ETBU Library Blog

When planning for retirement, it’s easy to become preoccupied with stock portfolios, 401(k) balances and doomsday predictions about baby boomer’s lack of savings. But happiness in retirement isn’t about how much cash you can manage to sock away before the age of 65. Everyone wants a comfortable retirement—but most also plan to have some fun, maintain an active social life, and enjoy a healthy old age. In Retire Happy: What You Can Do Now to Guarantee a Great Retirement, author Rich Stim shows readers how to become rich in the ways that matter most. He encourages future retirees to balance financial concerns with an enriching lifestyle. “Don’t fall for the retirement industry scare stories or calculations about how much you’ll need to retire safely,” he advises. Instead, Stim instructs readers on how to estimate real retirement needs and create a workable savings and investment plan. Even more important, he advises readers to make personal preparations for life after work, including: cu

New materials added during the month of March are now available to view on the Jarrett Library web pages. The March 2008 list includes new print, electronic, and audiovisual materials. Arrangement is by broad subject area, and then alphabetically by title. Previous lists dating back to June 2007 are also available for viewing.

The library is pleased to announce three new databases that were recently added. Naxos Music Library contains almost the entire catalog of recordings of the Naxos Recording Company. Listen to a variety of classical works through your computer. CQ Global Researcher is a companion to CQResearcher and takes a decidedly international flavor. Reports come out monthly (as opposed to the weekly reports of CQResearcher) and deal with a broad topic such as climate change, or deal with a specific country, such as Turkey or India. Links to related reports found in CQResearcher are also available (and vice versa). Almost all disciplines will find useful reports in this database. EBSCOhost now offers a free database called GreenFILE . GreenFILE indexes scholarly and general interest titles, as well as government documents and reports. This resource offers a unique perspective on the positive and negative ways humans affect the environment. Drawing on the connection between the environment and dis

The Library is pleased to announce the addition of two new databases from Alexander Street Press - The Classical Music Library and Theatre in Video with BBC Content . The Classical Music Library is a fully searchable classical music resource—a comprehensive database of distinguished classical recordings. It includes tens of thousands of licensed recordings that users can listen to over the Internet. Users browse, search, click, and then listen to the music. Theatre in Video with BBC Content contains more than 250 of the world’s most important plays, together with more than 100 video documentaries, online in streaming video—more than 500 hours in all. These definitive performances, by leading actors and directors, have been painstakingly licensed from a wide range of copyright holders. They are now delivered to you over the Internet, in a revolutionary new format developed specifically for drama. For the first time, students, instructors, and researchers can bookmark specific scenes,

For the next thirty days you may take advantage of the Points of View Reference Center and/or the Nursing Reference Center . Points of View Reference Center is similar to both Opposing Viewpoints Resource Center and TOPICSearch in that it is a full-text database designed to provide students with a series of essays that present multiple sides of a current issue. The database provides 200 topics, each with an overview (objective background/description), point (argument),counterpoint (opposing argument), and Critical Thinking Guide. Topics covered include: affirmative action, cloning, DNA profiling, HIV/AIDS status disclosure, immigration, Iraq, Israel & the Palestinians, Katrina and FEMA response, nuclear proliferation, separation of church and state, standardized testing, stem cell research, tax cuts, voting machines, and many more.. As with the other two, scholarly and academic journals are used, as well as electronic versions of important circulating and reference books. Fres

The library will be open for limited hours during Spring break. The schedule is as follows: Saturday-Sunday, March 15-16: Library Closed Monday-Tuesday, March 17-18: Open 8 AM - 4:30 PM Wednesday, March 19: Closed to the public. Faculty & staff can gain admittance by calling ahead. Thursday-Sunday, March 20-23: Closed March 23rd is Easter Sunday, so the library will not open again for regular service until Monday, March 24th. Have a safe and happy Spring break. We'll be praying for those of you on mission trips, and for the safety of each of you as you travel back and forth. Have a blessed Easter as we celebrate the resurrection of our blessed savior, Jesus Christ!

You know who you are. You're reading a newspaper, or a magazine, and there it is. A grid with some of the squares blackened out, some of the others with tiny numbers. Then there are the definitions. 1 Across. 37 Down. You grab for the nearest pencil (or maybe you're adventurous and it's a pen) and a compulsion guides you to begin filling in those squares with letters that become words. Yes. You. Are. A. Crossword. Addict. Go ahead. Say it. Remember, the first step is admitting you have the problem. If you are like millions of other people around the world you take great pleasure in filling in those grids with the right letters. Word overlaps word and you sometimes wonder how in the world do these people come up with these puzzles? Along with the pleasure comes not some measure of frustration when you are missing just one or two letters and neither the definition for 46 down or 52 across helps you. Of course, there are all sorts of crossword dictionaries out t