OT Assignment: Autobiographies on Mental or Physical Challenges

For an OT assignment: Find an autobiography by someone who has faced a mental or physical challenge.

It's hard to find this kind of book in a regular library catalog. Write me personally if you want to know the details. marti.smith@alvernia.edu

In helping a student tonight, I went to amazon after not finding her first choice in the online catalog. http://www.amazon.com/

The student had asked if we had the book called "The Monster Within." We didn't, but I looked it up on amazon so that I could get some titles that might be on the same subject. Then she could look up some of the titles to see what we did have. Unfortunately, we don't have any autobiographies, as far as I could tell, that deal with eating disorders. Please let me know if you find any. I might have looked under more specific eating disorders, but I suggested that she fill out an Inter-Library Loan form for the book she really wanted.

http://www.alvernia.edu/library/resources.htm Look here for the ILL form.

Searching on amazon lead me to some good titles that I will suggest we order for the collection. In addition to "The Monster Within," a book by Marya Hornbacher called "Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia" got good reviews. There was a list of others for those of you interested in the subject.

Now I'm going to do some more searching so we'll be able to help other students in the class. Please let me know if you have ideas for good books for this assignments. Other topics I'm going to explore include depression, blindness, earing loss, MS, lupus, missing limbs, and bipolar disorder.

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Librarians on the Move: Look for Us Outside the Building

Beginning with Spring Semester, librarians will be roving around the campus with laptops. We want you to use our services and resources. Look for us.

Saturday Workshop on Searching the Databases

Interested. Let me know. We could meet as a group or individually on Saturday between 10 and 2. A librarian is on duty every Saturday. Comment here and we'll get something scheduled.

Invite a Librarian to Class

Alvernia has five librarians who are available to teach classes. We can come to you or you can bring your class to us. Two of us, Leon and Curtis, staff day time hours (8am to 4pm); Kristin works late afternoon until 10:30. Sharon and Marti are also available. Most weeks Marti works on Wednesdays and Thursdays until 10:30 and other days from 10am-7pm. Call or email us and we'll figure it out! We can also prepare materials for you to use on your WebCT course site or to email your students. We're working hard to get students into our electronic databases through hot links. Look here for more ideas.

Adjunct Faculty Orientation

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