Mercer Library Newsletter -- 1 -- Feb/Mar 2009

Volume 4 ▪ Number 19 |Feb/Mar 2009

University Libraries

Library Vocabulary – Do you know it?

Mercer Library Newsletter

Contents Library Vocabulary………1-2

Library Lending Diagram……………2 Staff Directory Who to contact at Mercer Library……....2 Library Hours Spring 2009…………3 Zotero Mini-Sessions……...3 Selected New Books Check out our new books………..……3-7 E-Resources Featured: Health Care Library databases …………...8 Events at Gunston Hall……….8

Mercer Library George Mason University Prince William Campus Occoquan Bldg, Rm 104 10900 University Blvd Manassas, VA 20110 MSN 4E6 (703) 993-8340

Do you know your library vocabulary? Many people use libraries, but don’t know library jargon. Here are some common terms and acronyms we use at Mason and what they mean. Be sure to look at the “Library Lending Requests” diagram on the inside for a visual representation of CLS, ICL and ILL. Circulation – Borrowing. Circulation is the process of books moving from stacks to the hands of a willing reader and back again. This includes checking out a book, renewing a book and returning a book.

CLS – Stands for “Consortium Loan Service” for the Washington Research Library Consortium or WRLC. This is another lending program that allows the circulation of books and serials between the universities in the greater DC area.

eReserves – Reserve items that are housed online and accessed through the University Library homepage. You must have a password from your teacher to access these items.

ICL – Stands for “InterCampus Lending.” This service is InterLibrary Loan on a smaller scale where books and serials are shared between the four Mason campus libraries. You can have the books and articles you need sent to the campus where you study.

ILL – Stands for “InterLibrary Loan.” InterLibrary loan is a service available to Mason students, faculty and staff that allows them to borrow books from any library worldwide.

iMasonLibraries – An instant messaging resource for reference questions. You can use AIM, MSN Messenger, or Yahoo! Messenger to chat in real time with a Mason Librarian.

InfoGuides – A new research resource that has been compiled by Mason Subject Librarians to aid students and teachers in their course work. These guides are for research assistance and can contain recommended websites and databases, books, journals, theses and dissertations, maps, and current news on a large variety of subjects.

LC Classification System – A call number system developed by the Library of Congress and used in most higher education libraries. Books are arranged by subject assigned to a letter from A to Z followed by a series of numbers, designating the book’s location in the library stacks.

Reference – Information sources that are not circulated outside the library. Common reference sources include encyclopedias, handbooks, citation manuals and directories. Reference also refers to the friendly librarians that answer your research questions in person, on the phone, or online through iMasonLibraries chat.

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STAFF DIRECTORY Heather Hannan Head, Mercer Library (703) 993-8344 hhannan@gmu.edu

REFERENCE Janna Mattson Social Sciences Librarian (703) 993-8348 jmatso1@gmu.edu Victoria Shelton Life Sciences Librarian (703) 993-8347 vshelton@gmu.edu

CIRCULATION Mary Berkebile Circulation Supervisor/Office Manager (703) 993-8479 mberkebi@gmu.edu

Everett Seamans Evening Circulation Supervisor/ Stacks Manager/Reference Assistant (703) 993-8362 eseaman1@gmu.edu

DOCUMENT REQUEST Shannon Hogya Document Delivery Coordinator/Circulation Assistant (703) 993-8364 shogya1@gmu.edu Lynn O’Hara Serials Coordinator/ Circulation Assistant (703) 993-8357 lohara2@gmu.edu

RESERVES Teresa Kan Reserves/Media Coordinator /Reference Assistant (703) 993-8358 tkan@gmu.edu

Occoquan Bldg, Rm 104 MSN 4E6 Circulation (703) 993-8340 Reference (703) 993-8342

Reserves – Books, articles, and audio/visual media designated by teachers for classes. These items are kept behind the circulation desk and are only available for use within the library. Serials – Journals, newspapers, magazines and other periodicals in the libcan also be bound into books. They are arranged alphabetically by title instead of classification number Zotero – Citation management software for the creation of bibliographies developed by George Mason’s Center for Download at down again!

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Library Lending Requests Progression Chart

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Books, articles, and audio/visual media designated by teachers for classes. These items are kept behind the circulation desk and are only available for use within

Journals, newspapers, magazines and other periodicals in the libcan also be bound into books. They are arranged alphabetically by title instead of classification number in the library stacks.

Citation management software for the creation of bibliographies developed by George Mason’s Center for History and New Media. It is available for free. Download at www.zotero.org and never have to write bibliographic information

Feb/Mar 2009

When seeking materials for use and research, please follow this simple order: Start with Mercer Library. If we don’t have it, look at other Mason Campus libraries like Fenwick, the Johnson Center, and Arlington. If Mason doesn’t have it, look at the libraries in the consortium through WRLC. If they don’t have it, submit a request through InterLibrary Loan and we will find it for you. The farther away from Mercer Library

receive your item.

Library Lending Requests Progression Chart

Books, articles, and audio/visual media designated by teachers for classes. These items are kept behind the circulation desk and are only available for use within

Journals, newspapers, magazines and other periodicals in the library. Serials can also be bound into books. They are arranged alphabetically by title instead of

Citation management software for the creation of bibliographies developed History and New Media. It is available for free. and never have to write bibliographic information

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Administration of Justice Criminological theories: introduction, evaluation, and application / Ronald L. Akers, Christine S. Sellers. 5th ed., New ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Call Number: HV6018 .A38 2009 Researching theories of crime and deviance / Charis E. Kubrin, Thomas D. Stucky, Marvin D. Krohn. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2009. Call Number: HV6025 .K83 2009 New perspectives in criminology / John E. Conklin, editor. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, 1996. Call Number: HV6025 .C592 1996 Current controversies in criminology / Ronald Weitzer, editor. 1st ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 2003. Call Number: HV6025 .C86 2003 Women, crime and social harm: towards a criminology for the global age / edited by Maureen Cain and Adrian Howe. Portland, OR: Hart, 2008. Call Number: HV6250.4.W65 W6539 2008

Driven to kill: vehicles as weapons / J. Peter Rothe. 1st ed. Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2008. Call Number: HV6493 .R68 2008 Death by domestic violence: preventing the murders and murder-suicides / Katherine van Wormer and Albert R. Roberts. Westport, CT: Praeger, 2009. Call Number: HV6626 .V36 2009 Battle cries: Black women and intimate partner abuse/ Hillary Potter. New York: New York University Press, 2008. Call Number: HV6626.2 .P68 2008 Opportunity, environmental characteristics and crime: an analysis of auto theft patterns / Marissa P. Levy. El Paso: LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009. Call Number: HV6658 .L48 2009 Police information sharing: all-crimes approach to homeland security / Ernest D. Scott Jr. El Paso, TX: LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009. Call Number: HV7936.A8 S355 2009

Library Hours for Spring Semester 2009

January 20 – May 15

*Library hours are subject

to change. Please check our website at http://library.gmu.edu/ libinfo/hours.html

Monday – Thursday

8:00am – 10:00pm

Friday 8:00am – 6:00pm

Saturday 10:00am – 5:00pm

Sunday 1:00pm – 6:00pm

Spring Break Hours (March 8th -15th) Reduced hours: Monday – Thursday 9:00am – 6:00pm and Friday 9:00am – 5:00pm.

Closed Sunday, March 8th and Saturday, March 14th. Regular hours resume Sunday, March 15th.

ZZootteerroo MMiinnii--SSeessssiioonnss Description: Zotero is a Firefox browser based utility that makes capturing bibliographic content from around the Web a snap! Learn how to install and manipulate your own Zotero library in an abbreviated half-hour session. Instructor: Library Staff Location: Occoquan 231 Days and Times: March 4, 2009 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM April 23, 2009 12:30 PM - 1:00 PM To schedule other library instruction (workshops or one-on-one reference consultations) on the Prince William campus, please contact: Janna Mattson jmatso1@gmu.edu (703) 993-8348

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Administration of Justice continued: Become a problem-solving crime analyst: in 55 small steps / Ronald V. Clarke, John Eck. London: Jill Dando Institute of Crime Science, 2003. Call Number: HV7936.C88 C53 2003 Strategies for improving officer recruitment in the San Diego Police Department / Greg Ridgeway ... [et al.]. Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2008. Call Number: HV7936.R5 S77 2008 Fairness and effectiveness in policing: the evidence / Wesley Skogan and Kathleen Frydl, editors. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2004. Call Number: HV8138 .F35 2004 Race and police brutality: roots of an urban dilemma / Malcolm D. Holmes and Brad W. Smith. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2008. Call Number: HV8141 .H595 2008 Three strikes and you're out: estimated benefits and costs of California's new mandatory-sentencing law / Peter W. Greenwood ... [et al.]. Santa Monica, CA: Rand 1994. Call Number: HV9305.C2 T47 1994 Correctional theory and practice / edited by Clayton A. Hartjen, Edward E. Rhine. Chicago: Nelson-Hall, 1992. Call Number: HV9471 .C6685 1992 How does law matter? / edited by Bryant G. Garth, Austin Sarat. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press: American Bar Foundation, 1998. Call Number: K370 .H69 1998 Nature of the judicial process / by Benjamin N. Cardozo. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991. Call Number: K2100 .C37 1991 Incivilities: regulating offensive behavior / edited by Andrew von Hirsch and A.P. Simester. Portland, OR: Hart, 2006. Call Number: KD1968 .I53 2006 Lawyers: a critical reader / edited by Richard L. Abel. New York: New Press, 1997. Call Number: KF300.A2 L39 1997 Reason in law / Lief H. Carter and Thomas F. Burke. 7th ed. New York: Pearson/Longman, 2005. Call Number: KF380 .C325 2005

Law as a means to an end: threat to the rule of law / Brian Z. Tamanaha. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Call Number: KF382 .T36 2006 Hate speech, pornography, and the radical attack on free speech doctrine / James Weinstein. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999. Call Number: KF4772 .W45 1999 Who makes the law: the Supreme Court, Congress, the states, and society / Timothy D. Cheney. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998. Call Number: KF4930 .C48 1998 Justice broker: lawyers and ordinary litigation / Herbert M. Kritzer. New York: Oxford University Press, 1990. Call Number: KF8700 .K77 1990 Primer on American courts / William S. Miller. New York: Pearson Longman, 2005. Call Number: KF8720 .M55 2005 Deciding to decide: agenda setting in the United States Supreme Court / H.W. Perry, Jr. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1991. Call Number: KF8742 .P3365 1991 Understanding Supreme Court opinions / T.R. van Geel. 3rd ed. New York: Longman, 2002. Call Number: KF8742 .V36 2002 Crafting law on the Supreme Court: the collegial game / Forrest Maltzman, James F. Spriggs II, Paul J. Wahlbeck. Cambridge University Press, 2000. Call Number: KF8748 .M285 2000 Basic community laws / edited by Bernard Rudden and Derrek Wyatt. 7th ed. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Call Number: KJE916 .B37 1999

I have lost all sense of home, having moved about so much. It means to me now -- only that

place where the books are kept. John Steinbeck

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Applied Information Technology Banking Services and Information Technology: The Indian Experience. New Delhi, India: New Century Publishing, 2008. ISBN: 9788177081763 Innovative applications of information technology for the developing world: proceedings of the 3rd Asian Applied Computing Conference, Kathmandu, Nepal, 10-12 December 2005 / eds. Lalit Mohan Patnaik, Asoke K. Talukder et al. Hackensack, NJ: Distributed by World Scientific, 2007. Call Number: HC59.72.I55 A85 2005 Gender and information technology: moving beyond access to co-create global partnership / Mary Kirk. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2009. Call Number: HC79.H53 K57 2009 KFC in China: secret recipe for success / Warren K. Liu. Singapore; Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons (Asia), 2008. Call Number: HF5429.235.C6 L58 2008 Police information sharing: all-crimes approach to homeland security / Ernest D. Scott Jr. El Paso, TX: LFB Scholarly Pub., 2009. Call Number: HV7936.A8 S355 2009 Handbook of research on effective electronic gaming in education / ed. Richard E. Ferdig. Hershey, PA: Information Science Reference, 2009. Three volumes. Call Number: LB1029.S53 H36 2009 Information technologies in biomedicine / Ewa Pietka, Jacek Kawa, eds. Berlin: Springer, 2008. Call Number: R858 .I54 2008

Biosciences Computational intelligence in biomedicine and bioinformatics: current trends and applications / Tomasz G. Smolinski, Mariofanna G. Milanova, Aboul-Ella Hassanien (eds.). Berlin: Springer, 2008. Call Number: Q342 .C86 2008 Terrorism informatics: knowledge management and data mining for homeland security / Chen, Hsinchun. New York; Springer, 2008. Call Number: QA76.9.D343 T367 2008

Biosciences continued: Building bioinformatics solutions with Perl, R and MySQL / Conrad Bessant, Ian Shadforth, Darren Oakley. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Call Number: QH324.2 .B47 2009 Structural bioinformatics: an algorithmic approach / Forbes J. Burkowski. London: Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2009. Call Number: QH324.2 .B87 2009 Machine learning in bioinformatics / edited by Yan-Qing Zhang, Jagath C. Rajapakse. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2009. Call Number: QH324.2 .M33 2009 Bioinformatics: sequence alignment and Markov models / Kal Renganathan Sharma. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2009. Call Number: QH324.2 .S53 2009 Handbook of molecular evolution / editors-in-chief, David N. Cooper, Hildegard Kehrer-Sawatzki. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, 2008. Call Number: QH325 .H345 2008 Functional proteomics: methods and protocols / edited by Julie D. Thompson, Christine Schaeffer-Reiss, Marius Ueffing. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2008. Call Number: QP551 .F86 2008 siRNA and miRNA gene silencing: from bench to bedside / edited by Mouldy Sioud. New York: Humana; [London: Springer, distributor], 2009. Call Number: QP623.5.S63 S57 2009 Plant pathogenic bacteria: genomics and molecular biology / edited by Robert W. Jackson. Norfolk: Caister Academic, 2009. Call Number: QR351 .P5834 2009 SARS- and other coronaviruses: laboratory protocols / edited by Dave Cavanagh. Totowa, N.J.: Humana, 2008. Call Number: QR399 .S27 2008 Vaccines for biodefense and emerging and neglected diseases / edited by Alan D.T. Barrett, Lawrence R. Stanberry. Amsterdam: Academic, 2009. Call Number: RA643 .V33 2009 Essential concepts in toxicogenomics / edited by Donna L. Mendrick, William B. Mattes. Totowa, N.J.: Humana, 2008. Call Number: RA1224.3 .E84 2008

He is wise who knows the sources of knowledge -- where it is written and where it is to be found.

A.A. Hodge

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Biosciences continued: Encyclopedia of cancer / Manfred Schwab (ed.). New York: Springer, 2009. PWC Reference Call Number: RC262 .E53 2009 Forgotten people, forgotten diseases: the neglected tropical diseases and their impact on global health and development / Peter J. Hotez. Washington, DC: ASM Press, 2008. Call Number: RC961 .H68 2008

Education Explicit direct instruction (EDI): the power of the well-crafted, well-taught lesson / John Hollingsworth, Silvia Ybarra. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press; Fowler, CA: Data Works Educational Research, 2009. Call Number: LB1025.3 .H645 2009 Practice-based learning: developing excellence in teaching / edited by Jenny Reeves and Alison Fox. Edinburgh: Dunedin, 2008. Call Number: LB1025.3 .P72 2008 Creating extra-ordinary teachers: multiple intelligences in the classroom and beyond / Branton Shearer and Mike Fleetham. New York, NY: Network Continuum, 2008. Call Number: LB1025.3 .S5277 2008 Teaching and learning: international best practice / edited by Dennis M. McInerney and Arief Darmanegara Liem. Charlotte, NC: Information Age Pub., 2008. Call Number: LB1025.3 .T4338 2008

Explicit instruction: a framework for meaningful direct teaching / Jennifer L. Goeke. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Merrill, 2009. Call Number: LB1027.3 .G64 2009

New learning: elements of a science of education / Mary Kalantzis and Bill Cope. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Call Number: LB1027.23 .K35 2008

Education continued: Collaborative action research: developing professional learning communities / edited by Stephen P. Gordon; foreword by Emily F. Calhoun. New York: Teachers College Press, 2008. Call Number: LB1028.24 .C655 2008 Exploring talk in schools: inspired by the work of Douglas Barnes / edited by Neil Mercer and Steve Hodgkinson. Los Angeles; London: Sage Publications, 2008. Call Number: LB1032 .E97 2008 Best practices for teaching reading: what award-winning classroom teachers do / [edited by] Randi Stone. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2009. Call Number: LB1050 .B468 2009 Nonfiction reading power: teaching students how to think while they read all kinds of information / Adrienne Gear. Markham, Ont.: Pembroke Publishers; Portland, ME: Distributed in the U.S. by Stenhouse Publishers, 2008. Call Number: LB1050.45 .G43 2008 Improving literacy instruction with classroom research / Theresa A. Deeney. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2009. Call Number: LB1050.6 .D44 2009 Understanding effective learning: strategies for the classroom / Des Hewitt. New York: McGraw Hill/Open University Press, 2008. Call Number: LB1060 .H49 2008 Interdisciplinary elementary physical education / Theresa Purcell Cone, Peter H. Werner, Stephen L. Cone. 2nd ed. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2009. Call Number: LB1570 .I5669 2009 Teaching with intention: defining beliefs, aligning practice, taking action, K-5 / Debbie Miller. Portland, ME: Stenhouse Publishers; Markham, Ont.: Pembroke Publishers, 2008. Call Number: LB1555 .M55 2008 Quick guide to making your teaching stick, K-5 / Shanna Schwartz. Portsmouth, NH: Firsthand/Heinemann, 2008. Call Number: LB1555 .S255 2008

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Cicero

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Education continued: Linking assessment to reading comprehension instruction: a framework for actively engaging literacy learners, K-8 / Nora L. White, Nancy L. Anderson, Happy Carrico. Boston: Allyn & Bacon, 2009. Call Number: LB1573.7 .W48 2009

Language and literacy development: what educators need to know / James P. Byrnes and Barbara A. Wasik. New York: Guilford Press, 2009. Call Number: LB1576 .B98 2009 Brain-friendly strategies for developing student writing skills / Anne Hanson. 2nd ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2009. Call Number: LB1576 .H236 2009 Putting everyday life on the page: inspiring students to write, grades 2-7 / Marc Levitt. Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2009. Call Number: LB1576 .L498 2009

Health and Recreation Nordic tourism: issues and cases / C. Michael Hall, Dieter K. Muller and Jarkko Saarinen. Buffalo: Channel View Publications, 2009. Call Number: G155.S35 H35 2009 Outdoor recreation: an introduction / Ryan Plummer. New York, NY: Routledge, 2009. Call Number: GV191.6 .P59 2009 Service learning for health, physical education, and recreation: a step-by-step guide / Cheryl Stevens. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2008. Call Number: GV365 .S57 2008 Space planning guidelines for campus recreational sport facilities / National Intramural-Recreational Sports Association; Tony Brown, Danell Haines [contributors]. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, c2009. Call Number: GV401 .S53 2009 Athletic fitness for kids / Scott Lancaster, Radu Teodorescu. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2008. Call Number: GV443 .L32 2008 Mathematics and science for sport and exercise: the basics / by Craig A. Williams, D.V.B. James and Cassie Wilson. London New York: Routledge, 2008. Call Number: GV557.5 .W55 2008

Health and Recreation continued: Crafting patriotism for global dominance: America at the Olympics / Mark Dyreson. London; New York: Routledge, 2009. Call Number: GV706.35 .D96 2009 Quest for excitement: sport and leisure in the civilising process / Norbert Elias and Eric Dunning. Rev. ed. Dublin, Ireland: University College Dublin Press, 2008. Call Number: GV706.5 .E58 2008 Social and cultural diversity in a sporting world / edited by Chris Hallinan, Steven Jackson. 1st ed. Bingley, UK: Emerald, 2008. Call Number: GV706.5 .S632 2008 Art and aesthetics of boxing / David Scott; foreword by Roger L. Conover. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2008. Call Number: GV1133 .S383 2008 Sport, beer, and gender: promotional culture and contemporary social life / Lawrence A. Wenner and Steven J. Jackson, editors. New York: Peter Lang, 2009. Call Number: GV716 .S585 2009

Good ground of Central High: Little Rock Central High School and legendary coach Wilson Matthews/ George M. Ca 1st ed. Little Rock, AR: Butler Center for Arkansas Studies, 2008. Call Number: GV958.C44 C38 2008

Gotta ballroom / Christine Zona, Chris George. Champaign, IL: Human Kinetics, 2008. Location: Prince William / DVD - at Circulation Desk Call Number: GV1753.5 .Z66 2008

Residential tourism: (de)constructing paradise / Mason R. McWatters. Bristol, UK; Buffalo, NY: Channel View Publications, 2009. Call Number: HQ1063.2.L29 M39 2009 Sage handbook of hospitality management / edited by Bob Brotherton and Roy C. Wood. Los Angeles: Sage, 2008. Call Number: TX911.3.M27 S14 2008 Tourist satisfaction and complaining behavior: measurement and management issues in the tourism and hospitality industry / Atila Yuksel, editor. New York: Nova Science Publishers, 2008. Call Number: TX911.3.M27 T69 2008

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EE--RReessoouurrcceess -- Featured databases and updates Do you search for medical and health care information online? We have some recommendations as to databases you can

use: CINAHL, PsycINFO, MEDLINE, Alt HealthWatch and SPORTDiscus.

CINAHL is the authoritative resource for nursing and allied health professionals, students, educators and researchers.

This database provides indexing for 2,928 journals from the fields of nursing and allied health. The database contains

more than 1,000,000 records dating back to 1981.

The PsycINFO database is the American Psychological Association’s (APA) renowned resource for abstracts of

scholarly journal articles, book chapters, books, and dissertations and is the largest resource devoted to peer-reviewed

literature in behavioral science and mental health. It contains over 2.5 million citations and summaries dating as far back

as the early 1800s. Journal coverage, which spans from 1887 to present, includes international material selected from

more than 2,200 periodicals in more than 27 languages.

MEDLINE provides authoritative medical information on medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health

care system, pre-clinical sciences, and much more. Created by the National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE uses MeSH

(Medical Subject Headings) indexing with tree, tree hierarchy, subheadings and explosion capabilities to search citations

from over 4,800 current biomedical journals.

Alt HealthWatch: This database focuses on the many perspectives of complementary, holistic and integrated approaches

to health care and wellness. It offers libraries full text articles for more than 180 international and often peer-reviewed

journals and reports. In addition, there are hundreds of pamphlets, booklets, special reports, original research and book

excerpts. Alt HealthWatch provides in-depth coverage across the full spectrum of subject areas covered by

complementary and alternative medicine. This database features indexing and abstracts going back as far as 1984, and

full text going back as far as 1990.

Provided by the Sport Information Resource Centre, SPORTDiscus offers comprehensive, bibliographic coverage of

sport, fitness and related disciplines. This database contains well over 1,392,000 records with journal and monograph

coverage going back to 1800; over 22,000 dissertations and theses and reference to articles in 60 different languages.

GMU-affiliated researchers can access these databases from the databases category on the GMU Libraries Home Page. Off campus access is restricted to current GMU students, faculty, and staff.

Events at Gunston Hall

Kite Festival - Saturday, March 21st - Noon - 5:00 p.m.

Fly a kite in Gunston Hall’s pasture on this playful day for the entire family. Plan an afternoon of fun and learning with hands-on colonial activities for youngsters, an 18th-century puppet show, hearth cooking demonstrations, and exploration of a modern fire truck. Chat with costumed characters from the past. Food service is available for a picnic. Bring your own kite or purchase one from the Museum Shop. The Garden Club of Fort Belvoir offers spring plants for sale. $10, adults; $6, for ages 6-18; $2, children 2-5 years. NEW $25 Family Admission for up to 2 adults and 3 young people. Events do not require a reservation unless specifically stated. The calendar is subject to change. Public program attendees are welcome to take a 30-minute mansion tour as part of their site experience. Tours are offered from 9:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Gunston Hall Plantation | 10709 Gunston Road | Mason Neck, Va. 22079 |Phone: 703.550.9220 | Email: historic@gunstonhall.org Open every day except Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year's Day. Public hours: 9:30 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. | http://www.gunstonhall.org