The 2008 Presidential Race

If the 2008 Presidential Election were tomorrow, who would you vote for?

Though the election is more than a year and a half away, the field of presidential contenders is becoming very crowded. As of today, February 1, 2007, the following have declared their intention to run, or have set up "exploratory committees":

DEMOCRATS:
Joe Biden
Hillary Clinton
Chris Dodd
John Edwards
Mike Gravel
Dennis Kucinich
Barack Obama
Bill Richardson
Tom Vilsack

REPUBLICANS:
Sam Brownback
James Gilmore III
Rudy Giuliani
Mike Huckabee
Duncan Hunter
John McCain
Ron Paul
Mitt Romney
Tom Tancredo
Tommy Thompson

Other possible candidates include:
Chuck Hagel
Newt Gingrich
Olympia Snowe

For more information, check out the Washington Post 2008 Presidential Candidates site, or Time Magazine's Guide to a Crowded Field site.

Take a look at television advertising for past Presidential Elections 1952-2004. Have they gotten better over time, or...?

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Psychology

The assignment calculator is at U of Minnesota Libraries.

A grad student from U of Minnesota provides a free downloadable APA Style Sheet for MS Word for many versions of Word. Please note the librarians have not tested this software, so user beware! A different APA Style Sheet is available for Word 97, 98 and 2000.

The reference sources: Child Development, The Encyclopedia of Drugs, Alcohol and Addictive Behavior, The International Encyclopedia of Marriage and the Family, Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine, and Psychologists and Their Theories are available online in the Gale Virtual Reference Center (under "Reference, Facts, Encyclopedias, etc. on the Library's Homepage).

Check MIDAS (the Library's book, video, DVD, etc. catalog) and PsycBooks for e-books on psychology and related topics.

For articles on psychology related topics use the principal database for psychology research, PsycInfo, on the Library's Homepage under "Magazine, newspaper and journal articles".

For any articles or books not available at MCC Library, use the Interlibrary Loan request forms. MCC Library will have the materials delivered here for you to use.

If you need help in learning to use PowerPoint, check out this tutorial from University of Rhode Island, this one from Internet 4 Classrooms ,or check out the list of PowerPoint tutorials available on the web, courtesy of the University of Alberta.


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Dance

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An overview of the sources covered in the Library Orientations on January 31, 2007 and February 6, 2007 is available here.

Please remember that we offer FREE Interlibrary Loan services. You can get a copy of the Book request form and also a copy of the Article request form. The completed forms can be dropped off at the Reference Desk or emailed to the Interlibrary Loan Department at library_ill@middlesexcc.edu

Here is an example for citing information from Biography Reference Bank , specifically an entry from Current Biography on Waslaw Nijinsky. PLEASE REMEMBER that citations should be double-spaced and the second or any subsequent lines are indented.

"Nijinsky, Waslaw." Current Biography. N.p.: H.W.Wilson, 1940. Biography Reference Bank.WilsonWeb. Middlesex County College Library, Edison. 8 Feb. 2007 .

"Quotes" are used around the last name of the person, first name of the person, because that is the title of the entry. N.p. is used because no place of publication is given. The date after "Edison" is the date you got the information.

When using Lexis-Nexis, this is the way a citation would look:

Kriegsman, Alan M. " The Radiant Reign of Margot Fonteyn: On the Ballet Stage, Hers Was a Grace and Style Beyond Compare." The Washington Post 22 Feb. 1991, final ed.: B1. Academic Universe. Lexis-Nexis. Middlesex County College Library, Edison. 8 Feb. 2007.


Kriegsman is the author, the title of the article is in quotes, the name of the newspaper is underlined, after the edition (if there is one) is the page number(s).

Remember that if you use an article from the Historical New York Times you would follow the format shown for Lexis-Nexis but you would NOT need the information after the page number (B1 in the example.)

If you have any questions, please stop by the Reference Desk, email us at refmcclibrary@yahoo.com, call us at 732 906-2561, or post a question on this Blog.