Default Prevention Advice

Our default prevention counselor, Annamaria Carmen, has a Facebook page.  You may have seen Annamaria speak at IHE about managing your loans.  Look at her page to see announcements related to your finances.  For example, she just posted:

Good morning everyone!! As a reminder, the 2012 tax season is a great time to select an affordable repayment plan for your Federal Student loans. Contact your school counselor directly at (646) 738-7986 for more information or visit StudentAid.Ed.Gov and click on "How Do I Manage My Loans" then "Repayment Plans" then "Get Details About Repayment Plans". If you have already filed your 2012 Tax Return, apply for a new repayment plan if you have financial hardship. If you are in the process of filing your 2012 Tax return, check out the calculators under "Quick Links" to see what your estimated monthly payments could be. Some students can be approved for very low even $0 per month payments and avoid delinquency without the need to apply for deferments or forbearances! Please take advantage of these new opportunities! — in Jersey City.

  

The IHE Library is now open only on Mondays, Tuesdays, and Wednesdays. If you'd like to meet with your librarian, you may want to make an appointment or at least call ahead.  You can email me at agerber@ihe.edu or call me at (201) 217-1113.

 

The newest resource in the IHE Library is a book called The Psychology of the Body by Elliot Greene and Barbara Goodrich-Dunn (call number RM721 .G773 2013, ISBN 9781608311569).  It's written for massage therapy students, but if you are interested in the relationship between people's minds and bodies, you might find this book interesting.

New resources (February 5, 2013) and an easy $50

New Resources

Title	Authors	Call number	ISBN
College Writing Skills with Readings	John Langan	PE1408 .L3178 2013	9780078036279
Communicating at Work:  Strategies for Success in Business and the Professions	Ronald B. Adler	HF5718 .A33 2013	9780078036804
English Essentials:  What Every College Student Needs to Know about Grammar, Punctuation, and Usage	John Langan	PE1112 .L26 2013	9780073533322
Essentials of Anatomy & Physiology	Kenneth S. Saladin	QP34.5 .S232 2014	9780072458282
Market Leader:  Business English, various levels, books, CDs	David Cotton, et al.	PE1128 .M3758	9781408237052, others
Medical Insurance Made Easy:  Understanding the Claim Cycle	Jill L. Brown	RA412.2 .B76 2006	9780721605562

IHE grads:  Make an easy $50

A message from the Career Services Department

Hello, IHE grads. IHE would like to know how you are doing. Are you employed? If so, you can get $50, compliments of IHE. Call Deborah now at (201) 217-1113. This offer expires Friday, February 8, 2013, at 3 PM.

New Resources: January 28, 2013

Title	Author(s)	Call number	ISBN
Accurate English:  A Complete Course in Pronunciation	Rebecca M. Dauer	PE1137 .D36 1993	0130072532
Business English	Mary Ellen Guffey	PE1115 .G83 2014	9781133627500
Business Essentials	Ronald J. Ebert	HD70.U5 E2 2013	9780132664028
Cambridge English for Nursing:  Intermediate +	Virginia Allum	PE1127.M4 A44 2010 I+	9780521715409
Cambridge English for Nursing: Pre- Intermediate	Virginia Allum	PE1127.M4 A44 2010 PI	9780521141338
Clear Speech from the Start:  Basic Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in North American English	Judy B. Gilbert	PE1128 .G52 2012 FSTR	0521637376
Clear Speech:  Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in North American English	Judy B. Gilbert	PE1128 .G52 2012	9781107682955
Comp	Randall VanderMey, et al.	PE1408 .V39 2013	9781133307747
Contemporary Topics:  Academic Listening and Note-Taking Skills (various levels, including books, DVDs, CDs)	Helen Sophia  Solórzano, et al.	PE1128 .S5949 2009	9780132355704, others
English Pronunciation Made Simple	Paulette Dale	PE1157 .D355 2005	0131115960
Focus on Pronunciation (volumes 1-3)	Linda Lane	PE1137 .L22 2013	9780132314930, 9780132314947, 9780132315005
Future English for Results (various levels, including books, DVDs, CDs)	Marjorie Fuchs, et al.	PE1128 .N56 2009-2010	9780131991446, others
Future Literacy Workbook:  With Audio CD	Sara Lynn	PE1128 .L966 2012	9780132680202
Presenting	Susan Lowe, Louise Pile	HF5718.22 .L69 2007	9781900783958
Professional English in Use	Eric H. Glendinning	PE1128 .G53 2007	9780521682015
Sound Advantage:  A Pronunciation Book	Stacy A. Hagen	PE1137 .H27 1992	0138161909
Speech Communication Made Simple	Paulette Dale	PN4121 .D327 2012	0132861690
Whaddya Say?:  Guided Practice in Relaxed Speech	Nina J. Weinstein	PE1128 .W4264 2001	0201670402

Most of these books, CDs, and DVDs are about English.  This is because of IHE’s expanding English as a Second Language programs.  Most of these books can be found in Room 5 in the bookshelves closest to the hallway.  The CD and DVD collection is next door in the Learning Resource Center.

Fight the flu

The Institute for Health Education Library is an affiliate member of the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, Middle Atlantic Region.  Therefore, I sometimes receive important information about health-related information.  Here are some excepts from one such email that I received.  It includes information on how during this flu epidemic you can use knowledge to protect your health.

New York and Boston have declared Public Health Emergencies.  Dr. Anthony Facui, Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the National Institutes of Health, has indicated that we are in what is classically described as a flu epidemic.  In response to this, as librarians and information specialists, we can share messages through our social media communication tools on reliable and trustworthy health information.

Below are suggested messages developed by the Health and Human Services New Media Team.  Consider using them on your accounts this week! 

Siobhan Champ-Blackwell, MSLIS (Contractor), Health Sciences Librarian, Aquilent, Inc., supporting the mission of the National Library of Medicine, Specialized Information Services Division   

Disaster Information Management Research Center...

* It takes 2 weeks after vaccination for you to be protected. Use our finder to find a #flu vaccine center near you. http://bit.ly/Soutac

  * Teachers-help keep your classrooms free of germs. Teach healthy habits at school to prevent flu in your classroom. http://go.usa.gov/gmfJ 

  * There are three different types of #flu shot and a nasal spray. Which is the right one for you? http://go.usa.gov/YpKQ 

 * #Flu activity is high across most states in the US now. Learn more about preventing #flu. Visit www.flu.gov 

   * Vaccination is the best protection against #flu but vaccine may be limited in some areas. Use http://flushot.healthmap.orgto locate vaccine.

* Got the #flu? Don't share it. Stay home for at least 24 hours after your fever goes away. Visit www.Flu.gov 

* It's #flu season. www.Flu.gov <http://www.Flu.gov> provides advice on caring for yourself and loved ones who are sick.

  * If you still need #flu vaccine, now's the time to get vaccinated.  #Flu is widespread in many states.

  * #FluView, a weekly report of #flu activity in the U.S., is available on the @CDCgov website at http://1.usa.gov/e30wKG

  * Find out what's happening near you on the @CDCgov #flu map. http://www.cdc.gov/flu/weekly/usmap.htm...

  * If you haven't already been vaccinated for the flu, now's the time.  Vaccine may be limited in some areas.  You may need to contact more than one provider (pharmacy, health department, or doctor) to find available vaccine. Visit www. http://flushot.healthmap.org for more information. 

  * Learn more about how to care for loved ones with the flu, including people at high risk (children, seniors, and people with chronic conditions). Start by getting vaccinated, practicing healthy habits like covering your mouth and nose with a tissue when you cough or sneeze, and washing hands regularly.  Visit www.flu.gov for more information. 

*Nicholas Garlow*, Digital Communications Division, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

New titles, January 9, 2013

Title	Author(s)	ISBN	Call number	Topics/Genre
Chicken Soup for the Kid’s Soul:  101 Stories of Courage, Hope, and Laughter	Compiled by Jack Canfield, et al.	0439159849	BJ1661 .C295 2001	Children—conduct of life; children’s writings
Foucault’s Pendulum	Umberto Eco	0151327653	PQ4865 .C6 P4613 1989	Psychological / occult fiction
The Golden Compass	Philip Pullman	0440238137	PZ7 .P968 Go 2003	Fantasy fiction
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone	J. K. Rowling	059035342X	PZ7 .R79835 Har 1998	Wizards – Juvenile fiction
The Lost Symbol:  A Novel	Dan Brown	9780385504225	PS3552 .R685434 L67 2009	Adventure / suspense fiction
The Pact:  Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream	Sampson Davis, et al.	9781573229890	R695 .D38 2002	African-American physicians—biography
The Patient’s Desk Reference:  Where to Find Answers to Medical Questions	Melvyn N. Freed	0028971531	RC81 .F865 1994	Medicine—Information services
The River King	Alice Hoffman	0399145990	PS3558 .O3447 R58 2000	Psychological / mystery fiction
The Silmarillion	J. R. R. Tolkien	0345325818	PR6039.O32 S53 1982	Fantastic fiction
The Templar Revelation:  Secret Guardians of the True Identity of Christ	Lynn Picknett	0684848910	BT1315.2 .P53 1998x	Jesus-- Controversial literature

The Pact:  Three Young Men Make a Promise and Fulfill a Dream is a nonfiction book about three doctors who, according to the back cover, “grew up on the streets of Newark, facing city life's temptations, pitfalls, even jail.  But one day these three young men made a pact.  They promised each other they would all become doctors, and stick it out together through the long, difficult journey to attain that dream.  Sampson Davis, George Jenkins, and Rameck Hunt are not only friends to this day—they are all doctors.  This is a story about the power of friendship.  Of joining forces and beating the odds.  A story about changing your life, and the lives of those you love most…together.”

Some of these books have connections to others you may have read.  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone is the first book in a famous series.  The Golden Compass begins the trilogy His Dark Materials, an even more challenging British fantasy series popular with adults and children.  The Lost Symbol is the latest adventure of Robert Landgon, the hero of Angels and Demons and The Da Vinci Code.  The Silmarrillion includes stories that take place in the same world as Tolkien’s most famous works, The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings.