MCC Library Newsletter

The new EBSCOhost application is tailor-made for the smaller screens of mobile devices, and offers the most important EBSCOhost features and functionality, right in the palm of your hand!

The new interface includes many features for an enhanced mobile experience, is optimized for internet-enabled handheld devices, and is qualified for all the major smartphones such as iPhone, Blackberry and Treo.

Many of the existing EBSCOhost features such as search modes and limiting to full text, date ranges, peer-reviewed content, or by publication are available. Users will also be able to search images from their mobile devices. The result list is scrollable, and available data includes citations, Image Quick View, and access to full-text articles. The results list also features a relevancy indicator, and users are able to email results.

Access EBSCOhost Mobile at:
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NetLibrary: Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands
by Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson
Chicago Review Press, 2009

In this eloquent and eye-opening adventure narrative, Colin Legerton and Jacob Rawson, two Americans fluent in Mandarin Chinese, Korean, and Uyghur, throw away the guidebook and bring a hitherto unexplored side of China to light. They journey over 14,000 miles by bus and train to the farthest reaches of the country to meet the minority peoples who dwell there, talking to farmers in their fields, monks in their monasteries, fishermen on their skiffs, and herders on the steppe.

In Invisible China, they engage in a heated discussion of human rights with Daur and Ewenki village cadres; celebrate Muhammad’s birthday with aging Dongxiang hajjis who recount the government’s razing of their mosque; attend mass with old Catholic Kinh fishermen at a church that has been forty years without a priest; hike around high-altitude Lugu Lake to farm with the matrilineal Mosuo women; and descend into a dry riverbed to hunt for jade with Muslim Uyghur merchants. As they uncover surprising facts about China’s hidden minorities and their complex position in Chinese society, they discover the social ramifications of inconsistent government policies–and some deep human truths as well.

To read the November NetLibrary eBook of the Month, access NetLibrary through the library’s web site and click on the eBook of the Month option on the NetLibrary home page.

PsychiatryOnline: Changing American Psychiatry
A Personal Perspective
Melvin Sabshin, M.D.
Foreword by James H. Scully Jr., M.D.

Psychiatrists, psychoanalysts, other mental health workers, behavioral scientists, and university medical and neuroscience professionals will benefit from this articulate insider’s view of post–World War II psychiatry in Changing American Psychiatry: A Personal Perspective by Melvin Sabshin, M.D. Dr. Sabshin served as Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for 23 years, from 1974 to 1997, during a period of perhaps the greatest change in psychiatry since the World War II produced a dramatic modification of practice.

The author describes in detail two extraordinary periods of change, the first stimulated by laudatory efforts to understand the high rate of psychiatric casualties among World War II veterans and to provide treatment for them. Psychiatry grew quickly during the postwar years, considerably influenced by the immigration of many Central European psychoanalysts. Gradually, however, psychiatry began to weaken its ties to medicine and lost much of its public respect. By the 1970s, postwar optimism had been replaced by widespread concern that psychiatric practice was being dominated by unsubstantiated formulations rather than reliable evidence. Psychiatry was dramatically impacted by enormous pressure for therapeutic accountability exerted by a managed care reimbursement system. The profession recognized the need for a new direction and resolved to change.

In the foreword to the book, current APA Medical Director James H. Scully Jr., M.D., notes that Dr. Sabshin has woven a personal journey of the history of the intellectual conflicts and changes in the field of psychiatry in the post–war era, culminating in the remedicalization of psychiatry and the development of the DSM-III.

To access the PsychiatryOnline November eBook of the Month, click on the “Download PDF” link located with the title of the book on the PsychiatryOnline home page.

NetLibrary: Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word
Edited by Morrison, Toni.
HarperCollins Publishers, 2009

Published in conjunction with the PEN American Center, Burn This Book explores the meaning of censorship, and the power of literature to inform the way we see the world, and ourselves. Contributors including Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Orhan Pamuk, David Grossman, Nadine Gordimer and other literary heavyweights, discuss the importance of writing from various views, both political and social. They illustrate the need for freedom of speech and human rights, and they emphasize the target writers become in a tyranny.

To read the October NetLibrary eBook of the Month, access NetLibrary through the library’s web site and click on the eBook of the Month option on the NetLibrary home page.

PsychiatryOnline: Developmental Psychopathology and Wellness
Genetic and Environmental Influences
Edited by James J. Hudziak, M.D.
American Psychopathological Association

A major benchmark in the understanding of psychiatric illness in children and adolescents, Developmental Psychopathology and Wellness reports on progress in identifying genetic and environmental influences on emotional-behavioral disorders. A team of 22 international authorities presents work that changes the way child psychiatry and clinical psychology are conceptualized, debunking misconceptions about depression, antisocial behavior, and other conditions to enhance our understanding of the causes of child psychopathology—and improve the ways we treat these disorders.

To access the PsychiatryOnline October eBook of the Month, click on the “Download PDF” link located with the title of the book on the PsychiatryOnline home page.

The library has been experiencing some problems with Internet browsers and access to library databases. Databases affected include ProQuest Newsstand, Ulrich’s, Westlaw, and Gale. If a database is not working in one browser please try a different one such as Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, or Opera. Most of our databases seem to function well in Mozilla Firefox. All of these browsers can be downloaded for free and you can have more than one browser on your computer. We apologize for any inconvenience.

The MCC library is proud to announce our newest subscription database Grove/Oxford Music Online.
Grove/Oxford Music Online is the leading online resource for music research. This database hosts full text articles (including all updates and emendations) from the sources:

• The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd Edition (2001)
• The New Grove Dictionary of Opera (1992)
• The New Grove Dictionary of Jazz, 2nd Edition (2001)
• The Oxford Companion to Music (2002)
• The Oxford Dictionary of Music, Second Edition, Revised (2006)

The database contains more than 50,000 signed articles and 28,000 biographies contributed by over 6,000 scholars.

Click here to access Grove/Oxford Music Online

NetLibrary: Flatlined: Resuscitating American Medicine

by Guy L. Clifton, M.D

Flatlined lifts the veil of secrecy on twenty-first century health care and delves into the realities of good people caught in a bad medical system. Dr. Guy L. Clifton, a practitioner as well as a policy advocate, reveals first-hand accounts of needless tragedy, such as the young man who died after a car wreck for lack of a bed in a qualified hospital and the surgeon who was dejected by the scarcity of resources needed to enable him to perform heart surgery on an uninsured man.

To read the September NetLibrary eBook of the Month, access NetLibrary through the library’s web site and click on the eBook of the Month option on the NetLibrary home page.

PsychiatryOnline: The Physician as Patient: A Clinical Handbook for Mental Health Professionals

by Michael F. Myers, M.D., and Glen O. Gabbard, M.D.

Because physicians are shaped by the expectations and responsibilities of their profession and are especially susceptible to stress and illness, professionals treating them need to be attuned to a host of demands and considerations not applicable to other patients. The Physician as Patient meets that need by combining the perspectives of two seasoned psychiatrists who have been assessing and treating physicians for more than 30 years. Drs. Myers and Gabbard pool their career-long dedication to physician health, counseling, and risk management to demonstrate that, through accurate diagnosis and state-of-the-art treatment, most impaired physicians can recover and return to practice.

To access the PsychiatryOnline September eBook of the Month, click on the “Download PDF” link located with the title of the book on the PsychiatryOnline home page.

Library Hours – Fall 2009

The Library Hours for Fall 2009 are as follows:
Monday – Thursday; 7:30 AM – 10:00 PM
Friday; 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Saturday; 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
Sunday; 3:00 PM – 9:00 PM

The library will be closed September 7 for Labor Day and November 25-29 for Thanksgiving.

WilsonWeb will be performing a system upgrade and will be unavailable for 2 hours on Thursday, August 20, 2009, from 10:00 PM to midnight (Eastern Time). This is a planned upgrade and when completed there will no visible difference in the database.

We are currently experiencing some difficulties with the “Quick View” feature in ebrary. For the time being to view ebooks please use the “ebrary Reader” option.

We apologize for the inconvenience.

NetLibrary: The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College
by Harlan Cohen
Sourcebooks, 2009

In The Naked Roommate: And 107 Other Issues You Might Run Into in College, best-selling author, syndicated columnist and professional speaker Harlan Cohen provides a behind-the-scenes look at everything students need to know about college (but never knew they needed to know). Completely revised and updated, this essential guide used by hundreds of thousands of students is packed with expert advice on everything from managing money to managing stress—plus hilarious, outrageous, and telling stories from students on over 100 college campuses.

To read the August NetLibrary eBook of the Month, access NetLibrary through the library’s web site and click on the eBook of the Month option on the NetLibrary home page.

PsychiatryOnline: Professionalism and Ethics
Q & A Self-Study Guide for Mental Health Professionals
Laura Weiss Roberts, M.D., M.A., and Jinger G. Hoop, M.D., M.F.A.
With comments by Paul S. Appelbaum, M.D., Glen O. Gabbard, M.D., and Thomas N. Wise, M.D.

This first book of its kind for the medical profession brings the real-world translation of ethics to the care of patients, conduct of protocols, and training of professionals. An interactive, case-oriented approach to mental health ethics, Professionalism and Ethics: Q & A Self-Study Guide for Mental Health Professionals consists of questions and answers developed by the authors and fourteen contributors from backgrounds as diverse as family medicine, research ethics, social psychology, and public health. They draw on personal experience in the care of people with mental illness, in mental health research, and in clinical training to generate scenarios that pose ethical questions. Some questions are narrow and to the point, such as responding to a suspicion of child abuse; others require a more nuanced approach, such as dealing with conflict of interest posed by a pharmaceutical company. They then resolve these questions in alignment with an understanding of ethical principles, the standards of their fields, the law, and the expectations of mental health professionals.

To access the PsychiatryOnline August eBook of the Month, click on the “Download PDF” link located with the title of the book on the PsychiatryOnline home page.