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Announcements about new resources, services, books, journals, databases, etc. in the MMA Library. Includes information about free, open access web sites of interest to the maritime community.

  Current Issue

  • Number 146 (16 May 2013) : New Books New Books & Media (Academic library value; Annual report and statements of the IMO Liaison Committee; Approaching literature; Catch-22; The entropy crisis; Good to great: why some companies make the leap; Manhattan Expedition; Men who built America; Mentoring at sea; Moby Dick; On the exact distribution of convolutions of a truncated gamma distribution; Ship Operations Cooperative Program (SOCP): Training Materials [MEDIA]; The shipping man; Snow falling on cedars; Survey of maritime English teaching materials)

  Past Issues

  • Number 145 (22 Mar 2013) : New Books (American Lion; Bearing drift; Eyes right; The history of pirates; How to create a mind ; Introduction to aquaculture; Maritime Logistics; Sail away; Sailor on horseback ; Team of rivals; Tequila junction; Warrior soul; The weather ID handbook; IAMU 2010 Research Project); Credo Reference Books (2012 Annual Register; Changing Wealth of Nations; The Day After Tomorrow; Ency. of American Cultural & Intellectual History; ...Literary & Cultural Theory; World Literature in the 20th Century); DATABASE NEWS: ebrary's Free “Open Access” Collections (Breast Cancer; Cyberbullying; Bible Study Guide; H1N1; Library and KM Center; Natural Disaster & Extreme Weather)
  • Number 144 (6 Feb 2013) : New Books & Media : Recent Gifts to the MMA Library (America’s new democracy; American government; Ameritopia; Arms in action; Audits and inspections; College algebra & trigonometry; Crossing zero; Democratic debate; Discovering the global past; Dragon days; Exploring psychology in modules; Gone girl; Government by the people; Introduction to engineering materials; Introductory chemistry essentials; Journeys; Law for engineers & architects; Learning MS Office 2007deluxe; Looking for a ship; Modeling engineering systems; Modern welding; MV Balmoral; Newfoundland & Labrador; Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci; Principles of accounting; Psychology; River of doubt; RMS QE 2; RMS Queen Mary; Secrets of economic indicators; Sociology; Stop living in this land)
  • Number 143 (2 Jan 2013) : New Books & Media (American government; American merchant seaman’s manual; Antebellum at sea; The counterterrorism handbook; The fugitive; Fur, fortune, and empire; Geoforensics; Geographic information analysis; Government by the people; Hazardous materials compliance manual; If a tree falls; Jung, Irigaray, individuation; Leviathan; Not your father’s Coast Guard; Sail away ladies; Seaworthy; Socialism; The third man; Tidal current tables 2013; Tide tables 2013; Tombstone; When America first met China)
  • Number 142 (12 Dec 2012) : New e-Books from ebrary (General Engineering Knowledge; Marine Auxiliary Machinery); Recent Gifts to the MMA Library (Ameritopia; Arms in action; Buffalo handbook; Bunkers; Crossing zero; Electrical fundamentals, circuits, and machines for engineers; Engineering mechanics; Equipment design handbook for refineries and chemical plants; Essentials of engineering thermodynamics; Introduction to engineering materials; Job evaluation and employee rating; Law for engineers and architects; Looking for a ship; Machine design; Marine engineering; Marine technical consultancy; Midwest piping products; Modeling engineering systems; Modern welding; Moore Street; NOAA Corps; Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci; Petroleum refinery manual; Process heat transfer; Properties of engineering materials; River of doubt; Sail tall ships; Stop living in this land; Ulysses)
  • Number 141 (3 Dec 2012) : IMO Model Courses (1.10: dangerous, hazardous and harmful cargoes; 1.14: medical emergency first aid; 1.26: restricted operator’s certificate for the GMDSS; 1.28: crowd management, passenger safety and safety training...; 1.29: proficiency in crisis management and human behavior training...; 1.30: on-board assessment; 2.06: cargo and ballast handling simulator; 3.13: maritime search and rescue administrator; 3.14: maritime search and rescue mission co-ordinator; 3.16: oil pollution liability and compensation; 5.04: human resources management; 6.09: training course for instructors; 7.04: training record book for the seagoing phase...engineer officer in charge of a watch; New Books (Isaac’s storm; Stability & trim for upper-level deck licenses; Survival guide for the mariner; SNAME Technical & Research Bulletin: No. 3-11: marine steam power plant heat balance practices & No. 8-1: guidelines for marine forensic investigations; US coast pilot, 2012 editions: Vol.1-5)
  • Number 140 (27 Nov 2012) : TOOLS FOR TEACHING (Beloit College: Mindset List); ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES (What Is the Sound of 130 Wind Turbines Turning?; State-of-the-Environment reports published by UN organizations)
  • Number 139 (1 Nov 2012) : New e-Books (Maritime Transport and the Climate Change Challenge; Transport, the Environment and Security: Making the connection); IMO Model Courses (# 1.21: personal safety and social responsibilities; # 2.07: engine-room simulator; # 3.08: survey of navigational aids and equipment; # 3.20: company security officer; # 3.21: port facility security officer; # 3.23: actions to be taken to prevent acts of piracy and armed robbery; # 3.24: security awareness training for port facility personnel with designated security duties; # 3.25: security awareness training for all port facility personnel; # 7.02: chief engineer and second engineer officer; # 7.03: officer in charge of a navigational watch); New Books (Expeditionary eagles; Global perspective as a vehicle for education; Homeland siege; Into the fire; Rules for building and classing steel vessels 2006; The Yellow birds); New DVDs (The container story; The surveyors charting America's course); DATABASE NEWS (Encyclopedia Britannica ONLINE)
  • Number 138 (31 Oct 2012) :  New Books: Recent Gifts to the Library (Ancient Greeks; Aran islands; Chemical plant design with reinforced plastics; Compressed air and gas handbook; Construction contracting; The control of investment in new manufacturing facilities; Corrosion and its control; Cost controls for industry; Dubliners; Early poems; Easter 1916 and other poems; Elements of heat transfer; Engineering problems manual; Faces of the enemy; Gulliver’s travels; Industrial pollution control handbook; Mathematical tables from Handbook of chemistry and physics; A modest proposal and other satirical works; NACE corrosion engineer’s reference book; Pipe economy; Plant design and economics for chemical engineers; Plant layout and materials handling; Portable MBA desk reference; Principles of heat transfer; Quality control and industrial statistics; Shipbuilding contracts; Silver girl; Thermodynamic properties of steam; Wastewater engineering;
  • Number 137 (26 Oct 2012) : New e-Books from ebrary (High Performance Marine Vessels; International Handbook of Maritime Business; Maritime Private Security : Market Responses to Piracy, Terrorism and Waterborne Security Risks in the 21st Century; Physics in Daily Life; Re-Inventing the Ship); New Books (Aircraft carrier command; Alli diet plan; Care and maintenance of heavy jets; Churchill style; Conceptual physics; Dictionary of banking terms; Educating veterans in the 21st century; Everett Ruess; From campus to capitol; The gate house; Indigo slam; Mountains of my life; No easy day; On a single stack steamer; Politics of public fund investing; Principles of environmental chemistry; Reaping the wind; Running blind; Secret heiress; Social conquest of earth; Stirring it up; TIME almanac 2012; Weird and tragic shores)
  • Number 136 (15 Oct 2012) : New Books; DATABASE NEWS: ChemSpider; CSA Discovery Guides; Gutenberg-e; In the First Person
  • Number 135 (2 Oct 2012) : New Books (Accounting; Diesel-engine management; Financial Intelligence; From the bridge; Fundamental accounting principles; Guide to ship repair estimates in man-hours; How to select investment managers & evaluate performance; Introduction to homeland security; The longest war; Managing higher education as a business; Model Courses 1.27, 1.38, 3.19, 3.26, 3.27, 6.10); TOOLS FOR TEACHING (Developing a Research Topic; Research Paper Start to Finish Guide; 3-D printers)
  • Number 134 (24 Sep 2012) : Schedule Instruction in use of Library Resources; New Books Donated to the Library
  • Number 133 (31 Aug 2012) :  COURSE RESERVES: It's time to give us your lists; New Books & Media (TITLES)
  • Number 132 (27 Aug 2012) :  New Books (2010 Fire Test Procedures; American merchant seamen’s manual; Behavior and handling of ships; The Cornell manual; CSS code for cargo stowage and securing; Emergency care Farwell’s rules of the nautical road; IMSBulk Cargoes Code; Jane’s fighting ships 2011-2012; Maritime security; Maritime tankers; Massachusetts fireman/engineer study guide; Massachusetts political almanac; Model Course 1.13; Model Course 1.15; Model Course 1.20; Model Course 2.03; MT 2141 Fall 2010 ship construction illustration book; Notes on cargo work; On watch; OSV code of safe practice for the carriage of cargoes and persons; The shipping man; Stability and trim for the ship’s officer; Study guide for USCG Certification in the GMDSS; We’re losing our minds)
  • Number 131 (3 Aug 2012) :  New Books (ABS directory; Breaking night; Captain “Hell Roaring” Mike Healy; Changing course; The children of Abraham; Commodore Abraham Whipple of the Continental Navy; Courage; Free fall; GIS guide to public domain data; Ideas are free; Lost fleet; Norton reader; Novel and the sea; NumPy 1.5; Organizational behavior; Our man in Havana; Teaching geographic information science and technology in higher education; Thunder below!; Uniforms of the United States Navy; Unlocking the census with GIS; Writer’s reference;New DVDs (Century of flight; Merchant mariner training; Shipwrecks; Wings of destruction;
  • Number 130 (1 Aug 2012) : Just New DVDs
  • Number 129 (25 Jul 2012) :  ATLASES Donated by WHOI; Popular reading - books Donated to MMA
  • Number 128 (11 Jul 2012) : Database News (Alexander Street Press: In the First Person; ChemSpider; Credo's General Reference; CSA Discovery Guides; CUP: Gutenberg-e; ebrary and Ebsco's Free “Open Access” Collections; Encyclopedia Britannica Online; Gale Literary Index; Gulf Oil Crisis; HathiTrust; JoVE; Open Library)
  • Number 127 (7 Jun 2012) : New Books (Coalition for Buzzards Bay 2011 Annual Report; 2011 State of Buzzards Bay; ABS international directory of offices; Behavior and handling of ships; CSS Code; Emergency care; IALA aids to navigation guide; IMSBC Code; Maritime tankers; Massachusetts fireman/engineer study guide; Massachusetts political almanac 2010; Model Course 1.13 - Elementary first aid 2000; On watch; OSV Code); New DVDs (The B-24; War of the worlds; Winds of war; Manchurian candidate; Oil on ice; Old man and the sea; Watchmen; A midsummer night’s dream; World War II collector’s set); ELECTRONIC RESOURCES (Maritime Transportation Security Act (MTSA) - USCG; User Guide to SOLAS Chapter XI-2 and the ISPS Code)
  • Number 126 (4 Jun 2012) : New Credo Reference Books - Online 24/7/365; New ebrary Database for Emergency Management (Natural Disaster and Extreme Weather Searchable Information Center); New Databases from Thompson/Gale-Infotrac
  • Number 125 (1 May 2012) : RESEARCH TIP: Do We Have This Journal?; DATABASE NEWS: Films On Demand: Interactive Transcripts; E-RESOURCES - On the Web (CASSI; Chemspider; Data Sets: Google Flu Trends; GovTrack.US; Head-to-Head Vote Comparison; NameVoyager)
  • Number 124 (17 Apr 2012) : New Books (American Legion; Atonement; Battle of Midway; Death of the battleship; Energy systems engineering; Great international disaster book; House of sand and fog; Last days of summer; Leading at mach 2; Man called Intrepid; Military history of the western world; Most dangerous sea; Summer we read Gatsby; STCW); New DVDs ( Big history; Brilliant madness; Damn the defiant!; How the earth works; Oceanography; Science of self; To the ends of the earth); E-RESOURCES - On the Web (User Guide to SOLAS Chapter XI-2 and the ISPS Code)
  • Number 123 (2 Apr 2012) : New Books (Big history; Brilliant madness; Damn the defiant!; How the earth works; Oceanography; Science of self; To the ends of the earth & DVD (American Experience: The great San Francisco earthquake); Tax Forms - Online
  • Number 122 (2 Mar 2012) : E-RESOURCES - On the Web (ABS Publications; CONNECT Sustainability Conference); New Books recently donated to the MMA Library
  • Number 121 (1 Mar 2012) : Tax Forms - Online; New Books (Office 2010 for dummies; Molotov's magic lantern; The new leader's 100-day action plan; On board training record book for deck cadets; Oxford handbook of public management; Sinking of the Titanic & great sea disasters; Story of polar conquest; Unsung hero: Tom Crean); New DVDs (Engineering an empire; Fagbug; In the footsteps of Marco Polo; MacGillivray Freeman's Greece; Pompeii: back from the dead & ...buried alive; The Tempest)
  • Number 120 (24 Feb 2012) : Schedule Instruction in use of Library Resources; COURSE RESERVES: It's time to give us your lists; LIBRARY HOURS; On the NEW BOOKSHELF (The ABCs of RBCs; America united; Away off shore; Billy Budd, sailor; Longitude); New Reference e-Books online via Credo (Aesthetics A-Z; Dictionary of Christian Theology; Dictionary of Visual Discourse; Ency. of African-American Writing; Financial Times World Desk Reference; Handbook of Aging and the Social Sciences; Key Concepts and Techniques in GIS; ..Developmental Psychology; ..Ethnography; ..Leisure Studies; ..Public Relations; ..Sports Studies; ..Teaching Primary Mathematics; ..Urban Geography); TAX FORMS online
  • Number 119 (31 Jan 2012) : New Books & DVDs; New e-book (Foundations of Analog and Digital Electronic Circuits); Scholarly Communication : Global Open Access Portal
  • Number 118 (27 Jan 2012) : New Books & DVDs; E-RESOURCES - On the Web (Geneaology; ipl2; Library Spot; RefDesk.com; SIRIS; Web Junction; Wikiality; UN Decade on Biodiversity)
  • Number 117 (19 Jan 2012) : New Books
  • Number 116 (2 Dec 2011) : ABSIC Fact Sheet; New Books (Close quarters; Gard handbook on protection of the marine environment; Legal foundations of local government; Making spatial decisions using GIS; Maritime history as world history; Navigation through the ages; Shiphandler’s guide; Structure of American municipal government; Urban policy and the census; Vietnam above the treetops; Watching the world change; Weather America); New DVDs(Adventure collection; Crash; Frontline; The Quiet American); E-RESOURCES - On the Web (Beloit College's Mindset List)
  • Number 115 (28 Nov 2011) :  Library Hours extended through final exams [Exam Schedule]; BPL e-card; ABS Information Commons Staff Directory
  • Number 114 (21 Nov 2011) :  More Springer e-Journals - Free access available online through 31 Dec 2011 in these subject areas: Economics; Environmental Sciences; Materials Science; Plant Sciences; Production Engineering
  • Number 113 (17 Nov 2011) : Springer e-Journals - Free access available online through 31 Dec 2011 in these subject areas: Business & Management; Ecology & Earth Sciences; Electrical & Mechanical Engineering; Higher Education, Applied Ethics & Philosophy
  • Number 112 (1 Nov 2011) : New Book by MMA Faculty Shaw, Synge, Connolly, and Socialist provocation; New Books& Media ( Cargo containers and supply chain security; Collaborative leadership fieldbook; Flow of fluids through valves, fittings, and pipe; Essentials of sea survival; Piping system fundamentals; Pump characteristics and applications; Slavery in the Connecticut Valley of Mass; 102 Minutes that changed America; Death in Gaza; Fireboats of 9/11; New practical Chinese reader; Top secret America; NEW DATABASE: European Views of the Americas: 1493-1750
  • Number 111 (17 Oct 2011) :  Information Commons: bridge simulator in action; New Books & Media; New Journal (Journal of Green Building)
  • Number 110 (22 Jul 2011) : New Books & Media (Ghosts of Abu Ghraib [DVD]; The last century of sea power; Maritime fiction; Modernity at sea; The sea and the American imagination; Sea-brothers; Seafarers, merchants and pirates in the Middle Ages; The slave ship; Sweatshops at sea; The unnatural history of the sea; The view from the masthead; and more...; E-RESOURCES - On the Web (Calculate the Value of Library Resources & Services You Use)
  • Number 109 (8 Jun 2011) :  2,099 new, college-level e-Books added to ebrary; New Books (Between two worlds; Boatswain’s manual; Brown’s flags and funnels of shipping companies of the world; Brown’s star atlas; It’s your ship; Jane’s fighting ships 2010-2011; Jane’s merchant ships 2010-2011; Liberty Ships; Liquified petroleum gas tanker practice; Marine refrigeration & AC; NAV basics almanac & vol 1,2,3; Obama’s Wars; Ocean ships; Salvage from the sea; Ship’s log book; Target ship goes to war!...in Cape Cod Bay; Log of the grand turks; Thomas’ stowage; Ugly ducklings - Liberty Ships; US merchant marine at war); New DVDs (Andes: the dragon’s back; Shi’ism: waiting for the hidden imam); Local Newspaper Online (Cape Cod Times)
  • Number 108 (3 May 2011) : New DVDs (3 Days of the condor; Avatar; The day of the jackal; Our man in Havana; The spy who came in from the cold); New Books (The Abraham Lincoln brigade; ASD tugs; The Balkans; College algebra and trigonometry; Conversations with Stalin; Dawn over zero: the story of the atomic bomb; Dictionary of maritime and transportation terms; Duty, honor, country; Fighting ships; The first rule; From Lexington to Desert Storm; Genocidal mentality; Guns, germs, and steel; Light List, new editions; List of lights, radio aids, and fog signals, new editions; Making maps: a visual guide to map design for GIS; Managing archives and archival institutions; Military institutions and the sociology of war; The new Spain: from isolation to influence; Normandy to the Baltic; One of our H-bombs is missing; The Professional; Rawhide down; Ship stability in practice; Ships; The Ships atlas; Albion’s naval & maritime history; They call it Pacific; Turning the guns around; United States Coast Pilot, new editions; War and anti-war; The Way of the ship; The Yugoslav drama) and
  • Number 107 (2 May 2011) : New Library staff: Janis Duffy Library Assistant-Access Services & Archives; New Books (Cours de navigation des Glenans; Fault lines; IMDG Code; 127th annual report of the town officers of the town of Bourne; Reeds dictionary of shipping and marine finance; Reeds engineering knowledge; Reeds marine distance tables; Reeds marine insurance; Reeds marine surveying; Reeds maritime meteorology; Reeds mathematical tables and engineering formulae; Reeds sextant simplified; Reeds skipper’s handbook; Those who dare; Victory at sea; Wire Rope Users Manual)
  • Number 106 (5 Apr 2011) : For Your Classes: Schedule Instruction in use of Library Resources; New Books (Clearing the coastline; Managing collision avoidance at sea; ONR/MTS Buoy Workshop 2000; Propulsion systems for hybrid vehicles; Reed’s basic electrotechnology for engineers; Reed’s engineering drawing for marine engineers; Shallow water and supercritical ships; Ship design and construction; Shipping business; Steamboats & Sailors of the Great Lakes; Titanic ships, Titanic disasters; Wire rope users manual; ...and more
  • Number 105 (1 Mar 2011) : COURSE RESERVES for SPRING CLASSES; Tax Forms - Online; New Books (Environmental economics; Intro. to Naval architecture; Intro. to practical marine engineering; Marine powering prediction and propulsors; Propulsion; Reed’s applied heat for engineers; ... applied mechanics for engineers; ... mathematics for engineers; ... motor engineering knowledge for marine engineers; Ship production; Submersible vehicle systems design; ...and more
  • Number 104 (3 Feb 2011) : New Books (Achilles in Vietnam; Business of shipping; Company K; Cracking the GRE; The Day John Died; Elements of style;Fastnet Force 10; Killing Floor; Many lands many hearts; The Marine engineer; More George W. Bushisms; The Nazi revolution; The Nigger of the ‘Narcissus’...; The Old man and the sea; The Reader; Reed’s ship construction for marine student; Report writing for marine surveyors; School of the Sea; Shackleton’s boat journey; Statistical Abstract of the United States, 2010; This time together; TIME almanac 2010; What Remains: a memoir); E-RESOURCES - On the Web (The Word - Wikiality)
  • Number 103 (2 Feb 2011) : New e-books from ebrary   Available online [MMA Only]
  • Number 102 (1 Feb 2011) : New books in print and online. Includes new books for IMB, funded by a gift from Bill Campbell
  • Number 101 (3 Jan 2011) :  New books (Brief introduction to fluid mechanics; The Cornell Manual; Design for flooding; Ecology of a Cape Cod salt marsh; Economic losses from marine pollution; Economics today: the macro view; How to run a lathe; Modeling and analysis of dynamic systems; Ship Construction illustration booklet; Navigating legal research & technology; Ocean marine insurance; Process control instrumentation technology; Refrigeration and air conditionin; Stability and trim for the ship’s officer; Shiphandler’s guide; In The News: USDG: 1st Woman Superintendent of Military Service Academy; On the Web (Shipwrecks of the Delmarva)
  • Number 100 (3 Dec 2010) : New books (Brutal; Cape wind; A century of tankers; Decision points; Eldridge tide and pilot book 2011; Looking for a ship; The Pacific [DVDs]; The power of the sea; Stuffed and starved; Tide tables 2011; and more); Extended Library Hours 0730 to 2300 (M-Th) through Final Exams; E-RESOURCES - On the Web (Mass 2-1-1)
  • Number 99 (18 Nov 2010) : New Library staff: Carolyn Michaud, Access Servicews Manager; Films On Demand streaming video collection; Extended Library Hours to Study for Final Exams & now open at 1400 every Sunday; New books (50 Powerful teamwork tips for employees; Coaching & counseling for managers; Crash of the titans; Delegating for results; The good fight : a life in liberal politics; Gray's anatomy; Rate Your Skills as a Manager); E-Resources (Maritime Professional)
  • Number 98 (1 Nov 2010) : New books (The energy trail; GIS tutorial 1, 2, 3 for ArcGIS 10; The good fight; Gray's anatomy; Guide to global hazards;The man who invented the computer; The nautical sextant; Shock of gray); Journals ( Leadership; Oceanus Magazine); E-Resources (Ocean in Google Earth; Podiobooks); Libraries & Scholarly Research (2010 Library Purchasing Survey; Value of Academic Libraries
  • Number 97 (8 Oct 2010) : byki (new online language resource - works like Rosetta Stone); Schedule Instruction in use of Library Resources; new e-Journals (Chronicle of Higher Education; Int'l Jnl of Control, Automation & Systems); Resources for MSEP (Census of Marine Life; Oil Spill Research Guide)
  • Number 96 (1 Sep 2010) : Schedule Instruction in use of Library Resources; COURSE RESERVES; New books; New e-book (Integrated CZM); Oil Spill Research Guide; Technology (Guide to Google Wave; There’s an App for That!; Top-Ten IT Issues
  • Number 95 (16 Aug 2010) : New books; Oil Spill Research Guide; E-RESOURCES - On the Web (Coalition for Buzzards Bay Moves Into Its First Permanent Home; Grants related to Homeland Security; Holocaust Encyclopedia; Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary)
  • Number 94 (8 Jul 2010) : Oil Spill Research Guide: UPDATES; Journals (SpringerOpen: Social Sciences and health & Behavior; Inside HigherEd); On the Web (EDUCAUSE: Timeless Fundamentals: Changing the Future of Higher Education); World’s Largest Oceanography Library Goes Digital
  • Number 93 (29 Jun 2010) : Summer Library Hours; Oil Spill Research Guide (Deepwater Horizon and other Oil Spill Resources & Information); New eBooks Online via eBrary; Journals (Seaways; Homeland Security Affairs)
  • Number 92 (1 Jun 2010) : New books; TOOLS FOR TEACHING - Just In Time for Final Research Papers! (Understanding Citations Tutorial); E-RESOURCES - On the Web (Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill Response; MARS; Tsunami: an interactive guide)
  • Number 91 (6 May 2010) : New books; Netlibrary's free e-Book of the Month (The End of Time: The Maya Mystery of 2012); E-RESOURCES - On the Web (How libraries stack up)
  • Number 90 (14 Apr 2010) : Just New books
  • Number 89 (1 Apr 2010) : 3-D Relief Globe; TAX FORMS Online; Schedule Instruction for your Classes; New books; eBrary subject resources (Natural Disasters; H1N1); E-RESOURCES - On the Web (The Fourth Paradigm: Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery; ClimateSciNet)
  • Number 88 (15 Mar 2010) : New books (Oxford Encyc. of Maritime History -also Online; Soft corals and sea fans);  Netlibrary's free e-Book of the Month (The Catcher in the Rye: Bloom's Critical Interpretations); E-RESOURCES - On the Web (2010 Int'l Year of Biodiversity; Encyc.of Life: Newsletter; FAO Fisheries Reports; Shipping, World Trade & Reduction of CO2 Emissions; Structural Engineering Calculators)
  • Number 87 (4 Feb 2010) : New books; Netlibrary's free e-Book of the Month (The Procrastinator's Guide to Getting Things Done); JOURNALS: Sea Technology and Sea Technology buyers guide directory 2010.; E-RESOURCES - On the Web (Journal of Marine Biology;National Maritime Intelligence Center (NMIC); World Ocean Database 2009)
  • Number 86 (4 Jan 2010) : New Books; Netlibrary's free e-Book of the Month (Years Thinner: Six Weeks to a Leaner, Younger-Looking You)
  • Number 85 (1 Dec 2009) : Library Construction Webcam; Extended Library Hours to Study for Final Exams; New books; Netlibrary's free e-Book of the Month (The Modern Baker)
  • Number 84 (1 Nov 2009) : New books; Netlibrary's free e-Book of the Month (Invisible China: A Journey Through Ethnic Borderlands)
  • Number 83 (8 Oct 2009) : New books; Netlibrary's free e-Book of the Month (Burn This Book: PEN Writers Speak Out on the Power of the Word); Health Resources On the Web (Influenza Information & Reports; Mosquito and Tickborne Diseases)
  • Number 82 (28 Sep 2009) : New books; NEW DATABASE: AtoZ Maps Online; E-RESOURCES - On the Web (Mandatory Direct Observation Collections for DOT Return-to-Duty and Follow-Up Testing; Shipping, World Trade and the Reduction of CO2 Emissions)
  • Number 81 (1 Sep 2009) : Schedule Instruction in use of Library Resources; COURSE RESERVES;Library Hours-Fall Term; New books; Netlibrary's free e-Book of the Month (Flatlined: An Insider's Guide to Resuscitating American Medicine)
  • Number 80 (3 Aug 2009) : Summer Library Hours; New books; Netlibrary's free e-Book of the Month (The Naked Roommate); E- RESOURCES - On the Web (CarnegieViews; Copyright compliance tools; Lloyd's Register tech. publications; MyMoon)
  • Number 79 (1 Jul 2009) :  Summer Library Hours; New books (Academic advising; Career advising; Crime mapping and spatial aspects of crime; Disaster communications in a changing media world; Ecopolis; Global warming, natural hazards, and EM; Heat lightning; Maritime security); Netlibrary's free e-Book of the Month (Graphic Universe-Beowulf:
    Monster Slayer    )
  • Number 78 (4 June 2009) : Extended Library Hours to Study for Final Exams; New books (Gift titles listed in this issue were received from Lucy Vlietstra); Netlibrary's free e-Book of the Month (The Career Clinic: Eight Simple Rules for Finding Work You Love); ELECTRONIC RESOURCES - On the Web (CFR; Fed in Print; MasterKey)
  • Number 77 (18 May 2009) : New books & DVDs; Netlibrary's free e-Book of the Month (Encyclopedia of World History)
  • Number 76 (2 April 2009) : TAX FORMS ONLINE; Course Reserves; New books & DVDs; Netlibrary's free e-Book of the Month (After the War: Nation Building from FDR to George W. Bush); ELECTRONIC RESOURCES - On the Web (Nautical Calculators)
  • Number 75 (10 March 2009) : Just New Books - In print - On the New Bookshelf
  • Number 74 (4 March 2009) : Course Reserves; TAX FORMS ONLINE; New books; Oxford Reference Online - updated with new titles; ELECTRONIC RESOURCES - On the Web (Dickens Online; General Vessel Permit Program)
  • Number 73 (9 February 2009) : TAX FORMS ONLINE; New books; New Database (CINAHL); ELECTRONIC RESOURCES - On the Web (Discovery Guides)
  • Number 72 (2 February 2009) : New books; Netlibrary's free e-Book of the Month (Raising Freedom's Child); New Databases: Computers & Applied Sciences Complete; Research Starters (Business & Education); Science Reference Center
  • Number 71 (22 January 2009) : New books; NetLibrary's FREE e-Book of the Month: Move Yourself: Guide to All the Healing Benefits of Exercise; New books; Resources on the Web: Encyclopedia of Life; Bureau of Transportation Statistics - RITA; Horizons (Lloyd's Register); Hydro International; iCivilEngineer; ICS/ISF News; Piracy; Ultimate Civil Engineering Directory
  • Number 70 (9 December 2008) : Extended Library Hours to Study for Final Exams; New Database: JSTOR - Arts & Sciences I; New books (Marine safety: tools for risk-based decision making; The shipmaster's security manual); Copyright & Fair Use; NY Times 100 Notable Books of 2008
  • Number 69 (1 December 2008) : New books; NetLibrary's FREE e-Book of the Month: Barack Obama: the New Face of American Politics; E-resources (HazLit Database): Technology (Visuwords Online Graphical Dictionary; Bubbl.us - brainstorming tool)
  • Number 68 (18 November 2008) : Just Books In Print: New books
  • Number 67 (10 November 2008) : New books; Netlibrary's FREE e-Book of the Month (Foreclosure Survival Guide); On the Web: Preparing The Nation For Climate Change: Strategic Actions For The Next Administration
  • Number 66 (31 October 2008) : HippoCampus: Online tutorials (college level); New books (Special Literacy Collection)
  • Number 65 (16 October 2008) : New books; E-Resources On the Web (ICS/ISF News)
  • Number 64 (1 October 2008) : Public Scanner & 5 Multi-Media Workstations; Course Reserves; New books; Netlibrary's FREE e-Book of the Month: Great Events from History: The 20th Century, 1971-2000
  • Number 63 (22 September 2008) : DOCUMENT DELIVERY- Get Scholarly Journal Articles via Science Direct and Online ILL Form; New books; Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary: Draft Management Plan (Public Comment Deadline Extended to 3 October); Feeling the Heat: the Climate Challenge.
  • Number 62 (1 August 2008) :Find journals FAST with the A to Z Journal and Newspaper Title List; New books; NetLibrary's FREE e-Book of the Month: Competition and Development: The Power of Competitive Markets
  • Number 61 (18 July 2008) :Find journals FAST with the A to Z Journal and Newspaper Title List; Periodic Table of Videos (Web 2.0 technology for chemistry education); InfoMarine ONline
  • Number 60 (1 July 2008) : New books (fiction); New Engineering Databa; Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary- Draft Mgt Plan; Working with Emergency Responders); Scholarly Communication (Promise of Value-based Journal Prices and Negotiation)
  • 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
  • Unnumbered (1 December 2005) : News from the MMA Library; Library hours during Intersession & Winter/Sea Term; Ship's Library update

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