New books: March 12, 2012

Title	Author	Call number	ISBN
At the Mountains of Madness: And Other Tales of Terror	H. P. Lovecraft	PS3523 .O833A9x 1982	034530232X
Essays, Speeches, & Public Letters	William Faulkner	PS3511.A86 A6 1966	None; Library of Congress Control Number 64020036
HIV Positive	Bernard Wolf	RC607.A26 W646 1997	0525454594
Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman	PS3201 .A1 19uu	None
A Massage Therapist’s Guide to Pathology	Ruth Werner	RM721 .M366 2011	9781608319107
Microorganisms:  The Unseen World	Edward R. Ricciuti	QR57 .R53 1994	1567110401

This new batch of books for the library includes literature by three classic authors, a book for massage therapists (which can be useful for physical therapy students as well as masseuses), and two books that might seem strange inclusions.  HIV Positive and Microorganisms: the Unseen World are about topics that some of our students need to understand, but they are written for young readers.  Actually, when adults conduct research, especially about a topic that they do not know well, children's books can be a good place to start.  They might not be scholarly sources, but they can give the readers clear understandings of the topics, which helps the researcher understand more sophisticated books and articles.


Can you guess why Leaves of Grass, a book by the nineteenth century poet Walt Whitman, has a call number ending with 19uu?  There is no date of publication on this book, but it appears to have been printed sometime between 1900 and 1950; we just do not know the exact date.