYES ; TRANSLATED WITH AN INTRODUCTION AND NOTES BY WILLIAM W. KIBLER (EREC AND ENIDE TRANSLATED BY CARLETON W. CARROLL).
• THE BIBLE IN ENGLISH : ITS HISTORY AND INFLUENCE / DAVID DANIELL.
• THE BIBLE SALESMAN : A NOVEL / CLYDE EDGERTON.
• BLOOD AND SOIL : A WORLD HISTORY OF GENOCIDE AND EXTERMINATION FROM SPARTA TO DARFUR / BEN KIERNAN.
• THE BOOK IN AMERICA / RICHARD W. CLEMENT; WITH IMAGES FROM THE LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.
• THE BOOK OF HARD CHOICES : HOW TO MAKE THE RIGHT DECISIONS AT WORK AND KEEP YOUR SELF-RESPECT / JAMES A. AUTRY AND PETER ROY.
• BROADSIDES : THE AGE OF FIGHTING SAIL, 1775-1815 / NATHAN MILLER.
• BUILDINGS OF VIRGINIA : TIDEWATER AND PIEDMONT / EDITED BY RICHARD GUY WILSON ; WITH CONTRIBUTIONS BY SARA A. BUTLER … [ET AL.].
• THE BURIED BOOK : THE LOSS AND REDISCOVERY OF THE GREAT EPIC OF GILGAMESH / DAVID DAMROSCH.
• THE CAMBRIDGE COMPANION TO VERMEER / EDITED BY WAYNE E. FRANITS.
• CARBON NANOTUBES : PROPERTIES AND APPLICATIONS / EDITED BY MICHAEL J. O’CONNELL.
• CAST-IRON ARCHITECTURE IN AMERICA : THE SIGNIFICANCE OF JAMES BOGARDUS / MARGOT GAYLE AND CAROL GAYLE.
• THE CELTS / T.G.E. POWELL.
• CENTRAL WORKS IN TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION / EDITED BY JOHNDAN JOHNSON-EILOLA, STUART A. SELBER.
• THE CHAPEL AT RONCHAMP / PHOTOGRAPHS BY EZRA STOLLER ; INTRODUCTION BY EUGENIA BELL.
• CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN / FRANK B. GILBRETH, JR., ERNESTINE GILBRETH CAREY.
• CHEMICAL ANALYSIS OF FIREARMS, AMMUNITION, AND GUNSHOT RESIDUE / JAMES SMYTH WALLACE.
• CHINA’S MILLIONS : THE CHINA INLAND MISSION AND LATE QING SOCIETY, 1832-1905 / ALVYN AUSTIN.
• THE CHOSEN : THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF ADMISSION AND EXCLUSION AT HARVARD, YALE, AND PRINCETON / JEROME KARABEL.
• CLASSROOM ASSESSMENT TECHNIQUES : A HANDBOOK FOR COLLEGE TEACHERS / THOMAS A.
• CONFEDERATE RAGE, YANKEE WRATH : NO QUARTER IN THE CIVIL WAR / GEORGE S.
• CONFESSIONS OF AN ACCIDENTAL BUSINESSMAN : IT TAKES A LIFETIME TO FIND WISDOM / JAMES A. AUTRY.
• COSMOLOGICAL ENIGMAS : PULSARS, QUASARS, & OTHER DEEP-SPACE QUESTIONS / MARK KIDGER.
• CRADLE OF AMERICA : FOUR CENTURIES OF VIRGINIA HISTORY / PETER WALLENSTEIN.
• CRIME SCENE CHEMISTRY FOR THE ARMCHAIR SLEUTH / CATHY COBB, MONTY L. FETTEROLF, JACK GOLDSMITH.
• CRITICAL POWER TOOLS TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION AND CULTURAL STUDIES/ EDITED BY J. BLAKE SCOTT, BERNADETTE LONGO, KATHERINE V. WILLS.
• THE DEATH OF SIGMUND FREUD : THE LEGACY OF HIS LAST DAYS / MARK EDMUNDSON.
• DECODING DESIGN : UNDERSTANDING AND USING SYMBOLS IN VISUAL COMMUNICATION :
• DISCOVER THE HIDDEN MEANINGS INSIDE COMMON CORPORATE LOGOS AND DESIGNS / MAGGIE MACNAB.
• DIARY OF A CHRISTIAN SOLDIER : RUFUS KINSLEY AND THE CIVIL WAR / [EDITED, AND WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY] DAVID C. RANKIN.
• DOING HONEST WORK IN COLLEGE : HOW TO PREPARE CITATIONS, AVOID PLAGIARISM, AND ACHIEVE REAL ACADEMIC SUCCESS / CHARLES LIPSON.
• EDISON & THE ELECTRIC CHAIR : A STORY OF LIGHT AND DEATH / MARK ESSIG.
• EDUCATION FOR JUDGMENT : THE ARTISTRY OF DISCUSSION LEADERSHIP / EDITED BY C. ROLAND CHRISTENSEN, DAVID A. GARVIN, ANN SWEET.
• EINSTEIN’S COSMOS : HOW ALBERT EINSTEIN’S VISION TRANSFORMED OUR UNDERSTANDING OF SPACE AND TIME / MICHIO KAKU.
• ELIZABETH’S LONDON : EVERYDAY LIFE IN ELIZABETHAN LONDON / LIZA PICARD.
• EMPIRES OF THE SEA : THE SIEGE OF MALTA, THE BATTLE OF LEPANTO, AND THE CONTEST FOR THE CENTER OF THE WORLD / ROGER CROWLEY.
• ENERGY USE WORLDWIDE : A REFERENCE HANDBOOK / JAINA L. MOAN AND ZACHARY A. SMITH.
• ENGLISH CRITICISM, 1900-1950 / BY REN{226}E WELLEK.
• THE ESSENTIAL GNOSTIC GOSPELS : INCLUDING THE GOSPEL OF THOMAS AND THE GOSPEL OF MARY MAGDALENE / [PRESENTED BY] ALAN JACOBS.
• EURIPIDES / EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY DAVID KOVACS.
• EXCURSIONS IN MODERN MATHEMATICS.
• EXECUTIVE WARFARE : 10 RULES OF ENGAGEMENT FOR WINNING YOUR WAR FOR SUCCESS / DAVID F. D’ALESSANDRO WITH MICHELE OWENS.
• EXTRAORDINARY TEACHERS : THE ESSENCE OF EXCELLENT TEACHING / FREDERICK J. STEPHENSON, [EDITOR].
• THE FIRST COPERNICAN : GEORG JOACHIM RHETICUS AND THE RISE OF THE COPERNICAN REVOLUTION / DENNIS DANIELSON.
• FIRST RESORTS : PURSUING PLEASURE AT SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEWPORT, AND CONEY ISLAND / JON STERNGASS.
• FOR THE LOVE OF MUSIC : INVITATIONS TO LISTENING / MICHAEL STEINBERG AND LARRY ROTHE.
• FORENSIC ISSUES IN ALCOHOL TESTING / EDITED BY STEVEN B. KARCH.
• THE FORGOTTEN FOUNDERS : RETHINKING THE HISTORY OF THE OLD WEST / STEWART L. UDALL ; FOREWORD BY DAVID M. EMMONS.
• FOUR LAWS THAT DRIVE THE UNIVERSE / PETER ATKINS.
• FRAUD OF THE CENTURY : RUTHERFORD B. HAYES, SAMUEL TILDEN, AND THE STOLEN ELECTION OF 1876 / ROY MORRIS, JR.
• THE FUTURE OF HEALTH POLICY / VICTOR R. FUCHS.
• THE GEOGRAPHY OF THE IMAGINATION : FORTY ESSAYS / BY GUY DAVENPORT.
• GEORGE WASHINGTON ON LEADERSHIP / RICHARD BROOKHISER.
• GOD’S AMBASSADORS : A HISTORY OF THE CHRISTIAN CLERGY IN AMERICA / E. BROOKS HOLIFIELD.
• THE GRACES WE REMEMBER : SACRED DAYS OF ORDINARY TIME / PHYLLIS TICKLE.
• THE GREAT EMERGENCE : HOW CHRISTIANITY IS CHANGING AND WHY / PHYLLIS TICKLE.
• GROWING LEADERS / BOB TUTTLE.
• HALLELUJAH : THE POETRY OF CLASSIC HYMNS / FOREWORD BY PAULA S. WALLACE ; PREFACE BY CARL P. DAW, JR. ; EDITED BY ANNA MARLIS BURGARD ; ILLUSTRATED BY RICHARD KREPEL
• HIGHWAYS AND BYWAYS OF APPALACHIA; A STUDY OF THE WORK OF THE SYNOD OF APPALACHIA OF THE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES… COMPILED AND EDITED BY REV. EDWARD MARSHALL CRAIG…
• A HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES / PHILIP JENKINS.
• HOME MISSIONS ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER, WITH PARTICULAR REFERENCE TO THE AMERICAN HOME MISSIONARY SOCIETY.
• HOW THE SCOTS MADE AMERICA / MICHAEL FRY.
• IN PURSUIT OF THE ALMIGHTY’S DOLLAR : A HISTORY OF MONEY AND AMERICAN PROTESTANTISM / JAMES HUDNUT-BEUMLER.
• INTRODUCTION TO MASS SPECTROMETRY : INSTRUMENTATION, APPLICATIONS AND STRATEGIES FOR DATA INTERPRETATION / J. THROCK WATSON, O. DAVID SPARKMAN.
• IROQUOIS DIPLOMACY ON THE EARLY AMERICAN FRONTIER / TIMOTHY J. SHANNON.
• THE LANGUAGE OF NEW MEDIA / LEV MANOVICH.
• THE LEARNED BANQUETERS / ATHENAEUS ; EDITED AND TRANSLATED BY S. DOUGLAS OLSEN.
• LEAVE NO NURSE BEHIND : NURSES WORKING WITH DISABILITIES / DONNA CAROL MAHEADY.
• LETTERS TO MY CHILDREN A FATHER PASSES ON HIS VALUES.
• THE LIFE AND TIMES OF RAY HICKS : KEEPER OF THE JACK TALES / LYNN SALSI.
• LINCOLN AND DOUGLAS : THE DEBATES THAT DEFINED AMERICA / ALLEN C. GUELZO.
• LINCOLN’S RISE TO THE PRESIDENCY / WILLIAM C. HARRIS.
• LOOKING AROUND FOR GOD : THE ODDLY REVERENT OBSERVATIONS OF AN UNCONVENTIONAL CHRISTIAN / JAMES A. AUTRY.
• LORENZACCIO. Musset, Alfred de, 1810-1857.
• LOST BATTALIONS : THE GREAT WAR AND THE CRISIS OF AMERICAN NATIONALITY / RICHARD SLOTKIN.
• LOVE AND PROFIT : THE ART OF CARING LEADERSHIP / JAMES A. AUTRY.
• LUCKY THIRTEEN : D-DAYS IN THE PACIFIC WITH THE U. S. COAST GUARD IN WORLD WAR II / KEN WILEY.

From Hard Sciences to Sweet Tea

See our Electronic Resources page to access any of our eight new research databases listed below. If you have trouble accessing these resources from off campus, call 423.652.4716 or send an e-mail message to library@king.edu.

• Academic OneFile: Focuses on the hard sciences, medicine, engineering and business. Includes the full-text of the New York Times to 1995 and podcasts and transcripts from NPR, CNN and CBC.
• Custom Newspapers: Full-text resource that searches over 650 national and international newspapers.
• General BusinessFile ASAP: Access to a combination of broker research reports, trade publications, newspapers, journals and directory listings with full text and images available.
• GreenFILE: Index of peer-reviewed and general journals, government documents, and reports covering human effects on the environment. Connects environmental issues with the disciplines of agriculture, education, law, health, and technology.
• Points of View Reference Center: Essays written from varying points of view on 250 topics, such as Affirmative Action, cloning, DNA profiling, HIV/AIDS status disclosure, immigration, and Iraq. Also includes the Video Encyclopedia of the 20th Century which offers clips of key historical moments.
• Science Database: Index of over 1,600 journals, magazines, and reference materials covering a broad range of science topics.
• Southern Life: Full-text articles on topics that related to Southern living, both past and present, including people, places, historical events, the arts, business, education, and religion…maybe even sweet tea?
• Tennessee Newspaper Collection:
  Full-text articles from four Tennessee newspapers: The Chattanooga Times-Free Press (2006- present), The Commercial Appeal (1990- present), Knoxville News Sentinel (1990- present), and The Tennessean (1999- present).

Food for Fines

In celebration of National Library Week, April 15-18, 2008, the library is having Food for Fines.  Bring back your overdue library books and your fines will be forgiven.  One can of food equals $0.50.  For each can of food that you donate, we will forgive fifty cents worth of fines.  It’s a great way to get rid of those library fines and help a worthy cause.  All donated items will go to Bristol Faith in Action.

Tornado Touchstone Available Via Email

Be among the first to get updates and news from the E.W. King Library.  Now, you can subscribe to the Tornado Touchstone and receive email updates anytime new content is added to the blog.  Just click on the “Subscribe to the Tornado Touchstone” link on the right under the calendar.  You’ll be redirected to a site to enter your email address.  Afterwards, you’ll be sent an email confirming your registration.  Click on the confirmation link, and you’re all set.

New Items in the Library

Check out one of these new items available in the E.W. King Library:

Fiction

• A changed man : a novel / Francine Prose.
• A room called Remember : uncollected pieces / Frederick Buechner.
• Feathers / Jacqueline Woodson.
• Good faith / Jane Smiley.
• Henry’s freedom box / by Ellen Levine   illustrated by Kadir Nelson.
• Living to tell the tale / Gabriel Garci­a Marquez   translated from the Spanish by Edith Grossman.
• Los gatos black on Halloween / Marisa Montes   illustrated by Yuyi Morales.
• November blues / Sharon M. Draper.
• Now and forever / Ray Bradbury.
• Peeling the onion / Gunter Grass   translated from German by Michael Henry Heim.
• Solo : my adventures in the air / Clyde Edgerton.
• The amazing adventures of Kavalier & Clay : a novel / Michael Chabon.
• The invention of Hugo Cabret : a novel in words and pictures  / by Brian Selznick.
• The learned banqueters / Athenaeus   edited and translated by S. Douglas Olsen.
• The white darkness : a novel / by Geraldine McCaughrean.

Nonfiction

• American Gothic : a life of America’s most famous painting / Steven Biel.
• American musical theatre : a chronicle / Gerald Bordman.
• Augustus : the life of Rome’s first emperor / Anthony Everitt.
• Blue dreams : Korean Americans and the Los Angeles riots / Nancy Abelmann and John Lie.
• Bound for Canaan : the underground railroad and the war for the soul of America / Fergus M. Bordewich.
• Building a bridge to the 18th century : how the past can improve our future / by Neil Postman.
• Dictionary of the social sciences / edited by Craig Calhoun.
• Dreams from my father : a story of race and inheritance / Barack Obama.
• First lady of the Confederacy : Varina Davis’s Civil War / Joan E. Cashin.
• Harvest of empire : a history of Latinos in America / Juan Gonzalez.
• Massive resistance : southern opposition to the second reconstruction / edited by Clive Webb.
• My year in Iraq : the struggle to build a future of hope / L. Paul Bremer with Malcolm McConnell.
•  Negro president  : Jefferson and the slave power / Garry Wills.
• Shakespeare : the biography / Peter Ackroyd.
• Teaching to transgress : education as the practice of freedom / Bell Hooks.
• The anatomy of hope : how people prevail in the face of illness / by Jerome Groopman.
• The audacity of hope : thoughts on reclaiming the American dream / Barack Obama.
• The judgment of Paris : the revolutionary decade that gave the world Impressionism / Ross King.
• The poet slave of Cuba : a biography of Juan Francisco Manzano  / Margarita Engle   art by Sean Qualls.
• Wikinomics : how mass collaboration changes everything / Don Tapscott and Anthony D. Williams.
• Young Hickory : the making of Andrew Jackson / Hendrik Booraem.

Spring Semester…already in progress.

It’s hard to believe it’s almost mid-term. I hope that you are having a good semester. Hang in there because soon, you’ll be finishing up your tests, papers, and projects to head for whatever alternate destination is available. Enjoy some time away whether it’s relaxing at home, taking a vacation, or doing mission work. Whatever choice you have made for Spring Break will be a welcome diversion from classes and assignments. Travel safely.

Consequently, during this busy week we’re here for you:

• There are two copiers available near the periodicals area, now.
• A television with a VCR/DVD player is now available for use with headphones near the periodicals area. You can check out the remotes and headphones at the circulation desk.
• AV Room 2 is now available for group study.
• You can print from your laptop in the library. Just ask for help if you don’t know how.
• There is wireless upstairs in the library.
• We regularly order new materials for the library. If there is something we don’t have that you think we should, please let us know.
• The E.W. King Library is open until midnight Sunday through Thursday nights, until 5:00 p.m. on Fridays, and 11:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m. on Saturdays. Hours will be limited during Spring Break.

Merry Christmas!

Congratulations to Drew Price, who is the winner of the iPod Shuffle giveaway. Thanks for your tremendous response to the library survey. Check back here in January for results of the survey.

Exam hours begin on Thursday, Dec. 6th and run through Dec. 12. Exams hours can be found on the library’s website.

Merry Christmas from the E.W. King Library Staff!

New Items at Kingsport Campus Library

These items are now available for use at the Kingsport Campus Library located on the 6th floor of the Holston Valley Physicians Building.  Check here for hours.

• A Thousand Barrels a Second : The Coming Oil Break Point and the Challenges Facing an Energy Dependent World by Peter Tertzakian.
• Commander of all Lincoln’s Armies : A Life of General Henry W. Halleck by John F. Marszalek.
• Encyclopedia of Southern Culture 
• Essential Study Skills by Christine Ely and Ian Scott.
• Frequently Asked Questions in Quantitative Finance by Paul Wilmott.
• Globalization and Its Enemies by Daniel Cohen.
• Greed and Corporate Failure : The Lessons from Recent Disasters by Stewart Hamilton and Alicia Micklethwait.
• Knowledge and the Wealth of Nations : A Story of Economic Discovery by David Warsh.
• Microtrends : The Small Forces Behind Tomorrow’s Big Changes by Mark J. Penn   with E. Kinney Zalesne.
• Science, Religion, and Society : An Encyclopedia of History, Culture, and Controversy
• Strangers & Pilgrims : Female preaching in America, 1740-1845 by Catherine A. Brekus.
• The Cigarette Century : The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America by Allan M. Brandt.
• The Disposable American : Layoffs and their Consequences by Louis Uchitelle 
• The Encyclopedia of Obesity and Eating Disorders
• The Essential Guide to Aging in the Twenty-first Century by Donald H. Kausler, Barry C. Kausler,  Jill A. Krupsaw.
• The Kids are Alright : How the Gamer Generation is Changing the Workplace by John Beck and Mitchell Wade.
• The Science of Success : How Market-based Management Built the World’s Largest Private Company by Charles G. Koch.
• The Self-Destructive Habits of Good Companies by Jagdish N. Sheth.