What's New

Newly Acquired Books and Media at KML
It's easy to find out what's new in our print and media collections, using the New Titles search section of the KML Catalog. Just go to the Catalog and click on the New Titles button near the top of page. You can search for a specific title or for all new titles recently added to the collections, with options ranging from "items cataloged since 2 days ago" through "items cataloged since 3 months ago."

New and Improved Catalog
Over the Fourth of July weekend our University of Indianapolis Catalog was upgraded to a new version that has cleaner, more intuitive search form and a clearer format for search results. The new Catalog also includes several new "buttons" that link you directly to the
- New Titles search page
- KML Interlibrary Loan homepage
- KML Databases page
As before, the Catalog lets you search for keywords either in the entire bibliographic record or in one of 18 categories, including author, title, subject, publisher, performer/actor, ISBN, and more. Any search can be further limited to a particular publication year, format, library collection, and language as well.

Acquisition Notes, Summer 2008—From the desk of Lucy Fields, KML's Manager of Technical Services:
What better reading topic for summer than....science and mathematics! No, really, these are excellent general interest reads. As always, they will be on the New Books display on the first floor of the library. After that you can find them at the call number indicated. Happy Summer everyone!
- Bones, Rocks and Stars: the Science of When Things Happened, by Chris Turney - 550 T87b 2006
  "What is the Turin Shroud? When were the Pyramids built? Where are the branches on the human family tree? Why did the dinosaurs die out? How did the Earth take shape? With questions like these, time is of the essence. And understanding how we pinpoint the past, he cautions, is crucial to putting the present in perspective and planning for the future...Turney explains how written records, carbon, pollen, tree rings, constellations and DNA sequencing can help archaeologists, palaeontologists and geologists to "tell the time." -- Jacket flap.
- Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics: The Excel Edition, by Neil J. Salkind - 519.5 S25s 2007
  "Based on the bestselling text Statistics for People Who (Think They) Hate Statistics , the Excel Edition offers the same personable and clear style that made the original text so successful. In this new edition, author Neil J. Salkind gives students the critical tools that they need to use Excel, while learning the basics of statistics in their first or second course." -- Back cover.
- The Poincare Conjecture: In Search of the Shape of the Universe, by Donal O'Shea - 514.2 O84p 2007
  "Henry Poincare's hundred year old conjecture bedeviled the greatest mathematicians for generations until it was definitively proved by the gifted Grigory Perelman. [This book] tells the story of the fascinating personalities, institutions, and scholarship behind the centuries of mathematics that have led to Perelman's dramatic proof, and which have, in the process, broadened our understanding of how the universe works. Donal O'Shea has a gift for making complex mathematical concepts understandable to general readers and bringing alive the achievements of Poincare, Bernhard Riemann, William Thurston, Richard Hamilton and others whose genius transformed the field in the last century." -- Jacket flap.
- Numbers at Work: a Cultural Perspective, by Rudolf Taschner - 510.9 T37n 2007
  "In this historical guide, Rudolf Taschner takes the reader on a journey through the lives of great figures throughout history who have been particularly aware of the connections between their fields and numbers, including Pythagoras, Bach, Hofmannsthal, Descartes, Leibniz, Laplace, Bohr and Pascal. Along the way, he unearths the tremendous role that mathematics plays in all aspects of our culture, including music, astronomy and politics." -- Back cover.
- The Deep, by Claire Nouvian - FOLIO 591.77 D44 2007
  No, not the Peter Benchley movie from 1977, but a gorgeous photography book of amazing deep sea locations and creatures. "The deep sea, which has been immersed in total darkness since the dawn of time, occupies 85% of the earth's space, and thus forms the planet's largest habitat. And what do we know about it? Compared with what remains to be discovered, practically nothing." -- Back cover.
If you would like to see Acquisition Notes from previous months, please click here. For a more complete list of new titles, please use the New Titles search option available in the KML Catalog. Just click on the New Titles button near the top of the page. You can search for a specific title or for all new titles recently added to the collections, with options ranging from "items cataloged since 2 days ago" through "items cataloged since 3 months ago."

Reference USA
Reference USA includes detailed information on more than 14 million U.S. businesses, 210 million U.S. residents, 855,000 U.S. health care providers, 1.5 million Canadian businesses, and 12 million Canadian households. Information is compiled from the following public sources: more than 5,600 Yellow Page and Business White Page telephone directories; annual reports, 10-Ks and other SEC information; Continuing Medical Education (CME) directories; federal, state, provincial and municipal government data; Chamber of Commerce information; leading business magazines, trade publications, newsletters, major newspapers, industry and specialty directories; and postal service information, including both U.S. and Canadian National Change of Address updates.

You can access Reference USA on the Krannert Memorial Library Databases page.

Magill's Medical Guide
Krannert Memorial Library is pleased to announce a new online reference resource, Magill's Medical Guide. Salem Health, the publisher of Magill's Medical Guide, says

"The Guide is a perfect mix of accessibility and depth, providing general readers with an authoritative reference source that helps bridge the gap between medical encyclopedias for professionals and popular self-help guides. It is an up-to-date and easy-to-use compendium of medical information suitable for student research as well as use by general readers, including patients and caregivers.

"The Guide covers diseases, disorders, treatments, procedures, specialties, anatomy, biology, and issues in an A-Z format, with sidebars addressing recent developments in medicine and concise information boxes for all diseases and disorders.

"Every entry in Magill's Medical Guide has been evaluated by our panel of medical consultants and then updated by experts or re-edited to ensure currency and accuracy. The Editorial Board includes: Anne Lynn S. Chang, M.D., Stanford University; H. Bradford Hawley, M.D., Wright State University; Laurence M. Katz, M.D., University of North Carolina School of Medicine; Nancy A. Piotrowski, Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley; Connie Rizzo, M.D., Columbia University."

You can access Magill's Medical Guide from the library's Electronic Reference Resources webpage.

Go Green with GreenFILE
Recently, EBSCO Publishing announced the release of GreenFILE, a bibliographic database of information about environmental concerns. This database is being made freely available at www.greeninfoonline.com, and we have added a link on the Krannert Memorial Library Databases page.

According to EBSCO, GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and disciplines such as agriculture, education, law, health and technology, GreenFILE serves as an informative resource for anyone concerned about the issues facing our planet. The database contains nearly 300,000 records, full text for selected titles and searchable cited references for more than 200 titles as well.

Old Reflector Online
Having a nostalgia attack? Or do you need to research our campus history? We can help! As a service to its community, the Frederick D. Hill Archives is pleased to announce that all back issues of the Reflector from its inception on November 15, 1922 to April, 2006 are now available on its website: http://archives.uindy.edu/reflector.php.

Each issue has been digitized and saved as a PDF so you can see the paper exactly as it originally appeared. This searchable trove of information provides 85 years of uninterrupted reporting on campus.

Happy reminiscing!

New Journal A-Z List @ your library
Krannert Memorial Library has a new tool on our webpage--the Journal A-Z List--that lets you determine quickly if we have the full-text of a periodical, either in print or electronically.

Once you link to the list, you can enter a specific journal name, or browse alphabetically. If you see your journal title, that means the library does have full-text for that journal. One more click lets you see where the full text can be found: either a location in the library, or online.

New reference databases
KML has two new online sources that provide the searchable text of hundreds of reference books, bringing valuable information right to your computer desktop, 24/7: Credo Reference and Gale Virtual Reference Library. The roster of available materials in these databases is truly impressive. Here is just a small sampling: Chambers Film FactFinder, The Cambridge Guide to Theatre, The Encyclopedia of American Folk Art, Business Spanish Dictionary, The Columbia Encyclopedia, Britannica Concise Encyclopedia, Cassell's People/Nations/and Cultures, Chambers Dictionary of World History, Encyclopedia of African History, American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms, Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk, Dictionary of Shakespeare, Atlas of the Bible, Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History ... and much more. You may be amazed by how much you will find!

Library Instruction on request is back
We are pleased to announce that Krannert Memorial Library is again offering library instruction sessions on request, as of Fall 2007. Our instruction options are explained on a new library webpage, "Instruction at KML," linked from our homepage or accessed directly at http://kml.uindy.edu/instruction. In addition, we have also introduced an online request form, linked from the above website or directly at http://kml.uindy.edu/instructionrequest. The request form gives you many options for customizing the instruction session to fit the needs of your particular class.

We hope you find the new "Instruction at KML" webpage informative, and that you find the online request form convenient to use. As always, feedback is most welcome, especially if you see any problems or potential improvements.

Laptop check-outs now available at Krannert Memorial Library
Krannert Memorial Library has purchased 5 laptop computers through a grant from the Indianapolis Foundation. Any student with a valid UIndy ID card may borrow one of the laptops on a two-hour reserve basis, and can renew every two hours. The laptops have Microsoft Windows applications, such as Word, Excel, etc. as well as wireless access to MyUIndy and the Internet. Laptops may not be taken outside of the library. For further details, just drop by the Circulation Desk, and we will be happy to answer any questions.