Library Lowdown #33, November 2008

NEW ONLINE RESOURCES:

COS Funding Opportunities
COS Funding Opportunities is a database of grants, fellowships, prizes and other funding opportunities.

COS Scholar Universe
COS Scholar Universe provides information on scholars and research organizations around the world.

PapersInvited
PapersInvited provides information about calls for papers for forthcoming conferences and special issues of scholarly journals.

To access COS Funding Opportunities, COS Scholar Universe or PapersInvited begin at the RRU Library webpage (http://library.royalroads.ca/) and click on Search for Articles. Log in with your RRU username and password. Scroll down the database list to CSA Main Menu. At the next page select a database (or several databases) and click Continue to Search.

LIBRARY NEWS:

RRU Library is exhibiting this year’s winners of the Alcuin Society Awards for Excellence in Canadian Book Design (http://www.alcuinsociety.com/awards/).

This year’s winners are also available for purchase by silent auction, with all profits donated to the United Way. Starting bids are half of each book’s list price. The auction and exhibit closes on December 3, 2008.

DATABASE TRIALS:

ProQuest Entrepreneurship

Content includes publications and multi-media related to the topic of entrepreneurship, as well as:
? journals and dissertations
? working papers
? conference proceedings
? sample business plans, and tips from successful entrepreneurs.

Date of trial: November 3, 2008 – December 2, 2008.

To log-in to the ProQuest Entrepreneurship trail go to:
http://trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid=2798774
Use the password: welcome

INFO ALERT:

From The Conference Board:

To access Conference Board reports go to the RRU Library webpage (http://library.royalroads.ca/) and click on Search for Articles. Log in with your RRU username and password. Scroll down the database list to Conference Board of Canada.

Post U.S. Election Briefing
November 2008, Source: The Conference Board of Canada
“The U.S. election campaign and its outcome will have a huge impact on Canada–U.S. relations. Beyond the US$1.4 billion in daily two-way trade (State Department estimate), all governments and major industries are affected by U.S. policy and the strength of the cross-border relationship.”

Carbon Disclosure Project Report 2008
November 2008, Source: The Conference Board of Canada
“Companies must assess opportunities and risks accompanying climate change. This report analyzes the level and quality of company climate change related disclosures and illustrates mitigation actions and strategies.”

How Canada Performs: A Report Card on Canada
November 2008, Source: The Conference Board of Canada
“In the most recent report card, Canada receives “B” grades on its economic, education and skills, health, and social performance, but a “C” on environmental performance and a “D” on innovation. While a “B” grade in four categories may appear good enough, Canada’s performance on many indicators is slipping, causing it to fall behind countries that are its peers, partners, and competitors.”

Leadership, Governance, and Accountability: A Pathway to a Diverse and Inclusive Organization
Report by Stephanie J. Creary
September 2008, Source: The Conference Board, New York
“Ensuring an organization is diverse and inclusive takes commitment in order to achieve growth potential: the message must come from the top, structures of measuring performance must be put in place, and people must take responsibility for their roles in the process. Organizations profiled in this report have experienced success by strategically aligning diversity and inclusion practices with general business goals.”

From Statistics Canada’s The Daily (http://www.statcan.ca/english/dai-quo/):

Study: The role of natural resources in Canada's economy - November 2008
“The seven-year-old boom in commodity prices has had a large impact on key sectors of Canada's economy, buttressing export earnings and profits. In response, companies substantially increased fixed investment in the resource sector, although they have had a surprisingly small impact on the recent growth of output and employment.
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/081113/d081113b.htm
Aboriginal Children's Survey: Family, community and child care - 2006
“Higher proportions of young Aboriginal children are growing up in large families and are being raised by young parents compared with non-Aboriginal children. Many people, including extended family and community members, are involved in raising young Aboriginal children.”
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/081029/d081029a.htm
Aquaculture Statistics 2007
Highlights:
? Production from Canadian aquaculture producers decreased 1.3% in 2007 to 170,172 metric tonnes.
? Gross output by aquaculture producers was $845.4 million in 2007, a decrease of 13.9% from a year earlier.
? The gross value added to the economy by the aquaculture industry reached $264.9 million, down 33.1% from 2006, reflecting the structural changes taking place throughout the industry.
? At $727.9 million, finfish sales accounted for 89.8% of total operating revenue, while revenue from molluscs reached $65.6 million (8.1%).
? Of the products exported, most are destined for the United States. During 2007, exports of farmed salmon decreased while exports of farmed mussels increased.
http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/23-222-XIE/23-222-XIE2007000.htm
Homicides - 2007
“Police reported 594 homicides in Canada in 2007, 12 fewer than in 2006. Stabbings accounted for one-third of the homicides in 2007 and another third involved the use of a firearm. Handguns were used in two-thirds of all firearm homicides, primarily in urban areas. Police reported that one in five homicides were gang-related. After rising through much of the 1960s and early 1970s, Canada's homicide rate has been on a general downward trend since the mid-1970s. This trend continued in 2007 with a further 3% decline in the national homicide rate.”
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/081023/d081023a.htm
Study: Caring for seniors – 2007
“In 2007, about 2.7 million Canadians aged 45 and over, or approximately one-fifth of the total in this age group, provided some form of unpaid care to seniors (people 65 years of age or older) who had long-term health problems. Between 2002 and 2007, the number of people providing care to seniors increased by more than 670,000.”
http://www.statcan.ca/Daily/English/081021/d081021a.htm
Eldercare: What we know today (full report)
http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/11-008-XIE/2008002/article/10689-e...
Education Matters: Insights on Education, Learning and Training in Canada, September 2008
Back to school – September 2008
http://www.statcan.ca/english/freepub/81-004-XIE/2008003/article/10682-e...

From ResourceShelf (www.resourceshelf.com):

CHANGE.GOV - Office of the President-elect
http://change.gov/
For additional American presidential transition information see:
http://www.resourceshelf.com/2008/11/10/resource-of-the-week-change-is-g...

From Docuticker (http://www.docuticker.com/):

Best Practices: Mentoring
Source: U.S. Office of Personnel Management
“While organizational mentoring programs may take on different shapes and structures, there are certain critical steps that must be considered by any group embarking on establishing a mentoring program.”
http://www.opm.gov/hrd/lead/BestPractices-Mentoring.pdf
Global Tourism and Real Estate
Source: 2008 Industry Studies Conference Paper (via SSRN)
“…due to the changing business environment and evolving technological and logistical changes, the tourism industry is undergoing major structural changes. Firms historically viewed as tourism-related are shedding and outsourcing non-core activities, and firms in peripheral industries are moving into tourism-related activities.”
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1126837

What’s Next? Report on the Forum on the Future of Higher Education in Canada
Source: Canadian Policy Research Networks
“The Forum on the Future of Higher Education in Canada examined key trends in post-secondary education and discussed policy options in five areas: access, connections between PSE and the labour market, integration of the system, new ways to deliver programs, and the need for a pan-Canadian framework.”
http://www.cprn.org/documents/50644_EN.pdf
Annual Arctic Report Card Shows Stronger Effects of Warming
Source: National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
“Temperature increases, a near-record loss of summer sea ice, and a melting of surface ice in Greenland are among some of the evidence of continued warming in the Arctic…”
http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/index.html
Full report: http://www.arctic.noaa.gov/reportcard/ArcticReportCard_full_report.pdf
Green Building Glossary
Source: City of Seattle, Department of Planning and Development
http://www.seattle.gov/dpd/GreenBuilding/OurProgram/Resources/Greenbuild...
The College Sustainability Report Card
Source: Sustainable Endowments Institute
“The College Sustainability Report Card is the only comparative evaluation of campus and endowment sustainability activities at colleges and universities in the United States and in Canada.”
http://greenreportcard.org/

From Distance-Educator.com (www.distance-educator.com):

Using Scholarly Research In Course Redesign: Teaching To Engage Students With Authentic Disciplinary Practices
Source: International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning
“This action research study describes a course redesign using scholarly research in two ways. Traditional disciplinary research was used to inform the design of the curriculum, and SoTL was used to measure the success of the course design in achieving its objectives for student learning.”
Full-text of study: http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/v2n2/articles/_Ragland/index...

From Inside Higher Ed (http://www.insidehighered.com/:

Canada Tops U.S. in Faculty Salaries, Report Finds
“The United States does not lead the world in faculty pay, and is quite far behind when comparisons of national wealth are factored in…”
http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2008/11/05/worldpay
Acxiom Partners With Moodlerooms For Distance Learning Authentication
Source: tmcnet.com
http://tinyurl.com/6zo6bz
Who Will Control Your Data In The Web 3.0 World?
Source: readwriteweb.com
“…the opportunities that Web 3.0 offers are also seen as part of the fundamental reason most people fear it. While they realize that much of their personal information is already out there, the fact remains that no one really has any way of knowing where this information is stored or who controls it; and this can be frightening.”
http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/who_will_control_your_data_web30.ph...

From EDUCAUSE REVIEW, vol. 43, no. 6, November/December 2008 (http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review):

Supporting the “Scholarship” in E-Scholarship
By, Christine L. Borgman
“Retrieving whole books, articles, and other documents is no longer sufficient for scholarly research. Faculty and students want to mine documents or other textual works—whether for molecules, materials, or mavens, depending on their field of study. Rarely do people read documents linearly, even on paper: they read abstracts, conclusions, and bibliographies; they look for tables, figures, and diagrams. What is new in the digital environment?”
http://connect.educause.edu/Library/EDUCAUSE+Review/SupportingtheScholar...

From TL Infobits (http://its.unc.edu/tl/infobits/):

Exploring the Educational Potential of Social Networking Sites: The Fine Line between Exploiting Opportunities and Unwelcome Imposition
By Henk Huijser
STUDIES IN LEARNING, EVALUATION, INNOVATION AND DEVELOPMENT vol. 5, no. 3, September 2008, pp. 45-54
http://www.sleid.cqu.edu.au/include/getdoc.php?id=708

SELECTED NEW BOOKS AT RRU LIBRARY:

Oceans in peril : protecting marine biodiversity / Michelle Allsopp …[et al.].
Washington. DC : Worldwatch Institute, 2007.
Call #: QH91.8.B6 O34 2007

X-teams : how to build teams that lead, innovate, and succeed / Deborah Ancona and Henrik Bresman.
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2007.
Call #: HD66 .A518 2007

Cultural education-- cultural sustainability : minority, diaspora, indigenous, and ethno-religious groups in multicultural societies / edited by Zvi Bekerman and Ezra Kopelowitz.
New York : Routledge, 2008.
Call #: LC3719 .C84 2008

Developing leadership talent / David Berke, Michael E. Kossler, Michael Wakefield.
San Francisco : Pfeiffer, c2008.
Call #: HD30.4 .B482 2008

Great debates in American environmental history / Brian Black and Donna L. Lybecker.
Westport, Conn. : Greenwood Press, 2008.
Call #: GF503 .B527 2008

Future of nostalgia / Svetlana Boym.
New York : BasicBooks ; Plymouth : Plymbridge, 2002.
Call #: CB427 .B67 2001

Working with cultural differences : dealing effectively with diversity in the workplace / Richard Brislin.
Westport, CT : Praeger Publishers, 2008.
Call #: HF5549.5.M5 B74 2008

Student engagement in campus-based and online education : university connections / Hamish Coates.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Call #: LB2395.7 .C617 2006

Women and leadership in the Canadian Forces : perspectives and experience / edited by Karen D. Davis.
Kingston, Ont. : Canadian Defence Academy Press, c2007.
Call #: UB419 C3 D38 2008

Dangerous world : natural disasters, manmade catastrophes, and the future of human survival / Marq de Villiers.
Toronto, ON : Viking Canada, c2008.
Call #: GB 5014 D48 2008

Twinkie, deconstructed : my journey to discover how the ingredients found in processed foods are grown, mined (yes, mined), and manipulated into what America eats / Steve Ettlinger.
New York, NY : Plume 2008, c2007.
Call #: TX553.A3 E85 2008

Building trust in diverse teams : the toolkit for emergency response / Emergency Capacity Building Project.
Oxford, England : Oxfam GB, c2007.
Call #: HV 551.23 .E17 2007

Originality, imitation, and plagiarism : teaching writing in the digital age / Caroline Eisner and Martha Vicinus, editors.
Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008.
Call #: PN167 .O75 2008

Authentic dissertation : alternative ways of knowing, research, and representation / Four Arrows, AKA Don Trent Jacobs.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Call #: LB2369 .J33 2008

Total leadership : be a better leader, have a richer life / Stewart D. Friedman.
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business Press, c2008.
Call #: HD57.7 .F7515 2008

Once upon a time : using story-based activities to develop breakthrough communication skills / Terrence L. Gargiulo.
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, c2007.
Call #: HF5718 .G3675 2007

Tourism and innovation / C. Michael Hall and Allan M. Williams.
London ; New York : Routledge, 2008.
Call #: G155.A1 H346 2008

Learning native wisdom : what traditional cultures teach us about subsistence, sustainability, and spirituality / Gary Holthaus.
Lexington, Ky. : University Press of Kentucky, c2008.
Call #: GE42 .H65 2008

Followership : how followers are creating change and changing leaders / Barbara Kellerman.
Boston, Mass. : Harvard Business School Press, c2008.
Call #: HD57.7 .K4477 2008

Landscape, tourism, and meaning / edited by Daniel C. Knudsen ... [et al.].
Aldershot, Hants, England ; Burlington, VT, USA : Ashgate Pub., c2008.
Call #: G155.A1 L284 2008

Monitoring for a sustainable tourism transition : the challenge of developing and using indicators / Graham Miller and Louise Twining-Ward.
Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2005.
Call #: G156.5.E26 M55 2005

Handbook of distance learning for real-time and asynchronous information technology education / Solomon Negash ... [et al.], [editors].
Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2008.
Call #: LC5803.C65 H36 2008

Original instructions : indigenous teachings for a sustainable future / edited by Melissa K. Nelson
Rochester, Vt. : Bear & Company, c2008.
Call #: GF50 .O74 2008

Wally Olins on brand / Wally Olins.
London : Thames & Hudson, 2004.
Call #: HD69.B7 O45 2005x

Emergency management and tactical response operations : bridging the gap / by Thomas D. Phelan.
Amsterdam ; Boston : Butterworth-Heinemann/Elsevier, c2008.
Call #: HV551.3 .P44 2008

Normal personality : a new way of thinking about people / Steven Reiss.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2008.
Call #: BF698 .R65 2008

Moodle teaching techniques : creative ways to use Moodle for constructing online learning solutions / William H. Rice.
Birmingham : Packt Publishing, 2007.
Call #: LB1028.5 R534 2007

Gone tomorrow : the hidden life of garbage / Heather Rogers.
New York ; London : New Press : Distributed by W.W. Norton & Company, 2005.
Call #: HD4483 .R64 2005

Acting locally : local environmental mobilizations and campaigns / edited by Christopher Rootes.
London : Routledge, 2008.
Call #: GE199.E85 A274 2008

Cultural competence in process and practice : building bridges / Juliet C. Rothman.
Boston : Pearson/Allyn and Bacon, c2008.
Call #: HV3176 .R68 2008

Reducing the stigma of mental illness : a report from a Global Programme of the World Psychiatric Association / Norman Sartorius and Hugh Schulze.
Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2005.
Call #: RC455.2.P85 S27 2005

Linkage Inc.'s best practices for succession planning : case studies, research, models, tools / edited by Mark R. Sobol, Phil Harkins, Terry Conley. , 1st ed.
San Francisco, CA : Pfeiffer ; Lexington, MA : Linkage, c2007.
Call #: HD38.2 .L565 2007

Strategic applications of distance learning technologies / Mahbubur Rahman Syed, [editor].
Hershey, PA : Information Science Reference, c2009.
Call #: LC5803.C65 S77 2009

Olympic games : a social science perspective / Kristine Toohey and A.J. Veal. , 2nd ed.
Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI Pub., c2007.
Call #: GV721.5 .T64 2007

Enhancing urban safety and security : global report on human settlements 2007 / United Nations Human Settlements Programme.
London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2007.
Call #: HT151 .E64 2007

Tourism and leisure industry : shaping the future / Klaus Weiermair, Christine Mathies, editors.
New York : Haworth Hospitality Press, c2004.
Call #: G154.9 .L45 2004