New agreement provides access to Seattle Public Library resources

Kitsap Regional Library (KRL) and Seattle Public Library (SPL) have a new reciprocal agreement that allows KRL cardholders to have access to the books, materials and online services of Seattle Public Library. Here's the catch: first, you must take your KRL card and picture identification to any branch of Seattle Public Library to apply for the SPL card. Note: Your KRL card itself won't work at Seattle Public Library or for their online resources. You must get a SPL card. Once you obtain the Seattle Public library card you will be able to check out materials and use online resources following Seattle Public Library's policies.

For more information on SPL cards look at their website here: http://www.spl.org/default.asp?pageID=info_card_serviceareas

Online databases available via the Seattle Public Library cover art, business, economics, law and more...

A few samples are:

Art Full-text & Art Retrospective
Two databases that provide art-related articles from hundreds of periodicals published throughout the world, from 1929-current. Full-text available from 1984 -current.

Lands and Peoples
Find information on the world's countries and their peoples, cultures, histories and current events. Includes maps, flags and photos.

LegalTrac
Articles in law reviews and journals, specialty law and bar association journals and legal newspapers.

Music Index
A subject-author guide to music periodical literature.

Morningstar Investment Research Center
Investment data and reports on more than 30,000 mutual funds, stocks and ETFs. Also includes portfolio management tools.

Value Line
Investment ratings, research, statistics, and forecasts for thousands of stocks and mutual funds.

New Reference eBooks!

Just in time for those research papers that require you to use some book and/or "reference" resources, the library has purchased a number of new electronic subject encyclopedias that you can use from anywhere!

These new titles can be accessed from our guide to online resources: http://libguides.olympic.edu/databases, and include titles such as, Encyclopedia of Substance Abuse Prevention, Treatment, & Recovery, Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Encyclopedia of Medical Decision Making, Encyclopedia of Politics, the Media, and Popular Culture, Star struck: An Encyclopedia, Encyclopedia of Animal Rights and Animal Welfare, and Leadership at the Crossroads.

Need other "reference" titles? Try out our current trial to Reference Universe. Type in your keyword(s) and your results list will tell you which reference books in OUR LIBRARY have entries on your topic! Try it now, from on-campus only (trial ends May 17th): http://refuniv.odyssi.com/

New Electronic Resource: Violence against Women in Families and Relationships

Violence against Women in Families and Relationships is a new electronic resource added to the Olympic College Libraries collections. This research-based, scholarly resource aims to provide a map of the scope and significance of the domestic violence revolution. The work contains four searchable volumes: community-based services (Volume 1), the family (Volume 2), the criminal justice response (Volume 3), and popular culture and the media (Volume 4).

All Olympic College Libraries' electronic resources can be used by students remotely at any time. All that is required is your ID number and last name.

We have a New Gazeteer for Geographic, Historical, and Cultural Information

Olympic College Libraries have just acquired a subscription to the Columbia Gazeteer of the World. This is a comprehensive encyclopedia of geographical places and features. The entries vary from a brief notation on a small village to an essay on a country or region and can include information on demography; physical geography; political boundaries; agriculture; cultural, historical, and archeological points of interest; transportation lines; longitude, latitude, and elevations; and official local government place-names.

Many entries will have direct relevance for OC students. One example is the entry on Botswana where the entry discusses the San people. This will be useful to OC's Anthropology students. Here are snippets of the entry on Botswana to give you an idea of the kinds of information in this Gazeteer:

"Botswana (bots−WAH−nah), republic (□ 231,804 sq mi/600,372 sq km; 2004 estimated population 1,561,973; 2007 estimated population 1,815,508), S central Africa; • Gaborone. Bordered N by Zambia at a narrow strip, N and W by Namibia, E by Zimbabwe, and E and S by South Africa. ... [more]

Geography
The terrain is mostly an arid plateau (c.3,000 ft/910 m high); in the E are hills. The Kalahari Desert lies in the S and W.

History to 1900
San (Bushmen) were the aboriginal inhabitants of what is now Botswana, but they were supplanted by the Tswana, and they constitute only a small portion of the population today. Beginning in the 1820s, the region was disrupted by the expansion of the Zulu and their offshoot, the Ndebele. ... [more]

People
The country’s people are known as Batswana, which is also the name of the largest tribe (constituting 50% of the total population); other groups living here include the Bakalanga, Bakalagari, Bayei, Basubiya, Hambukushu, Khoi, Ovaherero, San, and a small number of Europeans. ... [more]

Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology

This new encylopedia is a significant addition to Olympic College Library's psychology collection. Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology is part of the Library's Net Library e-book collection. To locate this Encyclopedia, go to Net Library and in the search box type "positive psychology".

Today’s positive psychologists have not invented the study of happiness, well being, or strengths although Positive Psychology has become, in the last decade, its own empirically based field of study and provides an umbrella term that brings together isolated lines of theory and research. The coining of the term for the field of study as we know it today can be traced back to Martin E. P. Seligman’s 1998 Presidential Address to the American Psychological Association. Martin Seligman offers the Foreword to this Encyclopedia.

It can be difficult at times when one has a research topic, to recall all the reference sources that might address my topic. By listing some of the subjects included in this reference work I'm hoping it might help you (and me!) identify the Encyclopedia of Positive Psychology as a useful source in research or student assignments.

Selected topics covered in this encyclopedia include (it's a long list but it gives you an idea of the breath of coverage!):

*abnormal psychology, *aesthetic appreciation, *agreeableness, *applied positive psychology, *attachment styles/theory, *cheerfulness, *civic responsibility and virtues, *clinical psychology, *compassion, *consciousness, *constructivism, *coping, *creativity, *cultural pluralism, *curiosity, *learned helplessness model, *emotional approach coping, *emotional intelligence, *empathy, *empirically-supported (evidence-based) interventions, *endorphins, *ethnic identity, *existential psychology, *forgiveness, *entrepreneurial behavior, *gratitude, *happiness, *health psychology, *heart-brain connection, *humility, *intimacy, *joy, *labeling (positive effects), *laughter, *locus of control, *meaning, *meditation/mindfulness, *narrative identity, *neurobiology, *optimism, *organizational psychology, *perseverance, *personal responsibility, *personality, *play/pleasure, *positive ethics, *positive social media, *posttraumatic growth, *psychological adjustment, *psychopathology, *purpose in life, *quality of life, *rehabilitation psychology, *resilience, *respect, *religiousness/religiosity, *school psychology, *self-efficacy, *self-determination, *self-esteem, *serotonin, *smiles/smiling, *social support, *social welfare, *strengths perspective, *successful (positive) aging, *transformational leadership, *utilitarianism, *values, *virtue ethics, *vitality, *well-being, *wisdom.

Posted by Leslie Hassett, Adjunct Library Faculty

Midterm help!

We're halfway through summer quarter! Although the libraries have shorter hours during the summer, you can still receive help from a librarian when the library is closed! From our website, simply click the "chat" link under the "Ask A Librarian" logo, and you will be connected with a college or university librarian, 24/7/365!

New! Electronic Subject Encyclopedias on Social Problems and Business Ethics

The Library has subscribed to two additional electronic subject encyclopedias which are now available for searching both on and off campus via the library website listing of reference works!

Search Features:
1) Browsable "Readers Guide" - This groups subject entries by broad categories under which the specific articles will be found such as: Aging, Crime, Education, Gender, Health, Politics, Poverty, Race, Social Movements and more.
2) A-Z topic list - Alphabetical index of all 600+ topic entries
3) Subject Index - Alphabetical list of words that will lead you to the most relevant topic entries. For example, the index may have the word "Alzheimer's" but the heading for the entry itself is "Dementia".

Brief descriptions:
Encyclopedia of Social Problems New!
This encyclopedia contains articles on over 600 social issues and discusses how these issues get defined as “social problems” as well as the ways different people and organizations view and try to solve them. Articles cover issues such as child neglect, euthanasia, genetic engineering, hate groups, human trafficking, racial profiling, smoking and many more.

Encyclopedia of Business Ethics and Society New!
Covers ethical issues of social and political relevance such as corporate accountability, deceptive advertising, environmental ethics, executive compensation, workplace privacy, and much more.

Welcome to Spring Quarter... Ask a Librarian!

Welcome to new and returning students! The librarians and library staff are ready to help you access, find, and organize the library information you need for your class assignments.

From the Library homepage look for this icon. Then, click on "Chat", "Email", or "Phone" to get help from a librarian. The librarians at the Haselwood Library can provide you one-on-one personal assistance by phone, by email, or you can use the "Chat" service to get immediate live online help. If you login to this 24/7 Ask-A-Librarian service at 2:00 am, you will get a librarian from another part of the country, but your question will always be reviewed by an Olympic College Librarian for follow-up.

Of course you may come into the Haselwood Library in person... the old fashioned way! We're here to help and we look forward to seeing you!

End of Quarter Crunch? Librarians can Help!

Hello Students! There's only a few more days until the end of the quarter. If you are struggling to wrap up those final papers and presentations, or need just a couple more articles or reference sources to cite, librarians are here to help you! If you need a quiet place to study up for exams, the library as some wonderful spaces for individual and group study.

• Call a librarian at the reference desk at 360-475-7252.
  
Monday-Thursday 8am-9pm
Friday 8am-5pm
Saturday 10am-4pm
Sunday Noon-6pm


• Chat with a librarian 24/7 via the link to QuestionPoint on the library website!

Please note: You may be chatting with a librarian from another academic library within our national 24/7 cooperative reference service. OC librarians may follow up on those chats with additional information.

• Study Rooms are available in the Haselwood Library basement.