Teens having plastic surgery?!?!

There has been a long debate about plastic surgery and how it may or may not help with self esteem and body image issues. However, this debates seems more important with the rise in teenagers having plastic surgery and altering their bodies. According to the cover story in today's USA Today,Cosmetic Surgeries: What Children Will Do to Look 'Normal', over 160,000 children had plastic surgery in 2008. The story mentions surgeries ranging from creating an outer ear to a teenage girl who had liposuction because she felt her calves were too thick. Which one or both constitute the surgery being medically necessary? Does psychological well being justify plastic surgery? To find out more about the topic, check out these resources from our collection:

Made Over in America (DVD)
P96 .I34 M3346x 2007

Straight Talk About Cosmetic Surgery
R118 .P47 2007

Beauty Junkies: inside our $15 billion obsession with cosmetic surgery
RD118 .K83 2006

Body Image: understanding dissatisfaction in men, women, and children
BF 697.5 .B63 G76 2008

The Media and Body Image: if looks could kill
P94.6 .W95 2005

Celebrity/Culture
P94.6 .C376 2006

Healthcare Reform

There is much more talk lately about healthcare reform. Unlike the last push for reform in the early 1990's, even the medical industry is on board. The United States is the only developed nation that does not have a national health care system. President Obama has developed a proposal to cover uninsured Americans but the Republicans have concerns over the impact it will have on Americans and their current healthcare options and quality. If you want to more about the reform, check out CNN's website on What You Need To Know About Health Care Reform. Our collection also have sources for you about health care, reform, and the options that are being proposed:

Health Care
RA 395. A3 H3854x 2008

National Health Insurance in the United States and Canada : race, territory, and the roots of difference
RA 412.2 .B69 2008

The Healthcare Fix : universal insurance for all Americans
RA412.2 .K68 2007

Protecting the Poor : a microinsurance compendium
HG9383 .P76 2006

Reinsuring Health : why more middle-class people are uninsured and what government can do
HG9396 .S93 2006

Health policy and the uninsured
RA413.7.U53 H434 2004

fossils, teeth, and eggs!!!

We have a new display in the library showcasing fossils. The display includes teeth from fish like the giant C. megalodon and from vertebrates like the horse, bison, and elephant.





We also have on display some ostrich eggs, which are roughly the same size as dinosaur eggs would have been.


The display is courtesy of Dr. William Straight, Professor of Geology here at NOVA Loudoun. His paper, BONE LESIONS IN HADROSAURS: COMPUTED TOMOGRAPHIC IMAGING AS A GUIDE FOR PALEOHISTOLOGIC AND STABLE-ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS, is now published in the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology. Check out the press release for more details. You can access the whole article through the BioOne database available through the library. It is listed in our Articles database under Natural Sciences and Math collection. A printed copy is also available in the library with the display.

See guys, our professors know what they are talking about :)

So come on in and check it out!!!

Books and Movies...perfect combination

We all know that many films are based on novels, short fiction, and poetry. But how do these stories make it onto the big screen? Well, there are several books that have been written about movies that were based on books. Some of them have been highlighted on the round displays in the library. Here are a few of those:

Slumdog Millionaire: the shooting script
PN 1997.2 S6158636x 2008

Emma Adapted: Jane Austen's heroine from book to film
PR 4034 .e53 D5 2007

Adaptations: from text to screen, screen to text
PN 1997.85 A32 1999

Literature Into Film: theory and practical approaches
PN 1997.85 .C25 2006

The Kite Runner: a portrait of the Marc Forster film
PN 1997.2 .K57 2007

Supreme Court Justice Nominee

(Photo: The Oyez Project, Collection of the Supreme Court of the United States)

With the upcoming retirement of Supreme Court Justice David Souter, President Obama has the task of appointing his replacement. His nominee is Sonia Sotomayor. She is considered a liberal judge and would keep the current balance on the Court. She would be only the third woman in history to sit on the Supreme Court and the first Hispanic. To find out more about Sonia Sotomayor, check out the article, Push to confirm Sotomayor for Supreme Court: Republicans face uphill battle in defeating high court nominee, from MSNBC. To find out more about the Supreme Court and it's history, check out their website or the Supreme Court Historical Society site. Also, here are just a few of the sources you will find in our collection:

The United States Supreme Court
KF 8742 .U55 2005

The Nine: the secret world of the Supreme Court
KF 8748 .T66 2007

Supreme Conflict: the inside story of the stuggle for control of the United States Supreme Court
KF 8742 .G74 2007

The Supreme Court: the personalities and rivalries that defined America
KF8744 .R67 2007

David Hackett Souter: traditional Repubican on the Rehnquist Court
KF 8745 .S68 Y37 2005

FDR v. the Constitution: the court-packing fight and the triumph of democracy
KF 8742 .S585 2009

The Dirty Dozen: how twelve Supreme Court cases radically expanded government and eroded freedom
KF 8742 .L485 2008

The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court of the United States
KF 8742 .A35 O93 2005 (in our Reference collection)