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Image one: Need data or statistics? - United States Census Bureau: Data on population, economy, education, employment, and more. - www.census.gov
Image two: Need data or statistics? - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Data and statistics on alcohol use; deaths and mortality; healthy aging; life expectancy; and more. - www.cdc.gov/nchs
Image three: Need data or statistics? - F.B.I. Uniform Crime Reporting: Data and statistics on crime in the United States; law enforcement officers killed and assaulted; hate crime statistics; cargo theft; and human trafficking. - www.cde.ucr.cjis.gov
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Resources: Streaming Video
Streaming video database 1: Academic Video Online: Comprehensive streaming video database that provides over 68,000 video titles covering subject areas such as anthropology, business, counseling, film, health, history, music, and more.
Streaming video database 2: Kanopy: Stream classic cinema, indie films, and documentaries.
Image one: E-book titled E-book titled Your Undergraduate Degree in Psychology: From College to Career (2013) - synopsis: Drawing on current research data, applied theory, and both academic and workplace experiences, this book will help stimulate self-reflection and improve decision making as students approach their careers. The text covers key topics in the college-to-career transition, including career planning and development, identifying and transferring marketable skills, building and sustaining strong networks, understanding what employers want and don’t want, coping with personal life changes, becoming a valued employee, and more.
Image two: E-book titled Expanding Your English and Creative Skills through Art and the Humanities (2018) - synopsis: Expanding your English and Creative Skills through Art and the Humanities has been designed for students or professionals who would like to use and improve their English in areas such as history, art history, literature, film and media, and language, at an upper-intermediate or advanced level. This book integrates practice of the four skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing) and has been written from a holistic and humanistic approach.
Image one: Resources - HeinOnline contains more than 173 million pages and 270,000 titles of historical and governmental documents in a fully searchable, image-based format.
Image two: Resources - Scopus is a comprehensive abstract and citation database that allows users to find relevant and trusted research, identify experts, and access reliable data, metrics, and analytical tools.
Image one: E-book titled The Ultimate Guide to College Transfer: From Surviving to Thriving (2017) - synopsis: The Ultimate Guide to College Transfer is a comprehensive guide, designed to make college transfer between four-year schools as successful as possible. Chapters outline the steps to take from the moment a student finds him/herself considering college transfer to the first semester at his/her next college. The book contains vignettes (based on real student stories) and excerpts from interviews with transfer students, parents, and higher education professionals.
Image two: E-book titled Successful Dissertations: The Complete Guide for Education, Childhood, and Early Childhood Studies Students (2018) - synopsis: Whether looking for guidance on the whole process, needing help with conducting a literature review or interpreting your quantitative and qualitative data, this accessible and empowering guide will take you through the dissertation process and provide all the information you need to make the most of your research project.
Image one: Resources - EBSCO EDS provides users with a streamlined search of multiple databases through a single search box.
Image two: Resources - ProQuest Central is a periodical resource that includes major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
Image one: E-book titled The Craft of Research (2016) - synopsis: With more than three-quarters of a million copies sold since its first publication, The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level—from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in business and government—learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators, this fundamental work explains how to find and evaluate sources, anticipate and respond to reader reservations, and integrate these pieces into an argument that stands up to reader critique.
Image two: E-book titled The Student's Guide to Research Ethics (2020) - synopsis: This reader-friendly book examines the ethical issues and questions that occur in university and professional research and will help both beginning and experienced researchers to identify ethical issues when they are conducting research. The book thoroughly examines the broader ethical issues that arise throughout research, from the design stage through to data collection and analysis.
Image one: Resources - A TexShare Card allows you to borrow items from participating libraries throughout the state of Texas. TexShare cards eligible for currently enrolled UNT Dallas students and UNT Dallas faculty and staff. TexShare cards issued at the library front desk (Student Center - 3rd floor). Please have your ID ready.
Image two: WorldCat.org is the world's largest network of library content and services that lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.
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Image two: E-book titled Check It Off!: Pave Your Way through College to Career (2016) - synopsis: Author Vera Teller, a college lecturer of first-year seminars, shows readers what they need to do in college to prepare themselves to seek employment and obtain a career once graduated. Check It Off! provides a checklist of activities for each year of college to prepare the student for a career and to help him or her answer the three most important questions: 1. What do I like to do? 2. What do I want to do? 3. What does the world need?
Image three: E-book titled The Secrets of College Success (2019) - synopsis: The over 800 tips in this book will show you how to: pick courses and choose a major; manage your time and develop college-level study skills; get good grades and manage the “core” requirements; get motivated and avoid stress; interact effectively with your professor; prepare for a productive career.
There's just three weeks before the fall semester starts, so why not check out these summer book recommendations to pass the time?
Fiction:- Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn- Saint X by Alexis Schaitkin
Nonfiction:- Norco '80: The True Story of the Most Spectacular Bank Robbery in American History by Peter Houlahan- I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara
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Image two: E-book titled Lockdown Cultures: The Arts and Humanities in the Year of the Pandemic, 2020-21 (2022) - synopsis: This book offers a unique response to the question of how the humanities commented on and were impacted by one of the dominant crises of our times: the Covid-19 pandemic. While the role of engineers, epidemiologists and, of course, medics is assumed, Lockdown Cultures illustrates some of the ways in which the humanities understood and analyzed 2020–21, the year of lockdown and plague. Though the impulse behind the book was topical, underpinning the richly varied and individual essays is a lasting concern with the value of the humanities in the twenty-first century. Each contributor approaches this differently but there are two dominant strands: how art and culture can help us understand the Covid crisis; and how the value of the humanities can be demonstrated by engaging with cultural products from the past.
Image three: E-book titled Building Fires in the Snow: A Collection of Alaska LGBTQ Short Fiction and Poetry (2016) - synopsis: Diversity has always been central to Alaska identity, as the state’s population consists of people with many different backgrounds, viewpoints, and life experiences. This book opens a window into these diverse lives, gathering stories and poems about lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer life into a brilliant, path-breaking anthology. In these pages we see the panoply of LGBTQ life in Alaska today, from the quotidian urban adventures of a family—shopping, going out, working—to intimate encounters with Alaska’s breathtaking natural beauty.
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Image two: E-book titled Frankenstein: Annotated for Scientists, Engineers, and Creators of All Kinds (2017) - synopsis: This edition of Frankenstein pairs the original 1818 version of the manuscript—meticulously line-edited and amended by Charles E. Robinson, one of the world’s preeminent authorities on the text—with annotations and essays by leading scholars exploring the social and ethical aspects of scientific creativity raised by this remarkable story. The result is a unique and accessible edition of one of the most thought-provoking and influential novels ever written.
Image three: E-book titled On Monsters: An Unnatural History of Our Worst Fears (2009) - synopsis: A wide-ranging cultural and conceptual history of monsters—how they have evolved over time, what functions they have served for us, and what shapes they are likely to take in the future. Exploring sources as diverse as philosophical treatises, scientific notebooks, and novels, author Stephen T. Asma unravels traditional monster stories for the clues they offer about the inner logic of an era's fears and fascinations.
Image one: Resources - WorldCat.org is the world's largest network of library content and services that lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world.
Image two: Resources - A TexShare Card allows you to borrow items from participating libraries throughout the state of Texas. TexShare cards eligible for currently enrolled UNT Dallas students and UNT Dallas faculty and staff. TexShare cards issued at the library front desk (Student Center - 3rd floor). Please have your ID ready.
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Image two: E-book titled Barbecue: The History of an American Institution (2020) - synopsis: The definitive history of an iconic American food, with new chapters, sidebars, and updated historical accounts. The full story of barbecue in the United States had been virtually untold before Robert F. Moss revealed its long, rich history in his 2010 book Barbecue: The History of an American Institution. Moss researched hundreds of sources—newspapers, letters, journals, diaries, and travel narratives—to document the evolution of barbecue from its origins among Native Americans to its present status as an icon of American culture. He mapped out the development of the rich array of regional barbecue styles, chronicled the rise of barbecue restaurants, and profiled the famed pitmasters who made the tradition what it is today.
Image three: E-book titled Winnebago Nation: The Peculiar Place of the RV in American Culture (2014) - synopsis: In Winnebago Nation, popular critic James B. Twitchell takes a light-hearted look at the culture and industry behind the yearning to spend the night in one’s car. Informed by his own experiences on the road, Twitchell recounts the RV’s origins and evolution over the twentieth century; its rise, fall, and rebirth as a cultural icon; its growing mechanical complexity as it evolved from an estate wagon to a converted bus to a mobile home; and its role in bolstering and challenging conceptions of American identity.
Image one: Need data or statistics? - Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Data and statistics on alcohol use; deaths and mortality; healthy aging; life expectancy; and more. - www.cdc.gov/datastatistics
Image two: Need data or statistics? - F.B.I. Uniform Crime Reporting: Data and statistics on crime in the United States; law enforcement officers killed and assaulted; hate crime statistics; cargo theft; and human trafficking. - www.fbi.gov/services/cjis/ucr
Image three: Need data or statistics? - United States Census Bureau: Data on population, economy, education, employment, and more. - www.census.gov
Image one: E-book titled Trans in College: Transgender Students' Strategies for Navigating Campus Life and the Institutional Politics of Inclusion (2017) - synopsis: This book is addressed as much to trans students themselves – offering them a frame to understand the genders that mark them as different and to address the feelings brought on by the weight of that difference – as it is to faculty, student affairs professionals, and college administrators, opening up the implications for the classroom and the wider campus. This book not only remedies the paucity of literature on trans college students, but does so from a perspective of resiliency and agency. This is both a personal book that offers an account of the author's own trans identity and a deeply engaged study of trans collegians that reveals the complexities of trans identities, and how these students navigate the trans oppression present throughout society and their institutions, create community and resilience, and establish meaning and control in a world that assumes binary genders.
Image two: E-book titled I Am Where I Come From: Native American College Students and Graduates Tell Their Life Stories (2017) - synopsis: Presents the autobiographies of thirteen Native American undergraduates and graduates of Dartmouth College, ten of them current and recent students. The autobiographies contained in I Am Where I Come From explore issues of native identity, adjustment to the college environment, cultural and familial influences, and academic and career aspirations.
Image three: E-book titled From Disability to Diversity: College Success for Students with Learning Disabilities, ADHD, and Autism Spectrum Disorder (2018) - synopsis: The authors of this new volume offer guidance on creating more inclusive learning environments on campus so that all students—whether or not they have a recognized disability—have the opportunity to succeed. Strategies for supporting students with specific learning disabilities, attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder, autism spectrum disorder or who display learning and behavioral characteristics associated with these profiles are described.
Image one: E-book titled Becoming a Scholar: Cross-Cultural Reflections on Identity and Agency in an Education Doctorate (2021) - synopsis: This book provides a window into the lives of nine non-traditional doctoral students. As mature, part-time, international students enrolled in a professional doctorate program, the students reflect on the transformation process of becoming scholars, as their narratives provide breadth and depth to themes that represent a diverse cross-section of cultures, identities, and communities.
Image two: E-book titled The Mindful Twenty-Something: Life Skills To Handle Stress...and Everything Else (2016) - synopsis: Emerging adulthood, which occurs between the ages of 18 and 29, is a developmental stage of life when you're faced with important decisions about school, relationships, sex, your career, and more. This book presents the only evidence-based mindfulness training program for young adults that has been empirically proven to have significant benefits for sleep, perceived stress, and self-compassion.
Image one: Resources - Credo Reference provides background information from authoritative academic encyclopedias, dictionaries, and handbooks.
Image two: Resources - HeinOnline contains more than 173 million pages and 270,000 titles of historical and governmental documents in a fully searchable, image-based format.
Image one: E-book titled Basic Physics: A Self-Teaching Guide (2020) - synopsis: Expert authors take a flexible and interactive approach to physics based on new research-based methods about how people most effectively comprehend new material. The book takes complex concepts and breaks them down into practical, easy to digest terms.
Image two: E-book titled Chemistry: A Self-Teaching Guide (2020) - synopsis: Master the science of basic chemistry with this innovative, self-paced study guide. Teach yourself chemistry, refresh your knowledge in preparation for medical studies or other coursework, or enhance your college chemistry course. Use self-study features including review questions and quizzes to ensure that you're really learning the material.
Image three: E-book titled Keywords for Environmental Studies (2016) - synopsis: Keywords for Environmental Studies analyzes the central terms and debates currently structuring the most exciting research in and across environmental studies, including the environmental humanities, environmental social sciences, sustainability sciences, and the sciences of nature.
Image one: Resources - ProQuest Central is a periodical resource that includes major subject areas, including Business, Health and Medical, Language and Literature, Social Sciences, Education, Science and Technology, and includes thousands of full-text newspapers from around the world.
Image one: E-book titled The Craft of Research (2016) - synopsis: The Craft of Research has helped generations of researchers at every level—from first-year undergraduates to advanced graduate students to research reporters in business and government—learn how to conduct effective and meaningful research. Conceived by seasoned researchers and educators, this fundamental work explains how to find and evaluate sources, anticipate and respond to reader reservations, and integrate these pieces into an argument that stands up to reader critique.
Image two: E-book titled Expanding Your English and Creative Skills through Art and the Humanities (2018) - synopsis: Expanding Your English and Creative Skills through Art and the Humanities has been designed for students or professionals who would like to use and improve their English in areas such as history, art history, literature, film and media, and language, at an upper-intermediate or advanced level. This book integrates practice of the four skills (reading, listening, speaking and writing) and has been written from a holistic and humanistic approach.
Image two: E-book titled Fundamental College Composition (2017) - synopsis: A compact, college level writing text that presents the underlying grammatical structures of Standard American English in a format that is understandable without prior formal grammar training.
Image three: Resources - EBSCO EDS provides users with a streamlined search of multiple databases through a single search box.
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Image one: E-book titled Occupational Stress: Risk Factors, Prevention, and Management Strategies (2019) - synopsis: Stress related work, although always present, is considered one of the new risks for occupational medicine. This is largely due to a general change in the organization of work, inevitable in a constantly evolving market. It is also due to the presence of objective and subjective indicators that allow a satisfactory, though very complex, risk assessment. Related work stress generates repercussions on the company at every level, with a reduction in productivity, a reduction in the corporate image, a reduction in the quality of service, an increase in absenteeism, and the dissatisfaction of workers. This book, written by authors from all over the world, will analyze some aspects of this increasingly relevant subject.
Image two: E-book titled The New Employee Manual: A No-Holds-Barred Look at Corporate Life (2019) - synopsis: Welcome to Corporate Life. The New Employee Manual is not your Dad's or Mom's employee manual. It's the new playbook for corporate survival, fitting today's realities and the challenges facing employees who join or work in large, seemingly successful companies. Those companies already issued very specific and detailed employee manuals covering everything under the sun except how to compete well in our brave new world. The New Employee Manual will help you navigate the Corporate (with a capital C) labyrinth.
Image one: E-book titled The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook: Proven Step-By-Step Techniques for Overcoming Your Fear (2017) - synopsis: There’s nothing wrong with being shy. But if shyness or social anxiety keeps you from building meaningful relationships with others, advancing in your education or career, or simply living your best life, The Shyness and Social Anxiety Workbook offers a comprehensive program to help you confront your fears and become actively involved in the world. This book incorporates breakthrough new research and techniques for overcoming social phobia, including a new chapter on mindfulness-based treatments, updated information on medications, and an overview of treatment-enhancing technological advances. As you complete the activities in this workbook, you'll learn to find your strengths and weaknesses using self-evaluation, explore and examine your fears, create a personalized plan for change, and put your plan into action through gentle and gradual exposure to the very social situations that cause you to feel uneasy.
Image two: E-book titled Emotion and Proactivity at Work: Prospects and Dialogues (2021) - synopsis: Individuals’ behaviors at work are known to be shaped by cold, or cognitive-motivational, processes as well as hot, or affect-motivational, processes. To date, employee proactivity research has mainly focused on the ‘cold’ side. But emotion has been proposed to ‘energize’ employees’ proactivity, especially in interdependent and uncertain work environments. In this pioneering work, expert scholars offer new thinking on the process by examining how emotion can drive employees’ proactivity in the workplace and how, in turn, that proactivity can shape one’s emotional experiences.
Image one: E-book titled Careers in Sports and Fitness (2017) - synopsis: Serves as a stepping stone in understanding specific careers and provides a wealth of information on the education and training needed within each profession along with a look towards the future of the field with an informative employment outlook.
Image two: E-book titled Occupational Outlook Handbook - synopsis: The Occupational Outlook Handbook is a publication of the United States Department of Labor's Bureau of Labor Statistics that includes information about the nature of work, working conditions, training and education, earnings, and job outlook for hundreds of different occupations in the United States.
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Image two: E-book titled The Ultimate Job Hunting Book (2018) - synopsis: From crafting the perfect CV and finding the job of your dreams, to writing a great cover letter and winning at interview, The Ultimate Job Hunting Book is a dynamic collection of tools, techniques, and strategies for success. Short, punchy chapters mean you can read up quickly and start applying what you've learned immediately.
Image three: E-book titled The Essential Job Interview Handbook (2013) - synopsis: The Essential Job Interview Handbook will help job seekers prepare effectively for interviews and become familiar with different types of interview questions and styles of interviews.
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- Library Website - Electronic Resources Ebsco EDS (database) ProQuest Central (database) ACS Publications (chemistry database) Business Source Ultimate (business database) Education Source (education database) HeinOnline (law database) JSTOR (database) Nexis Uni (news, business, and law database) PsycINFO (psychology and behavioral health database) eBook Central Database Tutorials RefWorks - UNT Dallas Library Catalog Homepage - Textbook Course Reserves - Research Guides - Interlibrary Loan (ILL) Learn how to use Interlibrary Loan - Dallas Public Library - WorldCat.org
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Image one: E-Book titled American Founders: How People of African Descent Established Freedom in the New World (2018) - synopsis: American Founders reveals men and women of African descent as key protagonists in the story of American democracy. It chronicles how Black people developed and defended New World settlements, undermined slavery, and championed freedom throughout the Americas from the 16th through the 20th century.
Image two: E-Book titled Walking Harlem: The Ultimate Guide to the Cultural Capital of Black America (2017) - synopsis: With its rich cultural history and many landmark buildings, Harlem is not just one of New York's most distinctive neighborhoods; it’s also one of the most walkable. This illustrated guide takes readers on five separate walking tours of Harlem, covering ninety-one different historical sites. Alongside major tourist destinations like the Apollo Theater and the Abyssinian Baptist Church, longtime Harlem resident Karen Taborn includes little-known local secrets like Jazz Age speakeasies, literati, political and arts community locales.
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First Generation Club and McNair Scholars Program presents
UNT Dallas Library Sessions with librarian Robert Taylor
1. How to develop a research strategy - 1/27/2022 - 6pm to 7pm
2. How to Google like a scholar - 2/3/2022 - 6pm to 7pm
3. What's new at the library - 2/10/2022 - 6pm to 7pm
Zoom ID (for each session): 83148094734
PolicyMap offers easy-to-use online mapping with data on demographics, real estate, health, jobs, and more in communities across the US. From the classroom to the boardroom, thousands of organizations trust PolicyMap to find the right data for their research, market studies, business planning, site selection, grant applications, and impact analysis. Access the database here to get started!
Image one: E-book titled The Public Domain: Find and Use Free Content for Your Website, Book, App, Music, Video, Art, and More (2020) - synopsis: The only book that helps you find and identify which creative works are protected by copyright and which are not, The Public Domain covers the rules for: writings, music, art, photography, architecture, maps, choreography, movies, video, software, databases, and collections. For the first time in decades, new works began to enter the public domain in 2019, and more are entering each year. The 9th edition is completely updated to include new public domain resources and to cover the latest legal changes to copyright protection of songs, books, photos, and other creative works, as well as public domain rules outside the U.S.
Image two: E-book titled Keywords for Environmental Studies (2016) - synopsis: Keywords for Environmental Studies analyzes the central terms and debates currently structuring the most exciting research in and across environmental studies, including the environmental humanities, environmental social sciences, sustainability sciences, and the sciences of nature.
Image one: Resources - WorldCat.org lets you search the collections of libraries in your community and thousands more around the world. You can search for popular books, music, and movies - all the physical items you can get from a library.
Image two: Resources - Credo Reference provides full-text online versions of over 3,000 published reference works from more than 100 publishers in a variety of major subjects, including general and subject dictionaries, as well as encyclopedias.
Image one: E-book titled The Media and Communications Study Skills Student Guide (2019) - synopsis: All the tips, ideas and advice given to, and requested by, MA students in Media and Communications, are brought together in an easy-to-use accessible guide to help students study most effectively. Based upon many years of teaching study skills and hundreds of lecture slides and handouts this introduction covers a range of general and generic skills that the author relates specifically towards media and communications studies.
Image two: E-book titled Fundamental College Composition (2017) - synopsis: Provides a sub-structure of grammar study sufficient to bring a modern student to a basic understanding of the foundations of compositional language arts. It confronts struggling writers with their compositional shortcomings, presents them with a kit of fundamental grammatical tools, explains the tools' purposes and functions, and invites students to write, revise, and re-write in short bursts of directed prose. It avoids every intricacy of grammatical science that does not apply directly and practically to the production of clear, concise sentences and structured paragraphs.
Image two: E-book titled Writing in College: From Competence to Excellence (2016) - synopsis: Designed for students who have largely mastered high-school level conventions of formal academic writing and are now moving beyond the five-paragraph essay to more advanced engagement with text. It is well suited to composition courses or first-year seminars and valuable as a supplemental or recommended text in other writing-intensive classes.
