A Perfect Opportunity For A Bookl

November has finally come and gone.  We are now in the depths of autumn. As the temperatures begin to drop and the rain clouds invade the skies, going outside is a lot less fun than it used to be. However, it is also the perfect opportunity to snuggle under a warm blanket and read a book. The library has plenty of books to choose from, but here are just a few of them.

By The Light of the Moon by Dean Koontz (813.54 KOONTZ K)


Dylan O'Connor, on his way to an arts festival in Santa Fe, is attacked by a mysterious "doctor" who injects him with an unknown substance and tells him that he is now a carrier of something that will either kill him or transform his life. Then he is told that he must flee--before the doctor's enemies hunt him down for the secret circulating through his body. No one can help him, the doctor says, not even the police. The next 24 hours turn into an odyssey of terror, mystery--and wondrous discovery. 

Camille by Alexander Dumas (843.7 Dumas D)

The book begins with a sale of a courtesan's things after her death. The narrator happens to go there by chance, and intrigued by what he saw, decides to write about her life. Margaret Gautier was the most popular and sought-after courtesan in Paris. Her symbol was the white camellia, which she wore whenever she was . . . available for business. However, she casts off her upper-class lifestyle for the commoner Armand Duval. But try as they might, society constantly challenges their love.

Ordeal by Nevil Shute (823.912 SHUTE S)

Written in 1938, just before the Second World War broke out, Ordeal is what Nevil Shute, and possibly the rest of Europe, feared would happen.The story follows the Corbett family as they try to survive multiple bombings, cholera, food shortages, and life aboard their small little yacht in the south of England.The Corbetts are good people, but sometimes they have to resort to more monstrous means in order to take care of their family and survive.

The Brief and Frightening Rein of Phil by George Saunders (813.54 SAUNDERS S)

Phil used to be a perfectly ordinary guy, with a perfectly ordinary hate for the people of Inner Horner until one day the country of Inner Horner shrinks and its few residents find themselves standing inn the country of Outer Horner. Never one to waste a chance, Phil claims that they are invading the country and must be punished. It begins innocently enough with a tax, but before long, Phil becomes so power-hungry that he feels the need to rule everything and get rid of the Inner Hornerites. In short, it is probably the strangest story about war that you will ever find, but it's wonderfully entertaining.

The Time Machine, The Invisible Man, The War of The Worlds by H.G. Wells (823.912 WELLS W)
H.G. Wells has a reputation for being one of the fathers of science fiction, and that rests mainly on these three novels. The Time Machine follows its scientist narrator to the year 802701 A.D. where two social classes have evolved into two separate races. The Invisible Man is about a scientist who discovers a way to make himself invisible and then becomes disconnected from society and from his own mind. The War of the Worlds features an alien invasion by martians who devastate the earth and feed on human victims while the red weed spreads over the planet.

Extra open hours this Friday and Saturday

Once again the UCC Library will be open some extra hours this Friday and Saturday to help you study for upcoming finals!

 We'll be open:

• 7:30 am -- 6 pm Friday, Dec. 2nd 
• 11 am -- 7 pm on Saturday, Dec. 3rd for the ASUCC Study-In

Please join us for Science (and Math, Literature, and everything else)!  Good luck with those final papers and exams. 

Is School Not Keeping You Busy Enough?

Did Halloween come and go too fast this year? Do you wish Thanksgiving would turn into Halloween II? Well now it can! Stay in the scary spirit with watching these movies and reading these books to help the time pass by until the warm weather comes back! Lucky for you, all of these can be found in the UCC library!

Just After Sunset
By: Stephen King

Scare your socks off with these short stories!

"Starred Review. Culled almost entirely from leading mainstream periodicals, these stories are a testament to the literary merits of the well-told macabre tale." - Publishers Weekly

"An uneven collection, but King has plainly had a ball writing these stories." - Kirkus Reviews

Shaun Of The Dead - DVD 791.43 S

Shaun doesn't have a very good day, so he decides to turn his life around by getting his ex to take him back, but he times it for right in the middle of what may be a zombie apocalypse... But for him, it's an opportunity to show everyone he knows how useful he is by saving them all. All he has to do is survive... And get his ex back.

Scanners - DVD 791.43 1980 S

Scanners have great psychic power, strong enough to control minds; they can inflict enormous pain and damage on their victims. Doctor Paul Ruth finds a scanner that Darryl Revok (the leader of the underground scanner movement for world domination) hasn't, and converts him to the good side so they can destroy the underground movement together.

Alien - DVD 791.43 A

The crew of the deep space mining ship Nostromo are awaken from hypersleep to investigate a strange signal from a nearby planet. While investigating the signal, they discover it was intended as a warning, and not an SOS.

Kitty's House Of Horrors
By: Carrie Vaughn - PB V

Talk radio host and werewolf Kitty Norville has agreed to appear on TV's first all-supernatural reality show. She's expecting cheesy competitions and manufactured drama starring shapeshifters, vampires, and psychics. But what begins as a publicity stunt will turn into a fight for her life.

An American Werewolf In London - 

DVD 791.43 A

Two American students are on a tour of Britain and are attacked by a Werewolf, leaving one dead and the other badly injured. The Werewolf is killed but reverts to its human form, and the local townspeople are unwilling to acknowledge its existence. The surviving student begins to have nightmares of hunting on four feet, but then his friend and other recent victims start appearing to him and demand the he find a way to die to release them from their curse of being trapped between worlds.

Night Of The Living Dead -
DVD 791.43 N

A group of people are trapped inside a farmhouse as legions of the walking dead try to get inside and eat their brains...Yum.. Can they get out of a zombie attack alive?

What Journals Do We Subscribe To??

You may have noticed our diminishing display shelves for new issues of magazines? Paper magazines/journals are seeing less use every year for research (and recreation). Some have gone out of business; others are neglected. Then we cancel the subscription. However, our magazine collection is bigger than ever. Aggregators, companies such as EBSCO and Gale, have thousands of full text titles in their databases and the UCC library has dozens of these databases. Our biggest database of magazine/journal articles is EBSCOHost Academic Search Premier but Gale, CQ Researcher, and LexisNexis also provide access to tens of thousands of articles. Meanwhile, both EBSCO and Gale produce many subject databases, some with unique journal titles.

What if you are looking for a specific journal? How are you supposed to know which database includes that title? Well, EBSCO has a database for that:

It's name is A-to-Z Index and it looks just about as plain as its name:



But it does get the job done: type in the name of a journal and the results of your search will give you a list of those databases where your journal is available in full text.

In "advanced search" you can search general subjects like children or crime or music to see a list of journals on that topic and which database provides the full text.

Obviously, it should be said that if one of our database subscriptions does NOT have the full text of the journal you are looking for, then there will be no results for your search. (Check for typos or ask the library staff for help at any time!)

Something to Talk About

For those of you that like to know strange facts and perhaps entertain others with your obscure knowledge, here are some books you could read.

 Rats: Observations on the History & Habitat of the City's Most Unwanted Inhabitants by Robert Sullivan (599.35 S)


Rats are not usually the best conversation starter and should probably be left out of one's dinner conversation, and to most people they're disgusting little creatures that are better off dead than alive. They're everywhere and nobody really likes to think about them. But how have we tried to get rid of them and what part have they played in our history? By hanging around the alleys of New York, Robert Sullivan set out to find the answers.

The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus: All the Words; Volume One and Two (791.4572 C)

"Almost certainly nominated for something somewhere," these two books contain the 45 episodes of Monty Python's flying circus. Literally, all the words. If, through watching the episodes, you haven't yet been able to memorize all the lines, here is your chance.

Monty Python Speaks! by David Morgan (791.4572 M)

But wait, there's more! To compliment the witty sketches of Monty Python's Flying Circus, you can learn about how it all came to be in the first place. Monty Python Speaks is the history of the show as told by its founding members and many other people. The San Francisco Chronicle called it "the nearest thing imaginable to a group autobiography." Go behind the scenes with the actors to take a look at the show and their lives behind the scenes.

Candyfreak: A Journey Through the Chocolate Underbelly of America by Steve Almond (338.476 A)


Most people in this world love candy, but perhaps none so much as Steve Almond. He has had a piece of candy very single day of his life and thinks about candy about once an hour. That is why he noticed the disappearance of many delicious candy bars throughout the years. Thus he embarked on a journey through the nation to find out what happened and discover the truth about the candy business.

 And last, but most definitely not least, have you ever wanted to learn Klingon? If you have, there is a Klingon dictionary located in the library for anyone to enjoy. Complete with lessons in grammar, the language from Star Trek is available to you.

The Klingon Dictionary: English-Klingon, Klingon-English by Marc Okrand (791.45 O)