Tuesday, September 25, 2007

A Useful Resource for Medical Assisting Students

The Stanford Health Library has an Internet resources section that contains over 17,000 reviewed links to reliable health sites on various topics. I urge you to check it out. The web site for the Stanford Health Library can be accessed at http://healthlibrary.stanford.edu.

Thursday, September 20, 2007

A Combination of Search Engine and Encyclopedia

Most search engines will only return web sites and pages based on the keywords that you type in. This means that you may end up with a lot of results that are irrelevant to what you are looking for. However, there is a new experimental search engine that takes a different approach. It is called factbites, and it searches for web sites based on the topic area of the keywords that you type in. So if you are searching for web sites about cancer, it will give you sites that are about cancer, not merely web sites that happen to have the word "cancer" in their pages. It will also display whole sentences from the web sites that come up in the list of results, so you can decide which sites will be useful for your research. This search engine is still in "beta" (experimental) mode, so some searches won't work, but I encourage you to check it out.

The search engine can be accessed at www.factbites.com.

Wednesday, September 12, 2007

Constitution Day Trivia Contest

To celebrate Constitution Day, Everest College is now accepting entries for a trivia contest until September 17th. On September 18th (next Tuesday) a winner will be drawn from the correct entries. The prize is a free USB drive! To participate in the contest, you will have to answer seven trivia questions about the Constitution. The question forms for the contest can be found in the Student Resource Center. If you have any questions, please ask Roxanne Phillips.

Friday, September 7, 2007

New Books

The following books have been recently added to the library:

"You Mean I'm Not Lazy Stupid or Crazy?!" by Kate Kelly and Peggy Ramundo

"Handbook of Technical Writing" by Gerald J. Alred, Charles T. Brusaw, and Walter E. Oliu

"Multicultural Education in a Pluralistic Society" by Donna M. Gollnick and Philip C. Chinn

"Technically-Write!" by Ron Blicq and Lisa Moretto

The first book is about coping with Attention Deficit Disorder, or ADD. The other books are about how to do technical writing, and multiculturalism.