Welcome back to all students, faculty, and staff!!  Mercer Librarians and staff members look forward to working with the Prince William Campus community during the Fall 2004 Semester, as we also welcome the addition of Bull Run Hall.  Mercer Library continues to receive new items for the circulating and non-circulating collections each month.  In addition, Mercer Library also houses the only "computer lab" in the Occoquan Building.  We look forward to working with all of you this semester, so please drop in and visit as often as you can!
 

Mercer Library Hours
FALL SEMESTER 2004
 

August 30 - December 11
Monday - Thursday	8:00am - 10:00pm
Friday	8:00am - 6:00pm
Saturday	9:00am - 5:00pm
Sunday	Noon - 5:00pm

 

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.

Flyers detailing the new schedule of drop-in classes for the fall semester will be available soon in the library and at http://library.gmu.edu/research/classes.html.
 

• Administration of Justice
• Biological Sciences
• Education
• Information Technology and Engineering
• Recreation & Health
• Tourism

Boyd, Susan B.
Child custody, law, and women's work.
Don Mills, Ont. : Oxford University Press Canada, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
KE600 .B69 2003
 

Champod, Christophe.
Fingerprints and other ridge skin impressions.
Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6074.F564 2004
 

Farah, Douglas.
Blood from stones : the secret financial network of terror.
New York : Broadway Books, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6433.A358 F37 2004
 

Hanmer, Jalna and Catherine Itzin, ed.
Home truths about domestic violence : feminist influences on policy and practice : a reader.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2000.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6626.H64 2000
 

Hayward, Claudia L., ed.
Identity theft.
Hauppauge, N.Y. : Novinka Books, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6679.I34 2004
 

Horswell, John, ed.
The practice of crime scene investigation.
Boca Raton : CRC Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV8073.P69 2004
 

Lester, David.
Mass Murder.
New York : Nova Science Publishers, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV 6515 .L44 2004
 

Millard, Mike.
Jihad in paradise : Islam and politics in Southeast Asia.
Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6433.A7852 J366 2004
 

Miron, Jeffrey A.
Drug War Crimes.
Oakland, Calif. : Independent Institute, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV 5801 .M57 2004
 

Putwain, David and Aidan Sammons.
Psychology and crime.
Hove, East Sussex ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6080.P87 2002
 

Schram, Pamela J. and Barbara Koons-Witt, ed.
Gendered (in)justice : theory and practice in feminist criminology.
Long Grove, Ill. : Waveland Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6030 .G463 2004
 

Wells, Joseph T.
Corporate fraud handbook : prevention and detection.
Hoboken, N.J. : J. Wiley, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HV6691.W45 2004
 

Abbas, Abul K. and Andrew H. Lichtman.
Basic immunology : functions and disorders of the immune system.
Philadelphia : W.B. Saunders, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR181.A28 2004
 

Alt, Wolfgang.
Polymer and Cell Dynamics.
Basel ; Boston : Birkhäuser Verlag, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QP517 .M65 I59 2000
 

Betts, Robert F., Robert L. Penn, and Stanley W. Chapman, ed.
A practical approach to infectious diseases.
Philadelphia : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RC112.P79 2003
 

Conn, P. Michael, ed.
Handbook of proteomic methods.
Totowa, NJ : Humana Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QP551 .H33 2003
 

Fung, Eric T., ed.
Protein arrays : methods and protocols.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QP551.P69565 2004
 

Gécz, Jozef.
Nucleotide and Protein Expansions and Human Disease.
Basel : Karger, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QH 431 .C 95 v.100 no.1-4
 

Guttmacher, Alan E., Francis S. Collins, and Jeffrey M. Drazen, ed.
Genomic medicine : articles from the New England journal of medicine.
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press ; ton : New England journal of medicine, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RB155.G463 2004
 

Kofinas, Peter.
Molecularly Imprinted Materials-2003.
Warrendale, Pa. : Materials Research Society, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QD 382 .I43 M45 2004
 

Krakauer, Teresa, ed.
Superantigen protocols.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR186.6.S94 S867 2003
 

Lamont, Richard J., ed.
Bacterial invasion of host cells.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR175.B336 2004
 

Pier, Gerald B., Jeffrey B. Lyczak, and Lee M. Wetzler, ed.
Immunology, infection, and immunity.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR181.I443 2004
 

Primrose, Sandy B. and Richard M. Twyman.
Genomics : applications in human biology.
Malden, MA : Blackwell Pub., c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RB155.P6936 2004
 

Richardson, Malcolm D. and David W. Warnock.
Fungal infection : diagnosis and management.
Malden, Mass. : Blackwell Pub., 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RC117.R47 2003
 

Riley, Lee W.
Molecular Epidemiology of Infectious Diseases.
Washington, D.C. : ASM Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RA562.5 .R53 2004
 

Schena, Mark.
Protein Microarrays.
Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett, c2005.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QP551 .P69722 2005
 

Sgaramella, Vittorio and Sandro Eridani, ed.
Mammalian artificial chromosomes : methods and protocols.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QH600.15.M35 2004
 

Thibault, Pierre and Susumu Honda, ed.
Capillary electrophoresis of carbohydrates.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QP701.C283 2003
 

Tsokos, George C, ed.
Complement in autoimmunity.
New York : Karger, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QR188.3.C65 2004
 

Waldman, Alan S, ed.
Genetic recombination : reviews and protocols.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QH443.G458 2004
 

Bassett, Diane S. and Jean P. Lehmann.
Student-focused conferencing and planning.
Austin, Tex. : Pro-Ed, c2002.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC225.5.B27 2002
 

Browne, Anne and Derek Haylock, ed.
Professional issues for primary teachers.
London ; Thousands Oaks, Calif. : Sage, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1775.8 .P764 2004
 

Ferneding, Karen A.
Questioning technology : electronic technologies and educational reform.
New York : P. Lang, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1028.3.F47 2003
 

Freeman, Sabrina and Lorelei Dake.
Teach me language : a language manual for children with autism, Asperger's syndrome, and related developmental disorders.
Langley, B.C. : SKF Books, c1997.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC4717.F47 1997
 

Heron, Timothy E.
The educational consultant : helping professionals, parents, and students in inclusive classrooms.
Austin, Tex. : Pro-Ed, c2001.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC4019.H47 2001
 

Hoover, John J. and James R. Patton.
Curriculum adaptations for students with learning and behavior problems : principles and practices.
Austin, TX : Pro-Ed, c1997.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC4705.H66 1997
 

Kazis, Richard, Joel Vargas, and Nancy Hoffman, ed.
Double the numbers : increasing postsecondary credentials for underrepresented youth.
Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LA227.4.D676 2004
 

Long, Nicholas J., Mary M. Wood, and Frank A. Fecser.
Life Space Crisis Intervention : talking with students in conflict.
Austin, Tex. : Pro-Ed, c2001.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1027.5.W59 2001
 

Lovaas, O. Ivar.
Teaching individuals with developmental delays : basics intervention techniques.
Austin, Tex. : Pro-Ed, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC4717.L68 2003
 

Morrow, Lesley Mandel.
Literacy Development in the Early Years.
Boston : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2005.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1140.5 .L3 M66 2005
 

Moss, Wendy.
Children don't come with an instruction manual : a teacher's guide to problems that affect learners.
New York : Teachers College Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC3965 .M69 2004
 

Mutua, Kagendo and Cynthia Szymanski Sunal, ed.
Research on education in Africa, the Caribbean, and the Middle East, an historic overview.
Greenwich, Conn. : Information Age Pub., c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LA1501.R465 2004
 

Noam, Gil G., Gina Biancarosa, and Nadine Dechausay.
Afterschool education : approaches to an emerging field.
Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1048.N63 2003
 

Pierce, Milli and Deborah L. Stapleton, ed.
The 21st-century principal : current issues in leadership and policy.
Cambridge, MA : Harvard Education Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB2831.92.A15 2003
 

San Antonio, Donna Marie.
Adolescent lives in transition : how social class influences the adjustment to middle school.
Albany : State University of New York Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LB1623.5 .S26 2004
 

Stone, C. Addison, ed.
Handbook of language and literacy : development and disorders.
New York : Guilford Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
LC149.H36 2004
 

Singh, Jasprit.
Semiconductor devices : basic principles.
New York : Wiley, 2000, c2001.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK7871.85 .S5558 2001
 

Minoli, Daniel and Emma Minoli.
Delivering voice over IP networks.
New York : Wiley, c2002.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK5105.8865 .M57 2002
 

Szewczak, Edward and Coral Snodgrass.
Human factors in information systems.
Hershey, PA : IRM Press, c2002.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA76.76.H85 S94 2002
 

Clark, Martin P.
Data networks, IP and the Internet : protocols, design and operation.
Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : Wiley, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK5105.5 .C545 2003
 

Irtegov, D.
Operating system fundamentals.
Hingham, Mass. : Charles River Media, 2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
QA76.76.O63 I717 2003
 

Hodson, Peter.
Local area networks.
London ; New York : Continuum, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK5105.7 .H63 2003
 

Mohler, James L.
Flash MX 2004 : graphics, animation, and interactivity.
Clifton Park, N.Y. : Thomson/Delmar Learning, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TR897.7 .M642 2004
 

Crothers, Tim.
Implementing intrusion detection systems : a hands-on guide for securing the network.
Indianapolis, IN : Wiley Pub., c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TK5105.59 .C75 2003
 

McLaren, Bruce J.
Understanding & using the Internet.
 
 
 
 
 

Aguirre-Molina, Marilyn, Carlos W. Molina, and Ruth Enid Zambrana, ed.
Health issues in the Latino community.
San Francisco : Jossey Bass Publishers 2001.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RA448.5.H57 H395 2001
 

Hall, M. Ann.
The girl and the game : a history of women's sport in Canada.
Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Press, c2002.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV709.18.C2 H35 2002
 

Huff, Robert M. and Michael V. Kline, ed.
Promoting health in multicultural populations : a handbook for practitioners.
Thousand Oaks, Calif. : Sage Publications, c1999.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RA448.4.P76 1999
 

Jay, Kathryn.
More than just a game : sports in American life since 1945.
New York : Columbia University Press, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV706.5.J39 2004
 

Loue, Sana.
Gender, ethnicity, and health research.
New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers, c1999.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RA448.4.L68 1999
 

Lovell, Mark R.
Traumatic Brain Injury in Sports.
Lisse ; Exton, PA : Swets & Zeitlinger, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RC 394 .C7 T738 2004
 

Rosenfeld, Jo Ann, ed.
Women's health in mid-life : a primary care guide.
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RA778.W66 2004
 

Rosner, Scott R.
The Business of Sports.
Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV 713 .B87 2004
 

Seagle, Edward E.
Internships in Recreation and Leisure Services.
State College, PA : Venture Pub., c2002.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV14.5 .S43 2002
 

Smith, Holly A.
Fire of the five hearts : a memoir of treating incest.
New York : Brunner-Routledge, c2002.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RC560.I53 S656 2002
 

Welschof, Martin and Jürgen Krauss, ed.
Recombinant antibodies for cancer therapy : methods and protocols.
Totowa, N.J. : Humana Press, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RC271.I45 R43 2003
 

Yudofsky, Stuart C. and Robert E. Hales, ed.
Essentials of neuropsychiatry and clinical neurosciences.
Washington, DC : American Psychiatric Pub., c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
RC341.E84 2004
 

Brennan, Denise.
What's love got to do with it? : transnational desires and sex tourism in the Dominican Republic.
Durham : Duke University Press, 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
HQ162.5.S68 B74 2004
 

Getz, Donald, Jack Carlsen and Alison Morrison.
The family business in tourism and hospitality.
Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G155.A1 G439 2004
 

Jenkins, Jerry with Andy Keal.
The Adirondack atlas : a geographic portrait of the Adirondack Park.
Syracuse, N.Y. : Syracuse University Press : Adirondack Museum 2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
F127.A2 J46 2004
 

Nykiel, Ronald A.
Hospitality Management Strategies.
Upper Saddle River, NJ : Pearson Prentice Hall, c2005.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TX911.3 .M27 N95 2005
 

Raza, Ivo.
Heads in beds : hospitality and tourism marketing.
Upper Saddle River, N.J. : Prentice Hall, c2005.
Prince William Campus Stacks
TX911.3.M3 R39 2005
 

Ryan, Chris.
Recreational tourism : demand and impacts.
Clevedon, England ; Buffalo [N.Y.] : Channel View Publications, c2003.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G155.A1 R925 2003
 

Sherman, Erik B.
Geocaching : hike and seek with your GPS.
Berkeley, CA : Apress ; New York, NY : Distributed to the Book trade in the U.S. by Springer-Verlag, c2004.
Prince William Campus Stacks
GV1202.G46 S54 2004
 

World Tourism Organization.
Tourism market trends. Asia.
Madrid, Spain : World Tourism Organization, c2001.
Prince William Campus Stacks
G155.A74 T67
 

IEEE Explore Announces New Journals

New journal debuts on IEEE Explore: IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology & Bioinformatics.  The IEEE/ACM Transactions on Computational Biology and Bioinformatics will emphasize the algorithmic, mathematical, statistical, and computational methods that are centralin bioinformatics and computational biology, the development and testing of effective computer programs in bioinformatics, the development and optimization of biological databases, important biological results that are obtained from the use of these methods, programs, and databases; and the emerging field of systems biology, where many forms of data and biological knowledge are used to create a computer-based model of a complex biological system.
 

E-journals

Open Access Announcements

Oxford University Press (OUP) announced  that the Nucleic Acids Research (NAR), one of the most important OUP journals, will adopt an open access publishing model starting in January 2005. Institutional subscribers to NAR become automatically institutional members. All authors from member institutions, including authors from George Mason University, will pay a processing fee of $500 per article, compared with the full charge of $1500.

Starting in 2005, the new open-access edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) will include an institutional membership automatically with every institutional site license. The memberships will give authors from those institutions, Including George Mason University, a 25% discount on the $1,000 article processing fee.

Cell Press has announced that access to the online archive of the Cell Press collection will become freely available beginning in January 2005 on both ScienceDirect and on the Cell Press journal sites.
 

Mercer Library staff, along with the Prince William Campus community has had the priviledge of working with Victoria Shelton, Bio/Life Sciences Liaison Librarian, since 2001.  Victoria provides liaison services to all GMU life science departments including the School of Computational Sciences/ Bioinformatics, Molecular and Microbiology Department, National Center for Biodefense, the Krasnow Institute, and American Type Culture Collection.  Over the past few years Victoria has been well-deserving of her Immediate Recognition Award in 2002 and the ITU Employee of the Month Award in April 2004.  In addition, she publishes book reviews in her subject areas.  Faculty, staff, and students at all campuses of George Mason University enjoy working with Victoria.  Her professionalism, enthusiasm, and hard work are highly valued by all library patrons.

Victoria completed her BA in Philosophy at Saint Petersburg State University, and her MLS at Texas Woman's University, Denton, TX.  Her paraprofessional library work experience includes 10 years in academic libraries, both in Russia and the United States of America.

Some of her responsibilities include providing general and virtual reference service; individual and group instruction; developing instructional tools; designing web-based information resources; developing and managing sciences library collection; serving as the Reference Services Coordinator; and representing the Mercer Library on committees, task forces, projects, etc. within the Prince William Campus, the University, and community.  In addition to all this, Victoria provides in-depth reference training to Mercer Library staff under a system she created in the Spring of 2002.

Victoria has extensive training in various computer applications, including Microsoft Office, and is familiar with web design. She is comfortable with database/Internet searching and information resources evaluation.  In addition, Victoria enjoys creating print and electronic instructional materials, is good at visual designing, drawing, and publishing.

Mercer Library staff and patrons have found Victoria a very open and willing mentor.  She encourages professional growth in others and provides insight into a number of her personal interests, as well as her professional ones.  Her welcoming demeanor leaves an impact on those around her.  Victoria enjoys finding answers to difficult questions, solving problems, creative projects such as writing and web site development, and brainstorming new ideas for services and resources to enrich a patron's experience.  In her own words, Victoria feels that working at GMU holds "numerous possibilities for creativity and professional growth."  She also enjoys the academic freedom, the trust, and the respect of the University and fellow faculty, staff, and students.

On a personal level, Victoria enjoys intellectual challenges such as active reading of the classics and non-fiction works.  She also enjoys living near the Blue Ridge mountains and takes time to hike, canoe, and photograph wildlife and natural objects.  Victoria thrives on a constant education, professionally and personally.  She loves to learn new skills and subjects.

Please take time to meet with Victoria Shelton in George Mason University's Mercer Library.  It is well worth the visit!