New DVDs

• American Gypsy: a Stranger in Everybody’s Land  DVD DX201 .A43 1999
• Another Earth  DVD PN1997.2 .A56 2011
• Barking Water  DVD PN1997.2 .B3757 2010
• The Best of Riverdance  DVD GV1646 .I8 B47 2005
• Bird of Paradise  DVD PN1997 .B573 2012
• Branded. The complete series  DVD PN1992.8 .W4 B736 2009
• The Browning Version  DVD PN1995.9 .T4 B76 2005
• Detective Dee and the Mystery of the Phantom Flame  DVD PN 1997.2 .D5746 2011
• Fort Apache  DVD PN1997 .F6765 2012
• Grand Canyon National Park  DVD G332 .G7 G73 1995
• The Greatest Pet Rescue Ever  DVD HV4766 .N49 G74 2010
• In the Presence of Mine Enemies  DVD PN1997 .I51612 2005
• Irish Writers  DVD PR5823 .I74 2009
• Jake’s Corner  DVD PN1997.2 .J354 2010
• Jane Austen: a Concise Biography   DVD PR4036 .J3 J364 2005
• Rainbow Tribe   DVD PN 1995.9 .C55 R356 2011
• Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale     DVD PN1997.2 .R375 2011
• Red Tails: the Real Story of the Tuskagee Airmen  DVD UG834 .A37 R44 2012
• Secret at Arrow Lake  DVD PN 1997.2 .S43 2011
• Secrets of the Titanic DVD G530 .T6 S437 2012
• A Smile as Big as the Moon  DVD PN1997.2 .S6554 2012
• War Horse  DVD PN1997.2 .W37 2012
•  Who Do You Think You Are? Season 2 DVD CS69 .W46 2012
• Woody Allen: a Documentary  DVD PN1998.3 .A45 W663 2012

Have a Question? We Have Answers!

Do you think the only reason to come to the NHTI Library is to find a book?  It’s not so!

Scan the list of questions NHTI students ask to get a sense of the ways we can help you.

In my art history class, I picked the Woolworth Building in New York.  Where do I find information about the architect, Gilbert Cass, and the other buildings he designed?

How can I evaluate this article from ERIC for my source list?

Do e-cigarettes work for smokers who want to quit?  What’s their effect on the body?

What is a personality disorder? Where can I find a list of the personality disorders recognized?

Do you have a question? Visit us, call us, email us or talk with the library folk via Zoho on the NHTI Library home page. 

Faculty Books on Display

Stop by the Library during the month of August to see a collection of books published by NHTI faculty! The display features more than a dozen faculty authors.

Angel, Battle- Axe or Doctor’s Handmaiden? How Movies and the Media Portray Nurses

A search of the Ebsco Databases for nurses in movies uncovered an article by David Stanley, Celluloid Angels: A Research Study of Nurses in Feature Films 1900–2007. His study examines the media influence on nursing and nurses portrayed in feature films made between 1900 and 2007, with a nurse as the main or principal character and a story-line related to nursing. During this review, 280 relevant feature films were identified and evaluated because they offered insight into the image of nurses. Within this time period the nurse role evolved from self-sacrificial heroines to strong, confident professionals, as they are today.

Literature Review on the Images of the Nurse and Nursing in the Media by Jacqueline Bridges focuses on the image of nurses and nursing most commonly seen in the media. The study analyses the use of the label 'angel' to depict the selfless attitude exposed, the portrayal of the authoritarian senior nurse image in motion pictures, the image of nurses in 1950s and 1960s along with other stereotypes.

The book Nursing the Image: Media, Image and Professional Identity by Julia Hallam can be found in eBrary, the database of electronic books found on the library’s database page. 

Ray Bradbury

American science-fiction author, Ray Bradbury, the writer of short stories and novels, died June 5, 2012, after publishing numerous short-story collections and novels. When you look up Ray Bradbury in Encyclopedia Britannica, you will learn he was known for his novels that “blend social criticism with an awareness of the hazards of runaway technology.” Check out the web site, Ray Bradbury, maintained by his publisher Harper Collins.

Follow this connection to his Sunday Times short story, The Link, published in 2009. A gifted and prolific writer, Ray produced more than 500 published works. He is noted for his book, Fahrenheit 451, the Martian Chronicles, a collection of short stories, the screenplay for John Huston’s adaptation of Moby Dick and scripts for 65 episodes of the TV show, Ray Bradbury Theater.

Here’s a snapshot of the Bradbury books/DVD in the NHTI Library:

• Moby Dick Produced and directed by John Huston  DVD PS2384 .M629 M629 1984
• Now and Forever.   PS3503 .R167 N69 2007
• A Pleasure to Burn: Fahrenheit 451 Stories.   PS3503 .R167 A6 2011
• Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451: the Authorized Adaptation.   PN6727 .H28 R39 2009
• Zen in the Art of Writing. PS3503 .E478 Z478 1994

New EBSCOhost App: Database Searching on the Go

EBSCOhost now offers a mobile app for your iPhone, iPad, iTouch or Android.  

The app offers a search box to find sources, a check box to designate full-text or peer-reviewed articles, a date range to select the time period and other options. You may save searches to repeat before your paper is due and/or save articles to use off-line. There’s a help button and a toll-free phone number for support if you get stuck.

Here’s how to find the app:

From the NHTI Library homepage, http://www.nhti.edu/library/index.html, click on the Quick Search button. On this page at the bottom, select NEW: EBSCOhost new iphone and Android applications.

Enter your preferred email address for instruction, key and a link to download the app. For more information, click Learn More.

Review- Waiting for Sunrise: A Novel

Waiting for Sunrise: A Novel

William Boyd (2012)

PR6052.O9192 W35 2012

Vienna, 1913, under lemony summer skies at the corner of the Augustinerstraße where it intersects with the Augustinerbastei is where Waiting for Sunrise opens. The author, William Boyd, just a page earlier has provided the reader with a slightly unsettling epigraph, a quote from Hemingway, “A thing is true at first light and a lie by noon.” Tucked in the back of the reader’s mind, the impact of the epigraph only comes to have full meaning in Sunrise’s denouement. In between Boyd spins a beautifully observed masterful tale of pre-war Europe, especially Vienna and London, and the height of the First World War, moving from Vienna to Geneva to the trenches to England and London.

Lysander Reif, a young English actor, is in Vienna seeking psychotherapy for a troubling sexual problem and gets caught up in an affair with an enigmatic English woman. With the help of mysterious British diplomats, Reif has to make a desperate escape from Vienna and they, in turn, ensnare Reif into the world of spies, intrigue and murder – where lines of truth and deception blur with every waking day - as countries pitch headlong into the cataclysm of the world at war. 

One of the most compelling aspects of Waiting for Sunrise are the echoes and pacing of writers like Paul Hofmann, Robert Musil, John Buchan and Graham Greene. But Boyd’s work is his own as we follow Reif’s story and wait for sunrise to hopefully make clear the truths found in shadows. As we discover, not all things are as they appear to be.