Archive for August, 2009
August 31, 2009 at 9:54 am · Filed under Hours
We at the Library extend best wishes and felicitations to both new and returning students. Please remember that we are here to help you, no matter what your information needs. The regular hours for the Library look like this:
Monday-Thursday 7:30am – 10pm; Friday 7:30am – 5pm; Saturday 9am – 5pm; Sunday 11am – 5pm. 5pm The Library will be closed from Saturday, 9/5 through Monday 9/7, and Thursday, 11/26 through Sunday, 11/29; we’ll have extended hours for exams on Monday 12/14-Thursday 12/17 staying open until 11pm. A more detailed calendar is here.
Here are some handy NJCU sites for you. When you need to contact a department or faculty member, use the university’s online campus directories. To purchase textbooks for your courses and to see if there are used cheaper copies, access the bookstore. If you need to consult master course lists or catalogs, you may come to the Library or peruse the latest versions here. And let us not forget the Office of Campus Life. All students should read the NJCU Student Handbook – the Gothic Guide – and be familiar with NJCU’s Academic Integrity Policy, Copyright Policy and Related Guidelines, and its Responsible Use of Computing Resources. Also, please peruse the award-winning Gothic Magazine and keep up with the Gothic Knights sports teams at this official and informative site. And read about the history of NJCU as well. Make the most of your time here.
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August 27, 2009 at 9:19 am · Filed under Reports
The CARS(Car Allowance Rebate System) program, which ended on Monday, August 24, resulted in 700,000 older polluting vehicles being removed from the road at a cost of just under $3 billion. More statistics, including what models were turned in for what new improved mileage cars, can be accessed here. FYI, New Jersey generated a little over $103 million in vouchers.
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August 26, 2009 at 8:07 am · Filed under Education, New Jersey, Statistics
The Collge Board has just released College Bound Seniors 2009, a detailed report examining the results of the SAT tests taken through March 2009 by the high school graduating cohort of 2009. More than 1.5 million students took the SATs, the results of which are broken into academic and demographic tables/statistics. For example, Table 17 which deals with foreign languages reveals that those who took Latin scored highest in critical reading, while those who studied Chinese scored highest in mathematics. What is also instructional in this table is the gender breakdown of language takers. There are separate reports for the fifty states; New Jersey‘s report, based on over 84,000 test takers, includes intended college major(table 26) and the top 45 institutions to whom SAT scores were submitted(table 27).
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August 18, 2009 at 10:13 am · Filed under Health/Nursing
This guide from the Sustance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration lists more than 11000 licensed or certified centers which can be searched by geographic location. Each facility listing provides contact information, special services offered, payment method, and intended audience(HIV/AIDS, pregnant women, co-occurring substance abuse and mental disorders).
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August 18, 2009 at 8:32 am · Filed under History, Interviews
We had previously posted on this topic, but have since found another site sponsored by the University of Michigan at Dearborn’s Holocaust Survivor Oral History Archives. Hundreds of interviews reside here with more than fifty available online; you can listen to the interviews as well as read a transcript of them. Each posting is accompanied by maps and photos. Newer interviews are added occasionally.
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August 13, 2009 at 11:50 am · Filed under Databases, Fun
Want to read Quentin Tarantino’s script for his latest – Inglourious Basterds? Or the revised final screenplay for our favorite movie – The Searchers? Or for the Alien movies, the Back to the Future series, Sunset Boulevard, or Army of Darkness? They and hundreds of others repose at the Internet Movie Script Database. Ranging across the decades and genres, this unique repository allows readers access to drafts, shooting scripts, and screenplays in a simple HTML format. For those who love movies and wonder how they get to where they do, the IMSDB is certainly a place to start.
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August 13, 2009 at 9:49 am · Filed under Health/Nursing, New Jersey
New Jersey becomes the 14th state to require medical insurers to cover treatments for children with autism. The bill, A2238, provides up to $36,000 per year in treatments for individuals with autism 21 years of age or younger. To see which other states have enacted similar legislation and to view the status of autism legislation in general, please consult the Autism Legislation Database. To read more, please consult The Star-Ledger‘s series of reports on autism in the Garden State. The Record produced an in-depth series of reports in 2006; this paper has also recently published an article on the plight on autistic children as they transition into adulthood.
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August 6, 2009 at 10:53 am · Filed under Reports
It comes as no surprise to parents that the costs associated with child-rearing continue to spiral up. This report, Expenditures on Children by Families, 2008, from the US Department of Agriculture provides the grim numbers. And guess what, gentle reader, the urban northeast proves to be the most expensive area to raise children(see p.13 of the report). Reports back to 1995 can be accessed here. ABCNews provides a helpful calculator(caution: not to be used by the faint of heart). And remember, these tables don’t include college costs since the survey ends at 17.
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August 3, 2009 at 9:47 am · Filed under Current Events, Reports
This report – No Rhyme or Reason – from the New York State Attorney General’s office highlights the scandalous bonus payouts to officials whose institutions received TARP funds. For example, Goldman Sachs, which received $10 billion in TARP monies, paid out over $4.8 billion in 2008 bonuses. In fact, the four top recipients received a combined total of $45.9 million.
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