New Titles on the Holocaust

We Remember with Reverence and Love, by Hasia R. Diner

The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood, by Ursula Mahlendorf

Flight from the Reich: Refugee Jews, 1933-1946, by Deborah Dwork and Robert Jan Van Pelt

LinkedIn Tutorial

Also from BNet: How to Get Started with LinkedIn, a step-by-step guide to the professional networking site.

Management Advice

From BNet: Managers: Learn to Do One Thing Right

New Hours

Please see the library website for the schedule for Intersession and Summer Semester.

Wired to Care

The BNet blog has a review of the book Wired to Care by Dev Patnaik. This book is in The CAT (HD58.9.P38 2009) with a Google Preview link for browsing.

Savvy Searching in The CAT

Here's a one-page guide that can help you when searching the library catalog. You can also get a print copy of this guide at the library's front desk on campus.

How to Analyze the News

From Suite 101.com, an article about using the COPS method to analyze media reports.

Business Library Database Comparison Chart

The Schreyer Business Library of the University Libraries provides a Database Comparison Chart for the business databases here in the Penn State Libraries. The chart lists all the business databases available, with details on type of information is available in each one.

Free Stuff (and More) Online through PC World

The latest issue of PC World has some great articles:

"Ten New Ways to Search the Web," pp. 14-16.

"Find the Right Online Backup Service," p. 32.

"The Best Free Stuff You've Never Heard Of," pp. 60-70.

PC World can be found online in the University Libraries, by using the Citation Linker, or by searching for PC World in the E-Journal List or in The CAT. The issue for the articles above is Vol. 27, Iss. 5. Simply type in the article title, the journal title, the year (2009), the volume and issue numbers, and the page numbers, and you will be directed to a PDF of the article.

U.N.'s World Digital Library Online

From the Penn State Abington library blog, here's news of a digital library of museum-worthy materials. Maps, drawings, manuscripts -- a great resource for study and just browsing.