Back, due to popular demand, the Mercer (Prince William Campus)Library Newsletter will consist of a monthly update on Library Research Workshops and a highlight on new titles as selected by the Liaison Librarians.  April 2004 is the first issue, and the library staff is pleased to bring you highlights of new services and acquisitions.  Enjoy!
 

Not sure how to find and use library information resources?  Schedule a drop-in appointment to get acquainted with the basic elements of the research process and be introduced to the GMU library system, available electronic resources, and how to organize and evaluate information.

Sessions are held in the Mercer (Prince William Campus) Library, Occoquan (PWI) Bldg. Rm. 104J.  Please call 993-8348 to arrange an individual appointment.
 

• Administration of Justice
• Biological Sciences
• Education
• Health, Fitness and Recreation
• Information Technology and Engineering

Cole, Leonard A., 1933-
Anthrax letters : a medical detective story.
Washington, D.C. : Joseph Henry Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6432 .C63 2003
 

Acker, James R., Robert M. Bohm and Charles S. Lanier.
America's experiment with capital punishment : reflections on the past, present, and future of the ultimate penal sanction.
Durham, N.C. : Carolina Academic Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV8699.U5 A746 2003
 

Bannon, Mark E.
A quick reference guide to contemporary criminal procedure for law enforcement officers : one hundred notable United States Supreme Court decisions, and their effect on modern policing in America.
Springfield, Ill. : C.C. Thomas, c2003.
Prince William Campus Reference
KF9619.8.P65 B36 2003
 

Garner, Gerald W.
Common sense police supervision : practical tips for the first-line leader.
Springfield, Ill. : Charles C. Thomas, Publisher, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV7936.S8 G36 2003
 

Fredrickson, Darin D.
Racial profiling : eliminating the confusion between racial and criminal profiling and clarifying what constitutes unfair discrimination and persecution.
Springfield, Ill.: Charles C Thomas, c2002.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV8141 .F67 2002
 

Cotran, Ramzi S., 1932-
Robbins pathologic basis of disease. , 6th ed. / Ramzi S. Cotran, Vinay Kumar, Tucker Collins.
Philadelphia : Saunders, c1999.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RB111 .R62 1999
 

Handbook of viral bioterrorism and biodefense / guest editors, Erik De Clerq and Earl R. Kern. , 1st ed.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RM411 .H36 2003
 

RNAi : a guide to gene silencing / edited by Gregory J. Hannon.
Cold Spring Harbor, N.Y. : Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Reference
QH450 .R628 2003
 

Computational molecular biology / edited by Sorin Istrail, Pavel Pevzner, Ron Shamir.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QH506 .C642 2003
 

Mitra, Sushmita, 1962-
Data mining : multimedia, soft computing, and bioinformatics / Sushmita Mitra, Tinku Acharya.
Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA76.9.D343 M58 2003
 

Pevsner, Jonathan, 1961-
Bioinformatics and functional genomics / Jonathan Pevsner.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Liss, Inc., c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QH441.2 .P48 2003
 

Rédei, G. P.
Encyclopedic dictionary of genetics, genomics, and proteomics / George P. Rédei. , 2nd ed.
Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley-Liss, c2003.
Prince William Campus Reference
QH427 .R43 2003
 

Strachan, T.
Human molecular genetics 3 / Tom Strachan and Andrew P. Read. , 3rd ed.
London ; New York : Garland Science ; Independence, KY : Distributed in the USA by Taylor & Francis, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QH431 .S787 2004
 

Struthers, J. Keith.
Clinical bacteriology / J. Keith Struthers, Roger P. Westran.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR67.2 .S77 2003
 

Biosafety in microbiological and biomedical laboratories / U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Public Health
Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and National Institutes of Health ; [editors, Jonathan Y. Richmond,
Robert W. McKinn, 4th ed.
Washington : U.S. G.P.O. : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1999.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR64.7 .B56 1999
 

Davison, Jon and Jane Dowson, editors.
Learning to teach English in the secondary school : a companion to school experience.
London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1631 .L333 2003
 

Bruns, Barbara.
Achieving universal primary education by 2015 : a chance for every child.
Washington, D.C. : World Bank, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC213 .B78 2003
 

Cotton, Tony and Jasbir Mann.
Improving primary schools, improving communities.
Stoke-on-Trent : Trentham, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC221.4.G73 L45 2003
 

Sloan, Glenna Davis, 1930-
Child as critic : developing literacy through literature, K-8.
New York : Teachers College Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1575 .S53 2003
 

Arthur, James.
Education with character : the moral economy of schooling.
London ; New York : RoutledgeFalmer, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC314.G7 A78 2003
 

Beirman, David.
Restoring tourism destinations in crisis : a strategic marketing approach.
Oxon, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub. ; Australia : Allen & Unwin 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G155.A1 B385 2003
 

Smith, Mick, 1961-
Ethics of tourism development.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G155.A1 S565 2003
 

Steadward, Robert D., Garry D. Wheeler, E. Jane Watkinson, editors.
Adapted physical activity.
Edmonton : University of Alberta Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV445 .A32 2003
 

Humphrey, James Harry, 1911-
Child development through sports.
New York : Haworth Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV709.2.H845 2003
 
 
 
 

Comer, Douglas.
Computer networks and internets : with Internet applications / Douglas E. Comer., 4th ed.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK105.5.C5897 2004
 

Kaplan, Daniel M. (Daniel Moshe)
Hands-on electronics : a one-semester course for class instruction or self-study / Daniel M.
Kaplan and Christopher G. White.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK7816.K36 2003
 

Thomas, Stephen A., 1962-
IP switching and routing essentials : understanding RIP, OSPF, BGP, MPLS, CR-LDP, and RSVP-TE / Stephen A. Thomas.
New York : Wiley, c2002.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK5105.543.T48 2002

Historical Newspapers Full-Image Archive is now available!

ProQuest Historical Newspapers offers a full-image archive of the:
• New York Times (1851 - to approximately 2-3 years ago)
• Wall Street Journal (1889- to approximately 15-16 years ago)
• Washington Post (1877- to approximately 16-17 years ago)
(More recent full-text of these newspapers can be found in other databases, e.g., the New York Times and Washington Post in LexisNexis Academic and the Wall Street Journal in ABI Inform or Factiva.)

There is complete coverage of each issue -- including not only articles and editorials but also photos, graphics, ads, and comics and cartoons. Images of full pages and of individual articles are available as downloadable PDF. From the Advanced Search screen, searching can be done by keyword as well as by date, article type, and author. After a specific newspaper is selected, a Publications Search allows issues for individual dates to be browsed. The most useful help information will be found under the Tools: Search Tips link.

Please note that other historical newspapers are accessible online via the Databases link on the Library's homepage, including:

Accessible Archives , including * African American Newspapers: The 19th Century * Civil War: A Newspaper Perspective, November 1860 Ð April 1865 * Pennsylvania Gazette, 1728-1800 * Pennsylvania Newspaper Record: Delaware County, 1819-1870 * HarpWeek [Harper's Weekly] (1857-1912) * Historical Newspapers (Chadwyck-Healey) * Palmer's [London Times]Full Text Online, 1785-1870.

The ITU Employee of the Month Award for April 2004 went to Victoria Shelton, the University Libraries' Biology and Life Sciences Reference and Instruction Liaison Librarian.  In addition to her many regular duties, Victoria has also worked diligently and creatively to establish  library collections  for the newly created National Center for Biodefense within the Department of Molecular and Microbiology.  She has assisted with various projects, courses, and curricula within this department and the School of Computational Sciences.  She has also written an article for BioMed Central, assisted with the Bioinformatics Orientations, worked to improve liaison effectiveness and collection support, assisted with the submission of the GeneOrder3.0 manuscript to BioMed Central Bioinformatics, and guided many professors, scientists, and students through the various library resources.  Several lectures, such as Dr. Alibek's, and particular resources, such as the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences open access in full-text, were shared by Victoria in response to requests for assistance.

Victoria has become an integral part of the biological and life sciences departments at George Mason because of her hard work, pro-active communication style,  and dedication to getting the job done.  Among other things, she sends out to faculty and students notices of recent acquisitions that may be of interest to them, gives introductory lectures to students on library resources in bioinformatics and helps with journal searching and interlibrary loans.  She also wrote a well researched and well-written article for the English Department's online journal, English Matters, helping to explain some emerging issues in library research to readers in the Humanities who may not be aware of what has been happening in the science library field.  One doctoral student at the Prince William campus described her as a veritable pot of gold at the end of the rainbow because she is able to successfully procure quality information with a few keystrokes.  Even the most esoteric, eclectic, obscure and remote piece of information seems to pose no challenge for her in her fast, efficient and accurate searches for needed information.  She is always ready to help faculty and students in a thoughtful and polite way.  Her commitment to service excellence and dedication to her students and faculty truly exemplifies all the best qualities in an ITU employee.

Victoria was given her award in Dr. Joy Hughes' office on Friday, April 2nd at 11:30.  On behalf of the University Libraries and the Prince William Community, congratulations Victoria!  We appreciate all that you do!