MCC Library Newsletter

NetLibrary: The Procrastinator’s Guide to Getting Things Done
By Monica Ramirez Basco
Guilford Press, 2010

Everyone waits till the last minute sometimes. But many procrastinators pay a significant price, from poor job performance to stress, financial problems, and relationship conflicts. Expressly designed for people who want to make changes but would be easily daunted by an elaborate self-help program, this concise, motivating guide is packed with highly practical tips and suggestions.

Author and cognitive-behavioral therapy expert Monica Ramirez Basco peppers the book with easy-to-relate-to examples from “recovering procrastinators”—including herself. Inviting quizzes, exercises, and practical suggestions help you:

* Understand why you procrastinate.
* Start with small changes that lead to big improvements.
* Outsmart your own delaying tactics.
* Counteract self-doubt and perfectionism.
* Build crucial skills for getting things done today.

To read the February 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.

NetLibrary: Ten Years Thinner Six Weeks to a Leaner, Younger-Looking You
by Christine Lydon, M.D.
Da Capo Press, 2009

What if you could have slimmer hips, firmer thighs, flatter abs, more defined arms, and clearer, younger-looking skin in just six weeks? Based on years of her groundbreaking research and four clinical trials, Dr. Christine Lydon has developed an innovative diet and exercise regimen to burn fat and alter one’s body chemistry, resulting in rapid, dramatic results that you will begin to see and feel within the first week.

Governed by ten simple dietary guidelines and ten easy, at-home exercises, Ten Years Thinner emphasizes healthy eating from protein, carbohydrate, and fat sources and demands only twenty to twenty-five minutes of hand-weight exercises a day. There is no calorie counting, messy measuring, or complicated points to calculate; the program requires very little initial physical fitness and promises no more boring and time-consuming cardio workouts. With more than thirty-five delicious recipes and sixty-five easy-to-follow exercise photos, Ten Years Thinner is a simple, sustainable road map to the physique you’ve always dreamed of having!

To read the January 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: Brain Stimulation Therapies for Clinicians
Edmund S. Higgins, M.D., and Mark S. George, M.D.
With foreword by Michael Trimble, M.D., F.R.C.P., F.R.C.Psych.

Brain stimulation—focally applying electricity to the brain—is a field with a rapidly expanding and promising array of techniques, which already have proven efficacy in treating conditions ranging from Parkinson’s disease to chronic and acute pain to depression. Comprehensively surveying the landscape of current practice, Brain Stimulation Therapies for Clinicians provides a clear and straightforward analysis of the many therapeutic applications, along with the technologies and techniques involved in each.

The book begins with a thoughtful, and occasionally macabre, history of electrical stimulation of the brain. The authors then provide an accessible and concise overview of electricity and its effects on the brain. The essence of the book, though, is its thorough exploration of the clinical applications of electrical stimulation. Brain Stimulation Therapies for Clinicians covers the wide range of existing electrical stimulation therapies, including electroconvulsive therapy (ECT), vagus nerve stimulation (VNS), transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS), deep brain stimulation (DBS), and a host of other clinical applications. Each chapter examines a particular therapy, including its history, an overview of the techniques involved, its clinical indications, side effects, and a critical review of the literature surrounding its efficacy. Designed as an approachable and thorough reference for the practicing clinician, the book includes many features to assist in evaluating the variety of stimulation therapies.

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

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:
http://proxy.mclennan.edu/login?url=http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?authtype=ip,uid&profile=mob

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.