New books on teaching, learning and pedagogy in higher education

Last summer we put together a guide to new and classic literature on teaching, pedagogy and higher education for new faculty at Nazareth.  All the books are available either in print or electronically at our library.

We've recently updated the guide with some new titles, including:

The Skillful Teacher:  On Technique, Trust and Responsiveness in the Classroom by Stephen D. Brookfield

Learner-Centered Teaching:  Five Key Changes to Practice by Maryellen Weimer

       

Small Teaching:  Everyday Lessons from the Science of Learning by James. M. Lang

Drive:  The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us by Daniel H. Pink

      

...and more!  You can see all of the books on our guide and resource list.

This list is designed to be useful for our Nazareth community, so let us know if you have suggestions!

We added new books on our resource list using input from these great sources online:

• Listener Question: Essential Readings on Pedagogy
• Five useful books for new faculty
• Inside Higher Ed's New Books about Higher Education
• Books for Higher Education Professionals

Time for Summer Beach Reading!

Looking for something fun to read during the long, hot days of summer?  The library has you covered!  All of the tiles below are available in our McNaughton Collection in the Browsing Lounge.

The Female Persuasion by Meg Wolitzer

"Charming and wise, knowing and witty, Meg Wolitzer delivers a novel about power and influence, ego and loyalty, womanhood and ambition. At its heart, The Female Persuasion is about the flame we all believe is flickering inside of us, waiting to be seen and fanned by the right person at the right time. It's a story about the people who guide and the people who follow (and how those roles evolve over time), and the desire within all of us to be pulled into the light." -Amazon description

The Line Becomes a River: Dispatches from the Border by Francisco Cantú

"For Francisco Cantú, the border is in the blood: his mother, a park ranger and daughter of a Mexican immigrant, raised him in the scrublands of the Southwest. Haunted by the landscape of his youth, Cantú joins the Border Patrol. He and his partners are posted to remote regions crisscrossed by drug routes and smuggling corridors, where they learn to track other humans under blistering sun and through frigid nights. They haul in the dead and deliver to detention those they find alive. Cantú tries not to think where the stories go from there." -Amazon description

The House of Broken Angels by Luis Alberto Urrea

"In his final days, beloved and ailing patriarch Miguel Angel de La Cruz, affectionately called Big Angel, has summoned his entire clan for one last legendary birthday party. But as the party approaches, his mother, nearly one hundred, dies herself, leading to a farewell doubleheader in a single weekend. Among the guests is Big Angel's half brother, known as Little Angel, who must reckon with the truth that although he shares a father with his siblings, he has not, as a half gringo, shared a life." -Amazon description

Red Clocks by Leni Zumas

"In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is once again illegal in America, in-vitro fertilization is banned, and the Personhood Amendment grants rights of life, liberty, and property to every embryo. In a small Oregon fishing town, five very different women navigate these new barriers alongside age-old questions surrounding motherhood, identity, and freedom." -Amazon description

How to Stop Time by Matt Haig

"How to Stop Time tells a love story across the ages—and for the ages—about a man lost in time, the woman who could save him, and the lifetimes it can take to learn how to live. It is a bighearted, wildly original novel about losing and finding yourself, the inevitability of change, and how with enough time to learn, we just might find happiness." -Amazon description

Find more on Primo or by browsing the McNaughton Collection.  Happy reading!

Some fun summer reading lists:

• The 39 Books We're Talking About This Summer (Washington Post)
• 73 Books to Read While the Sun is Out and the Days Are Long (The New York Times)
• The 32 Best Books to Read this Summer (Elle Magazine)
• The 20 Smart Books You'll Want to Read at the Beach This Summer (Esquire Magazine)

A snapshot of what we've been up to this year

New additions to our Art & Art History collections!

The library recently received a large donation of art and art history books from the estate of Thomas Frey.  His collection has greatly expanded our collections in Renaissance art and 19th Century art (including many books on Van Gogh), as well as ancient and modern art.

  

Mr. Frey was a Monroe County executive and an avid art enthusiast.  He often traveled to art exhibits and collected exhibition catalogs, which are a sizeable portion of the donations he made to our library.

   

Mr. Frey generously donated his entire collection to our library, in hopes that these books would be used and appreciated by the excellent visual and performing arts students, as well as the rest of our scholarly community at Nazareth.

 

Mr. Frey's obituary from the Rochester Democrat & Chronicle is available here.

New additions to our political and Middle Eastern collections

This year the library has been happy to receive multiple donations from Professor Carl Max Kortepeter, including titles from his extensive collection of Middle Eastern and political histories.  Some of his donations include:

Keeping the tablets : modern American conservative thought / edited by William F. Buckley, Jr. and Charles R. Kesler

Neither East nor West : Iran, the Soviet Union, and the United States / edited by Nikki R. Keddie and Mark J. Gasiorowski

Trade and traders in Muslim Spain : the commercial realignment of the Iberian peninsula, 900-1500 / Olivia Remie Constable.

A Thousand Days:  John F. Kennedy in the White House / Arthur Schlesinger Jr.

          

Iran and Islam: in memory of the late Vladimir Minorsky / C.E. Bosworth editor.

The return of consciousness / by Tawfiq Al-Hakim ; translated from the Arabic by Bayly Winder.

The selected writings of Eqbal Ahmad / edited by Carollee Bengelsdorf, Margaret Cerullo, and Yogesh Chandrani ; foreword by Noam Chomsky.

He has also recently donated his newest book, 12 Muslim Revolutions, and the Struggle for Legitimacy Against the Imperial Powers.  Kortepeter has long been a respected scholar in the field of Middle Eastern studies and political history.  Here is a short biography from his most recent publisher:

"An avid traveller with a gift for foreign languages, Professor Max Kortepeter spent decades studying and teaching about the Middle East. He taught at New York University for three decades and held faculty appointments at the University of Toronto and Princeton University. He has lectured around the world, often in his adopted languages. Other works written or edited by Kortepeter include: Ottoman Imperialism During the Reformation; The Ottoman Turks: Nomad Kingdom to World Empire; Atatürk and the Transformation of Turkish Culture; Oil and Economic Geography in the Middle East; The Modern Middle East: Literature and Society; and The Human Experience, a popular world history text.

Professor Kortepeter holds a B.A. in American Studies from Harvard University, an M.A. in Islamic Studies from McGill University, and a Ph.D. in Middle East History from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London."

You can find more of his published work by searching for Carl Max Kortepeter in Primo.

Doing some academic writing this summer?

The library recently purchased a number of books on academic writing and productivity.  Here are some highlights!

Silvia, P. (2007). How to write a lot : A practical guide to productive academic writing (1st ed.). 

Goodson, P. (2017). Becoming an academic writer : 50 exercises for paced, productive, and powerful writing (Second ed.).

Silvia, P. (2015). Write it up : Practical strategies for writing and publishing journal articles.

You can find more in Primo, which has replaced our old library catalog.  If you want print books, make sure to limit your search to 'books" (under Resource Type) and "available in the library".

Let us know if you have any questions!

Some poems from Francesca Guli to wrap up National Poetry Month 2017

 What better way to wrap up National Poetry Month 2017 than with some poems from Nazareth alum, former faculty member and "poet-in-residence" Francesca Guli?

The following poems are from Verity Fair 1945 and 1946, courtesy of the Library archives.  Verity Fair (otherwise known as Verity Faire or Verity) was Nazareth College's long-standing literary magazine.  Send us an email if you'd like to see more items from Verity Fair!  You can also read more about it on page 30 in the Winter 2011/12 issue of Connections.

If you'd like to see more of Francesca Guli's published work, you can search our library catalog for Guli, Francesca as Author.  We have quite a few of her books!

Curriculum Library: A New Collection of Books!

The library is happy to announce the addition of a sizable collection of curricular materials to our shelves.  These materials can be used by students in Education and related fields to study and develop curricula, lesson plans, and instructional experiences for K-12 students.
















Many of these books were previously housed in the Golisano Academic Center by the School of Education.  The library has been happy to accept the books as a donation; over the past several months we have been busy cataloging the books so that they are easier for students to find and use.  With the help of Kathi Sigler at St. John Fisher's Lavery Library, we have also selected some additional books.  We will welcome faculty and student input on adding to the collection in the future.












Items from the Curriculum Library are shelved with the main collection.  So, for example, an Algebra textbook will be shelved with other books on Algebra (rather than in the Education section).


You can search for items in PRIMO by searching for "curriculum library" as a subject heading (see below).  There are currently 95 items assigned to that heading, but you can expect that number to grow!

When you click on a search result, take note of the call number, which will tell you where to find the book in the library collection.

If you would like to filter your search results further, use the Advanced Search page to include relevant keywords, such as "Language Arts," "Mathematics," or "History."

For questions and comments about the curriculum library, feel free to contact the library and we will direct you to the right person!

New Open Access ebooks on JSTOR

JSTOR, one of the most popular databases for scholarly articles, books, and primary sources, has recently announced that it is releasing an initial set of 63 book titles in it's new Open Access monographs program.

What is Open Access?

Open Access is a huge trend in scholarly publishing right now.  As you may know, the bulk of scholarly publishing is subscription-only.  Institutions, such as libraries, pay a fee for their communities to be able to access high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarly information.

Many people are beginning to push back against the high prices of scholarly information.  These people are urging scholars to publish their work in Open Access formats so that anyone can access them without paying a fee.  They are also pushing publishers to allow for more Open Access options.

SPARC defines Open Access as "the free, immediate, online availability of research articles coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment. Open Access ensures that anyone can access and use these results—to turn ideas into industries and breakthroughs into better lives" (2016).

In an article on Open Access publishing trends, Poltronieri et al argue that "Over the last decade, the open access option for strengthening the spread of scholarly literature is becoming progressively attractive for both publishers and authors in almost every field of science" (2016).  Organizations like JSTOR are therefore becoming interested in making at least some of their information Open Access.

What books are they releasing?

Some great titles from highly influential publishers, including Cornell University Press, University of Michigan Press, and University of California Press.

Here are just a few:

Equity, Growth, and Community:  What the Nation Can Learn from America's Metro Areas by Chris Benner and Manual Pastor.

Christianity, Islam, and Orisa-Religion:  Three Traditions in Comparison and Interaction by J.D.Y. Peel

Discrimination at Work:  Comparing European, French, and American Law by Marie Mercat-Bruns

Find more information and a press release here on the JSTOR website.

References & Further Reading:

Bonn, Maria. "Maximizing the benefits of open access: Strategies for enhancing the discovery of open access content." College & Research Libraries News 76.9 (2015): 491-494. LINK.

Nature. "Open Access at NatureResearch."  Retrieved November 11, 2016 from http://www.nature.com/openresearch/about-open-access/benefits-for-authors/

Poltronieri, Elisabetta, et al. "Open access publishing trend analysis: statistics beyond the perception." Information research 21.2 (2016).  LINK.

Right to Research Coalition.  "Why Open Access?"  Retrieved November 11, 2016 from http://www.righttoresearch.org/learn/whyoa/index.shtml

SPARC. "Open Access." Retrieved November 11, 2016 from http://sparcopen.org/open-access/

Book launch for "Thomas Merton and the Celts" on Monday November 14th

On Monday, November 14th, the library will be hosting a book launch from 4-5 pm.  There will be refreshments!

We are celebrating the release of Thomas Merton and the Celts: A New World Opening Up by Nazareth Professor Emerita of English Monica Weis.

Here is the publisher's description:

"Thomas Merton and the Celts offers a new lens through which to view Merton’s life and spirituality. By examining unpublished letters, notebooks, and taped conferences for the Trappist novices–previously unavailable to the general reader–the author breaks new ground in Merton studies, revealing Merton’s growing fascination with his Welsh ancestry, Celtic monasticism, and early Irish hermit poetry. Merton, having immersed himself in reading about Celtic Christianity–not just about liturgy, but about household rituals, illuminated manuscripts, high crosses, and hermit poetry as well–recognized in these ancient hermits who lived on “water and herbs,” experienced kinship with creatures, and wrote poems about the birds a mirror of his own desires. Indeed, in a profound way and at a deep level, Merton discovered himself in Celtic Christianity." (Pickwick Publications)

The Thomas Merton room in Lorette Wilmot library is a favorite of students, faculty and staff.  You can find more information about it on our Services page.

More information:

• Book Launch Announcement