Past Issues

• Number 59 (18 Jun 2008) : Just Books In Print: New books; Gift titles listed in this issue were received from Paul Ticco
• Number 58 (10 Jun 2008) : New books; Gift titles listed in this issue were received from Paul Ticco; e-Resources (Marine Technology Reporter; SeaTalk: Nautical Dictionary); Numerical Listing of Charts from the Naval Oceanographic Office
• Number 57 (15 May 2008) : New books (Joseph Conrad's heart of darkness - includes an essay by James Morgan; Nantucket sleigh-ride; Rule by secrecy); Gift titles listed in this issue were received from Paul Ticco, a former tenured professor (1997-2002) at Mass Maritime in the MSEP Program.
• Number 56 (14 May 2008) : New books; Use the SAILS Catalog to Find over 35,500 e-BOOKS from ebrary; Keeping up with Research (Index to Organism Names; ResearcherID.com; SCI-BYTES; Thomson Scientific WebPlus)
• Number 55 (5 May 2008) : New books (GMDSS manual; Hannibal rising; Obama : from promise to power; Still life with crows); Hundreds of e-BOOKS from Netlibrary; NetLibrary's FREE e-Book of the Month
• Number 54 (29 Apr 2008) : New books ( Able seaman; Cross-talk in comp theory; Designing writing assignments; A jury of her peers; The Lucifer effect; Relations, locations, positions; Shades of green; Stability and trim for the ship's officer; Strategies for teaching first-year composition; Survival guide for landlocked mermaid; Three cups of tea; Tobacco corn & caviar; What is college-level writing?; When the levees broke; Wills, trusts, and estates); FREE CD : 2008 Small Business Resource Guide; FYI - On the Web (InfoMarine; Sci-Bytes)
• Number 53 (9 Apr 2008) : New Online Reference Books - Encyclopedias from Oxford (Maritime History, Modern World, Economic History, Evolution, Global Change, Latinos/Latinas in the US, Women in World History, Food and Drink in America); Tax Forms
• Number 52 (1 Apr 2008) : New Library Staff; New books; Databases (GreenFILE; EDGAR); Tax Forms
• Number 51 (20 Mar 2008) : New books; Tax Forms
• Number 50 (4 Mar 2008) : Course Reserves; Use Quick search box to find books FAST; New books; Netlibrary's FREE e-Book of the Month; Encyclopedia Of Life; GISFish; Tax Forms
• Number 49 (25 Feb 2008) : Tax Forms; Learn A Language; New books; Guide to Country Codes; Guide to Currencies of the World; RITA (U.S. Dept. of Transportation); SORA (Ornithological Research Archive)
• Number 48 (31 Jan 2008) : Tax Forms; New books; Field Guides; Pacific Regional Environment Programme.; Seafood Awareness campaigns; Ranking and Mapping Scientific Knowledge
• Number 47 (4 Dec 2007) : Extended Library Hours to Study for Final Exams; New Books; Resources for Climate Change
• Number 46 (19 Nov 2007) : LibQual User Satisfaction Survey; New books; Electronic Resources on the Web: Navigation Data Center & WGBH's open vault
• Number 45 (2 Nov 2007) : LibQual User Satisfaction Survey; New books
• Number 44 (4 Oct 2007) : Update on the Information Commons (a.k.a. Library) Building project; New books; Electronic Resources on the Web; Scholarly Communication; FYI (How Much Information?)
• Number 43 (17 Sep 2007) : New books; Electronic Resources: FYI; Technology & Tools for Teaching
• Number 42 (23 Aug 2007) : E-BOOKS :: College-level collections available online - 24/7/365 (ebrary & Wiley e-book Collection); New books in print...@ your Library; Electronic Resources
• Number 41 (9 Jul 2007) : New books in print...@ your Library; Resources On the Web (Fisheries Legal Instruments; IEEE Spectrum citations & abstracts; Jane's E-mail Alerts; Ocean Drilling & OSCEAP Reports; Mental Health services in MA)
• Number 40 (10 May 2007) : New books in print...@ your Library; On the Web (Patents and Census Data)
• Number 39 (8 May 2007) : New books and Resources on the Web for Emergency Management; NetLibrary's Free E-book for May, The Little Book of Common Sense Investing
• Number 38 (18 Apr 2007) : Electronic Resources for Bibliophiles; FYI: Sites that may be of interest (Web 2.0 Neologisms, EPIC 2015; Medieval Helpdesk)
• Number 37 (13 Apr 2007) : New Books & e-resources for Science & Technology
• Number 36 (6 Apr 2007) : New Books for Business & Marine Transportation; NetLibrary's Free E-book for April, Caesar In Gaul and Rome: War In Words;Trial Database: Point of View Reference Center; & e-Resources
• Number 35 (3 Apr 2007) : Business Databases & e-Resources
• Number 34 (26 Mar 2007) : New books in print...@ your Library
• Number 33 (12 Mar 2007) : Tax Forms; New books (Small business; Tips on preparing a scientific research paper; ...communicating interpersonally; Visual explanations; ...the life of General James A. Van Fleet; ...terror and catastrophe in the popular imagination; ...the untold story of those who survived the great American dust bowl); Databases & E-Resources: NewsBank's Year in Review, 2006; Newspapers, News Magazines; NY Times Learning Network; NetLibrary's Free E-book: Ireland Adventure Guide
• Number 32 (5 Mar 2007) : Spring Hours; Tax Forms; Course Reserves; New books (Chain of command (9/11 to Abu Ghraib); Envisioning information; Technical communication for engineers; Himmler's scholars; Monsters; Ocean blueprint; Ocean engineering handbook; Port Security Improvement Act of 2006; Visual display of quantitative information); Databases & E-Resources: Ebsco "powersearch"; Environmental Health & Toxicology; Scribner Writers Series; Nobel Prize Laureates
• Number 31 (27 Feb 2007) : Course Reserves; New books (Performative and textual imaging of women of the Irish stage 1820-1920: M.A. Kelly to J.M. Synge and the Allgoods (by Nelson Ritschel); Talking back to presidents, dictators, and assorted scoundrels; Tough choices or tough times : report on skills of the American workforce); Databases & E-Resources: Environment Complete; International Security & Counter-Terrorism Reference Center; MetEd; and Int.Polar Year 07-08
• Number 30 (13 Feb 2007) : Course Reserves; New books (First into Nagasaki...post-atomic Japan; The games do count; Maritime museums of North America; Masters of the air : America's bomber boys; Pegasus descending; Younger next year,); Technology & Tools for Teaching (Conversion Calculator for your desktop; MP3 players as a study tool; Nautical Calculator; Sending Giant Files) and Online News Feeds
• Number 29 (5 Feb 2007) : New books (...collision-prevention regulations...; Frommer's Boston '06; GIS for environmental management; Honor : a history; A thousand barrels a second; The ultimate field guide to photography); Bowditch -The American Practical Navigator; Merchant Marine Deck Examinations; J.of Commerce; Maritime Safety Information; What you Need to Know About Nontoxic Antifouling Strategies for Boats; Spellings Report & Tough Choices or Tough Times
• Number 28 (31 Jan 2007) : Hours during Sea Term/Winter Session; New books (100 great businesses, Faux pas?, Guidance notes on the investigation of marine incidents, Iraq study group report, A thousand barrels a second, Twilight in the desert, Wal-Mart effect); Ency.of Small Business, Ency.of U.S. Economic History, Int'l Dictionary of Films & Filmmakers, Renaissance; EPA closes Libraries
• Number 27 (12 Dec 2006) : Extended Study Hours for FINAL Exams; New books (At all costs, Inside the Jihad, Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention, Myths, lies and downright stupidity, A random walk down Wall Street, What came before he shot her); Database Trials; Scholarly Communication & Open Access info.
• Number 26 (1 Dec 2006) : Extended Study Hours for FINAL Exams; New books (Control of oil spills in high speed currents, The theory of almost everything, Training marine oil spill response workers under OSHA's hazardous waste operations and emergency response standard, Women seafarers, My old man and the sea, The watery hell); Database Trials; Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.
• Number 25 (16 Nov 2006) : New books (Asbestos in shipbuilding, Freakonomics, GIS for the urban environment, Jane Goodall: the woman who redefined man, The last American sailors: a wild ride in the modern merchant marine, Mapping global cities: GIS..., Wake of the Perdido Star: a novel of shipwrecks, pirates, and the sea, Waterway Guides); Database Trials; MInd: the Meeting Index; Clearinghouse for Dam Removal Information.
• Number 24 (7 Nov 2006) : New books (Benedict on Admiralty, Giraffe, The legacy of Luna, Life after life, Love and honor, The places in between, State of denial); NIOSH Pocket Guide to Chemical Hazards; PHMSA Emergency Response Guidebook; Women's International Shipping & Trading Association.
• Number 23 (24 Oct 2006) :  New books (Burning cold: the Cruise Ship Prinsendam..., Disasters by design..., General theory of algebraic equations, Real infinite series); ASTIS; OAIster; Protein Data Bank; Rave Wireless & Students' Cellphones; Future of the Internet II
• Number 22 (22 Sep 2006) : New books (Ashley book of knots, Human cargo, Tunnels of Cu Chi, Machine in Neptune's garden,); Dewey (Business) Advisor; Federal Register; Virtual Reference Library; WorldCat[alog]; and more...
• Number 21 (11 Sep 2006) : New books (Oceans 2002 MTS/IEEE conference proceedings); E-resources in Science, Engineering, Technology & Mathematics; Learning Spaces e-book & The Portuguese Man-of-War in New England
• Number 20 (1 Sep 2006) : New books (Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia of Marine Sciences, Survey vessels of the world, An inconvenient truth, Defining the wind: the Beaufort Scale, Black jacks); e-book on Internet resources in history; Career info & new database: Book Index with Reviews
  
• Number 19 (14 Aug 2006) : Course Reserves; New books (Coastal and oceanic buoy engineering, Why terrorists kill, Risk analysis); Many electronic resources & databases; search for shipwrecks; identity theft; world time server
• Number 18 (1 Aug 2006) : New books (Asbestos in shipbuilding, War poetry, Admiralty in a nutshell); e-book on government secrecy; maritime museums; the schism between 'digital natives' & 'digital immigrants'
• Number 17 (14 July 2006) : Hundreds of online reference books, Lloyd's List online, Science podcasts, ocean instruments, digital past ...and more
  
• Number 16 (5 July 2006) : The Library's Annual Report; Dealing with information overload; "Climate Change: Turning up the Heat" (FREE e-Book of the Month)
  
• Number 15 (15 June 2006)  New Reference Books online, Underwater Images, Historic Shipwreck broadcast, Challenger Expedition reports online, Presidential speeches (audio archive)
• Number 14 (1 June 2006) : Extended Library Hours for Final Exams; Database Trials; ABS Directory print & online; Free e-book on Immigration in the US; Hurricane disaster planning; HAZMAT technology
• Number 13 (23 May 2006) : Extended Study Hours for Final Exams, Database Trials: Xrefer & Oxford Reference Online, and Issues & Controversies in American History, Project Gutenberg, Educating the Net Generation
• Number 12 (8 May 2006) : MERLOT, Discovery Guides, Environmental Career Opportunities, SCIRUS, WorldCat Dissertations and new crab species is discovered!
• Number 11 (18 April 2006) : New Bookshelf, Transportation databases, Japanese journals, Netiquette & 'Net lingo
• Number 10 (10 April 2006) : Health-related e-books & e-journals, online news sources, scholarly communication, copyright & open access
• Number 9 (3 April 2006) : Off-campus Access (Proxy), Homeland Security Digital Library, Reference 24/7
• Number 8 (14 March 2006) : Einstein's miraculous year, Maritime history, e-Books (Full-text), Military dictionary
• Number 7 (1 March 2006) : Streaming Video, Blogs & RSS feeds, Open Access, Navy Style Guide
• Number 6 (14 February 2006) : Spring Course Reserves, Nautical Charts, Marine Technology, Winter Olympics
• Number 5 (31 January 2006) : Maritime journals, reference books, & web pages (IVR, math books); IALA online
• Number 4 (11 January 2006) : Online income tax forms, new databases, maritime publications
• Number 3 (5 January 2006) : Library Hours (Intersession & winter/Sea Term); Ebsco Databases
• Number 2 (7 December 2005) : Trial databases; cool new Books
• Number 1 (27 October 2005) : Lexis-Nexis; Audio & E-books

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News from the Massachusetts Maritime Academy Library (13 December 2005)
Library hours during Intersession & Winter/Sea Term; Ship's Library update.