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University Library Sets Up Pronunciation Workstation
by Karen McRobie, Director, PLUS |
"It's cool!" said Fu-Chen Hsu, delivering one of the English language's most positive verdicts. Hsu, a second-trimester M.S. Marketing student, is from Taiwan, and her comment wasn't about the weather. Hsu had just done a pilot test of GGU's new pronunciation software package, Pronunciation Power 2 from 
University Library at 536 Mission Street can experience the "cool" as well, by plugging into GGU's first accent-reduction program purchase. Pronunciation Power 2 is a program that trains non-native speakers of English to listen to and produce individual sounds and words in English, as well as linked words in complete sentences. The program uses animation to show users how to place their tongues and teeth while forming 52 individual sounds in English. Lessons also include listening discrimination.Students wishing to use the Pronunciation workstation can check out a headset with microphone and the Pronunciation Power 2 User Guide at the Circulation Desk in the University Library.
Photos: Above left, clockwise: Lifeng Li, UL Student Technician, Karen McRobie, Director, PLUS and student Fu-Chen Hsu explore the new software. Below right, Fu-Chen Hsu after the session.
Since the 1989 Loma Prieta Earthquake, the University Archives have been stored in the 40 Jessie Street Building. As the University began planning the Jessie Street Building renovation, however, the University Library took the archives out of storage and began the monumental and overdue task of organizing the materials in the collection. Kathleen O'Connor, an accomplished archivist who has worked for the National Archives and Records Administration, has given us a strong start in reassessing and organizing our archives. She is developing a strategy for the organization of the records we have as well as offering an archival plan for the future so we can collect records and continually add to the collection. Once the archives have been organized they will be properly stored to ensure they last for another hundred years.Maintaining the University archives is important to the GGU community because the archives hold the institutional memory of the University. The archives have been instrumental in the research for books including 
Participating in the 2006 Pro Arts East Bay Open Studios, Marketing Professor Thea Bellos will exhibit new photographic images of the bustling streets, ancient treasures and her search for the soul and natural beauty of Vietnam and China during the weekends of June 3-4 and 10-11 at her studio at 1250 Addison St. # 211-A in Berkeley.Notable are the images that Bellos took during the GGU EMBA trip last summer to Hong Kong, Shenzhen, Shanghai and Yangzhou, a beautiful Ming Dynasty canal village located north of Shanghai.Bellos serves as the International Study Tour Leader for graduate students participating in this intensive 12-month executive management education program, This custom-designed international study program includes visits to a diverse range of companies operating in the coastal economic zones of China. The 2005 trip included visits to major international and domestic industrial and consumer goods firms (Huawei Technologies and Coca-Cola), governmental agencies (U.S. Consulate-Shanghai and Hong Kong Trade Development Council) and the China Development Bank. The current EMBA Cohort 54 will be visiting China and Hong Kong in November 2006.Contact 
| Event | Date | Location | |
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| Union Street Festival | Jun 3-4 | San Francisco | |
| Live Oak Park Fair | Jun 10-11 | Berkeley | |
| Italian Street Painting Festival | Jun 10-11 | San Rafael | |
| North Beach Festival | Jun 17-18 | San Francisco | |
| Stern Grove Concert Series | Jun 18-Aug 20 | San Francisco | |
| SF Pride Celebration & Parade | Jun 25 | San Francisco |
For more information on these and other free cultural events, go to SFgate.com
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| Billing itself as "the largest personal finance site devoted to socially responsible investing" SocialFunds.com is a gateway to the world of investing in SRI mutual funds and community investments, and provides some corporate research and news on shareholder activism. |
| Check out the performance of over 70 socially responsible mutual funds and the coverage of SR issues of hundreds of companies. Free registration gives you additional features like use of the Portfolio Tracker and Weekly News Alerts |
| CSRwire.com is a companion site that offers news releases on SRI and corporate sustainability issues. Incidentally, the University Library subscribes to Business Ethics magazine HF 5387 .B97 which covers topics in corporate social responsibility, business ethics, and social investing. |
Library Workshops for June 2006
The University Library is happy to announce a new addition to our database collection, IBISWorld. This database offers a collection of industry reports that we know will be of great benefit to all our students.
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| June 6, Tuesday | Finding Articles | 5:30 - 6:30 pm | UL Reference Desk |
| June 15, Thursday | Developing Your Research Skills | 5:30 - 6:30 pm | UL Reference Desk |
| June 21, Wednesday | IBISWorld | 5:30 - 6:30 pm | UL Reference Desk |
Librarians Attend Federated Searching Workshop
Christina Goff and Sarah Marks visited Menlo College in Atherton, CA on Friday May 12 for a workshop sponsored by the California Clearinghouse on Library Instruction (CCLI). The workshop, entitled Challenges to Instruction in the Age of Federated Searching and Google, was a good opportunity for Christina and Sarah to learn more about federated searching, something the University Library will implement in the coming months.Federated searching is a technological tool that will allow people to search multiple databases through one search interface. Since the interface is similar to Google's, some librarians who attended the CCLI workshop are concerned that searchers will not realize that they are searching many databases. They feel that the simplification of the search process might undermine the goal of library instruction. Many librarians, however, see federated searching as a valuable tool to get searchers to use databases they do not know about or would otherwise not use.The University Library is excited to launch Central Search, the federated searching tool that will hopefully make searching all of the library's invaluable resources easier. If you have any questions about federated searching please contact the Electronic Resources Librarian, Sarah Marks at smarks@ggu.edu.
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Food for Thought
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| The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. |
| The opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference. |
| The opposite of faith is not heresy, it's indifference. |
| And the opposite of life is not death, it's indifference. |
| --- Elie Wiesel |
New Books in the Library
A selection of books that have recently arrived in the University Library:
Madison's managers by Anthony M. Bertelli and Laurence E. Lynn, Jr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, c2006. JK 421 .B385 2006
African Americans in the U.S. Economy, edi ted by Cecilia Conrad et al. Oxford: Rowman & Littlefield, c2005. E 185.8 .A34 2005
The complete estate planning guide, by Kathleen Adams. New York: New American Library, c2005. KF 750 .Z9 A33 2005
Islam and business: cross-cultural and cross-national perspectives, edited by Kip Becker. Binghamton, NY: International Business Press, c2004. BP 173.75 .I766 2004
Leadership, management, and innovation in r&d project teams, by Leon Mann. Westport, CT: Praeger Publishers, c2005. HD 57.7 .M356 2005
The offshore world: sovereign markets, virtual places, and nomad millionaires, by Ronen Palan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, c2003. HG 4538. P297 2003
Explaining guanxi: the chinese business network, by Ying Lun So and Anthony Walker. London: Routledge, c2006. HD 69 .S8 S66 2006
The great earthquake and firestorms of 1906: how San Francisco nearly destroyed itself, by Philip L. Fradkin. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, c2006. F 869 .S357 F73 2006
The Update is a feature of the University Library's website, accessible on the University Library home page. You may also request to receive the monthly newsletter via our mailing list. To be added to the mailing list, please contact adietrich@ggu.edu.Consultant: Janice Carter | 415-442-7248
Editor: Alice Dietrich | 415-442-7259
Site of the Month: Larry Burg | 415- 442-7250
Food for Thought: Alice Dietrich | 415-442-7259
Other contributors to this issue: T. Bellos, L. Burg, C. Goff, S. Marks, K. McRobie
Photography: T. Bellos, A. Dietrich
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