News from Mardigian Library: New art curator and gallery manager

The Mardigian Library and Berkowitz Gallery welcomes Laura Cotton
We are pleased to welcome Laura Cotton as the new art curator and gallery manager for the Alfred Berkowitz Gallery. She replaces Joseph Marks, who retired in August after 36 years of service to the university.

Cotton comes to the university with more than 18 years of experience in the art field. She has worked at a variety of galleries and museums, including the Corning Museum of Glass, the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art and the Adirondack Museum. Cotton has excellent experience in managing gallery operations and special collections, including curating and mounting exhibitions. Most recently, she was interim curator for the Powell County Museum & Arts Foundation in Deer Lodge, Montana. The foundation operates a complex of five history museums, an art gallery and the Old Montana Prison. An art exhibition curated by Cotton will open in the prison this summer. Imagine the challenges of creating an art exhibition for a prison built in the late 19^th century!

Cotton received a Master of Arts in Museology from the University of Washington in Seattle. Her Bachelor of Arts degree is in art/art administration from Whitworth College in Spokane, Washington.

Please join us in welcoming her to campus; a reception will be held later this semester. Stay tuned for details!

Trial Database
The Mardigian Library has received trial offers for the following database:

PsycBOOKS
Trial through: June 30, 2015
“PsycBOOKS” includes over 3,500 books published by the American Psychological Association. Approximately 2,600 titles are books of historical significance going back to the 1600s, including titles from the “Archives of the History of American Psychology” collection.

If you are interested in trying the above database, please click on the Trial Databases link and sign in with your User name and Kerberos login.

We encourage you to try this database and give us some feedback. A positive review does not guarantee that we will have funds to acquire it; but it could help us determine whether we should pursue this item when funds are available. You may send your feedback to: [email protected].

Resource Updates
E-Book Updates

Branding the Nation: The Global Business of National Identity by Melissa Aronczyk (Oxford University Press, ©2013)
Nation branding has become a worldwide phenomenon. It has become a solution to perceived problems affecting the nation-state such as: problems of economic development, democratic communication, nation visibility, and legitimacy in the modern world. Aronczyk examines what actually happens to the nation when it is reconceived as a brand, and how this changes the terms of politics and culture in a globalized world.

Medical Anthropology and the World System : Critical Perspectives 3^rd edition, by Hans A. Baer, Merrill Singer, and Ida Susser (Praeger, ©2013)
The third edition includes updated and expanded information on medical anthropology. The authors address the nature and scope of medical anthropology along with the biosocial and political ecological origins of disease, health inequities, social suffering, health praxis, and the struggle for a healthy world. The relationship between climate change and health is one of the new topics covered in this edition.

Database Updates

Cochrane Library
Cochrane Library is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform health-care decision making regarding the effectiveness of healthcare treatments and interventions, as well as methodology and diagnostic tests. Included are:

• Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews — the leading resource for systematic reviews in healthcare. Each Cochrane Review is a peer-reviewed systematic review. Currently there are over 5,000 Cochrane Reviews including nearly 2,000 protocols providing an explicit description of the research methods and objectives for Cochrane Reviews in progress. Existing Reviews are updated as new information becomes available.
• Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials — includes details of published articles taken from bibliographic databases (notably MEDLINE and EMBASE), and other published and unpublished sources as part of the preparation of a Cochrane Review.
• Cochrane Methodology Register Database — a bibliography of publications that report on methods used in the conduct of controlled trials. It includes journal articles, books, and conference proceedings, and the content is sourced from MEDLINE and hand searches. The Cochrane Methodology Register contains studies of methods used in reviews and more general methodological studies that could be relevant to anyone preparing systematic reviews.
• Health Technology Assessment Database — brings together details of completed and ongoing health technology assessments (studies of the medical, social, ethical, and economic implications of healthcare interventions) from around the world. The aim of the HTA Database is to improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of health care.
• NHS Economic Evaluation Database — focuses primarily on the economic evaluation of health care interventions. Economic evaluations are studies in which a comparison of two or more interventions or care alternatives is undertaken and in which both the costs and outcomes of the alternatives are examined. This includes cost-benefit analyses, cost-utility analyses, and cost-effectiveness analyses. Note: the primary focus of this database is British (the National Health Service of Great Britain).